[lawrennd]

Summary

• Propose CIP-0002 to revive ObservedMRDLayer / multi-view DeepGP on the maintained serial path.
• Root cause of current crash: MRD collapses the variational bound to a scalar while other layers keep shape (1,), so DeepGP.parameters_changed fails under NumPy.
• Cross-link from CIP-0001 non-goals (MRD revival was deferred there).

Status

Proposed — design review only; no implementation in this PR.

Test plan

• Review CIP phases A–D and design decisions D1–D7
• Accept or revise before creating backlog tasks / coding

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 72.24%. Comparing base (2b61091) to head (a6fe39e).

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