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20 papers

cs.CL2026

From Interpretability to Control: Insights from Six Years of the TrustNLP Workshop

Rahul Gupta, Abhinav Mohanty, Anaelia Ovalle +10

The Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP), co-located with major ACL conferences since 2021, has grown from 8 proceedings papers to 41 over six editions, d…

cs.IR2026

The Case Against Generation for Retrieval: Discriminative Language Models as Effective Retrievers

Zhe Xu, Prachi Agrawal, Kavosh Asadi +17

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful assets for recommender systems. However, deploying them as generative recommenders or zero-shot rankers at web-scale remains b…

cs.IR2026

Tokenizing Numerical and Embedding Features for LLM RecSys

Zhe Xu, Ankit Peshin, Chiyu Zhang +7

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backbone architectures for recommender systems because of their strong sequence modeling and representation learning capabilit…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Visual Privacy: A Compositional Privacy Risk Framework for Severity Assessment with VLMs

Efthymios Tsaprazlis, Tiantian Feng, Anil Ramakrishna +3

Existing visual privacy benchmarks largely treat privacy as a binary property, labeling images as private or non-private based on visible sensitive content. We argue that privacy i…

cs.LG2026

Detecting Functional Memorization in Code Language Models

Matthieu Meeus, Anil Ramakrishna, Matthew Grange +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate code at scale. Meanwhile, prior work has investigated whether training data may be recoverable from model outputs, by…

cs.CL2026

SWAN: Semantic Watermarking with Abstract Meaning Representation

Ziping Ye, Gourab Dey, Christos Christodoulopoulos +7

We introduce SWAN (Semantic Watermarking with Abstract Meaning Representation), a novel framework that embeds watermark signatures into the semantic structure of a sentence using A…