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  1. Consensus and Factual Dynamics in Large Populations of Interacting Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Emanuele Ricco, Elia Onofri, Vincenzo Sammartino +1Large Language Model DecisionsLanguage Modeling

    Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia · Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit`a di Pisa Pisa, Italy

  2. MetaPersona: Task-Grounded Synthetic Populations from Empirical Social Science

    Sep 29, 2026Jinyi Ye, Yuangang Li, Chenxiao Yu +7Synthetic DataDemographics

    University of Southern California · University of California, Irvine · 2077AI +1

  3. Population Fidelity: Evaluating Population Representativeness in LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Neemias B. da Silva, Martin Lukk, Ali Sutani +5Large Language Model BiasDemographics

    University of Toronto, Canada · Federal University of Technology – Paran´a, Brazil

  4. Separating personal from population gains when calibrating EEG foundation models for new users

    Sep 28, 2026Xilin Tao, Kani ChenElectroencephalography Foundation ModelsWireless Foundation Models

    Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  5. P2P: Cross-View Population Denoising for Unpaired Single-Cell Perturbation Response Prediction

    Sep 28, 2026Haojie Yang, Ran SuSingle-Cell Perturbation PredictionCells

    College of Intelligence and Computing Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  6. What Does a Skill Actually Do? Estimands and Evaluation Validity for Tool and Skill Use in LLM Agents: A Critical Review

    Sep 27, 2026Shuyang ZhangAgentic EvaluationsSkills

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  7. Coding Agents Aren't Enough! Evaluating an Enterprise Security Brain for Agentic Cloud Investigations

    Sep 24, 2026Leon Goldberg, Gal Engelberg, Eden Yavin +3Security EvaluationSecurity

    Sola Security, Tel Aviv, Israel

  8. QCPruner: Query-Conditioned Population Coverage for Visual Token Pruning

    Sep 17, 2026Shengli He, Yongchao Liang, Roumeng He +4Visual Token PruningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Guizhou University · Guizhou University, Guiyang, China · Shanghai Ocean University

  9. Role differentiation as ignition of a collective information engine: Structuration in Agent Populations

    Sep 12, 2026Maximilian Puelma TouzelCollective BehaviorsStrategic Agents

    Mila–Quebec AI Institute, 6666 St. Urbain Ave., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  10. Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data

    Sep 1, 2026Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109PopulationsLogistic Regression

  11. Do Satellites See Commuters? A Critical Benchmark of Vision Foundation Models

    Sep 1, 2026Ashiq Shukoor Iqbal, Wilson Wongso, Flora D. SalimGeospatial Foundation ModelsOrigin Destination Flows

    The University of New South Wales · Sydney, NSW, Australia

  12. One note in three: a verified census of three deployed AI scribes, and the instrument that counted it

    Aug 31, 2026Sebastian Fox, Luke Markham, Ryan Lail +1Clinician TrustClinical Notes

    Composo

  13. A Hybrid State-Space Approach for Census-Tract Population Estimation

    Aug 30, 2026Jackson R. Ye, Alexandre V. MorozovState Space ModelsPopulations

    Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  14. The rise and evolution of a referential code in populations of bee-like agents

    Aug 26, 2026Grzegorz ChrupałaEvolutionary Optimization MethodsRise

  15. WARP: Wasserstein-Aligned RAG for Population Opinions

    Aug 24, 2026Aman Singh Thakur, Aditya Agrawal, Alwarappan Nakkiran +1Top-KPopulations

  16. Opportunity Is Not Realizability: Selection-Valid Diagnostics for Multi-LLM Routing

    Aug 8, 2026Ibne Farabi Shihab, Abu Sa-Adat Mohamed Moon-Im Al Ahsan, Md Najmus SwaqeebLarge Language Model RoutingPossibilities

    Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, BRAC University

  17. Crowd-Sourced Geographies of Income: Using Google Maps Points of Interest as High-Frequency Proxies for Sub-Municipal Income Estimation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Aug 8, 2026Adrienne C. Kinney, Anya Workman, Ademar Takeo Akabane +5LocationPopulations

    Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States · Department of Digital and Computational Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States · Postgraduate Program in Urban Infrastructure Systems, Polytechnique School, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil +3

  18. Population-Robust Feature Selection via Generalized Welfare Optimization

    Aug 3, 2026Ruiqi Lyu, Alistair Turcan, Bryan WilderFeature SelectionPopulations

    Carnegie Mellon University

  19. A Simple Approximation to the Distribution of the Ridge Regression Estimator

    Aug 3, 2026José Luis Montiel Olea, Ryan Strong, Amilcar Velez +2Kernel Ridge RegressionHeteroskedasticity

    Department of Economics at Cornell University

  20. From Prediction to Explainable Provider Behavior Profiles for Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Review

    Jul 31, 2026Yubin Park, Evan BrocinerFraud DetectionGeneration Provenance

    Falcon Health, Inc.

  21. Fracture Risk Prediction in Adults Over 50 Years Old Using DXA and EHR: Comparison of Traditional and Machine Learning Models in Two Large Cohorts

    Jul 25, 2026Jiahe Qian, Hao Dai, Kunyu Yu +6Electronic Health RecordsCohort

    Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA · Department of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA · Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indiana, USA +2

  22. When Shippers Become Algorithms: Candidate Exposure, Information Design, and the Concentration of LLM-Mediated Freight Markets

    Jul 22, 2026Takahiro Ezaki, Naoto Imura, Katsuhiro NishinariLogisticsAgentic Commerce

    Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan · aResearch Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan · bDepartment of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

  23. Joint Utilization of Geospatial and census proxies for Autoencoder-Assisted Downscaling (JUGAAD) of socioeconomic indicators in India

    Jul 17, 2026Aditya Dutt, Paul Gader, Aditya SinghDynamical DownscalingGeospatial

    1*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32603, Florida, USA. · Department of Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32603, Florida, USA. · 3Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, 78363, Texas, USA.

  24. The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models

    Jul 14, 2026Tapan ParikhLanguage Model ComputesAnswer

    Cornell Tech

  25. Open-Source Intelligence and Music Information Retrieval for Geographic Attribution of Musical Affect and the Ecological Limits of Population Inference

    Jul 14, 2026Mohammadreza RashidiPopulationsEcosystems

    Department of Computer Science AI and Media Analysis Lab Berlin, Germany

  26. Singular perturbations and hierarchical learning in two-layer neural networks

    Jul 12, 2026Cédric Gerbelot, Jean-Christophe MourratTwo-Layer Neural NetworksPopulations

    Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (UMPA), ENS Lyon · CNRS

  27. CenSynCMB: Centre Maps and Physics-Guided Synthesis for Microbleed Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Lucas He, Hanyuan Zhang, Krinos Li +7LesionPhysics-Guided Machine Learning

    Hawkes Institute, University College London, UK · Unit for Lifelong Health and Aging, University College London, UK · Bioengineering Department and Imperial-X, Imperial College London, UK +8

  28. PEBS: Per-rater Empirical-Bayes Shrinkage for RLHF Reward-Model Calibration

    Jun 25, 2026Arnav RajReinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackPopulations

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.

