Clay weekly context brief for the Computer Science category (ISO week 2026-W35).

Clay tracks publications from the Computer Science feed list. Below are recent items from this category, each with its source and a short description of what the publication covers when one is available in the source feed.

Recent publications:
1. Mix&Fix-Net: A Dual-Stage Trajectory Prediction Model for AIS and Vision-Derived Vessel Data
   Source: cs.CV (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19580
   Vessel trajectory prediction is critical for maritime safety and accident prevention.
2. Remember, Verify, or Ask? Cross-Family Evaluation of Memory Commitment in LLM Agents
   Source: cs.CL (Computation and Language)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19564
   Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior.
3. GreekBarRetrieval: A Benchmark for Greek Statutory Retrieval
   Source: cs.IR (Information Retrieval)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18752
   Statutory retrieval is necessary for citation-grounded legal question answering, but remains underexplored for Greek.
4. FleetSieve: Decision-Critical Profiling for SLO-Aware LLM Fleet Configuration
   Source: cs.DC (Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19659
   Choosing tensor-parallel (TP) degrees and replica counts for an LLM serving fleet is difficult because performance is not monotonic in TP and the feasible choice can change with load.
5. RFWM: Physics-Guided World Model for Dynamic Wireless Radiance Field Generation
   Source: cs.NI (Networking and Internet Architecture)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19709
   Radio-frequency (RF) radiance-field modeling is essential for wireless network optimization and sensing, yet remains challenging in dynamic and unseen environments.
6. Graphical Design of Interpretable Architectures
   Source: cs.NE (Neural and Evolutionary Computing)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18936
   Designing, implementing, and comparing interpretable architectures requires a formal language to represent them.
7. Where Facts Go Missing: A Layerwise Taxonomy and Per-Layer Attribution of Information Omission in Air-Gapped LLMAgent Pipelines
   Source: cs.MA (Multiagent Systems)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22448
   Air-gapped and on-premises language-model agents can silently omit decision-critical facts at any boundary between source ingestion and final answer generation.
8. A Two-Stage Time-Aware Transformer for Short-Horizon AECOPD Risk Prediction
   Source: cs.LG (Machine Learning)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19578
   Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) can worsen rapidly, making timely prediction a clinical priority.
9. Ex-ante versus Ex-post: Egalitarian Facility Location Mechanism Design
   Source: cs.GT (Computer Science and Game Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14499
   We study the facility location mechanism design problem where $n$ strategic agents report locations in Euclidean space and the mechanism outputs a single facility location.
10. Differentially Private Continual Release with Relative Error
   Source: cs.DS (Data Structures and Algorithms)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20230
   This work investigates several fundamental tasks, including $\mathsf{MaxSum}$, $\mathsf{MinSum}$, $\mathsf{MaxSelect}$, and $\mathsf{MinSelect}$, in the continual release model under differential privacy.
11. Pod-Deployability in Kubernetes with Inter-Pod Affinity Constraints is PSPACE-Complete
   Source: cs.CC (Computational Complexity)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19822
   Kubernetes is the de-facto platform for container orchestration.
12. Quantization Beyond Uniform Bit Allocation
   Source: cs.DB (Databases)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19388
   Quantization is a fundamental technique to handle the growing sizes of embeddings generated by modern models.
13. The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
   Source: cs.CY (Computers and Society)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02910
   Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act on people's behalf: they write emails, buy groceries, and book restaurants.
14. Reproducibility is Not Enough: Artifact Verifiability in Decentralized-Build Package Ecosystems
   Source: cs.CR (Cryptography and Security)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18180
   Reproducible and verifiable builds increase trust in distributed software artifacts by enabling independent parties to detect artifacts produced by compromised build or release pipelines.
15. A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation
   Source: cs.AR (Hardware Architecture)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19628
   Modern GPUs increasingly integrate Tensor Cores into the execution pipeline.
16. Deep Multimodal Fusion Detection through Spatial Mask and Channel Fusion
   Source: cs.MM (Multimedia)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02092
   Deep multimodal fusion for object detection has demonstrated good performance through mining modal characteristics.
