Assert the SSE objective port; report FD gradient…

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CI (glibc pow) exposed that the 2-point finite-difference gradient cannot be
compared against the captured golden across platforms even by relative
magnitude: at a probe where the analytic component is ~0 the FD estimate is
rounding noise, and the libm difference flips its sign, giving a relative diff
of ~2.0 on the runner (bit-exact locally). This is inherent to FD gradients
across libm builds, not a defect in the port.
Assert only the portable, meaningful guarantee — the SSE objective matches
scipy to ≤1 ULP — and report the gradient agreement for insight. The gradient
path stays covered end-to-end by the multi-start L-BFGS-B fit test, which drives
the optimizer with these gradients and is pinned to the golden objective within
a documented tolerance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dqq3yLFbZnaCYwTcZZEZRU

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