docs: paper alignment map + title-level flag for the user

Author: Ronald Tse

docs/PAPER-ALIGNMENT.md

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+# Paper alignment (2026-09-01)
+
+The LaTeX paper (rababa docs/paper-arabic/main.tex) — "Data Quality
+over Scale: A 30M-Parameter Encoder for Arabic Diacritization" —
+predates the campaign's later results. Slotting map for refresh:
+
+| Their section | Current evidence to slot in |
+|---|---|
+| Data | r7 news-domain adaptation (ID 2.2864 / OOD 17.38-11.83 — dual-surface) |
+| Model | r8 aux ablation (morph 2.5793 < IPA 2.6588 < none 2.6775) |
+| Experiments | CIs via paired bootstrap; GLM-5.3-Flash row (8.59/8.90); 2.0 client tier 4.82; frontier incl. lite 5.78 |
+| Reproducibility | labels sha256 provenance; final_preds.jsonl; five-instance subset phenomenon |
+
+**FLAG for the user (title-level):** the capacity law measured AFTER
+the draft — from-scratch 33M collapses at 74.68 full-set even with
+clean labels (run-005), and naive stitching fails at both ratios —
+sits in direct tension with a "30M-parameter encoder" as a headline
+claim, UNLESS the paper's 30M encoder is a differently-trained
+data-quality artifact we have not re-measured. The title/thesis needs
+the user's decision: refresh the numbers (and possibly the claim), or
+reposition as teacher-tier "data quality over scale" (r7 vs frontier
+LLMs) with the client tier as the measured boundary.
+
+My paper-a.adoc scaffold (teacher thesis) remains an alternative
+split per the 2026-08-29 two-paper decision.