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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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Efficient Multivector Retrieval with Token-Aware Clustering and Hierarchical Indexing

Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini · 2026

Multivector retrieval models achieve state-of-the-art effectiveness through fine-grained token-level representations, but their deployment incurs substantial computational and memory costs. Current so…

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Tailwind: A Practical Framework for Query Accelerators

Geoffrey X. Yu, Ryan Marcus, Tim Kraska · 2026

Relational database management systems (RDBMSes) can process general-purpose queries, but often have lower performance compared to custom-built solutions for specific queries. For example, consider a …

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NeuroRing: Scaling Spiking Neural Networks via Multi-FPGA Bidirectional Ring Topologies and Stream-Dataflow Architectures

Muhammad Ihsan Al Hafiz, Artur Podobas · 2026

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient event-driven computation, but large-scale SNN execution remains challenging because sparse spike communication and synchron…

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To Build or Not to Build? Factors that Lead to Non-Development or Abandonment of AI Systems

Shreya Chappidi, Jatinder Singh · 2026

Responsible AI research typically focuses on examining the use and impacts of deployed AI systems. Yet, there is currently limited visibility into the pre-deployment decisions to pursue building such …

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Affinity Tailor: Dynamic Locality-Aware Scheduling at Scale

Jin Xin Ng, Ori Livneh, Richard O'Grady, Josh Don, Peng Ding, Samuel Grossman, Luis Otero, Chris Kennelly, David Lo, Carlos Villavieja · 2026

Modern large multicore systems often run multiple workloads that share CPUs under schedulers such as Linux CFS. To keep CPUs busy, these schedulers load-balance runnable work, causing each workload to…

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CoNewsReader: Supporting Comprehensive Understanding and Raising Critical Thoughts on Social Media News Through Comments

Kangyu Yuan, Guanzheng Chen, Sizhe Liang, Hehai Lin, Qingyu Guo, Dingdong Liu, Xiaojuan Ma, Zhenhui Peng · 2026

Critical news reading (CNR), which requires grasping the holistic ideas of and raising critical thoughts on the news, is beneficial yet challenging for general people who usually get information on da…

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Can We Volunteer Out of the Peer Review Crisis?

Theo Tang, Toby Handfield, Julian Garcia · 2026

The volume of scientific manuscripts is growing faster than the capacity to evaluate them, yet the institutions that govern peer review have remained largely unchanged. The result is a widening mismat…

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TwinGate: Stateful Defense against Decompositional Jailbreaks in Untraceable Traffic via Asymmetric Contrastive Learning

Bowen Sun, Chaozhuo Li, Yaodong Yang, Yiwei Wang, Chaowei Xiao · 2026

Decompositional jailbreaks pose a critical threat to large language models (LLMs) by allowing adversaries to fragment a malicious objective into a sequence of individually benign queries that collecti…

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WOOTdroid: Whole-system Online On-device Tracing for Android

Simon Althaus, Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Max Muhlhauser, Christian Reuter, Ephraim Zimmer · 2026

System auditing on Android faces two problems. First, existing syscall tracers lose events under load, silently overwriting entries faster than a user space reader can drain them. Second, security-rel…

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Toward a Characterization of Simulation Between Arithmetic Theories

Hunter Monroe · 2026

We study when a sound arithmetic theory $\mathcal S{\supseteq}S^1_2$ with polynomial-time decidable axioms efficiently proves the bounded consistency statements $Con_{\mathcal S{+}\phi}(n)$ for a true…

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Multifaceted Hero Developers and Bug-Fixing Outcomes Across Severity

Amit Kumar, Mahen Gandhi, Meher Bhardwaj, Hrishikesh Ethari, Sonali Agarwal · 2026

Open-source projects often rely on a small group of highly active contributors known as hero developers. Prior work shows that hero developers are common in many OSS and enterprise projects, yet who q…

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Users' Activity Logs: the Good, the Bad, the Misconception, and the Disastrous

Eman Alashwali · 2026

Most service providers, such as Google, save logs from data generated by users while using the service. Many service providers provide users with privacy controls to manage whether, how, and for how l…

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Back to the Future: Rethinking Endorsement in Order-Execute Blockchains

Rongji Huang, Yifeng Ye, Gerui Wang, Mingchao Wan, Yuxing Duan, Jingjing Zhang, Guangtao Xue, Shengyun Liu · 2026

Due to regulatory compliance and governance management, modern (permissioned) blockchains require flexible endorsement, which allows the endorsement policy for each contract or state object to be indi…

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Tail-aware N-version Machine Learning Models for Reliable API Recommendation

Aoi Matsuda, Fumio Machida, David Lo · 2026

Machine learning (ML)-based API recommendation helps developers efficiently identify suitable APIs to complement the application code. However, code datasets used to train ML models often exhibit a lo…

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BAss: Symbolic Reasoning in Abstract Dialectical Frameworks

Samuel Pastva, Van-Giang Trinh · 2026

We present BAss (BDD-based ADF symbolic solver), a novel analysis tool for Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (ADFs) based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). It supports the fully symbolic computation o…

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A Reproducibility Study of LLM-Based Query Reformulation

Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Hai Son Le, Mert Incesu, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri · 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely used for query reformulation and expansion in Information Retrieval, with many studies reporting substantial effectiveness gains. However, these results are…

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The Likelihood Ratio Wall: Structural Limits on Accurate Risk Assessment for Rare Violence

Marco Pollanen · 2026

Pretrial risk assessment tools are used on over one million U.S. defendants each year, yet their use for predicting rare violent re-offense faces a basic statistical barrier. We derive a universal pre…

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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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Truthful-in-Expectation Mechanisms for MMS Approximation

Moshe Babaioff, Uriel Feige, Noam Manaker Morag · 2026

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods among strategic agents with additive valuations. Motivated by impossibility results for deterministic truthful mechanisms, we focus on randomized mechanis…

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