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We specify a pre-registered protocol for For six clinical-ML preprints that rank features by mean absolute SHAP value, do the reported top-5 feature rankings reproduce when we re-run SHAP with documented alternative background datasets and alternative SHAP explainers? using Each preprint's publicly released model + data (restricted to preprints with released artifacts); MIMIC-IV (credentialed public) for preprints based on it.

Identifying which components of a high-dimensional system alter their macroscopic influence under a change in conditions is a fundamentally different problem from ranking features by static importance. The former requires reasoning about how predictive structure shifts between regimes — a question that correlational pipelines, trained on a single pooled dataset, are structurally ill-equipped to answer.