Progressive Split Mamba: Effective State Space Modelling for Image Restoration

The paper proposes Progressive Split-Mamba (PS-Mamba), a topology-aware hierarchical state-space framework that addresses the spatial distortion and long-range decay limitations of standard Mamba models in image restoration by employing geometry-consistent partitioning and symmetric cross-scale shortcuts to effectively balance local structural preservation with global coherence.

Mohammed Hassanin, Nour Moustafa, Weijian Deng, Ibrahim Radwan2026-03-11💻 cs

STONE Dataset: A Scalable Multi-Modal Surround-View 3D Traversability Dataset for Off-Road Robot Navigation

This paper introduces STONE, a large-scale, multi-modal off-road dataset featuring synchronized LiDAR, camera, and radar data with automated, annotation-free 3D traversability labels, alongside a new benchmark for voxel-level traversability prediction.

Konyul Park, Daehun Kim, Jiyong Oh, Seunghoon Yu, Junseo Park, Jaehyun Park, Hongjae Shin, Hyungchan Cho, Jungho Kim, Jun Won Choi2026-03-11💻 cs

Evaluating the Practical Effectiveness of LLM-Driven Index Tuning with Microsoft Database Tuning Advisor

This paper evaluates the practical effectiveness of LLM-driven index tuning against Microsoft's Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) using industrial and real-world workloads, finding that while LLMs can identify superior configurations and capture human-intuitive insights, their substantial performance variance and high validation costs currently limit their direct adoption in production as a standalone replacement for DTA.

Xiaoying Wang, Wentao Wu, Vivek Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri2026-03-11💻 cs

Robust Spatiotemporal Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Autonomous Racing via Topological Gap Identification and Accelerated MPC

This paper presents a robust spatiotemporal motion planning framework for multi-agent autonomous racing that combines topological gap identification via stochastic Gaussian processes with a PTC-accelerated Linear Time-Varying MPC to achieve high-speed overtaking with strict kinematic feasibility and significantly reduced computational latency.

Mingyi Zhang, Cheng Hu, Yiqin Wang, Haotong Qin, Hongye Su, Lei Xie2026-03-11💻 cs

WESPR: Wind-adaptive Energy-Efficient Safe Perception & Planning for Robust Flight with Quadrotors

WESPR is a lightweight, real-time framework that integrates geometric perception and local weather data to predict wind fields generated by environmental obstacles, enabling quadrotors to proactively plan safe, energy-efficient paths and adapt control strategies for robust flight in turbulent conditions.

Khuzema Habib, Pranav Deshakulkarni Manjunath, Kasra Torshizi, Troi Williams, Pratap Tokekar2026-03-11💻 cs

PIM-SHERPA: Software Method for On-device LLM Inference by Resolving PIM Memory Attribute and Layout Inconsistencies

This paper introduces PIM-SHERPA, a software-only method that resolves memory attribute and layout inconsistencies in product-level PIM-enabled systems to enable efficient on-device LLM inference, achieving significant memory capacity savings while maintaining near-theoretical performance.

Sunjung Lee, Sanghoon Cha, Hyeonsu Kim, Seungwoo Seo, Yuhwan Ro, Sukhan Lee, Byeongho Kim, Yongjun Park, Kyomin Sohn, Seungwon Lee, Jaehoon Yu2026-03-11💻 cs

Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means

This paper introduces Flash-KMeans, an IO-aware and contention-free GPU implementation that eliminates memory bottlenecks in the assignment stage and resolves atomic write contention in the update stage through novel kernel-level innovations, achieving up to 17.9×\times speedup over existing baselines and enabling kk-means as a high-performance online primitive.

Shuo Yang, Haocheng Xi, Yilong Zhao, Muyang Li, Xiaoze Fan, Jintao Zhang, Han Cai, Yujun Lin, Xiuyu Li, Kurt Keutzer, Song Han, Chenfeng Xu, Ion Stoica2026-03-11💻 cs

MO-Playground: Massively Parallelized Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

This paper introduces MORLAX, a GPU-native multi-objective reinforcement learning algorithm, and MO-Playground, a suite of GPU-accelerated environments, which together enable massively parallelized training that achieves 25–270x speedups and superior Pareto fronts for complex robotics tasks compared to legacy CPU-based approaches.

Neil Janwani, Ellen Novoseller, Vernon J. Lawhern, Maegan Tucker2026-03-11💻 cs

When Detectors Forget Forensics: Blocking Semantic Shortcuts for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

This paper introduces Geometric Semantic Decoupling (GSD), a parameter-free module that enhances the generalizability of AI-generated image detectors by explicitly removing dominant semantic priors from learned representations, thereby forcing models to rely on robust forensic artifacts rather than failing via "semantic fallback" when encountering unseen generation pipelines.

Chao Shuai, Zhenguang Liu, Shaojing Fan, Bin Gong, Weichen Lian, Xiuli Bi, Zhongjie Ba, Kui Ren2026-03-11💻 cs