Affinity Event Thu, Dec 10, 2026 • 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM AEDT C205

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Are LLMs Trustworthy Psychometric Hate Speech Judges?

Mikel K Ngueajio

Closing the Gap in Low-Resource ASR: Leveraging Multilingual Models for Code-Switched Yoruba-English Speech

Kausar Moshood ⋅ Emmanuel Bolarinwa ⋅ Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde ⋅ Victor T Olufemi ⋅ Oluwademilade Williams

Four-Valued Fuzzy Feature Fusion for Explainable Disease Classification: Multi-Dataset Evaluation and External Clinical Validation

Ubaida Fatima

When Simpler Models Win: Evaluating Machine Learning Generalization for Climate-Aware 5G Signal Prediction

Olohimai Juliet Iruemi

PhysicsGatedUNet: Physics-Guided Feature Gating for Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction

Syeda Nyma Ferdous

Emotion-Aware Risk Modeling and Safety Evaluation of a Support-Oriented Language Model for High-Risk Mental Health Text

Rehma Razzak

AfriLCB: Benchmarking Language Confusion in Large Language Models Across African Languages

Rose Kimu ⋅ John Prince Uzodinma

Gated Knowledge-Guided Prototype Transfer for Zero-Support Medical Vision-Language Adaptation

Sumaiya Fazal ⋅ Samira Ebrahimi Kahou ⋅ Rizwan Qureshi

Does Safety Molt? Evaluating LLM Safety in Multi-Agent Social Environments

Esha Pahwa ⋅ Supriti Vijay

Missingness Is a Workflow Outcome: An Equity-Aware Framework for Clinical Machine Learning

Alexis Collier

AdaFairMARL: Enforcing Adaptive Fairness Constraints in Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning

Promise Ekpo ⋅ Saesha Agarwal ⋅ Jiachang Liu ⋅ Angelique Taylor

Do Geospatial Foundation Models Transfer to Mining Safety? A Zero-Shot Computer Vision Benchmark on Tailings Storage Facilities

Nthabiseng Thema

LLM-based Conversational AI Knowledge Assistant for MyBuddy Humanoid Robot

Hanxiao Chen

Curriculum Design for Low-Resource Dense Retrieval: Staged English Scaffolding in a Compact Multilingual Encoder

Priya Talwalkar

Conversational Entity Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs: Benchmarking and Fine-Grained Relevance Aggregation

Mona Zamiri ⋅ Alexander Kotov

SERA: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for Retail Agentic Shopping Assistants

Venkata Lakshmi Phani Sowmya Podila

PURGE: Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models

Aditi Sarker ⋅ Prashant Khanduri

Toward Culturally- and Linguistically-Aware Benchmarks for AI Risk and Reliability

Kashyap R Manjusha ⋅ Murali Emani

ECG-Age for Cardiovascular Outcome Prediction: Evaluation in an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Cohort

Seyedeh Somayyeh Mousavi ⋅ Reza Sameni

Ensemble-Based Maternal Health Risk Prediction using Clinical Physiological Data

Olutola Agbelusi

When Confidence Predicts Failure: Uncertainty Decomposition in Reinforcement Learning under Train-Deploy Distribution Mismatch

Tania-Amanda Nkoyo Fredrick Eneye

Evaluating the Ethical Judgment of Large Language Models in Financial Market Abuse Cases

Swati Rajwal ⋅ Avinash Kumar Pandey

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Deductive Constraint Satisfaction vs. Prevalence Priors: Benchmarking LLM Logic in Clinical Diagnostics

Dharini Raghavan

Does Random Data Splitting Select the Wrong Model? Ranking Stability of Ten Machine Learning Algorithms Under Temporal Validation in MIMIC-IV Physionet Dataset

Diana Opiyo ⋅ Suhila Sawesi

Multi-Output Deep Learning for Early Risk Stratification in Myocardial Infarction Using Admission-Only Data

Gayathri Utla ⋅ Ovidiu Daescu

PersuasiveAgent: An Agentic Social Engineering Evaluation Framework to Assess Information Leakage of LLM-based Agents

Sonali Uttam Singh ⋅ Venkata Sai Prathyush Turaga

polyDYN: A Machine Learning Force Field for Predictive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymers

Anagha Savit ⋅ Ashutosh Srivastava ⋅ Rampi Ramprasad

Schema-Grounded Multitask Instruction Fine-tuning for Joint Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction in Pharmacovigilance

