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Three Monitors Turn Silent Faults Into Diagnoses

COMET combines signal integrity, physics consistency and competence-envelope checks for human-supervised safety systems.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-10-22-018
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Summary

COMET combines signal integrity, physics consistency and competence-envelope checks for human-supervised safety systems.

On compressed-air leak data with simulated distribution shifts and sensor faults, the bare AI failed silently and confidently. COMET reduced trusted wrong answers to zero on shifted no-leak data and three of four sensor faults at about a one-percent nominal false-alarm rate. Semantic-shift misses remained, marking a boundary for passive monitoring.

Why it matters

COMET combines signal integrity, physics consistency and competence-envelope checks for human-supervised safety systems.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. COMET combines signal integrity, physics consistency and competence-envelope checks for human-supervised safety systems.

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Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2610.29816, original v1arXiv · primary research

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