kaal:claim:6269518-020

Under a decoupled payment formula in which validators rank quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions, an agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the citation honesty component.

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Validators rank both quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions. An agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the ηi component.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), IV.B. Solution 2: Decoupled Citation Rewards, p. 10
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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validators rank quality and citation accuracy separately
payment weight parameter theta strictly below one

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedcitation-and-knowledgeconsensus-and-security

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