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Unsafe and Unused? A History of Utility Code in Mature Open Source Projects

Brandon Keller, Kaitlin Yandik, Angela Ngo, Andy Meneely · 2026

Filenames are a concise means of conveying information about source code to fellow developers. One such convention is util. Commonly understood to stand for "utility", filenames with the letters util …

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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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MASCing: Configurable Mixture-of-Experts Behavior via Activation Steering Masks

Jona te Lintelo, Lichao Wu, Marina Krcek, Sengim Karayalcin, Stjepan Picek · 2026

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly reduced inference costs through sparse activation. However, this sparse activation paradigm also introduces ne…

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I'm Fine, But My Voice Isn't: Cross-Modal Affective Dissonance Detection for Reflective Journaling

Sumin Lee · 2026

Digital journaling creates an authenticity gap: users consciously translate raw emotions into text, often sanitizing narratives even in private writing. We formalize this as Cross-Modal Affective Diss…

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From Notepad AI to Social Media: How Can Text Style Transformation Mitigate Social Harm?

Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik, Abdur R. Shahid · 2026

The rapid proliferation of harmful and emotionally damaging content on social media platforms has intensified concerns regarding societal harm. While content moderation efforts primarily focus on dete…

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Accent Conversion: A Problem-Driven Survey of Sociolinguistic and Technical Constraints

Yurii Halychanskyi, Jianfeng Steven Guo, Volodymyr Kindratenko · 2026

Accent conversion has rapidly progressed alongside growing interest in improving global cross-cultural communication. This survey presents an overview of the evolution of accent conversion methodologi…

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Few-Shot Accent Synthesis for ASR with LLM-Guided Phoneme Editing

Yurii Halychanskyi, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Volodymyr Kindratenko · 2026

Accented automatic speech recognition (ASR) often degrades due to the limited availability of accented training data. Prior work has explored accent modeling in low-resource settings, but existing app…

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Unified Data Discovery across Query Modalities and User Intents

Tingting Wang, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Shazia Sadiq, Volkan Dedeoglu, Reza Arablouei · 2026

Data discovery - retrieving relevant tables from a data lake in response to user queries - is a fundamental building block for downstream analytics. In practice, data discovery must support different …

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What Is the Cost of Energy Monitoring? An Empirical Study on the Overhead of RAPL-Based Tools

Jeremy Diamond, Vincenzo Stoico · 2026

The Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface is widely used to estimate software energy consumption via CPU and DRAM counters, but tool design differences and high-frequency polling can introduce …

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A Toolkit for Detecting Spurious Correlations in Speech Datasets

Lara Gauder, Pablo Riera, Andrea Slachevsky, Gonzalo Forno, Adolfo M. Garcia, Luciana Ferrer · 2026

We introduce a toolkit for uncovering spurious correlations between recording characteristics and target class in speech datasets. Spurious correlations may arise due to heterogeneous recording condit…

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Recommendations for Efficient and Responsible LLM Adoption within Industrial Software Development

Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Tomas Herda, Stefan Sitkovich, Jennifer Horkoff, Christian Berger · 2026

Context: Large language models (LLMs) are observed to have a significant positive impact on various software engineering (SE) activities. With improved accessibility, the adoption of powerful LLMs in …

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Persona-Based Process Design for Assistive Human-Robot Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities

Nils Mandischer, Daria Eckert and, Lars Mikelsons · 2026

Human-robot interaction is emerging as an important paradigm for integrating persons with disabilities into the workplace. While these systems can enable individuals to work, their design is mostly pe…

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The Buy-or-Build Decision, Revisited: How Agentic AI Changes the Economics of Enterprise Software

David Klotz · 2026

Advances in generative artificial intelligence, particularly agentic coding systems capable of autonomous software development, are disrupting the economics of the make-or-buy decision for enterprise …

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VulStyle: A Multi-Modal Pre-Training for Code Stylometry-Augmented Vulnerability Detection

Chidera Biringa, Ajmal Abbas, Vishnu Selvaraj, Gokhan Kul · 2026

We present VulStyle, a multi-modal software vulnerability detection model that jointly encodes function-level source code, non-terminal Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) structure, and code stylometry (CStyl…

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Institutional Floors and Partisan Lenses: Cross-National Online Discourse on Political Violence in France and the United States

Andrew Yen Chang · 2026

This paper studies how online discussion shapes and assesses political violence across different settings, particularly how moral evaluation, as a social perception, varies across institutional contex…

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Recurrence-Based Nonlinear Vocal Dynamics as Digital Biomarkers for Depression Detection from Conversational Speech

Himadri S Samanta · 2026

Digital biomarkers for depression have largely relied on static acoustic descriptors, pooled summary statistics, or conventional machine learning representations. Such approaches may miss nonlinear te…

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Lexical Anthropomorphization Influences on Moral Judgments of AI Bad Behavior

Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman, Roman Saladino · 2026

Anthropomorphic language describing artificial intelligence (AI) is widespread in media, policy, and everyday discourse; so too are discussions of AI bad behavior, from hallucinations to inappropriate…

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PSP: An Interpretable Per-Dimension Accent Benchmark for Indic Text-to-Speech

Venkata Pushpak Teja Menta · 2026

Standard text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation measures intelligibility (WER, CER) and overall naturalness (MOS, UTMOS) but does not quantify accent. A synthesiser may score well on all four yet sound non-n…

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Praxy Voice: Voice-Prompt Recovery + BUPS for Commercial-Class Indic TTS from a Frozen Non-Indic Base at Zero Commercial-Training-Data Cost

Venkata Pushpak Teja Menta · 2026

Commercial TTS systems produce near-native Indic audio, but the best open-source bases (Chatterbox, Indic Parler-TTS, IndicF5) trail them on measured phonological dimensions, and the most widely adopt…

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Scalable Secure Biometric Authentication without Auxiliary Identifiers

Alexander Bienstock, Daniel Escudero, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Zhen Zeng, Pranav Bhat, Ashok Singal, Prashant Sharma, Manuela Veloso · 2026

The prevalence of biometric authentication has been on the rise due to its ease of use and elimination of weak passwords. To date, most biometric authentication systems have been designed for on-devic…

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