% Papers and technical reports by Anwar Debes.
% Each PDF sits next to the code that produced its numbers.
% https://anwardebes.github.io/#papers

@misc{debes2026candor,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {The Explanation Is the Forward Pass: Interpretability by Construction with Certified Legible Bottlenecks},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/candor/blob/main/paper/candor.pdf}},
  note         = {Preprint. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/candor}}
}

@misc{debes2026trace,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{TRACE}: A Tsetlin Runtime Assurance and Certification Engine for Interpretable, Tamper-Evident Guardrails on Agentic {AI}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/TRACE/blob/main/paper/trace.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v1.0. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/TRACE}}
}

@misc{debes2026thgtm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{THGTM}: A Temporal Hierarchical Graph {Tsetlin} Machine with Echo-Trace Automata for Trajectory-Level Verification of Agentic {AI}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/THGTM/blob/main/paper/thgtm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/THGTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026veritas,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{VERITAS}: Formally Verified, Competence-Aware Interpretable Guardrails for Language Models},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/veritas/blob/main/paper/veritas.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v1.0. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/veritas}}
}

@misc{debes2026reins,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{REINS}: Model-Free, Certifying Least-Cost Repair of {LLM}-Agent Tool-Call Trajectories},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/reins/blob/main/paper/reins.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v1.0. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/reins}}
}

@misc{debes2026lucid,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{LUCID}: A Glass-Box, Safety-Shielded Agent for Open-World Interactive Reasoning on {ARC-AGI-3}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/lucid/blob/main/paper/lucid.pdf}},
  note         = {Preprint. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/lucid}}
}

@misc{debes2026ditm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{DiTM}: A Discrete-Diffusion {Tsetlin} Machine for Interpretable Generative Modelling of Tabular {Boolean} Data},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/DiTM/blob/main/paper/ditm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/DiTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026multihgtm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{Multi-HGTM}: Cross-View Conjunctive Fusion for the Graph {Tsetlin} Machine},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/Multi-HGTM/blob/main/paper/multihgtm.pdf}},
  note         = {Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/Multi-HGTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026conftm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{ConfTM}: A Conformal {Tsetlin} Machine with Coverage-Guaranteed Counterfactual Recourse},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/ConfTM/blob/main/paper/conftm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/ConfTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026fedtm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{FedTM}: A Federated Differentially-Private {Tsetlin} Machine for Multi-Site Interpretable Learning},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/FedTM/blob/main/paper/fedtm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/FedTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026robtm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{RobTM}: An Adversarially-Robust {Tsetlin} Machine with Certified Flip-Distance Radius},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/RobTM/blob/main/paper/robtm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/RobTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026cctm,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{CCTM}: A Counterfactual Causal {Tsetlin} Machine for Regulatorily-Compliant Individual Decision Explanations},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/CCTM/blob/main/paper/cctm.pdf}},
  note         = {Draft v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/CCTM}}
}

@misc{debes2026clausedriven,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{Clause-Driven-LLM}: An Interpretable {Tsetlin} Machine Control Layer for {LLM} Agent Routing and Escalation with {SAT}-Verifiable Decision Receipts and Editable-Policy Recourse},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/Clause-Driven-LLM/blob/main/paper/report.pdf}},
  note         = {Technical report. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/Clause-Driven-LLM}}
}

@misc{debes2026sleeparchitect,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{SleepArchitect}: A Free, No-Login Predictive Sleep Model from Caffeine, Alcohol, Exercise, Light, and Chronotype},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/SleepArchitect/blob/main/paper/sleeparchitect.pdf}},
  note         = {Technical report. Live app: \url{https://anwardebes.github.io/SleepArchitect/}}
}

@misc{debes2026thermoguard,
  author       = {Debes, Anwar},
  title        = {{ThermoGuard}: Real-Time Indoor Heat Risk Forecasting for Vulnerable Housing under Extreme Heat Events},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/ThermoGuard/blob/main/paper/thermoguard.pdf}},
  note         = {Reference implementation v0.1. Code: \url{https://github.com/AnwarDebes/ThermoGuard}}
}

@thesis{debes2025declassify,
  author       = {Amer, Rami and Debes, Anwar and Hessnawi, Yasin},
  title        = {Automatic Removal of Sensitive Content in Images and Documents for Efficient Archiving},
  type         = {Bachelor's thesis},
  institution  = {NTNU},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3203861},
  note         = {Eurekaprisen 2025}
}