  29. Scalability of Morality: A Particle-Based Numerical Study on the Decoupling of Law and Ethics in Large-Scale Populations

    Jun 25, 2026Amir Arslan Haghrah, Amir Aslan HaghrahSocial DynamicsMoral Reasoning

  30. Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories

    Jun 23, 2026Arsham Khosravani, Audris MockusCoding AgentsArtificial Intelligence Detection

  31. Adaptive Enhanced Quantum-inspired Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm for Population State Perception

    Jun 23, 2026Dongmei Liu, Jian Li, Xiubo Chen +1Quantum AnnealingPopulations

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Cyber Security Center, School of Cyberspace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  32. Agent-based models for the evolution of morphological alternation patterns

    Jun 10, 2026Aravinth Kulanthaivelu, Richard SproatStemmingMorphology

    Sakana.ai, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

  33. Machine-learning clustering of close-in exoplanet populations: links to pebble accretion

    Jun 10, 2026Yi Duann, Anders Johansen, Haiyang S. Wang +1Exoplanet AtmospheresClustering

    Center for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark · Lund Observatory, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  34. GRAFT: Gain-Recalibrated Adapters for Transformer-Based Neural Population Activity Modeling

    Jun 9, 2026Xiangsheng Ge, Yang XieTemporal DynamicsPopulations

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  35. It does what it says on the tin: safe synthetic data from coarsened margins

    Jun 1, 2026Gillian M RaabSynthetic DataDisclosures

    University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research

  36. A Practical Upper Bound on Selection Bias Effects in Medical Prediction Models

    May 30, 2026Kara Liu, Maggie Wang, Russ B. AltmanSelection BiasModel Selection

    Stanford University · Stanford, California, USA

  37. Digitally enriching a high-risk population for pancreatic cancer using routine blood-based measures and clinical histories

    May 28, 2026Chris Varghese, Leo Y. Li-Han, Richa Bisht +10ScreeningBiomarker

    Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA · Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ · Department of Hematology and Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA +5

  38. Global Policy-Space Response Oracles for Two-Player Zero-Sum Games

    May 27, 2026Junyu Zhang, Feihong Yang, Jian Wang +2Imperfect-Information GamesEquilibrium

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Qiyuan Lab, Beijing, China

  39. Multi-Modal Machine Learning for Population- and Subject-Specific lncRNA-Type 2 Diabetes Association Analysis

    May 20, 2026Ashwani Siwach, Sanjeev Narayan Sharma, Sunil Datt SharmaDiabetesSingle-Cell Rna

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIITDM Jabalpur, India · Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Central University of Jammu, India

  40. Latent Geometry as a Structural Monitor: Eigenspace Alignment for Anomaly Detection in Anonymity Networks

    May 19, 2026Vaibhav ChhabraThreat DetectionAnonymization

    USPTO Patent #64/034,500

  41. Learning Normal Representations for Blood Biomarkers

    May 18, 2026Aashna P. Shah, Michelle M. Li, Yash Lal +9BiomarkerPopulations

    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA · The Ivan and Francesca Berkowitz Family Living Laboratory Collaboration at Harvard Medical School and Clalit Research Institute, USA and Israel +5

  42. Improving Cross-Cultural Survey Simulation with Calibrated Value Personas

    May 15, 2026Axel Abels, Elias Fernandez Domingos, Apurva Shah +1Cultural EvolutionUser Simulation

    1Machine Learning Group, Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles · 2AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel · 3FARI Institute, Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles - Vrije Universiteit Brussel +2

  43. Neural Point-Forms

    May 15, 2026Bruno Trentini, Jacob Hume, Vincenzo Antonio Isoldi +3Point CloudsPopulations

    University of Oxford Oxford, UK · School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, MA, US · Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden, Germany

  44. Implicit Behavioral Decoding from Next-Step Spike Forecasts at Population Scale

    May 13, 2026John R. Minnick, Jesus Gonzalez-Ferrer, Kamran Hussain +6Neural RecordingsTime-To-First-Spike

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA · UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA · Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA +2

  45. SpikeProphecy: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Autoregressive Neural Population Forecasting

    May 13, 2026John R. Minnick, Jinghui Geng, Kamran Hussain +6Time-To-First-SpikePopulations

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA · UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA +2

  46. The Algorithmic Caricature: Auditing LLM-Generated Political Discourse Across Crisis Events

    May 12, 2026Gunjan, Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, Talal RahwanPolitical DiscourseDiscourse

