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Archive I
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06Adaptive Apprenticeship: Small Average Gain, Inconsistent LineagesCan student-feedback-guided teaching improve a specialized model more than matched-dose static teaching?Exploratory adaptive fine-tuning studyADAPTIVE-APPRENTICESHIP2026Report · PDF07Teaching and Specialization: The Pilot ArchiveWhat did earlier tests of rules, examples, explanation supervision and feedback reveal about model specialization?Ten exploratory pilots and diagnosticsTEACHING-PILOT-ARCHIVE2026Report · PDF05Route Apprenticeship: Small Gains, Incomplete AnswersDo model-written explanations improve a student more than reference explanations of the same verified answers?Exploratory fine-tuning studyROUTE-APPRENTICESHIP2026Report · PDF04More Fitting, Limited TransferDoes more answer-only fine-tuning improve fitting and transfer to new computations?Exploratory fitting studyFITTING-R22026Report · PDF03When the Student Does Not ActWas the student able to execute the action interface needed for a four-condition teaching comparison?Feasibility failure reportAPPRENTICESHIP-R32026Report · PDF02Cumulative Machine CultureCan knowledge accumulate across generations of a frozen language model when the only channel between generations is text?Completed research reportE0022026Report · PDF01Kleos Framing: A Confirmatory StudyDoes framing excellence as enduring renown change objective reasoning accuracy beyond closely matched social attribution?Completed research reportE001c2026Report · Note · PDFArchive II
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01Model ApprenticeshipCan student feedback help a stronger teacher build a better specialized model?In preparation · Feedback follow-upAPPRENTICESHIP2026Program