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2026Text anonymization is a critical task for enabling research and development in high-stakes domains containing private data, like medicine, law, and social services. While much research has focused on redacting sensitive content from text, substantially less work has focused on what to replace redacted content with, which can enhance privacy and becomes increasingly important with greater levels of redaction
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2026While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has proven effective for generating accurate, context-based responses based on existing knowledge bases, it presents several challenges including retrieval quality dependencies, integration complexity and cost. Recent advances in agentic-RAG and tool-augmented LLM architectures have introduced alternative approaches to information retrieval and processing. We question
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2026Vectorized High-Definition (HD) maps offer rich and precise environmental information about driving scenes, playing a crucial role in improving driver safety by supporting autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Processing individual camera images creates fragmented view of the world requiring complex and error-prone merging. Existing multi-view camera methods train deep neural
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2026We study streaming data with categorical features where the vocabulary of categorical feature values is changing and can even grow unboundedly over time. Feature hashing is commonly used as a pre-processing step to map these categorical values into a feature space of fixed size before learning their embeddings (Coleman et al. 2024; Desai, Chou, and Shrivastava 2022). While these methods have been developed
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2026Workflow automation is critical for reducing manual efforts in industries, yet existing pipelines fail to handle generative tasks like summarization and extraction without pre-built tools, forcing human intervention. While LLM-based agents offer solutions, their creation depends heavily on prompt engineering—a resource-intensive process often yielding sub-optimal results. Current automated approaches face
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