arXiv AI

Self-Specializing Vision-Language Transmon Chip Calibration in a Physics-Grounded Environment

arXiv:2607. 03193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calibrating a superconducting transmon chip is a sequential decision problem under noise, drift, and a finite budget: an expert must choose experiments, read ambiguous plots, judge fit quality, and revise stale beliefs as the chip drifts.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

PCBSchemaGen: Reward-Guided LLM Code Synthesis for Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Schematic Design with Structured Verification

arXiv:2602. 00510v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most LLM code-synthesis benchmarks rely on unit tests as the reward oracle, but PCB schematic design has none: correctness is defined by structured physical constraints over real IC packages and pin-level assignments, per-task golden references are unavailable, and SPICE simulation does not validate schematic-level correctness.

By Huanghaohe Zou, Peng Han, Emad Nazerian, Mafu Zhang, Zhicheng Guo, Alex Q. Huang
arXiv AI
6d ago

FLIP: Final Layer Inference-Time Probing for Vision-Language Models

FLIP is a final‑layer inference‑time probe designed to test whether a logit‑facing intervention site in an open‑weight vision‑language model (VLM) supports structured, task‑linked computation rather than generic perturbation. The probe applies elementwise flooring to the final normalized hidden state before logit computation, leaving other model components unchanged. By sweeping intervention strength on a controlled detection/counting task, FLIP identifies three regimes—negligible change, a bounded interior regime with improved detection recall and reduced counting error, and over‑suppression—while a four‑criterion protocol ensures the observed effects are mechanistically interpretable.

By Drandreb Earl O. Juanico, Rowel O. Atienza
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Calibrated e-CUSUM Decoding for Quantized Reasoning Models: Why Token Log-Probability Is the Wrong Observable for Decoding Monitors

arXiv:2607. 11317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit quantization makes small reasoning models inexpensive to deploy but can degrade their chains of thought.

By El Hassane Ettifouri (Novelis Research, Paris, France), Ayoub Belfatmi (Novelis Research, Paris, France), Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan (Novelis Research, Paris, France), Walid Dahhane (Novelis Research, Paris, France)
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Securing quantum error correction against misleading advice from AI agents

The paper investigates how an attacker could manipulate an AI adviser to issue harmful quantum error‑correction updates. It identifies an ambiguity in passive syndrome records that can mislead recovery selection and demonstrates that additional calibration measurements can provide the missing sign information needed for safe updates. By introducing a separate evaluator that only accepts updates when calibration uncertainty and drift bounds certify improvement, the authors show through simulations and surface‑code experiments that harmful proposals are rejected while beneficial ones are retained.

By A. Bar{\i}\c{s} \"Ozg\"uler