Distributed Legal Infrastructure for a Trustworthy Agentic Web

This paper proposes a Distributed Legal Infrastructure (DLI) framework comprising five interlocking layers—ranging from soulbound agent identities to decentralized adjudication—to establish interoperable protocols that ensure accountability, contestability, and rule-of-law principles within the emerging autonomous agentic web.

Tomer Jordi Chaffer, Victor Jiawei Zhang, Sante Dino Facchini, Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong, Zihan Guo, Xisen Wang, Carlos Santana, Giovanni De Gasperis2026-03-10💻 cs

SoK: Self-Sovereign Digital Identities

This paper presents a comprehensive systematization of knowledge on Self-Sovereign Digital Identities (SSDI) by analyzing 80 sources to identify six major adoption challenges, evaluating 47 academic publications and 12 real-world applications to reveal that self-sovereignty is a spectrum, and outlining future research directions to accelerate the shift from centralized to self-sovereign identity systems.

Sushanth Ambati, Kainat Adeel, Jack Myers, Nikolay Ivanov2026-03-10💻 cs

Collaborative Planning with Concurrent Synchronization for Operationally Constrained UAV-UGV Teams

This paper introduces CoPCS, a learning-based framework that utilizes a heterogeneous graph transformer and a synchronized transformer decoder to enable energy- and terrain-constrained UAV-UGV teams to perform coordinated, concurrent task planning and in-mission recharging, significantly improving overall team performance in complex real-world scenarios.

Zihao Deng, Qianhuang Li, Peng Gao, Maggie Wigness, John Rogers, Donghyun Kim, Hao Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

Empowering Locally Deployable Medical Agent via State Enhanced Logical Skills for FHIR-based Clinical Tasks

This paper introduces SELSM, a training-free framework that enhances locally deployable medical agents by distilling simulated clinical trajectories into entity-agnostic logical rules, thereby significantly improving zero-shot FHIR-based task performance and achieving a 100% completion rate on the MedAgentBench without compromising data privacy.

Wanrong Yang, Zhengliang Liu, Yuan Li, Bingjie Yan, Lingfang Li, Mingguang He, Dominik Wojtczak, Yalin Zheng, Danli Shi2026-03-10💻 cs

SurgSync: Time-Synchronized Multi-Modal Data Collection Framework and Dataset for Surgical Robotics

This paper introduces SurgSync, a time-synchronized multi-modal data collection framework implemented on a da Vinci Research Kit that addresses the lack of training data for surgical AI by integrating advanced sensors and synchronization tools to generate a validated dataset of 214 surgical instances for skill assessment and autonomous control development.

Haoying Zhou, Chang Liu, Yimeng Wu, Junlin Wu, Zijian Wu, Yu Chung Lee, Sara Martuscelli, Spetimiu E. Salcudean, Gregory S. Fischer, Peter Kazanzides2026-03-10💻 cs

LIPP: Load-Aware Informative Path Planning with Physical Sampling

This paper introduces Load-Aware Informative Path Planning (LIPP), a generalization of classical Informative Path Planning formulated as a Mixed-Integer Quadratic Program that optimizes routing, visitation order, and sampling counts under an energy budget by explicitly modeling the coupling between information gain and load-dependent traversal costs, thereby achieving superior energy efficiency and data collection compared to traditional methods in physical sampling scenarios.

Hojune Kim, Guangyao Shi, Gaurav S. Sukhatme2026-03-10💻 cs

Small Target Detection Based on Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion of Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing Images

This paper introduces ESM-YOLO+, a lightweight visible-infrared fusion network that employs a Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion module and training-time Structural Representation enhancement to achieve high-precision small-target detection in complex remote sensing scenes while significantly reducing model complexity compared to baselines.

Qianqian Zhang, Xiaolong Jia, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Li Zhou, Junshe An2026-03-10💻 cs

MindfulAgents: Personalizing Mindfulness Meditation via an Expert-Aligned Multi-Agent System

MindfulAgents is a large language model-driven multi-agent system that personalizes mindfulness meditation through expert-aligned script generation and real-time adaptation, significantly improving user engagement, self-awareness, and stress reduction in both short-term and long-term studies.

Mengyuan (Millie), Wu, Zhihan Jiang, Yuang Fan, Richard Feng, Sahiti Dharmavaram, Mathew Polowitz, Shawn Fallon, Bashima Islam, Lizbeth Benson, Irene Tung, David Creswell, Xuhai Xu2026-03-10💻 cs

HIERAMP: Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Amplification for Generative Dataset Distillation

This paper proposes HIERAMP, a method that leverages the coarse-to-fine generation capability of Vision Autoregressive (VAR) models to amplify hierarchical semantics through dynamic class token injection, thereby improving dataset distillation performance by better capturing object structures and details without explicitly optimizing global proximity.

Lin Zhao, Xinru Jiang, Xi Xiao, Qihui Fan, Lei Lu, Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin, Octavia Camps, Pu Zhao, Jianyang Gu2026-03-10💻 cs

Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer for External Wrench Estimation in Human-UAV Physical Interaction

This paper proposes an Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer (AGNO) that leverages a full nonlinear dynamic model to accurately and robustly estimate external interaction wrenches in human-UAV physical payload transportation without dedicated force-torque sensors, demonstrating superior performance over Extended Kalman Filters through rigorous stability analysis and simulation.

Hussein N. Naser, Hashim A. Hashim, Mojtaba Ahmadi2026-03-10💻 cs