Enhancing OLAP Resilience at LinkedIn

This paper presents a holistic resiliency framework for Apache Pinot at LinkedIn, featuring Query Workload Isolation, Impact-Free Rebalancing, Maintenance Zone Awareness, and Adaptive Server Selection, which collectively ensure stable subsecond query latency and high availability for petabyte-scale OLAP workloads under failures and load spikes.

Praveen Chaganlal, Jia Guo, Vivek Vaidyanathan, Dino Occhialini, Sonam Mandal, Subbu Subramaniam, Siddharth Teotia, Tianqi Li, Xiaxuan Gao, Florence Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

Prompt-Based Caption Generation for Single-Tooth Dental Images Using Vision-Language Models

This paper addresses the lack of specialized dental datasets by proposing a framework that uses Vision-Language Models with guided prompts to generate high-quality, holistic captions for single-tooth RGB images, thereby enabling more comprehensive dental image analysis.

Anastasiia Sukhanova, Aiden Taylor, Julian Myers, Zichun Wang, Kartha Veerya Jammuladinne, Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda, Aniruddha Maiti, Ananya Jana2026-03-10💻 cs

UnSCAR: Universal, Scalable, Controllable, and Adaptable Image Restoration

The paper introduces UnSCAR, a scalable and controllable universal image restoration framework that utilizes a multi-branch mixture-of-experts architecture to overcome the limitations of catastrophic forgetting and performance degradation in existing all-in-one models when handling multiple real-world degradations.

Debabrata Mandal, Soumitri Chattopadhyay, Yujie Wang, Marc Niethammer, Praneeth Chakravarthula2026-03-10💻 cs

Toward Real-Time Mirrors Intelligence: System-Level Latency and Computation Evaluation in Internet of Mirrors (IoM)

This paper presents the first physical testbed evaluation of the Internet of Mirrors (IoM), demonstrating that while offloading computation to higher-tier nodes reduces local latency and resource load, the optimal task placement strategy depends on a dynamic trade-off between network conditions, payload size, and concurrent user load.

Haneen Fatima, Muhammad Ali Imran, Ahmad Taha, Lina Mohjazi2026-03-10💻 cs

Machine Learning for the Internet of Underwater Things: From Fundamentals to Implementation

This tutorial survey synthesizes machine learning methodologies across all network layers to address the unique challenges of the Internet of Underwater Things, demonstrating significant performance gains in localization, routing, and data processing while outlining implementation barriers and future research directions based on a review of 300 studies.

Kenechi Omeke, Attai Abubakar, Michael Mollel, Lei Zhang, Qammer H. Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran2026-03-10💻 cs

Unifying Sidewinding and Rolling: A Wave-Based Framework for Self-Righting in Elongated Limbless and Multi-Legged Robots

This study investigates the self-righting capabilities of elongated, multi-legged robots by comparing biological centipede models with varying leg lengths, ultimately establishing morphology-strategy coupling principles and identifying critical limb-length thresholds that guide the design of robust, bio-inspired robots for complex terrains.

Hangjun Liu, Jiarui Geng, Jinxuan Ding, Gengzhi He, Xiyuan Wang, Melisa Arukgoda, Joe DiGennaro, George Ubertalli, Grigoriy Blekherman, Baxi Chong2026-03-10💻 cs

Regression Testing in Remote and Hybrid Software Teams: An Exploratory Study of Processes, Tools, and Practices

This study investigates how remote and hybrid work environments reshape regression testing practices, revealing that while core phases remain stable, successful execution increasingly relies on automation, documentation, and standardized tooling to overcome communication challenges and support asynchronous collaboration.

Juliane Pascoal, Cleytton Magalhaes, Ronnie de Souza Santos2026-03-10💻 cs