Hasin Rehana

No BLAST, New Problems! Auditing Homology-Free Protein-Function Prediction

Saanvi S Subramanian

Interpretable Stylometric Detection of LLM-Generated Code Under Distribution Shift

Elitsa Yotkova ⋅ Violeta Kastreva ⋅ Preslav Nakov

Toward Mechanistic Localization of Behavioral Effects in Language Models: Anchoring as a Case Study

Hillary Owusu

Preserving Clinical Facts Does Not Preserve Empathy: A Directional-Inflation Diagnostic for LLM-Generated Counterfactual Audits

Anamta Khan

On the Efficiency of Temperature-Adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for Diffusion Language Model Reasoning

Surbhi Agrawal

Multiscale Fractal Features Detect Controlled Hinge Perturbations in Protein Structures

Tia Pope

How Small Can a Tokenizer Vocabulary Be? Data Quality Sets the Vocabulary Floor

Sadhika Singh

Behaviorally-consistent explanations for clinical LLMs via counterfactual finetuning

Hiba Ahsan

Auditing the Data Curation Practices of Power Systems Datasets

Eshta Bhardwaj ⋅ Christoph Becker

TePD: Temporal Privileged Distillation for Amodal Counting Under Structured Occlusion

Harshitha Manjunatha ⋅ Prabha Sundaravadivel ⋅ Lakshman Tamil

Teammate Awareness Makes a Coordination Signal Visible: A First Step Toward Detecting Collusion in Multi-Agent LLM Debate

Yu-Jung Liang

Do Linguistic Features Help Code-Switching Preference Models?

Suman Dowlagar

Same Models, Fewer Accelerators: Multi-Tenant LLM Post-Training via Co-operative Time-Slicing

Aishwarya Kamal

Geometry-Aware Differentially Private SGD

Atefeh Gilani

Counterfactual Legal Reasoning Graphs: Separating Correct Answers from Correct Reasoning

Garima Jain ⋅ Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro

What Single-Prompt Accuracy Misses: A Multi-Variant Reliability Audit of Language Models

Jayita Chatterjee

QPERT: Quantum-Aware Perturbation Explanations for Variational Quantum Circuits

Ramesh Doddaiah ⋅ Garima Jain

Beyond Output Accuracy: An Empirical Evaluation of Failure Modes in Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-SQL

Pranjal Nawarkar

Weight Transfer, Composition and Measurement in Detector Ablation Studies

Annu Dabas

Learning Patient-Level Visual Representations from Pathology Foundation Models for Survival Prediction from Whole-Slide Images

Yamlak Bogale ⋅ Rakesh Shiradkar

DeepVFM: Neural Networks discovery of virtual fields for stable inverse constitutive identification of hyperelastic materials

Gabriela Sanchez Rodriguez ⋅ Manuel Lucas Sampaio de Oliveira ⋅ Thao Nguyen

UNSUPERVISED KEYPOINTS FOR REAL -TIME FALL DETECTION : COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS UNDER REAL - WORLD CONDITIONS WITH PREDICTIVE BANDWIDTH REDUCTION

Tasmiah Haque

Advancing Agentic Information Retrieval with Decoder-based SoTA Embedding Models

Ronay Ak

Compact Amharic OCR: Efficient Recognition and Error Analysis of Ethiopic Handwriting

Lucia Yen Wanchi ⋅ Boniface Chukwuemeka Godwin

Gradient Conflict Is Frequent But Rarely Decisive: A Reproducible Boundary-Condition Study of Prioritized Gradient Projection in Multi-Behavior Recommendation

Isha Shah

MT-LLE: Multi-Task Locally Linear Embedding for Interpretable Disease Models from Longitudinal Omics

Sundous Hussein ⋅ Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

LatentRoof: Transferable Latency Prediction Across AI Accelerators

Nadika Poudel

Beyond 'This Looks Like That': Auditing Prototypes for Demographic Bias

Ritta Neg Mfa ⋅ Sarah Brown ⋅ Alina Barnett

PLACID: Privacy-Preserving On-Device Acronym Disambiguation for Women’s Health Notes

Manjushree Aithal ⋅ Alexander Kotz

OCD-Sense: A Novel Wearable Sensor Dataset and Transformer Framework for Recognizing OCD-Relevant Behaviors

