Ax Chris Hays, Rachel Li, Bailey Flanigan, Manish Raghavan 3/31/2026

Strategic Candidacy in Generative AI Arenas

Analysis of strategic gaming in AI model ranking systems where producers submit multiple variants to artificially inflate rankings from noisy preference data.

Ax Snehaa Reddy, Jayaprakash Katual, Satish Mulleti 3/31/2026

Tunable Domain Adaptation Using Unfolding

Novel domain adaptation methods using unfolding approach to improve model generalization across domains with varying data distributions without separate per-domain training.

Ax Bo Jiang, Sian Jin 3/31/2026

KVSculpt: KV Cache Compression as Distillation

KVSculpt: KV cache compression for long-context LLM inference treating compression as knowledge distillation, orthogonal to quantization and low-rank methods.