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• How Many Labeled Examples Does a Text Classifier Actually Need? I Measured It. — A controlled experiment with 70 synthetic support tickets shows TF-IDF + logistic regression reaches 60% accuracy with only 10 labeled examples per class at sub-millisecond inference — posing a direct cost argument against defaulting to LLM APIs for every classification task.
• CRAF: Cross-View Residual-Aware Fusion for Deepfake Speech Detection — CRAF fuses self-supervised acoustic models with Auditory Large Language Models via residual-aware cross-view attention to detect deepfake speech, achieving 5.96% EER on ASVspoof 5—improving generalization to spoofing attacks not seen during training.
• Enemray: Toward Capable Language Models for Hassaniya — Enemray is the first Hassaniya-centric language model for the Arabic dialect spoken in Mauritania, achieving the strongest English-to-Hassaniya translation among tested open and proprietary models while retaining most general capabilities on math, code, and function calling.
• Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures — Continual Search, an iterative root-cause attribution framework for AI agent failures, improves GPT-5.5's F1 score on long-horizon failure diagnosis from 0.349 to 0.498—and shows that lower-tier models using effective search can surpass higher-tier models relying on one-shot judgment.
• CRITICS - Critical Science Without Borders: Language Models to Promote Critical Thinking in Science Education — The CRITICS project combines LLM-powered machine translation tuned for scientific content with curriculum-aligned science education tools, aiming to break language barriers to scientific knowledge for non-English-speaking students—presented at SEPLN 2026.
• FaithfulBench: Does AI Counsel Uphold or Undermine the User's Professed Faith? — FaithfulBench finds every tested frontier AI model defaults to secular counseling when a user's religion is unstated, failing some believers — and even when faith is named, models give faith-aligned first answers but capitulate when users push back.
• Domain-Specific Jargon in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis between General-Purpose and Specialist Models — Medical fine-tuning of Llama-3.1 counterintuitively hurts jargon comprehension versus the base model — mechanistic interpretability shows the fine-tuned model over-weights a small set of jargon-favoring components instead of redistributing parametric knowledge, accepted to EMNLP 2026.
• Understanding the Limits of Agentic ICD Coding — A study accepted at EMNLP 2026 maps three distinct failure modes in AI-based ICD-10-CM medical coding: neural systems show a 0.43 micro-F1 gap on rare codes, workflow systems fail on injury/causality codes, and tool-augmented agents partially recover—but no single approach dominates across all conditions.
• Bangla Sentence Function Classification: Corpus Development, Model Benchmarking, and Interpretability — Researchers introduce a 10,000-sentence annotated Bangla corpus for sentence function classification across four categories, with a Double-Level Ensemble achieving 0.95 accuracy and macro-F1—establishing the first strong baselines for this task in a language spoken by ~230 million people.
• Thought without systematicity? Evaluating reasoning models on rule induction tasks — A study by Schug and Lake (NYU) finds that current reasoning models consistently fail on structurally equivalent variants of tasks they can solve—exposing that model capabilities may be tightly context-bound rather than reflecting genuine systematicity, a fundamental property of human cognition.