Which Signal Did the Synthesis Import? Information, Re-presentation and Selection in Synthetic Pretraining, Why 'the Verifier Is Doing the Work' Holds Only Where Correctness Is the Target, and the Controls That Would Assign the Credit

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Which Signal Did the Synthesis Import? Information, Re-presentation and Selection in Synthetic Pretraining, Why 'the Verifier Is Doing the Work' Holds Only Where Correctness Is the Target, and the Controls That Would Assign the Credit [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23353594

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@misc{lor1092026,
  title        = {Which Signal Did the Synthesis Import? Information, Re-presentation and Selection in Synthetic Pretraining, Why 'the Verifier Is Doing the Work' Holds Only Where Correctness Is the Target, and the Controls That Would Assign the Credit},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23353594},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/109},
  keywords     = {synthetic data, language model pretraining, model collapse, data-constrained scaling, rephrasing, verification, self-improvement, credit assignment},
  note         = {LOR-00109}
}

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