Analyzing Physical Adversarial Example Threats to Machine Learning in Election Systems
arXiv:2603.00481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developments in the machine learning voting domain have shown both promising results and risks. Trained models perform well on ballot classification tasks (> 99% accuracy) but are at risk from adversarial example attacks that cause...
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Cybersecurity’s Role in Securing Elections
SPEAKERS: Professor Chris Hoofnagle, Beth Calley, Lucy Huang Podcast Transcript: [Lucy Huang] 00:07 Hello and welcome to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal podcast. My name is Lucy Huang and I am one of the senior editors of the podcast. Today,...
FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal
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Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push
Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.
Humans and LLMs Diverge on Probabilistic Inferences
arXiv:2602.23546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human reasoning often involves working over limited information to arrive at probabilistic conclusions. In its simplest form, this involves making an inference that is not strictly entailed by a premise, but rather only likely given...
France or Spain or Germany or France: A Neural Account of Non-Redundant Redundant Disjunctions
arXiv:2602.23547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentences like "She will go to France or Spain, or perhaps to Germany or France." appear formally redundant, yet become acceptable in contexts such as "Mary will go to a philosophy program in France or...
BRIDGE the Gap: Mitigating Bias Amplification in Automated Scoring of English Language Learners via Inter-group Data Augmentation
arXiv:2602.23580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the field of educational assessment, automated scoring systems increasingly rely on deep learning and large language models (LLMs). However, these systems face significant risks of bias amplification, where model prediction gaps between student groups...
From Static Benchmarks to Dynamic Protocol: Agent-Centric Text Anomaly Detection for Evaluating LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2602.23729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has predominantly relied on static datasets, which offer limited scalability and fail to capture the evolving reasoning capabilities of recent models. To overcome these limitations, we propose an...
Structured Prompt Optimization for Few-Shot Text Classification via Semantic Alignment in Latent Space
arXiv:2602.23753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study addresses the issues of semantic entanglement, unclear label structure, and insufficient feature representation in few-shot text classification, and proposes an optimization framework based on structured prompts to enhance semantic understanding and task adaptation...
Divide and Conquer: Accelerating Diffusion-Based Large Language Models via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
arXiv:2602.23792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) have shown promising performance across various reasoning tasks, establishing themselves as an alternative to autoregressive large language models (LLMs). Unlike autoregressive LLMs that generate one token per step based on...
Benchmarking BERT-based Models for Sentence-level Topic Classification in Nepali Language
arXiv:2602.23940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based models such as BERT have significantly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) across many languages. However, Nepali, a low-resource language written in Devanagari script, remains relatively underexplored. This study benchmarks multilingual, Indic, Hindi, and Nepali...
ARGUS: Seeing the Influence of Narrative Features on Persuasion in Argumentative Texts
arXiv:2602.24109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can narratives make arguments more persuasive? And to this end, which narrative features matter most? Although stories are often seen as powerful tools for persuasion, their specific role in online, unstructured argumentation remains underexplored. To...
CoME: Empowering Channel-of-Mobile-Experts with Informative Hybrid-Capabilities Reasoning
arXiv:2602.24142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile Agents can autonomously execute user instructions, which requires hybrid-capabilities reasoning, including screen summary, subtask planning, action decision and action function. However, existing agents struggle to achieve both decoupled enhancement and balanced integration of these...
Task-Centric Acceleration of Small-Language Models
arXiv:2602.24174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) have emerged as efficient alternatives to large language models for task-specific applications. However, they are often employed in high-volume, low-latency settings, where efficiency is crucial. We propose TASC, Task-Adaptive Sequence Compression,...
Do LLMs Benefit From Their Own Words?
arXiv:2602.24287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn interactions with large language models typically retain the assistant's own past responses in the conversation history. In this work, we revisit this design choice by asking whether large language models benefit from conditioning on...
Serendipity with Generative AI: Repurposing knowledge components during polycrisis with a Viable Systems Model approach
arXiv:2602.23365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organisations face polycrisis uncertainty yet overlook embedded knowledge. We show how generative AI can operate as a serendipity engine and knowledge transducer to discover, classify and mobilise reusable components (models, frameworks, patterns) from existing documents....
UTPTrack: Towards Simple and Unified Token Pruning for Visual Tracking
arXiv:2602.23734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One-stream Transformer-based trackers achieve advanced performance in visual object tracking but suffer from significant computational overhead that hinders real-time deployment. While token pruning offers a path to efficiency, existing methods are fragmented. They typically prune...
NAU-QMUL: Utilizing BERT and CLIP for Multi-modal AI-Generated Image Detection
arXiv:2602.23863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the aim of detecting AI-generated images and identifying the specific models responsible for their generation, we propose a multi-modal multi-task model. The model leverages pre-trained BERT and CLIP Vision encoders for text and image...
SWE-rebench V2: Language-Agnostic SWE Task Collection at Scale
arXiv:2602.23866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering agents (SWE) are improving rapidly, with recent gains largely driven by reinforcement learning (RL). However, RL training is constrained by the scarcity of large-scale task collections with reproducible execution environments and reliable test...
LK Losses: Direct Acceptance Rate Optimization for Speculative Decoding
arXiv:2602.23881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to propose candidate tokens that are then verified in parallel by the target model. The speedup is significantly determined by...
Jailbreak Foundry: From Papers to Runnable Attacks for Reproducible Benchmarking
arXiv:2602.24009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak techniques for large language models (LLMs) evolve faster than benchmarks, making robustness estimates stale and difficult to compare across papers due to drift in datasets, harnesses, and judging protocols. We introduce JAILBREAK FOUNDRY (JBF),...
RewardUQ: A Unified Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Reward Models
arXiv:2602.24040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward models are central to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Yet most approaches rely on pointwise reward estimates that overlook the epistemic uncertainty in reward models arising from limited human feedback. Recent...
U-CAN: Utility-Aware Contrastive Attenuation for Efficient Unlearning in Generative Recommendation
arXiv:2602.23400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Recommendation (GenRec) typically leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to redefine personalization as an instruction-driven sequence generation task. However, fine-tuning on user logs inadvertently encodes sensitive attributes into model parameters, raising critical privacy concerns. Existing...
Uncertainty-aware Language Guidance for Concept Bottleneck Models
arXiv:2602.23495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide inherent interpretability by first mapping input samples to high-level semantic concepts, followed by a combination of these concepts for the final classification. However, the annotation of human-understandable concepts requires extensive...
FedDAG: Clustered Federated Learning via Global Data and Gradient Integration for Heterogeneous Environments
arXiv:2602.23504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing individual data, but its performance drops when client data are heterogeneous. Clustered FL tackles this by grouping similar clients. However,...
Sample Size Calculations for Developing Clinical Prediction Models: Overview and pmsims R package
arXiv:2602.23507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to inform healthcare decisions, but determining the minimum sample size for their development remains a critical and unresolved challenge. Inadequate sample sizes can lead to overfitting, poor generalisability,...
Neural Operators Can Discover Functional Clusters
arXiv:2602.23528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator learning is reshaping scientific computing by amortizing inference across infinite families of problems. While neural operators (NOs) are increasingly well understood for regression, far less is known for classification and its unsupervised analogue: clustering....
Active Value Querying to Minimize Additive Error in Subadditive Set Function Learning
arXiv:2602.23529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subadditive set functions play a pivotal role in computational economics (especially in combinatorial auctions), combinatorial optimization or artificial intelligence applications such as interpretable machine learning. However, specifying a set function requires assigning values to an...