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What exactly did the WHAM paper measure for persistency, with what values, sample sizes, labelers and limits?

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Nature Table 1 (observed 2026-10-22) gives the share of 1.6B-WHAM generations labelled as persisting an edited-in element: with one conditioning frame, Powercell 58%, character 45%, Vertical Jumppad 58%; with five frames, 86%, 85%, 98%. The protocol is small and narrow: 600 videos (480 for Powercell/character, 120 for Jumppad), no-op actions, 10 sampled videos per edited input, each judged only over the first ten generated frames (1 s) by seven of the authors, blinded to input length, with 90% agreement on the 300 double-labelled videos (stricter label kept). The 10-frame condition appears only as an Extended Data figure (values not extracted), and the text says persistency rose from 1 to 5 frames but not from 5 to 10.

Nature Table 1 (observed 2026-10-22) gives the share of 1.6B-WHAM generations labelled as persisting an edited-in element: with one conditioning frame, Powercell 58%, character 45%, Vertical Jumppad 58%; with five frames, 86%, 85%, 98%. The protocol is small and narrow: 600 videos (480 for Powercell/character, 120 for Jumppad), no-op actions, 10 sampled videos per edited input, each judged only over the first ten generated frames (1 s) by seven of the authors, blinded to input length, with 90% agreement on the 300 double-labelled videos (stricter label kept). The 10-frame condition appears only as an Extended Data figure (values not extracted), and the text says persistency rose from 1 to 5 frames but not from 5 to 10. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; WHAM persistency measurement details and limits. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Nature Table 1 (observed 2026-10-22) gives the share of 1.6B-WHAM generations labelled as persisting an edited-in element: with one conditioning frame, Powercell 58%, character 45%, Vertical Jumppad 58%; with five frames, 86%, 85%, 98%. The protocol is small and narrow: 600 videos (480 for Powercell/character, 120 for Jumppad), no-op actions, 10 sampled videos per edited input, each judged only over the first ten generated frames (1 s) by seven of the authors, blinded to input length, with 90% agreement on the 300 double-labelled videos (stricter label kept). The 10-frame condition appears only as an Extended Data figure (values not extracted), and the text says persistency rose from 1 to 5 frames but not from 5 to 10. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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