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Explicit, Not Longer: What Makes Epistemic Stance Survive Memory Compression
Alex Kwon
Agent memory systems compress what they store, and compression is built to drop qualifiers, so a claim's epistemic standing tends not to survive being written to memory. We ask wha…
FACTWASH: Catching AI Rewrites That Wash Hearsay into Fact
Alex Kwon
AI systems rewrite information constantly: conversations become stored memories, documents become answers. The rewrite can keep a claim while washing away what made it checkable, w…
Breaking Refusal in the First Half: A Mechanistic Study of the Prefill Jailbreak
Alex Kwon
The paper investigates why a short prefill phrase can disable the refusal behavior of aligned language models, pinpointing the failure to an early part of the model's response and…
Reclaim Evaluation: A Lossy Memory Is Worse Than an Empty One
Alex Kwon
A language model's memory can be worse than no memory at all when the model or its interface is disposed to act on it: a memory that keeps a wrong conclusion but drops the work beh…
They Infer What You Meant: Models Represent Communicative Intent More Reliably Than They Act On It
Alex Kwon
When a person shares something with a language model, the model often answers the surface of the message rather than what the sender was doing by sending it: share a finished proje…