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Chen, Ho Yiing · 2026-05-21 · Zenodo
doi:10.5281/zenodo.20313796 · PDF
Independent ML researchers do not get peer review, adversarial collaborators, or institutional ethics boards. The gap shows up as inflated claims, hallucinated citations, and silent rewrites of past failure. I describe a lightweight integrity layer for this setting, the Truth Contract : a project-level SOUL.md document declaring forbidden phrasings, a pre-commit hook truth-lint that scans diffs and commit messages for violations, and an auto-citation verifier that blocks publish until every bibliography entry resolves against a primary source. I describe the Mercury project's 24-hour sprint as
Chen, Ho Yiing (norika) · Independent Researcher, Taiwan · ORCID 0009-0006-6816-9891