arXiv AI

Towards Computational Provenance: Carrying Causal-State Evidence in Generated Text

arXiv:2608. 16868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A language model's output does not by itself provide verifiable evidence about the internal computation that produced it.

arXiv AI
Jun 18

Externalizing Research Synthesis and Validation in AI Scientists through a Research Harness

arXiv:2606. 18874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems can increasingly automate scientific workflows, but the reasoning that links prior evidence, generated ideas, experiments and final claims often remains implicit inside model inference.

By Zijian Wang, Hanqi Li, Ziyue Yang, Zijian Hu, Shenghan Zuo, Yunzhe Zhang, Da Ma, Danyu Luo, Chenrun Wang, Jing Peng, Tiancheng Huang, Sijia Guo, Huayang Wang, Zichen Zhu, Senyu Han, Yilu Cao, Kai Yu, Lu Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 11

TempoBench: Reasoning Execution Without Causal Attribution Is Just Simulation

arXiv:2510. 27544v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current training paradigms, optimized for long-horizon reasoning trace execution, have made Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at pattern matching and forward simulation of reasoning, but underperform at counterfactual causal understanding and reasoning.

By Nikolaus Holzer, William Fishell, Baishakhi Ray, Mark Santolucito
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Bounding Hallucinations: Merlin-Arthur Protocols for Mutual-Information Bounds in Language Models

arXiv:2512. 11614v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) relies on retrieved context to guide large language models (LLM), yet treats the retrieval as a heuristic rather than verifiable evidence -- leading to unsupported answers, hallucinations, and reliance on spurious context.

By Bj\"orn Deiseroth, Max Henning H\"oth, Kristian Kersting, Letitia Parcalabescu
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Combating Data Laundering in LLM Training

arXiv:2604. 01904v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-hoc unauthorized-training data detection for large language models (LLMs) typically assumes a query-with-originals regime: rights holders query a target LLM with raw proprietary data and assess whether the model assigns them stronger memorization-based detection signals, e.

By Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li, Feng Liu