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CuLifter: Lifting GPU Binaries to Typed IR

Jisheng Zhao, Huanzhi Pu, Shinnung Jeong, Chihyo Ahn, Hyesoon Kim · 2026

GPU compilers merge all data types into a single unified register file, erasing the type information that binary-analysis tools rely on. We show that type recovery from this untyped register file is t…

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Theory Under Construction: Orchestrating Language Models for Research Software Where the Specification Evolves

Halley Young, Nikolaj Bjorner · 2026

Large language models can now generate substantial code and draft research text, but research-software projects require more than either artifact alone. The mathematical thesis, executable system, ben…

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End-to-End and Phase-Level Performance Optimization for Hyperledger Fabric

Pavan Sollu, Aniruddha Mukherjee, Divya Pulivarthi, S.R. Eshwar, Gugan Thoppe, Kshitij Pratihast, Tittu Varghese, Hrishikesh Nashikkar, Yogesh Simmhan · 2026

Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a modular, permissioned blockchain widely adopted in enterprise settings. Enhancing its throughput and latency remains challenging, as optimization decisions made in one ph…

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Hot Fixing in the Wild

Carol Hanna, Karine Even-Mendoza, W.B. Langdon, Mar Zamorano Lopez, Justyna Petke, Federica Sarro · 2026

Despite the operational importance of hot fixes, large-scale evidence on how they reshape routine maintenance workflows, particularly in the era of autonomous coding agents, remains limited. We analys…

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Beyond Code Reasoning: A Specification-Anchored Audit Framework for Expert-Augmented Security Verification

Masato Kamba, Hirotake Murakami, Akiyoshi Sannai · 2026

Security-critical software is routinely audited by tools that reason about vulnerabilities as repository-local code patterns. Yet specification-governed systems -- protocol stacks, consensus implement…

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Key Developer Roles and Organizational Coupling in Microservices: A Longitudinal Analysis

Xiaozhou Li, Nariman Mani, Jose Sosa Rodriguez, Tomas Cerny · 2026

Microservice-based systems impose significant organizational coordination challenges, yet the role of individual developers in shaping organizational coupling (OC) remains underexplored. Prior work la…

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Optimally Auditing Adversarial Agents

Sanmay Das, Fang-Yi Yu, Yuang Zhang · 2026

Fraud can pose a challenge in many resource allocation domains, including social service delivery and credit provision. For example, agents may misreport private information in order to gain benefits …

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Less Is More: Engineering Challenges of On-Device Small Language Model Integration in a Mobile Application

William Oliveira · 2026

On-device Small Language Models (SLMs) promise fully offline, private AI experiences for mobile users (no cloud dependency, no data leaving the device). But is this promise achievable in practice? Thi…

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Private Private Information in Second-Price Auction

Boyu Liu, Wei Tang, Zihe Wang, Shuo Zhang · 2026

Classic results show that even an arbitrarily small correlation across bidders' information can enable full surplus extraction in auctions and related mechanism design settings. Motivated by this frag…

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MAS-SZZ: Multi-Agentic SZZ Algorithm for Vulnerability-Inducing Commit Identification

Sicong Cao, Jinxuan Xu, Le Yu, Jing Yang, Xingwei Lin, Linlin Zhu, Fu Xiao · 2026

Accurate vulnerability-inducing commit identification serves as a foundation for a series of software security tasks, such as vulnerability detection and affected version analysis. A straightforward s…

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Can LLMs be Effective Code Contributors? A Study on Open-source Projects

Chun Jie Chong, Muyeed Ahmed, Zhihao (Zephyr) Yao, Iulian Neamtiu · 2026

LLM-generated code is widely used, and the share of committed code produced by LLMs is expected to increase. However, we are not at a point where LLMs can be effective contributors to production code.…

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AI-Assisted Code Review as a Scaffold for Code Quality and Self-Regulated Learning: An Experience Report

Eduardo Oliveira, Michael Fu, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Sonsoles Lopez-Pernas, Mohammed Saqr · 2026

Code review is central to software engineering education but hard to scale in capstone projects due to tight deadlines, uneven peer feedback, and limited prior experience. We investigate an LLM-as-rev…

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Institutions for the Post-Scarcity of Judgment

Lauri Loven · 2026

Each major technological revolution inverts a particular scarcity and rebuilds institutions around the shift. The near-consensus diagnosis of the AI revolution holds that AI collapses the cost of pred…

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Documentless Assessments Using Nominal Group Interviews

Eduardo Miranda · 2026

This paper describes a group interview technique designed to support documentless process assessments while promoting at the same time collaboration among assessment participants. The method was succe…

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CrossCommitVuln-Bench: A Dataset of Multi-Commit Python Vulnerabilities Invisible to Per-Commit Static Analysis

Arunabh Majumdar · 2026

We present CrossCommitVuln-Bench, a curated benchmark of 15 real-world Python vulnerabilities (CVEs) in which the exploitable condition was introduced across multiple commits - each individually benig…

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On the Informativeness of Security Commit Messages: A Large-scale Replication Study

Syful Islam, Stefano Zacchiroli · 2026

The informativeness of security-related commit messages is crucial for patch triage: when high, it enables the rapid distribution and deployment of security fixes. Prior research (Reis et al., 2023) r…

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Systematic Detection of Energy Regression and Corresponding Code Patterns in Java Projects

Francois Bechet, Jerome Maquoi, Luis Cruz, Benoit Vanderose, Xavier Devroey · 2026

Green software engineering is emerging as a crucial response to information technology's rising energy impact, especially in continuous development. However, there remain challenges in devising automa…

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Reliability of AI Bots Footprints in GitHub Actions CI/CD Workflows

Syed Muhammad Ashhar Shah, Sehrish Habib, Muizz Hussain, Maryam Abdul Ghafoor, Abdul Ali Bangash · 2026

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) workflows are central to modern software delivery, yet the reliability of agentic AI bots operating within these workflows remain underexplored. Using pul…

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Committed SAE-Feature Traces for Audited-Session Substitution Detection in Hosted LLMs

Ziyang Liu · 2026

Hosted-LLM providers have a silent-substitution incentive: advertise a stronger model while serving cheaper replies. Probe-after-return schemes such as SVIP leave a parallel-serve side-channel, since …

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Weaponizing the Commons: A Taxonomy and Detection Framework of Abuse on GitHub

Yuli Cheng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jiongchi Yu, Shiqing Ma, Chao Shen, Yang Liu · 2026

GitHub plays a critical role in modern software supply chains, making its security an important research concern. Existing studies have primarily focused on CI/CD automation, collaboration patterns, a…

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