Retrieving Minimal and Sufficient Reasoning Subgraphs with Graph Foundation Models for Path-aware GraphRAG

This paper introduces GFM-Retriever, a novel GraphRAG framework that leverages a pre-trained Graph Foundation Model for cross-domain subgraph retrieval and an Information Bottleneck-based selector to extract minimal, sufficient reasoning paths, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance in multi-hop question answering without relying on domain-specific heuristics.

Haonan Yuan, Qingyun Sun, Junhua Shi, Mingjun Liu, Jiaqi Yuan, Ziwei Zhang, Xingcheng Fu, Jianxin Li2026-03-10💻 cs

From State Changes to Creative Decisions: Documenting and Interpreting Traces Across Creative Domains

This paper addresses the limitation of existing creative activity tracing methods that capture state changes without preserving intent or higher-level structure by proposing three complementary domain-specific approaches: a node-based interface for GenAI, a vocabulary of visual cues for visualization authoring, and a semantic history-embedded programming model.

Xiaohan Peng, Sotiris Piliouras, Carl Abou Saada Nujaim2026-03-10💻 cs

Student Preferences for Online Interaction Platforms in Blended Learning: A Mixed-Methods Study

This mixed-methods study of 37 undergraduate students at a Ghanaian university reveals a strong preference for familiar instant messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram over institutional learning management systems, driven by factors such as convenience, accessibility, and real-time interaction, thereby highlighting the need for educational strategies to align with students' existing digital habits.

Lois Fajuyigbe, Kaisu Mumuni, Felix Nti Koranteng2026-03-10💻 cs

Vision-Guided MPPI for Agile Drone Racing: Navigating Arbitrary Gate Poses via Neural Signed Distance Fields

This paper proposes a fully onboard, vision-guided optimal control framework that enables agile drone racing through arbitrary gate poses by integrating a novel neural signed distance field (Gate-SDF) with a Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) controller to achieve robust, reference-free navigation without relying on explicit pose estimation or precomputed trajectories.

Fangguo Zhao, Hanbing Zhang, Zhouheng Li, Xin Guan, Shuo Li2026-03-10💻 cs

Detecting Cryptographically Relevant Software Packages with Collaborative LLMs

This paper proposes and evaluates an on-premises collaborative framework utilizing multiple large language models with majority voting to efficiently and privately identify cryptographically relevant software packages, thereby addressing the challenges of manual inventory and static analysis limitations in the transition to post-quantum cryptography.

Eduard Hirsch, Kristina Raab, Tobias J. Bauer, Daniel Loebenberger2026-03-10💻 cs

Exploring the Drivers of Information Security Policy Compliance Among Contingent Employees: A Social, Deterrent, and Involvement-Based Approach

This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of data from Ghanaian universities to demonstrate that subjective norms, deterrence, and involvement mechanisms—particularly knowledge sharing—significantly shape contingent employees' attitudes toward information security policies, thereby driving their compliance intentions.

Vasty A. Adomako, Kaisu Mumuni, Eugene M. Akoto, Felix N. Koranteng2026-03-10💻 cs

A Miniature Brain Transformer: Thalamic Gating, Hippocampal Lateralization, Amygdaloid Salience, and Prefrontal Working Memory in Attention-Coupled Latent Memory

This paper introduces a miniature brain transformer architecture that demonstrates a novel, falsifiable prediction: functional lateralization of hippocampal banks requires the synergistic interaction of a prefrontal working-memory buffer (acting as a symmetry-breaker) and inhibitory callosal coupling, a mechanism that triggers a sharp phase transition in memory performance while a cerebellar fast-path merely accelerates convergence.

Hong Jeong2026-03-10💻 cs

VINO: Video-driven Invariance for Non-contextual Objects via Structural Prior Guided De-contextualization

VINO is a self-supervised learning framework that overcomes the "co-occurrence trap" in dense video by using a teacher-student distillation approach with structural priors to force representations to focus on foreground objects rather than background context, achieving state-of-the-art unsupervised object discovery performance.

Seul-Ki Yeom, Marcel Simon, Eunbin Lee, Tae-Ho Kim2026-03-10💻 cs

Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle-to-Grid Voltage Regulation: Single-Hub to Multi-Hub Coordination with Battery-Aware Constraints

This paper proposes a soft actor-critic-based reinforcement learning framework for vehicle-to-grid voltage regulation that effectively coordinates single and multi-hub charging systems while prioritizing battery health and fleet availability, demonstrating robust performance comparable to standard droop controllers under both nominal and aggressive overloading conditions.

Jingbo Wang, Roshni Anna Jacob, Harshal D. Kaushik, Jie Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Satellite Remote Sensing Data with a Predictive Architecture

This paper introduces LEPA, a learned architecture that conditions on geometric augmentations to accurately predict transformed satellite image embeddings, effectively overcoming the limitations of standard interpolation in non-convex geospatial foundation model manifolds and significantly improving geometric adjustment performance.

Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefan Kesselheim, Gabriele Cavallaro2026-03-10💻 cs