SWE-MiniSandbox: Container-Free Reinforcement Learning for Building Software Engineering Agents

SWE-MiniSandbox is a lightweight, container-free framework that leverages kernel-level isolation and environment pre-caching to significantly reduce storage and setup overhead while maintaining performance comparable to traditional container-based pipelines for scaling reinforcement learning in software engineering agents.

Danlong Yuan, Wei Wu, Zhengren Wang, Xueliang Zhao, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

This paper introduces MiDAS, an open-source, platform-agnostic system that enables non-invasive, time-synchronized multimodal data acquisition for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, validated by demonstrating that its external sensing approach achieves gesture recognition performance comparable to proprietary telemetry while releasing the first annotated dataset for hernia repair suturing.

Keshara Weerasinghe (MD), Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh (MD), Andrew Hawkins (MD), Zhaomeng Zhang, Zachary Schrader, Homa Alemzadeh2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

An Adaptive Model Selection Framework for Demand Forecasting under Horizon-Induced Degradation to Support Business Strategy and Operations

This paper introduces AHSIV, an adaptive framework that addresses horizon-induced model ranking instability in demand forecasting by integrating horizon-aware error metrics, structural demand classification, and multi-objective optimization to provide robust, operationally coherent model selection for heterogeneous business environments.

Adolfo González, Víctor Parada2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

MolCrystalFlow: Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction via Flow Matching

MolCrystalFlow is a novel flow-based generative model that predicts molecular crystal structures by disentangling intramolecular complexity from intermolecular packing through rigid body embeddings and Riemannian manifold representations, thereby outperforming existing methods and enabling data-driven discovery of periodic molecular crystals.

Cheng Zeng, Harry W. Sullivan, Thomas Egg, Maya M. Martirossyan, Philipp Höllmer, Jirui Jin, Richard G. Hennig, Adrian Roitberg, Stefano Martiniani, Ellad B. Tadmor, Mingjie Liu2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Conditionally Site-Independent Neural Evolution of Antibody Sequences

This paper introduces CoSiNE, a deep neural network-parameterized continuous-time Markov chain that bridges the gap between expressive deep learning and classical phylogenetic models to capture epistatic interactions in antibody evolution, thereby outperforming state-of-the-art language models in variant effect prediction and enabling efficient affinity optimization through a novel Guided Gillespie sampling scheme.

Stephen Zhewen Lu, Aakarsh Vermani, Kohei Sanno, Jiarui Lu, Frederick A Matsen, Milind Jagota, Yun S. Song2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Exploratory Memory-Augmented LLM Agent via Hybrid On- and Off-Policy Optimization

The paper introduces EMPO2^2, a hybrid reinforcement learning framework that integrates memory-augmented on- and off-policy optimization to overcome exploration bottlenecks in LLM agents, achieving significant performance gains on benchmark tasks and demonstrating superior adaptability to out-of-distribution scenarios without parameter updates.

Zeyuan Liu, Jeonghye Kim, Xufang Luo, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Coverage-Aware Web Crawling for Domain-Specific Supplier Discovery via a Web--Knowledge--Web Pipeline

This paper proposes a Coverage-Aware Web Crawling framework utilizing a Web--Knowledge--Web pipeline and ecological species-richness estimators to iteratively discover and map under-represented SME suppliers in specialized sectors, achieving superior precision and efficiency compared to baseline methods in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.

Yijiashun Qi, Yijiazhen Qi, Tanmay Wagh2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Reparameterized Tensor Ring Functional Decomposition for Multi-Dimensional Data Recovery

This paper proposes a reparameterized Tensor Ring functional decomposition that leverages Implicit Neural Representations and a structured basis combination to overcome the high-frequency modeling limitations of traditional methods, achieving superior performance in multi-dimensional data recovery tasks such as image inpainting and point cloud reconstruction.

Yangyang Xu, Junbo Ke, You-Wei Wen, Chao Wang2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classification

This paper proposes a compact acoustic framework that combines multi-branch CNN feature extraction with an efficient Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) for temporal modeling and a calibrated posterior ensemble fusion strategy to achieve robust, real-time cross-domain infant cry classification despite limited annotations and strong domain shifts.

Niloofar Jazaeri, Hilmi R. Dajani, Marco Janeczek, Martin Bouchard2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Rigidity-Aware Geometric Pretraining for Protein Design and Conformational Ensembles

This paper introduces RigidSSL, a rigidity-aware self-supervised learning framework that pretrains on static and dynamic protein structures using a bi-directional flow matching objective to jointly optimize geometric understanding and conformational dynamics, thereby significantly improving protein designability, novelty, and the modeling of realistic conformational ensembles.

Zhanghan Ni, Yanjing Li, Zeju Qiu, Bernhard Schölkopf, Hongyu Guo, Weiyang Liu, Shengchao Liu2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Traversal-as-Policy: Log-Distilled Gated Behavior Trees as Externalized, Verifiable Policies for Safe, Robust, and Efficient Agents

This paper proposes "Traversal-as-Policy," a framework that distills sandboxed execution logs into verifiable Gated Behavior Trees to replace implicit LLM policies with explicit, state-conditioned macro traversals, thereby significantly improving success rates, eliminating safety violations, and reducing computational costs across diverse autonomous agent benchmarks.

Peiran Li, Jiashuo Sun, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing, Tianfu Fu, Suofei Feng, Chaoqun Ni, Zhengzhong Tu2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI