Sep 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Abstract
Replication package for Phase 3 of the EvoLLM project: a tournament between 572 strategy identities written by eight large language models (iterated prisoner's dilemma, 1,000 rounds, no noise), registered on OSF (https://osf.io/2nzdh) before execution. It contains the frozen protocol commit 18cb41744f3f1e66fe711aad09697980476c2498, the 665 confirmatory batch receipts (166,172 computed encounters, 2,622,048 scenario-level records, no errors), the registered H7 analysis and its outputs, the eligibility and conversion-fidelity record, and post hoc analyses that are explicitly not preregistered (behavioural characterisation against a probe panel, re-examination of the 1,800 historical Phase 1/2 programs, decomposition of H7). See phase3/REPLICATION.md. The repository is a fork of willis-richard/evollm (Willis et al., arXiv:2501.16173). Earlier versions of this record contain the Phase 1 (arXiv:2605.29874) and Phase 2 (arXiv:2608.10262) replication packages.
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