EXP-PAPER9-PHASE2-RERUN-TRACE
… pendingpaper9 phase-2 RERUN with per-proposal trace preservation
In plain language
This experiment re-ran a previous test to see if a system's ability to generate new concepts is consistent across different parts of its design. Researchers saved detailed records of how the system made its decisions to better analyze the results. The findings are still pending, but will determine if the system's concept generation is uniform or if certain design choices significantly impact its novelty.
▶ Technical details
Research hypothesis
Direct empirical test of the 2026-05-13 buzzword-audit inference (today's morning Q2 NS_LIC anchor projected ~6% concept-novel flat across all 4 phase-2 cells). Re-runs exp-paper9-phase2 identically (same 4 cells × N=5 = 20 runs, same NS+LIC prompts, same engine/model/substrate seed) but PRESERVES per-proposal JSONL traces so scripts/buzzword-recombination-audit.py can re-classify individual axis=value accepts as buzzword-recombination vs concept-novel. Pre-registered verdicts:
- HOMOGENEOUS-CONCEPT: all 4 cells within 2× of mean concept-novel rate (i.e. 3-12% if mean ~6%) ⇒ paper9 V2 thesis «closure-placement = lexical-volume gate, orthogonal to concept-novelty» CONFIRMED. paper9 advances to PRE-READY with this corrected framing.
- STRATIFIED-CONCEPT: any cell shows >3× difference from another at concept-novel level ⇒ paper9 V2 thesis FALSIFIED. Architecture DOES modulate concept independently. paper9 needs new central thesis.
- AMBIGUOUS: CIs overlap broadly at N=5 ⇒ defer to N=10/cell follow-on.
Experimental setup
Type: 4-cell-ablation-with-trace
| Condition | Parameters |
|---|---|
| CORAL-external | mechanism: external-deterministic-grader + greedy-feedback |
| GenericAgent-absent | mechanism: no-closure + uniform-random |
| HMACE-distributed | mechanism: 4-role-persona-rotation + no-central-scalar |
| MemQ-in-retrieval | mechanism: q-value-em-retrieval-from-memory |
Factors: closure_placement (CORAL-external, GenericAgent-absent, HMACE-distributed, MemQ-in-retrieval)