Research Papers

Technical whitepapers on Hanzo AI infrastructure, the Zen frontier model family, post-quantum cryptography, and defense applications.

Hanzo AI is an American-owned, Techstars-backed ('17) applied AI lab building the Zen frontier model family alongside a vertically integrated, post-quantum AI and cryptography stack. These peer-style technical papers document the architecture, protocols, and evaluation behind the platform.

All papers are maintained in LaTeX in the hanzoai/papers repository. Each title links to the compiled PDF.

Core Platform & Infrastructure

The compute, gateway, storage, identity, agent, and commerce systems that make up the Hanzo AI Cloud.

Paper	Source
Astle Reactive SDK	`astle-reactive-sdk/astle-reactive-sdk.tex`
Crowdstart Commerce	`crowdstart-commerce/crowdstart-commerce.tex`
Earle Genetic Marketing	`earle-genetic-marketing/earle-genetic-marketing.tex`
Hanzo ACI	`hanzo-aci/hanzo-aci.tex`
Hanzo Agent GRPO	`hanzo-agent-grpo/hanzo-agent-grpo.tex`
Hanzo Agent SDK	`hanzo-agent-sdk/hanzo-agent-sdk.tex`
Hanzo Agi Platform	`hanzo-agi-platform/hanzo-agi-platform.tex`
Hanzo 4 0 Launch	`hanzo-4-0-launch/hanzo-4-0-launch.tex`
Hanzo AI Chain	`hanzo-ai-chain/hanzo-ai-chain.tex`
Hanzo AI Cloud	`hanzo-ai-cloud/hanzo-ai-cloud.tex`
Hanzo AI Commerce	`hanzo-ai-commerce/hanzo-ai-commerce.tex`
Hanzo AI Safety	`hanzo-ai-safety/hanzo-ai-safety.tex`
Hanzo Analytics ML	`hanzo-analytics-ml/hanzo-analytics-ml.tex`
Hanzo API Gateway	`hanzo-api-gateway/hanzo-api-gateway.tex`
Hanzo ASO	`hanzo-aso/hanzo-aso.tex`
Hanzo Base Runtime	`hanzo-base-runtime/hanzo-base-runtime.tex`
Hanzo Blockchain Platform	`hanzo-blockchain-platform/hanzo-blockchain-platform.tex`
Hanzo Candle	`hanzo-candle/hanzo-candle.tex`
Hanzo Chat	`hanzo-chat/hanzo-chat.tex`
Hanzo Checkout	`hanzo-checkout/hanzo-checkout.tex`
Hanzo Cloud Infrastructure	`hanzo-cloud-infrastructure/hanzo-cloud-infrastructure.tex`
Hanzo Commerce Payments	`hanzo-commerce-payments.tex`
Hanzo Consensus AI	`hanzo-consensus-ai/hanzo-consensus-ai.tex`
Hanzo Console Dashboard	`hanzo-console-dashboard.tex`
Hanzo Crypto Commerce 2018	`hanzo-crypto-commerce-2018/hanzo-crypto-commerce-2018.tex`
Hanzo Crypto Payments	`hanzo-crypto-payments/hanzo-crypto-payments.tex`
Hanzo Digital Securities Integration	`hanzo-digital-securities-integration/hanzo-digital-securities-integration.tex`
Hanzo DSO	`hanzo-dso/hanzo-dso.tex`
Hanzo Edge Inference	`hanzo-edge-inference.tex`
Hanzo Encryption Security	`hanzo-encryption-security/hanzo-encryption-security.tex`
Hanzo Engine ML	`hanzo-engine-ml.tex`
Hanzo Rocm Inference	`hanzo-rocm-inference.tex`
Hanzo Cross Backend Inference	`hanzo-cross-backend-inference.tex`
Hanzo Native Training	`hanzo-native-training.tex`
Hanzo Native Stack Thesis	`hanzo-native-stack-thesis.tex`
