Announcement of opinions for Friday, February 20
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Call for Expressions of Interest to Host ICAIL 2027
The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) invites initial bids (expressions of interest) to host the 22nd International…
ICAIL 2026 Workshop and Tutorial proposals: deadline extension
Dear Community, The deadline for submission of workshop and tutorial proposals for ICAIL 2026 has been moved to December 12, 2025 To submit a workshop or a…
North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit: State and Local Policy Interventions to Stop Rampant AI Data Center Expansion - AI Now Institute
FLI Statement on White House National Security Memorandum
Last week the White House released a National Security Memorandum concerning AI governance and risk management. The NSM issues guidance […]
JURIX 2023 | 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
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LLM-Powered Automatic Translation and Urgency in Crisis Scenarios
arXiv:2602.13452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed for crisis preparedness and response, particularly for multilingual communication. However, their suitability for high-stakes crisis contexts remains insufficiently evaluated. This work examines the performance of state-of-the-art LLMs and...
Alignment in Time: Peak-Aware Orchestration for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems
arXiv:2602.17910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional AI alignment primarily focuses on individual model outputs; however, autonomous agents in long-horizon workflows require sustained reliability across entire interaction trajectories. We introduce APEMO (Affect-aware Peak-End Modulation for Orchestration), a runtime scheduling layer that...
Curriculum Learning for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Distillation via Structure-Aware Masking and GRPO
arXiv:2602.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning from large language models into compact student models presents a fundamental challenge: teacher rationales are often too verbose for smaller models to faithfully reproduce. Existing approaches either compress reasoning into single-step,...
Early Evidence of Vibe-Proving with Consumer LLMs: A Case Study on Spectral Region Characterization with ChatGPT-5.2 (Thinking)
arXiv:2602.18918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as scientific copilots, but evidence on their role in research-level mathematics remains limited, especially for workflows accessible to individual researchers. We present early evidence for vibe-proving with a...
IR$^3$: Contrastive Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Interpretable Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking
arXiv:2602.19416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) enables powerful LLM alignment but can introduce reward hacking - models exploit spurious correlations in proxy rewards without genuine alignment. Compounding this, the objectives internalized during RLHF remain opaque,...
Why Agent Caching Fails and How to Fix It: Structured Intent Canonicalization with Few-Shot Learning
arXiv:2602.18922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents incur substantial cost via repeated LLM calls. We show existing caching methods fail: GPTCache achieves 37.9% accuracy on real benchmarks; APC achieves 0-12%. The root cause is optimizing for the wrong property...
Portfolio Reinforcement Learning with Scenario-Context Rollout
arXiv:2602.24037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market regime shifts induce distribution shifts that can degrade the performance of portfolio rebalancing policies. We propose macro-conditioned scenario-context rollout (SCR) that generates plausible next-day multivariate return scenarios under stress events. However, doing so faces...
SALIENT: Frequency-Aware Paired Diffusion for Controllable Long-Tail CT Detection
arXiv:2602.23447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detection of rare lesions in whole-body CT is fundamentally limited by extreme class imbalance and low target-to-volume ratios, producing precision collapse despite high AUROC. Synthetic augmentation with diffusion models offers promise, yet pixel-space diffusion is...
EPPCMinerBen: A Novel Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Electronic Patient-Provider Communication via the Patient Portal
arXiv:2603.00028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication in health care is critical for treatment outcomes and adherence. With patient-provider exchanges shifting to secure messaging, analyzing electronic patient-communication (EPPC) data is both essential and challenging. We introduce EPPCMinerBen, a benchmark for...
Retrievit: In-context Retrieval Capabilities of Transformers, State Space Models, and Hybrid Architectures
arXiv:2603.02874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers excel at in-context retrieval but suffer from quadratic complexity with sequence length, while State Space Models (SSMs) offer efficient linear-time processing but have limited retrieval capabilities. We investigate whether hybrid architectures combining Transformers and...
AI Space Physics: Constitutive boundary semantics for open AI institutions
arXiv:2603.03119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI deployments increasingly behave as persistent institutions rather than one-shot inference endpoints: they accumulate state, invoke external tools, coordinate multiple runtimes, and modify their future authority surface over time. Existing governance language typically specifies...
Universal Conceptual Structure in Neural Translation: Probing NLLB-200's Multilingual Geometry
arXiv:2603.02258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do neural machine translation models learn language-universal conceptual representations, or do they merely cluster languages by surface similarity? We investigate this question by probing the representation geometry of Meta's NLLB-200, a 200-language encoder-decoder Transformer, through...