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Barycentric Guidance: Turning Foundation Image Editors into Continuous Affective Controllers

Harvey Mannering, Zhiwu Huang, Adam Prugel-Bennett

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Revisiting Activation Steering Through an Optimization Lens

Ryan Lee, Dung V Nguyen, Minh Hieu Vu, Noelle Y.L. Wong and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Neural-DISCO: Source-Conditioned Counterfactual Editing of Neural Population Activity

Nico Policzer, James Ho, Joseph Soo, Xin Tang

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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DiA: Directional Adapter

Ashish Singh, Prakash Chandra Chhipa

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering

Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi, Parsa Razmara, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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StitchEdit: Stitching Depth Priors into Image Editors via Per-Layer Gradient Probing

Qin Guo, Dan Xu

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space

Xiaoce Wang, Sifan Zhou, Kaifei Wang, Leli Xu and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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OTEdit: Entropic Transport Corrected Trajectory for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Image Editing

Rameshwar Mishra, Akshay Modi, A. Subramanyam

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Scalable Minimal-Change Learning for Controllable Image Editing

Shuo Chen, Fengming Huang, Yu Yao, Mingming Gong and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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eSAM: Editing SAM3 Attention for Training-Free Referring Segmentation

Yaoting Wang, Yun Zhou, Hengrui Hu, Chang Liu and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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StiCAS: Compositional Activation Steering via Stiefel Manifold Coordinate Transport

StiCAS learns orthogonal concept subspaces via Stiefel optimization so compositional activation steering achieves exact commutativity and doubles multi-concept success.

Toan Doan, Thin Nguyen, Sunil Gupta

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Beyond Interpretability: When, Why, and How Sparse Autoencoders Enable Label-Free Visual Steering

Visual Sparse Steering trains sparse autoencoders on frozen CLIP activations to build label-free steering vectors that improve zero-shot classification by up to 4.12 percent via centroid-deviation steering with reconstruction-error gating.

Gerasimos Chatzoudis, Zhuowei Li, Gemma Moran, Hao Wang and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Guidance For Prior Change via Density Ratio Estimation

DRE-based unbiased guidance decouples amortized simulation-based inference from training priors, outperforming PriorGuide on C2ST and MMD.

Yichen Zang, Song Liu, Jiun-Yi Lin

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Delta-Adapter: Scalable Exemplar-Based Image Editing with Single-Pair Supervision

Delta-Adapter extracts a semantic delta from single image pairs to train exemplar-based editors without paired examples, improving accuracy and generalization.

Jiacheng Chen, Songze Li, Han Fu, Baoquan Zhao and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 6

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Kernelized Activation Steering

Kernelized Activation Steering lifts activation steering into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space to induce locally adaptive, geometry-aware steering via implicit kernel evaluations, recovering Difference-in-Means as a linear special case and outperforming standard methods on LLM and image control ta

Laziz Abdullaev, Minh-Hieu Pham, Bach Do, Khoat Than and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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