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Researchers across academia increasingly base significance claims on LLM judge scores and small-sample AI evaluations. Yet without well-calibrated confidence intervals (CIs), hypothesis tests, and judge-bias corrections, such claims are unreliable. We address these issues in…

Small open-source large language models (LLMs) in the 0.6B-4B parameter range are increasingly deployed for structured output generation (JSON, function calling, data extraction), yet little is known about how constrained decoding (CD) interacts with model scale in this regime.…

Scientific agents support a range of literature-based research tasks, such as retrieval, question answering, evidence-grounded generation, and claim assessment. Most existing systems, however, are organized around individual tasks: the same papers are repeatedly retrieved,…

Feed-forward visual geometry models such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) have recently enabled direct 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. Despite their promising performance, these models scale quadratically with the number of input views due to their…