Nicholas J. Lamb

A Preregistered Comparison of Acceptance-Gate Architectures for an LLM That Rewrites Its Own Code

When a language model is allowed to revise a program repeatedly and a gate decides which revisions to keep, what the gate checks determines what the model does. We report a preregistered experiment in which an LLM optimiser rewrote a small posture-risk classifier for 20 revisions per trajectory under four acceptance ar...