HoloAegis is a minimally parametric topological inference framework that uses frozen representations to map text onto the unit sphere and makes decisions via Gibbs‑Boltzmann free‑energy differences over pre‑computed anchor centroids. On a frozen three‑benchmark protocol, it matches WildGuard‑7B on toxicity, outperforms it on harmful behaviors, but underperforms on oversafety detection, while ShieldGemma‑2B fails on indirect harms. The study demonstrates that geometric guardrails can substitute for LLM judges in some cases and must defer to them in others, with anchor banks reducing score variance and boundary displacement.
By Tak Ho Alex Li, Kaijie Liu, Lik-Hang Lee, Kin Chung Ho, Ping Shum, Michael K. Ng
arXiv:2608. 09997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers have had a profound impact on the world of language processing and computer vision.
By Kaustubh Kapil, Kishor P. Upla
arXiv:2608. 08485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current LLM safety guardrails face a fundamental tension: fine-tuning distorts pre-trained representations while generative judges incur prohibitive inference costs.
By Tak Ho Alex Li, Kaijie Liu, Lik-Hang Lee, Kin Chung Ho, Ping Shum, Michael K. Ng
arXiv:2606. 19542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are commonly aligned through supervised fine-tuning, yet little is known about how their internal representations evolve during this process.
By Naman Malhotra, Jay Ambadkar, Abhinav Gupta, Kushal Kasivel, Abbas Schwarz, Kamillo Ferry, Anthea Monod
MindTopo is a benchmark that tests foundation models on topological reasoning, covering five cognitive properties—continuity, separation, order, enclosure, and knots—across two cognitive levels: reasoning and planning. It contains 11,030 instances from 13 procedurally generated task types, and evaluates 14 multimodal large language models, including agent configurations with image and video generation. Results show that models perform better on reasoning than planning, and even the best model lags far behind human performance, with fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning improving reasoning more than planning.
By Yunfei Ge, Anbang Liu, Qineng Wang, Johnalbert Garnica, Jianwen Lyu, Zihan Wang, Reuben Tan, Jianfeng Gao, Ruohan Zhang, Yining Hong, Jiajun Wu, Manling Li
arXiv:2603. 10384v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating LLM reliability via scalar probabilities often fails to capture the structural dynamics of reasoning.
By Xinyan Jiang, Ninghao Liu, Di Wang, Lijie Hu