Clay weekly context brief for the Computer Science category (ISO week 2026-W41).

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. ABDS: Classifying Protocol Divergence Causes via AS-Boundary Correlation
   Source: cs.NI (Networking and Internet Architecture)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14835
   Network operators frequently encounter protocol divergence---where ICMP, TCP, and UDP experience different treatment along a path.
2. Operator Calculus for Population-Based Optimization: Modular Convergence and Finite-Population Guarantees
   Source: cs.NE (Neural and Evolutionary Computing)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14289
   Population-based optimizers combine update rules such as mutation, selection, and recombination.
3. From Migration to Calibration: Preserving Agent Capabilities across Models, Jurisdictions, and Scale
   Source: cs.MA (Multiagent Systems)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35149
   Deploying, migrating, or scaling an agent can change its model, harness, infrastructure, application, and intended users.
4. Co-design Gym: A Unified Benchmark for Embodiment-Policy Co-optimization
   Source: cs.LG (Machine Learning)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02366
   Finding an optimal behaviour policy within a given environment is a widely studied problem in domains as diverse as games, robotics, energy infrastructure, communication networks, and multi-agent systems.
5. Auditing Long-Term Memory Evaluation: Repeated Judging, Reader Variation, and Negative Controls
   Source: cs.IR (Information Retrieval)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38021
   This report audits evaluation of a long-term-memory retrieval chain on the 500 LongMemEval-S development questions.
6. A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Variational Inequalities under the Minty Condition
   Source: cs.GT (Computer Science and Game Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03432
   Solving (Stampacchia) variational inequalities (SVIs) is a foundational problem at the heart of optimization.
7. GB-LSR: Local Spectral Decoding with a Learned Global Bandwidth for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution
   Source: cs.GR (Graphics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19617
   We present GB-LSR (Global-Bandwidth Local Spectral Representation), a fixed-grid local spectral representation for continuous image decoding.
8. From Benchmarks to Production: A Text-to-SQL System for Complex Financial Data
   Source: cs.DB (Databases)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03524
   General-purpose Text-to-SQL systems achieve strong performance on academic benchmarks like Spider and BIRD, where schemas are relatively shallow and column values are often human readable.
9. Interrupting the Chain: Human Perception of AI-Generated Disinformation Through a Kill Chain Lens
   Source: cs.CY (Computers and Society)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21389
   Generative AI enables customized misinformation at scale, yet defenses remain largely reactive.
10. SpectralCache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based World Models via Spectral Feature Caching
   Source: cs.CV (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02660
   Diffusion-based world models enable high-quality interactive environment generation but suffer from substantial inference overhead due to repeated Transformer evaluations during denoising.
11. Clinical Concept Centers in LLMs
   Source: cs.CL (Computation and Language)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02829
   Large language models are increasingly used in clinical settings.
12. Multimodal reasoning for broadly neutralizing antibody discovery from label-free human B cell repertoires across virus families
   Source: cs.CE (Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03160
   Discovering broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) from human natural immune repertoires remains a fundamental challenge in immunology, hindered by: the extreme rarity of bnAb, incomplete understanding of their cellular origins across pathogens, and the inability of existing computational tools to generalize across emerging viral threats.
13. Tight Time-Space Lower Bounds for Collision Finding and Element Distinctness under Label Symmetry
   Source: cs.CC (Computational Complexity)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10808
   How much memory is needed to retain the quantum speedup for collision finding?
14. Provisioning to Runtime Optimization of a 100 MW-Scale AI Cluster
   Source: cs.AR (Hardware Architecture)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24461
   The electric power supply for AI data centers is now the most significant bottleneck in the race toward Artificial General Intelligence, surpassing even the constraint of AI accelerator availability.
15. Learning What to Investigate Next: Meta-Reasoning for Long-Horizon Research Agents
   Source: cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02525
   Long-horizon research agents must decide both how to investigate and what to investigate next as evidence accumulates.
16. Risk-Aware Input-Constrained Safe Intercept Guidance Against Multiple Moving Defenders
   Source: cs.SY (Systems and Control)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03681
   This paper develops a risk-aware guidance law for an attacker to intercept a stationary target in the presence of multiple moving defenders while respecting the control input limits.
17. Uncovering Coordinated Cross-Platform Information Operations Threatening the Integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Online Discussion
   Source: cs.SI (Social and Information Networks)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15402
   Information Operations (IOs) pose a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes, with the potential to influence election-related online discourse.
18. Who Guards the Benchmarks? Automated Auditing of LLM Agent Benchmarks
   Source: cs.SE (Software Engineering)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24955
   As benchmarks grow in complexity, many apparent agent failures are not failures of the agent at all---they are failures of the benchmark itself: broken specifications, implicit assumptions, and rigid evaluation scripts that penalize valid alternative approaches.
