kaal:claim:7598518-042

Claim. The design names a failure pattern in advance: if the likelihood filter, the equal-weight pool, and the reputation pool each carry the negative label against full replacement in every family, the paper issues a registered sentence recording that each had lower capped retention at generation 50 than full replacement, as a registered negative result and not an implementation failure.

Type. design · Support. stated

Holds when

• The sentence is available only on the stated pattern of labels in every family.
• Naming the pattern in advance is what distinguishes it from a post hoc explanation of a bad result.

Source quote

If the likelihood filter, the equal-weight pool, and the reputation pool each carry the negative label against full replacement in every family, the paper issues the registered failure-mode sentence: each had lower capped retention at generation 50 than full replacement. The design named that pattern in advance. It is a registered negative result, not an implementation failure.

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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