Yi Bei

Little Room for Second-Order Rules in a Delta-Rule Testbed: Oracle Gains and an Evolution-Strategy Learner

Four pre-registered attempts to learn second-order modulation in a minimal plasticity testbed found nothing, and the learners failed their own positive controls. Before improving the learners further, this note measures whether anything was there to find, by comparing hand-built...

Relations Acting on Relations: A Layered Conjecture Statement with Definitions, Status and Refutation Conditions

The research programme asks whether, in systems whose parts are relations, a relation can act on the update rule of another relation, and whether such second-order structure is functionally indispensable. This statement fixes one core claim, an existence claim (C1), defines its t...

Four Pre-registered Tests of Emergent Second-Order Modulation in a Minimal Plasticity Testbed: Negative Results and a Failed Learner Control

The testbed note validated audit statistics against planted second-order modulation, in which a relation’s strength multiplicatively modulates the plasticity of another relation. The conjecture’s own question is whether such modulation can emerge without being planted. This note...

Functional Audit and Candidate-Coverage Diagnostics for Connection Dynamics

Under frozen criteria and in artificial environments, some relation combinations pass an existence gate, a task-synergy gate, and a limited set of control gates; offering identity opportunities to historically selected targets can raise retention rates on some seeds. This support...

Functional Audit and Candidate-Coverage Diagnostics for Connection Dynamics

Under frozen criteria and in artificial environments, some relation combinations pass an existence gate, a task-synergy gate, and a limited set of control gates; offering identity opportunities to historically selected targets can raise retention rates on some seeds. This support...