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Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
Kevin Zheng, Linda Huber, Aaron Stark, Nathan Kim, Francesca Lameiro, Wells Lucas Santo, Shreya Chowdhary, Eugene Kim, Justine Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08313

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to …

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SHIELDA: Structured Handling of Exceptions in LLM-Driven Agentic Workflows
Jingwen Zhou, Jieshan Chen, Qinghua Lu, Dehai Zhao, Liming Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07935 https:…

SHIELDA: Structured Handling of Exceptions in LLM-Driven Agentic Workflows
Large Language Model (LLM) agentic systems are software systems powered by LLMs that autonomously reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows to achieve human goals, rather than merely executing predefined steps. During execution, these workflows frequently encounter exceptions. Existing exception handling solutions often treat exceptions superficially, failing to trace execution-phase exceptions to their reasoning-phase root causes. Furthermore, their recovery logic is brittle, lacking stru…

Jupiter: Enhancing LLM Data Analysis Capabilities via Notebook and Inference-Time Value-Guided Search
Shuocheng Li, Yihao Liu, Silin Du, Wenxuan Zeng, Zhe Xu, Mengyu Zhou, Yeye He, Haoyu Dong, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09245

Jupiter: Enhancing LLM Data Analysis Capabilities via Notebook and Inference-Time Value-Guided Search
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in automating data science workflows, but existing models still struggle with multi-step reasoning and tool use, which limits their effectiveness on complex data analysis tasks. To address this, we propose a scalable pipeline that extracts high-quality, tool-based data analysis tasks and their executable multi-step solutions from real-world Jupyter notebooks and associated data files. Using this pipeline, we introduce NbQA, a large-scale dat…

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Workflow for High-Fidelity Dynamic Analysis of Structures with Pile Foundation
Amin Pakzad, Pedro Arduino, Wenyang Zhang, Ertugrul Tacirouglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05675 ht…

Workflow for High-Fidelity Dynamic Analysis of Structures with Pile Foundation
The demand for high-fidelity numerical simulations in soil-structure interaction analysis is on the rise, yet a standardized workflow to guide the creation of such simulations remains elusive. This paper aims to bridge this gap by presenting a step-by-step guideline proposing a workflow for dynamic analysis of structures with pile foundations. The proposed workflow encompasses instructions on how to use Domain Reduction Method for loading, Perfectly Matched Layer elements for wave absorption, s…

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Remember: reusing, giving away or selling used stuff is a crime against the economy. You should dispose of them, so that others will have the opportunity to buy new stuff. This way, you create workplaces in so many areas: collecting, processing and storing garbage, mining for resources, processing them, production; and of course transport, marketing, sales. Isn't capitalism magnificent?
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The IRS is rescinding layoffs at its civil rights office, an early target in its plans to slash its total headcount.
IRS Commissioner Billy Long, in a memo obtained by Federal News Network, told employees in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance that the agency is “reversing” reduction-in-force notices they received in April.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Capturing and Sharing Know-How through Visual Process Representations: A Human-Centred Approach to Teacher Workflows
Gloria Fern\'andez-Nieto, Vanessa Echeverria, Yuheng Li, Yi-Shan Tsai, Lele Sha, Guanliang Chen, Dragan Gasevic, Zachari Swiecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04357

Capturing and Sharing Know-How through Visual Process Representations: A Human-Centred Approach to Teacher Workflows
Knowledge Management is crucial for capturing and transferring expertise within universities, especially in high staff turnover contexts where expertise loss disrupts teaching. Documenting teachers' workflows is time-intensive and diverts experts from core responsibilities. Sequential Pattern Mining (SPM) leverages log data to identify expert workflows, offering an automated alternative to represent workflows but requiring transformation into intuitive formats for novice educators. This paper i…

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