ASMR: Agentic Schema Generation for Ship Maintenance Report Writing

In this paper, we study the automatic schema generation problem: given a collection of historical ship maintenance and operational reports across multiple form categories, automatically discover compact and informative schemas that capture the essential information requirements of each report type. To address this challenge, we propose ASMR, a modular agentic framework consisting of two specialized agents. A Field Generation Agent extracts semantic concepts from historical narratives and generates candidate schema fields through adaptive multi-granularity clustering, while a Structural Optimizer Agent employs reinforcement learning to identify compact, informative, and non-redundant schema representations. The resulting schemas can guide report authors toward producing more complete, consistent, and actionable reports. Preliminary results demonstrate the promise of the proposed approach and highlight several open research challenges at the intersection of data management, agentic AI, and human-centered AI.

Bergeron: Combating Adversarial Attacks through a Conscience-Based Alignment Framework

Modern Large language models (LLMs) can still generate responses that may not be aligned with human expectations or values. While many weight-based alignment methods have been proposed, many of them still leave models vulnerable to attacks when used on their own. To help mitigate this issue, we introduce Bergeron, a framework designed to improve the robustness of LLMs against adversarial attacks. Bergeron employs a two-tiered architecture. Here, a secondary LLM serves as a simulated conscience that safeguards a primary LLM. We do this by monitoring for and correcting potentially harmful text within both the prompt inputs and the generated outputs of the primary LLM. Empirical evaluation shows that Bergeron can improve the alignment and robustness of several popular LLMs without costly fine-tuning. It aids both open-source and black-box LLMs by complementing and reinforcing their existing alignment training.