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Crab: A Semantics-Aware Checkpoint/Restore Runtime for Agent Sandboxes

Tianyuan Wu, Chaokun Chang, Lunxi Cao, Wei Gao, Wei Wang · 2026

Autonomous agents act through sandboxed containers and microVMs whose state spans filesystems, processes, and runtime artifacts. Checkpoint and restore (C/R) of this state is needed for fault toleranc…

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DEFault++: Automated Fault Detection, Categorization, and Diagnosis for Transformer Architectures

Sigma Jahan, Saurabh Singh Rajput, Tushar Sharma, Mohammad Masudur Rahman · 2026

Transformer models are widely deployed in critical AI applications, yet faults in their attention mechanisms, projections, and other internal components often degrade behavior silently without raising…

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Akita: A High Usability Simulation Framework for Computer Architecture

Sabila Al Jannat, Ying Li, Mengyang He, Xuzhong Wang, Huizhi Zhao, Jingxiang Sun, Daoxuan Xu, Enze Xu, Yifan Sun · 2026

Computer architecture simulation is essential for evaluating new designs without the need for costly tapeout. The community has developed dozens of valuable simulators that have enabled significant ar…

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A Generalisation of Goursat's Algorithm for Integration in Finite Terms

Sam Blake · 2026

We give a self-contained, modern exposition of \'Edouard Goursat's 1887 theorem on pseudo-elliptic integrals -- those integrals of the form $\int F(t)\,\d t/\sqrt{R(t)}$ with $R$ a cubic or quartic po…

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Understanding Bugs in Template Engine-Based Applications: Symptoms, Root Causes, and Fix Patterns

Kai Gao, Yu Sun, Chang-ai Sun · 2026

Template engines are indispensable components in modern software ecosystems, enabling the generation of structured documents and scripts across domains such as web development, Infrastructure as Code,…

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From Elastic to Viscoelastic: An EEMD-Enhanced Pulse Transit Time Model for Robust Blood Pressure Estimation

Boyuan Gu, Yijin Yang, Shuaiqi Cheng, Xiaorong Ding · 2026

Cuffless blood pressure (BP) estimation based on Pulse Transit Time (PTT) has emerged as a promising solution for continuous health monitoring. However, conventional models relying on the Moens-Kortew…

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Cognitive Atrophy and Systemic Collapse in AI-Dependent Software Engineering

Frank Ginac · 2026

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) masks a critical socio-technical failure: Cognitive-Systemic Collapse. This paper introduces "Epistemolog…

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Which Types of Heterogeneity Matter for Root Cause Localization in Microservice Systems ?

Runzhou Wang, Shenglin Zhang, Wenwei Gu, Yongxin Zhao, Chenyu Zhao, Dan Pei, Yuxuan Chen, Yangyuxin Huang · 2026

Microservice root cause localization is fundamentally challenged by the inherent heterogeneity of cloud-native systems, which encompasses diverse observability data and multiple system entities. Exist…

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Small Independent Sets versus Small Separator in Geometric Intersection Graphs

Malory Marin, Remi Watrigant · 2026

While most classical NP-hard graph problems cannot be solved in time $2^{o(n)}$ on general graphs under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), many exhibit the square-root phenomenon and admit optimal…

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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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Explaining the "Why": A Unified Framework for the Additive Attribution of Changes in Arbitrary Measures

Changsheng Zhou, Dajun Chen, Zhitao Shen, wei jiang, Yong Li, Peng Di · 2026

Explaining why aggregated measures change is a critical challenge in data analytics that existing systems struggle to address. While current attribution methods exist, they lack a unified solution tha…

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On the Role of Time Series Clustering in Traffic Matrix Prediction

Martha Cash, Charlotte Fowler, Alexander M. Wyglinski · 2026

This paper analyzes the role of time-series clustering in traffic matrix (TM) prediction. Traffic flows within a TM often exhibit heterogeneous behavior, which can reduce the effectiveness of global f…

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From Threads to Trajectories: A Multi-LLM Pipeline for Community Knowledge Extraction from GitHub Issue Discussions

Nazia Shehnaz Joynab, Soneya Binta Hossain · 2026

Resolution of complex post-production issues in large-scale open-source software (OSS) projects requires significant cognitive effort, as developers need to go through long, unstructured and fragmente…

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The Attention Market: Interpreting Online Fair Re-ranking as Manifold Optimization under Walrasian Equilibrium

Chen Xu, Wei Chu, Wenyu Hu, Fengran Mo, Jun Xu, Maarten de Rijke · 2026

Fair re-ranking aims to promote long-tail items and enhance diversity within groups in information retrieval. While previous research on online fairness-aware re-ranking has shown promising outcomes, …

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Hierarchies of No-regret Algorithms

R. Xu, E. Yachbes, J. Zhang · 2026

Our paper studies the setting of players using no-regret algorithms in various two-player games. We address whether having stronger regret guarantees or playing against an opponent with weaker regret …

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What If We Work Together? Fostering Reflections on Designer Inclusion in Open Source Software Through Speculative Design

Rozhan Hozhabri Nezhad, Jin L.C. Guo, Jinghui Cheng · 2026

Open source software (OSS) often prioritizes technical functionality over usability and UX design. This imbalance limits OSS adoption among broader, non-technical users. Key underlying factors contrib…

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Leveraging LLMs for Multi-File DSL Code Generation: An Industrial Case Study

Sivajeet Chand, Kevin Nguyen, Peter Kuntz, Alexander Pretschner · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) perform strongly on general-purpose code generation, yet their applicability to enterprise domain-specific languages (DSLs) remains underexplored, especially for repositor…

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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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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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Agentic Witnessing: Pragmatic and Scalable TEE-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Auditing

Antony Rowstron · 2026

Auditing the semantic properties of proprietary data creates a fundamental tension: verification requires transparent access, while proprietary rights demand confidentiality. While Zero-Knowledge Proo…

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