One Winner or Several Top Designs for the Next Evaluator?
Abstract
A loss bound for one selected design and a top-design retained group solve different tasks. Comparing their resources requires a common later decision and explicit checking costs. Membership mistakes near the group boundary can matter more than interior ordering, while the one-winner bound retains its own assumptions and cannot be treated as realized group loss. This focused synthesis develops an empirical comparison that preserves the terminal action, observation process, and total verification cost. Its proposed tests are prospective; no new simulation run, model-training result, or intervention effect is reported.
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