Publication Tuning the Lookahead Distance for PostgreSQL Asynchronous IO Wentao Wu, Jiasheng Hu, Manoj Syamala, Andres Freund, Vivek Narasayya Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB 2026) | August 2026
Publication Scalable GPU Acceleration of Scalar Functions in Analytical Databases: Compilation, Benchmarking, and Optimization Kaushik Rajan, Sampath Rajendra, Momin Al-Ghosien, Nicolas Bruno, Carlo Curino, Matteo Interlandi, Yinan Li, Lukas M. Maas, Craig Peeper, Surajit Chaudhuri, Johannes Gehrke VLDB 2026 | August 2026 Best Research Paper Honorable Mention at VLDB 2026
Publication Principled Design of Indexing Functions for Memory Coloring Stephan Dübler, Jana Hofmann, Boris Köpf, Stavros Volos USENIX Security Symposium | August 2026 Distinguished Artifact Award Project
Publication Algorithmic Grammar of Flexible Cognition: A Walk through Latent Operations Ida Momennejad August 2026 Preprint
Publication PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa Mercy Muchai, Nick Mumero Mwangi, Kevin Chege, Samuel Chege Maina Deep Learning Indaba 2026 | August 2026 Project
Publication Change2Task: From Repository Changes to Executable Coding Agent Tasks and Environments Haomin Qi, Xingliang Wang, Xuanqi Gao, Baihui Sang, Xin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Pengfei Gao, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang July 2026 arXiv | July 2026
Publication Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot at Production Scale Banruo Liu, Haoran Qiu, Íñigo Goiri, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ricardo Bianchini, Esha Choukse arXiv | July 2026 Project
Publication ReToken: One Token to Improve Vision-Language Models for Visual Retrieval Yao Xiao, Reuben Tan, Zhen Zhu, Yuqun Wu, Jianfeng Gao, Derek Hoiem July 2026 arXiv | July 2026
Publication Hand-Object Interaction in the Age of Large Foundation Models:Reconstruction, Generation, and Embodied Transfer Weiquan Lin, Yu Deng, Shiyang Liu, Luping Xiao, Xu Tang, Junzhi Yu, Jiaolong Yang, Lei Zhang, Xingyu Chen July 2026 arXiv | July 2026
Publication “Nobody Did This”: Contribution, Originality, and Accountability in Agent-Mediated Collaboration Kashif Imteyaz, M. Rifat, Divya Ramesh, Steven R. Rick, S. Hosio, Hauke Sandhaus, Advait Sarkar, Christoph Riedl, Saiph Savage July 2026 arXiv | July 2026