IEEE CogMI 2026 Research Track

• Agreeing on the Answer but Not the Reason: Measurement Limits of LLM Reasoning Failure Taxonomies
  Madhu Sudhan Rao Beesetty
• Composability and Profitability Boundaries of Temporal–Distributed Parallelism for Scalable Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks
  Yunfei Chen, Hong Shi, Zhenyu Zhang
• Diagnosing the Synthetic-to-Real Gap in Small VLMs for Deployable Flood Monitoring
  Kunal Chevuri, Angel Peredo, Sergei Chuprov
• Trust Under Attack: Adversarial Security Analysis of GDPR-Oriented RAG Assistants
  Manjil Ghimire, Lopamudra Praharaj, Md Sadun Haq, Maanak Gupta
• When Explanations Explain Themselves: Recursive Behavioral Drift and Behavioral Fixed-Point Training for Sparse Autoencoders
  Sajib Hossain
• Cerno: A Declarative Language for Knowledge-Guided Image Analysis with Guaranteed Dispatch or Refusal
  Hasan Jamil
• EpiWarrant: Defeasible Learner-Knowledge Attribution
  Hasan Jamil
• A Two-Layer Event Memory with Reconstruction-Aware Forgetting
  Artur Kalimullin
• Governance-Aware Cognitive Orchestration for Human-Supervised Cybersecurity AI Systems
  Andrei Kojukhov
• Selective Reconsolidation in Persistent Agent Memory
  Pranava Kumar, Sushaan Kandukoori, Manolis Kellis
• Multimodal Prediction of Student Belonging Using EEG Responses to Mindset-Based Stimuli in Computing Education
  Andrew Martinez, Meora Giusiano, Joel Saju Puthankalam, Pallavi Das, Zoe Wood, Julie Bettergarcia, Sumona Mukhopadhyay
• Interventional Semantic Interface Gradients: Evaluating Interface-Conditioned Robustness in Language Models
  Dominic Okonkwo, Adetayo Okunoye, Ismailcem Arpinar
• The Value of Spike Timing: A Leakage-Resistant Benchmark of SNN Design Choices for Network Intrusion Detection
  Raj Patel, Shaswata Mitra, David Amebley, Taye Akinrele, Sayanton Dibbo, Shahram Rahimi
• Multi-Judge Consensus Scoring for IRT-Based Adaptive LLM Evaluation
  Omkar Podey, Philip Heller, Wendy Lee, Amith Kamath Belman
• Platoon-RAG: Consensus-Driven Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Semantic Headway Optimization
  Naveen Kumar Rajarajan
• Self-Supervised Temporal Convolutional Network Modeling of Eye Gaze Reveals Implementation Strategies in Proactive Cognitive Control
  Jason Reimer, Dylan Diaz, Vishwa Bhatt, Jonathan Martinez, Jennifer Jin, Kevin Rosales
• AXIOS: Preserving Vertical Federated Learning Model Integrity via Decentralized Training-Time Anomaly Detection
  Ella Roundy, Timothy Gurevich, Dylan Gresham, Gaby Dagher
• Evaluating Design Guidelines for Social Robots: Connecting People and Building Relationships
  Daniel Saba, Kathryn Degnan, Michael Baggot, Jeffrey W. Herrmann
• The Silicon Meridian: If LLMs Can Speak Like Us, Can They Decide Like Us?
  Vibha Santhanakrishnan
• Measurement Invariance Between Human and Machine Respondents on Cognitive Assessments
  Mohammad Hamza Siddiqui
• Explainable Novel Category Discovery in Semantic Concept Space
  Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Yang Zhou, Chaowei Zhang, Longwei Wang
• AgentGuard: Calibrated Failure Detection and Risk-Aware Routing for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows
  Xiaoliang Zhang

IEEE CogMI 2026 Application Track

• Leveraging an LLM-Based Evaluator with Code Analysis for Student Code Evaluation
  Hadel Alhawasi, Abdou Youssef
• Cognitive Stability of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models Under Semantic Perturbation
  John Kingsley Arthur, Eric Appiah Mantey, Adu Baffour, Michael Kelly Osei, Dominic Dalyngton Damoah
• AWARE-RG: Abstraction Aware Explanation of Resiliency Graphs for Cyber Physical Systems
  Shadaab Kawnain Bashir, Rakesh Podder, Philip D. Hopkins, Sarath Sreedharan, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray
• Does AI Benefit Measure the User? Case-Level Persistence and Construct Validity of Person-Specific AI Assistance Effects
  João Borges
• Declarative Smart Image Analysis: From Analytical Intent to Verified Execution with CERNŌ
  Moumita Chanda, Alexander Maas, Hasan M. Jamil
• How Explanation Intent Shapes Human Use of XAI for Neural-Network Predictions
  Muhammad Umair Danish, Memoona Aziz, Umair Rehman, Katarina Grolinger
• An Accurate and Efficient Two-Stage Framework for Gun Detection in Videos
  Badhan Chandra Das, M. Hadi Amini, Yanzhao Wu
• CascadeAuth: Separating the Resource Knob from the Decision Boundary in Risk-Adaptive Authorization Cascades
  Lovina Dmello
• Cheap to Verify, Expensive to Fix: Deterministic Structural Verification as a Routing Signal for Matched-Cost VLM Table Extraction
  Michael Hamaty, Amith Kamath Belman
• When Can a System Trust Its Own Disagreement? Characterizing a Multimodal Affective Signal
  Benjamin Hurt
• Beyond Pairwise Feedback: Listwise Vision-Language Supervision for Preference-Based Reward Learning
  Srivalli Katkuri, Maxwell Kawada, Juan Wachs
• Loud Failures, Quiet Failures: Fault Detection and Recovery in Tool-Using Language Model Agents
  Obada Kraishan
• The Long Road to the Same Answer: Cognitive Bias Under Escalating Reasoning Budgets in Large Language Models
  Obada Kraishan
• Toward Voice-Driven Edge Intelligence: Lightweight LLM Deployment for Interactive Application Generation
  Hyun Suk Nam, Andrew Lee
• Generalization-Aware and Explainable AI for EEG-Based ADHD Classification
  Nazia Natasha, Stephen Gravereaux, Akash Pedapaga, Sammed Admuthe, Sheikh Rabiul Islam
• From Macro to Micro: Intent-Aware Micro-Assessment Generation
  Aashish Pandey, Ram Dantu
• Neuro-Symbolic Graph Reasoning for Explainable Medical Image Retrieval
  Divyesh Patel, Rishab Darshan Shylendra, Piyush Gulhane, Pavithran Gnanasekaran, Alina Vereshchaka
• Adaptive Transformer Neural Architecture Search via Federated Reinforcement Learning and Distillation-Based Architecture Evaluation
  Sudha Pelluri, Navya Chilaka, Preethi Taralpalli
• When Gold Labels Move: Evidence-State Heterogeneity and Oracle Sensitivity in Multi-Source LLM Evaluation
  Byungsik Seo
• Measuring Compositional Reasoning in Deployable LLMs on Financial Payoffs with Risk-Decomposed Mispricing
  Varun Viswapriyan
• HIPQ-R: Interface-Sensitive Risk-Constrained Compression of Hybrid ANN–SNNs for Resource-Constrained Neuromorphic Perception
  Xueyi Wang, Zhenyu Zhang