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Round 1 is a zero-slashing cheap-talk round that elicits private information without economic commitment.

Critically, Round 1 operates under a slashing intensity parameter set to zero: no REP is redistributed based on Round 1 outcomes. Under the terminology of Crawford and Sobel (1982), Round 1 functions as a cheap-talk round that elicits private information without economic commitment.

Wulf A. Kaal, Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback (2026), III.D.1 Structure of the Two-Round Protocol, p. 13
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Wulf A. Kaal, Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7456999

• the Trial Vote round of the proposed protocol

designsupport: arguedreputationrisk-and-incentivesai-and-agents

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