Hanzo Platform Infra Desktop	`hanzo-platform-infra-desktop.tex`
Hanzo Continuous Learning Privacy	`hanzo-continuous-learning-privacy.tex`
Hanzo Exchange Architecture	`hanzo-exchange-architecture/hanzo-exchange-architecture.tex`
Hanzo Federated Agents	`hanzo-federated-agents/hanzo-federated-agents.tex`
Hanzo FHE Inference	`hanzo-fhe-inference/hanzo-fhe-inference.tex`
Hanzo Flow	`hanzo-flow/hanzo-flow.tex`
Hanzo Formal Verification	`hanzo-formal-verification/hanzo-formal-verification.tex`
Hanzo Gateway Krakend	`hanzo-gateway-krakend.tex`
Hanzo Gpu Inference	`hanzo-gpu-inference/hanzo-gpu-inference.tex`
Hanzo Harness Hacking	`hanzo-harness-hacking/hanzo-harness-hacking.tex`
Hanzo HMM	`hanzo-hmm/hanzo-hmm.tex`
Hanzo IAM Platform	`hanzo-iam-platform.tex`
Hanzo Ico Infrastructure	`hanzo-ico-infrastructure/hanzo-ico-infrastructure.tex`
Hanzo Identity Nft	`hanzo-identity-nft/hanzo-identity-nft.tex`
Hanzo Ingress Proxy	`hanzo-ingress-proxy.tex`
Hanzo Insights Analytics	`hanzo-insights-analytics.tex`
Hanzo Jin Architecture	`hanzo-jin-architecture/hanzo-jin-architecture.tex`
Hanzo Jin	`hanzo-jin/hanzo-jin.tex`
Hanzo KMS Secrets	`hanzo-kms-secrets.tex`
Hanzo Ledger Finance	`hanzo-ledger-finance.tex`
Hanzo Llm Gateway	`hanzo-llm-gateway/hanzo-llm-gateway.tex`
Hanzo Mcp Server	`hanzo-mcp-server/hanzo-mcp-server.tex`
Hanzo ML Framework	`hanzo-ml-framework/hanzo-ml-framework.tex`
Hanzo Network Architecture	`hanzo-network-architecture/hanzo-network-architecture.tex`
Hanzo Network Whitepaper	`hanzo-network-whitepaper.tex`
Hanzo Observability	`hanzo-observability/hanzo-observability.tex`
Hanzo On Chain Commerce	`hanzo-on-chain-commerce/hanzo-on-chain-commerce.tex`
Hanzo Operative	`hanzo-operative/hanzo-operative.tex`
Hanzo Payments Platform	`hanzo-payments-platform/hanzo-payments-platform.tex`
Hanzo Platform	`hanzo-platform/hanzo-platform.tex`
Hanzo PQ Crypto	`hanzo-pq-crypto/hanzo-pq-crypto.tex`
Hanzo Pubsub Events	`hanzo-pubsub-events.tex`
Hanzo SDK Ecosystem	`hanzo-sdk-ecosystem/hanzo-sdk-ecosystem.tex`
Hanzo Search	`hanzo-search/hanzo-search.tex`
Hanzo Self Improving Agents	`hanzo-self-improving-agents/hanzo-self-improving-agents.tex`
Hanzo Stack Comparison	`hanzo-stack-comparison/hanzo-stack-comparison.tex`
Hanzo Storage S3	`hanzo-storage-s3.tex`
Hanzo Threshold Signing	`hanzo-threshold-signing/hanzo-threshold-signing.tex`
Hanzo Tokenomics	`hanzo-tokenomics/hanzo-tokenomics.tex`
Hanzo Unified Harness	`hanzo-unified-harness/hanzo-unified-harness.tex`
Hanzo Vector Search	`hanzo-vector-search.tex`
Hanzo Webhooks	`hanzo-webhooks/hanzo-webhooks.tex`
Hip 0302 Replicate	`hip-0302-replicate/hip-0302-replicate.tex`
Lightspeed DEX	`lightspeed-dex/lightspeed-dex.tex`
NTT Transform	`ntt-transform/ntt-transform.tex`
Verus Analytics	`verus-analytics/verus-analytics.tex`

