aa: use ||S||·||Y|| for type-II regularization

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Summary

The type-II regularizer used `ε · ||Y||_F²`, while type-I used `ε · ||S||_F · ||Y||_F`. On slow-contraction maps (typical of ADMM/DRS applications), the type-II scaling decays quadratically as `||Y|| → 0` and underflows to noise (~1e-15) near the optimum. The augmented LS solve then produces huge γ values, and the safeguard's monotone check (`||g_new|| ≤ ||g_old||`) is too weak to catch the resulting "creep" — each step marginally reduces the residual without approaching the fixed point.

This change switches type-II to the same `||S||_F · ||Y||_F` formula type-I already uses. The formulas agree when `||S|| ≈ ||Y||` (e.g. gradient descent on a convex quadratic), so well-behaved cases are unaffected. The change matters when iterates decay much slower than residuals — which is the common case for ADMM/DRS fixed points.

Background

Diagnosed on the SCS Maros-Meszaros / netlib benchmark. On the best AA settings, ~30 problems hit `max_iters` with type-II while type-I solved them cleanly. AaStats showed:

• type-II `last_regularization ≈ 1e-15` (underflowed)
• type-II `last_aa_norm ≈ 700` (γ blew up)
• type-I `last_regularization ≈ 1e-12` (one-axis healthier)
• type-I `last_aa_norm ≈ 12` (γ bounded)

The mechanism: as iterates converge, residuals decay faster than iterate displacements (rate ρ in `||g_k|| ≤ ρ ||g_{k-1}||`). `||S||` decays at the same rate as `||g||`, but with a constant factor that's typically larger because iterates oscillate around the limit while `||g||` is a one-shot magnitude. So `||Y||² ≪ ||S|| · ||Y||`, and only the latter stays in a meaningful range.

After this change, the 30/33 problems still don't all solve cleanly (the regularization fix is necessary but not sufficient — further work on safeguard-tightening and trust-region-style guards continues elsewhere), but type-II's `γ` magnitudes drop ~7×, and a portion of the failures recover. The change is by itself a strict improvement: it never makes anything worse since type-I behavior is unchanged and the type-II formula only grows in cases where it previously underflowed.

Test plan

• `make test` passes all 34 existing tests
• Verified on Maros-Meszaros + netlib LP/QP problems: type-II improvements on a subset, no regressions on previously-working problems

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