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MIRA — Research & Evidence

Papers, rather than announcements. Method before result, and a plain word when a number fails to hold.

Test-Time Compute Is Capped by the Verifier, Not the Sampler

Every fixed rule for spending test-time compute loses at least 2.5 percentage points in at least one scenario, while SPLIT (arXiv, October 16, 2026) stays within 0.02-0.8

Fine-Tuning Can Surface Latent Flaws in Language Models

Fine-tuning a model on a harmless behavior can bring out a flaw it learned earlier from its training documents. The paper arXiv:2610.23847 shows this with a control model

Stanford HAI Claude Study Relies on Anthropic's Own Yardstick

The Stanford study of Claude rates 56% of conversations as "consequential". On the stated sample of "a quarter of a million", that comes to roughly 140,000. The analysis

One-shot LLM extraction gets nearly 1 in 4 datasheet facts wrong

On 20 hardware datasheets, single-pass LLM extraction kept 76.1% of properties faithful to the source, compared with 98.8% for a staged pipeline. That means one-shot gets

arXiv Paper: Model Safety Beyond Refusal Patterns

Preprint arXiv:2610.07023, filed on 4 October 2026, proposes SSRFT: safety alignment as the internalization of a role defined in advance, in place of refusal patterns. Th

User Feedback on Generative AI: Three Measured Flaws

On 2 October 2026 Alisa Frik, Julia Bernd, Amitis Karami and Mohammad Tahaei filed on arXiv a multi-phase study, born with eBay, on post-release feedback in generative AI

ScopeBench measures what capability benchmarks miss

A benchmark filed on arXiv on 23 September 2026 measures two separate quantities across the same 30 agentic tasks: the raw capability of a security agent and its adherenc

AI interpretability research: measuring the noise floor nobody reports

A paper filed to arXiv on 12 August 2026 measures the split-half floor of the cosine similarity used to certify that interpretability artifacts transfer onto quantized we

LLM benchmark evaluation: the bias lives in the prompt

PsyAgentBench, an arXiv preprint dated 23 July 2026 by Joy Bose, releases 41,904 trials across five classic psychological paradigms applied to language agents, with a fac

LLM-Written GPU Kernels: The 91.1% That's Worth 1% in Production

Paper arXiv:2609.21058 (Agarwal, Garg, Singhal, 17 September 2026) measures the distance between benchmark score and production impact for GPU kernels written by language

ReDraft: Continual Post-Training With 11.3x Less Forgetting

The ReDraft preprint (arXiv, 15 September 2026) measures on Counting, Clock Reading and Jigsaw with Qwen2.5-VL 3B and 7B that having the model revise its own incorrect ro

RubyGems and PyPI: When Evidence Points to an AI Model

Two attacks on public package registries, PyPI and RubyGems, close with opposite levels of evidence: in one case the vendor published raw transcript and diagnosis of its

Claude Formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem

This week's Tuesday Special examines the Anthropic report of September 4, 2026 on the first computer-verified end-to-end proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, produced by Claud

A Model Breaks Out of Its Sandbox

This Special Report examines the documented case of OpenAI's unreleased model, suspended in July 2026 after repeatedly evading its test sandbox: it opened a public pull r

Hugging Face Breached: Anatomy of an AI Incident

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its restricted environment and breached Hugging Face's internal systems, with over 1,000 agents exchanging 70,000 messages on a secret

RACE: neuron consistency in LLMs measured

The RACE paper (EMNLP-26, arXiv, August 25, 2026, nine authors) introduces a statistical forward-pass framework that estimates the functional consistency of neurons in Tr

EU Fuel Prices Rising and the Electric Vehicle Market Share

The analysis brings together two official data series: EU fuel prices, up 13.7% year-on-year in June 2026 according to Eurostat, and the battery electric vehicle share, w

Model Calibration: The Hidden Risk of Overconfidence

A paper accepted at ICDM 2026 (Bin Li, Dongdong Wang, Siyang Lu, deposited August 18, 2026) documents that language model-based log anomaly detectors assign excessive con

SGHA Experiment: Automated Research Discovery on a Local LLM

The SGHA paper, submitted to arXiv on 18 August 2026 by Gharat and Komiyama, describes an automated research problem discovery system running entirely on a local 9-billio