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  1. Always-On Experimentation

    Sep 30, 2026Ricardo J. Sandoval, David Arbour, Avi Feller +1Two-Sample TestingControlled Study

    University of California, Berkeley · Adobe Research · Inria, Paris

  2. When Upstream Messages Override Correct Answers: A Controlled Study of Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

    Sep 29, 2026Yaxin Gong, Gangyi Zhang, Chongming Gao +7Multi-Agent Large Language Model SystemsDownstream Reasoning

    University of Science and Technology of China · Qwen Business Unit of Alibaba · National University of Singapore

  3. NeuronSifter: Intervention Planning in CNS Microenvironments

    Sep 28, 2026Haowei Xu, Wanyi Fu, Hongbin Han +1Controlled StudyDecisions

    Institute of Medical Technology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China · Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Neuromodulation and Brain Disorder Treatment, Beijing, China · Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China +1

  4. MAD-Guard: Controlled Study of Autoregressive Generation versus Direct Decision Interfaces for Closed Multimodal Forensic Tasks

    Sep 27, 2026Hao ChenMultimodal RepresentationsAutoregressive Generation

    School of Cyber Security, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  5. Sharp Limits for Honest Uncertainty in Hard-Budget Repeated Evaluation

    Sep 24, 2026Yezhou Cheng, Runjia Du, Zeming Liu +5Confidence IntervalsControlled Study

    Independent · Northwestern University · Pinterest, Inc.

  6. KITE: Scaling Jev Population Experiments with Sparse Flagship Calibration

    Sep 23, 2026Hengyu LiControlled Study

    The University of Tokyo

  7. When Learned Context Planning Fails to Beat Strong Retrieval: A Controlled Study of Planning, Routing, and Reranking for Long-Context QA

    Sep 22, 2026Yingrui Li, Han ChenLong-Context ReasoningContextual Reasoning

    Independent Researcher, United States

  8. Does AI Save Time on Product Design? A Randomized Controlled Experiment of AI Prompt-to-Design Workflows

    Sep 22, 2026Remy Stewart, Olabode Anise, Andrew Hogan +1Ai-BasedControlled Study

    Figma, San Francisco, California, USA

  9. FIRE: Failure-Informed Runtime Engineering for Reliable Language-Model Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Nikita Agarwal, Nivedit JainRuntimeEngineering

    Failproof AI

  10. Trustworthy FinAInce: Unpacking How AI-Mediated Financial Advice is Judged

    Sep 17, 2026Aryan Ramchandra Kapadia, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Koustuv SahaAdviceFinancial Strategy Research

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

  11. F-DACE: Fuzzy Disagreement-Aware Causal Evidence Fusion for Abstention-Safe Conversational Retail Decision Support

    Sep 16, 2026Sourish DeyDecisionsEvidence Fusion

    Data Science and Machine Learning, Centric Software

  12. SFT or RL for Tool-Calling Agents? A Controlled Study Across Data, Method, and Scale

    Sep 15, 2026Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, Shashi Bhushan TNLanguage-Model AgentsFlow-Grpo

    Dialpad Inc.

  13. Continuous Manifold-Decomposed Impedance Retargeting for Contact-Rich Imitation Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Jiahao Liu, Kento Kawaharazuka, Tasuku Makabe +1Impedance ControlImitation Learning

    Department of Mechano-Informatics Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  14. Graph Attention Design Choices Matter: A Controlled Study of LoRA-Adapted Audio Anti-Spoofing

    Sep 14, 2026Haoyu Wang, Jing Yang, Chenyu Liu +7Neural AudioSpoofing

    School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China · MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc., Beijing, China · School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +1

  15. Do Influence-Derived Data Perturbations Enable Machine Unlearning? A Controlled Study of Three Plausible Roles

    Sep 14, 2026Chenkai Wu, Chrispine Kambimbi, Qinyang Zeng +1Machine UnlearningDeletion

    Monash University · LibrAI · Tongji University +1

  16. Is Gaussian Splatting Becoming Neural Again? A Taxonomy and Controlled Study of Learned Parameterization

    Sep 14, 2026YuanHang Wang, Xin Cao, Yi ZhangDynamic 3D Gaussian SplattingRasterization

