Research

What we learn, published as we learn it.

October 2026: What May an Agent Change About Itself? A Containment Floor for Self-Configuring Agent RuntimesSajib Hossain, Moeen Mahmud · arXiv 2610.06274An agent may change the settings that grant it abilities, never the ones that set its limits. Enforced as a floor, 0 of 167 protected writes got through.
October 2026: BanglaBox: A Phonetically-Balanced Corpus and Data-Efficient Foundation-Model Adaptation for Bangla Text-to-Speech with Zero-Shot Voice CloningEmtiaz Uddin Ahmed, Araf Mahmud, Sajib Hossain, Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Sajid Fardin Dipto, Anomadarshi Barua · arXiv 2610.09211Adapting an English-pretrained speech model to Bangladeshi Bangla while keeping zero-shot voice cloning.
August 2026: BnBERT-iPET: Sparse Few-Shot Language Modeling for Bengali via Lottery Ticket PruningSajib Hossain, Md Kamrus Samad, Anan Ghosh, Labib Imam Chowdhury, Nabeel Mohammed · arXiv 2608.05104A Bengali language model pruned to about a tenth of its connections that stays competitive with few-shot training.