Ax Yunni Qu (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dzung Dinh (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Grant King (University of Michigan), Whitney Ringwald (University of Minnisota Twin Cities), Bing Cai Kok (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathleen Gates (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Aidan Wright (University of Michigan), Junier Oliva (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 3/18/2026

Relaxed Efficient Acquisition of Context and Temporal Features

Active feature acquisition method for biomedical applications optimizing measurement selection under temporal and cost constraints.

Ax Vincent Zhihao Zheng, \'Etienne Marcotte, Arjun Ashok, Andrew Robert Williams, Lijun Sun, Alexandre Drouin, Valentina Zantedeschi 3/18/2026

Overcoming the Modality Gap in Context-Aided Forecasting

Research addressing multimodal model underperformance in context-aided forecasting via improved context quality assessment.

Ax Seth Karten, Jake Grigsby, Tersoo Upaa Jr, Junik Bae, Seonghun Hong, Hyunyoung Jeong, Jaeyoon Jung, Kun Kerdthaisong, Gyungbo Kim, Hyeokgi Kim, Yujin Kim, Eunju Kwon, Dongyu Liu, Patrick Mariglia, Sangyeon Park, Benedikt Schink, Xianwei Shi, Anthony Sistilli, Joseph Twin, Arian Urdu, Matin Urdu, Qiao Wang, Ling Wu, Wenli Zhang, Kunsheng Zhou, Stephanie Milani, Kiran Vodrahalli, Amy Zhang, Fei Fang, Yuke Zhu, Chi Jin 3/18/2026

The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learning at Scale

Large-scale benchmark for AI agents combining partial observability, game-theoretic reasoning, and long-horizon planning in Pokemon battle environment.

Ax Sebastian Stober, Tim W. Dornis 3/18/2026

Generative AI Training and Copyright Law

Legal analysis of copyright issues in generative AI training data collection and fair use doctrine across jurisdictions.

Ax Xiao Zhu, Chenmien Tan, Pinzhen Chen, Rico Sennrich, Huiming Wang, Yanlin Zhang, Hanxu Hu 3/18/2026

CHARM: Calibrating Reward Models With Chatbot Arena Scores

CHARM method calibrating reward models using Chatbot Arena scores to mitigate model preference bias, improving alignment of LLMs through RLHF.

Ax Mathew J. Koretsky, Maya Willey, Owen Bianchi, Chelsea X. Alvarado, Tanay Nayak, Nicole Kuznetsov, Sungwon Kim, Mike A. Nalls, Daniel Khashabi, Faraz Faghri 3/18/2026

BiomedSQL: Text-to-SQL for Scientific Reasoning on Biomedical Knowledge Bases

BiomedSQL benchmark for text-to-SQL generation requiring scientific reasoning over biomedical knowledge bases, evaluating LLM capability for complex analytical tasks.

Ax Junghyun Lee, Yassir Jedra, Alexandre Prouti\`ere, Se-Young Yun 3/18/2026

Near-Optimal Clustering in Mixture of Markov Chains

Clustering algorithm for trajectory data from mixture of unknown Markov chains with instance-dependent error bounds using spectral methods and injective Euclidean embeddings.

Ax Sumanth Varambally, Thomas Voice, Yanchao Sun, Zhifeng Chen, Rose Yu, Ke Ye 3/18/2026

Hilbert: Recursively Building Formal Proofs with Informal Reasoning

Hilbert system recursively building formal proofs by combining informal LLM reasoning with Lean 4 verification, bridging gap between mathematical reasoning and formal proof generation.

Ax Sumanth Varambally, Marshall Fisher, Jas Thakker, Yiwei Chen, Zhirui Xia, Yasaman Jafari, Ruijia Niu, Manas Jain, Veeramakali Vignesh Manivannan, Zachary Novack, Luyu Han, Srikar Eranky, Salva R\"uhling Cachay, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yi-An Ma, Rose Yu 3/18/2026

Zephyrus: An Agentic Framework for Weather Science

Zephyrus framework combining foundation models for weather forecasting with LLM reasoning to enable language-based scientific workflows on meteorological datasets.

Ax L\'eo Boisvert, Abhay Puri, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Nazanin Sepahvand, Nicolas Chapados, Quentin Cappart, Alexandre Lacoste, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Alexandre Drouin 3/18/2026

Malice in Agentland: Down the Rabbit Hole of Backdoors in the AI Supply Chain

Security research on backdoor attacks in AI agent supply chains through poisoned interaction data collection, formalizing threat models for finetuned web browsing and tool-use agents.

Ax L. Elisa Celis, Lingxiao Huang, Milind Sohoni, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi 3/18/2026

Strategic Costs of Perceived Bias in Fair Selection

Game-theoretic model analyzing bias in meritocratic selection systems like admissions and hiring, examining how AI shapes perceived candidate value across socioeconomic groups.