DeAR: Fine-Grained VLM Adaptation by Decomposing Attention Head Roles

The paper proposes DeAR, a fine-grained adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that decomposes attention heads into functional roles (Attribute, Generalization, and Mixed) using a Concept Entropy metric to selectively isolate task-specific learning from generalization capabilities, thereby achieving superior performance across diverse tasks while preserving zero-shot robustness.

Yiming Ma, Hongkun Yang, Lionel Z. Wang, Bin Chen, Weizhi Xian, Jianzhi Teng2026-03-10💻 cs

HarmonyCell: Automating Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling under Semantic and Distribution Shifts

HarmonyCell is an end-to-end agent framework that automates single-cell perturbation modeling by combining an LLM-driven semantic unifier to resolve metadata incompatibilities and an adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Search engine to synthesize architectures that handle distribution shifts, thereby achieving high execution success and outperforming expert baselines without manual engineering.

Wenxuan Huang, Mingyu Tsoi, Yanhao Huang, Xinjie Mao, Xue Xia, Hao Wu, Jiaqi Wei, Yuejin Yang, Lang Yu, Cheng Tan, Xiang Zhang, Zhangyang Gao, Siqi Sun2026-03-10💻 cs

LLM-assisted Semantic Option Discovery for Facilitating Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning

This paper proposes a novel LLM-driven closed-loop framework that maps natural language instructions to executable rules and semantically annotates options to enhance the data efficiency, interpretability, and cross-environment transferability of Deep Reinforcement Learning, with experimental validation showing superior performance in constraint compliance and skill reuse.

Chang Yao, Jinghui Qin, Kebing Jin, Hankz Hankui Zhuo2026-03-10💻 cs

DINOv3 Visual Representations for Blueberry Perception Toward Robotic Harvesting

This paper evaluates DINOv3 as a frozen backbone for blueberry robotic harvesting tasks, finding that while it excels in segmentation through stable patch-level representations, its detection performance is limited by scale variation and spatial aggregation challenges, suggesting it functions best as a semantic backbone requiring downstream spatial modeling tailored to fruit structures.

Rui-Feng Wang, Daniel Petti, Yue Chen, Changying Li2026-03-10💻 cs

Event-Driven Safe and Resilient Control of Automated and Human-Driven Vehicles under EU-FDI Attacks

This paper proposes an event-driven safe and resilient control framework that integrates adaptive attack-resilient strategies with data-driven human driver estimation to ensure collision-free and stable lane-changing maneuvers for automated vehicles in mixed traffic under exponentially unbounded false data injection attacks.

Yi Zhang, Yichao Wang, Wei Xiao, Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad, Shan Zuo2026-03-10💻 cs

Generalized Per-Agent Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Optimization

This paper proposes Generalized Per-Agent Advantage Estimation (GPAE), a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that enhances sample efficiency and coordination by utilizing a per-agent value iteration operator and a double-truncated importance sampling scheme to enable stable off-policy learning without direct Q-function estimation.

Seongmin Kim, Giseung Park, Woojun Kim, Jiwon Jeon, Seungyul Han, Youngchul Sung2026-03-10💻 cs

Sharing is caring: Attestable and Trusted Workflows out of Distrustful Components

This paper presents Mica, a confidential computing architecture built on Arm CCA that decouples confidentiality from trust by enabling tenants to explicitly define, restrict, and attest communication paths between distrustful TEE components, thereby preventing sensitive data leakage without significantly expanding the trusted computing base.

Amir Al Sadi, Sina Abdollahi, Adrien Ghosn, Hamed Haddadi, Marios Kogias2026-03-10💻 cs

LDP-Slicing: Local Differential Privacy for Images via Randomized Bit-Plane Slicing

This paper introduces LDP-Slicing, a lightweight, training-free framework that overcomes the utility limitations of applying Local Differential Privacy to high-dimensional images by decomposing pixel values into binary bit-planes and integrating perceptual obfuscation and optimized budget allocation to achieve rigorous privacy with high downstream task performance.

Yuanming Cao, Chengqi Li, Wenbo He2026-03-10💻 cs

Building the ethical AI framework of the future: from philosophy to practice

This paper proposes an ethics-by-design control architecture that operationalizes AI governance across the entire lifecycle by embedding philosophical reasoning into a triple-gate enforcement structure (Metric, Governance, and Eco) with measurable triggers and audit trails, thereby translating normative commitments into testable controls compatible with existing MLOps pipelines and major regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST RMF.

Jasper Kyle Catapang2026-03-10💻 cs

Causal Analysis of Author Demographics in Academic Peer Review

Using causal inference on a dataset of 530 papers, this study quantifies statistically significant disadvantages in academic peer review rankings for authors from minority racial groups, female authors, and those affiliated with institutions in the Global South, highlighting the urgent need for fairness interventions in both traditional and AI-driven assessment systems.

Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi, Gibson Nkhata, Susan Gauch2026-03-10💻 cs