Ax Nicolas Zumarraga, Thomas Kaar, Ning Wang, Maxwell A. Xu, Max Rosenblattl, Markus Kreft, Kevin O'Sullivan, Paul Schmiedmayer, Patrick Langer, Robert Jakob 2/17/2026

TS-Haystack: A Multi-Scale Retrieval Benchmark for Time Series Language Models

TS-Haystack benchmark evaluates time series language models on long-context retrieval with millions of datapoints, requiring precise temporal localization.

Ax Yaxuan Kong, Hoyoung Lee, Yoontae Hwang, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Bradford Levy, Dhagash Mehta, Qingsong Wen, Chanyeol Choi, Yongjae Lee, Stefan Zohren 2/17/2026

Evaluating LLMs in Finance Requires Explicit Bias Consideration

Analysis identifying five recurring biases in financial LLM applications: look-ahead, survivorship, narrative, objective, and cost bias that invalidate deployment claims.

Ax Ian Su, Gaurav Purushothaman, Jey Narayan, Ruhika Goel, Kevin Zhu, Sunishchal Dev, Yash More, Maheep Chaudhary 2/17/2026

Broken Chains: The Cost of Incomplete Reasoning in LLMs

Framework analyzing reasoning modalities (code, natural language, hybrid) in LLMs under token constraints, evaluating performance tradeoffs for reasoning-specialized models.

Ax Hasi Hays 2/17/2026

Selective Synchronization Attention

Novel attention mechanism (SSA) replacing dot-product self-attention with Kuramoto model solution, reducing quadratic complexity and grounding in biological neural computation.

Ax Chang Liu, Yiran Zhao, Lawrence Liu, Yaoqi Ye, Csaba Szepesv\'ari, Lin F. Yang 2/17/2026

LACONIC: Length-Aware Constrained Reinforcement Learning for LLM

Reinforcement learning approach (LACONIC) for controlling LLM response length during training without fixed heuristic reward shaping, addressing inference latency and computational overhead.

Ax Buze Zhang, Jinkai Tao, Zilang Zeng, Neil He, Ali Maatouk, Menglin Yang, Rex Ying 2/17/2026

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Mixture of Space Experts

Novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for LLMs using mixture of experts in alternative geometric spaces (hyperbolic, spherical) to capture complex language data structures.

Ax Shishir Sharma, Doina Precup, Theodore J. Perkins 2/17/2026

Fluid-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Framework for multi-agent RL with dynamic agent creation and reproduction, extending MARL beyond fixed agent counts.

Ax Matteo Bollini, Gianmarco Genalti, Francesco Emanuele Stradi, Matteo Castiglioni, Alberto Marchesi 2/17/2026

Replicable Constrained Bandits

Study of algorithmic replicability in constrained multi-armed bandit problems for reproducible ML experiments.

Ax Karim Galliamov, Syed M Ahsan Kazmi, Adil Khan, Ad\'in Ram\'irez Rivera 2/17/2026

Concepts' Information Bottleneck Models

Information bottleneck regularizer for concept bottleneck models to improve interpretability while maintaining accuracy.