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David Bradley, #Minnesota Chippewa, at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) #SantaFe #NewMexico. Part of the exhibition "Reservation for Irony: Native Wit and Contemporary Realities." Check it out …

Language Model Perplexity Predicts Scientific Surprise and Transformative Impact
Zhen Zhang (School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago), James Evans (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Santa Fe Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05591…

Language Model Perplexity Predicts Scientific Surprise and Transformative Impact
Scientific breakthroughs typically emerge through the surprising violation of established research ideas, yet quantifying surprise has remained elusive because it requires a coherent model of all contemporary scientific worldviews. Deep neural networks like large language models (LLMs) are arbitrary function approximators tuned to consistently expect the expressions and ideas on which they were trained and those semantically nearby. This suggests that as LLMs improve at generating plausible tex…

Meta SecAlign: A Secure Foundation LLM Against Prompt Injection Attacks
Sizhe Chen, Arman Zharmagambetov, David Wagner, Chuan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02735

Meta SecAlign: A Secure Foundation LLM Against Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection attacks pose a significant security threat to LLM-integrated applications. Model-level defenses have shown strong effectiveness, but are currently deployed into commercial-grade models in a closed-source manner. We believe open-source models are needed by the AI security community, where co-development of attacks and defenses through open research drives scientific progress in mitigation against prompt injection attacks. To this end, we develop Meta SecAlign, the first open-sou…

AI-Reporter: A Path to a New Genre of Scientific Communication
Gerd Gra{\ss}hoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05903 https://arxiv.org/p…

AI-Reporter: A Path to a New Genre of Scientific Communication
The AI-Reporter represents a paradigmatic shift in scientific publication practice. This document demonstrates through a concrete case study how our system transforms academic presentations into publication-ready chapters -- in less than three minutes. Using Arno Simons' lecture on Large Language Models from the ``Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science'' workshop (NEPI) as an example, we show how technological innovation bridges the gap between ephemeral pre…