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
Full experimental notes, prompts, internal architecture details and implementation procedures are kept by Encevra Research.
