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  1. How to Reduce Localization Ambiguity? Geometry-Semantic Constrained BEV Representation Learning for Satellite-Ground Localization

    Sep 30, 2026Junming Feng, Panwang Xia, Qiong Wu +8Bird'S-Eye ViewRtk-Gnss

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · Southern University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +2

  2. Rational Clarification by Assistive Agents via Value-of-Information Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026T. Duy Nguyen-Hien, Yee Whye Teh, Wee Sun Lee +1ClarificationAgentic Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

  3. OCA: ODE-Driven Cross-Attention for Image-to-Point-Cloud Registration

    Sep 29, 2026Pei An, Jiaqi Yang, Yulong Wang +2Point Cloud RegistrationPoint Clouds

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China · Northwestern Polytechnical University, China · Huazhong Agricultural University, China +2

  4. GeoOutageBench: Benchmarking Ambiguity-aware, Ontology-grounded Geospatiotemporal KGQA for Multimodal Power Outage and Resilience Analysis

    Sep 28, 2026Ethan D. Frakes, Amy Kvien, Rishabh Kundu +8Disaster ResponseKnowledge Graph Embeddings

    University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA · Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, USA

  5. WeaveData: A Multimodal Data Analysis System with Self-Critiquing and Self-Evolving LLM Plans

    Sep 28, 2026Min Jia, Shihao Zhou, Jun-Peng Zhu +9Large Language Model PlanningLarge Language Model Workflows

    Northwest A&F University · PingCAP · East China Normal University +1

  6. Does Model Uncertainty Track Human Ambiguity? Evidence from Multi-Annotator Vision Benchmarks

    Sep 28, 2026Manya Singh, Arjun PakrashiAmbiguityMulti-Label Classification

    School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland

  7. A Training Criterion with Token-Level Tolerance to Transcription Ambiguity for Automatic Speech Recognition

    Sep 24, 2026Saurabh Kumar, Diptiman Mohanta, Prasanta Kumar GhoshAutomatic Speech RecognitionTranscription

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

  8. GCUL: Ambiguity Identification in Text Emotion Classification via Cluster-Guided Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Zhongqi Fan, Tianyou Zhang, Fei ChenAmbiguityEmotion Recognition

    Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

  9. Clarification Is Not Correction: LLMs Fail to Let Go

    Sep 21, 2026Jianzhe Lin, Xiaolin Li, Fei Wang +3Large Language Models FailClarification

    MetaAI

  10. Distributionally Robust Federated Learning with Multi-Source Data

    Sep 17, 2026Yingzhu Liu, Zhongkui Li, Pengcheng You +1Federated LearningDistributionally-Robust Optimization

    Department of Control Science and Systems Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China. · Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen and the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

  11. Can LLMs in Draft-Verify-Revise Pipelines Resolve Deictic Ambiguity?

    Sep 14, 2026Obinna I. EkekezieLarge Language Model WorkflowsAmbiguity

    Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America. · Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.

  12. Calibrated Ambiguity in Multimodal Language Models: Humans reach for cultural references, while models describe the picture

    Sep 14, 2026Cody Kommers, Mingrui Ye, Evelyn Gius +4AmbiguityMultimodal Large Language Models

    King’s College London London, United Kingdom · University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  13. Diarization Error Decomposition Under Pause Annotation Ambiguity

    Sep 10, 2026Shota Horiguchi, Marc Delcroix, Naohiro Tawara +1Speaker DiarizationAmbiguity

    NTT, Inc., Japan

  14. Vague2Detect: Handling Ambiguous Prompts in Knowledge-Based Open-World Detection

    Sep 9, 2026Ibrohimjon Muminov, Jihie KimOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea · Department of Computer Science and AI, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

  15. Estimating Semantic Ambiguity via Gaussian Context Distributions for VLM-Driven Traversability Analysis

    Sep 8, 2026Ramona Häuselmann, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Christoforos Kanellakis +1TraversabilityVision-Language Navigation

    Robotics & AI Team, Department of Computer, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå SE-97187, Sweden.

