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Value-Preserving Architectures for Agentic AI Systems

The emergence of agentic AI and LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) presents unprecedented opportunities for automating complex tasks, while simultaneously raising critical concerns about the preservation of fundamental human-centered values, such as privacy, fairness, and safety. Although software engineering has traditionally focused on functional correctness, the adoption of LLMs and AI agents into complex socio-technical systems has intensified the need for responsible software engineering and robust value alignment. In MAS, architectural design decisions, such as coordination mechanisms, communication protocols, and system topologies, play a central role in shaping system behavior and the outcomes they produce. This paper argues that architectural choices influence not only the functionality and performance of MAS but can also promote value-oriented system behavior. Therefore, we investigate how different architectural designs support different human-centered values, discussing the following value-preserving architectural patterns: (i) a privacy-aware architecture with a federated topology, (ii) a distributed architecture to promote pluralism and diversity, and (iii) a guard-agent architecture to detect and mitigate unfairness. Finally, we introduce representative use cases to illustrate the proposed architectures in real-world scenarios. By linking architectural design with human-centered values, this work lays the foundation for a unified set of architectural patterns and guidelines towards the design of trustworthy MAS.

cs.AI

Interpretable Predictability-Based AI Text Detection: A Replication Study

This paper replicates and extends the system used in the AuTexTification shared task for authorship attribution of machine-generated texts. Exact replication was not possible because of differences in data splits, model availability, and implementation details, which we document as a case study in reproducibility. We tested newer multilingual language models (mDeBERTa-v3-base, Qwen, mGPT) and added 26 document-level stylometric features, using ablation, permutation importance, and SHAP analysis to assess feature influence. A single shared configuration was applied to both English and Spanish across Subtask 1 and Subtask 2. Averaged over three random seeds, the shared multilingual configuration performs comparably to or better than the language-specific baseline, with the clearest gains on model attribution (Subtask 2). The additional stylometric features yield small improvements, led by lexical diversity, but their contribution falls within seed variance once predictability-based probabilities are included, which remain the dominant signal. The study also shows that clear documentation is important for reliable replication and fair comparison of systems.

cs.CL

Adapting to Evolving Requirements: Agentic AI for Retail Supply Chain Operations

Retail supply chain operations rely on coupled decision modules that must adapt as requirements evolve. LLMs offer a natural-language interface for this task, but existing methods primarily focus on individual optimization models. Extending them to heterogeneous decision pipelines is challenging because a requirement may admit multiple intervention paths with different downstream effects. We formulate requirement-driven adaptation as the joint selection of an intervention route and an admissible module-level change, and propose a graph-constrained agentic framework in which domain agents expose admissible reformulation interfaces and a central processor searches over bounded intervention paths. Candidates are validated and compared using downstream KPIs. In collaboration with a large retail partner, we evaluate 100 warehouse requirements elicited from practitioner interviews, with GPT, Qwen, and DeepSeek as base LLMs. Relative to direct LLM reformulation, our framework improves correctness and end-to-end success across all three models, raising end-to-end success from 72--76% to 79--83%.

cs.AI

Git4Data: Database-Native Version Control for AI Agents

Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly explore many candidate states of relational data in parallel, each of which should remain isolated, reproducible, and auditable, preferably through the same SQL interface used for ordinary data work. Existing tools support this requirement only partially: source-code version control does not scale to large datasets, whereas relational databases manage large data efficiently but rarely expose native branching, comparison, and merging. We present Git4Data, a database-native version-control layer for agentic workflows. Git4Data treats a database as a repository and a table as a versioned object, exposing Git-style operations (snapshot/tag, branch, diff, and merge with explicit conflict-resolution policies) through SQL extensions. Implemented in MatrixOne, a cloud-native relational database, Git4Data leverages immutable object storage and MVCC to make the cost of these operations proportional to the size of the change rather than the size of the data. On the BranchBench agentic branching workloads, Git4Data outperforms DoltDB by up to an order of magnitude. Overall, we believe this work sheds light on how relational databases can better support AI agents through efficient versioning.

