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• Anthropic says any lab can now let a language model agent run the whole protein design stack — Anthropic's Claude models autonomously ran a full protein design pipeline — installing and orchestrating existing open-source biology tools — achieving a 26.8% binding hit rate on novel minibinders, nearly double the industry benchmark of 10–15%, though independent replication is still pending.
• Maximize AI Impact: More Model Choice, Smarter Routing — Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway now supports dynamic model routing across Anthropic, Google, Mistral AI, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and newly added GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash 0731, letting enterprises automatically match each task to the best model on cost, speed, and quality.
• Communicating Credit Risk with Large Language Models: Evaluation of Explanations from Standard and Alternative Data-Based Models — LLMs can translate credit model outputs into readable narratives for both professionals and non-professionals — but reliably naming influential factors while getting the direction of influence wrong, a failure mode with direct implications for adverse-action communication and fair lending compliance.
• Collective Counterfactual Planning: Coordination, Consent, and Verification under Representational Constraints — A formal model called Collective Counterfactual Planning (CCP) proves that agent teams can solve problems no individual can, but goal completion is only valid when every requirement falls within the team's collective representational coverage — blind spots make verification illegitimate, not just hard.
• Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media — TSN4PI, accepted at ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, combines LLM-based ideology detection with temporal graph neural networks to track how political positions shift over time on X and Truth Social, releasing two large-scale datasets for noncommercial research.
• LLM Enhancement with Domain Expert Mental Model to Reduce LLM Hallucination with Causal Prompt Engineering — A causal prompt engineering framework addresses LLM hallucination from tacit expert knowledge — knowledge never written down and unavailable to RAG or knowledge graphs. By encoding domain expert decision logic as Expert Mental Models using monotone Boolean function theory, it supplies structured reasoning that retrieval methods structurally cannot.
• MCTS-KBQA: Monte Carlo Tree Search with Information Gain Rewards for Knowledge Base Question Answering — Fast MCTS replaces expensive rollout-based search in knowledge base question answering with a training-free information gain reward computed by a single LLM forward pass — consistently improving the accuracy-cost tradeoff on four KBQA benchmarks. Accepted at CIKM 2026.
• TabularQGAN: A quantum generative model for tabular data synthesis — A quantum GAN variant (TabularQGAN) achieves competitive performance against CTGAN and VAE-GMM on healthcare tabular data synthesis, filling a gap in quantum generative models that previously only handled homogeneous data — though results are limited to noiseless classical simulators, not real quantum hardware.
• Do LLMs Know a Good Hypothesis When They See One? Logit-Based Energy Scoring Outperforms Prompted LLM-as-Judge for Scientific Hypothesis Ranking — Logit-based energy scoring reaches 33% Hit@1 on scientific hypothesis ranking across 1,323 papers in 12 disciplines — double the 16.6% achieved by prompted LLM-as-judge — with the best 1B parameter configuration hitting 53.1%, though post-hoc selection limits direct comparison.
• LEGO-RL: Harness-Native Reinforcement Learning for Coding Agents — LEGO-RL trains coding agents via policy-gradient RL in native harnesses (OpenHands, Claude Code, OpenCode), boosting Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on SWE-bench Verified by 4-9 points per harness — OpenHands 64.0%→70.4%, Claude Code 62.4%→68.2%, OpenCode 57.2%→66.6%.