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  1. Preprint

    A Best Match Is Not a Twin: What Feature Similarity Between State Space Models and Transformers Certifies, Why the Null and the Shared Inputs Decide the Verdict, and the Controls That Would Show Two Architectures Learned the Same Thing

    Life of Research Selective state space models such as Mamba compress the past into a fixed-size state, while Transformers attend over the whole context, and a growing set of studies asks whether the two learn the same internal features. A 2026 study reports that 99.98% of a Mamba model's…

    LOR-00142 Published 26 Oct 2026 14 views 27 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23652519

  2. Preprint

    Which Fine-Tuning Failed? The Reported Failure and Recovery of Fine-Tuning in Model Editing Are Findings About the Edit Protocol, Why the Breadth-First Recovery Changes What the Editor May Remember, and the Matched Comparisons That Would Assign the Credit

    Life of Research Fine-tuning has been treated as the weak baseline of model editing since the field's first benchmarks. A 2025 study argues that the weakness was an artefact of implementation: when edits are optimised in epochs over mini-batches instead of one at a time to convergence…

    LOR-00141 Published 25 Oct 2026 10 views 12 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23642775

  3. Preprint

    PECA v3: Evidence-Gated Anticipatory Execution: Separating Requirement Compliance, Predictive Utility, and Commit Authorization in AI Agents

    Anticipation can help an AI agent prepare useful work before a requirement is fully specified, but a predictor can also create the very obligations the agent then tries to satisfy. PECA v3 refactors Prefix-Conditioned Execution and Cumulative Audit around a strict separation among…

    LOR-00140 Published 26 Oct 2026 66 views 20 downloads

  4. Preprint

    PECA v2: Anticipatory Execution for Incremental AI Agents: A Position Paper on Multi-Future Forecasting, Reversible Speculation, and Latency Hiding

    Prefix-Conditioned Execution and Cumulative Audit (PECA) v1 treats incremental interpretation and cumulative verification as parts of an agent's execution controller. This paper proposes PECA v2, which adds an anticipatory layer: while instructions are being received or a task is taking…

    LOR-00138 Published 26 Oct 2026 45 views 16 downloads

  5. Preprint

    From Prompt-Level Goals to Prefix-Conditioned Execution: A Position Paper on Incremental Task Execution and Cumulative Audit

    This position paper proposes Prefix-Conditioned Execution and Cumulative Audit (PECA), an approach to improving AI instruction following by incrementally processing prompts, executing meaningful microtasks, and repeatedly auditing the accumulated result against the instructions…

    LOR-00137 Published 25 Oct 2026 63 views 18 downloads

  6. Preprint

    What a Word Limit Removes: Length Constraints Look Free, Costly or Helpful Depending on the Span They Bind, the Scorer That Reads the Answer and the Items Chosen, and Why Compliance Looks Orthogonal to Accuracy in Only One Kind of Design

    Life of Research Published work on telling a language model to be brief disagrees about almost everything. One benchmark reports that obeying a word limit and answering accurately are statistically unrelated, and that alignment for helpfulness is what makes models overrun the limit. A…

    LOR-00136 Published 25 Oct 2026 10 views 16 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23628985

  7. Preprint

    The Rabbit Hole Is Five Claims, Not One: Why Audits, Browsing Panels, Escalation Studies, Exposure Experiments and Discourse Maps of Online Conspiracy Content Keep Disagreeing

    Life of Research The claim that online platforms draw people down conspiracy "rabbit holes" is among the most repeated in public debate about recommender systems, and the published evidence on it appears to contradict itself. Sock-puppet audits find recommendations that narrow and drift…

    LOR-00135 Published 24 Oct 2026 9 views 16 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23619244

  8. Journal article

    STRATEGIC INTERVENTION MATERIALS IN MATHEMATICS FOR GRADE ONE LEARNERS: AN ENHANCEMENT PLAN

    Mathematics is known to many as a complex and difficult learning area. Numerous studies have revealed that most learners got anxiety in learning mathematical skills. And for that reason, education experts introduced a tool that can be helpful in teaching the least-mastered skills in…

    LOR-00134 Published 25 Oct 2026 37 views 8 downloads

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    Calibrated Is Not Informative: What a Fall in Expected Calibration Error Shows About LLM Confidence, Why Verbalised Scores Fail on Resolution as Well as Level, and the Recalibration Baseline the Ensembling Results Omit

    Life of Research A common finding in work on language-model confidence is that a model asked to state its own confidence in one pass is badly overconfident, and that some added procedure - sampling several answers, a separate critique pass, a longer chain of thought - repairs it. The…

    LOR-00133 Published 24 Oct 2026 16 views 17 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23606814

  10. Preprint

    Tiny in Parameters, Not in Compute: What a Recursive Reasoning Model's Puzzle Score Credits to Recursion, Why the Ablations Split by Task, and the Matched Comparisons That Would Assign the Rest

