5 papers
BayesEvolve: Explicit Belief States for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Xuening Wu, Shan Yu, Qianya Xu +1
Autonomous scientific discovery systems increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to propose new hypotheses, but many such systems condition primarily on experimental memory: a…
Do Language Models Converge to Themselves? Recursive Self-Refinement as Textual Relaxation
Xuening Wu, Qianya Xu, Yanlan Kang +3
Large language models are increasingly used in recursive refinement workflows, where an initial draft is repeatedly revised by the same model. Despite their growing use, the long-t…
Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
Xuening Wu, Yanlan Kang, Qianya Xu +5
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping how knowledge is produced, with increasing reliance on AI systems for generation, summarization, and reasoning. While prior work has stud…
SGM: A Statistical Godel Machine for Risk-Controlled Recursive Self-Modification
Xuening Wu, Shenqin Yin, Yanlan Kang +4
Recursive self-modification is increasingly central in AutoML, neural architecture search, and adaptive optimization, yet no existing framework ensures that such changes are made s…
Empirical Welfare Analysis with Hedonic Budget Constraints
Debopam Bhattacharya, Ekaterina Oparina, Qianya Xu
We analyze demand settings where heterogeneous consumers maximize utility for product attributes subject to a nonlinear budget constraint. We develop nonparametric methods for welf…