The vote-change delta is a deterministic function of the two vote rounds and therefore adds no separate information channel.
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is a deterministic function of and . It therefore carries no information about any parameter beyond what the pair of rounds already carries, and any decomposition that adds it as a separate channel double counts.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback (2026), III.D.2 The Vote-Change Delta as a Novel Training Signal, p. 14 https://ssrn.com/abstract=7456999 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7456999
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the information content of the two-round transcript
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