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7 papers

cs.LG2026

In-Context Learning as Implicit Policy Gradient

Masahiro Kaneko, Timothy Baldwin

Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can iteratively improve their outputs by incorporating generated samples and their corresponding evaluation scores as in-con…

cs.DL2026

EconSimulacra: A Digital Twin Platform of Socio-Economic Systems Powered by LLM Agents

Ryuji Hashimoto, Masahiro Kaneko, Kentaro Ueda +2

Real-world social behavior emerges from tightly coupled domains: economic conditions shape mobility and social interactions, while online attention and offline activity feed back i…

physics.soc-ph2026

From Heard to Lived Opinions: Simulating Opinion Dynamics with Grounded LLM Agents in Economic Environments

Ryuji Hashimoto, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryosuke Takata +2

Opinion dynamics (OD) studies how individual opinions evolve and generate collective patterns such as consensus and polarization. While recent work explores OD using populations of…

cs.CL2026

Beyond the Resumé: A Rubric-Aware Automatic Interview System for Information Elicitation

Harry Stuart, Masahiro Kaneko, Timothy Baldwin

Effective hiring is integral to the success of an organisation, but it is very challenging to find the most suitable candidates because expert evaluation (e.g.\ interviews conducte…

cs.LG2026

JailNewsBench: Multi-Lingual and Regional Benchmark for Fake News Generation under Jailbreak Attacks

Masahiro Kaneko, Ayana Niwa, Timothy Baldwin

Fake news undermines societal trust and decision-making across politics, economics, health, and international relations, and in extreme cases threatens human lives and societal saf…

cs.CL2025

Online Learning Defense against Iterative Jailbreak Attacks via Prompt Optimization

Masahiro Kaneko, Zeerak Talat, Timothy Baldwin

Iterative jailbreak methods that repeatedly rewrite and input prompts into large language models (LLMs) to induce harmful outputs -- using the model's previous responses to guide e…