Synthetic populations, large sets of simulated people, are increasingly used in place of real people to pretest surveys, simulate users and communities, and evaluate AI systems. Each simulated person is defined by a persona, a written profile of fixed traits, demographics, and attitudes that a language model is instruc...
An LLM assistant that cannot see official severe-weather alerts may tell users that conditions are calm while a warning is active. We call this false reassurance and measure it by replaying 117 frozen cases built from real U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) alerts (69 alert cases, 32 no-alert controls, 16 non-U.S. loc...
Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on harmful data in a narrow domain, such as bad medical advice, can make it broadly misaligned. How realistic this risk is remains unclear, since models are very rarely fine-tuned on explicitly harmful data in practice. In this work, we show that fine-tuning on data the model be...
Ariana M. Villegas-Suarez, Guido Freire, Sohan Venkatesh et al.· 0 citations
Language-subspace interventions aim to improve multilingual reasoning by suppressing language-related components in mid-layer activations. Using MATH and MGSM across four open-weight LLMs, we ask three questions: do estimated language subspaces capture translation-associated variation? Does projecting them out remove l...
Shaanil Punglia, Dadhichi Telwadkar, V. Rathore et al.· 0 citations
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Byte level language models avoid tokenizer dependence and provide universal coverage, but processing every byte at full resolution is expensive. We introduce DeepMem, a causal multiscale architecture that separates semantic compression from exact byte preservation. A learned invertible subband transform constructs a hi...
Fairness evaluation of clinical prediction models for binary outcomes often involves fairness metrics that compare the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC, or c-statistic) across subgroups. However, the AUC has been shown to be a non-collapsible metric, meaning that its subgroup specific and ove...
Jo\~ao Matos, Ben Van Calster, Richard D. Riley et al.· 0 citations
OperAItor, an open-source framework for developing and evaluating large language model agents for supervisory fault management in chemical processes. The framework is demonstrated on a dynamic reactor-distillation process representing isopropanol dehydrogenation, with physically based thermodynamics and modified reacti...
Reliable streamflow prediction across time and in ungauged basins requires representations that capture hydrologically relevant basin characteristics. Existing methods rely on either fixed handcrafted attributes or general-purpose Earth observation embeddings not tailored to basin structure. We introduce \textbf{Basin2...
Muhammad Talha, Xiaofeng Liu, Yuan Yang et al.· 0 citations
Robot foundation models have shown remarkable performance in robot control, yet adapting them to a new task still relies heavily on teleoperated demonstrations. Egocentric human videos offer a scalable substitute, but overlaying rendered robots on human videos or retargeting human poses into robot actions leaves signif...
Seung-Yong Lee, Suhyeok Jang, Minyoung Kim et al.· 0 citations
Scaling vision-language foundation models has significantly advanced generalist robot manipulation, but the increased model scale introduces computational latency that degrades real-time physical reactivity. Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures execute high-level semantic reasoning and action ex- ecution...
Sombit Dey, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel· 0 citations
Speech large language models retain audio history to support multi-turn conversations. Yet remembering an event does not ensure that its information is used only when relevant. We investigate why irrelevant historical audio changes answers even when the queried event remains represented. Controlled experiments on MOSS-...
HongJin Song, Weiqiao Shan, Runwu Shi et al.· 0 citations
LLM inference decode executes fine-grained collectives whose latency directly limits per-user interactivity, yet scale-up fabrics are still built from electronic packet switches designed for training. We observe that, for a given model deployment and parallelization, the communication structure of decode is fixed, and...
M. Thürmer, Nicolas Scotto di Perto, Eloise Stein et al.· 0 citations