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TetrisG-SDK: Efficient Convolutional Layer Mapping with Adaptive Windows and Grouped Convolutions for Fast In-Memory Computing

Ke Dong, Kejie Huang, Tao Luo, Bo Wang · 2026

Shifted-and-Duplicated-Kernel (SDK) mapping has emerged as an effective strategy to accelerate convolutional layers on compute-in-memory (CIM) hardware. However, existing SDK variants (e.g., VWC-SDK) …

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Examining EAP Students' AI Disclosure Intention: A Cognition-Affect-Conation Perspective

Yiran Du, Huimin He · 2026

The growing use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in academic writing has raised increasing concerns regarding transparency and academic integrity in higher education. This study examines the…

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AP-DRL: A Synergistic Algorithm-Hardware Framework for Automatic Task Partitioning of Deep Reinforcement Learning on Versal ACAP

Enlai Li, Zhe Lin, Sharad Sinha, Wei Zhang · 2026

Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated remarkable success across various domains. However, the tight coupling between training and inference processes makes accelerating DRL training an essentia…

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Galaxy Tracer: A Topology-First 3D Interface for Interactive PCAP Exploration

Ryan Younger · 2026

Packet analysis tools conventionally present capture data through tabular packet lists, constraining the analyst to a sequential view that obscures the relational structure of network communication. T…

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Delayed Backdoor Attacks: Exploring the Temporal Dimension as a New Attack Surface in Pre-Trained Models

Zikang Ding, Haomiao Yang, Meng Hao, Wenbo Jiang, Kunlan Xiang, Runmeng Du, Yijing Liu, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato · 2026

Backdoor attacks against pre-trained models (PTMs) have traditionally operated under an ``immediacy assumption,'' where malicious behavior manifests instantly upon trigger occurrence. This work revisi…

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Speaker Verification with Speech-Aware LLMs: Evaluation and Augmentation

Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesus Villalba-Lopez, Najim Dehak · 2026

Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leav…

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Joint Hardware-Workload Co-Optimization for In-Memory Computing Accelerators

Olga Krestinskaya, Mohammed E. Fouda, Ahmed Eltawil, Khaled N. Salama · 2026

Software-hardware co-design is essential for optimizing in-memory computing (IMC) hardware accelerators for neural networks. However, most existing optimization frameworks target a single workload, le…

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Circumventing the CAP Theorem with Open Atomic Ethernet

Paul Borrill · 2026

The CAP theorem is routinely treated as a systems law: under network partition, a replicated service must sacrifice either consistency or availability. The theorem is correct within its standard async…

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Spritz: Path-Aware Load Balancing in Low-Diameter Networks

Tommaso Bonato, Ales Kubicek, Abdul Kabbani, Ahmad Ghalayini, Maciej Besta, Torsten Hoefler · 2026

Low-diameter topologies such as Dragonfly and Slim Fly are increasingly adopted in HPC and datacenter networks, yet existing load balancing techniques either rely on proprietary in-network mechanisms …

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Beyond the Flag: A Framework for Integrating Cybersecurity Competitions into K-12 Education for Cognitive Apprenticeship and Ethical Skill Development

Tran Duc Le, Truong Duy Dinh, Phuc Hao Do, Van Dai Pham, Nam Son Nguyen · 2026

Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions are powerful pedagogical tools for addressing the global cybersecurity workforce gap, yet their effective K-12 implementation is often undermined by significant bar…

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An Effective Energy Mask-based Adversarial Evasion Attacks against Misclassification in Speaker Recognition Systems

Chanwoo Park, Chanwoo Kim · 2026

Evasion attacks pose significant threats to AI systems, exploiting vulnerabilities in machine learning models to bypass detection mechanisms. The widespread use of voice data, including deepfakes, in …

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U3-xi: Pushing the Boundaries of Speaker Recognition by Incorporating Uncertainty

Junjie Li, Kong Aik Lee · 2026

An utterance-level speaker embedding is typically obtained by aggregating a sequence of frame-level representations. However, in real-world scenarios, individual frames encode not only speaker-relevan…

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Streamlined Pathway (SP) Approach: An Efficient Load Balancer to Enhance Quality of Service

Aymen Hasan Alawadi · 2026

Efficient load-balancing mechanisms are critical for maximizing performance and increasing the quality of service (QoS) of data center networks (DCNs). Obtaining the optimal QoS while minimizing resou…

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Optimizing GEMM for Energy and Performance on Versal ACAP Architectures

Ilias Papalamprou, Dimosthenis Masouros, Ioannis Loudaros, Francky Catthoor, Dimitrios Soudris · 2025

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation in many scientific workloads, signal processing, and particularly deep learning. It is often a bottleneck for performance and energy eff…

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MECap-R1: Emotion-aware Policy with Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Emotion Captioning

Haoqin Sun, Chenyang Lyu, Xiangyu Kong, Shiwan Zhao, Jiaming Zhou, Hui Wang, Aobo Kong, Jinghua Zhao, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang, Yong Qin · 2025

Speech Emotion Captioning (SEC) has emerged as a notable research direction. The inherent complexity of emotional content in human speech makes it challenging for traditional discrete classification m…

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Behavioral and Symbolic Fillers as Delay Mitigation for Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality

Denmar Mojan Gonzales, Snehanjali Kalamkar, Sophie Jorg, Jens Grubert · 2025

When communicating with embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in virtual reality, there might be delays in the responses of the agents lasting several seconds, for example, due to more extensive compu…

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Towards Embodied Conversational Agents for Reducing Oral Exam Anxiety in Extended Reality

Jens Grubert, Yvonne Sedelmaier, Dieter Landes · 2025

Oral examinations are a prevalent but psychologically demanding form of assessment in higher education. Many students experience intense anxiety, which can impair cognitive performance and hinder acad…

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Talking Surveys: How Photorealistic Embodied Conversational Agents Shape Response Quality, Engagement, and Satisfaction

Matus Krajcovic, Peter Demcak, Eduard Kuric · 2025

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are increasingly more realistic and capable of dynamic conversations. In online surveys, anthropomorphic agents could help address issues like careless responding…

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Whispering Agents: An Event-driven Covert Communication Protocol For the Internet of Agents

Kaibo Huang, Yukun Wei, Wansheng Wu, Tianhua Zhang, Zhongliang Yang, Linna Zhou · 2025

The emergence of the Internet of Agents (IoA) introduces critical challenges for communication privacy in sensitive, high-stakes domains. While standard Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols secure message c…

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PRIME: Pseudo-Random Integrated Multi-Part Entropy for Adaptive Packet Spraying in AI/ML Data centers

Ashkan Sobhani, Sogand Sadrhaghighi, Xingjun Chu · 2025

Large-scale distributed training in production data centers place significant demands on network infrastructure. In particular, significant load balancing challenges arise when processing AI/ML worklo…

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