  16. The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs

    Sep 7, 2026Eric SoLLM Reasoning StrategiesIntrinsic Motivation

    MIT Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  17. From Answers to Interpretations: Rethinking Ambiguity-Induced Aleatoric Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs

    Sep 7, 2026Omer Nahum, Niv Nayman, Jonathan Fhima +4Large Language Model UncertaintyAmbiguity

    Data and Decision Sciences, Technion, Israel · Amazon Web Services · Computer Vision Group, University of Bern, Switzerland

  18. When Depth Hurts: Reliability-Aware Geometry Distillation for Depth-Free RGB-D Salient Object Detection

    Sep 3, 2026Xuehao Wang, Jiaxin Hua, Runmei Li +4Rgb-Thermal Object DetectionRobust Geometric Model Estimation

    University of International Business and Economics · State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems · Southwest Jiaotong University +2

  19. Are You Thinking What I am Thinking? : Examining Conceptual Separation in Neural Architectures

    Sep 1, 2026Jaee Ponde, Roshni Agarwal, Subhashis BanerjeeSemantic RepresentationsConvolutional Neural Networks

    Truth Audit Labs · Karya AI · Department of Computer Science and the Centre of Digitalisation, AI, and Society, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana, India

  20. Decomposing Wrong-Consensus Agreement in LLM Self-Consistency

    Aug 19, 2026Lizhuo Zhang, Mengmeng Tang, Chenfeng Long +2AgreementAmbiguity

    College of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China · Yuelushan Laboratory, Changsha 410128, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China +1

  21. Multi-Layer Context Camouflaging: A Semantic Superposition and Contextual Lamination Framework for Malpractice-Resilient Online Assessment

    Aug 13, 2026Gupta Lovi Raj, Kaur Kamalpreet, Dama Sri Ram +1Computerized Adaptive TestingAmbiguity

    Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

  22. Uncertainty-Aware Probabilistic Constrained Clustering from Entangled Pairwise Supervision

    Aug 12, 2026Shaojie Zhang, Ke ChenClusteringProbabilistic Model

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.

  23. Robust Ambiguity Detection (RAD) From Model- and Feature-Space Consistency

    Aug 12, 2026Manya Singh, Mark T. Keane, Arjun PakrashiAmbiguityPredictive Uncertainty

    School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  24. ReRound: Reconstructive Rounding to Resolve Midpoint Ambiguity in Calibration-Free LLM Quantization

    Aug 11, 2026He-Yen Hsieh, H. T. KungPost-Training QuantizationMedium

    Harvard University

  25. Robust Control under Stationary Ambiguity

    Aug 5, 2026Konrad J. Mueller, Amira Akkari, Ben Wood +1Stochastic Optimal ControlRobust Control

    1Imperial College London · 2JPMorgan Chase & Co.† · University of St. Gallen

  26. TDVR: Joint Text Disambiguation and Viewpoint Reasoning for Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding

    Aug 4, 2026Qingxi Du, Junbo Wang, Yuke Li +13D Visual GroundingDisambiguation

    Northwestern Polytechnical University Software School Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · Northwestern Polytechnical University School of Computer Science Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  27. Diversity is Not Ambiguity: Toward Accurate and Efficient Ambiguity Detection for Open-Domain QA

    Aug 4, 2026Jiwon Lee, Yong-chan Park, Jungin Hong +1AmbiguityDiversity

    Seoul National University

  28. CLARA: Clarification of Language Ambiguity through Result Analysis for Natural-Language Cancer Genomics Queries

    Aug 3, 2026Pratyush Kumar Shukla, Manveer Singh Tib, Siddhant GargClarificationBiomedical Text

    Independent Researchers

  29. Divergent large language model predictions from convergent representations in ambiguous word pairs

    Aug 3, 2026K. Jack Scott, Narun Pat, Veronica LiesaputraTransformer EncoderLayer-Wise

    Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand · School of Computing, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  30. Where did the ambiguity go? Examining how multimodal models interpret polysemous words

