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The Verdict Is a Function of the Slice: Auditing a Published Quantization Superiority Claim

A published comparison is read as deployment guidance, and what that reader needs is that its verdict holds on the files they are about to download. Two moves are supposed to make such a reading trustworthy: fix what will be read before the data exist, and reproduce it on a secon...

Adaptation, Not Priming: A Repulsive In-Context Aftereffect Carried by a Sparse Set of Attention Heads

In-context learning is assumed to assimilate: repeated exposure pulls the next prediction toward the repeated pattern, as induction and copy mechanisms attest. We report the opposite sign for graded scalar attributes, and establish three things about it. The phenomenon. Across fi...

Adaptation, Not Priming: A Repulsive In-Context Aftereffect Carried by a Sparse Set of Attention Heads

In-context learning is assumed to assimilate: repeated exposure pulls the next prediction toward the repeated pattern, as induction and copy mechanisms attest. We report the opposite sign for graded scalar attributes, and establish three things about it. The phenomenon. Across fi...

Reproduced Numbers, Unlicensed Claims: Preregistered Acceptance Contracts for Post-Training Compression

Reproducing a published table does not settle whether the sentence it supports was ever specified tightly enough to be accepted or rejected as written. We study that gap through the acceptance contract---the six fields a quality-preservation claim must fix before it is testable (...