Nida Saddaf Khan ⋅ Nasir Uddin ⋅ Gulnaz Anjum ⋅ Muhammad Sayeed Ghani

Amplitude Is Not Transferable: Perfusion-Driven Distribution Shift in Wearable PPG Signal Quality Assessment

Nhu Nguyen

Single-Cell Transcriptomic Signatures are Predictive of Organ-Specific Drug Toxicity

Aditi Sharma Kuchi

Steering GFlowNets for Drug Discovery: Which Directions Control Molecule Generation

Amirtha Varshini Anbuchezhiyan Sindhanai ⋅ Hok Hei Tam ⋅ Matthew Parks

Long Recent Context Drives Personalization Gains in Predictive Typing

Soufia Bahmani ⋅ Keith Vertanen

Composing Cost-Reduction Techniques in Multi-Agent LLM Systems: A Practitioner's Empirical Study

Sarah Altarouti

Cue2Act: Contract-Bounded Vision-Language Coaching for Novice Drivers Under Scene Ambiguity and Model Uncertainty

Elahe Yahyapour ⋅ Mahmoud Pourmehrab ⋅ Chengbo Ai

ASD-FER: An Annotated Multi-Class Benchmark and Comparative Study for Facial Emotion Recognition in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Huda Hammad ⋅ Shahana Chowdhury ⋅ Shreya Banerjee ⋅ Tracey Knaus ⋅ Md Tamjidul Hoque

Beyond Token Counting: Counterfactual Utility Accounting for Agentic AI Workflows

Jothsna Praveena Pendyala ⋅ PRAMOD BEGUR NAGARAJ

Semantic Graph Decomposition for Robust and Fair LLM Content Moderation

Shanu Sushmita

PIVOT: Patient Identity via Unified Modal Twin Learning

Swathi Jinka Radhakrishna ⋅ Shivam Singh ⋅ Rohini Machavolu ⋅ Shrivarshini Narayanan ⋅ Brahmmani Thota ⋅ Shagun Saboo ⋅ Divya Chaudhary

A Perfect Fit to the Wrong Answer: The CausalTwin Approach to Correct-by-Construction Patient Twins

Rohini Machavolu ⋅ Shivam Singh ⋅ Shrivarshini Narayanan ⋅ Swathi Jinka Radhakrishna ⋅ Brahmmani Thota ⋅ Shagun Saboo ⋅ Divya Chaudhary

A Patient-Level Multi-Magnification Hybrid CNN–VIT Fusion Model for Cervical Abnormality Detection

Abdulkadir Nafisat ⋅ Taiwo Kolajo ⋅ Emeka Ogbuju ⋅ Francisca Oladipo

Rank Is Not the Bottleneck: Data Scale, Not Adapter Capacity, Drives Faithful Summarization in LoRA-Tuned LLMs

Fatema Nafa

JSLBench: Evaluating LLM Performance for a Rare Coding Language in JMP

Yiran Song ⋅ Russ Wolfinger

UI-VISA: U-Net Initialized Vascular Image Segmentation Architecture

Asees Kaur ⋅ Erica Rutter

Provenance Half-Life: Studying the Coupled Decay of Watermark Signal and Output Quality in Multi-Agent LLM Pipelines

Vinatha Viswanathan ⋅ Divya Chaudhary

RegJEDI: A Joint-Embedding Diffusion Language Model for Regulatory DNA Design

Jiayi Li

A Tactile-Driven System for Automated Wire-Harness Insertion

Namya Lakkavalli Giridhar

High-Probability Bounds For Heterogeneous Local Differential Privacy

Maryam Aliakbarpour ⋅ Alireza Fallah ⋅ Ria Stevens

TRAPS: Treatment-Assignment Prediction via Pathway-informed Stratification

Sayantan Chakraborty ⋅ Ushashi Bhattacharjee ⋅ Tirtho Roy

Bounded Agency: A Deployed Consumer-Health System in Which No Generative Model Computes a Number

Kritika Chugh

Support-Constrained Hierarchical Offline Reinforcement Learning via Empirical Transition Graphs

Altynay Smagulova ⋅ Alberto Cerpa

Modality-Adaptive Memory Gating with Embedding Replay for Continual Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

