3 papers
cs.CL2026
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,…
cs.NE2026
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…
cs.AI2026
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.…