paper

Full-Length Paper Package

Purpose: full-length manuscript, PDF, bibliography, and paper-facing figures. For the AIES submission package, start with ../paper_aies_expanded/main.pdf and ../paper_aies_expanded/supplement.pdf.

Open First

Need	File
AIES main paper	../paper_aies_expanded/main.pdf
AIES supplement	../paper_aies_expanded/supplement.pdf
Canonical PDF	refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.pdf
LaTeX source	refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.tex
Bibliography	refs.bib
Figure map	figures/README.md
Evidence registry	evidence_registry_2026-05-06.md
Paper-facing tables	tables/publication_claim_tables.md

Paper Claim In One Box

Important

Teacher-guided scaffold-family search can discover auditable prompt-shapes that make value-relevant structure more usable to a frozen weak student under controlled evaluation.

Evidence Hierarchy

Case study	What it contributes	Reported status
ETHICS	Static moral classification, selector-gap diagnosis, and scaffold-freezing route evidence.	Checkpoint selector-gap result plus imported 10-seed tournament; fixed-artifact and capacity checks are route-specificity context, not the headline proof.
3D moral stability	Perturbation robustness: preserve supported values, update when support changes, control fragility. It also maps Moral Perception to salience, Phronesis to sensitivity, and Hexis to fragility control.	Two access-log verified held-out wins (2801, 4523) plus mixed confirmatory boundary.
Governance	Auditability and reasonable-precaution framing.	Conceptual / protocol claim, not a legal-liability claim.

Relationship To Repo

Location	Role
../reports/	Empirical reports and artifact maps
../outputs/	Raw metrics, predictions, split manifests, access logs
../docs/current_status.md	Shortest live claim boundary
../PROTOCOL.md	Reusable method
../RATIONALE.md	Decision rationale

Historical Memos

The files dated 2026-05-06 are preserved as editing and evidence-audit history. Some describe earlier manuscript strategy. They are not the current audience-facing manuscript. Use the LaTeX source, compiled PDF, figure README, and publication claim tables above as the canonical paper package.

Build

From repo root:

make paper

Direct LaTeX path:

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.tex
bibtex refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.tex
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.tex

Output:

paper/refined_prompt_shape_epiplexity_paper.pdf

Claim Boundary

Do claim:

• prompt-shape discovery mechanism evidence;
• two clean held-out 3D successes;
• selector-gap and fragility/WVS boundary as informative failure modes;
• auditable prompt scaffolds as governance-relevant artifacts.

Do not claim:

• broad all-seed 3D confirmation;
• moral wisdom in the model;
• benchmark labels as moral truth;
• prompt-only routes dominate weight updates;
• legal liability conclusions.