arXiv AI

ZK-SR117: A Chunked Zero-Knowledge Attestation Design for Aggregated Fair-Lending Metrics, with a Control Mapping toward Full SR 11-7 Coverage

arXiv:2608. 02664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying ML models in regulated decision-making (credit underwriting, fraud detection, loan approval) requires demonstrating fairness and robustness to auditors without exposing model weights or customer data.

arXiv AI
Sep 17

BENCHCOMPASS: From Scores to Signals for Training and Harness Decisions in Payment-Domain LLMs

BENCHCOMPASS is a new payment‑domain benchmark that transforms typed evidence packs into scenario‑grounded tasks, applies LLM‑based quality checks, generates attack variants, and reserves final item admission for domain experts. It includes an expert‑reviewed Pro benchmark covering payment knowledge, context‑grounded scenario reasoning, and attacked open robustness, plus a lower‑assurance Normal pool. Across 16 model variants, BENCHCOMPASS reveals distinct failure modes—missing payment knowledge, incomplete reasoning, and failure to reject invalid workflows—while the best model scores 89.6% on open context‑grounded reasoning and 81.7% under attacked inputs. "whyItMatters":"The benchmark provides a structured way to isolate and evaluate specific weaknesses in LLMs for payment operations, a critical financial infrastructure where rules change rapidly and decisions depend on complex contextual factors."

By Sijie Dong, Wei Ren, Xuanwei Hu, Jiawei Luo, Zifan Wang, Xiaoyun Feng, Hui Cai, Lyuxin Xue, Peng Lu, Jianshe Li, Xin Zhang, Wei Wu
arXiv AI
6d ago

Werracle: Sub-Cent Intra-Block AI Reflex Oracles and Flash-Loan Circuit Breakers for EVM Smart Contracts

Werracle is a zero‑storage on‑chain AI decision oracle that fits into a single 32‑byte EVM storage slot and uses procedural Mandelbrot dynamics to generate continuous non‑linear decision hyperplanes from a 24‑byte coordinate triplet. Implemented in pure Solidity bytecode with fixed‑point arithmetic, it evaluates a 16‑point Pareto micro‑grid in only 21,438 gas, achieving sub‑millisecond latency on Layer‑2 rollups. The protocol is formally verified with a 1,000‑test deterministic suite and is deployed live on an EVM devnet, demonstrated through a Uniswap v4 dynamic fee governor that adjusts liquidity provider fees in real time.

By Volkan Da\u{g}l{\i}, Zerrin Da\u{g}l{\i}, Da\u{g}han Da\u{g}l{\i}
arXiv AI
4d ago

Bits Under ZK-LLM: Evaluating Zero-Knowledge-Friendly Quantization for Verifiable Private LLM Inference

The paper introduces the first systematic study of zero‑knowledge (ZK)‑friendly quantization for large language models (LLMs). It defines what makes a quantization scheme suitable for ZK proof generation and evaluates nine models, including Qwen2.5‑14B and Qwen3‑30B‑A3B, across various weight, activation, and nonlinear lookup precisions. Findings reveal that activation precision is more critical than weight precision, nonlinear lookup approximations can dominate utility loss, and that reducing bit‑width or lookup size does not always lead to proportional proving cost savings, highlighting the need for operator‑aware precision selection.

By Taeung Yoon, Yupeng Zhang, Xiaojing Liao
arXiv AI
Sep 3

ClaimReceipt: Verifying Evidence Sufficiency and Coverage in Agent Evaluations

The paper introduces ClaimReceipt, a specification and verifier that checks whether a claim in an agent evaluation can be recomputed from retained evidence (sufficiency) and whether the evidence covers the entire experiment set (coverage). Using the CR‑2 verifier on 1,392 historical records, the authors demonstrate accurate reproduction of audit verdicts, non‑redundant field groups, and zero false positives on semantic faults. In a prospective CR‑3 run, the system correctly flags missing receipts and preserves coverage when private evidence is withheld, while adding minimal overhead to inference time and transaction size.

By Peiying Zhu, Sidi Chang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

PACE: Policy-Attested Contract Execution for Safe AI Agents in Decentralized Finance

The paper introduces PACE (Policy‑Attested Contract Execution), a framework that sits between large‑language‑model (LLM) based autonomous AI agents and on‑chain DeFi operations. PACE defines typed transaction intents, a deterministic policy verifier, and signed Policy Decision Records (PDRs) that cryptographically bind an approved intent, policy, and simulation report to the exact on‑chain execution bytes, providing replay and expiration protection. In evaluations across 40 tasks and six baselines, PACE achieves zero unsafe executions and zero false positives, outperforming unguarded agents by a large margin.

By Rabimba Karanjai (Larry), Yang Lu (Larry), Richard Williamson (Larry), Hemanth Hm (Larry), Prakhar Mehrotra (Larry), Lei Xu (Larry), Weidong (Larry), Shi
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Zero knowledge verification for frontier AI training is possible

arXiv:2606. 05433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI governance frameworks increasingly use cumulative training compute as the primary criterion for designating high-impact models, but enforcement rests on self-reporting because no technical verification primitive for training exists.

By Pierre Peign\'e, Ky Nguyen, Paul Wang