2026-10-02 · paper-digest
Xu & Verbrugge: Small Local AIs Translate a 5×5 Grid into a Different Skill Every Time — Fukai Reads
A paper by Kaijie Xu and Clark Verbrugge on generating combat skills. Local language models translate elemental cells a player arranges on a 5×5 grid into skills. The models kept 0.994 element coherence while producing different skills from the same grid each time — a combination four baselines could not match. But they barely read vertical lines, and there is no player study yet.
