Oussama Souihli

Breaking the Selection Link: A Pre-Registered Validation Audit of the Factor Zoo

Version 2 (9 August 2026). This version corrects the strength of one interpretive claim and adds a post-hoc addendum; no committed or graded quantity changes. Version 1 stated that the sign channel bounds the null share of the published record well below 80%. The formal bound, co...

Certified Discovery on Real Grams: an Instrument, its Limits, and its Laws

"The model found $X$" is not yet a scientific sentence. We make it one: a certified discovery is a reproducible irreducibility tuple (atom, context, signed effect, claim radius, unlock profile, search budget), its falsehood split into gate-FDP, misattribution, and dark mass. We q...