5 papers
Get In, Decide, Prove: A Merchant-Side Readiness Benchmark for Agentic Commerce
Adrian de Valois-Franklin, Alex Bogdan, Anas Ibrahim +2
AI agents now browse and buy on people's behalf, and benchmarks measure how well the agents perform. Far less is known about the other side of the transaction: whether a merchant's…
Free Energy Heuristics: Fast-And-Frugal Cognition as Active Inference Under Uncertain Precision
Alex Bogdan
Chain-of-thought (CoT) improves large language models' performance in math and symbolic reasoning. But on planning, contested ethics, and tasks where the model cannot check itself,…
The Geno-Synthetic Algorithm: Type-Factored Coevolutionary Optimization for Heterogeneous Genotypes and Assembled Phenotypes
Alex Bogdan
Many real-world optimization problems are not naturally homogeneous vectors but composite design objects with heterogeneous parameters: integers, real values, Booleans, categorical…
Machine Psychometrics: A Mathematical Psychology of Artificial Intelligence
Alex Bogdan, Adrian de Valois-Franklin
Artificial agents now generate behavior rich enough to invite trust, surprise, and concern, yet our evaluation tools still privilege capability scores over psychological structure.…
Evolving ab initio trading strategies in heterogeneous environments
David Rushing Dewhurst, Yi Li, Alexander Bogdan +1
Securities markets are quintessential complex adaptive systems in which heterogeneous agents compete in an attempt to maximize returns. Species of trading agents are also subject t…