Artificial Intelligence · 31.07.2026, 07:48 UTC
Certifying when decision-time information justifies adaptive experimentation
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 31.07.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2607.27651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive laboratories choose measurements during experiments, yet most methods begin after adaptation is permitted. We introduce Opportunity-aware Policy Authorization for Laboratories (\OPAL{}), a framework that decides whether adaptation should be enabled at all. \OPAL{} uses a precommitted contract to require non-trivial adaptation, controlled target risk and positive executed value after cost. We establish an impossibility boundary: source outcomes and unlabelled target covariates cannot uniformly support non-trivial authorization under unrestricted conditional outcome shift, and derive a target-calibrated recovery. Applied to an unseen 11,265-compound Cell Painting partition, the frozen gate selected 595 compounds, captured 384 positive opportunities and achieved strictly positive executed value under least-favourable completion; its 5.18\% false-activation upper bound remained below a 7.5\% limit. Among six methods, only \OPAL{} combined non-zero activation with this risk control. Locked pharmacogenomic and finite-campaign studies distinguish policy misalignment from non-certifiability, establishing authorization as a distinct layer for safe adaptive science.