Run · Voynich Manuscript

T43 generation 1: Gromov-Wasserstein word alignment, planted controls (N 300, epsilon 0.005)

Control: Pliny NH 16 enciphered with period.generate seed 77.

Fails its own control by two orders of magnitude, so the manuscript was not aligned. With homophones (4 per consonant), copied nulls and a different Latin text on the target side, co-occurrence spaces of ~5,000 words are too sparse for GW to find the word map even when one exists.word-spacing control 0.003 (GW 0.034); stream-spacing control 0.0014 (GW 0.037)0

Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	Held-out word accuracy of the coupling's word map (bar 0.5)	word-spacing control 0.003 (GW 0.034); stream-spacing control 0.0014 (GW 0.037)	Gate 0.5	Fails its own control by two orders of magnitude, so the manuscript was not aligned. With homophones (4 per consonant), copied nulls and a different Latin text on the target side, co-occurrence spaces of ~5,000 words are too sparse for GW to find the word map even when one exists.

What it used and found

Gromov-Wasserstein alignment of written-word and Latin co-occurrence spaces

Method

MTH

Herbal A and Herbal B paragraph text: training and held-out pages

Dataset

DAT

Latin genre texts

Dataset

DAT

Naibbe cipher tables and example plaintexts (greshko/naibbe-cipher, commit 719f2f4c)

Dataset

DAT

Parameters

N = 300, window = 2, epsilon = 0.005, target_side = Latin herbal genre text (D-SECTIONS H), prepared as the setting prepares plaintext, control_setting = T39 best Herbal A setting with spacing 'word' (and 'stream')

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). T43 generation 1: Gromov-Wasserstein word alignment, planted controls (N 300, epsilon 0.005) [Run RUN0DCF8N67G74D]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DCF8N67G74D

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dcf8n67g74d,
  title     = {T43 generation 1: Gromov-Wasserstein word alignment, planted controls (N 300, epsilon 0.005)},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DCF8N67G74D},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DCF8N67G74D}
}