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5 papers

cs.AI2026

Protecting patient privacy in clinical foundation models: Technical and legal perspectives

Sana Tonekaboni, Lena Stempfle, Sasha Ronaghi +4

Clinical foundation models trained on large-scale patient data are increasingly used for decision support, screening, and public health. As deployment expands, privacy risk increas…

cs.CL2026

Clinically Grounded Privacy Evaluation of Medical LMs

Sasha Ronaghi, Sana Tonekaboni, Lena Stempfle +6

Medical language models (LMs) can memorize and reproduce protected health information, but privacy evaluations often focus on recovery of training text rather than disclosure under…

cs.CY2026

Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions

Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46

This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…

cs.LG2026

Evaluation without Generation: Non-Generative Assessment of Harmful Model Specialization with Applications to CSAM

Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Ayush Sekhari, Lena Stempfle +5

Auditing the fine-tunes of open-weight generative models for harmful specialization has become a new governance challenge for model hosting platforms. The standard toolkit, generat…

cs.LG2025

Application-Driven Innovation in Machine Learning

David Rolnick, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Sara Beery +8

In this position paper, we argue that application-driven research has been systemically under-valued in the machine learning community. As applications of machine learning prolifer…