cs.DB

Atomistic Modeling of Chemical Disorder in Materials: Bridging Conventional Methods and AI-Assisted Approaches

Chemical disorder, originating from the mixed occupation of crystallographic sites by multiple elements, is widespread in alloys, ceramics, and compositionally complex materials, where short- and long-range orderings strongly influence properties. A central obstacle is the representation gap between experiments and simulations: experiments often report disorder as partial occupancies and ensemble-averaged behaviors, whereas atomistic simulations and AI workflows usually require fully specified configurations. Tackling this gap requires computational methods that convert averaged disorder descriptions into representative configurational ensembles while balancing cost, bias, and fidelity. This challenge has become more urgent in AI-driven computational discovery, where ignoring disorder may cause AI workflows to misrank stability, misjudge novelty, and misdirect experiments with too-idealized representations. This Review highlights how conventional and AI-driven methods can bridge this representation gap. We assess the strengths and limitations of approaches spanning mean-field theories, cluster expansion, quasi-random approximations, Monte Carlo, and emerging schemes powered by universal interatomic potentials and generative models. We further highlight how AI can accelerate various computational schemes by lowering the cost of microstate evaluation, configurational exploration, and atomistic-to-thermodynamic closure. We also emphasize how AI can enable disorder-native capabilities, including workflow triage, ordering-sensitive and alchemical representations, generative models of disordered structures and distributions, and kinetics-aware disorder prediction. Together, this framework outlines a practical roadmap toward disorder-native AI, which can transform chemical disorder from a representational obstacle into a controllable variable for realistic AI-accelerated materials discovery.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Towards AI epidemiology: a measurement standardisation framework for prospective risk detection

This paper proposes a measurement standardisation framework that compresses expert-AI interactions into structured, comparable fields for prospective risk detection in deployed AI systems, without access to model internals. This concept paper defines the framework's scope, semantically and statistically, and specifies a protocol for its empirical testing. The population-level claims it is designed to support therefore belong to a staged research programme rather than to results claimed here. Measurement standardisation underpins three claims. The first is a reliability claim: under bounded conditions, large language models can produce reliable, standardised assessments of the evidential and policy alignment of expert-AI interactions. The second is a governance claim: alignment scores give experts an immediate signal during deployment and give institutions a basis for monitoring alignment patterns across mission types, models, and domains. The third is an outcome validation claim: once measurement standardisation is established, aggregate alignment scores could be used to study associations with downstream outcomes in regulated professional settings. This introduces the possibility of an "AI epidemiology", a form of risk detection based on correlated variables instead of mechanistic analysis, inspired by epidemiological reasoning. A minimal application of the protocol to a published expert-AI corpus shows that the judge reproduces its policy and evidential alignment scores across two runs under the specified conditions. Judge reliability at scale remains to be validated in future work. The paper sets out a defined grammar of eight interaction fields, together with a statistical protocol based on paired bootstrap inference, DeLong's test for paired AUCs as a sensitivity check, a pre-specified one-sided non-inferiority margin of 0.05, and Holm-Bonferroni correction.

cs.AI

Epistemic Transfer in AI-Assisted Verification: A Framework and Evaluation Protocol

AI tools can improve claim judgments while leaving open what users can do later without them. This paper develops an evaluation framework for epistemic transfer: the effect of prior AI-assisted verification on delayed judgments of novel claims under a specified access regime. The contribution is a verification-specific synthesis of learning, transfer, and human--AI evaluation, organized around two complementary estimands. The Epistemic Transfer Effect (ETE) compares delayed performance after alternative practice conditions. Tool-Removal Cost (TRC) compares immediate performance with and without assistance after practice; despite its name, it measures a current availability effect, not skill loss or psychological dependence. The proposed randomized protocol includes answer-first and evidence-first interfaces, active practice, a no-additional-practice comparator, and held-out claims. It specifies how to account for learning opportunities introduced by assessment, elicit confidence probabilities, average model predictions over a target population, and handle attrition and uncertainty. Reading ETE and TRC together distinguishes relative capability gains, equivalence, transfer penalties, and unresolved outcomes. A ``verification-on-loan'' profile is explicitly comparator-relative and cannot be inferred from a nonsignificant delayed contrast. A brief illustration from a two-wave verification study shows why these distinctions matter: an uncertain delayed interface contrast and an ordered assisted--unassisted probe cannot establish a clean transfer profile. The framework makes a practical demand: when independent judgment matters, evaluate both what assistance contributes now and what prior use changes later.

