Ax Bryan Shan, Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu 3/23/2026

Federated Learning Playground

Interactive browser-based platform teaching federated learning concepts with real-time visualization of heterogeneous data and aggregation algorithms.

Ax David Restrepo, Miguel L Martins, Chenwei Wu, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Diego M Lopez, Stergios Christodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Enzo Ferrante 3/23/2026

On the Cone Effect and Modality Gap in Medical Vision-Language Embeddings

Study of cone effect and modality gap in medical vision-language models, analyzing embedding concentration and cross-modal separation in supervised learning.

Ax Benjamin A. T. Grahama, Lauren Brown, Georgios Chochlakis, Morteza Dehghani, Raquel Delerme, Brittany Friedman, Ellie Graeden, Preni Golazizian, Rajat Hebbar, Parsa Hejabi, Aditya Kommineni, Mayag\"uez Salinas, Michael Sierra-Ar\'evalo, Jackson Trager, Nicholas Weller, Shrikanth Narayanan 3/23/2026

Community-Informed AI Models for Police Accountability

AI framework for analyzing bodyworn camera footage to improve police accountability and government transparency at scale.

Ax Nathaniel Xu, Feng Liu, Danica J. Sutherland 3/23/2026

Learning Representations for Independence Testing

Machine learning approach for learning representations to improve statistical independence testing between high-dimensional random variables with complex distributions.

Ax Carlos Albors, Jianan Canal Li, Gonzalo Benegas, Chengzhong Ye, Yun S. Song 3/23/2026

A Phylogenetic Approach to Genomic Language Modeling

Genomic language model framework using phylogenetic trees and multispecies alignment for identifying evolutionarily constrained sequences.

Ax Abhimanyu Rajeshkumar Bambhaniya, Hanjiang Wu, Suvinay Subramanian, Sudarshan Srinivasan, Souvik Kundu, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Midhilesh Elavazhagan, Madhu Kumar, Tushar Krishna 3/23/2026

Understanding and Optimizing Multi-Stage AI Inference Pipelines

Analysis of multi-stage LLM inference pipelines including RAG, KV cache retrieval, routing, and reasoning with optimization strategies.

Ax Wei Cao, Marcel Hallgarten, Tianyu Li, Daniel Dauner, Xunjiang Gu, Caojun Wang, Yakov Miron, Marco Aiello, Hongyang Li, Igor Gilitschenski, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta 3/23/2026

Pseudo-Simulation for Autonomous Driving

Pseudo-simulation method for evaluating autonomous vehicles addressing limitations of real-world and closed-loop simulation evaluation.

Ax Shripad Vilasrao Deshmukh, Will Schwarzer, Scott Niekum 3/23/2026

Evaluation-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Evaluation-Aware RL framework considers policy evaluation accuracy during training to reduce variance and bias.

Ax Moshe Kimhi, Nimrod Shabtay, Raja Giryes, Chaim Baskin, Eli Schwartz 3/23/2026

CARES: Context-Aware Resolution Selector for VLMs

CARES lightweight module selects appropriate image resolution for vision-language models to reduce token overhead and latency.

Ax Mikael Lundb\"ack, Erik Wallin, Carola H\"aggstr\"om, Mattias Nystr\"om, Andreas Gr\"onlund, Mats Richardson, Petrus J\"onsson, William Arnvik, Lucas Hedstr\"om, Arvid F\"alldin, Martin Servin 3/23/2026

FORWARD: Dataset of a forwarder operating in rough terrain

FORWARD dataset of heavy machinery operating in rough terrain with multimodal sensor data from Swedish forestry.

Ax George Pu, Michael S. Lee, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, David J. Lee, Bryan Zhu, Yash Maurya, Mohit Raghavendra, Yuan Xue, Samuel Marc Denton 3/23/2026

LHAW: Controllable Underspecification for Long-Horizon Tasks

Framework for managing ambiguity in long-horizon workflow agents. Task-agnostic approach for curating and measuring impact of underspecified instructions on agent execution.

Ax Andrew Seohwan Yu, Mohsen Hariri, Kunio Nakamura, Mingrui Yang, Xiaojuan Li, Vipin Chaudhary 3/23/2026

Medical Image Spatial Grounding with Semantic Sampling

Study of vision language models for spatial grounding in 3D medical imaging. Examines VLM performance across imaging modalities and slice directions.

Ax Yihao Zhang, Zeming Wei, Xiaokun Luan, Chengcan Wu, Zhixin Zhang, Jiangrong Wu, Haolin Wu, Huanran Chen, Jun Sun, Meng Sun 3/23/2026

ClawWorm: Self-Propagating Attacks Across LLM Agent Ecosystems

Security research on ClawWorm, self-propagating attacks across multi-agent LLM ecosystems. First study of attack propagation in interconnected agent systems like OpenClaw.