17. The internal languages of univalent categories
   Source: cs.LO (Logic in Computer Science)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06636
   Internal language theorems are fundamental in categorical logic, since they express an equivalence between syntax and semantics.
18. A large-scale dataset of sub-institution name disambiguation and hierarchical structures from OpenAlex
   Source: cs.DL (Digital Libraries)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20035
   Accurate attribution of scholarly work to specific sub-institutional units, such as schools or departments of a university, is crucial for granular research assessment and policymaking.
19. Functionalization via Structure Completion and Motion Rectification
   Source: cs.GR (Graphics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18010
   Acquisition and creation of 3D assets have been largely view- or appearance-driven.
20. On Minimum Aerial Photographs for Planar Region Coverage: Hardness and Approximation
   Source: cs.CG (Computational Geometry)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18268
   Aerial photography with drones often requires covering a planar region with a limited number of images while maximizing image resolution, equivalently minimizing the footprint size of each photograph.
21. A Category-Theoretic Framework from Biological Mechanics to Engineered Stimulus-Response Systems
   Source: cs.CE (Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26367
   Natural materials achieve adaptive behavior through hierarchical organization and coupled mechanisms across scales.
22. When Saying No Makes Better Videos: Designing Dual Gatekeeping for Pedagogically Grounded AI Content Creation
   Source: cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19812
   To prevent the adoption of aesthetically polished but pedagogically flawed AI content, we study a video authoring pipeline featuring two layers of structured refusal.
23. Exact Algebraic Computation of Learning Coefficients for Two-Dimensional Singular Models
   Source: cs.SC (Symbolic Computation)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20183
   Classical information criteria such as the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) rely on regularity assumptions that break down for singular models, leading to incorrect model selection in settings such as deep learning.
24. Unified Music Identification for Tracks and Versions
   Source: cs.SD (Sound)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19919
   Given a music database, track identification (TI) retrieves the exact track matching an audio excerpt, whereas version identification (VI) retrieves its musical versions.
25. PVRA: A Pointwise Key-point Voting Framework for Robotic Assembly
   Source: cs.RO (Robotics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19968
   Modern computer vision has enabled partial autonomy in robotic assembly manipulation.
26. Stable Within, Unidentified Across: Semantic Identification of Benchmark Effects and Rankings
   Source: cs.SE (Software Engineering)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19269
   Evaluation conclusions depend on evaluator-controlled semantics: legal references, scoreability, and aggregation.
27. Social.Wiki: A Web Held in Common
   Source: cs.SI (Social and Information Networks)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19433
   Many of the websites people depend on have owners whose interests are not fully aligned with their users.
28. The Calibration Illusion in Traffic Microsimulation
   Source: cs.SY (Systems and Control)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19642
   The transportation community seeks to use calibration methods for highway traffic microsimulation.
29. Graph Surgery and the Do-Operator: A Precise Correspondence for Acyclic Structural Causal Models
   Source: cs.PL (Programming Languages)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17634
   The $\operatorname{do}$-operator is described graphically by deleting arrows into its targets and functionally by replacing their mechanisms with constants.

Sources in this brief: cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence); cs.AR (Hardware Architecture); cs.CC (Computational Complexity); cs.CE (Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science); cs.CG (Computational Geometry); cs.CL (Computation and Language); cs.CR (Cryptography and Security); cs.CV (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition); cs.CY (Computers and Society); cs.DB (Databases); cs.DC (Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing); cs.DL (Digital Libraries); cs.DS (Data Structures and Algorithms); cs.GR (Graphics); cs.GT (Computer Science and Game Theory); cs.IR (Information Retrieval); cs.LG (Machine Learning); cs.LO (Logic in Computer Science); cs.MA (Multiagent Systems); cs.MM (Multimedia); cs.NE (Neural and Evolutionary Computing); cs.NI (Networking and Internet Architecture); cs.PL (Programming Languages); cs.RO (Robotics); cs.SC (Symbolic Computation); cs.SD (Sound); cs.SE (Software Engineering); cs.SI (Social and Information Networks); cs.SY (Systems and Control).
Selected 29 of 319 available items for this weekly brief.