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Kai Zhao

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Preprint Sep 2026

When Error Mitigation Makes Things Worse: Budget-Aware Evaluation, Extrapolation Failure, and the Calibration Trust Boundary

Error mitigation is expected to turn noisy quantum measurements into more useful estimates. We show that it can instead amplify error. Under control-offset miscalibration, the evaluated unconstrained zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) estimators are worse than no mitigation on 38-63% of simulated instances and produce extr...

Gui-Lin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Xi-Quan Cui et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Budget Boundary Effects in Test-Time Mathematical Reasoning

A cumulative token cap can fall inside a mathematical derivation, forcing a test-time controller to choose between stopping at the cap (strict) and allowing the current attempt to finish (advisory). We measure this boundary choice with paired offline replays of 19,200 public traces: 120 AIME, BrUMO and HMMT problems an...

Gui-Lin Zhang, Zi-Qi Tan, Wu-Lan Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills

It is found that progressive disclosure improves skill-retrieval quality but marginally degrades overall latency, and progressive disclosure of skills as needed improves skill-retrieval quality but marginally degrades overall latency.

Gui-Lin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Priyanka Mudgal et al. · 0 citations

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