@article{crossentropyisloadbearingapreregistereds, title = {Cross-Entropy Is Load-Bearing: A Pre-Registered Scope Test of the K-Way Energy Probe on Bidirectional Predictive Coding}, author = {Jon-Paul Cacioli}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.21286}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21286}, }