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  "title": "Burstiness Was Measured Wrong, and Prompting Cannot Aim It",
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  "status": "Accepted poster; published on OpenReview",
  "venue": {
    "name": "NeurIPS 2026 Workshop LP4FM",
    "track": "Poster",
    "year": 2026
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Vittoria Lanzo",
      "affiliation": "Liceo Scientifico Augusto Righi",
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    {
      "name": "Dico Angelo",
      "affiliation": "Metaventions AI",
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  "dates": {
    "accepted": "2026-09-29",
    "published": "2026-10-01",
    "verified": "2026-10-04",
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    "site_updated": "2026-10-18"
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    "submission_number": 114,
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "findings": {
    "headlines": 200,
    "families": 9,
    "modes": 5,
    "seeds": 3,
    "family_mode_cells": 45,
    "flatter": 32,
    "no_significant_difference": 8,
    "more_dispersed": 5,
    "instruction_short": 4,
    "instruction_equivalent": 2,
    "instruction_further_away": 1,
    "instruction_overshoot": 2,
    "fewshot_flattest_by_rank_biserial": 7,
    "summary": "Prompting moves rhythm. It does not aim it.",
    "normalization": "On the audited leg, normalization changes the instruction gap from 0.005 (p = 0.10) to 0.028 (p = 0.00003), and the uninstructed gap from 0.043 to 0.097.",
    "guard_scope": "The Goodhart guard and coherence gate are proposed screens. Neither filters the benchmark generations; the reported benchmark is descriptive.",
    "comparison_scope": "Nine separate paired comparisons against the same human baseline. Provider decoding is not matched, so the results are not a cross-family ranking.",
    "missingness": "Moderation and empty outputs reduce completeness on some legs. The scored artifacts disclose paired sample sizes; missing outputs are excluded by the seed-averaging protocol.",
    "limitations": "News-domain, offline, descriptive evaluation. This paper does not demonstrate an in-generation controller, detector evasion, or a validated human-perception improvement."
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}