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Research Round 11 · 3 October 2026

When should collaborators spend their next unit of compute?

Artificial Cognitive ArchitectureReasoning & VerificationPublished · experiment proposedArchitecture impact: Low

Research question

Should verification effort go where a specific check is predicted to repair, rather than where uncertainty is highest?

Summary

Proposes a controller that predicts repair and damage of claim-specific checks and short bundles under controlled end-to-end cost. Only illustrative diagnostic calculations were run.

Major findings

None stated in the published round.

Experiments

  • E11-A Marginal-value verification controller Proposed

Hypotheses

  • H11-1 A repair/damage-predicting controller improves task success over a whole-answer router at a fixed cost ceiling.
  • H11-2 Increased checking does not raise harmful revisions beyond 0.5 points.
  • H11-3 Bundled checks help on complementary-evidence tasks after overhead.
  • H11-4 Predicted usefulness outperforms uncertainty-first routing on matched pairs.

Architecture implications

  • Conservative role triage with full-panel fallback. Skip optional roles only on confident, valid routing; otherwise run every role.

Open questions

  • Do localized checks plus short bundles beat a whole-answer router?
  • Can harmful revisions be bounded while spending more on checks?

Connected research

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