cs.HC

Characterizing the Scalability and Performance of Large-Scale AI Training Under Multi-Tenancy

Characterising AI workload performance on modern HPC systems requires understanding both their scalability in isolation and their behaviour under concurrent execution. However, the interplay among parallelisation strategies, network congestion, compute capability, and interconnect technologies remains poorly understood. This work investigates the performance and scalability of AI models up to 2400 GPUs. We quantify the communication overheads and their impact across different interconnects by evaluating scale-up, scale-out, and rack-scale configurations under multiple allocation schemes. Finally, we study how multiple concurrent training jobs interfere with each other by designing a realistic noise model. We design a benchmark suite of AI models to evaluate the performance of five distinct parallelisation strategies across different supercomputing clusters, including Alps, Leonardo, LUMI, JUPITER, NVL72 GB300, and DGX A100. Our work provides a systematic characterization of the scalability and execution efficiency of distributed AI training, while offering key insights into performance behavior under realistic multi-tenant scenarios.

cs.DC

SH-PDOPS: AI-Driven Cloud Native Enterprise Reliability Framework for Predictive Analytics and Intelligent DevOps Automation

This paper presents an AI-driven cloud-native enterprise reliability framework designed to improve predictive analytics, intelligent DevOps automation, and system resilience in modern distributed infrastructures. The proposed framework integrates machine learning models, Kubernetes orchestration, observability pipelines, and automated incident response mechanisms to enhance reliability engineering practices. The study explores predictive failure detection, anomaly monitoring, self-healing infrastructure, and CI/CD optimization using cloud-native technologies. Experimental evaluation demonstrates improved operational efficiency, reduced downtime, and enhanced scalability for enterprise environments. The framework provides a practical approach for combining artificial intelligence with DevOps methodologies to achieve adaptive and autonomous infrastructure management.

cs.SE

Understanding Listener Perceptions of AI and Human-Composed Music in Emotional Applications

Designing music-based affective technologies requires understanding of how perceptions of AI versus human authorship shape trust and authenticity. We investigate how listener perception of AI-generated versus human-composed music affects emotional resonance and regulation. Drawing on affective computing and human-computer interaction frameworks, participants listened to AI- and human-composed music across labeling conditions (Correct, Incorrect, or Unlabeled) and emotion cases (Calm and Upbeat). Participants rated preference, efficacy of target emotion elicitation, and emotional impact. Results showed participants found human-composed music more effective in eliciting their target affective states and linked humanness to imperfection, flow, and "soul," underscoring authenticity as central to appraisal and ultimately leading to design implications relevant to music-based HCI. These findings challenge the assumption that preference alone defines system success, highlighting design implications for affective and wellness technologies that foreground authenticity, transparency, and human creativity.

cs.HC

Who Maintains Agent Skills? A Longitudinal Study of Human-Governed, AI-Assisted Skill Maintenance

Lifelong LLM agents increasingly rely on external skill artifacts as one element for preserving and reusing capabilities over time. These skills (usually portable Markdown files such as SKILL.md) describe when and how to apply a capability and must be corrected, expanded, and consolidated as tools and usage patterns shift over deployment. Recent work seeks to automate skill curation, but it largely evaluates against automated baselines and treats human maintenance as an unmeasured bottleneck. We study that missing process directly. We mine the full commit histories of five public AI-skill repositories, a purposive sample of AI-tooling organizations, covering 873 commits, 143 skill files, and 254 substantive post-creation edits from October 2025 to June 2026. We code each edit with pre-registered governance, operation, and trigger-evidence codebooks. Three findings emerge. First, every substantive edit is authored or merged through a named human account, while 62% carry an AI co-author trailer, with large repository-level variation. Second, these edits are genuine curation: an audited sample shows that most change skill content, and the coded operations are dominated by additions and corrections. Third, a pre-registered rule-likeness axis fails its reliability gate; reliably coding rule-likeness from commit artifacts remains an open measurement problem. We release the corpus, codebooks, mining scripts, and a replay protocol for automated skill curators. For self-evolving agents, public skill maintenance currently looks less like an autonomous pipeline than a human-governed, AI-assisted loop that future curators must measure against and operate within.

