Reproducibility Package for Cost-Aware Reliability Signal Selection in Finite-Choice Small Language Models

This record contains the reproducibility materials for the study “Cost-Aware Reliability Signal Selection for Finite-Choice Small Language Models: A Locked Validation Study.” The initial archive includes the manuscript/reproducibility package, validation scripts, locked validation output tables, audit notes, and documentation required to inspect and rerun the reported analyses. The locked validation outputs include condition discovery, selected reliability-signal comparisons, paired deltas, cost-aware summaries, bootstrap summaries, and auxiliary broad finite-choice validation results. The large feature archive, features_combined_q1_broad_nonmcq.zip, contains per-example feature CSV files, hidden-state NPZ files, and metadata JSON files. This archive enables rerunning the locked validation protocol without repeating model inference. If not included in the initial upload, it will be added in a subsequent Zenodo version of this record.