Preregistered placebo-controlled decomposition shows external executable counterexamples drive self-repair gains in small code models more than re-exposure or self-critique.
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Controlled ablation finds Popperian code-generation skill adds no separable correctness benefit over labels-only scaffold; gains track structure not content.
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Falsification, Not Exposure: An Internally Preregistered Placebo-Controlled Decomposition of Self-Repair Feedback in Frozen Small Code Models
Preregistered placebo-controlled decomposition shows external executable counterexamples drive self-repair gains in small code models more than re-exposure or self-critique.
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Scaffold, Not Vocabulary? A Controlled, Two-Tier, Pre-Registered Study of a Popperian Code-Generation Skill
Controlled ablation finds Popperian code-generation skill adds no separable correctness benefit over labels-only scaffold; gains track structure not content.