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Same Context, Different Agents: A Behavioral Study of Semantic Layers, Multi-Agent Orchestration and Memory Compaction in Data Agents
Zhivar Sourati, Marianne Menglin Liu, Zheng Wang +6
Answering questions over heterogeneous data means combining evidence from files, databases, documents and the web. Data agents automate this, but their success depends on context.…
Cognitive Expert Language Models Better Align with the Corresponding Brain Systems
Zhivar Sourati, Mengxuan Helen Wu, Nona Ghazizadeh +3
Large language models (LLMs) can predict human brain activity across a variety of brain regions during natural language comprehension. Typically, however, LLM-brain alignment is me…
The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage
Preni Golazizian, Elnaz Rahmati, Jackson Trager +17
Traffic stops are among the most frequent police-civilian interactions, and body-worn cameras (BWCs) provide a unique record of how these encounters unfold. Respect is a central di…
LAD-RAG: Layout-aware Dynamic RAG for Visually-Rich Document Understanding
Zhivar Sourati, Zheng Wang, Marianne Menglin Liu +8
Question answering over visually rich documents (VRDs) requires reasoning not only over isolated content but also over documents' structural organization and cross-page dependencie…