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AAAI 2026 Workshop on Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation Models2026Language identification is a crucial first step in multilingual systems such as chatbots and virtual assistants, enabling linguistically and culturally accurate user experiences. Errors at this stage can cascade into downstream failures, setting a high bar for accuracy. Yet, existing language identification tools struggle with key cases–such as music requests where the song title and user language differ
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American Journal of Applied Sciences2026This paper reviews an easily expandable plan for smart document handling across multiple cloud systems, aiming to make work easier to manage, more resilient to issues, and improve the total cost of ownership. The importance of this task stems from two factors: first, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) tools are experiencing growth; second, multi-cloud use is expanding more widely. This increases the
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2026Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, enabling language agents to excel at single-turn tasks. However, their application to complex, multi-step, and long-horizon tasks remains challenging. While reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising avenue for addressing these challenges, mainstream approaches typically rely solely on sparse, outcome-based rewards, a limitation
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2026Causal discovery is central to enable causal models for tasks such as effect estimation, counterfactual reasoning, and root cause attribution. Yet existing approaches face trade-offs: purely statistical methods (e.g., PC, LiNGAM) often return structures that overlook domain knowledge, while expert-designed DAGs are difficult to scale and time-consuming to construct. We propose CausalFusion, a hybrid framework
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AAAI 2026 Workshop on Assessing and Improving Reliability of Foundation Models in the Real World2026In-context learning (ICL) with Large Language Models has been historically effective, but performance depends heavily on demonstration quality while annotation budgets remain constrained. Existing uncertainty-based selection methods like Cover-ICL achieve strong performance through logit-based uncertainty estimation, but most production LLMs operate as black-box APIs where internal states are inaccessible
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