# kaal:claim:7456999-042

**Claim.** The vote-change delta is a deterministic function of the two vote rounds and therefore adds no separate information channel.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the information content of the two-round transcript

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback* (2026), III.D.2 The Vote-Change Delta as a Novel Training Signal, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Reinforcement Learning from Reputation Feedback (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7456999

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `01016fbbcc25cad205cebd59ea686d8dfee8ae9b632095d86ba6c9a900456a4b` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20Reinforcement%20Learning%20from%20Reputation%20Feedback.pdf

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, research-methods, empirical-evidence

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