Zen Model Family

Architecture, training methodology, and evaluation for the Zen frontier models — co-developed with Zoo Labs Foundation across text, vision, audio, and multimodal capabilities.

Paper	Source
Zen Family Overview	`zen/zen_family_overview.tex`
Zen 3d	`zen/zen-3d.tex`
Zen Agent Framework	`zen/zen-agent-framework.tex`
Zen Agent	`zen/zen-agent.tex`
Zen Alignment	`zen/zen-alignment.tex`
Zen Artist	`zen/zen-artist_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Artist Edit	`zen/zen-artist-edit_whitepaper.tex`
Zen ASO Protocol	`zen/zen-aso-protocol.tex`
Zen Audio Architecture	`zen/zen-audio-architecture.tex`
Zen Base	`zen/zen-base_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Benchmark Suite	`zen/zen-benchmark-suite.tex`
Zen Chain Of Thought	`zen/zen-chain-of-thought.tex`
Zen Code	`zen/zen-code_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Code Benchmarks	`zen/zen-code-benchmarks.tex`
Zen Coder	`zen/zen-coder_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Coder Flash	`zen/zen-coder-flash_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Context Extension	`zen/zen-context-extension.tex`
Zen Designer Instruct	`zen/zen-designer-instruct_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Designer Thinking	`zen/zen-designer-thinking_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Director	`zen/zen-director.tex`
Zen Distributed Training	`zen/zen-distributed-training.tex`
Zen DSO Protocol	`zen/zen-dso-protocol.tex`
Zen Dub	`zen/zen-dub_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Dub Live	`zen/zen-dub-live_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Eco	`zen/zen-eco_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Embeddings Retrieval	`zen/zen-embeddings-retrieval.tex`
Zen Enterprise Deployment	`zen/zen-enterprise-deployment.tex`
Zen Financial AI	`zen/zen-financial-ai.tex`
Zen Finetuning	`zen/zen-finetuning.tex`
Zen Foley	`zen/zen-foley.tex`
Zen Guard	`zen/zen-guard_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Guard Gen	`zen/zen-guard-gen_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Guard Stream	`zen/zen-guard-stream_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Hallucination Reduction	`zen/zen-hallucination-reduction.tex`
Zen Hardware Optimization	`zen/zen-hardware-optimization.tex`
Zen Inference Optimization	`zen/zen-inference-optimization.tex`
Zen Knowledge Distillation	`zen/zen-knowledge-distillation.tex`
Zen Legal AI	`zen/zen-legal-ai.tex`
Zen Live	`zen/zen-live_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Mathematical Reasoning	`zen/zen-mathematical-reasoning.tex`
Zen Max	`zen/zen-max_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Medical AI	`zen/zen-medical-ai.tex`
Zen Medical	`zen/zen-medical.tex`
Zen Mixture Of Experts	`zen/zen-mixture-of-experts.tex`
Zen Multilingual	`zen/zen-multilingual.tex`
Zen Multimodal Architecture	`zen/zen-multimodal-architecture.tex`
Zen Musician	`zen/zen-musician.tex`
Zen Nano	`zen/zen-nano_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Next	`zen/zen-next_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Omni	`zen/zen-omni_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Privacy Federated	`zen/zen-privacy-federated.tex`
Zen Pro	`zen/zen-pro_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Quantization	`zen/zen-quantization.tex`
Zen Reasoning	`zen/zen-reasoning.tex`
Zen Reranker	`zen/zen-reranker.tex`
Zen Reward Modeling	`zen/zen-reward-modeling.tex`
Zen Safety Evaluation	`zen/zen-safety-evaluation.tex`
Zen Scribe	`zen/zen-scribe_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Synthetic Data	`zen/zen-synthetic-data.tex`
Zen Technical Paper	`zen/zen-technical-paper.tex`
Zen Training Methodology	`zen/zen-training-methodology.tex`
Zen Translator	`zen/zen-translator_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Translator	`zen/zen-translator.tex`
Zen Video I2V	`zen/zen-video-i2v_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Video	`zen/zen-video.tex`
Zen Vision Architecture	`zen/zen-vision-architecture.tex`
Zen VL	`zen/zen-vl_whitepaper.tex`
Zen Voice Clone	`zen/zen-voice-clone.tex`
Zen Voyager	`zen/zen-voyager.tex`
Zen World	`zen/zen-world.tex`
Zen3 Embedding	`zen/zen3-embedding_whitepaper.tex`
Zen3 Guard	`zen/zen3-guard_whitepaper.tex`
Zen3 Nano	`zen/zen3-nano_whitepaper.tex`
Zen3 Omni	`zen/zen3-omni_whitepaper.tex`
Zen3 VL	`zen/zen3-vl_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4	`zen/zen4_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Coder	`zen/zen4-coder_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Coder Flash	`zen/zen4-coder-flash_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Coder Pro	`zen/zen4-coder-pro_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Max	`zen/zen4-max_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Mini	`zen/zen4-mini_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Pro	`zen/zen4-pro_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Thinking	`zen/zen4-thinking_whitepaper.tex`
Zen4 Ultra	`zen/zen4-ultra_whitepaper.tex`

Defense & National Security

Post-quantum, air-gapped, and cross-domain AI engineered to run sovereign and disconnected in defense, regulated, and denied environments.

Paper	Source
Hanzo Agentic AI	`defense/hanzo-agentic-ai.tex`
Hanzo Assured Networking	`defense/hanzo-assured-networking.tex`
Hanzo Countermeasures	`defense/hanzo-countermeasures.tex`
Hanzo Cross Domain	`defense/hanzo-cross-domain.tex`
Hanzo Edge AI ML	`defense/hanzo-edge-ai-ml.tex`
Hanzo Formal Verification	`defense/hanzo-formal-verification.tex`
Hanzo Full Spectrum Cyber	`defense/hanzo-full-spectrum-cyber.tex`
Hanzo Quantum Sensing QKD	`defense/hanzo-quantum-sensing-qkd.tex`
Hanzo Test Evaluation	`defense/hanzo-test-evaluation.tex`
Hanzo Zap Protocol	`defense/hanzo-zap-protocol.tex`

Core Platform & Infrastructure

Zen Model Family

Defense & National Security

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