19. EXAM2: Extending Audio Understanding in Multilingual and Multimodal Analysis
   Source: cs.SD (Sound)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23758
   Recent large audio language models (LALMs) have achieved impressive progress in audio understanding.
20. Fast matrix multiplication via recursive $\langle$ 4x4x4:48 $\rangle$ algorithms into practice
   Source: cs.SC (Symbolic Computation)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12027
   We present a fast algorithm for multiplying two 4x4 matrices using 48 multiplications and 204 other operations (addition, subtraction or scaling by a constant) over any ring containing an inverse of 2.
21. Around the World: Unified Learned Locomotion on a 270 g Continuous-Rotation Quadruped
   Source: cs.RO (Robotics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02728
   Closed-loop learned locomotion is established on commercial quadrupeds but remains uncommon at the sub-kilogram scale.
22. Verify Before You Fix: Agentic Execution Grounding for Trustworthy Cross-Language Code Analysis
   Source: cs.PL (Programming Languages)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10800
   Learned classifiers deployed in agentic pipelines face a fundamental reliability problem: predictions are probabilistic inferences, not verified conclusions, and acting on them without grounding in observable evidence leads to compounding failures across downstream stages.
23. A Controlled Study of Memory Hierarchy Transitions in Quantum Circuit Simulation on Apple M4 Pro Unified Memory Architecture
   Source: cs.PF (Performance)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08792
   State-vector quantum circuit simulation is memory-bandwidth bound, yet the interaction between memory hierarchy, access pattern, and hardware parallelism remains incompletely characterized.
24. Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Personalized Digital Health Interventions
   Source: cs.HC (Human-Computer Interaction)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11730
   Using behavioural science, health interventions focus on behaviour change by providing a framework to help patients acquire and maintain healthy habits that improve medical outcomes.
25. Soundwich: Video Generation with Layered and Controllable Audio
   Source: cs.MM (Multimedia)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00691
   Recent joint audio-video generative models can synthesize realistic videos with synchronized sound, but typically generate audio as a single mixed track.
26. A provable quantum advantage for approximate optimization via decoded quantum interferometry
   Source: cs.DS (Data Structures and Algorithms)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02145
   Decoded quantum interferometry (DQI) is a novel paradigm for tackling approximate optimization problems on quantum computers.
27. Byzantine Causal Reliable Broadcast with Constant Metadata Overhead
   Source: cs.DC (Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37913
   Asynchronous Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (BRB) is a fundamental primitive that guarantees agreement and validity in distributed systems subject to Byzantine faults, but it lacks ordering guarantees.
28. A New Upper Bound for the Tur\'an Density of the Tetrahedron
   Source: cs.DM (Discrete Mathematics)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27495
   We prove that the Tur\'an density of the tetrahedron $K_4^{(3)}$ satisfies $\pi(K_4^{(3)}) \le 14993367693127837/26880000000000000 < 0.557789$, improving Baber's upper bound of $0.5615$ and closing about $62\%$ of the gap to the conjectured value $5/9$.
29. TomasuLLM: Out-of-Order Speculative Execution for LLM Agents
   Source: cs.OS (Operating Systems)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38201
   Long-running tools can dominate coding-agent latency: compilers, test suites, and repository commands take seconds to minutes while the agent idles.
30. Containing the Autonomous Operator: A Defense-in-Depth Framework and Reference Architecture for Securing AI Agents on Kubernetes
   Source: cs.NI (Networking and Internet Architecture)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02861
   Large language model (LLM) agents are moving from chat interfaces into infrastructure operations, where they read telemetry, call tools, generate and execute code, and change the state of production Kubernetes clusters.
31. Theoretical Lower Bounds on the Robustness of Deep ReLU Networks
   Source: cs.NE (Neural and Evolutionary Computing)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18674
   We present a theoretical study of the robustness of parameterized neural networks to random input perturbations.
32. ORACLE: Agentic AI Orchestrator Routing Via Adaptive Verifier Calibration Feedback
   Source: cs.MA (Multiagent Systems)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22465
   Modern enterprise agent deployments consist of a heterogeneous pool of large language models (LLMs) having diverse capabilities and cost.

Sources in this brief: cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence); cs.AR (Hardware Architecture); cs.CC (Computational Complexity); cs.CE (Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science); cs.CL (Computation and Language); cs.CV (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition); cs.CY (Computers and Society); cs.DB (Databases); cs.DC (Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing); cs.DM (Discrete Mathematics); cs.DS (Data Structures and Algorithms); cs.GR (Graphics); cs.GT (Computer Science and Game Theory); cs.HC (Human-Computer Interaction); cs.IR (Information Retrieval); cs.LG (Machine Learning); cs.MA (Multiagent Systems); cs.MM (Multimedia); cs.NE (Neural and Evolutionary Computing); cs.NI (Networking and Internet Architecture); cs.OS (Operating Systems); cs.PF (Performance); 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 32 of 410 available items for this weekly brief.