cs.CL

An Autonomy Aware Metamodel for Human AI Collaboration in Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shifting software engineering from tool-supported processes towards AI-first collaboration, where authority is dynamically distributed across human and artificial actors. However, existing method engineering approaches assume static, human-centric control and provide limited support explicitly capturing evolving autonomy. This paper presents a vision for autonomy-aware method engineering by proposing a metamodel that treats autonomy not as a fixed property of an actor, but as a derived, situation-dependent authority assignment determined by task, context, and collaboration pattern. The metamodel formalizes autonomy through four authority dimensions: task execution, task decomposition, task initiation, and collaboration reconfiguration. Through an analytical instantiation with a multi-agent requirements analysis tool, we illustrate how the metamodel supports dynamic authority assignment. This work provides a conceptual foundation for governance-aware, adaptable, and AI-first software engineering methods.

cs.SE

AI-Powered CPS-Enabled Vulnerable-User-Aware Urban Transportation Digital Twin: Methods and Applications

We present methods and applications for the development of digital twins (DT) for urban traffic management. While the majority of studies on the DT focus on its ``eyes," which is the emerging sensing and perception like object detection and tracking, what really distinguishes the DT from a traditional simulator lies in its ``brain," the prediction and decision making capabilities of extracting patterns and making informed decisions from what has been seen and perceived. In order to add value to urban transportation management, DTs need to be powered by artificial intelligence and complement with low-latency high-bandwidth sensing and networking technologies, in other words, cyberphysical systems. This paper can be a pointer to help researchers and practitioners identify challenges and opportunities for the development of DTs; a bridge to initiate conversations across disciplines; and a road map to exploiting potentials of DTs for diverse urban transportation applications.

eess.SY

From Single Chatbots to Governed Agent Ecosystems: An Agentic AI Pattern Catalogue and Orchestration Framework for Mission-Critical Hospital Information Management Systems

Hospitals are racing to embed AI, while coping with the surge in adaptation of the technology in other industries, into the triage management, documentation, scheduling, and revenue-cycle workflows, yet most deployments remain as fragmented pilots that stall at the edge of production, exposing patients and institutions to operational fragility, ungoverned risk, and mounting technical debt. At the same time, the global AI-in-healthcare market is projected to exceed nearly USD 1 trillion by 2034, according to the report of Fortune Business Insights, amplifying the financial consequences of architectural missteps and failed scaling strategies. This research proposes a compliance-first Agentic AI pattern catalogue and orchestration framework, purposely built for HIMS, moving beyond the single LLM chatbots and towards a governed ecosystem of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents. The framework extends by adding (i) a taxonomy of Agentic roles, (ii) a formal risk-stratification model that maps each pattern to risk tiers, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and governance hooks, and (iii) a unified orchestration runtime capable of coordinating multi-agent workflows across EHR/HIMS landscapes such as Epic, Cerner, and MEDITECH. Technically the framework combines vLLM-based inference, optimized paging memory, confidential computing, and MCP based on-premise deployment, enforcing end-to-end encryption and policy-as-code controls aligned with HIPAA, GDPR, the EU AI Act, India's DPDP and DISHA Acts, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, ISO 14971 and IEC 62304. We exhibit how the proposed architecture is capable and efficient to reduce the documentation time, integration effort, and AI pilot attrition while constricting the governance and auditability, offering hospital leaders and governing authorities an urgently needed blueprint to convert AI investment into sustainable clinical, operational, and financial ROI

