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7 papers

cs.CV2026

CMCNet: Aligning Ultrasound Image Embeddings with Textual TI-RADS Representations for Fine-Grained Thyroid Classification

Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou +6

Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are a…

cs.AI2026

AIRA_2: Overcoming Bottlenecks in AI Research Agents

Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicolas Baldwin, Edan Toledo +22

Existing research has identified three structural performance bottlenecks in AI research agents: (1) synchronous single-GPU execution constrains sample throughput, limiting the ben…

cs.AI2025

What Does It Take to Be a Good AI Research Agent? Studying the Role of Ideation Diversity

Alexis Audran-Reiss, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Karen Hambardzumyan +17

AI research agents offer the promise to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. However, the field is stil…

cs.AI2025

AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench

Edan Toledo, Karen Hambardzumyan, Martin Josifoski +22

AI research agents are demonstrating great potential to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. We focus o…

cs.AI2025

The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements

Bingchen Zhao, Despoina Magka, Minqi Jiang +20

Rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have the potential to assist in scientific progress. A critical capability toward this endeavor is the ability to reproduce exist…

cs.LG2025

Robust LLM safeguarding via refusal feature adversarial training

Lei Yu, Virginie Do, Karen Hambardzumyan +1

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can elicit harmful responses. Defending against such attacks remains challenging due to the opacity of jailb…