    University of Technology Sydney

  17. Loop-Back Authority in LLM Agent Teams: A Paired Experiment on Flat and Hierarchical Coordination

    Sep 13, 2026Burak Agachan, Max van Duijn, Amirhossein ZohrehvandMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsOrganizational Research

    Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  18. Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain

    Sep 7, 2026Pengyin ShanAi-Assisted Programming TasksModel Auditing

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA

  19. Artificial Intelligence for Energy Optimization in Data Centers

    Sep 3, 2026Mohammed Basharath Ullah, Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem UllahEnergy-EfficientEnergy Resources

    Hyderabad, India

  20. Resolution-Aware Experimental Design under Partial Identifiability

    Sep 3, 2026Sofianos Panagiotis FotiasBayesian Experimental DesignIdentifiability

    National Technical University of Athens

  21. Does Fault Localization Beat a Fresh Attempt? A Placebo-Controlled Study of Test-Guided Code Repair

    Sep 1, 2026Anik JhaRepairFault Diagnosis

    Independent Researcher

  22. When Does Bigger Help? A Controlled Study of LLM Scale for Ontology Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Hamed Babaei Giglou, Sören Auer, Jennifer D'SouzaModel SizeLearn

    TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany · L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  23. Dear Algo: A Precision-First Agentic Intent Layer for Unified Search and Recommendation

    Aug 16, 2026Rui Wang, Jiazhou Wang, Zheng Wei +16RecommendationDiscovery

    Meta Platforms Inc. USA · Google DeepMind, USA

  24. A Controlled Study of Self-Supervised Image and Video Pretraining under Limited Resources

    Aug 13, 2026Brunó B. Englert, Gijs DubbelmanSelf-Supervised LearningVision Foundation Models

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  25. Excess Separability: Nuisance-Controlled Residual-Stream Probing for Benchmark Contamination Detection

    Aug 12, 2026Florian BraunTamper LocalizationModel Auditing

  26. A Controlled Study of Feature-Based Knowledge Distillation Across Student Designs

    Aug 8, 2026Abhinand Balachandran, Praveen PrashantKnowledge DistillationResnet-18

    Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  27. Authoring and Management of Transparent Research Integrity Assessments of Randomised Clinical Trial Publications Using LLM-assisted Tools and Provenance Knowledge Graphs

    Aug 7, 2026Milan Markovic, Goutham Indukuri, Somayajulu Sripada +7Systematic ReviewResearch Automation

    Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK · Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK · Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University, USA +3

  28. Do 3D Medical Foundation Models See Through MRI Artifacts? A Controlled Study of Representation Robustness

    Aug 6, 2026Julia Anna Mielcarz, Daniel Klaaby, Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi3D Foundation ModelsMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  29. Target-Weighted Neyman Allocation: Experimental Design for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects under Population Shift

    Aug 6, 2026Hoang Dang, Luan Pham, Minh NguyenHeterogeneous Treatment EffectsBayesian Experimental Design

    Independent Researcher · University of New South Wales, Australia · Florida Atlantic University, USA

  30. The Price of Isolation: Estimating the Ecosystem Cost of Symmetric Two-Sided A/B Testing

    Aug 5, 2026Yuanyuan Shen, Yiren Yan, Wenjie Li +1Cost-AwareControlled Study

    Snap Inc. New York, NY, USA · Snap Inc. Palo Alto, CA, USA

  31. Can AI Agents Simulate A/B Test Outcomes? A Validation Framework for Agentic Experimentation

    Aug 3, 2026Stefan Hut, Lorenzo MasoeroControlled StudyBehavioral Foundation Models

    Amazon

  32. When Does Explicit View Routing Work? A Controlled Study of Multi-View Graph-Text Alignment

    Jul 29, 2026Xiao Yue, Guangzhi QuGraph-Based RetrievalImplicit

    Xiao Yue Guangzhi Qu Oakland University

  33. When Do Learned Diffusion Proposals Help Constraint Solving? A Controlled Study on Continuous Algebraic Systems

    Jul 29, 2026Quang Bui, Sparsh Roy, Akash Gundimeda +1SolversAlgebraic Structures

    1SAID Lab · 2American International School Vienna · 3Hopewell Valley Central High School +2

