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Announcing the ISODS Index: A Public Directory of Data Science & AI Programs

Announcing the ISODS Index: A Public Directory of Data Science & AI Programs

ISODS is pleased to announce the ISODS Index of Data Science & AI Programs, a public catalog of degree programs in data science, artificial intelligence and related fields. The index is live today at /catalog.
Collaboration Between ISODS and Vietnam

Collaboration Between ISODS and Vietnam

The International Society of Data Scientists (ISODS) have established a formal collaboration with Vietnam to co-develop, standardize, and deliver advanced training programs in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data science. 
Alaa Abdelmoaty Named Vice President of ISODS Egypt

Alaa Abdelmoaty Named Vice President of ISODS Egypt

We are excited to share that Alaa Abdelmoaty Elbiomy Eldreny is taking on the role of Vice President for ISODS Egypt! Many of you already know Alaa from her work as a Tech Society representative with us. Over the past few years, she has been a steady presence in our community, bringing together her background in academic research and her passion for teaching.

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Evidence-Grounded SLM Behavioral Prediction Architecture for Future Assistance Use

arXiv:2610.32193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often exhibit changes in interaction behavior before explicitly seeking assistance, enabling systems to anticipate future assistance use. This is especially important in high-stakes environments, where delayed assistance can have operational, financial, or safety consequences. However, conventional Large Language Models (LLMs) are often unsuitable for continuous on-device behavioral prediction because of their computational and memory…

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Not All Information Is Worth Asking For: Decision-Informed Information Seeking with LLMs

arXiv:2610.32181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support decisions under incomplete information, where deciding what to look up and when to stop matters as much as the final answer. However, LLMs fall into an information trap: They pay for checks, i.e., costly pieces of evidence, that cannot change their decision or are not worth their cost, and they keep asking when the evidence is already sufficient. To this end, we propose…

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$\Psi$-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language World Model

arXiv:2610.32177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans reason about the physical world by flexibly combining different forms of inference as a problem unfolds. Achieving this flexibility is a major open challenge in AI: capabilities often remain separated across specialized models, limiting how they can be composed and jointly adapted to a task. We introduce $\Psi$-0.6, a unified vision-language world model that adaptively composes perception, language, geometry, and simulation within a shared…

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MPQ: A Message-Passing View of Post-Training Quantization

arXiv:2610.32127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a key technique for efficiently deploying large language models, as it compresses weights into low-bit representations without retraining. Existing PTQ solvers, including GPTQ, LDLQ, and block coordinate descent, commit each weight block to a single codeword before its neighbors are considered, leaving near-optimal alternatives unexplored. In this work, we cast row-wise PTQ as posterior inference over discrete…

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Who Verifies the Tools? How Warped Formatters Mislead Agents and Their Verifiers

arXiv:2610.32110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents and verifiers often rely on the text a tool prints, and that text can misrepresent what the tool actually did, even when the tool's computation is correct. We saw this happen in a production RAG research system used by the Pilsudski Institute in New York, where tool output formatters misled an agent into giving wrong or incomplete information to users. Each tool did its job correctly, but its output omitted search limits, result caps, or…

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PersonaScienceBench: Evaluating Scientific Agents with Diverse Simulated Researchers

arXiv:2610.32106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific agents collaborate with researchers whose expertise and preferences differ, but benchmarks usually hold the collaborator fixed. We introduce PersonaScienceBench: 200 tasks from five benchmarks across four scientific domains. Simulated researchers provide context and feedback according to persona profiles, while task objectives and grading remain fixed. Agents encounter researcher preferences only through conversation. Across eighteen…

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