[
  {
    "id": "mathresearchos-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "MathResearchOS: new project page and usage guide",
    "summary": "A command-line system that turns a mathematical objective into a recoverable, verifier-gated run across Codex and Claude models. The new project page has a quick start and a usage guide covering install, model choice, human gates, campaigns and troubleshooting.",
    "url": "/projects/mathresearchos/",
    "project_ids": [
      "mathresearchos"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "neurips-2026-attendee-guide",
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "type": "release",
    "title": "NeurIPS 2026 Attendee Guide for Sydney, Atlanta and Paris",
    "summary": "A free, unofficial guide for everyone attending NeurIPS 2026 at any of its three sites: the full schedule, a guide to each city, a personal plan, hotels compared by price and commute, deadlines and templates for presenters, and the data for AI assistants.",
    "url": "/news/neurips-2026-attendee-guide/"
  },
  {
    "id": "policyattention-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "PolicyAttention: new project page",
    "summary": "PolicyAttention now has its own project page: why one softmax attention row can be the policy-improvement step of an in-context controller, the causal actor-environment-critic loop and its guarantee, where a stronger step backfires, and how learned Transformers compare, from our two NeurIPS 2026 workshop papers.",
    "url": "/projects/policyattention/",
    "project_ids": [
      "policyattention"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "frtbtrace-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "FRTBTrace: new project page",
    "summary": "FRTBTrace, our work on exact trade-level attribution of FRTB-IMA capital, now has its own project page: why one attribution vector cannot answer every question about capital, how one reverse pass through the full formula gives a ledger on (date, trade) positions, and the evidence from a pre-registered synthetic benchmark. Two FRTBTrace workshop papers were accepted at ICAIF 2026.",
    "url": "/projects/frtbtrace/",
    "project_ids": [
      "frtbtrace"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-explorer-aaai-2027",
    "date": "2026-10-29",
    "type": "release",
    "title": "Workshop Explorer: every AAAI 2027 workshop in one place",
    "summary": "A new, independent QRS resource for researchers deciding where to submit. The Workshop Explorer lists the 45 AAAI-27 workshops by topic, with accepted paper types, page limits, deadlines, review and publication policies and official links, checked against the organisers' own pages. Filter by paper type, page limit, deadline or submission rules, shortlist and compare workshops, and add their deadlines to your calendar.",
    "url": "/service/workshops/aaai-2027/"
  },
  {
    "id": "research-academy-update-2026-10",
    "date": "2026-10-23",
    "type": "announcement",
    "title": "QRS Research Academy: 2026 Fall #3 under way, 2026 Fall #4 recruiting",
    "summary": "2026 Fall #3 is working towards AAAI. 2026 Fall #4 is recruiting for the December 2026 – January 2027 research cycle, aimed at relevant AAMAS 2027 workshops. Academy members join active research programmes as Slicers and lead a derived project towards a first-author workshop paper.",
    "url": "/research-academy/#apply"
  },
  {
    "id": "icaif-2026-workshops",
    "date": "2026-10-23",
    "type": "announcement",
    "title": "Six works accepted to ICAIF 2026 workshops",
    "summary": "Six works from QRS research programmes were accepted to ICAIF 2026 workshops, including the first first-author workshop papers of three 2026 Fall #2 Research Academy members: Shufang Chen, Xinyue Wu and Annie Huaiyu Wang.",
    "url": "/news/icaif-2026-workshops/",
    "project_ids": [
      "frtbtrace",
      "policyattention",
      "riskhedge"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cloudflare-move-2026-10",
    "date": "2026-10-22",
    "type": "announcement",
    "title": "QRS@NTU is moving to Cloudflare",
    "summary": "We are moving the QRS@NTU website to Cloudflare. As a first step, past papers, solutions and ZIP bundles on the Math Notes page are now served from files.qrsntu.org and download directly when you click them. Page addresses stay the same.",
    "url": "/math_notes/"
  },
  {
    "id": "alphaallocator-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-15",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "AlphaAllocator: new project page",
    "summary": "Our news-reading allocation agent, 1st in NLPCC 2026 Shared Task 4 Track 1, now has its own project page: why we separate relevance, tone and allocation instead of asking one LLM for the trade, the NLPCC evidence and ablations, and ICAIF 2026, coming soon.",
    "url": "/projects/alphaallocator/",
    "project_ids": [
      "alphaallocator"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "post-training-explainer-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-14",
    "type": "guide",
    "title": "Post-training, explained: from SFT to GRPO",
    "summary": "A long-read explainer on how language models are post-trained, from supervised fine-tuning and reward models to PPO, DPO and GRPO, with derivations and ten interactive figures.",
    "url": "/learn/post-training/"
  },
  {
    "id": "geoaft-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "GeoAFT: new project page and draft explainer",
    "summary": "Geometric Attention Fine-Tuning now has its own project page, with an interactive geometry explorer, the controlled synthetic results and a draft explainer video.",
    "url": "/projects/geoaft/",
    "project_ids": [
      "geoaft"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "math-notes-fully-worked-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "type": "release",
    "title": "MH3100, MH2100 and HE2003 solutions republished",
    "summary": "Solutions for MH3100, MH2100 and HE2003 are republished in a multi-method, fully worked style.",
    "url": "/math_notes/"
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-policyattention-evorobust-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "workshop",
