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Assistants, Not Architects: The Role of LLMs in Networked Systems Design

Pratyush Sahu, Rahul Bothra, Venkat Arun, Brighten Godfrey, Akshay Narayan, Ahmed Saeed · 2026

Designing the architecture of modern networked systems requires navigating a large, combinatorial space of hardware, systems, and configuration choices with complex cross-layer interactions. Architect…

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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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Learning is Revelation in Disguise: Improved Regret and Equivalence Results for Dynamic Pricing

Shiliang Zuo · 2026

We study dynamic pricing where a seller repeatedly interacts with a strategic, non-myopic buyer who has a fixed private valuation and discounts future utility. Prior work focused exclusively on posted…

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GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

Minghan Li, Tianrui Lv, Chao Zhang, Guodong Zhou · 2026

The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Existing dense retrieval methods typically treat LCR a…

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Prism-Reranker: Beyond Relevance Scoring -- Jointly Producing Contributions and Evidence for Agentic Retrieval

Dun Zhang · 2026

Modern retrieval pipelines increasingly serve downstream consumers like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and autonomous agents that need more than a scalar relevance score. A reranker that only te…

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Call-Chain-Aware LLM-Based Test Generation for Java Projects

Guancheng Wang, Qinghua Xu, Lionel C. Briand, Zhaoqiang Guo, Kui Liu · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for generating project-level unit tests. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches primarily rely on execution-path information to…

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UsefulBench: Towards Decision-Useful Information as a Target for Information Retrieval

Tobias Schimanski, Stefanie Lewandowski, Christian Woerle, Nicola Reichenau, Yauheni Huryn, Markus Leippold · 2026

Conventional information retrieval is concerned with identifying the relevance of texts for a given query. Yet, the conventional definition of relevance is dominated by aspects of similarity in texts,…

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Tight Bounds for Learning Polyhedra with a Margin

Shyamal Patel, Santosh Vempala · 2026

We give an algorithm for PAC learning intersections of $k$ halfspaces with a $\rho$ margin to within error $\varepsilon$ that runs in time $\textsf{poly}(k, \varepsilon^{-1}, \rho^{-1}) \cdot \exp \le…

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UniRec: Bridging the Expressive Gap between Generative and Discriminative Recommendation via Chain-of-Attribute

Ziliang Wang, Gaoyun Lin, Xuesi Wang, Shaoqiang Liang, Yili Huang, Weijie Bian, Li Zhang, Mingchen Cai, Jian Dong, Guanxing Zhang · 2026

Generative Recommendation (GR) reframes retrieval and ranking as autoregressive decoding over Semantic IDs (SIDs), unifying the multi-stage pipeline into a single model. Yet a fundamental expressive g…

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Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity for Function Merging with Branch Reordering

Amir K. Goharshady, Kerim Kochekov, Tian Shu, Ahmed Khaled Zaher · 2026

Binary size reduction is an increasingly important optimization objective for compilers. One emerging technique is function merging, where multiple similar functions are merged into one, thereby elimi…

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Differentially Private Verification of Distribution Properties

Elbert Du, Cynthia Dwork, Pranay Tankala, Linjun Zhang · 2026

A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the as…

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Automatic Teller Machines for Offline E-cash

Anrin Chakraborti, Qingzhao Zhang, Jingjia Peng, Morley Mao, Michael K. Reiter · 2026

Electronic cash (e-cash) is a digital alternative to physical currency that allows anonymous transactions between users and merchants. Typically, coins in an e-cash scheme are only dispensed through a…

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MIRAGE: Online LLM Simulation for Microservice Dependency Testing

XinRan Zhang · 2026

Existing approaches to microservice dependency simulation--record-replay, pattern-mining, and specification-driven stubs--generate static artifacts before test execution. These artifacts can only repr…

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ENCRUST: Encapsulated Substitution and Agentic Refinement on a Live Scaffold for Safe C-to-Rust Translation

Hohyun Sim, Hyeonjoong Cho, Ali Shokri, Zhoulai Fu, Binoy Ravindran · 2026

We present Encapsulated Substitution and Agentic Refinement on a Live Scaffold for Safe C-to-Rust Translation, a two-phase pipeline for translating real-world C projects to safe Rust. Existing approac…

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Partial Number Theoretic Transform Masking in Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Hardware: A Security Margin Analysis

Ray Iskander, Khaled Kirah · 2026

Adams Bridge, a hardware accelerator for ML-DSA and ML-KEM designed for the Caliptra root of trust, masks 1 of its Inverse Number Theoretic Transform (INTT) layers and relies on shuffling for the rema…

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Optimal Pricing with Unreliable Signals

Zhihao Gavin Tang, Yixin Tao, Shixin Wang · 2026

We study a single-buyer pricing problem with unreliable side information, motivated by the increasing use of AI-assisted decision-making and LLM-based predictions. The seller observes a private sample…

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Approximating Gains-from-Trade in Matching Markets

Moshe Babaioff, Aviad Rubinstein, Xizhi Tan, Kangning Wang · 2026

A central challenge in mechanism design is to develop truthful trade mechanisms that maximize the expected gains-from-trade (GFT) in two-sided markets with strategic agents. As achieving the full GFT …

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On Strengths and Limitations of Single-Vector Embeddings

Archish S, Mihir Agarwal, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, Kirankumar Shiragur · 2026

Recent work (Weller et al., 2025) introduced a naturalistic dataset called LIMIT and showed empirically that a wide range of popular single-vector embedding models suffer substantial drops in retrieva…

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How and Why Agents Can Identify Bug-Introducing Commits

Niklas Risse, Marcel Bohme · 2026

\'Sliwerski, Zimmermann, and Zeller (SZZ) just won the 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Impact Award for asking: When do changes induce fixes? Their paper from 2005 served as the foundation for a wide array of ap…

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Codebase-Memory: Tree-Sitter-Based Knowledge Graphs for LLM Code Exploration via MCP

Martin Vogel, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Severin Kohler, Elias Grunewald, Felix Balzer · 2026

Large Language Model (LLM) coding agents typically explore codebases through repeated file-reading and grep-searching, consuming thousands of tokens per query without structural understanding. We pres…

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