Research Sound Compounding Ratchet

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.

Date: 2026-06-29
Type: Paper
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21628552
Length: 8 pp · ≈8 min read

PROVEN-toy
not real-LLM scale
CPU-only kill-tests

Annalea Layton · Vext Labs

Cover · A pixel pattern made from this paper’s ID, “sound-compounding-ratchet” · Art, not a chart

On this page · 1 section

Summary

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.

Read the full paper on the Zenodo record.

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}
}

Zenodo record · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21628552 CC-BY-4.0

Summary

Authors

Acknowledgments

Cite

Related