Hernani Costa

Where a measured local-adaptation gain did not transfer: negative results from a preregistered small-model adaptation programme on constrained hardware

This report collects the negative and bounded results of a preregistered research program. The program asked one question: can a small model, adapted on a device with limited compute and memory, beat a frozen copy of itself on a local target while keeping what it already knew? We...

Where a measured local-adaptation gain did not transfer: negative results from a preregistered small-model adaptation programme on constrained hardware

We report the negative and bounded results of a preregistered research programme on small-model local adaptation under a constrained compute and memory envelope, executed on a fast environment and replicated on two Raspberry Pi classes. The question throughout was whether a small...