Evgenii Borunov

Learning what a bodily signal means: a preregistered bridge from a tiny controller to a language model

A 7B language model learned what an unlabeled bodily danger signal means from 24 experienceswhen the signal arrived as text, but not when it arrived as an activation. Project Mirror asks what alanguage model’s reports about its own state rest on. Our previous study found that a 1...

Knowing about a body is not learning from one: a pilot study of a language-model agent with artificial interoception

A small language model given an artificial body used what it already knew about bodies, but over ten nights of self-training did not learn anything new from its own. We gave Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct an agent body in a simple survival world. The body had energy and integrity, which w...