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+* Writing — chapters
+
+* TODO Write Ch. 1 (Introduction)
+  - Hook: imbalance + noise are everywhere, standard losses fail silently
+  - Gap: no existing method does AUC optimization + noise robustness together
+  - ROLL's claim: distributional objective, robustness as structural consequence
+  - Close with chapter roadmap
+
+* TODO Write Ch. 5 (Discussion)
+  - Explain WHY ROLL-AOC is noise robust (KDE distributional fit vs isolated gradients)
+  - Explain WHY Bank Marketing fails (open question, speculate honestly)
+  - Explain WHY GCE/MAE fail under asymmetric imbalanced noise
+  - Compare mechanism with LibAUC (same objective, different path)
+
+* TODO Write Ch. 6 (Conclusion)
+  - Summary: differentiable AUC surrogate via score-distribution fitting
+  - Key result: noise robustness validated on KEEL (5/10/20%) and CIFAR-10N (≤40%)
+  - Limitations: Bank Marketing, 99-pass cost, bandwidth scheduler hyperparameter
+  - Future work: learned bandwidth, partial-AUC variant, multi-class extension
+
+* TODO Finish Ch. 4 (Results) — remaining stubs
+  - Write Summary section (sec:experiments:summary) — key points noted in comments
+  - Decide: write or drop Ablation Study and Sensitivity Analysis sections
+  - Fill all \cite{TODO} placeholders in experiments.tex
+
+* TODO Review Ch. 4 (Results) end-to-end
+  - Check narrative flow after noise section was added
+  - Confirm KEEL/CIFAR-10N/large-dataset table interpretations are accurate
+  - Verify roll-tpr90 is correctly described as secondary/special-case throughout
+
+* Writing — front/back matter
+
+* TODO Write English abstract
+* TODO Write Hebrew abstract
+* TODO Fill Acknowledgements (Main_pages/acknowledgements.tex)
+
+* Writing — Ch. 2 & 3 loose ends
+
 * TODO Verify alpha notation w.r.t. FPR — eq:fpr-cdf writes FPR(τ) = F̂₀(τ) and threshold as τ = F̂₀⁻¹(α), but standard FPR = P(score > τ | y=0) = 1−F₀(τ) requires τ = F̂₀⁻¹(1−α). Check for sign/notation inconsistency throughout method.tex and appendix_gauss_grad.tex.
 * TODO Add graphs of CDF tracking for gaussian, KDE, roll.
+* TODO Cite in sec:related-work (Ch. 2):
+  - Benchmarking Deep AUROC Optimization (arXiv 2203.14177) — cite in 2.2 as survey of AUROC losses; finding: composite losses best overall, barrier hinge best under noise
+  - LibAUC pAUCLoss / SOPAs (arXiv 2203.01505) — cite in 2.3 as partial AUC baseline
+  - "Closing the Approximation Gap" (arXiv 2512.01213, Dec 2025) — cite in 2.3 as recent concurrent work on partial AUC
+  - "When AUC meets DRO" — cite in 2.3 as DRO-based partial AUC approach
+
+* Experiments — open questions
+
+* TODO Debug banking dataset — results unexpectedly low (roll-aoc 0.511 vs GCE 0.746), investigate root cause
+* TODO Check if LibAUC pAUCLoss (one-way partial AUC / SOPAs) should be added as baseline
+  - Already have LibAUC as dependency; low-cost to add
+  - Most direct competitor to roll-tpr90 (both target a fixed FPR region)
+  - See: https://docs.libauc.org/examples/pauc.html
+
+* Final pass
+
+* TODO Build full PDF and proofread end-to-end
+* TODO Check all cross-references (\Cref, \label) are consistent after restructuring
+* TODO Verify Hebrew ToC entries match English section titles
+
+* DONE [#A] Rerun keel noised experiments — data exists in results-final/keel-noise-05/10/20
+* DONE Restructure thesis per mentor guidelines (2026-08-17)
+  - [x] Focus framing on noise resistance + AUC solution (primary story)
+  - [x] Minimize single-point optimization coverage (brief mention only)
+  - [x] Ch. 2 restructured: ROC/AUC → Noisy Labels → KDE → Imbalanced → NP
+  - [x] Ch. 3 restructured: AUC as primary objective, ROLL-AOC promoted
+  - [x] Noise results table added to Ch. 4