{
  "id": 18027,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09124v1",
  "title": "ChronoState: Hidden Elapsed-Time Conditioning for Temporal-State Action Selection in Frozen-Backbone Language Models",
  "summary": "Temporal decisions in language-model systems often depend on both symbolic task state and elapsed wall-clock time, such as cache expiration, job completion, quota resets, deadlines, or stale sessions. We study whether elapsed time can be supplied as a non-token, system-side scalar and composed with visible symbolic state by a frozen-backbone language model. We introduce ChronoState, a compositional temporal-state benchmark in which symbolic state appears in the prompt, elapsed seconds tau are su",
  "authors": "Sam Siavoshian, Omar Ramadan, Amir K. Saeed, Benjamin A. Johnson, Amin Mohamed El-Amin Diab, Benjamin M. Rodriguez",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T05:03:16.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18027",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09124v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}