    New York University (NYUAD), Division of Science, Computer Science Department

  47. Rethinking external validation for the target population: Capturing patient-level similarity with a generative model

    May 11, 2026Mohammad Azizmalayeri, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Saskia Houterman +2Cross ValidationValidation

    on behalf of the NHR THI registration committee · Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Dept of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands +3

  48. EVOCHAMBER: Test-Time Co-evolution of Multi-Agent System at Individual, Team, and Population Scales

    May 11, 2026Yaolun Zhang, Tianyi Xu, Shengyu Dai +3Multi-Agent EvolutionCo-Evolution

    1Oregon State University · 5AG2AI, Inc. · University of Wisconsin–Madison +2

  49. Sustaining Cooperation in Populations Guided by AI: A Folk Theorem for LLMs

    May 7, 2026Jonathan Shaki, Eden Hartman, Sarit Kraus +1CooperationEquilibrium

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

  50. Eliciting associations between clinical variables from LLMs via comparison questions across populations

    May 7, 2026Fabian Kabus, Kian Kordtomeikel, Thomas Brox +3ClinicalSpurious Correlations

    Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI), Medical Center, University of Freiburg · Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg · Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg +1

  51. Interpreting V1 Population Activity via Image-Neural Latent Representation Alignment

    May 5, 2026Xin Wang, Zhuangzhi Gao, Hongyi Qin +3Human Visual CortexVisual Perception

    School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China · Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom · Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom +2

  52. Geospatial foundation-model embeddings improve population estimation unevenly across space and scale

    May 3, 2026Wenbin Zhang, Eimear Cleary, Francisco Rowe +4Geospatial Foundation ModelsPopulations

    WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom · Geographic Data Science Lab, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

  53. Differential Subgroup Discovery: Characterizing Where Two Populations Differ, and Why

    Apr 30, 2026Sascha Xu, Jilles VreekenSubgroupsCovariate Balancing

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Saarbrücken, Germany

  54. Continuous Flood Nowcasting in South Asia: A Multi-Sensor Ensemble Remote Sensing Framework for Flood Extent

    Apr 29, 2026Usman Nazir, Disha Gomathinayagam, Muhammad Kamran +1Flood DetectionAccurate Flood Prediction

    Planetary Health Informatics (PHI) Lab, University of Oxford · Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford · PMIU Secretariat, Irrigation Department, Pakistan

  55. Who Trains Matters: Federated Learning under Enrollment and Participation Selection Biases

    Apr 29, 2026Gota MorishitaFederated LearningSelection Bias

    Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  56. The Effects of Population Size on the Performance of BEAGLE GPU-Based Genetic Programming Runs

    Apr 27, 2026Nathan Haut, Ilya Basin, Ruchika Gupta +4Genetic AlgorithmsSymbolic Regression

    Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824, USA · Noblis, Reston VA , USA

  57. Using Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Survey Data for Geographically Explicit Population Synthesis

    Apr 23, 2026Taylor Anderson, Sara Von Hoene, Orhan Yagizer Cinar +4Synthetic DataPopulations

    Dept. of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA · Dept. of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA · College of Public Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA +2

  58. L-System Genetic Encoding for Scalable Neural Network Evolution: A Comparison with Direct Matrix Encoding

    Apr 23, 2026Alexander Stuy, Nodin WeddingtonNeuroevolutionNeural Network

    Florida State University

  59. FairTree: Subgroup Fairness Auditing of Machine Learning Models with Bias-Variance Decomposition

    Apr 21, 2026Rudolf DebelakFairness AuditsAlgorithmic Fairness

    University of Zurich, Switzerland · EPFL, Switzerland

  60. Measuring Distribution Shift in User Prompts and Its Effects on LLM Performance

    Apr 19, 2026Parker Seegmiller, Sarah Masud PreumLarge Language Model ReliabilityDistribution Shifts

    Department of Computer Science Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, USA