miniCaloSim's detector is a stack of planar layer slabs along one axis, so
material/layer_id are a pure function of depth. The new "slab" method
exploits this with an exact O(log #segments) binary search over
depth-axis segment boundaries, instead of a nearest-neighbour search over
hundreds of thousands of reference points — much cheaper per call, which
matters since the oracle is queried on every autoregressive rollout step.
"knn"/"svm" remain as fallbacks for non-slab geometries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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