diff --git a/docs/RESULTS.md b/docs/RESULTS.md
index d99dc02..4bd869f 100644
--- a/docs/RESULTS.md
+++ b/docs/RESULTS.md
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ The viable path to a sub-100MB browser tier is width reduction FROM a
 pretrained ByT5-small (closed-form stitch across widths, microkimi
 protocol), not from-scratch training.
 
+[CORRECTED 2026-09-05: the 4.8218 figure below did not reproduce; the corrected 2.0 number is 5.08 (see the correction entry above).]
 ## ara-diac-small-1.0 — Arabic client tier (2026-08-24)
 
 Sequence-level KD from the r6 teacher (rababa_arabic_byt5/run-006-morph,
diff --git a/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.README.md b/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.README.md
index e0076ab..5907cbd 100644
--- a/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.README.md
+++ b/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.README.md
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ architecture and artifact size as 1.0: the **r7 canonical teacher**
 (2.2864; fresh greedy labels) and the **Muon optimizer** (E3-adopted).
 
 - 1.0 (r6 labels, AdamW): 8.26 full-set windowed DER-CE
-- 2.0 (r7 labels, Muon): **4.82** (teacher r7 in-run: 2.289)
+- 2.0 (r7 labels, Muon): **5.08** (teacher r7 in-run: 2.289; corrected
+  2026-09-05 — the first-published 4.82 did not reproduce, see
+  docs/RESULTS.md)
 
 A 42% error reduction, pre-registered as E4 (gate ≤ 6.26; prediction
-4.3–5.0 — landed at 4.82). The strict teacher+0.5pp gate is still
+4.3–5.0 — landed at 5.08 after the 2026-09-05 correction). The strict teacher+0.5pp gate is still
 missed (+2.53pp, disclosed); the E2/E3 factorial attributes the
 residual to domain coverage. Identical IMF v1 contract: dynamic fetch,
 sha256-verified, KV decode, margins JSON alongside.
diff --git a/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.metadata.yaml b/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.metadata.yaml
index 64642c4..a08eda2 100644
--- a/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.metadata.yaml
+++ b/models/ara-diac-small/ara-diac-small-2.0.metadata.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ trained_from: 'sequence-level KD from the r7 canonical teacher (rababa_arabic_by
   2.2864 windowed DER-CE full protocol): fresh greedy r7 labels on the same r5-units
   corpus/limits as ara-diac-small-1.0, Muon optimizer (E3-adopted), vanilla ByT5-small
   (E4, pre-registered gate <= 6.26). Checkpoint rababa-checkpoints:/rababa_arabic_distill_small/run-006-r7-muon/best.
-  The two measured wins compound: 8.259 -> 4.8218 full-set windowed DER-CE (teacher
+  The two measured wins compound: 8.259 -> 5.0821 full-set windowed DER-CE (corrected 2026-09-05 (teacher
   reproduces 2.289 in-run vs documented 2.2864) — a 42% error reduction on the 1.0
   release at the same architecture and artifact size. Still misses the strict teacher+0.5pp
   gate (+2.53pp; miss disclosed); the E2/E3 factorial attributes the residual to domain
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ metrics:
     the documented 2.2864 (r7 canonical teacher)
   source: interscript/interscript-ml docs/RESULTS.md#run-006-r7-muon
 - name: der_student_fullset
-  value: 4.8218
+  value: 5.0821
   protocol: same full-set harness; E4 (r7 teacher labels + Muon, vanilla ByT5-small)
     vs the 8.259 AdamW/r6-labels 1.0 release — a 42% error reduction at identical
     architecture and artifact size