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

Enhancing OLAP Resilience at LinkedIn

This paper presents a holistic resiliency framework for Apache Pinot at LinkedIn, featuring Query Workload Isolation, Impact-Free Rebalancing, Maintenance Zone Awareness, and Adaptive Server Selection, which collectively ensure stable subsecond query latency and high availability for petabyte-scale OLAP workloads under failures and load spikes.

Praveen Chaganlal, Jia Guo, Vivek Vaidyanathan, Dino Occhialini, Sonam Mandal, Subbu Subramaniam, Siddharth Teotia, Tianqi Li, Xiaxuan Gao, Florence Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

Prompt-Based Caption Generation for Single-Tooth Dental Images Using Vision-Language Models

This paper addresses the lack of specialized dental datasets by proposing a framework that uses Vision-Language Models with guided prompts to generate high-quality, holistic captions for single-tooth RGB images, thereby enabling more comprehensive dental image analysis.

Anastasiia Sukhanova, Aiden Taylor, Julian Myers, Zichun Wang, Kartha Veerya Jammuladinne, Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda, Aniruddha Maiti, Ananya Jana2026-03-10💻 cs

UnSCAR: Universal, Scalable, Controllable, and Adaptable Image Restoration

The paper introduces UnSCAR, a scalable and controllable universal image restoration framework that utilizes a multi-branch mixture-of-experts architecture to overcome the limitations of catastrophic forgetting and performance degradation in existing all-in-one models when handling multiple real-world degradations.

Debabrata Mandal, Soumitri Chattopadhyay, Yujie Wang, Marc Niethammer, Praneeth Chakravarthula2026-03-10💻 cs

Toward Real-Time Mirrors Intelligence: System-Level Latency and Computation Evaluation in Internet of Mirrors (IoM)

This paper presents the first physical testbed evaluation of the Internet of Mirrors (IoM), demonstrating that while offloading computation to higher-tier nodes reduces local latency and resource load, the optimal task placement strategy depends on a dynamic trade-off between network conditions, payload size, and concurrent user load.

Haneen Fatima, Muhammad Ali Imran, Ahmad Taha, Lina Mohjazi2026-03-10💻 cs

Machine Learning for the Internet of Underwater Things: From Fundamentals to Implementation

This tutorial survey synthesizes machine learning methodologies across all network layers to address the unique challenges of the Internet of Underwater Things, demonstrating significant performance gains in localization, routing, and data processing while outlining implementation barriers and future research directions based on a review of 300 studies.

Kenechi Omeke, Attai Abubakar, Michael Mollel, Lei Zhang, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran2026-03-10💻 cs