    Aug 1, 2026Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Raja Marjieh +1Multimodal ModelVision-Language Foundation Models

    Princeton University

  31. Think with Extra-Image: A Farmland Segmentation Agent Driven by Spatio-Temporal Information Gain

    Jul 30, 2026Haiyang Wu, Weiliang Mu, Zhuofei Du +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationPrecision Agriculture

    Central South University, Changsha, China

  32. SpecFirst: Behavioral Specification Elicitation as a First-Class Step in Agent-Based Program Synthesis from Scratch

    Jul 29, 2026Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Feng Lin +4Llm-Driven Code SynthesisCoding Agents

    2Queen’s University · 1Huawei Canada · 4Concordia University +1

  33. Fewer Clarifications, Better Code: Benchmarking Cross-Session Personalized Ambiguity Adaptation in Coding Assistants

    Jul 29, 2026Zijian Xu, Wenshuo Zhang, Zisen Qin +4Ai-Assisted Programming TasksAmbiguity

    Southeast University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  34. Reliability-Aware 3D Geometric Injection for Universal Person Re-identification

    Jul 21, 2026Bohan Su, Jiashuo Wang, Fangyi Liu +1Re-IdentificationRobust Geometric Model Estimation

    National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  35. Semantic Hardness Is Not Visual Hardness: Sign-Aware Hard Negative Mining for Sign Language Retrieval

    Jul 10, 2026Junmyeong Lee, Chan Hur, ChangSu Choi +5Sign Language TranslationSign

    School of Computing1 · ETRI Medical Informatics Laboratory4 · Graduate School of Culture Technology2 +1

  36. Learning Predictive Ambiguity Sets for Decision-Focused Distributionally Robust Optimization

    Jul 10, 2026Junjie GuoDistributionally-Robust OptimizationRobust Optimization

    Rutgers University

  37. NL-PAC: Specification Ambiguity and Certified Minimax Risk Floors in LLM-Mediated Supervision

    Jul 9, 2026Berkay AnahtarciAutomatic LabellingNatural Language

    Department of Mathematical Engineering, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  38. Identifiability of Relational Queries in Multi-View Pretraining

    Jul 6, 2026Ratan Bahadur Thapa, Daniel HernándezIdentifiabilityQueries

    Analytic Computing, KI, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  39. A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Detecting and Resolving Pragmatic Ambiguities in Natural Language Requirements

    Jul 5, 2026Pavithra PM Nair, Preethu Rose AnishAmbiguityDomain-Specific Language

    Tata Consultancy Services Pune, India

  40. HSDF-Lane: Height-Aligned Signed Distance Field with Semantic Lane Prior for 3D Lane Detection

    Jun 30, 2026Jiyong Boo, Byeongin Joung, Hyemin Yang +13D Object Detection3D Generation

    KAIST, Republic of Korea

  41. Uncertainty-Aware Generation and Decision-Making Under Ambiguity

    Jun 29, 2026Nico Daheim, Iryna GurevychLarge Language Model UncertaintyDecisions

    Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany

  42. Latent Actions from Factorized Transition Effects under Agent Ambiguity

    Jun 29, 2026Heejeong Nam, Chandradithya S Jonnalagadda, Harshit Aggarwal +2Latent ActionsTransitions

    Brown University

  43. One Scene, Two Depths: Probing Geometric Ambiguity in Monocular Foundation Models

    Jun 28, 2026Xiaohao Xu, Feng Xue, Xiang Li +5Monocular Depth Estimation3D Foundation Models

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · New York University, New York, NY, USA +1

  44. Rectifying Mask via Entropy for Distractor-Free 3DGS in Ambiguous Scenarios

    Jun 28, 2026Wongi Park, Jiyeon Lim, Minjae Lee +6Neural Mask EstimationDynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting

    1Ajou Univerity · 2Samsung Electronics · 3Georgia Institute of Technology +5

  45. When Search Agents Should Ask: DiscoBench for Clarification-Aware Deep Search

    Jun 26, 2026Yiling Tao, Shihan Deng, Meiling Tao +3Search AgentsQuestion-Answering Benchmarks

