About AEX CONTINUUM
AEX CONTINUUM is a free, open-access repository for preprints, conference proceedings, books, research data and open peer-reviewed publications.
Mission
Research is a continuum: a draft becomes a preprint, a preprint becomes a paper, a paper is presented, reviewed, extended into a book, and underpinned by data and code that should outlive all of them. AEX CONTINUUM is a free, open repository that keeps every stage of that path public, citable and connected.
It currently holds 49 records and 3 proceedings volumes from 23 authors (demonstration content). AEX CONTINUUM is a repository, not a journal: there is no editorial board, no issues and no volumes.
The collections
| Collection | For | Quality control |
|---|---|---|
| Preprints | Share your work the day it is ready. | Screened, not peer reviewed |
| Proceedings | Permanent, citable homes for conference papers. | Reviewed by the event organisers |
| Books | Monographs, textbooks and theses, free to read. | Checked for completeness and licensing |
| Research Archive | The long-term home for everything behind the paper. | Preserved with checksums and version history |
| Publishing | Open peer review, then a validated version of record. | Open peer review |
Principles
- Open by default. Everything is free to read, download and reuse. There is no paywall, no registration to read, and no fee to deposit.
- Stages, not silos. Preprints, proceedings, books, data and reviewed articles share identifiers, licences and search, so work stays connected as it matures.
- No gatekeeping on novelty. We screen for scope and integrity. Peer review, where requested, assesses soundness, and its outcome follows the reviewers' reports, not an editor's preference.
- Transparent review. Reviewer reports are published alongside articles, with authors' responses and every version.
- Built to last. Persistent identifiers, checksummed files, open formats and a preservation plan keep records citable for the long term.
Key facts
- Name
- AEX CONTINUUM
- Operated by
- AEX Research
- Access
- Open access; no registration to read
- Default licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Charges
- Free to read, free to deposit, free to request peer review
- Identifiers
- DOI for every record and version; ISBN for books and proceedings volumes
- Peer review
- Open reports, via CONTINUUM Publishing, on request
Subject areas
- Language Models & Agents — Architectures, training and prompting of language models; tool use, planning and multi-step agents.
- Efficient & On-Device ML — Compression, quantisation, distillation, parameter-efficient adaptation and fast inference under resource limits.
- Evaluation & Benchmarks — Benchmark design, metrics, measurement validity, statistical practice and human evaluation.
- Retrieval & Knowledge — Retrieval-augmented generation, indexing, knowledge grounding and uncertainty about retrieved evidence.
- Safety, Security & Governance — Robustness, adversarial and prompt-injection attacks, oversight, accountability and policy for AI systems.
- Research Practice & Reproducibility — Open science, research software, reporting standards and the sociology of machine-learning research.
- Data & Research Infrastructure — Datasets, documentation, repositories, persistent identifiers and the tooling that keeps research outputs usable.
Contact
Questions about deposits, hosting proceedings or peer review can be sent to hello@continuum.example or through the contact page.