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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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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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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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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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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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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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Measuring the Unmeasurable: Markov Chain Reliability for LLM Agents

Phat T. Tran-Truong, Xuan-Bach Le · 2026

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate as sequential software systems, but their reliability is often summarized by scalar benchmark metrics. Metrics such as pass$@k$, pass$^k$, and th…

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Large-Scale Photogrammetric Documentation of St. John's Co-Cathedral: A Workflow for Cultural Heritage Preservation

Matthew Kenely, Mark Bugeja, Andre Grima, Peter Pullicino, Matthew Pullicino, Dylan Seychell · 2026

We present a comprehensive methodology for the large-scale photogrammetric documentation of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, a UNESCO World Heritage site renowned for its ornate Baroque arc…

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Latency and Cost of Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring at Scale

Iizalaarab Elhaimeur, Nikos Chrisochoides · 2026

Multi-agent LLM tutoring systems improve response quality through agent specialization, but each student query triggers several concurrent API calls whose latencies compound through a parallel-phase m…

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Unfolding an Atomistic World: Atomistic Simulation of Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel Across Year-and-Meter Scales

Haozhi Han, Ruge Zhang, Haoquan Chen, Yifeng Chen, Haipeng Jia, Liang Yuan, Yunquan Zhang, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Kun Li · 2026

Lifetime prediction of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steel requires bridging atomistic degradation mechanisms with service-scale spatial and temporal regimes, from Angstroms and picoseconds to meters …

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Dynamic Grammar-Compressed Self-Index in $\delta$-Optimal Space

Takaaki Nishimoto, Yasuo Tabei · 2026

A compressed self-index stores a string in compressed form while supporting locate queries without decompression. For highly repetitive strings (arising in web crawls, versioned documents, and genomic…

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The Collapse of Heterogeneity in Silicon Philosophers

Yuanming Shi, Andreas Haupt · 2026

Silicon samples are increasingly used as a low-cost substitute for human panels and have been shown to reproduce aggregate human opinion with high fidelity. We show that, in the alignment-relevant dom…

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From Stateless Queries to Autonomous Actions: A Layered Security Framework for Agentic AI Systems

Kexin Chu · 2026

Agentic AI systems face security challenges that stateless large language models do not. They plan across extended horizons, maintain persistent memory, invoke external tools, and coordinate with peer…

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Semantic Denial of Service in LLM-controlled robots

Jonathan Steinberg, Oren Gal · 2026

Safety-oriented instruction-following is supposed to keep LLM-controlled robots safe. We show it also creates an availability attack surface. By injecting short safety-plausible phrases (1-5 tokens) i…

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