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Metascientists, research offices and AI-oversight researchers. What a claim is worth. Ignorance audits, epistemic repair and legibility, calibration and confidence, what an AI-assisted result actually establishes, consilience across fields, and research integrity as a measurable property.
Replication. Reproducing or auditing a published claim Tagged papers: 27.
Falsification Criteria for Quantum-Advantage Claims: An Effective-Criterion Audit Framework
Claims of quantum advantage are frequently stated in forms that resist empirical refutation: the advantage is qualified by hardware assumptions, sampling definitions, or problem encodings that can be revised after a classical rebuttal appears. This paper constructs a structured falsification…
Cross-Model LLM Convergence as Bayesian Evidence for Scientific Claim Correctness: A Formal Framework, Worked Derivations, and a Calibration Protocol
Verifying novel or fringe scientific claims is bottlenecked by the scarcity of domain experts. We propose and formalize a gate-checking method in which agreement between two or more independently trained large language models (LLMs) — not merely on a verdict but on the same multi-step argument…
Gate-Check Convergence: A Benchmark Protocol and Statistical Design for Measuring Cross-Model Agreement on Fringe Physics Claims
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly consulted as informal arbiters of scientific claims, including claims at the fringe of established physics, yet no published protocol measures whether independent models converge on such verdicts because they retrieve a shared consensus or because they…
Is the Meta-Pattern of Reification Physically Real? A Reconciled Audit with a Quantified Cost Framework
A the QNFO archive document (https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/meta-pattern-of-reification-in-physics/) proposes a "Meta-Pattern of Reification in Physics" and poses the question of whether this pattern is something physically real rather than a descriptive regularity. This paper treats that question…
Prioritizing Large Language Models for Scientific Research and Agentic AI: A LiveBench-Grounded Audit (August 2026)
An audit of the frontier large-language-model landscape (August 2026) for mathematics-heavy scientific research and agentic AI, grounded in the LiveBench 2026-06-25 contamination-free benchmark. Findings: no Llama model ranks in the top 42; DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is the mathematics price-performance…
Knowing What We Do Not Know: Ignorance Auditing, AI-Generation Detection, and the Epistemic Lessons of an AI-Assisted Research Pipeline
This paper synthesizes three threads from a single research organization's experience with AI-assisted research and publication: the development of a fifteen-question Universal Ignorance Audit, two independent forensic analyses concluding that a flagship published paper was AI-generated, and the…
Statistical Audit of the 5-Smooth Semigroup Mass-Ratio Claim
ACRP-04 statistical audit. Verdict: CONSISTENT WITH LOOK-ELSEWHERE ARTIFACT. p_global=0.116; 2 claimed-fit arithmetic errors; 5 non-optimal triples; precise ratios deviate 4-9138 sigma; pre-registered neutrino prediction trivially passes.
Auditing the BQNN: Does a Tunable Quantum Neural Network on Trapped-Ion and Superconducting Hardware Demonstrate a Route to Near-Term Quantum Advantage?
We audit the BQNN paper by Lakhdar-Hamina et al. (2025, PRL / arXiv:2507.21222v2) which implements a tunable quantum neural network on three quantum computing platforms. Through a complete Phase 1-4 research pipeline including due diligence, external literature search across 32 papers, and a 9-stage…
PQS AI-Evaluation Audit: Post-Quantum Synthesis Investigation and AI Gate-Check Analysis
Archive of the complete research record investigating the Post-Quantum Synthesis (PQS) framework: a neutral investigation of PQS's four sub-pillars mapped against external literature, plus an earlier-iteration analysis of AI gate-check convergence between Claude and Gemini evaluating PQS…
Impact of Cognitive Linearity on Epistemic Modeling
This study investigates the epistemological tension between human linear constructs and natural nonlinearity. Drawing on Mach’s principle of the “economy of science,” we argue that linearity serves as a “pragmatic abstraction”—a necessary cognitive and technical simplification that enables…
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