kaal:claim:7598518-016

Claim. Yi et al. (2026) report that an imperfect external verifier drives the model toward the verifier's own knowledge center.

Type. mechanism · Support. reported

Holds when

• The finding is prior work cited by the paper and is not measured in this study.
• It is a limit on verifier-based selection generally, including the pool under test.

Source quote

An imperfect external verifier drives the model toward the verifier's own knowledge center (Yi et al. 2026)

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7598518

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