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CANDOR: Chance-Calibrated Discordance in Frozen Foundation Encoders

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arXiv:2607. 18451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen encoders are chosen by how well a lightweight head reads a finding from their features, not whether the geometry separates it.

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