Barandes's peer-reviewed Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence program independently reaches a Bell-violation-via-locality result structurally similar to Horvat's, but does not corroborate it

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Jacob A. Barandes's "Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence" program argues every quantum system is equivalent to a sufficiently general, non-Markovian ("indivisible") classical stochastic process — proposed in "The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence" (arXiv:2302.10778, first submitted Feb 2023; published Philosophy of Physics 3(1):8, 2025) as "a framework for using Hilbert-space methods to formulate highly generic, non-Markovian types of stochastic dynamics." A 2026 extension with Hasan and Kagan, "The CHSH Game, Tsirelson's Bound, and Causal Locality" (arXiv:2512.18105; published Phys. Rev. A 114, 022208, 2026), shows Barandes's associated "causal locality" condition is "precisely strong enough to allow for violations of the Bell inequality up to, but not beyond, the Tsirelson bound."

This is the same high-level shape as Sebastian Horvat's result in claim-horvat-probabilistic-locality-and-irrelevance-of-history-jointly-imply-bells-local-causality — a locality-respecting theory that still violates Bell's inequalities once history-dependence enters the dynamics — reached independently, in a different formalism, through peer review, by a different author group. It is not, however, a citation-based corroboration of Horvat specifically: both Barandes papers predate Horvat's October 2026 preprint by roughly a year or more, share no terminology with it ("causal locality" and "indivisible stochastic processes," not "Probabilistic Locality" or "Irrelevance of History"), and do not engage Horvat's specific proofs. Horvat's own paper cites Barandes's program as a different approach to the same target, not as support for his result — see question-corroborate-horvat-probabilistic-locality-preprint-single-source.