Can LLMs Improve Their Own Harness? A Controlled Study on ARC-AGI-3
If a language model can rewrite the software it uses to play a game, how can it tell whether an edit was worth keeping? Jens Lehmann and Sahar Vahdati let each model build a program, play five practice games and revise that program twice. They…
FrontierPhysics: Evaluating Agents for End-to-End Physics Research
Can a research agent tell when its own calculation has led it astray? In FrontierPhysics, physicists turned investigations from their own laboratories and research groups into 56 problems. An agent receives a brief, explores the literature, chooses a method and submits a manuscript alongside results…
Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Can a compact text encoder learn representations that agree with vision more closely than those of a much larger language model? This preprint investigates that question through a conditional mathematical theorem and experiments comparing Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) with next-token prediction. Its central proposal is…
Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars
How can a passenger understand why a self-driving car behaves unexpectedly? This study introduces the Concept-Wrapper Network (CW-Net), which connects a learned planner to human-readable concepts and examines whether explanations improve understanding of vehicle behaviour. Its evaluation combines private-track experiments with a real autonomous vehicle,…
LLM-Based Agents for Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of Architectures, Applications, and Open Challenges
This systematic review examines how language-model agents are being used in cybersecurity, from penetration testing and threat intelligence to incident response. It classifies 59 studies published between January 2022 and April 2026 by security function, agent architecture, knowledge augmentation, human oversight and evaluation rigor. The…
Large language models detect methodological errors that human peer review misses in clinical trials
Can language models help reviewers find methodological weaknesses in clinical-trial reports? This preprint tests fifteen models on documents containing deliberately inserted errors, first using reports from an earlier human-review experiment and then extending the task to 58 trials published in 2026. It examines detection scores,…
Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science
How useful are AI-generated scientific ideas to the researchers who understand the underlying work? This study asks authors of recent preprints to evaluate model-generated hypotheses for novelty, feasibility, plausibility and willingness to adopt them. Its source corpus spans 121,640 preprints, predominantly in biology and medicine,…
An Embarrassingly Simple Graph Heuristic Reveals Shortcut-Solvable Benchmarks for Sequential Recommendation
Do standard recommendation benchmarks genuinely require sophisticated models, or can their structure reward simpler shortcuts? This study investigates that question with a graph heuristic that starts from a user’s last one or two interactions, retrieves nearby candidate items and ranks them by feature similarity. Across…
When silence is safer: a review and decision-theoretic framework for LLM abstention in healthcare
In healthcare, a fluent answer can be less useful than a justified decision not to answer. This review examines how language models abstain when information is uncertain or when a response could be harmful. It distinguishes uncertainty-driven abstention from safety-driven refusal and finds that many…
Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome
AlphaGenome addresses a central problem in genomics: predicting how changes in DNA affect the regulation of biological activity. The model processes DNA sequences one million bases long and produces thousands of functional predictions, with resolution reaching individual base pairs for supported outputs. Its scope includes…
Sequence Feature Extraction for Malware Family Analysis via Graph Neural Network
Malicious software (malware) causes much harm to our devices and life. We are eager to understand the malware behavior and the threat it made. Most of the record files of malware are variable length and text-based files with time stamps, such as event log data…
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