Not All Agreement Counts as Corroboration: Provenance-Conserving Multi-View Fusion for Typed Action Admission in Human-Robot Collaboration

Abstract

Better probability scores do not establish that evidence has been counted correctly. Repeated inference over one observation can improve predictions without adding an evidential origin. Source-local numerical attributes alone cannot in general distinguish repeated derivations from separately countable acquisitions. PACT (Provenance-Aware evidence Conservation and Typed action admission) separates evidence magnitude from countability through a supplied provenance partition. Under singleton fidelity and insertion non-amplification, the coordinatewise meet is the unique pointwise greatest admissible within-component rule. Component budgets add under stated commensurability and separate-component additivity assumptions. Matched reassignments hold numerical outputs fixed while varying the counting relation. In four of 12 replicated-source tests on HandWritten, false refinement lowers macro-averaged negative log-likelihood and Brier score while increasing normalized common-support area under the risk-coverage curve (ncsAURC). In the controlled handover benchmark, removing the constructed adversarial-consensus condition leaves a 0.056 reduction in ncsAURC for provenance-partition aggregation relative to singleton aggregation under the same score functional. The corroboration contrast disappears, and method ranking remains selection-score dependent. In offline, reference-based human-robot collaboration with four prompts per camera and all other admission inputs fixed, duplicating each prompt output within its camera from multiplicity one to eight leaves all 720 PACT typed responses per checkpoint unchanged. Probability quality and evidence countability require separate evaluation.