Shama Maganur | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Structural shifts in institutional participation and collaboration within the AI arXiv preprint research ecosystem

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) represents a significant technological shift within the scientific ecosystem, particularly within the field of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper examines structural changes in the AI research landscape using a dataset of arXiv preprints (cs.AI) from 2021 through 2025. Given the rapid pace of AI development, the preprint ecosystem has become a critical barometer for real-time scientific shifts, often preceding formal peer-reviewed publication by months or years. By employing a multi-stage data collection and enrichment pipeline in conjunction with LLM-based institution classification, we analyze the evolution of publication volumes, author team sizes, and academic--industry collaboration patterns. Our results reveal an unprecedented surge in publication output following the introduction of ChatGPT, with academic institutions continuing to provide the largest volume of research. However, we observe that academic--industry collaboration is still suppressed, as measured by a Normalized Collaboration Index (NCI) that remains significantly below the random-mixing baseline across all major subfields. These findings highlight a continuing institutional divide and suggest that the capital-intensive nature of generative AI research may be reshaping the boundaries of scientific collaboration.

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arXiv2025

Feature-Centric Approaches to Android Malware Analysis: A Survey

Sophisticated malware families exploit the openness of the Android platform to infiltrate IoT networks, enabling large-scale disruption, data exfiltration, and denial-of-service attacks. This systematic literature review (SLR) examines cutting-edge approaches to Android malware analysis with direct implications for securing IoT infrastructures. We analyze feature extraction techniques across static, dynamic, hybrid, and graph-based methods, highlighting their trade-offs: static analysis offers efficiency but is easily evaded through obfuscation; dynamic analysis provides stronger resistance to evasive behaviors but incurs high computational costs, often unsuitable for lightweight IoT devices; hybrid approaches balance accuracy with resource considerations; and graph-based methods deliver superior semantic modeling and adversarial robustness. This survey contributes a structured comparison of existing methods, exposes research gaps, and outlines a roadmap for future directions to enhance scalability, adaptability, and long-term security in IoT-driven Android malware detection.

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