Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System

This paper introduces Dial, a knowledge-grounded framework that addresses the challenges of generating executable SQL across heterogeneous database systems by employing dialect-aware logical planning, a hierarchical intent-aware knowledge base, and an execution-driven debugging loop, achieving significant improvements in translation accuracy and dialect feature coverage on the newly constructed DS-NL2SQL benchmark.

Xiang Zhang, Hongming Xu, Le Zhou, Wei Zhou, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Yuyu Luo, Changdong Liu, Guorun Chen, Jiang Liao, Fan Wu2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Backdoor4Good: Benchmarking Beneficial Uses of Backdoors in LLMs

This paper introduces Backdoor4Good (B4G), a unified benchmark and framework that repurposes backdoor mechanisms in large language models as controllable, auditable interfaces to enhance safety, accountability, and trustworthy behavior through a formalized triplet of triggers, activation mechanisms, and utility functions.

Yige Li, Wei Zhao, Zhe Li, Nay Myat Min, Hanxun Huang, Yunhan Zhao, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Sun2026-03-10💻 cs

"Better Ask for Forgiveness than Permission": Practices and Policies of AI Disclosure in Freelance Work

This paper reveals a critical expectation gap in the freelance economy where workers often withhold AI use due to a mistaken belief that clients can detect it, while clients prefer proactive disclosure and lack clear policies, ultimately highlighting the urgent need for standardized guidelines to rebuild trust and accountability in AI-mediated work.

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Senya Wong, Baixiao Chen, Jessica He, Hyo Jin Do2026-03-10💻 cs

Where Do LLM-based Systems Break? A System-Level Security Framework for Risk Assessment and Treatment

This paper proposes a goal-driven, system-level security framework that integrates system modeling, Attack-Defense Trees, and CVSS scoring to assess and mitigate risks in LLM-based systems, demonstrating through a healthcare case study that diverse threats often converge on shared system choke points, enabling targeted defenses to effectively reduce exploitability.

Neha Nagaraja, Hayretdin Bahsi2026-03-10💻 cs

Do Machines Fail Like Humans? A Human-Centred Out-of-Distribution Spectrum for Mapping Error Alignment

This paper proposes a human-centred out-of-distribution spectrum that redefines perceptual difficulty based on human accuracy to enable principled comparisons of model-human error alignment, revealing that while vision-language models show the most consistent alignment across conditions, the relative performance of CNNs and ViTs depends on the specific regime of perceptual challenge.

Binxia Xu, Xiaoliang Luo, Luke Dickens, Robert M. Mok2026-03-10💻 cs

Give Them an Inch and They Will Take a Mile:Understanding and Measuring Caller Identity Confusion in MCP-Based AI Systems

This paper reveals that MCP-based AI systems are fundamentally insecure due to a lack of caller identity authentication, which allows persistent authorization states and missing per-tool checks to enable unauthorized access to sensitive operations by untrusted callers.

Yuhang Huang, Boyang Ma, Biwei Yan, Xuelong Dai, Yechao Zhang, Minghui Xu, Kaidi Xu, Yue Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

A Unified View of Drifting and Score-Based Models

This paper establishes a unified theoretical framework demonstrating that drifting models, which optimize kernel-based mean-shift discrepancies, are mathematically equivalent to score-matching objectives on kernel-smoothed distributions, thereby precisely connecting them to diffusion models and clarifying their relationship with Distribution Matching Distillation.

Chieh-Hsin Lai, Bac Nguyen, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon, Molei Tao2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

SketchGraphNet: A Memory-Efficient Hybrid Graph Transformer for Large-Scale Sketch Corpora Recognition

This paper introduces SketchGraphNet, a memory-efficient hybrid graph transformer that models free-hand sketches as structured graphs to achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy on the newly constructed 3.44-million-sample SketchGraph benchmark while significantly reducing computational resource requirements.

Shilong Chen, Mingyuan Li, Zhaoyang Wang, Zhonglin Ye, Haixing Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs

Neural Dynamics-Informed Pre-trained Framework for Personalized Brain Functional Network Construction

This paper proposes a neural dynamics-informed pre-trained framework that overcomes the limitations of traditional atlas-based methods by extracting personalized neural activity representations to guide brain parcellation and correlation estimation, thereby achieving superior performance in constructing personalized brain functional networks across heterogeneous scenarios.

Hongjie Jiang, Yifei Tang, Shuqiang Wang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG