Seeing the Reasoning: How LLM Rationales Influence User Trust and Decision-Making in Factual Verification Tasks

This study reveals that in factual verification tasks, users' trust and decision-making are primarily driven by the correctness and certainty framing of LLM rationales rather than their presentation format, highlighting the dual potential of well-designed rationales to either support decision-making or miscalibrate trust.

Xin Sun, Shu Wei, Jos A Bosch, Isao Echizen, Saku Sugawara, Abdallah El Ali2026-03-10💻 cs

Soft Rigid Hybrid Gripper with Inflatable Silicone Pockets for Tunable Frictional Grasping

This paper presents a soft-rigid hybrid gripper that utilizes inflatable silicone pockets to actively modulate surface friction via internal air pressure, enabling the secure grasping of diverse objects—from heavy and slippery to fragile items—without relying on excessive normal force.

Hoang Hiep Ly, Cong-Nhat Nguyen, Doan-Quang Tran, Quoc-Khanh Dang, Ngoc Duy Tran, Thi Thoa Mac, Anh Nguyen, Xuan-Thuan Nguyen, Tung D. Ta2026-03-10💻 cs

Impact of 5G Latency and Jitter on TAS Scheduling in a 5G-TSN Network: An Empirical Study

This empirical study demonstrates that maintaining end-to-end determinism in 5G-TSN networks for IIoT applications requires carefully tuning Time-Aware Shaper (TAS) transmission window offsets based on high-order percentile bounds of 5G downlink delay and jitter to prevent excessive latency or scheduling failures.

Pablo Rodriguez-Martin, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Pablo Muñoz, Julia Caleya-Sanchez, Pablo Ameigeiras2026-03-10💻 cs

Faster-HEAL: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Perception Framework for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

Faster-HEAL is a lightweight, privacy-preserving collaborative perception framework that addresses the challenges of heterogeneous autonomous vehicles by using low-rank visual prompt fine-tuning and pyramid fusion to align diverse features into a unified space, achieving superior detection performance with significantly reduced computational overhead compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Armin Maleki, Hayder Radha2026-03-10💻 cs

FinSheet-Bench: From Simple Lookups to Complex Reasoning, Where LLMs Break on Financial Spreadsheets

FinSheet-Bench introduces a synthetic benchmark modeled on real private equity fund structures to evaluate LLMs on financial spreadsheet tasks, revealing that even the best-performing models currently lack the accuracy required for unsupervised professional use, particularly on complex, large-scale documents, and suggesting that reliable extraction will require separating document understanding from deterministic computation.

Jan Ravnik, Matjaž Ličen, Felix Bührmann, Bithiah Yuan, Felix Stinson, Tanvi Singh2026-03-10💻 cs

Self-Supervised Evolutionary Learning of Neurodynamic Progression and Identity Manifolds from EEG During Safety-Critical Decision Making

This paper proposes a self-supervised evolutionary learning framework that extracts individualized neurodynamic progressions and identity manifolds from unlabeled EEG data during safety-critical decision-making, enabling robust user authentication, anomaly detection, and improved generalization without relying on external labels or predefined cognitive models.

Xiaoshan Zhou, Carol C. Menassa, Vineet R. Kamat2026-03-10💻 cs

VisualScratchpad: Inference-time Visual Concepts Analysis in Vision Language Models

This paper introduces VisualScratchpad, an interactive inference-time analysis tool that leverages sparse autoencoders and attention mechanisms to visualize and debug vision language models by linking visual concepts to text tokens, thereby revealing previously underexplored failure modes such as limited cross-modal alignment and misleading visual concepts.

Hyesu Lim, Jinho Choi, Taekyung Kim, Byeongho Heo, Jaegul Choo, Dongyoon Han2026-03-10💻 cs

Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice

The paper introduces Agora, an AI-powered platform that leverages LLMs to simulate diverse human perspectives on policy issues, enabling users to practice consensus-building and demonstrating through a preliminary study that access to authentic voice explanations significantly enhances problem-solving skills and the quality of collective decisions compared to viewing aggregate data alone.

Suyash Fulay, Prerna Ravi, Emily Kubin, Shrestha Mohanty, Michiel Bakker, Deb Roy2026-03-10💻 cs

Uber's Failover Architecture: Reconciling Reliability and Efficiency in Hyperscale Microservice Infrastructure

Uber's Failover Architecture (UFA) replaces its costly uniform 2x capacity model with a differentiated, criticality-based approach that opportunistically shares resources and preempts non-critical services during peak failovers, thereby reducing steady-state provisioning from 2x to 1.3x and eliminating over one million CPU cores while maintaining 99.97% availability.

Mayank Bansal, Milind Chabbi, Kenneth Bogh, Srikanth Prodduturi, Kevin Xu, Amit Kumar, David Bell, Ranjib Dey, Yufei Ren, Sachin Sharma, Juan Marcano, Shriniket Kale, Subhav Pradhan, Ivan Beschastnikh, Miguel Covarrubias, Chien-Chih Liao, Sandeep Koushik Sheshadri, Wen Luo, Kai Song, Ashish Samant, Sahil Rihan, Nimish Sheth, Uday Kiran Medisetty2026-03-10💻 cs

Pre-Clinical Latency Characterization of VRxBioRelax: A Real-Time EMG Biofeedback System for Muscle Relaxation in Virtual Reality

This paper introduces VRxBioRelax, a real-time virtual reality biofeedback system that utilizes sEMG data to drive an immersive relaxation environment, demonstrating through extensive pre-clinical testing that its average end-to-end latency of 25.34 ms significantly meets both VR comfort and clinical benchmarks for effective muscle relaxation training.

Melanie Baumgartner, Raphael Weibel, Tobias Hoesli, Aydin Javadov, Rayna Ney, Helen Schwerdt, Florian von Wangenheim, Joseph Ollier2026-03-10💻 cs

The Yerkes-Dodson Curve for AI Agents: Emergent Cooperation Under Environmental Pressure in Multi-Agent LLM Simulations

This paper demonstrates that environmental pressure in multi-agent LLM simulations follows a Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U relationship, where medium stress optimizes emergent cooperative trade while extreme pressure causes behavioral collapse, and suggests that calibrating such pressure serves as an effective curriculum design strategy for agent development.

Ivan Pasichnyk2026-03-10💻 cs