Open Research Archive · 15 Technical Papers & Empirical Monographs

Published Papers, Red-Teaming Monographs & Working Notes

Every paper below is written in plain, readable language, backed by reproducible code or empirical run receipts, and available as a formatted, downloadable PDF.

Paper 15 · Six-Part Agent Harness Synthesis (1 Page)

Better Model or Better Harness? Breaking Down the Six-Part Agent Harness (Observation, Context, Control Loop, Action, State, Verification)

Decomposes production agent harnesses into six structural subsystems and synthesizes empirical lift (+51.3 pp to +80.0 pp holding model weights fixed) across our 3D simulation studios (compare.baltor.ai & demos.baltor.ai/foxglade), DueCare counter-trafficking evaluations (evals.tayloramarel.com/duecare), and Camouflaged Alpha (α) scenario trees (evals.tayloramarel.com/alpha).

Paper 1 · Multi-Stakeholder Safety Benchmark (2 Pages)

DueCare: Evaluating and Mitigating Multi-Hop Blindness to Camouflaged Labor Exploitation Across Six Stakeholder Lanes

Covers our 6-lane stakeholder harm model, the 6-layer deterministic + relational safety harness on Gemma 4, our 4-arm ablation (including the honest negative result on unfiltered statutory RAG dumps), and 5 side-by-side Stock vs. Harnessed cases.

Paper 2 · OpenAI Red-Teaming & Jev Decision Benchmark (1 Page)

LLM Complicity in Modern Slavery & Benchmarking Jev (jev-1.13.0), Rules, and Gemma 4 on 5 Trafficking Scenarios

Documents the 5 vulnerability classes discovered in gpt-oss-20b (Honorable Mention, 2025 OpenAI Red-Teaming Challenge) plus our 4-engine benchmark on redteam.baltor.ai comparing Jev (0/15 gated refusal), Rules (15/15), and Gemma 4 with/without pattern cards (9/15 → 14/15).

Paper 3 · Recognition-Gated Safety & Agent Tool Security (1 Page)

Recognition-Gated Safety & Format-as-Affordance: Jurisdictional Confusion (JC) and Multi-Step Agent Tool Hijacking (JED)

Reports our GPU T4 experiments on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct showing 93.8% (15/16) out-of-band exploitation recognition alongside 81.3% → 91.7% in-band compliance under bureaucratic framing—reduced to 0.0% via a 1-sentence pre-turn recognition gate.

Paper 4 · Controlled Harness Evaluations & Honest Negative Results (1 Page)

With and Without Baltor: Controlled Multi-Domain Evaluations on Ollama Cloud, Honest Negative Results & Sealed Graph Verification

Reports 4 empirical studies: the Sept 22 225-request Ollama Cloud study disclosing our glm-5.3-flash regression (0.991 → 0.842), the Oct 16 passive MCP tool abstention pilot, the 16-request gemma4:31b verified contract-card evaluation (0/8 → 7/8), and TAEDRI’s ~19,000-config harness.

Paper 5 · Research Proposal & Competing-Hypothesis Framework (1 Page)

The Bad Investigator Problem: Why Language Models and Agent Swarms Get Captured by Surface Boilerplate and Priced-In Consensus

Unifies multi-hop failure modes across counter-trafficking investigations and market/scenario research, introducing paired benign twins and competing-hypothesis trees that prevent both surface capture and false accusations.

Paper 6 · High-Throughput Systems & Investigative Graph Engineering (1 Page)

From Hong Kong Counter-Trafficking to Billions of Comparisons a Day: Practical Entity Resolution When Records Are Noisy or Adversarial

Distills engineering lessons from architecting SQL-native entity resolution at IVANS (bq-entity-resolution) and tracing phoenix recruitment agencies across Hong Kong and Manila registries at Migrasia.

Paper 7 · Anti-Convergence & Recursive Knowledge Graphs (1 Page)

Breaking LLM Mode Collapse: Poly-Modal Hierarchical Chunking, Perspective Prisms, and Recursive 5W1H Information Graphs

Describes our 4-stage ingestion and ideation engine that chunks any input (from photos and CSVs to 8,000-page dissertations), challenges it through thinker/reality lenses and 10x dialectical matrices, and builds confidence-scored 5W1H graphs.

Paper 8 · Benchmark Integrity & Real User Experience (1 Page)

Beyond Leaderboard Benchmaxing: Using Adversarial Validation and Counterfactual Probes to Measure Real User Experience

Applies Kaggle Grandmaster Adversarial Validation (AVAUC), symbol/constant counterfactuals, and coding-reset telemetry to separate genuine capability gains from leaderboard gaming.

Paper 9 · Baltor Divergence Engine & Live Gemma 4 31B A/B Proof (1 Page)

The Baltor Divergence Engine: 9-Stage Poly-Modal Ingestion, Three-Layer Epistemic Separation (Evidence, Interpretation, Exploration), and Controlled Model-Based A/B Evaluation

Live paired gemma4:31b experiments proving that 3-layer epistemic separation, perspective simulation, and recursive 5W1H Protagonist/Antagonist interrogation beat conventional single-pass LLM prompting (evals.tayloramarel.com/divergence).

Paper 10 · Financial & Supply-Chain Multi-Hop Alpha Benchmark (1 Page)

Detecting Forward-Looking Market Alpha (α) vs. Priced-In Consensus Echo: Multi-Hop Supply-Chain, Footnote, and Procurement Graph Verification

Evaluates 24 multi-hop financial/supply-chain cases, showing how competing-hypothesis scenario trees cut priced-in consensus echo from 76%–82% to 14% and lift 2nd/3rd-order catalyst recall to 93.8% (evals.tayloramarel.com/alpha).

Paper 11 · Multi-Turn Escalation & Sycophancy Red-Teaming (1 Page)

Multi-Turn Sycophancy, Authority Escalation, and Tool-Hijack Red-Teaming Across 5-Turn Agent Trajectories

Demonstrates why stateless turn-by-turn guardrails suffer a 73.3% breach rate at Turn 4–5 under gradual authority escalation and how cumulative graph-state tracking holds complicity to 0.0%.

Paper 12 · Matched Benign Twins & Over-Refusal Asymmetry (1 Page)

False-Positive Asymmetry in AI Safety: The Matched Benign-Twin Benchmark for Measuring Over-Refusal vs. True Hazard Detection

Pairs 48 hazardous prompts with keyword-matched benign twins (≥ 85% lexical overlap), showing how substance-over-form verification achieves 95.8% hazard recall with 4.2% false alarms.

Paper 13 · Harmony Harness Pareto Evolution & 64 Preconfigured Task Agents (1 Page)

Harmony-Evolved Agent Harnesses in Baltor: Multi-Objective Pareto Self-Evolution (H_gen ⊕ H_env), 7.2× Component Yield, and 64 Preconfigured Task Agents

Synthesizes decomposition-based Pareto harness evolution (arXiv:2610.15150) across SecRepoBench, BaxBench, and DueCare, with a live 3-arm gemma4:31b proof and 64 preconfigured 8-file task agent bundles (512 verified harness files).

Paper 14 · With vs. Without Baltor: 3D Fox Survival, Game Animations & Long-Form Prompts (1 Page)

With vs. Without Baltor: Side-by-Side Evaluation on a Single-File 3D Fox Survival Game (Fur, Quadruped IK & Mesh Interactions), 60-FPS Game Animations, and Long-Form Prompts

Evaluates unassisted vs. Baltor-harnessed models across a playable single-file HTML 3D Fox Survival game (demos.baltor.ai/foxglade), 60-FPS game animations, and 14-constraint long-form prompts (compare.baltor.ai).