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Centered moving average of gradient norms

The average uses a symmetric window of w observations around time t. For odd w, there are (w−1)/2 samples on each side and one center sample. Because future samples enter the window, the smoothed series is a retrospective descriptive summary rather than an immediately…

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g^t(w)=1w∑j=−(w−1)/2(w−1)/2gt+j,{\hat{g}}_{t}^{\left(w\right)}=\frac{1}{w}\sum _{j=-\left(w-1\right)/2}^{\left(w-1\right)/2}{{g}_{t+j}},

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The average uses a symmetric window of w observations around time t. For odd w, there are (w−1)/2 samples on each side and one center sample. Because future samples enter the window, the smoothed series is a retrospective descriptive summary rather than an immediately available online detector.

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TermMeaning in this source
g_t

Recorded gradient norm

w

Odd window length

g_bar

Smoothed gradient norm

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4.1 Primary descriptive summaries

Let gt be the reported gradient norm. The first summary is its raw maximum over the acquired interval. Centered moving averages are also computed:

gtw=1wj=−w−1/2w−1/2gt+j,

for odd widths w∈{5,11,21,31}. Only complete windows are used. These centered summaries use observations after their nominal center and are not real-time detectors. They assess whether the visible episode depends on one unusually large point.

Adjacent 20-step windows summarize the approach to and departure from the published transition vicinity. The principal comparison is steps 161–180 against 181–200. Its percent change is:

1001−meang181:200meang161:180.
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{\hat{g}}_{t}^{\left(w\right)}=\frac{1}{w}\sum _{j=-\left(w-1\right)/2}^{\left(w-1\right)/2}{{g}_{t+j}},

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paragraph 62, math 1 · Sep 17, 2026
{\hat{g}}_{t}^{\left(w\right)}=\frac{1}{w}\sum _{j=-\left(w-1\right)/2}^{\left(w-1\right)/2}{{g}_{t+j}},
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Declaration_and_State_Change_Pilot.docx
paragraph 62, math 1 · Sep 17, 2026
{\hat{g}}_{t}^{\left(w\right)}=\frac{1}{w}\sum _{j=-\left(w-1\right)/2}^{\left(w-1\right)/2}{{g}_{t+j}},

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