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most citedA Field Guide to Federated Optimization

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94 papers

cs.AI2026

AlphaDiana: A Measurement System for Agents in Verifiable Reasoning Tasks

Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Weikai Huang +16

Agents pair reasoning models with harnesses that organize model calls, execute tools, load skill instructions, and retain history in memory. Understanding agent performance require…

cs.AI2026

Articulation Upper Bounds for Language Models

Alexander Spangher, Daniel E. Ho, Diyi Yang +2

Language captures only a subset of the perceptions, intuitions and intents that form meaning between speakers. What, then, are the limits of language? We take steps towards measuri…

cs.AI2026

The AI Evaluation Ecosystem

Yash Dave, Sang T. Truong, Serena Wang +1

AI evaluation shapes the decisions of model providers, users, funders, and regulators. We argue that designing valid benchmarks requires contextualizing design choices in the dynam…

cs.AI2026

Verifiable, Articulable, and Tacit Components of Preference

Alexander Spangher, Sheldon S. Huang, Sheldon Huang +5

What makes a short story gripping; a news article newsworthy; or a math proof elegant? These constructs resist articulation or verification; their meaning is at least partially tac…

cs.AI2026

Agent Evaluation Reliability: More Tasks Won't (Always) Fix An Agent Leaderboard

Michael Hardy, Ruhana Azam, Anka Reuel +2

Agent evaluations are increasingly used to compare LLMs and inform deployment decisions, yet ranks can reflect not only the model but also the effects of the evaluation conditions…

cs.LG2026

How Strong Is the Evidence for the Artificial Hivemind? Reevaluating Evidence for the Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models

Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Joshua Kazdan +2

Recent research argues that language models exhibit pronounced homogeneity in open-ended generation, framing such behavior as an Artificial Hivemind that poses a long-term threat t…

cs.LG2026

Mind the Spike: Mechanisms and Brittleness of Visual Massive Activations in Large Vision-Language Models

Jonas Ngnawé, Yann Pequignot, Sabyasachi Sahoo +3

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherit massive activations from their text-only bases: spikes where a few fixed hidden channels receive values thousands of times above the ty…

cs.LG2026

Verbalizing Subliminal Learning Effects Using Text Optimization

Nathan Hu, Sanmi Koyejo, Christopher Potts

Subliminal learning is a phenomenon in which a distillation dataset transmits traits from the teacher model that are not legibly encoded in the dataset itself. This introduces a ne…

cs.AI2026

Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation

Lin Shi, Haowei Lin, Zixuan Zhu +123

Evaluating agents on the growing number of agentic benchmarks is challenging because they often require complex environments and agent integrations. We introduce Harbor Adapters, a…

cs.AI2026

API Benchmark Scores Do Not Reliably Transfer to Chatbot Interfaces

Jennifer Wang, Joachim Baumann, Daniel E. Ho +1

Benchmark scores are a central currency in model releases: they inform purchasing decisions, shape public trust, and influence policy. Yet, a key assumption underlying benchmark sc…

cs.CY2026

What AI Benchmarks Actually Measure: Adapting Convergent and Discriminant Validity to Interrogate Fifty-Six AI Benchmarks

Meera Desai, Sang T. Truong, Hanna Wallach +8

Benchmarks play a central role in the development and governance of models, yet it is often unclear whether they actually measure the concepts they purport to measure (e.g., reason…

cs.CL2026

A Dataset for Modeling Iterative Problem-Solving

Fagun Patel, Sang T. Truong, Duc Q. Nguyen +4

Solving problems through repeated attempts is a sequential modeling task: at each step, the solver receives feedback and decides how to revise their solutions. Predicting whether p…

cs.SE2026

A Few Pages of Markdown: Committed AI Configuration and Lower Quality Cost after Coding-Agent Adoption

Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Shyam Agarwal, Pavel Azaletskiy +5

Coding agents increase development velocity but also technical debt. Prior work reports only average effects across adopters, hiding wide differences between teams. We introduce RA…

cs.AI2026

CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment

Chengxiao Wang, Enyi Jiang, Xiaojing Liao +1

Improving the safety of large language models (LLMs) often comes at the expense of utility, as globally applied safety tuning may affect model responses to both harmful and benign…

cs.AI2026

Bringing analytic rigor to agentic AI for science: The Brain Researcher platform for neuroimaging data analysis

Zijiao Chen, Nicholas Lu, Xinhui Li +14

AI agents can execute scientific analyses, but an analytic output becomes a defensible claim only after alternatives are weighed and the claim is limited to what the evidence suppo…

cs.CL2026

What to Forget in Unlearning? Forget Set Curation for Language Models

Animesh Jha, Arpandeep Khatua, Youssef Allouah +1

Machine unlearning aims to remove targeted data or behaviors from a trained model without retraining from scratch. Yet most evaluations assume that the examples to forget are alrea…

cs.CV2026

Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

Yuta Kobayashi, Pradyun Ramesh, Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for radiology report generation are typically trained on retrospective clinical reports, which suffer from omission noise: clinically present findings…

cs.CL2026

The Illusion of Robustness: Aggregate Accuracy Hides Prediction Flips under Task-Irrelevant Context

Yanzhe Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo, Diyi Yang

As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they are increasingly deployed in context-rich settings where task inputs are often accompanied by long, partially irrelevant con…

cs.CY2026

Underwriting the Agent Economy: The Blueprint for an AI Insurance Stack

Cristian Trout, Sanmi Koyejo, Sasha Romanosky +34

From maritime trade to commercial nuclear power, insurance has been the enabler of major economic and technological developments by pricing risk, limiting downside, and spreading b…

cs.CL2026

Same Evidence, Different Answer: Auditing Order Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models

Akshay Paruchuri, Sanmi Koyejo, Ehsan Adeli

Standard benchmarks for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) score each item on one canonical ordering and miss whether order-irrelevant shuffling changes the answer, a baselin…

cs.AI2026

Metric Match: A Subset Selection Approach to Evaluating LLM Judge Reliability

Alyssa Unell, Natalie Dullerud, Naomi Boneh +4

LLM judges are used to reduce the need for costly human labor in evaluating open-ended text generation. However, the reliability of these judges depends critically on their alignme…

cs.AI2026

Deployment-Centered Evaluation: Predicting Query-Level Rejection Risk in a Clinical LLM System

Alyssa Unell, Miguel Fuentes, Brenna Li +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into clinical systems, making it essential to evaluate the real-world utility of these systems. However, static benchmarks…

cs.AI2026

Evaluation Cards: An Interpretive Layer for AI Evaluation Reporting

Avijit Ghosh, Anka Reuel, Jenny Chim +45

AI evaluation results are produced at scale but reported inconsistently across leaderboards, model cards, benchmark papers, and company blogs. The cost is interpretive: readers can…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Homophily: Towards Generalized Graph Reconstruction Attack and Defense

Zhanke Zhou, Bo Han, Xuan Li +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely deployed on relational data, yet they can leak sensitive or proprietary information about the training graph adjacency, e.g., social ties, t…