Blessing Effiong ⋅ Minju Kim ⋅ Maisha thasin ⋅ Junaid Rehman ⋅ Somshubhra Roy

Topoformer: Topology-Infused Transformers for Medical Imaging

Sayoni Chakraborty ⋅ Philmore Koung ⋅ Baris Coskunuzer

Nested Birth-Death Processes and Neural Transducers as Models of Time-Dependent Protein Evolution

Annabel Large ⋅ Ian Holmes

Same Graph Cross-Task Transfer in GNNs: Protocols and Predictors

Neelam Akula ⋅ Surbhi Kumar ⋅ Murat Kantarcioglu ⋅ Baris Coskunuzer

Beyond Confidence: Rethinking Self-Assessments for Performance Prediction in LLMs

Sree Bhattacharyya ⋅ Samarth Khanna ⋅ Leona Chen ⋅ Lucas Craig ⋅ Tharun Dilliraj ⋅ James Wang

Dynamic Scheduling for the Satellite Range Scheduling Problem Using Heuristic, Optimization, and AI-Based Methods

Shreya Saxena

Human Causal Reasoning as Finite-State Dynamics: Implications for Neurosymbolic AI

Rachel Papirmeister ⋅ Mark Santolucito

Investigating Calibration Challenges in Probabilistic Electricity Price Forecasting

Hadeer Elashhab ⋅ Jan Niklas Lettner ⋅ Benjamin Schäfer

Beyond Channel Labels: Structured Label Noise in Telegram Affiliation Classification

Poli Nemkova

Auditing Saliency Faithfulness Across Fitzpatrick Skin Types in Dermatology Foundation Models

Rosa Y. G. Paccotacya-Yanque

Improved Panicle Counting With Density-Aware Sampling and Enhanced Matching

Tang Li ⋅ Rajalakshmi pachamuthu ⋅ Balram Marathi ⋅ Uday Desai

Continuous Event Modeling for Sleep Apnea Detection

Meghna Singh

Does Fusion Stage Matter? Comparing Feature-Level and Decision-Level Multimodal Learning for Lung Cancer Subtyping

Gloria Riechi

Forecasting AI Adoption Across U.S. States

Khandker Sadia Rahman

Improving the Multi-Class Classification of Non-Functional Requirements in Spanish: A Study of Dataset Balancing and Performance

Maria Isabel Limaylla Lunarejo

Online Adaptation to Class-Prior Shift from Positive and Unlabeled Data

Yuko Kuroki ⋅ Masashi Sugiyama

Cipher: Inverse Drug Target Discovery from Human Genetic Variation

Kiruthika Marikumaran

CD-RCM: Generalizable Continuous-Depth Novel View Synthesis for Reflectance Confocal Microscopy

Tooba Imtiaz ⋅ Milind Rajadhyaksha ⋅ Kivanc Kose ⋅ Jennifer Dy

Detecting Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Business Data in Enterprise Generative AI Usage

Payel Sadhukhan

Dialogic Deference: LLMs Can't Judge Who's Right in a Conversation

Parisa Rabbani ⋅ Dilek Hakkani-Tur

When Is a Multi-Agent Code Judge Actually Grounded? Two Label-Free Measurements, and a Judge That Declines to Guess

Salma Roshdy Aly ⋅ Ziad Kobti

Data-driven prediction of Hubbard parameters for metal-organic frameworks

Pamela Costa Carvalho

Can Small Language Models Negotiate Moral Consensus? A Multi-Agent Study Across Two Ethical Domains

Payel Das

Mutable Signal Ratio as a Structural Predictor of Adversarial Vulnerability in Tabular Fraud Detection

Eileen Blessing Mbong Kabi

Physics Priors Are Insurance: A Sign Change with Sensing Density in Traffic State Estimation

Anna Lazareva

Multimodal Foundation Models for Group AI Assistants

Diana Romero

Confidence-Aware Transcription of Museum Specimen Labels with a LoRA-Tuned OCR Vision-Language Model

Yukiko Hughes ⋅ Sara Avila ⋅ ⋅ Erika Germinario ⋅ Carol Fassbinder-Orth ⋅ Steven Fernandes

Contrastive Representational Decoding for Hallucination Detection

Cicy Kuriakose Agnes

Adaptive Memory as an Inference-Time Guardrail for Small Language Models

PRIYANKA MARY MAMMEN ⋅ Emil Joswin

CAM-PoEm: Contour-Guided State-Space Modeling for Boundary-Aware Image Segmentation

