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OEL-1 Empirical Research Track

Kinetics Labs

Empirical research on post-training and interface effects in open-weight language models.

A ZOA Industries research track. Empirical notes publish under the OEL-1 posture: methods are allowed and documented; claims are narrow and bounded to the tested panel; the track inherits the exclusions of the CRL-0 doctrine stack (no universal laws, no prescription of training modifications, no operational deployment guidance).

Publications

1 paper

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KL-EN-01 · April 2026

Boundary-Conditioned Failure Regimes in Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Post-Training Binding and Preference-Optimization Leakage

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An empirical study showing that interface conditions select failure regimes in instruction-tuned language models, and that preference optimization often weakens the boundary-binding seen at the SFT stage. Across 15 open-weight models, chat and tool-disabled boundaries are often the strongest binders, while raw and authority-framed conditions expose substantially more leakage.

OEL-1 Zenodo 15 open-weight models 3 matched lineages 4 interface conditions

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19572217 Read on Zenodo →

description Scope

Post-training behavior · interface effects · preference-optimization leakage · matched-checkpoint lineages · corrected harness methodology · condition-stratified evaluation of open-weight instruction-tuned models.

shield Posture

OEL-1 (Observer Engagement Level 1). Empirical observation only. No theory of post-training · no universal laws · no prescription of training modifications · no operational deployment guidance. Claims are narrow and bounded to the tested panel and conditions.

account_tree Relationship to the Constraint Program

Kinetics Labs operates on the downstream ZOA surface. It inherits the exclusions declared in the CRL-0 doctrine stack (the Constraint Geometry paper series) but does not contribute doctrine. Kinetics artifacts are not catalog entries in the Constraint Geometry canon; they are engineering and research reports on applied surfaces.

Doctrine stack (upstream): spine.constraintphysics.org · Constraint Program: compressedconsciousness.org

Research Access

Kinetics Labs publications are openly accessible via Zenodo. For evaluation access to ZOA research tools and diagnostic systems, institutional researchers may request access under OEL-1 terms.

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