Establish equivalence through replicated independent rollouts

Establish whether SkillSeek and Liu et al. (2026b)’s LLM-mediated retrieval loop are equivalent under a pre-specified practical margin and repeated independent rollouts of the headline Qwen3.5 settings, separating variation across tasks from variation across rollouts of the same task.

Background

The main comparison between SkillSeek and Liu et al. (2026b)’s retrieval loop is based on a single 89-task trial for each main-grid setting. Because the authors treat differences below 2% as within experimental noise, they characterize the central finding as observed parity rather than a definitive advantage for either method.

The authors state that a stronger equivalence claim would require a pre-specified practical margin and repeated independent rollouts of the headline Qwen3.5 settings. Such replication would distinguish variation caused by differences among tasks from variation caused by repeated executions of the same task.