XLAB (Slovenia)

Evidence for longevity medicine: a retrospective cohort study of multi-domain health improvement in a structured preventive health programme

Background Longevity clinics represent an emerging model of proactive, precision preventive care, yet no published study has evaluated longitudinal changes in physical performance, cardiometabolic biomarkers, or body composition within this setting. This study assessed within-per...

GNR-Q: Inference-Time State-Conditioned Reconstruction for Memory-Efficient Quantized Language Models

Low-bit quantization reduces the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs), but the accompanying loss of numerical precision perturbs internal representations and can degrade next-token prediction. We ask whether part of this lost representation fidelity can be reconstruct...

GNR-Q: Inference-Time State-Conditioned Reconstruction for Memory-Efficient Quantized Language Models

Low-bit quantization substantially reduces the memory footprint of large language models(LLMs), but the associated loss of numerical precision can distort internal representations anddegrade downstream prediction quality. We investigate whether part of this lost representationqua...

Autonomous Agents as First-Class Operating System Entities: Formal Architecture, Deterministic Protocols, and Self-Regulating Runtimes

Modern multi-agent architectures predominantly treat autonomous agents driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) as unmanaged application-level loops interacting through stateless, unbounded prompts. In long-running computing environments, this abstraction mismatch induces severe sy...

Laser‐Induced Local De‐Doping in Organic Semiconductors

ABSTRACT This study explores control of the doping level in organic semiconductor films using scanning continuous wave laser radiation. The feasibility of this one‐step non‐contact post‐deposition approach is explored for a benchmark material system comprising the high‐mobility p...

Picture-to-picture matching, verbal-to-picture matching, and tact of images for autistic children through the use of an application on a tablet

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a tablet application designed for image picture-to-picture matching, verbal-to-picture matching, and tact training in autistic children. The participants in the research were two school-age autistic children. The initial e...

Timing of antifibrotic therapy and prognosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: real-world evidence from the French Colibri-ILD SNDS database

According to the French 2022 National guideline, antifibrotic therapy should be initiated as soon as a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is made, taking into account the individual assessment of the expected benefit and risks of treatment. However, in practice, tre...

Your Insured's AI Agent Caused the Loss: Was It Authorized to Act?

This paper examines a developing insurance problem created by autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents: when an insured deploys an AI agent that causes a financial, operational, contractual, cyber, or physical loss, who bears responsibility and how should insurers evaluate the re...

Your Insured's AI Agent Caused the Loss: Was It Authorized to Act?

This paper examines a developing insurance problem created by autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents: when an insured deploys an AI agent that causes a financial, operational, contractual, cyber, or physical loss, who bears responsibility and how should insurers evaluate the re...

Demoting the Master Control Program: Deterministic Orchestration of a Fleet of LLM Agents

Multi-agent systems that build software usually coordinate their agents through a language model: an orchestrator reasons in prose about who works next, whether a task is done, and when to involve the human operator. That puts a probabilistic component on the control path of a sy...

Analysis of the impact of socioeconomic factors on access to veterinary services among small ruminant farmers in Kindia Prefecture, Republic of Guinea

Abstract Background Access to veterinary services is essential for livestock productivity, animal health, and the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. In Guinea, access to these services remains constrained by multiple socioeconomic and structural barriers. This study aimed to ass...