Target-Dependent Limits of Causal Repair: A Leading-Log Frontier in a Gaussian Model

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arXiv:2610.00424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowing how much a causal predictor could improve need not reveal the gain of the repair actually learned. We quantify this gap in a scalar Gaussian causal experiment with known intervention geometry: auxiliary data identify effect magnitude up to bounded contamination, while diagnostics identify direction. The target is the squared-loss gain of the realized trained repair relative to a fitted reference. Jointly optimizing the learner and assesso