Ax L\'eo Boisvert, Abhay Puri, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru, Nazanin Sepahvand, Nicolas Chapados, Quentin Cappart, Alexandre Lacoste, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Alexandre Drouin 3/18/2026

Malice in Agentland: Down the Rabbit Hole of Backdoors in the AI Supply Chain

Security research on backdoor attacks in AI agent supply chains through poisoned interaction data collection, formalizing threat models for finetuned web browsing and tool-use agents.

Ax L. Elisa Celis, Lingxiao Huang, Milind Sohoni, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi 3/18/2026

Strategic Costs of Perceived Bias in Fair Selection

Game-theoretic model analyzing bias in meritocratic selection systems like admissions and hiring, examining how AI shapes perceived candidate value across socioeconomic groups.

Ax Dashti A. Ali, Aras T. Asaad, Jacob J. Peoples, Ahmad Bashir Barekzai, Camila Vilela, Hala Khasawneh, Jayasree Chakraborty, Jo\~ao Miranda, Mohammad Hamghalam, Natalie Gangai, Natally Horvat, Richard K. G. Do, Alice C. Wei, Amber L. Simpson 3/18/2026

A Novel Patch-Based TDA Approach for Computed Tomography Imaging

Topological data analysis patch-based approach for CT imaging feature extraction improving ML model performance on medical diagnosis tasks.

Ax Danxu Liu, Di Wang, Hebaixu Wang, Haoyang Chen, Wentao Jiang, Yilin Cheng, Haonan Guo, Wei Cui, Jing Zhang 3/18/2026

SARMAE: Masked Autoencoder for SAR Representation Learning

Noise-aware masked autoencoder for self-supervised SAR satellite imagery representation learning addressing data scarcity and speckle noise challenges.

Ax Nuoya Xiong, Yuhang Zhou, Hanqing Zeng, Zhaorun Chen, Furong Huang, Shuchao Bi, Lizhu Zhang, Zhuokai Zhao 3/18/2026

Token-Level LLM Collaboration via FusionRoute

FusionRoute enables token-level collaboration between specialized and general-purpose LLMs via dynamic routing, improving efficiency and domain performance.

Ax Kai Wittenmayer, Sukrut Rao, Amin Parchami-Araghi, Bernt Schiele, Jonas Fischer 3/18/2026

CFM: Language-aligned Concept Foundation Model for Vision

Language-aligned concept foundation model decomposing vision representations into human-interpretable concepts with spatial grounding across diverse tasks.

Ax Nuutti Barron, Heng Rao, Urmi Saha, Yu Gu, Zhenghao Liu, Ge Yu, Defu Yang, Ashish Raj, Minghan Chen 3/18/2026

Tau-BNO: Brain Neural Operator for Tau Transport Model

Neural operator approach for modeling tau protein transport in Alzheimer's disease using mechanistic brain models and connectome data.

Ax Linus Folkerts, Will Payne, Simon Inman, Philippos Giavridis, Joe Skinner, Sam Deverett, James Aung, Ekin Zorer, Michael Schmatz, Mahmoud Ghanem, John Wilkinson, Alan Steer, Vy Hong, Jessica Wang 3/18/2026

Measuring AI Agents' Progress on Multi-Step Cyber Attack Scenarios

Evaluates autonomous cyber-attack capabilities of frontier AI models on multi-step attack scenarios, comparing seven models over 18 months at varying inference compute budgets.

Ax Hongyi Pan, Gorkem Durak, Halil Ertugrul Aktas, Andrea M. Bejar, Baver Tutun, Emre Uysal, Ezgi Bulbul, Mehmet Fatih Dogan, Berrin Erok, Berna Akkus Yildirim, Sukru Mehmet Erturk, Ulas Bagci 3/18/2026

LUMINA: A Multi-Vendor Mammography Benchmark with Energy Harmonization Protocol

LUMINA mammography benchmark dataset with 1824 multi-vendor FFDM images and energy/vendor metadata for medical imaging research.

HN mimbojimbo 3/18/2026

GSD 2

GSD 2 is a standalone CLI coding agent built on Pi SDK, evolving from a Claude prompt framework to a full agent with session and context control.

HN farmerbb 3/18/2026

Reverse Engineering Binaries with AI

Personal narrative about discovering security through game modding, connecting to modern reverse engineering and AI applications.

HN feruzkarimov 3/18/2026

Vchk – Security scanner for AI-generated code

Security vulnerability scanner detecting patterns systematically introduced by AI code generation tools: SQL injection, hardcoded secrets, XSS, hallucinated packages.

HN pkaeding 3/18/2026

Robotocore · a Digital Twin of AWS

MIT-licensed digital twin of AWS providing local replica responding to real AWS API calls. Built entirely with AI, supports 147 services, designed for agent testing.