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Keep evaluation fixed during local search

A local loop proposes candidates, runs them and checks their results with a fixed objective. A separate review can change goals, metrics or controls and start a new comparison. This review is the author's proposal.

Keep evaluation fixed during local searchA local loop proposes candidates, runs them and checks their results with a fixed objective. A separate review can change goals, metrics or controls and start a new comparison. This review is the author's proposal. Local comparison Declared goal Fixed evaluation Review the setup Goal, metric or controls Propose Candidate change Run + record Artifact + protocol Check evidence Result + controls Keep Reproduce Reject Investigate yes no Next proposal Start a new comparison
Local search keeps evaluation fixed. A separate review examines questions about goals, metrics or controls. A new objective starts a new comparison. The outer loop is the author's analytical proposal, not a claimed autoresearch feature. Author-created explanatory diagram. Playback time is for this example. Animation time is not measured runtime. Open full-size SVG