    Hunyuan, Tencent · Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  46. Learning from Annotation Uncertainty: Entropy-Aware Curriculum for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jun 25, 2026Zahra Omidi, John H. L. HansenEmotion RecognitionAmbiguity

    Center for Robust Speech Systems, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

  47. LaViSA: A Language and Vision Structural Ambiguity Benchmark

    Jun 17, 2026Lee Sangmyeong, Shun Inadumi, Koichiro YoshinoAmbiguityMultimodal Benchmarks

    1Nara Institute of Science and Technology · 2Guardian Robot Project RIKEN · 3The University of Osaka

  48. PEC-Home: Interpretation of Progressively Elliptical Commands in Smart Homes

    Jun 17, 2026Yingyu Shan, Zeming Liu, Silin Li +4Smart HomesAmbiguity

    Beijing Institute of Technology · Beihang University · Baidu Inc.

  49. AURA: Active-Response Attribution under Treatment Ambiguity in Bacterial Cytological Profiling

    Jun 15, 2026Kartik Jhawar, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Wilfried Moreira +2Bacterial Colony CountingAntimicrobial Peptide

    Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 636921 · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117544

  50. Surprise-Guided MergeSort: Budget-Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Ranking via Adaptive Comparison Scheduling

    Jun 14, 2026Yujin Park, Haejun Chung, Ikbeom JangRankingSchedulers

    Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Republic of Korea

  51. Distributional Loss for Robust Classification

    Jun 11, 2026Kathleen Anderson, Thomas MartinetzLoss FunctionDecision Boundaries

    Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck, Germany

  52. SOMA-SQL: Resolving Multi-Source Ambiguity in NL-to-SQL via Synthetic Log and Execution Probing

    Jun 9, 2026Sai Ashish Somayajula, Marianne Menglin Liu, Chuan Lei +9Text-To-SqlSql

    Oracle AI

  53. Ambiguous Strategic Classification

    Jun 8, 2026Ivri Hikri, Nir RosenfeldClassifierAmbiguity

    Faculty of Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

  54. New Fractional Ambiguity Function Integrated with CNN-Based Machine Learning for Signal Classification

    Jun 6, 2026Aamir H. Dar, Prakhar Kumar Sonkar, Neeraj Kumar SharmaTime-FrequencyFourier

    Mehta Family School of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, India

  55. Localizing Prompt Ambiguity in Large Language Models with Probe-Targeted Attribution

    Jun 3, 2026Govind Ramesh, Yao Dou, Wei XuAmbiguity

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  56. SHALA-LLM: Smartly Handling Ambiguous Labels in Aligning LLMs

    Jun 3, 2026Jingyao Wu, Ashley Wang, Keane Ong +2Automatic LabellingLarge Language Model Alignment

    MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · National University of Singapore

  57. Uncertainty-Aware Clarification in LLM Agents with Information Gain

    Jun 2, 2026Mengyi Deng, Zhiwei Li, Xin Li +4Large Language Model AgentsAmbiguity

    Information Hub, HKUST(GZ) · Jilin University · et al.

  58. The Role of Ambiguity in Error Prediction via Uncertainty Quantification

    Jun 1, 2026Ieva Raminta Staliūnaitė, James Bishop, Andreas VlachosLarge Language Model UncertaintyPrediction Error

    University of Cambridge · The Alan Turing Institute

  59. Dive into Ambiguity: A*-Inspired Multi-Agents Commonsense Obfuscation Attack on LLM Prompts

    May 31, 2026Boxuan Wang, Zhuoyun Li, Xiaowei Huang +1Black-Box Adversarial AttacksObfuscation

    University of Liverpool Merseyside, United Kingdom

  60. Position: Anthropomorphic Misalignment Research Needs Stronger Evidence

    May 29, 2026Vansh Gupta, Peter Nutter, Samuel Stante +5AnthropomorphismEvidence Conflict

    1ETH Zurich