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Security Concerns in Generative AI Coding Assistants: Insights from Online Discussions on GitHub Copilot

Nicolas E. Diaz Ferreyra, Monika Swetha Gurupathi, Zadia Codabux, Nalin Arachchilage, Riccardo Scandariato · 2026

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has become a central component of many development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) that support software practitioners across multiple programming tasks, includ…

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Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Thiele Voting Rules with Voter Interval Preferences

Pasin Manurangsi, Krzysztof Sornat · 2026

We present a polynomial-time algorithm for computing an optimal committee of size $k$ under any given Thiele voting rule for elections on the Voter Interval domain (i.e., when voters can be ordered so…

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HackRep: A Large-Scale Dataset of GitHub Hackathon Projects

Sjoerd Halmans, Lavinia Paganini, Alexander Serebrenik, Alexander Nolte · 2026

Hackathons are time-bound collaborative events that often target software creation. Although hackathons have been studied in the past, existing work focused on in-depth case studies limiting our under…

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"An Endless Stream of AI Slop": The Growing Burden of AI-Assisted Software Development

Sebastian Baltes, Marc Cheong, Christoph Treude · 2026

"AI slop", that is, low-quality AI-generated content, is increasingly affecting software development, from generated code and pull requests to documentation and bug reports. However, there is limited …

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Anchored Likelihood-Ratio Geometry of Anonymous Shuffle Experiments: Exact Privacy Envelopes and Universal Low-Budget Design

Alex Shvets · 2026

We develop a geometric framework for anonymous shuffle experiments based on an anchored affine likelihood-ratio law: a mean-zero measure on the regular simplex polytope. Every finite-output d-ary chan…

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Is Your LLM-as-a-Recommender Agent Trustable? LLMs' Recommendation is Easily Hacked by Biases (Preferences)

Zichen Tang, Zirui Zhang, Qian Wang, Zhenheng Tang, Bo Li, Xiaowen Chu · 2026

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are gradually exploited in practically valuable agentic workflows such as Deep Research, E-commerce recommendation, and job recruitment. In these applications, LLM…

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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramer · 2026

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig…

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Task-Adaptive Physical Reservoir Computing via Tunable Molecular Communication Dynamics

Saad Yousuf, Kaan Burak Ikiz, Murat Kuscu · 2026

Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) offers an efficient paradigm for processing temporal data, yet most physical implementations are static, limiting their performance to a narrow range of tasks. In th…

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Hybrid Artificial-Living Cell Collectives for Wetware Computing

Ceylin Savas, Maryam Javed, Murat Kuscu · 2026

Living systems continuously sense, integrate, and act on chemical information using multiscale biochemical networks whose dynamics are inherently nonlinear, adaptive, and energy-efficient. Yet, most a…

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Benchmarking Reward Hack Detection in Code Environments via Contrastive Analysis

Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian · 2026

Recent advances in reinforcement learning for code generation have made robust environments essential to prevent reward hacking. As LLMs increasingly serve as evaluators in code-based RL, their abilit…

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What is the AGI in Offensive Security ?

Youngwoong Cho · 2026

What is the AGI in Offensive Security? One can break it down into two questions : (1) any offensive security tasks could be reduced into symbolic language manipulation (language representation + reaso…

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Information Contraction under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-Differentially Private Mechanisms

Theshani Nuradha, Ian George, Christoph Hirche · 2026

The distinguishability quantified by information measures after being processed by a private mechanism has been a useful tool in studying various statistical and operational tasks while ensuring priva…

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Green LLM Techniques in Action: How Effective Are Existing Techniques for Improving the Energy Efficiency of LLM-Based Applications in Industry?

Pelin Rabia Kuran, Rumbidzai Chitakunye, Vincenzo Stoico, Ilja Heitlager, Justus Bogner · 2026

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has raised concerns about their substantial energy consumption, especially when deployed at industry scale. While several techniques have been propos…

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Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre's Legacy

Jethro Masis · 2025

This paper examines the intellectual legacy of Philip E. Agre by situating his work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, philosophy, and critical theory. It reconstructs Agre's proposal of …

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Ein Typenrad auf der \"Uberholspur: Die Kult-Schreibmaschine "Erika" trifft KI

Karola Kopferl, Albrecht Kurze · 2025

In the 15th century, printing revolutionized the dissemination of information. Innovations such as typewriters and computers have increased the speed and volume of information flows over time. More re…

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Hybrid Learning and Optimization-Based Dynamic Scheduling for DL Workloads on Heterogeneous GPU Clusters

Shruti Dongare, Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan, Hadeel Albahar, Nannan Zhao, Diego Melendez Maita, Ali R. Butt · 2025

Modern cloud platforms increasingly host large-scale deep learning (DL) workloads, demanding high-throughput, low-latency GPU scheduling. However, the growing heterogeneity of GPU clusters and limited…

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Optimizations and extensions for fair join pattern matching

Ioannis Karras · 2025

Join patterns are an underexplored approach for the programming of concurrent and distributed systems. When applied to the actor model, join patterns offer the novel capability of matching combination…

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The Artist is Present: Traces of Artists Resigind and Spawning in Text-to-Audio AI

Guilherme Coelho · 2025

Text-to-audio (TTA) systems are rapidly transforming music creation and distribution, with platforms like Udio and Suno generating thousands of tracks daily and integrating into mainstream music platf…

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Ethical conundrums: Hacked data in the study of far-right violent extremism

Lise Waldek, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Muhammad Iqbal, David Kernot, Debra Smith · 2025

Ethical conduct in digital research is full of grey areas. Disciplinary, institutional and individual norms and conventions developed to support research are challenged, often leaving scholars with a …

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Framing the Hacker: Media Representations and Public Discourse in Germany

Raphael Morisco · 2025

This paper examines how the figure of the hacker is portrayed in German mainstream media and explores the impact of media framing on public discourse. Through a longitudinal content analysis of 301 ar…

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