  34. Controlled Experiments on Lane Changing by Transitional Autonomous Vehicle: Dataset and Behavioral Insights

    Jul 29, 2026Abhinav Sharma, Md Abdullah Al Hasan, Danjue Chen +1Automated VehiclesNaturalistic Driving Data

    Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695, USA · Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State2026 University Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

  35. Try Again, Don't Look Back: Blind Resampling Outperforms Self-Repair in Small Code Models

    Jul 28, 2026Yuvraj VermaRetryingSelf-Repair

    Independent Researcher, India.

  36. Do Context Files Help Coding Agents? A Two-Agent Ablation Study on Real Repositories

    Jul 28, 2026Prakhar KhatriCoding AgentsAblation

    Independent Researcher

  37. Spectral Truncation in Synthetic Control

    Jul 27, 2026Mojtaba EslamiControlled StudyTruncation

    University of Calgary

  38. Do Current Retrievers Cover All the Evidence? A Controlled Study of Conjunctive Cross-Page Retrieval

    Jul 27, 2026Sungguk Cha, DongWook Kim, Mintae Kim +3DocumentControlled Study

    LG Uplus, Seoul, South Korea

  39. Bounding the Causal Impact of ML-assisted Decision-Making via Counterfactual Correctness

    Jul 23, 2026Jonathan Zhang, Erik Skalnes, Jacob Chen +1Causal InferencesCounterfactual Generation

    Computer Science Dept., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  40. Error Certificates for KV-Cache Eviction via Randomized Design

    Jul 23, 2026Peng XieKey-Value Cache EvictionEviction

    Technical University of Munich

  41. Moving Alphabet: A Controlled Study of Training Data for Text-to-Video Generation

    Jul 21, 2026Amber Yijia Zheng, Lu Liu, Raymond A. Yeh +1Text-To-Video Generation ModelVideo Dataset

    Meta Superintelligence Labs · Purdue University · Work done during an internship at Meta Superintelligence Labs

  42. A Controlled Study of Attention-Only Transformers

    Jul 20, 2026Henry Ndubuaku, Karen Mosoyan, Jakub Mroz +5Transformer AttentionTransformer Encoder

    Cactus Compute, Inc.

  43. Form, Not Content? A Preregistered, Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of Learned Error-Conditioned Self-Repair Through Prompts and Weights in Frozen Small Code Models

    Jul 14, 2026Mehmet IscanControlled StudyFrozen Language Model

    PythaLab, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

  44. 3D-DefectBench: A Controlled Factorial Study of Vision-Language Model Evaluation Pipelines for Fine-Grained 3D Generation Defects

    Jul 12, 2026Zhenyu Zhao, Nanshan Jia, Jihyeon Je +7Controlled Study

    1Roblox Corporation · 2Berkeley AI Research Lab & Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley · * This work was done while Nanshan Jia, Jihyeon Je, and Yifu Tang were interns at Roblox Corporation. +2

  45. When Does High-CFG Diffusion Inversion Fail? A Controlled Study of Prompt--Latent Interactions

    Jul 6, 2026Yan Zeng, Yusuke Hosoya, Huyen T. T. Tran +1Diffusion InversionDiffusion-Based Image Editing

    GSIS Tohoku University Sendai, Japan · RIKEN AIP JAPAN

  46. Full Glyph Images Beat Token Embeddings: A Controlled Study for Transformers

    Jul 4, 2026Shuyang Xiang, Hao GuanToken EmbeddingsTransformer Architectures

    Independent Researcher. · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  47. How Much Future Helps? A Controlled Study of Future-Privileged Supervision for Causal Egocentric Gaze Estimation

    Jul 1, 2026Jia Li, Wenjie Zhao, Fnu Atisri +5Gaze Target EstimationGaze Behavior

    The University of Texas at Dallas · University of Washington · University of Wisconsin–Madison

