[BUG] Rigorous Evaluation & Leakage Fix

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Overview

During a deep dive into the evaluation pipeline of Versor,
I identified and resolved data leakage issues in the QM9 and 20 Newsgroups benchmarks. While the core Geometric Blade Network (GBN) architecture remains robust, these fixes ensure that the reported performance metrics are derived from a strictly isolated and deterministic evaluation protocol.

Detailed Fixes

1. QM9: Deterministic Splitting & Statistics IsolationIssue: The previous DataLoader implementation used a dynamic random seed for dataset shuffling. This caused potential overlap between training and validation sets across different epochs. Additionally, normalization statistics (mean/std) were inadvertently calculated across the entire dataset.
2. Fix: Refactored datasets/qm9.py to get_qm9_loaders().Deterministic Split: Enforced a fixed seed (Seed 42) for a one-time, consistent split of Train/Val/Test sets.Proper Normalization: Statistics are now computed strictly on the training set and applied to Val/Test sets to prevent distribution leakage.
3. 20 Newsgroups: PCA Feature Basis IsolationIssue: PCA fitting was being performed independently on both training and testing sets. In a rigorous ML pipeline, the feature basis (PCA components) must be learned only from the training distribution.
4. Fix: Implemented a "Fit on Train, Transform All" strategy. The PCA model is fitted on training data, saved, and then loaded to transform the test set, ensuring consistent feature space mapping without using test-set information.
5. HAR (Human Activity Recognition)Status: Verified as Correct. The implementation relies on pre-split train.csv and test.csv (split by subject), which adheres to industry standards.

Impact & Next StepsSemantic Task: Preliminary results show that even after fixing the leakage, the Geometric Disentanglement ( $Cl(6,0)$ ) performance remains consistent or slightly improved, proving the robustness of the geometric representation.

QM9 Task: Re-testing is currently underway with the new rigorous pipeline. Updated, "clean" benchmarks will be published soon.

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Fix Results Reports

While conducting a rigorous internal audit of the evaluation pipeline, I identified a logic error in the data loading process that caused a partial information leakage between splits. I have immediately implemented a strict 3-way split (Train/Val/Test) with deterministic seeding to ensure 100% data integrity.

Task	Status	Observation
Semantic (20 News)	Purity 1.0000	14.42 meV
QM9 ($U_0$)	14.42	Performance Adjusted. The drop from the previous report is attributed to the expressive bottleneck of the current $Cl(6,0)$ configuration when leakage is removed.

Analysis & Next Steps

• Semantic Robustness: The fact that Semantic performance held steady proves that the "Unbending Paradigm" captures the intrinsic geometric structure of latent embeddings without relying on data shortcuts.
• QM9 Expressivity: The 15 meV plateau and the presence of outliers suggest that the current rotor configuration has reached its representation limit.
• Path to Future: I am currently training a high-expressivity variant (increasing multi-rotor diversity and layer depth) to bridge the gap back to the SOTA regime.

I apologize for the oversight in the initial report. Moving forward, all benchmarks will be governed by this new strict validation protocol.