Fabliha Sarwar

RICoT: Recurrent Interleaved Chain-of-Thought for Page Stream Segmentation

Bhavana Malagavalli ⋅ Saiful Haq

Isolating the Marginal Contribution of Distributed Context in LLM Attribute Inference

Everlyne Mwangi

New Weighted Voting Ensemble Strategies for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

soukaina SGHURI

Learning You: A Thousand Possible Yous — Self-Evolving Personalized Agents through Synthetic Experience Reinforcement Learning

Aura Arefeh Yavary

Evaluating Transparency in Large Language Models: A Four-Dimensional Framework and Comparative Analysis

Dalima Lappia

What Remains of Multimodal Deep Learning After Controlling Confounding and Subject Leakage? A Critical Evaluation in Smartphone Parkinson’s Detection

Madjda Khedimi

Beyond Idealized Voids: Linking Pore Morphology to Hotspot Sensitivity via a Statistical Shape Model

Habiba Morsy ⋅ Zoe Gray ⋅ Stephen Baek

Beyond Reactivity: Proactive Adaptive Conformal Inference for Online LLM Factuality

Xinyu Liu ⋅ Jun Wu

Evaluating Enterprise RAG Assistants in Production Using Tiered Behavioral Signals

Surbhi Jha

$Learning from Demonstration for Manufacturing Tasks: A Workpiece-Geometry-First Pipeline Trained on YouTube Video Demonstrations$

Kazi Shawpnil

From Thousands of Hours to Seconds: Fast Generative Models for Gravitational-Wave Populations

Rhea Senthil Kumar ⋅ Aobo Li ⋅ Sandip Roy

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Spatial Radon Diffusion Length Modelling Across Georgia

Asmita Naitam ⋅ Ashwin Ashok

Hardness of Consistent Low-Dimensional Approximation for Ranking Prediction

Melody Hsu ⋅ Drona Khurana ⋅ Rafael Frongillo

Stress-Testing Hierarchical Brain Graph Decoding on Multi-Site rs-fMRI

Rita Huan-Ting Peng

Confabulation Instead of Abstention: How Medical Vision–Language Models Respond to Missing Visual Evidence

Neda Ghafouri

When Tools Look Alike: Evaluating Semantic Confusion in LLM Tool Selection

Vidhi Kulkarni

Ontology-Grounded Retrieval for Clinical LLM Question Answering: A SNOMED CT Knowledge Graph Approach

Deterministic Quantification of Strial Capillary Leakage with an Agentic Vision-Language Model

Isha Anandan ⋅ Sara Avila ⋅ Justine Renauld ⋅ Steven Fernandes

Cliff-Aware Fairness for Algorithmic Public-Benefit Decisions

Vaisnavi Nemala

Personalized Valuation Estimation for Bid Recommendation in Online English Auctions

Sanjana Arun

A Query-Conditioned Geometry for Long-Form Video Understanding

Ghazal Kaviani ⋅ Ghassan AlRegib

From Detection to Healing: A Vision for Interactive, Context-Aware, Human-Centred XAI in Cyberbullying Intervention

Srimonti Dutta ⋅ Akshata Kishore Moharir

When Ink Meets Pixel: Intent-Aware OCR with Vision-Language Models for Human-Corrected Financial Documents

Akshata Bhar

Trace Integrity for LLM Data Agents: Auditable Structured Reasoning in Real-World Systems

Srimonti Dutta ⋅ Akshata Kishore Moharir

Learning to Teach: Reinforcement-Learned Curricula for LLM Post-Training

Aya El Mir ⋅ Martin Takac ⋅ Salem Lahlou

Evaluation of Deep Learning-Based Motor Imagery EEG Decoders Using Low-Cost EEG-Based Brain–Computer Interfaces

Sharon Cristell Quispe Carhuapoma ⋅ Miguel Isidro Baez

A Unified Framework for Validating Large Scientific Knowledge Graphs

Khaled Ibrahim

What the Agent May Say Beats What the Agent Sees: The Grounding Vocabulary Dominates the Input Channel in Web Agents

Camille Tyriard ⋅ Zekun Wu ⋅ Maria Perez-Ortiz

An Individual-Level Stability Framework for Evaluating Clinical Risk Prediction Models

Elizabeth Miller ⋅ Jeffrey Blume