    Life of Research Recursive reasoning models, which apply one small network many times to a latent state, report accuracies on Sudoku, maze and ARC-AGI puzzles above those of most frontier language models in their comparison tables, with 5 to 27 million parameters. The result is usually…

    LOR-00132 Published 23 Oct 2026 15 views 9 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23598073

  11. Journal article

    Proposing of a Shuttle Bus System Connecting Mactan-Cebu International Airport to Major Tourist Destinations in Cebu City: A Transportation Engineering Approach

    Airport-to-city mobility in Cebu City remains fragmented due to the absence of a structured transport system connecting Mactan-Cebu International Airport to major tourist attractions. This research examines existing transportation challenges and explores the feasibility and potential…

    LOR-00131 Published 23 Oct 2026 16 views 18 downloads

  12. Journal article

    The Impact of AI-Driven Automation and Security Threats on Industrial Project Integration

    The convergence of AI-driven automation with industrial control environments is reshaping how integration projects are designed, but it is also expanding the points at which those projects are exposed to security threats. Existing research tends to treat AI-driven efficiency gains and…

    LOR-00130 Published 23 Oct 2026 45 views 8 downloads

  13. Preprint

    A Starting Score Is Not a Ceiling: When Accuracy Before Reinforcement Learning Predicts Accuracy After It, Why Each Proposed Replacement Sees a Different Failure, and the Axis Test That Decides Which Proxy to Trust

    Life of Research Reasoning models are usually built in two stages, supervised fine-tuning and then reinforcement learning against a verifier, and the first stage is usually judged by the benchmark accuracy of its checkpoint. An August 2026 study reports that the strategy with by far the…

    LOR-00129 Published 23 Oct 2026 11 views 12 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23581295

  14. Preprint

    A Misalignment Rate Is Not a Model Property: Capacity, Propensity, Efficacy and Targeting in Multi-Agent LLM Commerce, Why a Null Capability Correlation Does Not Contradict the Scaling of Deceptive Skill, and the Design That Would Separate Them

    Life of Research As language-model agents begin to trade with one another on behalf of separate principals, a natural worry is that the strongest agents will mislead, pressure or collude against the weakest. A 2026 study of 2,583 emails exchanged by 13 frontier models across 20 simulated…

    LOR-00128 Published 22 Oct 2026 17 views 28 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23567564

  15. Journal article

    GSM-Based Gas Detection System

    An Arduino Uno and MQ -2 sensor detect gas leakage and use GSM technology to send SMS alerts, helping improve safety in homes and workplaces promptly.

    LOR-00127 Published 22 Oct 2026 15 views 15 downloads

  16. Preprint

    GSM-Based Gas Detection System

    An Arduino Uno and MQ -2 sensor detect gas leakage and use GSM technology to send SMS alerts, helping improve safety in homes and workplaces promptly.

    LOR-00126 Published 22 Oct 2026 14 views 14 downloads

  17. Preprint

    Newly Important Is Not Newly Built: What Reasoning Post-Training Adds Inside a Language Model, Why the Evidence Separates Representation From Wiring From Deployment, and the Cross-Model Tests That Would Show an Attention Head Is New

    Life of Research Reasoning models are built by post-training a pretrained model with supervised fine-tuning on teacher traces, with reinforcement learning against a verifier, or with both, and a running dispute asks whether this builds new machinery or redirects machinery the base model…

    LOR-00125 Published 21 Oct 2026 18 views 21 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23536189

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    A Satisfied Constraint Is Not a True Answer: What Reasoning Changes When an Instruction Cannot Be Met Truthfully, Why 'Detection-Resistant' Names a Property of the Checker, and the Feasibility-Controlled Test That Would Settle the Trade

    Life of Research A language model asked for something its knowledge cannot honestly supply has four ways out: it can break the instruction openly, decline, bend a real fact until it fits, or invent one. A January 2026 study reports that switching reasoning on in two commercial models…

    LOR-00124 Published 22 Oct 2026 13 views 23 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23548960

  19. Journal article

    Medicinal Chemistry

    Title: Medicinal Chemistry and Cancer: From Molecular Design to Modern Therapeutics Author: Ali Ezzat Hammam Mohamead Medicinal chemistry is at the core of anticancer drug discovery, bridging organic chemistry, molecular biology, and computational informatics. This research provides a…

    LOR-00123 Published 21 Oct 2026 192 views 64 downloads

  20. Preprint

    A Hit Rate Is a Retention Policy: Prefix-Cache Reuse in Agentic Coding Traces Compounds the Workload With the Server's Eviction Rule and the Harness's Invalidations, Which Serving Assumptions the Traces Actually Break, and the Rent-or-Buy Rule That Prices the Turn Boundary

    Life of Research Coding agents are becoming a major class of language-model traffic, and the first production-scale characterisation of that traffic, 13.5 million GitHub Copilot agent sessions, concludes that its findings "challenge assumptions underlying current LLM-serving systems and…

    LOR-00122 Published 21 Oct 2026 17 views 56 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23519028