Byzantine Hallucination Consensus

Byzantine Hallucination Consensus

Building Systems That Survive the Lies They Cannot Prevent

ByFelipe Carvajal Brown

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Large language models hallucinate as a structural property of what they are — computable systems generating output over a domain that exceeds computability. No amount of training data, scale, or internal verification can eliminate the failure. Byzantine Hallucination Consensus adapts Lamport's 1982 fault-tolerance framework for a model its authors never imagined: every attention head a potential traitor, every token a probabilistic vote, consensus approached asymptotically rather than crossed at a fixed threshold. The book builds the framework chapter by chapter as a live investigation, stress-tests it against the existing multi-agent literature, and maps where it breaks down. For engineers who build the systems that have to survive the lies they cannot prevent.

Details

Publication Date
Apr 24, 2026
Language
English
ISBN
9781105376122
Category
Engineering
Copyright
Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Contributors
By (author): Felipe Carvajal Brown

Specifications

Pages
107
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Color
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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