Jason BARNARD

Annotation Cascading: Hierarchical Model Routing, Topical Authority, and Inter-Page Context Propagation in Large-Scale Web Content Classification

2026 · Open MIND

Annotation Cascading (v2, tightened — Feb 2026)This preprint proposes a unified model for web-scale content annotation under compute constraints. It introduces Annotation Cascading (site→category→page→chunk routing through specialist models), formalises topical authority as measurable annotation routing …