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Bangla, the seventh most spoken language in the world, exhibits significant regional dialectal diversity, with dialects such as Barishal, Chattogram, Sylhet, Noakhali, and Mymensingh differing in lexical, morphological, and syntactic characteristics. These variations pose…

Strategic classification studies how a decision maker should choose a classifier when the agents being classified can adjust their features in response to it. In existing models, the classifier is the only instrument available to the decision maker, and therefore a feature that…

International law provides the normative framework through which states coordinate action, regulate armed conflict, and protect human rights, yet its texts remain without token-level named entity recognition (NER) resources. We introduce IntLawNER, a NER dataset and benchmark…

Cosine similarity is widely used to analyze transformer representations, implicitly assuming that similarity reflects task-relevant structure. We study when this assumption fails in dialogue-conditioned large language models. Across three 7-8B chat-tuned models, ambient cosine…