2 papers
cs.AI2026
Effective Does Not Mean Useful: Conditional Functional Substitutability for Redundancy and Scaling in Transformers
Jiaheng Chen, Jiaxing Li, Yucheng Xiao +4
Modern neural networks scale predictably, yet the mechanisms behind these regularities remain unclear. Neural redundancy is typically characterized by component importance or repre…
cs.CE2026
The Alpha Illusion: Reported Alpha from LLM Trading Agents Should Not Be Treated as Deployment Evidence
Yuxuan Ye, Jun Han, Ao Hu +7
End-to-end LLM trading agents have moved quickly from research curiosity to a small ecosystem of named systems, including FinCon, FinMem, TradingAgents, FinAgent, QuantAgent, and F…