3 papers
cs.CR2026
PEB Separation and State Migration: Unmasking the New Frontiers of DeFi AML Evasion
Yixin Cao, Xianfeng Cheng, Yijie Liu
Transfer-based anti-money laundering (AML) systems monitor token flows through transaction-graph abstractions, implicitly assuming that economically meaningful value migration is s…
cs.AI2026
NEX: Neuron Explore-Exploit Scoring for Label-Free Chain-of-Thought Selection and Model Ranking
Kang Chen, Zhuoka Feng, Sihan Zhao +5
Large language models increasingly spend inference compute sampling multiple chain-of-thought traces or searching over merged checkpoints. This shifts the bottleneck from generatio…
cs.AI2026
Thinking Traps in Long Chain-of-Thought: A Measurable Study and Trap-Aware Adaptive Restart
Kang Chen, Fan Yu, Junjie Nian +6
Scaling test-time compute via Long Chain-of-Thought (Long-CoT) significantly enhances reasoning capabilities, yet extended generation does not guarantee correctness: after an early…