Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting

This paper presents a user-friendly framework that enables domain scientists to generate 3D animations of petascale, time-varying climate data on commodity hardware using an LLM-assisted conversational interface, thereby eliminating the need for specialized visualization expertise and high-performance computing resources.

Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Xuan Huang, Aashish Panta, Alper Sahistan, Zhimin Li, Amy A. Gooch, Valerio Pascucci2026-03-10💻 cs

Bi-directional digital twin prototype anchoring with multi-periodicity learning for few-shot fault diagnosis

This paper proposes a bi-directional digital twin prototype anchoring framework enhanced with multi-periodicity learning to achieve robust few-shot fault diagnosis by leveraging meta-training in a virtual simulation space and test-time adaptation in the physical domain, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional methods that require abundant labeled or unlabeled target data.

Pengcheng Xia, Zhichao Dong, Yixiang Huang, Chengjin Qin, Qun Chao, Chengliang Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation

This paper introduces GuideTWSI, a diverse dataset combining synthetic and real-world images to address the scarcity of Tactile Walking Surface Indicator (TWSI) data, specifically bridging the gap between East Asian directional bars and North American/European truncated domes to improve navigation safety for blind and low-vision individuals.

Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Anh N. H. Nguyen, Parth Goel, Krisha Adhikari, Sunghoon I. Lee, Joydeep Biswas, Nicholas A. Giudice, Donghyun Kim2026-03-10💻 cs

Exploring the Reasoning Depth of Small Language Models in Software Architecture: A Multidimensional Evaluation Framework Towards Software Engineering 2.0

This study benchmarks ten small language models on architectural decision record generation to establish a multidimensional evaluation framework, revealing that models exceeding 3 billion parameters excel in zero-shot reasoning while sub-2 billion models benefit most from fine-tuning, and that few-shot prompting effectively calibrates mid-sized models despite high semantic diversity often correlating with hallucinations.

Ha Vo, Nhut Tran, Khang Vo, Phat T. Tran-Truong, Son Ha2026-03-10💻 cs

Randomise Alone, Reach as a Team

This paper investigates concurrent graph games with distributed randomization where team players lack a shared random source, establishing that memoryless strategies suffice for the threshold problem (placing it in R\exists\mathbb{R} and proving NP-hardness) and that almost-sure reachability is NP-complete, while introducing the IRATL logic and a corresponding solver.

Léonard Brice, Thomas A. Henzinger, Alipasha Montaseri, Ali Shafiee, K. S. Thejaswini2026-03-10💻 cs