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cs.AI2026

Why2Speak: Faithful Reasoning for Abstaining Action Policies

Shreya Mendi, Brinnae Bent

Many agentic systems must repeatedly choose between acting and abstaining, making faithful reasoning important for oversight: an explanation is useful only if it reflects the compu…

cs.HC2026

Aïra: Rethinking AI Research Assistants for Interdisciplinary Science

Diya Mirji, Tiffany Degbotse, Sharmil Nanjappa +9

The paper proposes aïra, an AI research assistant designed to support interdisciplinary teams by identifying disciplinary perspectives, translating terminology, highlighting assump…

cs.CV2026

Explainable AI for Biodiversity Monitoring and Ecological Image Analysis

Brinnae Bent, Holly R. Houliston, Jiayi Zhou +2

Artificial intelligence is transforming biodiversity monitoring by enabling automated analysis of ecological imagery collected from camera traps, drones, satellites, underwater pla…

cs.LG2026

It's the humans, not the data: Geopolitical bias in LLMs originates in post-training, amplified by the language of the prompt

Stuart Bladon, Brinnae Bent

It has generally been assumed that geopolitical bias in language models originates from the training data used during the pre-training phase. We tested seven open-weight LLM pairs…

q-bio.NC2026

Feature Visualization Recovers Known Cortical Selectivity from TRIBE v2

Stuart Bladon, Brinnae Bent

Brain encoder models predict cortical fMRI responses from the internal activations of pretrained vision and language networks, and are typically evaluated by held-out prediction ac…

cs.CL2026

When2Speak: A Dataset for Temporal Participation and Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversations for Large Language Models

Vihaan Nama, Shreya Mendi, Zian Ye +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at generating contextually appropriate responses but remain poorly calibrated for multi-party conversations, where deciding when to speak is as c…