  48. Falsification, Not Exposure: An Internally Preregistered Placebo-Controlled Decomposition of Self-Repair Feedback in Frozen Small Code Models

    Jun 30, 2026Mehmet IscanFalsehoodControlled Study

    PythaLab, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

  49. A specialized reasoning large language model for accelerating rare disease diagnosis: a randomized AI physician assistance trial

    Jun 23, 2026Haichao Chen, Songchi Zhou, Zhengyun Zhao +28Rare DiseaseReasoning Skills

    Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Department of Ophthalmology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. · Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. +19

  50. Knowledge-Graph Grounding Helps LLMs Only for Out-of-Training Knowledge: A Controlled Study on Clinical Question Answering

    Jun 21, 2026Madhulatha Mandarapu, Sandeep KunkunuruContextual GroundingControlled Study

    samyama

  51. A Controlled Study of CLIP-Based Body-Scene Fusion for Emotion Recognition in Context

    Jun 20, 2026Zubair Abbas, Muhammad Umair, Muqaddas HameedEmotion RecognitionScene Context

    Department of Computer Science, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

  52. Adaptive Beam Selection for Efficient Scanning Probe Tomography

    Jun 19, 2026San Dinh, Zichao Wendy Di, Matt MenickellyCone-Beam Computed TomographyReconstruction Error

    Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA

  53. A comparative and critical study of EEGNet for fNIRS-driven cognitive load classification

    Jun 15, 2026Mehshan Ahmed Khan, Houshyar Asadi, Li Zhang +8Cognitive LoadIndependent Component Analysis

    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong Warun Ponds Campus, Victoria 3216, Australia · Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom · College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4814, Australia +4

  54. Graph Diffusion Residuals for Control-Function Instrumental Variables

    Jun 12, 2026Rui Wu, Zongyuan Chen, Hong Xie +2Residual Conditional Diffusion ModelHeteroskedasticity

    School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China

  55. Discovery under Hypothesis Redundancy: A Geometric Theory of Discovery Bottlenecks

    Jun 12, 2026Li Xia, Baoxun WangModel DiscoveryDiscovery

    School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University · Platform & Content Group, Tencent

  56. Ride, Track, and Recover: Pilot Randomized Trial of a Wearable Digital Self-Management Intervention During a Veteran Endurance-Cycling Program

    Jun 11, 2026Alan Ta, Nilsu Salgin, Caleb Armstrong +2FearsValence-Arousal Estimation

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3127 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3127 · Texas A&M Health Telehealth Institute, 1700 Research Pkwy, Suite 250, College Station, TX 77845

  57. Estimating Individualized Treatment Effects in Acute Ischemic Stroke with Causal Transformation Models (TRAM-DAG): A Multi-Centre Observational Study with External RCT Validation

    Jun 10, 2026Lisa Herzog, Oliver Dürr, Pascal Bühler +4StrokeHeterogeneous Treatment Effects

    Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Switzerland · Thurgau Institute for Digital Transformation (TIDIT), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland · HTWG Konstanz – University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany +1

  58. When Do Autoregressive Sequence Models Forecast Physical Wavefields? A Controlled Study on Synthetic Seismograms

    Jun 9, 2026Waleed Esmail, Stuart Russell, Jana Klinge +2Autoregressive ModelFull Waveform Inversion

    Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Münster Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149 Münster, Germany · Institut für Geophysik, Universität Münster Corrensstraße 24, 48149 Münster, Germany · James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Douglas, QLD 4814, Australia +1

  59. Echo-Memory: A Controlled Study of Memory in Action World Models

    Jun 8, 2026Wayne King, Zeyue Xue, Yuxuan Bian +13ReplayWorld Models

    The University of Hong Kong · Joy Future Academy, JD · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +5

  60. LLM Consortium for Software Design Refinement: A Controlled Experiment on Multi-Agent Collaboration Topologies

    May 31, 2026Nagarjuna Kanamarlapudi, Praveen KMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsCollaboration

    Fremont, USA