Pre-Registered Genesis Accounting for Recursive Self-Improvement: First Audited Operator-Genesis Events in a Physics-Discovery Runtime
Claims of recursive self-improvement are easy to make and hard to falsify: did improvement come from re-using designer-provided mechanisms, or from mechanisms the system authored itself? We introduce a pre-registered, two-tier accounting: M1 counts machine-generated content instances within a designer-provided vocabulary, while M2 counts machine-authored mechanism types (new operators registered into the runtime's own vocabulary, with a held-out-validation certificate). We report the first audited M2 genesis events. In the primary event, depth-limited compositional search over elementary operators, judged by held-out R^2 on real NIST hydrogen Balmer measurements, produced the operator sq(...
| Authors | Wenbin Mao, Pei Zou |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 10 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 10 October 2026 |
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