Standalone test exercising IML inference pipeline without VCV runtime:
- Basic inference: all 12 outputs valid in [0,1]
- Input responsiveness: 12/12 outputs change between corners
- Randomize: weights change produces different output mapping
- Spread parameter: measurably different distributions at 0 vs 1
- Expressiveness: 6/6 corner pairs distinct, full range utilized
- Smoothness: 100% of sweep steps are smooth (no binary jumps)
Finding: spread sigmoid saturation effect is architecture-dependent
with small [16,24,16] network (filed as meml-l5a for investigation).