Update characters documentation, taxonomy, measured progress and validation

README.md

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 **500 fictional people ×10 natural facial expressions =5,000 portrait images**, each832×1,248 pixels. The selected aesthetic is the **ghibli-warm-painted** direction: restrained facial proportions, delicate drawn lines, warm painted shading and a solid chroma-green backdrop. Generation uses the **undistilled9B base**, the **rank64 character LoRA**, **50 steps**, real **CFG4**, and **BF16**, with no quantization or distilled checkpoint.
 
-**Production snapshot: 40/500 complete people; 400/5,000 images uploaded.** Pilot and production validation are recorded in the linked metadata. Counts describe the snapshot; incremental shard commits can be newer.
+**Production snapshot: 56/500 complete people; 560/5,000 images uploaded.** Pilot and production validation are recorded in the linked metadata. Counts describe the snapshot; incremental shard commits can be newer.
 
 The [base model](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B) and [character LoRA with examples and instructions](https://huggingface.co/laion/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B-vivarium-loras) are linked separately. The compatible [background dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/Anim-E-Ghibli-Backgrounds-FLUX-9B) contains wide warm-painted environments for these foreground characters.
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ All expressions request mild natural facial changes, with clearly specified mout
 
 Clothing styles and colors use independent identity-hashed allocations, so the even/odd demographic assignment does not determine a clothing family. An early allocation refinement preserved the 24 already started people and reassigned only the 476 queued people; [the audit](metadata/outfit-allocation-refinement.json) records those changes. The published full person plan is authoritative for reproduction, including those retained initial outfits.
 
-The neutral image is generated first. **Each of the nine other images uses that same neutral image as its visual reference**, resized to 416×624 using PIL BICUBIC, with the same seeded noise across the entire person group. Edits request the same identity, hair, skin, outfit, pose and framing and modify the face. The reference PNG's SHA256 and the reference sample ID are recorded. Reference conditioning encourages consistency; it is not a pixel-locking identity guarantee. Small pose, facial-detail or clothing changes can occur. The visual review records what was inspected rather than claiming all appearances were automatically verified.
+The neutral image is generated first. **Each of the nine other images uses that same neutral image as its visual reference**, resized to 416×624 using PIL BICUBIC, with the same seeded noise across the entire person group. Edits request the same identity, hair, skin, outfit, pose and framing and modify the face. The full-size neutral source PNG's SHA256 and sample ID are recorded; the resize parameters identify how to reconstruct the actual reference input. Reference conditioning encourages consistency; it is not a pixel-locking identity guarantee. Small pose, facial-detail or clothing changes can occur. The visual review records what was inspected rather than claiming all appearances were automatically verified.
 
 An initial pilot preserved identity but made facial expressions too similar. It was rejected before public ingestion. Subsequent pilots use focused face-edit prompts instead of repeating the full person description and remove the generic expression-suppression negative clause from edits. The accepted quality report, when available, records the actual inspected samples.
 

metadata/performance.json

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
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   "hardware": "8 × NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB",
   "batch_size_per_gpu": 1,
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+  "mean_seconds": 39.254940607935616,
+  "median_seconds": 39.89330001245253,
+  "neutral_mean_seconds": 31.571809416678217,
+  "reference_edit_mean_seconds": 39.9921280356682,
   "timings_include": "50 denoising steps with real CFG4, reference VAE encode when applicable, VAE decode; CUDA synchronized",
   "timings_exclude": "Positive prompt preencoding, model loading, compile warmup, PNG/TAR writes and upload",
   "pilot_excluded": "Pilot GPU7 was shared with background production and used CPU offload; it is not a dedicated-GPU benchmark"

metadata/progress.json

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
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+  "utc": "2026-10-06T16:26:36.079101+00:00",
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+    "done": 56,
+    "queued": 429,
     "running": 15
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+    "uploaded": 34
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+  "images_generated": 670,
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   "target_images": 5000,
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metadata/quality-review.json