cs.AI

AI Coding Tools and Digital Entrepreneurship: The Role of Software Expertise

While digital technologies expand entrepreneurial access by providing technical resources, it is less known whether they enable ventures to create durable value and whether they can substitute for technical expertise accumulated through software work experience. This paper studies how digital ventures respond to the wide diffusion of AI coding tools, and how these responses are shaped by founders' software expertise. Measuring product-category exposure to AI coding using pre-LLM product descriptions and linking venture launch, traffic, and financing data, we show that exposure to AI coding increases first-time venture launches after 2022Q4, while entrants are less likely to survive but raise more financing conditional on one-year survival. Crucially, founders with software work experience drive a larger fraction of new launches, ameliorate the decline in survival when product development is partially rather than fully automated, and explain all of the increase in venture financing.

econ.GN

Development of an Autonomous AI Coding Agent using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and Gemini LLM Frameworks

The ongoing changes in software engineering requirements have created a substantial need for automated tools which can create secure source code from natural language input. The performance of traditional Large Language Models (LLMs) becomes limited by their "one-shot" capability which results in logical hallucinations together with reduced algorithmic performance during complicated operations. The research presents an autonomous AI Coding Agent which establishes a connection between LLM-generated content and production-ready software through its organized methodology for decision making. Our framework uses the Gemini 2.5 Flash API for essential reasoning capabilities while employing a tailored Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method to solve code generation challenges as a search operation. The agent uses a "Self-Critic" evaluator system to test different implementation methods which it ranks according to their accuracy and difficulty level before it improves its operational framework through backpropagation. The system operates through a Flask-based web interface which delivers instant feedback together with syntax highlighting features. Our experimental results show that the MCTS-based method achieves a 92% success rate on complex logical prompts while surpassing standard zero-shot generation models.

cs.LG

Diffusion Language Models for Mobile Edge Agentic AI: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges

Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer a non-autoregressive alternative for mobile edge agentic artificial intelligence (AI) by refining tokens through iterative denoising rather than left-to-right decoding. Compared with autoregressive Transformer-based large language models (LLMs), DLMs can update multiple uncertain tokens in parallel and exploit bidirectional context throughout the generation process, enabling more flexible quality-latency trade-offs beyond fixed sequential decoding. These properties are particularly attractive for edge agents, where partial refinement, early exit, and constraint-guided correction can reduce response delay and communication overhead while improving robustness under noisy, incomplete, or dynamic contexts. This survey reviews DLM foundations and analyzes their suitability for edge settings under latency, memory, energy, bandwidth, privacy, and reliability constraints. We cover resource-efficient architectures, training and inference acceleration, compression, edge/cloud deployment, communication-aware serving, Internet of Things (IoT)/wireless applications, and evaluation of DLM-based agents. We further discuss open issues in long-context state management, split inference, trustworthy execution, multimodal grounding, and reproducible benchmarking. The goal is to connect DLM modeling properties, including bidirectionality, parallel refinement, controllability, and quality-latency elasticity, with system-level requirements of future mobile edge intelligence.

cs.AI

Verifiable abstention makes AI leak diagnosis accountable in urban water distribution networks

Leak localization is usually evaluated as forced-choice prediction, although sparse hydraulic observations may not justify excavation. Here, we quantify a pressure-information limit and use it to recast localization as selective, evidence-gated decision-making. A physics-grounded executor falsifies competing leak, demand, sensor and valve hypotheses in a hydraulic twin. Deterministic code computes every number and every acceptance predicate; an independent large language model auditor may add a rejection but never overturn a failed check. Forced retrieval placed only 95 of 300 leaks in the correct zone. Across 550 mixed events, the gate acted on 223 (214 correct); on a third-party 33-leak benchmark, all four accepted events were correct. In a replay of 194 audited City D repairs, the pressure tier authorized five excavation recommendations, three matching the repaired district, while the district-inflow tier returned the correct district for 85 events. Observability limits with machine-checkable abstention enable auditable utility intervention.

cs.AI