💻 computer science

The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents: A Comprehensive Survey of OpenClaw —Architecture, Security, Ecosystem, and Beyond

This paper presents the first comprehensive, multi-dimensional survey of OpenClaw, a rapidly adopted yet security-vulnerable autonomous AI agent framework, analyzing its architecture, ecosystem, and governance to reveal the inherent structural tensions between accessibility, speed, and security in the emerging paradigm of autonomous AI agents.

Siyuan Li2026-08-06
💻 computer science

Time as a Computational Substrate: The Eligibility Trace and the First Challenge to the von Neumann Architecture

This paper introduces the eligibility trace as a novel computational substrate that embeds the causal arrow of time directly into hardware, challenging the von Neumann architecture's assumption of time as a mere sequence number by demonstrating its unique necessity for emergent differentiation in spiking neural networks and its isomorphic causal structure in stochastic gradient descent.

Yahua Ruan2026-08-06
💻 computer science

Addressee Framing Systematically Reduces LLM Structural Pathology: A Controlled Empirical Study of Directed Information Flow

This controlled empirical study demonstrates that framing Large Language Model responses for an adversarial fact-checker, rather than the direct asker, systematically reduces structural pathologies like sycophancy and fabrication by activating latent knowledge, an effect that is robust across models but imperceptible to human users, necessitating system-side implementation.

Yahua Ruan, Dongmei2026-08-06
💻 computer science

Marginal Alignment Does Not Guarantee Joint-Distribution Fidelity: An Official-Reference Audit of Nemotron-Personas-Korea with Cross-Locale Replication

This paper introduces the Independence-Assumption Footprint (IAF) audit protocol to demonstrate that while the NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas-Korea dataset aligns with official marginal demographics, it fails to preserve critical joint-distribution structures across attributes like occupation, age, and gender, thereby establishing that marginal alignment alone is insufficient for ensuring synthetic data fidelity.

Joonhyung Bae2026-08-06
💻 computer science

A Hybrid Intelligent Navigation Framework Using a Heuristic-Guided Dynamic Window Approach and Optimized Rapidly Exploring Random Tree Star for Autonomous Mobile Robots in Complex Dynamic Environments

This paper proposes a hybrid intelligent navigation framework that integrates an enhanced potential-guided AP-RRT global planner with adaptive weighted Dynamic Window Approach local controllers to achieve robust, efficient, and smooth autonomous navigation in complex dynamic environments.

ManikkaChandru R, Anish Visakan B, Sivasankar Ganesan, Behnaz Sohani2026-08-06
💻 computer science

A Reliable Framework for The Safe and Interpretable Detection of Mental Health Risks from Social Media Texts

This paper introduces SAFER-MIND, a novel framework that enhances the safety and interpretability of mental health risk detection in social media by combining multidimensional text integration, calibrated probabilistic modeling, and conformal prediction to distinguish between high-confidence decisions and cases requiring human review, thereby achieving high accuracy while minimizing risky errors.

ahmed Raheem, Farshad Kiyoumarsi2026-08-05