What Does an Evaluation License? A Commit-Bound Census of Claim-Relative Inference in Inspect Evals
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This paper formalizes a claim-replay layer for AI evaluation artifacts and censuses evaluation units, finding that most stop before deterministic inference due to missing historical evidence or semantic grounding.
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Abstract
Evaluationartifactsspecifyaforwardcomputation:atask,scorer,andreportedmetric.Theydonotnecessarilylicensetheclaimattachedtothatmetricbecausethehistoricalevidenceandalternativesemanticsneededtoreplayitmaybeunbound.Weformalizethismissingclaim-replaylayerthroughafrozensubstrateD,agroundedfamilyF,aclaimqueryq,andtheresultingidentifiedset.Wethencensusall124mechanicallyeligibleInspectEvalsunitsatapinnedcommit.Everyunitreceivesaterminaldisposition;110stopbeforedeterministicinferencebecauserequiredhistoricalevidenceorsemanticgroundingisunavailable.Whereexecutioncloses,exactvalues,winners,completeorders,andpairwiserelationsseparatebyclaimresolutionandbyprimaryversusreviewfamily.Theauditthereforereturnstypedstops,instabilitywitnesses,andstablesubstructureratherthanforcingoneevaluatormeaningoronerobust/not-robustlabel.
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