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Sound Compounding Ratchet

A way to keep a gain only when a checker confirms it. Plus a test for when a model thinks it passed but did not. Every win here is on tiny models only.

Annalea Layton · Vext Labs · 2026-06-29 · 8 pp · ≈8 min read

  • PROVEN-toy
  • not real-LLM scale
  • $0-CPU kill-tests
Cover · A pixel pattern made from this paper’s ID, “sound-compounding-ratchet” · Art, not a chart
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Summary

A way to keep a gain only when a checker confirms it. Plus a test for when a model thinks it passed but did not. Every win here is on tiny models only.

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Authors

Annalea Layton · Vext Labs, Inc. · ORCID 0009-0001-3695-9569

Acknowledgments

None stated in the source paper.

Cite

Layton, A. (2026). Sound Compounding Ratchet. Vext Labs. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21628552

@techreport{layton2026sound,
  title  = {Sound Compounding Ratchet},
  author = {Layton, Annalea},
  institution = {Vext Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Paper},
  doi    = {10.5281/zenodo.21628552}
}
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21628552 CC-BY-4.0

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