    "title": "PolicyAttention: Robustness and Failure Modes of Softmax Policy Improvement",
    "summary": "Workshop paper accepted at the EvoRobust Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=VgswuGrqp6",
    "project_ids": [
      "policyattention"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-riskhedge-evorobust-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "workshop",
    "title": "Diverse Scenarios, Selective Evaluation: Certified Spectral-Risk Decisions under Costly Robustness Tests",
    "summary": "Workshop paper accepted at the EvoRobust Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=OzOTmkkAWW",
    "project_ids": [
      "riskhedge"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-geoaft-automlr-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "workshop",
    "title": "Geometric Attention Fine-Tuning Is Representation-Relative: Autonomous ML Research with AI-Native Workflow",
    "summary": "Workshop paper accepted at the AutoMLR Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=9PwlVQ3gyj",
    "project_ids": [
      "ai-native-workflow",
      "geoaft"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-policyattention-pta-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "workshop",
    "title": "PolicyAttention: When Softmax Attention Becomes Policy Improvement",
    "summary": "Workshop paper accepted at the PTA Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=zbGWnk0kY3",
    "project_ids": [
      "policyattention"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "softrank-project-page-2026",
    "date": "2026-11-11",
    "type": "research",
    "title": "SoftRank: new project page",
    "summary": "Our work on the approximation rank of softmax attention, accepted as an extended abstract at the NeurReps Workshop, NeurIPS 2026, now has its own project page: why query–key geometry depends on the coordinate frame, the softmax-visible interaction that does not, an explorer for the rank-two example, and certified rank brackets on trained heads.",
    "url": "/projects/softrank/",
    "project_ids": [
      "softrank"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "workshop-softrank-neurreps-2026",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "workshop",
    "title": "The Approximation Rank of Softmax Attention: Sharp Geometric Laws and Robust Interaction Dimension",
    "summary": "Extended abstract accepted at the NeurReps Workshop, NeurIPS 2026.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=0zgsZ8FjVz",
    "project_ids": [
      "softrank"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "neurips-2026-workshops",
    "date": "2026-10-04",
    "type": "announcement",
    "title": "Five works accepted to NeurIPS 2026 workshops",
    "summary": "Five works from our inaugural QRS Research Academy cohort (2026 Fall #1) were accepted to NeurIPS 2026 workshops, spanning softmax-attention geometry, policy improvement, risk-sensitive decision-making and AI-native research workflows.",
    "url": "/news/neurips-2026-workshops/",
    "project_ids": [
      "ai-native-workflow",
      "geoaft",
      "policyattention",
      "riskhedge",
      "softrank"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "research-academy-2026",
    "date": "2026-09-30",
    "type": "announcement",
    "title": "QRS Research Academy",
    "summary": "The QRS Research Academy takes members from guided research to independent research leadership. Applications are open from the Academy page.",
    "url": "/research-academy/"
  },
  {
    "id": "arxiv-frtbtrace-2026",
    "date": "2026-09-26",
    "type": "paper",
    "title": "Exact Trade-Level Attribution of FRTB-IMA Capital",
    "summary": "The FRTBTrace paper is on arXiv (2609.32238).",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32238",
    "project_ids": [
      "frtbtrace"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "arxiv-policyattention-2026",
    "date": "2026-09-24",
    "type": "paper",
    "title": "PolicyAttention: Softmax Attention Implements Policy Mirror Descent for Closed-Loop Control",
    "summary": "The PolicyAttention paper is on arXiv (2609.30500).",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30500",
    "project_ids": [
      "policyattention"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "arxiv-softrank-v2-2026",
    "date": "2026-09-22",
    "type": "paper",
    "title": "SoftRank preprint updated to version 2",
    "summary": "Version 2 of “Intrinsic Interaction Geometry Controls the Low-Rank Complexity of Softmax Attention” is on arXiv (2608.28150).",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28150",
    "project_ids": [
      "softrank"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "arxiv-softrank-2026",
    "date": "2026-08-28",
    "type": "paper",
    "title": "Intrinsic Interaction Geometry Controls the Low-Rank Complexity of Softmax Attention",
    "summary": "The SoftRank paper is on arXiv (2608.28150).",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28150",
    "project_ids": [
      "softrank"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "nlpcc-alphaallocator-2026",
    "date": "2026-11-05",
    "type": "paper",
    "title": "NTU-QRS AlphaAllocator: Bounded Transformer News Overlays for Chinese Macro-Asset Allocation",
    "summary": "Presented at NLPCC 2026 Shared Task 4 as a poster and an oral (Evaluation Workshop I, 5 November 2026); first of ten teams in Track 1.",
    "url": "https://openreview.net/forum?id=u09PzTYNHk",
    "project_ids": [
      "alphaallocator"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "events-guide-2026-jan",
    "date": "2026-01-22",
    "type": "guide",
    "title": "Quant & FinTech Events Guide, January 2026",
    "summary": "Campus events, recruiting programmes, conferences and industry expos for students interested in quant and fintech.",
    "url": "/news/events-guide-2026-jan/"
  },
  {
    "id": "dec2025-major-update",
    "date": "2025-12-10",
    "type": "release",
    "title": "QRS@NTU major update, December 2025",
    "summary": "Website fixes to folders, search and ranking, and final examination papers added for over 70 SPMS and NBS courses.",
    "url": "/news/dec2025-major-update/"
  }
]