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Forgetting to Improve: Principled Data Removal in Active Learning

Manuel Wendl, Erik Englesson, Andreas Krause, Carl Henrik Ek

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

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A Model of Diverse Sampling from Language Models

Manuel Prada-Corral, Yahya Emara, Timothy O'Donnell, Ryan Cotterell 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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TerraMesh-Masks: Open‑Vocabulary Segmentation for Earth Observation

Benedikt Blumenstiel, Hugues Devimeux, Johannes Jakubik, Konrad Schindler

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

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Fixed-Point Reasoning: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Models

Sajad Movahedi, Shlomo Libo Feigin, Vera Milovanović, Alexander Theus and 4 more

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

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PhyTS: A Benchmark for Scientific Time Series

Benedict Armstrong, Jeroen Audenaert, Hannah P Binney, Alice Cheng and 22 more

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

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CounterStrike-1K: A Multi-Perspective Dataset of Professional Gameplay for World Modeling

Anirudhh Ramesh

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

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Generating in the Limit with Infinitely Many Hallucinations

Language generation in the limit is recast as recall-precision trade-offs, showing that allowing infinitely many vanishing-frequency hallucinations can strictly increase recall when adversaries withhold target portions.

Irene Strauss, Alexandra Butoi, Ryan Cotterell

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

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Breaking the Synthesis Barrier for AI-Designed DNA Libraries

PGLD optimizes synthesis-aware stochastic DNA libraries via policy gradients to bypass synthesis cost limits, enabling million-sequence libraries for antibody exploration at low cost.

Scott Sussex, Ema Borevković, Frederieke Lohmann, Ningning Chen and 3 more

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

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Scaling Full Conformal Image Classifiers

Targeted Full Conformal Prediction uses vision-language models to prune labels and scale full conformal image classification with stable coverage and modest overhead.

Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ender Konukoglu

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Unified Panoramic Geometry Estimation via Multi-View Foundation Models

PaGeR adapts perspective 3D foundation models to panoramas to predict depth, normals, and sky masks in one pass, achieving state-of-the-art 360-degree geometry estimation.

Vukasin Bozic, Isidora Slavkovic, Dominik Narnhofer, Nando Metzger and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 4 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 157

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LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically-Controlled Knowledge Exposure

LittleLearner is a 5B-parameter model trained on grade-capped elementary data to study controlled knowledge acquisition and bounded capability growth.

Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral, Thaddäus Wiedemer and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face

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Select-then-differentiate: Solving Bilevel Optimization with Manifold Lower-level Solution Sets

Under local PŁ conditions, unique optimistic lower-level selection ensures hyper-gradient differentiability via pseudoinverses, yielding HG-MS with manifold-dependent convergence and strong LLM reweighting results.

Saeed Masiha, Zebang Shen, Negar Kiyavash, Niao He

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Ensembling Language Models with Sequential Monte Carlo

A byte-level sequential Monte Carlo algorithm samples from composed language model ensembles, outperforming naive probability averaging across structured generation tasks.

Robin Chan, Tianyu Liu, Samuel Kiegeland, Clemente Pasti and 4 more

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

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Class Adaptive Conformal Training

Class Adaptive Conformal Training adaptively shapes class-conditional prediction sets via augmented Lagrangian optimization without distributional assumptions, yielding smaller sets with valid coverage.

Badr-Eddine Marani, Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ismail Ayed, Maria Vakalopoulou and 2 more

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

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Stitched Value Model for Diffusion Alignment

StitchVM stitches pretrained pixel-space reward models onto frozen diffusion backbones to build accurate noisy-latent value functions for efficient diffusion alignment, accelerating DPS 3.2× and DiffusionNFT 2.3×.

Hyojun Go, Hyungjin Chung, Prune Truong, Goutam Bhat and 7 more

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

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EchoPrune: Interpreting Redundancy as Temporal Echoes for Efficient VideoLLMs

EchoPrune treats redundant video tokens as temporal echoes and prunes them via query relevance and reconstruction error, letting VideoLLMs process up to 20x more frames for +8.6% accuracy and 5.6x faster prefilling.

Jiameng Li, Minye Wu, Jiezhang Cao, Aleksei Tiulpin and 1 more

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

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Anchor PCA

Anchor PCA finds shared low-rank directions across domains by trading variance for cross-domain agreement, yielding robust embeddings that generalize to unseen domains.

Benedikt Seiter, Anya Fries, Julius von Kügelgen, Jonas Peters

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Lumberjack: Better Differentially Private Random Forests through Heavy Hitter Detection in Trees

Lumberjack improves differentially private random forests via heavy hitter pruning of deep trees, achieving state-of-the-art privacy-utility trade-offs.

Christian J Lebeda, David Erb, Tudor Cebere, Aurélien Bellet

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

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Generative Modeling by Value-Driven Transport

A discrete-time stochastic control formulation yields value-driven transport policies that generate data via straight, fast, robust paths and support conditional generation and guidance.

Pablo Moreno-Muñoz, Adrian Müller, Gergely Neu

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

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Support Before Frequency in Discrete Diffusion

Discrete diffusion models learn data support before frequencies because reverse edits scale by validity first and coefficients second; absorbing diffusion prioritizes validity-improving moves over uniform diffusion's trichotomy.

Adrian Müller, Antoine Gonon, Zebang Shen, Ya-Ping Hsieh and 1 more

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

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Approaching I/O-optimality for Approximate Attention

Approximate attention algorithms achieve near-linear I/O cost in sequence length via efficient approximate methods with matching lower bounds proving near-optimality.

Pál András Papp, Aleksandros Sobczyk, Anastasios Zouzias

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

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