Evidence-Gated Research: Statistically Controlled Model Adoption in Adaptive Search

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arXiv:2610.01751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive model search is path dependent: once a challenger is adopted, it becomes the reference from which later candidates are generated. A statistically unsupported replacement can therefore alter hypotheses that have not yet been proposed. We introduce Evidence-Gated Research (EGR), a statistical adoption layer for moving-incumbent search. EGR freezes each challenger before decision evidence is revealed, builds anytime-valid evidence across a pr