Unpacking Interpretability: Human-Centered Criteria for Optimal Combinatorial Solutions

This paper establishes that human preference for equally optimal combinatorial packing solutions is reliably driven by three quantifiable structural properties—alignment with greedy heuristics, simple within-bin composition, and ordered visual representation—thereby providing a concrete framework for designing interpretable algorithmic support systems.

Dominik Pegler, Frank Jäkel, David Steyrl, Frank Scharnowski, Filip Melinscak2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

A New Modeling to Feature Selection Based on the Fuzzy Rough Set Theory in Normal and Optimistic States on Hybrid Information Systems

This paper introduces FSbuHD, a novel feature selection model for hybrid information systems that addresses the computational and noise limitations of traditional fuzzy rough set theory by reformulating the problem as an optimization task based on combined object distances, demonstrating superior efficiency and effectiveness in both normal and optimistic states across UCI datasets.

Mohammad Hossein Safarpour, Seyed Mohammad Alavi, Mohammad Izadikhah, Hossein Dibachi2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

NetDiffuser: Deceiving DNN-Based Network Attack Detection Systems with Diffusion-Generated Adversarial Traffic

This paper introduces NetDiffuser, a novel framework that leverages a feature categorization algorithm and diffusion models to generate natural adversarial examples that effectively deceive deep learning-based network intrusion detection systems while preserving traffic validity.

Pratyay Kumar, Abu Saleh Md Tayeen, Satyajayant Misra, Huiping Cao, Jiefei Liu, Qixu Gong, Jayashree Harikumar2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Cross-Domain Uncertainty Quantification for Selective Prediction: A Comprehensive Bound Ablation with Transfer-Informed Betting

This paper introduces Transfer-Informed Betting (TIB), a novel method that combines betting-based confidence sequences with cross-domain transfer learning to achieve tighter, data-efficient risk guarantees for selective prediction, demonstrating significant coverage improvements over existing bounds across multiple benchmarks and applications.

Abhinaba Basu2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

FedLECC: Cluster- and Loss-Guided Client Selection for Federated Learning under Non-IID Data

FedLECC is a lightweight client selection strategy for federated learning under non-IID data that groups clients by label-distribution similarity and prioritizes those with higher local loss, thereby significantly improving test accuracy while reducing communication rounds and overhead.

Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez, Giovanni Giunta, Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, Aris Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Andrea Vitaletti2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Quantifying Uncertainty in AI Visibility: A Statistical Framework for Generative Search Measurement

This paper argues that citation visibility in generative search should be treated as a stochastic distribution requiring uncertainty estimates rather than a fixed value, demonstrating through empirical analysis of multiple AI platforms that single-run measurements are misleadingly precise and that robust statistical sampling is essential for accurate domain performance assessment.

Ronald Sielinski2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Using Vision Language Foundation Models to Generate Plant Simulation Configurations via In-Context Learning

This paper introduces a novel framework utilizing vision-language foundation models (Gemma 3 and Qwen3-VL) to automatically generate JSON simulation configurations for digital twin agriculture by interpreting drone imagery, demonstrating their potential to scale functional-structural plant modeling while highlighting current limitations in visual reasoning and reliance on contextual priors.

Heesup Yun, Isaac Kazuo Uyehara, Earl Ranario, Lars Lundqvist, Christine H. Diepenbrock, Brian N. Bailey, J. Mason Earles2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

PathoScribe: Transforming Pathology Data into a Living Library with a Unified LLM-Driven Framework for Semantic Retrieval and Clinical Integration

PathoScribe is a unified retrieval-augmented large language model framework that transforms static pathology archives into an active, reasoning-enabled clinical intelligence platform, enabling natural language case retrieval, automated cohort construction, and real-time diagnostic support with high accuracy and efficiency.

Abdul Rehman Akbar, Samuel Wales-McGrath, Alejadro Levya, Lina Gokhale, Rajendra Singh, Wei Chen, Anil Parwani, Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

VoxEmo: Benchmarking Speech Emotion Recognition with Speech LLMs

The paper introduces VoxEmo, a comprehensive benchmark and toolkit for evaluating Speech Large Language Models on speech emotion recognition across 35 corpora and 15 languages, featuring a distribution-aware soft-label protocol that reveals how these models uniquely align with human subjective emotion distributions despite trailing supervised baselines in hard-label accuracy.

Hezhao Zhang, Huang-Cheng Chou, Shrikanth Narayanan, Thomas Hain2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

AgentOS: From Application Silos to a Natural Language-Driven Data Ecosystem

This paper proposes "AgentOS," a new paradigm that replaces traditional GUI-based operating systems with a natural language-driven ecosystem centered on an Agent Kernel, framing the realization of such a system as a Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) challenge involving intent mining, workflow automation, and dynamic personal knowledge graphs.

Rui Liu, Tao Zhe, Dongjie Wang, Zijun Yao, Kunpeng Liu, Yanjie Fu, Huan Liu, Jian Pei2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Semantic Level of Detail: Multi-Scale Knowledge Representation via Heat Kernel Diffusion on Hyperbolic Manifolds

This paper introduces Semantic Level of Detail (SLoD), a framework that utilizes heat kernel diffusion on hyperbolic manifolds to enable continuous, principled control over knowledge abstraction levels in AI memory systems, automatically detecting emergent semantic boundaries in both synthetic and real-world knowledge graphs without manual supervision.

Edward Izgorodin2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI