Sensitivity Analysis

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Sensitivity analysis asks which inputs, assumptions, or model components drive an output, and how strongly their effects change across conditions. Common approaches include controlled perturbations, derivative and adjoint methods, variance-based measures such as Sobol indices, Shapley effects, and surrogate models for costly simulations. These tools are used to understand physical and agent-based models, assess causal conclusions, prioritize features, and audit machine-learning reliability and robustness. A central challenge is making analysis scalable while distinguishing sensitivity from causality or correctness: accurate predictions and strong average scores do not guarantee credible responses to specific changes.

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  1. Sensitivity Analysis of Decision Rules in an Agent-Based Agro-Ecological Model

    Oct 15, 2026Benjamin Pianet, Baptiste Lesquoy, Paul Saves +4Sensitivity AnalysisAgent-Based Modeling

  2. Sensitivity Fidelity Reveals Physical Dependencies Beyond Forecast Accuracy in Deep-Learning Earth-System Models

    Oct 11, 2026Qi Chen, Peng Zhan, Hongxing Cui +2Sensitivity AnalysisNeural Surrogate Modeling

    Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. · Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. · Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

  3. Do Time-Series QA Systems Read the Time Series? Evidence Use and Reasoning Reliability

    Oct 5, 2026Zhuomin Chen, Jingchao Ni, Xu Zheng +4Time Series ReasoningTime Series QA

    Florida International University · University of Houston · NEC Laboratories America +1

  4. DePICT: Decision-Preserving Interface for Constrained Downstream Tasks

    Oct 2, 2026Utkarsh Grover, Ravi Ranjan, Agoritsa Polyzou +4Predict-Then-OptimizeConstrained Optimization

    University of South Florida · Florida International University · DEVCOM Army Research Lab

  5. Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression

    Sep 28, 2026Xingyu Zhu, Pu, Yi +6Long-Context RetrievalKV-Cache Compression

    Luke · ByteDance Seed · University of California, Berkeley

  6. Learning Samples Importance: Parameterizing Dual Variables in Everywhere Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Ignacio Boero, Jonathan Nixon, Alejandro RibeiroConstrained OptimizationSensitivity Analysis

    University of Pennsylvania

  7. Understanding Perturbed Parameter Ensemble Sensitivities Using A Contrastive Learning Approach

    Sep 24, 2026Da Fan, David John Gagne, Gregory S Elsaesser +5Climate ModelingSensitivity Analysis

    Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP) National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA +2

  8. ModaLens: Measuring Image Sensitivity in Report-Conditioned Medical VLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordóñez, Maximin Lange, Quang Bui +9VLM EvaluationRadiology VLMs

    MIT Critical Data, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · King’s College London · American International School Vienna +6

  9. Signed Sensitivity of Expected Hitting Time to Mutation Rate in the (1+1) EA: Per-State Sign Theorems and Verifiable Certificates for Non-Lumpable Families

    Sep 11, 2026RenKai WangRuntime Analysis of Evolutionary AlgorithmsSensitivity Analysis

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

  10. Estimating Inconsistency Response Surfaces under Uncertainty in Cyber-Physical System Development

    Sep 10, 2026Johannes Mäkelburg, Tim Schwabe, Maribel AcostaCyber-Physical SystemsSurrogate Modeling

    Technische Universität München Munich, Germany

  11. A Group-Based Resource Allocation Model for the Fractional Knapsack Problem

    Sep 6, 2026Abhinaba ChakrabortyCombinatorial OptimizationSensitivity Analysis

    ID Lab, University of Ghent-imec, Ghent, Belgium

  12. Mutual information and sensitivity analysis for feature selection in customer targeting: a comparative study

    Aug 20, 2026Nestor Barraza, Sergio Moro, Marcelo Ferreyra +1Feature SelectionMutual Information

    Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Caseros, Argentina · Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISTAR-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal · ALGORITMI Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal +2

  13. Information fusion and machine learning for sensitivity analysis using physics knowledge and experimental data

    Aug 18, 2026Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Sankaran MahadevanSensitivity AnalysisPhysics-Informed ML

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

  14. BRAID: Learning Equilibrium Maps in Interdependent Security Games via Weight-Tied Iterative Graph Neural Networks

    Aug 14, 2026Elnaz Nowrouzi, Zhiqun Zuo, Xueru Zhang +1Nash Equilibrium ComputationGame Theory

    Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

  15. Sensitivity, Causality, and Repair Dissociate: A Layer-Wise Analysis of Perturbation Robustness and Its Scaling

    Aug 4, 2026Nathan Labiosa, David Buff, Ena Nayak +1LLM InterpretabilityAdversarial Robustness of Language Models

    University of Southern California

  16. From Training to Deployment: Post-Hoc Causal Feature Identification via Sensitivity Ratios

    Jul 28, 2026Athanasios Vlontzos, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Bernhard Kainz +1Feature AttributionCausal Attribution

    Hologen AI London, UK · Mathematics Research Centre Academy of Athens Athens, GR · FAU Erlangen Nuremberg Imperial College London Erlangen, DE & London, UK +1

  17. An Adjoint-Sensitivity Framework for Lost-in-the-Middle Phenomena in Causal Residual Transformers

    Jul 20, 2026Cheng Huan, Hongwei YuanLost-in-the-Middle EffectTransformer Attention

    Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. · Department of Mathematics, University of Macau.

  18. Which Hyperparameters Matter? A Game-Theoretic Framework for Interpretable Hyperparameter Sensitivity Analysis

    Jul 17, 2026Nyi Nyi Aung, Heepeom Shin, Abigail Lawlor +1Hyperparameter OptimizationSensitivity Analysis

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, USA

  19. Hybrid Uncertainty Sensitivity Analysis Based on the HSIC for High-Dimensional Responses with Aleatory--Epistemic Separation

    Jun 12, 2026Shijie Zhong, Jiangfeng Fu, Pengfei WeiUncertainty QuantificationAleatoric Uncertainty

    School of Power and Energy Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi’an, Shanxi 710129

  20. On the Generalization in Topology Optimization via Sensitivity-Conditioned Bernoulli Flow Matching

    Jun 1, 2026Mohammad Rashed, Duarte F. Valoroso Madeira, Babak Gholami +3Neural Surrogate ModelingTopology Optimization

    School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany · BMW AG, Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany. +1

  21. Knowledge Dependency Estimation for Reliable Question Answering

    May 27, 2026Chaodong Tong, Qi Zhang, Nannan Sun +2Knowledge-Intensive QASensitivity Analysis

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  22. Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Debris Capture with Active Tether-Net Systems Caused by Noisy Observations

    May 26, 2026Feng Liu, Achira Boonrath, Eleonora M. Botta +1Uncertainty QuantificationSensitivity Analysis

    University at Buffalo · Buffalo, New York, 14260

  23. Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits

    May 17, 2026Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao, Ding Chen +1Human Behavior SimulationAgent-Based Modeling

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California · Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California · Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

  24. Quantifying Sensitivity for Tree Ensembles: A symbolic and compositional approach

    May 13, 2026Ajinkya Naik, Chaitanya Garg, S. Akshay +2Ensemble LearningFormal Verification

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India · University of Toronto, Canada

  25. Amortizing Causal Sensitivity Analysis via Prior Data-Fitted Networks

    May 11, 2026Emil Javurek, Dennis Frauen, Marie Brockschmidt +2Causal Effect EstimationAmortized Inference

    1LMU Munich · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

  26. Statistical Model Checking of the Keynes+Schumpeter Model: A Transient Sensitivity Analysis of a Macroeconomic ABM

    May 11, 2026Stefano Blando, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mauro Napoletano +2Statistical Model CheckingAgent-Based Modeling

    Institute of Economics and L’EMbeDS2026 Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy · GREDEG, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur Sophia Antipolis, France · Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands

  27. Bayesian Sensitivity of Causal Inference Estimators under Evidence-Based Priors

    May 8, 2026Nikita Dhawan, Daniel Shen, Leonardo Cotta +1Causal Effect EstimationBayesian Inference

    University of Toronto Vector Institute · University of Waterloo · Vector Institute

  28. Format Sensitivity Index: Token-Controlled Prompt Wrapper Robustness and Schema Compliance in LLM Benchmarking

    May 2, 2026Deep Pankajbhai MehtaPrompt SensitivityLLM Evaluation

    Adobe Inc.

  29. Minimum Specification Perturbation: Robustness as Distance-to-Falsification in Causal Inference

    May 2, 2026Hoang Dang, Luan Pham, Minh NguyenCausal Effect EstimationCausal Inference

    Independent Researcher · RMIT University, Australia · Florida Atlantic University, USA

  30. Measuring the Sensitivity of Classification Models with the Error Sensitivity Profile

    Apr 28, 2026Andrea MaurinoTraining Data CurationTabular ML

    Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione Viale Sarca 336,20126 Milano, Italy