Ax Yufei Xu, Fanxu Meng, Fan Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Ruijie Zhou, Jiexi Wu, Zhixin Pan, Zhaohui Wang, Xiaojuan Tang, Wenjie Pei, Tongxuan Liu, Di yin, Xing Sun, Muhan Zhang 3/31/2026

HISA: Efficient Hierarchical Indexing for Fine-Grained Sparse Attention

HISA improves efficiency of token-level sparse attention mechanisms through hierarchical indexing, reducing O(L²) bottleneck.

Ax Ikechukwu Uchendu, Swati Goel, Karly Hou, Ebrahim Songhori, Kuang-Huei Lee, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Vincent Zhuang 3/31/2026

See it to Place it: Evolving Macro Placements with Vision-Language Models

VeoPlace uses vision-language models for chip floorplanning macro placement by leveraging VLM spatial reasoning abilities to complement learning-based approaches.

Ax Yadi Cao, Sicheng Lai, Jiahe Huang, Yang Zhang, Zach Lawrence, Rohan Bhakta, Izzy F. Thomas, Mingyun Cao, Chung-Hao Tsai, Zihao Zhou, Yidong Zhao, Hao Liu, Alessandro Marinoni, Alexey Arefiev, Rose Yu 3/31/2026

SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs

SimulCost benchmark evaluates LLM agents on physics simulation tasks with cost-aware metrics, accounting for simulation time and experimental resource usage beyond token costs.

Ax Emilie Panek, Alexander Roman, Gaurav Shukla, Leonardo Pagliaro, Katia Matcheva, Konstantin Matchev 3/31/2026

ASTER -- Agentic Science Toolkit for Exoplanet Research

ASTER: agentic toolkit using LLMs for exoplanet research workflows, combining archival queries, literature search, and radiative transfer models.

Ax Qichuan Yin, Ziwei Su, Shuangning Li 3/31/2026

Overcoming the Incentive Collapse Paradox

Study of incentive collapse paradox in AI-assisted task delegation showing accuracy improvements require unbounded payments without intervention mechanisms.

Ax Gedeon Muhawenayo, Caleb Robinson, Subash Khanal, Zhanpei Fang, Isaac Corley, Alexander Wollam, Tianyi Gao, Leonard Strnad, Ryan Avery, Lyndon Estes, Ana M. T\'arano, Nathan Jacobs, Hannah Kerner 3/31/2026

PRUE: A Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale

Systematic evaluation of segmentation and geospatial foundation models for global field boundary segmentation using FTW benchmark.