Many objections to belief-state planning are framed as concerns about scalability. In practice, they are concerned about visibility. Systems that avoid explicit belief do not eliminate uncertainty; they merely conceal it. This concealment can appear efficient, but it comes at a cost that is paid later often at the point where decisions matter most. This… Read More »Combinatorial Belief States Are the Cost of Explicit Uncertainty
This article is a continuation of Why LLMs Are Not Planning Machines. In that earlier post, the core claim was simple: large language models can generate plausible action sequences, but they do not plan. They lack a mechanism to reason over uncertainty across time. This follow-up post focuses on what is missing. The missing abstraction is the… Read More »Belief State: Why AI Planning Fails Without It
In the course of my work with LLMs, I’ve been examining a recurring pattern in how large language models are being used inside real systems. In many settings, I observed that LLMs are treated as planners where they are used to generate multi-step workflows, remediation strategies, operational playbooks, and even “autonomous” action sequences. These plans… Read More »Why LLMs Are Not Planning Machines (And What It Means)
FireCompass Research has published a new IEEE TechRxiv paper examining a technical weakness increasingly visible in autonomous cybersecurity systems built around large language models. The work, Belief-State Engine: Augmenting LLMs for Principled Planning Under Partial Observability, was authored by two members of the FireCompass research team, including FireCompass co-founder and Head of Research, Arnab Chattopadhayay.… Read More »(IEEE TechRxiv & arXiv) Belief-State Engines: Solving Uncertainty in Autonomous Security Systems
What is Blockchain? Conventionally, we had a habit of maintaining everything in a centralized repository and safeguarding it by applying perimeter security. Blockchain is a current breakthrough technology which eliminates centralized concepts and shows cases of the shared, distributed updated records of who is doing what. Although it is decentralized, it supports access rights and… Read More »Blockchain Drives Authentication and Cryptography to next Dimension