💻 computer science

LOCATE: Context-Aware GeoAI Decision Support for Population-Oriented Air-Quality Sensor Placement in Data-Constrained Cities

The paper introduces LOCATE, a data-light GeoAI framework that optimizes pre-deployment air-quality sensor placement in data-constrained cities by prioritizing population proximity and urban context, demonstrating that a context-augmented population-weighted p-median heuristic outperforms other methods across multiple African cities.

Fidel Raja Wabinyai, Deogratius Okedi, Priscah Adrine, George William Settala, Usman Abdul-Ganiy, Jennifer Kutesakwe, Al (…)2026-11-10
💻 computer science

Do Machine Learning Security Detectors Survive New Attacks? A Leakage Free Evaluation of Hidden Prompt Injection Detection in AI Coding Agents, Malicious npm and PyPI Package Detection, and Network Intrusion Detection

This paper demonstrates that machine learning security detectors, which typically achieve near-perfect performance on standard random splits, suffer catastrophic failure rates when evaluated against unseen attack techniques and temporal shifts using a rigorous, leakage-free protocol across AI prompt injection, malicious package, and network intrusion detection scenarios.

Nnaemeka Ugwumba, Clement Barisua Ndeekor2026-11-10
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When Local Credit Assignment Breaks: Exact Diagnostics of Additive and Pairwise Reward Projection

This paper presents a fully reproducible diagnostic demonstrating that in sparse-reward cooperative games, standard additive and pairwise reward projections can achieve low mean squared error while failing catastrophically to identify the optimal joint action, thereby exposing the inadequacy of reconstruction error as a measure of decision quality.

Krishna Varun Kasamneni2026-11-10✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💻 computer science

Strict Checks, Slow Iterations, Large Null Spaces: A Numerical Audit of Fused LEMNA Regression on EMBER

This paper presents a numerical audit of Fused LEMNA regression on EMBER features, revealing that while the problem's large null space and strict total-variation constraints cause standard solvers to fail convergence checks, alternative methods like OSQP can achieve lower objectives, though no definitive cause for the failures or security attacks were established.

Kottapalli Deepak Varma2026-11-10
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Beyond Accuracy Rankings: Cross-Dataset Stability and Computational Cost in Plant Disease Classification

This study evaluates the trade-off between predictive performance and computational efficiency of ResNet-50, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNet B0 across internal and external plant disease datasets, demonstrating that while ResNet-50 achieves the highest accuracy, MobileNetV2 offers superior throughput and lower latency, suggesting that model selection should balance both metrics rather than relying solely on accuracy rankings.

Nitin Kumar, Sakshi Dua2026-11-10
💻 computer science

Maximizing Detection Probability in UAV Search Missions using Random-Key Optimizers

This paper proposes a configurable, data-driven routing architecture that integrates Random-Key Optimizers with closed-loop probability updates to solve the dynamic probabilistic Open Vehicle Routing Problem, effectively balancing detection probability and resource minimization for UAV search and rescue missions while demonstrating robustness against noisy but not biased priors.

Antonio Dantas, Elcio Shiguemori, Antonio Chaves2026-11-10
💻 computer science

Does the Model See the Disease or the Shortcut? Causal Lesion Grounding for Chest Radiograph Diagnosis

The paper introduces RADAR, a lesion-grounded framework for chest radiograph diagnosis that enforces causal dependence on pathology by training models to rely on specific lesion maps rather than spurious shortcuts, thereby achieving superior localization accuracy and significantly reducing false positive predictions when lesions are synthetically removed compared to conventional classifiers.

Ameer Tamoor Khan, Saman Kainat Akhter, Abdul Rehman Khan, Shuai Li2026-11-10
💻 computer science

Fail-Closed Authorization for Tool-Using AI Agents: A Capability Contract and Case Study

This paper introduces the Agent Security Contract (ASC), a deny-by-default authorization framework for tool-using LLM agents that enforces pre-execution gates via policy-constrained tool allowlists and integrity-checked evidence, demonstrating through static trace evaluations that updated policy versions effectively block adversarial attacks while minimizing false positives compared to earlier iterations.

Andrey Lesnikov2026-11-10