@@ -309,7 +309,87 @@
     "person-0436-sad",
     "person-0436-annoyed",
     "person-0436-pain",
-    "person-0436-disgust"
+    "person-0436-disgust",
+    "person-0114-neutral",
+    "person-0114-joyful",
+    "person-0114-grateful",
+    "person-0114-playful",
+    "person-0114-angry",
+    "person-0114-afraid",
+    "person-0114-sad",
+    "person-0114-annoyed",
+    "person-0114-pain",
+    "person-0114-disgust",
+    "person-0160-neutral",
+    "person-0160-joyful",
+    "person-0160-grateful",
+    "person-0160-playful",
+    "person-0160-angry",
+    "person-0160-afraid",
+    "person-0160-sad",
+    "person-0160-annoyed",
+    "person-0160-pain",
+    "person-0160-disgust",
+    "person-0208-neutral",
+    "person-0208-joyful",
+    "person-0208-grateful",
+    "person-0208-playful",
+    "person-0208-angry",
+    "person-0208-afraid",
+    "person-0208-sad",
+    "person-0208-annoyed",
+    "person-0208-pain",
+    "person-0208-disgust",
+    "person-0157-neutral",
+    "person-0157-joyful",
+    "person-0157-grateful",
+    "person-0157-playful",
+    "person-0157-angry",
+    "person-0157-afraid",
+    "person-0157-sad",
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+    "person-0391-neutral",
+    "person-0391-joyful",
+    "person-0391-grateful",
+    "person-0391-playful",
+    "person-0391-angry",
+    "person-0391-afraid",
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+    "person-0414-grateful",
+    "person-0414-playful",
+    "person-0414-angry",
+    "person-0414-afraid",
+    "person-0414-sad",
+    "person-0414-annoyed",
+    "person-0414-pain",
+    "person-0414-disgust",
+    "person-0458-neutral",
+    "person-0458-joyful",
+    "person-0458-grateful",
+    "person-0458-playful",
+    "person-0458-angry",
+    "person-0458-afraid",
+    "person-0458-sad",
+    "person-0458-annoyed",
+    "person-0458-pain",
+    "person-0458-disgust",
+    "person-0479-neutral",
+    "person-0479-joyful",
+    "person-0479-grateful",
+    "person-0479-playful",
+    "person-0479-angry",
+    "person-0479-afraid",
+    "person-0479-sad",
+    "person-0479-annoyed",
+    "person-0479-pain",
+    "person-0479-disgust"
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     "Focused reference edit prompts produce clear natural neutral/joyful/angry differences for baby,schoolgirl and17-year-old girl while maintaining closely matched identity,hair,outfit and pose. Baby sadness was inspected separately when present.",
@@ -320,7 +400,8 @@
     "All ten expressions visually reviewed for older schoolgirl0158,younger teen0181/0206,older teen0229/0254,young adult0277,middle adult0325/0348,old senior0457. Stable hair,pose and clothing; mild expressions can overlap. Requested near-adult proportions are visible for older teens.",
     "Rejected the first person0436 series because the joyful edit visibly lightened facial skin. Removed all ten samples, then regenerated the complete group with explicit original skin tone and exposure/lighting. The new first five variants were inspected and showed improved consistency; remaining expressions pending review.",
     "Complete ten-expression groups reviewed for young adult0302,older adult0369/0392,younger senior0413,older senior0480 and independent outfit allocations0046/0067/0134/0205/0230/0347. Clothes,pose and hair remain closely matched; formal,school,outdoors,crafts and dress variants present. Slight lighting differences can remain in earlier reference prompts.",
-    "All ten regenerated person0436 expressions were subsequently inspected. Facial skin now stays closely matched to the neutral reference, including joyful. The replacement group is accepted; the earlier rejected group remains excluded from the dataset."
+    "All ten regenerated person0436 expressions were subsequently inspected. Facial skin now stays closely matched to the neutral reference, including joyful. The replacement group is accepted; the earlier rejected group remains excluded from the dataset.",
+    "All ten variants reviewed for skin-preservation wording in schoolchildren0114/0160 and younger teen0208: facial tone remains closely matched across expressions. Also reviewed formal schoolchild0157,rock-inspired older adult0391,deep-brown senior0414,and older seniors0458/0479. Outfits and pose stay consistent; occasional slight lightening is possible in the older reference-prompt version."
   ],
   "status": "ongoing stratified visual review; accepted production",
   "limitations": [
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     "Mild fear,sadness and disgust can be visually close; labels record the requested expression,not a ground-truth expression classifier",
     "Reference edits can alter skin tone or lighting; explicit preservation wording reduces observed changes but does not guarantee identical pixels."
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+      "african_american": 4,
+      "japanese": 3,
+      "arab": 3,
+      "southeast_asian": 3,
+      "indigenous_american": 2,
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+      "latino": 2
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+  "images_reviewed": 390
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