sandeepdhuriauthor/delta-frame-validation-study

Delta Frame Validation Study (mirror)

Canonical record and citation: Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22598204 (all versions, always resolves to the latest). This mirror exists for discoverability. If the two differ, Zenodo wins.

What it is

50 regulated-domain Python backend tasks (money, idempotency, date and time, authentication and access), each generated twice by five frontier models from five vendors: once from the bare prompt, once from the same prompt preceded by a 267-word specification frame. 500 outputs total, one attempt each, temperature 0 where the endpoint accepts it.

Included: the 100 prompts with SHA-256, the frame, nine AST-based checkers with their unit gauntlet and 50 task fixture pairs (v1.1), scoring and statistics code with seeds, Bandit results, the manual adjudication table, run and verifier logs, and the pre-registration with four dated addenda.

Headline result

Findings in nine named defect classes: 148 in the bare arm, 23 in the frame arm. Every model improved. None got worse. Bandit, run independently, moved from 53 medium-or-high issues to 11.

Files

Two archives, byte-identical to the Zenodo deposits.

• Delta_STUDY_Results_DATA_v1.1.zip (version 1.1, 2026-09-19): adds tests/test_checks.py (checker gauntlet and 50-task fixture gauntlet), fixtures/ (100 task fixture files), harness/providers.py, and DATASET_v1.1_NOTE.md, which records that 16 of the 500 raw outputs are truncated in transport and gives the sensitivity analysis excluding them (every per-model result holds). No output was regenerated or modified. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22850887
• Delta_STUDY_Results_DATA.zip (version 1.0, 2026-09-07). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22598205

Unzip and see the README inside for the layout and the re-scoring instructions. Paper preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22830263

How to cite

Dhuri, S. (2026). Delta Frame Validation Study: complete results dataset (500 generations, 5 model families, pre-registered paired evaluation). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22598204

Related: Book and Specification Frame: https://acuity.press/specification-frame.html · The ten laws: https://acuity.press/laws/ Code, checkers, and harness: https://github.com/sandeep-dhuri/specification-frame · Position paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21988044

@misc{dhuri2026dataset,
  author    = {Dhuri, Sandeep},
  title     = {Delta Frame Validation Study: complete results dataset (500 generations, 5 model families, pre-registered paired evaluation)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.22598204},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22598204}
}

Author: Sandeep Dhuri, ORCID 0009-0008-1829-2431. License: CC BY 4.0.