| cff-version: 1.2.0 | |
| message: "If you use this software or research, please cite it as below." | |
| type: software | |
| title: "A Conservation Law for Commitment in Language Under Transformative Compression and Recursive Application" | |
| version: "v0.2" | |
| doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18271102 | |
| date-released: 2026-01-16 | |
| url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18271102" | |
| repository-code: "https://github.com/SunrisesIllNeverSee/commitment-conservation" | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: "McHenry" | |
| given-names: "Deric J." | |
| keywords: | |
| - information-theory | |
| - llm | |
| - compression | |
| - recursion | |
| - computational-linguistics | |
| - commitment-conservation | |
| - language-models | |
| license: CC-BY-4.0 | |
| abstract: "This work proposes a conservation law for commitment in language under transformative compression and recursive application. We define commitment as the minimal, identity-preserving content that remains invariant under loss-inducing transformations, and demonstrate that commitment content must be conserved or the signal collapses." | |