When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asset Concentration, and Two Regimes of Inequality

This paper presents a task-based model demonstrating that while generative AI homogenizes individual skills, it can simultaneously increase aggregate inequality by shifting economic value toward concentrated complementary assets, with the net outcome determined by the technology's structure and labor market institutions rather than a single universal verdict.

Xupeng Chen, Shuchen Meng2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Tool-Genesis: A Task-Driven Tool Creation Benchmark for Self-Evolving Language Agent

This paper introduces Tool-Genesis, a diagnostic benchmark designed to evaluate and quantify the capabilities of self-evolving language agents in autonomously creating and utilizing tools from abstract requirements, revealing that even state-of-the-art models struggle with interface precision and logic execution, which leads to significant downstream performance degradation.

Bowei Xia, Mengkang Hu, Shijian Wang, Jiarui Jin, Wenxiang Jiao, Yuan Lu, Kexin Li, Ping Luo2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of AI-Driven Traffic Flow Patterns and Land Use Interaction: A GeoAI-Based Analysis of Multimodal Urban Mobility

This study proposes and validates a GeoAI hybrid framework integrating MGWR, Random Forest, and ST-GCN to effectively model the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of multimodal traffic flows and their interaction with land use, demonstrating superior predictive accuracy and revealing distinct urban traffic typologies that underscore the critical role of local morphological context in mobility planning.

Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

DreamCAD: Scaling Multi-modal CAD Generation using Differentiable Parametric Surfaces

DreamCAD is a multi-modal generative framework that enables scalable, high-fidelity CAD generation by representing editable BReps as differentiable parametric surfaces for training on unannotated 3D meshes, while also introducing the large-scale CADCap-1M dataset to advance text-to-CAD research.

Mohammad Sadil Khan, Muhammad Usama, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Real-Time AI Service Economy: A Framework for Agentic Computing Across the Continuum

This paper demonstrates that the topology of service-dependency graphs fundamentally determines the stability and scalability of decentralized, price-based resource allocation in real-time AI service economies, proposing a hybrid architecture that encapsulates complex sub-graphs to significantly reduce price volatility while maintaining throughput and matching centralized allocation quality.

Lauri Lovén, Alaa Saleh, Reza Farahani, Ilir Murturi, Miguel Bordallo López, Praveen Kumar Donta, Schahram Dustdar2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

RACAS: Controlling Diverse Robots With a Single Agentic System

The paper introduces RACAS, a robot-agnostic agentic system that uses natural language communication between LLM/VLM-based modules to control diverse robotic platforms without requiring code modifications or retraining, successfully demonstrating its effectiveness across wheeled, multi-jointed, and underwater robots.

Dylan R. Ashley, Jan Przepióra, Yimeng Chen, Ali Abualsaud, Nurzhan Yesmagambet, Shinkyu Park, Eric Feron, Jürgen Schmidhuber2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Adversarial Batch Representation Augmentation for Batch Correction in High-Content Cellular Screening

This paper proposes Adversarial Batch Representation Augmentation (ABRA), a domain generalization framework that synthesizes worst-case bio-batch perturbations via structured uncertainty modeling and angular geometric margins to achieve state-of-the-art batch correction and generalization in high-content cellular screening without relying on additional prior knowledge.

Lei Tong, Xujing Yao, Adam Corrigan, Long Chen, Navin Rathna Kumar, Kerry Hallbrook, Jonathan Orme, Yinhai Wang, Huiyu Zhou2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Post Fusion Bird's Eye View Feature Stabilization for Robust Multimodal 3D Detection

This paper introduces the Post Fusion Stabilizer (PFS), a lightweight, plug-and-play module that enhances the robustness of existing camera-LiDAR fusion 3D detectors against domain shifts and sensor failures by stabilizing bird's-eye view feature statistics and adaptively correcting degraded cues without requiring architectural changes or retraining.

Trung Tien Dong, Dev Thakkar, Arman Sargolzaei, Xiaomin Lin2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Relational Semantic Reasoning on 3D Scene Graphs for Open World Interactive Object Search

The paper introduces SCOUT, a computationally efficient method for open-world interactive object search that leverages 3D scene graphs and relational heuristics distilled from large language models to outperform embedding-based approaches while matching LLM-level performance in both simulation and real-world environments.

Imen Mahdi, Matteo Cassinelli, Fabien Despinoy, Tim Welschehold, Abhinav Valada2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

The DSA's Blind Spot: Algorithmic Audit of Advertising and Minor Profiling on TikTok

This paper presents an algorithmic audit of TikTok revealing that while the platform technically complies with the Digital Service Act's ban on profiled advertising to minors, it effectively circumvents this protection by delivering highly personalized, often undisclosed influencer marketing content to adolescents, thereby highlighting the urgent need to expand the regulatory definition of "advertisement" to cover such commercial practices.

Sara Solarova, Matej Mosnar, Matus Tibensky, Jan Jakubcik, Adrian Bindas, Simon Liska, Filip Hossner, Matúš Mesarčík, Ivan Srba2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

When Rubrics Fail: Error Enumeration as Reward in Reference-Free RL Post-Training for Virtual Try-On

This paper introduces Implicit Error Counting (IEC), a reference-free reinforcement learning post-training method that enumerates and weights errors to generate rewards, demonstrating superior performance over Rubrics as Rewards (RaR) in virtual try-on tasks where multiple valid outputs exist and ideal reference answers are unavailable.

Wisdom Ikezogwo, Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu, Ranjay Krishna, Karim Bouyarmane2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

SecureRAG-RTL: A Retrieval-Augmented, Multi-Agent, Zero-Shot LLM-Driven Framework for Hardware Vulnerability Detection

This paper introduces SecureRAG-RTL, a novel Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework that significantly improves hardware vulnerability detection in HDL designs by integrating domain-specific knowledge retrieval with large language models, achieving an average 30% increase in accuracy while also releasing a new benchmark dataset of 14 annotated designs.

Touseef Hasan, Blessing Airehenbuwa, Nitin Pundir, Souvika Sarkar, Ujjwal Guin2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Longitudinal Lesion Inpainting in Brain MRI via 3D Region Aware Diffusion

This paper introduces a novel pseudo-3D longitudinal inpainting framework based on Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models and Region-Aware Diffusion that significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in perceptual fidelity, temporal stability, and processing speed for removing evolving lesions from brain MRI scans.

Zahra Karimaghaloo, Dumitru Fetco, Haz-Edine Assemlal, Hassan Rivaz, Douglas L. Arnold2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought

The paper introduces the CoT-Control evaluation suite to demonstrate that current reasoning models possess significantly lower controllability over their chains of thought compared to their final outputs, suggesting that CoT monitoring remains a viable tool for detecting misbehavior despite concerns about models manipulating their internal reasoning processes.

Chen Yueh-Han, Robert McCarthy, Bruce W. Lee, He He, Ian Kivlichan, Bowen Baker, Micah Carroll, Tomek Korbak2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality

This paper argues that while AI promises to revolutionize climate information, its current reliance on Global North-dominated infrastructure and biased data risks exacerbating global inequality, necessitating a shift toward data-centric development, shared digital public infrastructure, and co-produced knowledge to ensure equitable outcomes.

Amirpasha Mozaffari, Amanda Duarte, Lina Teckentrup, Stefano Materia, Gina E. C. Charnley, Lluis Palma, Eulalia Baulenas Serra, Dragana Bojovic, Paula Checchia, Aude Carreric, Francisco Doblas-Reyes2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI