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Secrets, Context, and the RAG Illusion

PrivacyBench reveals why personalized RAG assistants can recognize secrets yet still expose them—and why reliable privacy controls must begin before retrieval.

January 2, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Deployed, Retrained, Repeated: When LLMs Learn From Being Used

How selective reuse of validated deployment traces can quietly turn ordinary supervised fine-tuning into an implicit reinforcement-learning loop.

January 1, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Gen Z, But Make It Statistical: Teaching LLMs to Listen to Data

GenZ reverses the usual LLM feature-discovery workflow by letting proprietary data identify useful distinctions before asking a foundation model to explain them.

January 1, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Label Now, Drive Later: Why Autonomous Driving Needs Fewer Clicks, Not Smarter Annotators

A practical reading of the Correction Acceleration Ratio, which exposes why the most accurate 3D detector is not always the cheapest annotation assistant.

January 1, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Learning the Rules by Breaking Them: Exception-Aware Constraint Mining for Care Scheduling

Historical schedules contain both operating rules and emergency compromises; this paper shows how to extract the former without institutionalizing the latter.

January 1, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Let It Flow: ROME and the Economics of Agentic Craft

ROME shows that competitive agent performance depends less on possessing the largest model than on operating a disciplined learning loop around execution, verification, training, and control.

January 1, 2026 · 19 min · Zelina
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When Maps Start Thinking: Teaching Agents to Plan in Time and Space

STAgent shows how a stable tool sandbox, aggressive log curation, and model-relative training can turn operational data into a specialized planning agent.

January 1, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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When Your House Talks Back: Teaching Buildings to Think About Energy

A smart-building benchmark shows why LLM agents are already useful for grounded device operations—and why financial reasoning still belongs behind deterministic controls.

January 1, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Browsing Without the Bloat: Teaching Agents to Think Before They Scroll

NestBrowse shows that better browser agents may depend less on larger models or longer contexts than on controlling which information reaches the reasoning loop.

December 31, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina
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Many Arms, Fewer Bugs: Why Coding Agents Need to Stop Working Alone

BOAD shows that coding-agent performance depends less on assembling more agents than on discovering a small team, assigning individual credit, and controlling what each agent needs to remember.

December 31, 2025 · 19 min · Zelina