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3 open-access journal articles on reproducibility, published in 2026 in Life of Research. Every record is free to read and download, with a permanent link and a ready-made citation.

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Did the Model Change, or Did Your Measurement? A Drift Claim Is a Test Against a Declared Null, the Careful Longitudinal Studies Mostly Caught Announced Version Moves, and a Capability Change Under a Pinned Identifier Is the Claim the Evidence Supports Least

Two bodies of work describe the same deployed language models in opposite terms. One reports that models behind a fixed product name change over time and calls for continuous monitoring. The other reports that a single model, queried twice under settings meant to be deterministic, returns…

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Curriculum Is Three Claims, Not One: Ordering, Selection and Decomposition in RLVR, and the Random-Order Control Almost Nobody Runs

Curriculum learning entered large-scale reasoning training through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR): difficulty-ordered or difficulty-filtered problem schedules are now routine in systems built on GRPO and DAPO, and dozens of 2024-2026 papers report a gain from some version of…

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A Conflict Is Constructed Before It Is Measured: Seven Design Choices That Set Which Way a Language Model Bends, and Why the Context-Memory Results Do Not Compare

The literature on how language models behave when retrieved context contradicts parametric memory contains a flat contradiction, and neither of its two surveys resolves it. One body of results reports over-reliance on memorised information; another reports that models are highly receptive to…

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