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💻 computer science

Why Johnny Can't Use Agents: Industry Aspirations vs. User Realities with AI Agents

This paper investigates the gap between industry marketing and user realities of AI agents by analyzing 102 commercial tools and conducting a usability study with 31 participants, revealing that while users are impressed, they face significant challenges due to misaligned capabilities and a lack of meta-cognitive collaboration skills.

Pradyumna Shome, Sashreek Krishnan, Sauvik Das2026-05-05✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

Risk-Averse Ensemble Control for Control-Affine Systems

This paper establishes a comprehensive mathematical framework for risk-averse ensemble control of control-affine systems by proving the existence of optimal solutions, characterizing the control-to-state mapping with strong regularity properties to derive first-order optimality conditions, and validating the theory through a quantum control application.

Alessandro Scagliotti, Thomas M. Surowiec2026-05-05✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

How Verification Mechanisms Alter Cultural Signals in Employer Reviews

By analyzing over 300,000 employer reviews using the Competing Values Framework and CultureBERT, this study demonstrates that while employment verification on platforms like Blind alters the representation of organizational culture compared to anonymous platforms like Glassdoor, it shifts rather than eliminates bias, thereby providing job seekers with systematically different cultural signals that influence their application decisions.

Vladimir Martirosyan, Rachit Kamdar2026-05-05✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

The Antipodal Method: Fast, Accurate, and Robust 3D Generalized Winding Numbers

The paper introduces the Antipodal Method, a novel algorithm that computes generalized winding numbers for 3D surfaces with arbitrary precision and exceptional speed by reformulating the problem as a sum of signed ray intersections and a boundary integral, thereby overcoming the accuracy-efficiency trade-offs of existing approaches for both meshes and parametric surfaces.

Cedric Martens, Philip Trettner, Mikhail Bessmeltsev2026-05-05✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

The "Astonishing Regularity'' Revisited: Sensitivity of Learning-Rate Estimates to Practice-Sequence Length

This paper challenges the finding of "astonishing regularity" in student learning rates by demonstrating that estimates of learning-rate heterogeneity are highly sensitive to practice-sequence length, with shorter observation windows artificially inflating the perceived variability in student learning speeds.

Hansol Lee, Guilherme Lichand, Cristina Barnard, Lucas Klotz, Candace Thille, Yunsung Kim, Benjamin W. Domingue2026-05-05✓ Author reviewed
🔬 materials science

Quantum Limits of Electronic Transport in Nanostructured Macroscopic Conductors

By combining a unified atomistic framework with ultrahigh-field measurements on carbon nanotube fibers, this study reveals that macroscopic transport in disordered low-dimensional networks is primarily governed by junction-level quantum interference, where positive magnetoresistance stems from junction overlap and negative magnetoresistance arises from lattice-mismatched heterojunctions.

Agnieszka E. Lekawa-Raus, John S. Bulmer, Teresa Kulka, Magdalena Marganska, Nick Papior, Dwight G. Rickel, Fedor F. Bal (…)2026-05-04✓ Author reviewed