<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alexey Gavrilov — publications</title><description>New research publications and source-verified bibliographic records.</description><link>https://aogavrilov.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Inspectable Control for Structure-Preserving Software Regeneration</title><link>https://aogavrilov.com/publications/inspectable-control/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aogavrilov.com/publications/inspectable-control/</guid><description>A method for controllable and localized code regeneration using hierarchical discrete latent representations, allowing selected program structure to remain fixed during AI-assisted code modification.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>software artifact control</category><category>hierarchical discrete latents</category><category>structure-preserving regeneration</category><category>partial code regeneration</category><category>masked discrete generation</category><category>software engineering</category></item><item><title>Where Quality Breaks in Compressed Short-Text Generation: Staged Bottleneck Localization</title><link>https://aogavrilov.com/publications/where-quality-breaks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aogavrilov.com/publications/where-quality-breaks/</guid><description>A staged diagnostic for compressed short-text generation that separates codec reconstruction from latent-generation loss and compares token-space with code-space MDLM under one shared decoded-text scorer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>compressed text generation</category><category>discrete latent diffusion</category><category>hierarchical VQ-VAE-2</category><category>bottleneck localization</category><category>TinyStories</category><category>masked diffusion language modeling</category></item></channel></rss>