LLM-FK: Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning for Foreign Key Detection in Large-Scale Complex Databases

LLM-FK is a novel multi-agent framework that overcomes the limitations of conventional heuristic and naive LLM methods in detecting foreign keys within large-scale complex databases by coordinating specialized agents to prune the search space, enhance reasoning with domain knowledge, and ensure global schema consistency, thereby achieving superior accuracy and scalability.

Zijian Tang, Ying Zhang, Sibo Cai, Ruoxuan Wang2026-03-10💻 cs

Do Deployment Constraints Make LLMs Hallucinate Citations? An Empirical Study across Four Models and Five Prompting Regimes

This empirical study demonstrates that deployment-motivated prompting constraints significantly exacerbate citation hallucinations across four large language models, with no model achieving a citation existence rate above 47.5% and a substantial portion of unverifiable outputs being fabricated, thereby underscoring the critical need for post-hoc verification in academic and software engineering contexts.

Chen Zhao, Yuan Tang, Yitian Qian2026-03-10💻 cs

TopRank-Based Delivery Rate Optimization for Coded Caching under Non-Uniform Demands

This paper proposes a TopRank-based coded caching strategy that optimizes delivery rates under non-uniform, unknown file demands by ranking files based on request count differences rather than estimating exact popularities, thereby achieving superior performance and sublinear regret in scenarios with limited users, small cache capacities, or noisy observation data.

Mohammadsaber Bahadori, Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi, Behnam Bahrak2026-03-10💻 cs

MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species

This paper introduces MAviS, a domain-adaptive multimodal conversational assistant for avian species that leverages the newly created MAviS-Dataset and is evaluated on the MAviS-Bench to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fine-grained bird species understanding and multimodal question answering.

Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Jinxing Zhou, Fahad Shabzan Khan, Rao Anwer, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal2026-03-10💻 cs

Seeing the Reasoning: How LLM Rationales Influence User Trust and Decision-Making in Factual Verification Tasks

This study reveals that in factual verification tasks, users' trust and decision-making are primarily driven by the correctness and certainty framing of LLM rationales rather than their presentation format, highlighting the dual potential of well-designed rationales to either support decision-making or miscalibrate trust.

Xin Sun, Shu Wei, Jos A Bosch, Isao Echizen, Saku Sugawara, Abdallah El Ali2026-03-10💻 cs

Soft Rigid Hybrid Gripper with Inflatable Silicone Pockets for Tunable Frictional Grasping

This paper presents a soft-rigid hybrid gripper that utilizes inflatable silicone pockets to actively modulate surface friction via internal air pressure, enabling the secure grasping of diverse objects—from heavy and slippery to fragile items—without relying on excessive normal force.

Hoang Hiep Ly, Cong-Nhat Nguyen, Doan-Quang Tran, Quoc-Khanh Dang, Ngoc Duy Tran, Thi Thoa Mac, Anh Nguyen, Xuan-Thuan Nguyen, Tung D. Ta2026-03-10💻 cs

Impact of 5G Latency and Jitter on TAS Scheduling in a 5G-TSN Network: An Empirical Study

This empirical study demonstrates that maintaining end-to-end determinism in 5G-TSN networks for IIoT applications requires carefully tuning Time-Aware Shaper (TAS) transmission window offsets based on high-order percentile bounds of 5G downlink delay and jitter to prevent excessive latency or scheduling failures.

Pablo Rodriguez-Martin, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Pablo Muñoz, Julia Caleya-Sanchez, Pablo Ameigeiras2026-03-10💻 cs

Faster-HEAL: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Perception Framework for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

Faster-HEAL is a lightweight, privacy-preserving collaborative perception framework that addresses the challenges of heterogeneous autonomous vehicles by using low-rank visual prompt fine-tuning and pyramid fusion to align diverse features into a unified space, achieving superior detection performance with significantly reduced computational overhead compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Armin Maleki, Hayder Radha2026-03-10💻 cs

FinSheet-Bench: From Simple Lookups to Complex Reasoning, Where LLMs Break on Financial Spreadsheets

FinSheet-Bench introduces a synthetic benchmark modeled on real private equity fund structures to evaluate LLMs on financial spreadsheet tasks, revealing that even the best-performing models currently lack the accuracy required for unsupervised professional use, particularly on complex, large-scale documents, and suggesting that reliable extraction will require separating document understanding from deterministic computation.

Jan Ravnik, Matjaž Ličen, Felix Bührmann, Bithiah Yuan, Felix Stinson, Tanvi Singh2026-03-10💻 cs

Self-Supervised Evolutionary Learning of Neurodynamic Progression and Identity Manifolds from EEG During Safety-Critical Decision Making

This paper proposes a self-supervised evolutionary learning framework that extracts individualized neurodynamic progressions and identity manifolds from unlabeled EEG data during safety-critical decision-making, enabling robust user authentication, anomaly detection, and improved generalization without relying on external labels or predefined cognitive models.

Xiaoshan Zhou, Carol C. Menassa, Vineet R. Kamat2026-03-10💻 cs

VisualScratchpad: Inference-time Visual Concepts Analysis in Vision Language Models

This paper introduces VisualScratchpad, an interactive inference-time analysis tool that leverages sparse autoencoders and attention mechanisms to visualize and debug vision language models by linking visual concepts to text tokens, thereby revealing previously underexplored failure modes such as limited cross-modal alignment and misleading visual concepts.

Hyesu Lim, Jinho Choi, Taekyung Kim, Byeongho Heo, Jaegul Choo, Dongyoon Han2026-03-10💻 cs