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FailureMode

Temporal drift

frontieras of 2026-092 connections

a long clip slowly changing colour, faces and layout once early frames fall out of memory

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell is represent × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Evidence: benchmark.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointTemporal driftnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

How it goes wrong — and what answers that

answers to those failures
Temporal consistencythe frames must agree with each other and with physics — the thing video is really judged on

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

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Where it comes from

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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is mitigated byTemporal consistencyProperty
is a failure mode ofVideo modelModel

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