EvoSchema: Towards Text-to-SQL Robustness Against Schema Evolution

This paper introduces EvoSchema, a comprehensive benchmark featuring a novel taxonomy of ten schema perturbation types to evaluate and enhance the robustness of text-to-SQL models against real-world database schema evolution, revealing that table-level changes significantly impact performance and demonstrating that training on diverse schema designs improves model resilience.

Tianshu Zhang, Kun Qian, Siddhartha Sahai, Yuan Tian, Shaddy Garg, Huan Sun, Yunyao Li2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Sample-and-Search: An Effective Algorithm for Learning-Augmented k-Median Clustering in High dimensions

This paper introduces "Sample-and-Search," a learning-augmented algorithm for high-dimensional kk-median clustering that utilizes a predictor to preprocess data, thereby significantly reducing both computational complexity and exponential dimensionality dependency while achieving lower clustering costs compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Kangke Cheng, Shihong Song, Guanlin Mo, Hu Ding2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

CacheSolidarity: Preventing Prefix Caching Side Channels in Multi-tenant LLM Serving Systems

CacheSolidarity is a lightweight system that secures multi-tenant LLM serving against Automatic Prefix Caching side-channel attacks by selectively isolating suspicious cache reuse, thereby achieving significantly higher cache efficiency and lower latency compared to existing all-or-nothing isolation defenses.

Panagiotis Georgios Pennas, Konstantinos Papaioannou, Marco Guarnieri, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Deep Randomized Distributed Function Computation (DeepRDFC): Neural Distributed Channel Simulation

This paper proposes a deep learning-based autoencoder architecture for the Randomized Distributed Function Computation (RDFC) framework that minimizes the total variation distance to an unknown target distribution using only data samples, demonstrating superior communication efficiency compared to traditional data compression methods, particularly under limited common randomness.

Didrik Bergström, Onur Günlü2026-03-12🔢 math

Prioritizing Gradient Sign Over Modulus: An Importance-Aware Framework for Wireless Federated Learning

This paper proposes Sign-Prioritized FL (SP-FL), a novel wireless federated learning framework that enhances model training reliability under resource constraints by prioritizing the transmission of gradient signs through a hierarchical resource allocation scheme, achieving up to 9.96% higher accuracy than existing methods on the CIFAR-10 dataset.

Yiyang Yue, Jiacheng Yao, Wei Xu, Zhaohui Yang, George K. Karagiannidis, Dusit Niyato2026-03-12⚡ eess

Evaluating randomized smoothing as a defense against adversarial attacks in trajectory prediction

This paper proposes and evaluates randomized smoothing as an effective, simple, and computationally efficient defense mechanism that significantly enhances the robustness of trajectory prediction models against adversarial attacks without compromising their accuracy in standard settings.

Julian F. Schumann, Eduardo Figueiredo, Frederik Baymler Mathiesen, Luca Laurenti, Jens Kober, Arkady Zgonnikov2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis

The paper introduces EvoKernel, a self-evolving agentic framework that leverages value-driven memory and reinforcement learning to overcome data scarcity in NPU kernel synthesis, significantly improving model correctness and achieving substantial speedups through automated drafting and iterative refinement.

Yujie Zheng, Zhuo Li, Shengtao Zhang, Hanjing Wang, Junjie Sheng, Jiaqian Wang, Junchi Yan, Weinan Zhang, Ying Wen, Bo Tang, Muning Wen2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

V0.5V_{0.5}: Generalist Value Model as a Prior for Sparse RL Rollouts

The paper proposes V0.5V_{0.5}, a novel method that dynamically fuses a Generalist Value Model's prior with sparse RL rollouts via real-time statistical testing to minimize baseline estimation error, thereby achieving faster convergence and over 10% performance gains on mathematical reasoning benchmarks compared to GRPO and DAPO.

Yi-Kai Zhang, Yueqing Sun, Hongyan Hao, Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

6ABOS: An Open-Source Atmospheric Correction Framework for the EnMAP Hyperspectral Mission Based on 6S

This paper introduces 6ABOS, an open-source Python framework that leverages the 6S radiative transfer model and Google Earth Engine to automate the atmospheric correction of EnMAP hyperspectral imagery, successfully validating its accuracy in retrieving water-leaving reflectance over diverse Mediterranean reservoirs.

Gabriel Caballero Cañas, Bárbara Alvado Arranz, Xavier Sòria-Perpinyà, Antonio Ruiz-Verdú, Jesús Delegido, José Moreno2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG