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  1. Judgement in the Age of Jev: From Evaluation Scarcity to Evaluation Abundance

    Oct 1, 2026Richard HillJudgementValue

    Department of Computer Science, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.

  2. Cheap to Hypothesize, Costly to Verify: The Defense Surface of Agentic Vulnerability Discovery

    Sep 28, 2026Kaikai Zhang, Zihan Zhang, Yuchong Xie +4Model VulnerabilitiesHypothesis

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  3. Agentic High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization with Hypothesis- and Evidence-Guided Search

    Sep 28, 2026Zhixuan Gao, Ke Xue, Rongxi Tan +2Bayesian OptimizationAgentic Optimization

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University

  4. LLMs are not stochastic parrots: Evidence for meaning-mediated abstraction from conlang-like tasks

    Sep 28, 2026Julia Witte Zimmerman, Calla G. Beauregard, Tabia Tanzin Prama +3Large Language Models FailHypothesis

    Computational Story Lab · Computational Ethics Lab · Vermont Complex Systems Institute University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405, USA

  5. The Linear Representation Hypothesis Needs a Group Action

    Sep 22, 2026Louie Hong Yao, Yuhao Li, Shengchao LiuRepresentation SpaceInterpretability

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  6. The Answer-Basin Representation Hypothesis: We Are Not Probing or Steering Concepts

    Sep 21, 2026Manjiang Yu, Hongji Li, Zihan Wang +5HypothesisBasin

    The University of Queensland · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Institute of Science Tokyo

  7. Pretrained Medical Representations for the Practical Screening of Drug Repositioning Candidates

    Sep 17, 2026Yuhei Fujioka, Daitaro Misawa, Shingo FukumaMedical World ModelElectronic Health Records

    Cancerscan Inc., Tokyo, Japan · Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan · Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan

  8. HypoEvolve: Genetic Algorithms Enable Multi-Agent LLMs to Discover Scientific Hypotheses

    Sep 14, 2026Jieyuan Liu, Mengzhou Hu, Jefferson Chen +10Hypothesis-Driven Model ExpansionMulti-Agent Evolution

    University of California San Diego · 2Texas A&M University · 3Carnegie Mellon University +1

  9. HyGRAIL: Cost-Aware and Evidence-Grounded Scientific Hypothesis Discovery over Knowledge Graphs

    Sep 2, 2026Yihang Sun, Zhihan Zhu, Zhiyuan Jiang +3Knowledge GraphsHypothesis-Driven Model Expansion

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  10. The Interlingua Hypothesis: LLMs Translate via a Latent Task-agnostic Feature Space

    Sep 1, 2026Jacob Brinton, Jannik Brinkmann, Mark Crovella +1Hypothesis

    Boston University · Technische Universität Clausthal

  11. A Human-AI Theorem Connecting Spontaneous and Field-Induced Mechanisms of Collective Behavior in One Dimension

    Aug 31, 2026Weiguo YinHuman-Ai CollaborationSpatial Photonic Ising Machines

    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  12. Assessing Alignment and Stability of Feature Importance Explanations via Weight of Evidence

    Aug 31, 2026Eddie Conti, Claudio Daka, Álvaro Parafita +3Feature ImportanceExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain · University of Florence, Florence, Italy · SMARTEST Research Center, eCampus University, Novedrate, Italy +2

  13. Perceive to Hypothesize, Verify to Ground: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Open-World Geo-Localization

    Aug 30, 2026Yutian Jiang, Ruijie Li, Sisuo Lyu +4Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGrounding

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  14. Hypothesis Frontier: Verifier Guided LLM and Symbolic Search for First-Order Induction

    Aug 11, 2026Serafim BatzoglouInductionNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    Independent Researcher

  15. Multiple Hypothesis Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation under Matching Ambiguity

    Aug 7, 2026Zibo Su, Jing Kong, Ruixing Wang +2Optical FlowVideo Restoration

    1Xidian University · 2DJI Technology Co., Ltd.

  16. APCReg: Anatomical-Prior-Guided Coarse-to-Fine CBCT--IOS Registration via Multi-View Projection and Reliability-Controlled Residual Correction

    Aug 7, 2026Xincan Zheng, Yaqi Wang, Zhi Li +4Intraoral ScansImage Registration

    School of Cyberspace Security, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China · Innovation Center for Electronic Design Automation Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China · Department of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +2

  17. NxN E-valuation: Hypothesis Certification via a Conformal CRT Null

    Aug 6, 2026Bin Wang, Yan Zhong, Liang Luo +2HypothesisTwo-Sample Testing

    Meta

  18. Factorized Hypothesis Search for Evidence-to-Taxonomy Retrieval

    Aug 6, 2026Linhai Ma, Ethan F. Wei, Xueqing Peng +3TaxonomyRetrievers

    The Fin AI, USA · Yale University, USA · Cardiff University, UK

  19. Visualizing Graph-to-Answer Mechanism Recovery in Materials-Science Hypothesis Generation

    Aug 4, 2026Shashwat Sourav, Subhadeep Pal, Markus J. Buehler +4HypothesisSynthesis

    Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis · Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory +6

  20. The LLM Proposes, the Executive Disposes: A Self-Verifying Agent Instrument that Dissociates Commitment Drift from Binding Drift in Long-Horizon Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Mohsen ArjmandiLong-Horizon AgentsCommitment

    Independent researcher

  21. Abduction Without a Body? Representational Grounding and the Abduction Loop for Scientific Hypothesis Generation

    Aug 3, 2026Michael FarmerAbductive ReasoningHypothesis-Driven Model Expansion

    August 2026 (v1.18)

  22. Long-Horizon Autonomous Architecture Research with a Language-Model Agent: A Behavioural Case Study

    Aug 3, 2026Aon Safdar, Mohamed SaadeldinLong-Horizon AgentsLanguage-Model Agents

    University College Dublin, Ireland

  23. What General Intelligence Requires: Non-Reducible Constraints Across Levels of Description

    Jul 21, 2026Subhomoy BakshiGeneral IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan Attorneys, New Delhi, India

  24. BayesContact: Uncertain Pose Estimation via Visuo-Tactile Proposals and Simulation-based Inference

    Jul 17, 2026Aditya Kamireddypalli, Matias Mattamala, Joao Moura +3Category-Level Object Pose EstimationTactile

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. · Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

  25. Before the Action: Benchmarking LLMs on Prospective Hypothesis Discovery

    Jul 17, 2026Tianyun Zhong, Wangyi Jiang, Wei Wang +15Hypothesis-Driven Model ExpansionHypothesis

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Alibaba Group

  26. The Benjamini--Hochberg Procedure Can Fail to Control the FDR for Correlated Two-Sided Gaussian Tests

    Jul 13, 2026Edgar DobribanFalse Discovery RateGaussian Primitives

    Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania.

  27. Constructed Reality, Contested Priors: Decoupling and the Architecture of Cognitive Relapse Under the Free Energy Principle

    Jul 12, 2026MD Ibrahim Hossain RidoyPredictive CodingCognitive Science

    Independent Researcher

  28. Boosting with List-Decodable Codes

    Jul 7, 2026Addison Prairie, Li-Yang TanBoostingLearnability

    Stanford

  29. The Calibration Turn in AI-Assisted Research: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework for Evidence-Licensed Claims

    Jun 30, 2026Hongmin LiCategory-Aware Atomic ClaimsScientific Discovery

    School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan · Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8561, Japan

  30. The FIL Hypothesis: Inductive Biases Help with Kernel Engineering

    Jun 29, 2026Nikolai Rozanov, Subhabrata Dutta, Preslav Nakov +1Inductive BiasFeedback Loop

    1NLP Department, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK · 2Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  31. PaperClaw: Harnessing Agents for Autonomous Research and Human-in-the-Loop Refinement

    Jun 21, 2026Weiwei Ye, Hangchen Liu, Dongyuan Li +1Research AutomationHuman-In-The-Loop

    The University of Tokyo

  32. Unsupervised Causal Abstractions Discovery

    Jun 17, 2026Théo Saulus, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Dhanya SridharCausal Discovery MethodsCausal

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute · Université de Montréal · Canada CIFAR AI Chair

  33. The More the Merrier: Combining Properties for ABox Abduction under Repair Semantics in ELbot

    Jun 17, 2026Anselm Haak, Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood +1Abductive ReasoningEntailment

    Knowledge Representation Group, Paderborn University, Germany · Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Data Science Group, Paderborn

  34. From Persistence to Survival: Hypothesis Testing, Effect Sizes and Vectorisation for Topological Features

    Jun 10, 2026Juliette Murris, Bernadette Stolz, Karsten BorgwardtPersistent HomologyTopology

    Department of Machine Learning and Systems Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

  35. Towards Diverse Scientific Hypothesis Search with Large Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Haorui Wang, Parshin Shojaee, Kazem Meidani +7Hypothesis-Driven Model ExpansionHypothesis

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Virginia Tech · Carnegie Mellon University +3

  36. The Piggyback Hypothesis of Generalization: Explaining and Mitigating Emergent Misalignment

    Jun 4, 2026Jiachen Zhao, Zhengxuan Wu, Aryaman Arora +3Emergent MisalignmentHypothesis

    Northeastern University · University of California, Berkeley

  37. Read What You Hear: Reference-Free Hypotheses Evaluation with Acoustic Discrepancy

    Jun 3, 2026Zhihan Li, Hankun Wang, Yiwei Guo +3Autoregressive Text-To-SpeechAcoustic

    X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  38. Needles at Scale: LLM-Assisted Target Selection for Windows Vulnerability Research

    May 31, 2026Michael J. BommaritoModel VulnerabilitiesHypothesis

  39. HypothesisMed: Inference-Time Answer Fusion and Structured Hypothesis-Space Reporting for Biomedical Question Answering

    May 31, 2026Md Motaleb Hossen Manik, Ge WangBiomedical TextMedical Visual Question Answering

    Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA

  40. Testing the Deliteralization Hypothesis in Human and Machine Translation

    May 25, 2026Malik Marmonier, Rachel Bawden, Benoît SagotNeural Machine TranslationMachine Translation

