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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Unifying Graph Neural Networks Through a Common Layer Equation

Sai Karthik Navuluru, Siddhartha Shankar Das, Bo Ni +9

Graph neural networks are commonly described through family-specific equations whose notation obscures shared computations and structural differences. We introduce a common layer e…

cs.AI2026

Personalized Auto-Research: Towards a True AI Co-Scientist

Bo Ni, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen +5

AI co-scientists that generate hypotheses, retrieve related work, design experiments, execute code, and draft full papers are beginning to change how research is carried out. Despi…

cs.CR2026

Benchmarking Knowledge-Extraction Attack and Defense on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhisheng Qi, Utkarsh Sahu, Li Ma +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of knowledge-intensive applications, including enterprise chatbots, healthcare assistants, and agentic memory manageme…

cs.CL2026

TRACE: Trajectory Reasoning through Adaptive Cross-Step Evidence Aggregation for LLM Agents

Vijitha Mittapalli, Shreyaa Jayant Dani, Satya Srujana Pilli +7

Autonomous LLM agents can pursue hidden malicious objectives through sequences of individually benign actions, making sabotage difficult to detect using standard trajectory-level m…

cs.IR2026

Multimodal Music Recommendation System using LLMs

Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla, Sreehitha R. Narayana, Chandana Magapu +6

Music recommendation systems typically treat songs as opaque tokens, relying on collaborative interaction histories which overlooks semantic or acoustic content. Prior work has exp…

cs.AI2026

Sparse Personalized Text Generation with Multi-Trajectory Reasoning

Bo Ni, Haowei Fu, Qinwen Ge +10

As Large Language Models (LLMs) advance, personalization has become a key mechanism for tailoring outputs to individual user needs. However, most existing methods rely heavily on d…