    Inria, Paris, France

  41. Ontology-constrained multi-LLM scoring of hypothesis support in the predictive processing literature

    May 23, 2026Hamed Nejat, Alexander Maier, Jesse Spencer-Smith +1Predictive CodingHypothesis

    Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University · Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University

  42. Do Language Models Know What Not to Say? Causal Evidence for Statistical Preemption in LLMs

    May 21, 2026Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming YiuLarge Language Models FailLinguistics

    The University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China · Stellaris AI Limited

  43. Value-Gradient Hypothesis of RL for LLMs

    May 20, 2026Arip Asadulaev, Daniil Ognev, Karim Salta +1Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

    MBZUAI · Independent

  44. On the Cost and Benefit of Chain of Thought: A Learning-Theoretic Perspective

    May 20, 2026Yue Zhang, Zhiyi Dong, Tommaso Cesari +1Reasoning TrajectoryThoughts

    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  45. Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks

    May 19, 2026Claire Hobbs, R. Thomas McCoyLanguage AcquisitionSyntactic Structure

    Cognitive Science Program Yale University · Dept. of Linguistics & Wu Tsai Institute Yale University

  46. Evidence-Grounded Frontier Mapping and Agentic Hypothesis Generation in Nanomedicine

    May 18, 2026Christiaan G. A. Viviers, Koen de Bruin, Mirre M. Trines +6Research AutomationMedication Leaflet

    ARIA Lab, Signal Processing Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. · Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. · The Louis Family Laboratory for Targeted Drug Delivery and Personalized Medicine Technologies, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. +2

  47. VerifyMAS: Hypothesis Verification for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

    May 17, 2026Hezhe Qiao, Hanghang Tong, Ee-Peng Lim +2Model-Based Multi-Agent SystemsTrajectory-Level Credit

    Singapore Management University · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · University of Illinois at Chicago

  48. Statistical Unlearning of Distributions: A Hypothesis Testing Approach

    May 15, 2026Aaradhya Pandey, Sanjeev KulkarniExact UnlearningDistributions

    Princeton University

  49. Why are language models less surprised than humans? Testing the Parse Multiplicity Mismatch Hypothesis

    May 14, 2026William Timkey, Brian Dillon, Tal LinzenSurprisalNatural Language

    Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, USA · Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002, USA · Center for Data Science, New York University, 60 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA

  50. The Alpha Blending Hypothesis: Compositing Shortcut in Deepfake Detection

    May 11, 2026Andrii Yermakov, Jan Cech, Mario Fritz +1Deepfake DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Czech Technical University in Prague · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  51. The Cancellation Hypothesis in Critic-Free RL: From Outcome Rewards to Token Credits

    May 9, 2026Tianhao Cheng, Zeyu Huang, Zihan Qiu +5Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningCredit Assignment

    1Fudan University · 3The University of Edinburgh · 6Qwen Team, Alibaba Group +4

  52. Hypothesis generation and updating in large language models

    May 7, 2026Hua-Dong XiongLLM Reasoning StrategiesHypothesis

    School of Psychological and Brain Sciences Georgia Tech

  53. The Cylindrical Representation Hypothesis for Language Model Steering

    May 3, 2026Lang Gao, Jinghui Zhang, Wei Liu +7Linear Activation SteeringSteering

    Department of Natural Language Processing, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  54. CHASE: Competing Hypotheses for Ambiguity-Aware Selective Prediction

    May 2, 2026Kartik Jhawar, Yuhao Geng, Atul N. Parikh +1AmbiguityAbstention

    Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science, NTU, Singapore 636921 · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU, Singapore 639798 · School of Materials Science and Engineering, NTU, Singapore 639798 +1

  55. Finite-Sample Analysis of Elimination in Active Hypothesis Testing

    May 1, 2026Ziyuan Lin, Hoang Ngoc Nguyen, Jie Xu +1Two-Sample TestingFinite-Sample

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  56. A Probabilistic Framework for Hierarchical Goal Recognition

    Apr 24, 2026Chenyuan Zhang, Katherine Ip, Hamid Rezatofighi +2High-Level Subgoal GenerationHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Monash University · The University of Melbourne

  57. Sound Agentic Science Requires Adversarial Experiments

    Apr 23, 2026Dionizije Fa, Marko CuljakScientific DiscoveryFalsehood

    Entropic

  58. Experiments or Outcomes? Probing Scientific Feasibility in Large Language Models

    Apr 20, 2026Seyedali Mohammadi, Manas Gaur, Francis FerraroFeasibilityHypothesis

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

  59. The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: Rethinking Universality

    Apr 20, 2026Victoria Bosch, Rowan Sommers, Adrien Doerig +1Unified RepresentationNeural Circuits

    Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany. · Department of Psychology and Education, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. · Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany

  60. A phenotype-driven and evidence-governed framework for knowledge graph enrichment and hypotheses discovery in population data

    Apr 18, 2026Adela Bâra, Simona-Vasilica OpreaKnowledge GraphsLocal Causal Structures

    Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania