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CAPO: A Primal-Dual Framework for Constraint-Aware Prompt Optimization

Victor Ye Dong, Reid Pryzant, Yi Liu, Jian Jiao

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 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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How Does Cutout Benefit Out-of-Distribution Generalization?

Kuo Shi

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

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From Click Imitation to Transition Equivalence: Rethinking Supervision for GUI Agents

Zhiming Lin, Tianxiang Xu, zizhao zhang, Yixue Liu and 5 more

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

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What if Agents Could Imagine? Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary HOI Comprehension through Generation

Zhenlong Yuan, Yue Wang, Jing Tang, Rui Chen and 8 more

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

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Layer Free-Riding in Forward-Forward Networks: Real, Repairable, but Not Accuracy-Dominant

Amirhossein Yousefiramandi

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Magnitude-preserving Layers Enable Efficient GANs

Nick Huang, Jackson Woodleigh, Aaron Gokaslan, Xinjie Yi and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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BQ-LoRA: Binary-Quantized Low-Rank Adapters as Implicit Regularizers for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Juyoung Park, Heejun Lee

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

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Bridging Risk Approximation Gaps in Model Predictive Task Sampling via In-Context Modeling

Jiarong Wen, Qi Tao, Zhang Kaiyu, Yun Qu and 4 more

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

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MARS: Multi-resolution Adaptive Routing for Sequential Recommendation

Ming Yin, Sixun Dong, Yudong Liu, Wenyun Yang and 2 more

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

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Invariant Hyperbolic Unfolding: Radial Canonicalization for Label-Free Cross-Graph Link Prediction

Taehee Lee

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

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Claude Coke: Prevent Automated Crime by Agents

Gabor Hollbeck, Baran Peters, Alexander von Recum, Jan Granacher and 3 more

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

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Cortically-Resolved Recurrent Architecture for fMRI

Da-Woon Heo, Kwanseok Oh, Adrián Ayuso-Muñoz, Heung-Il Suk

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

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RealDev-QA: Trajectory-Level Diagnosis for Developer RAG Under Real-World Noises

Tianling Lan, Yao Junxiao, Tingyang Chen, Cibo Yu 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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Beyond Truthfulness: Evaluating Honesty in Large Language Models

Richard Ren, Arunim Agarwal, Mantas Mazeika, Cristina Menghini and 11 more

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Jointly Robust Fairness: Overcoming Simultaneous Label and Attribute Noise

Gaurav Jain

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

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Listwise Policy Optimization: Group-based RLVR as Target-Projection on the LLM Response Simplex

Listwise Policy Optimization explicitly projects policies onto target distributions over response simplices via divergence minimization, improving reasoning performance and stability over group-based policy gradients.

Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Yixiu Mao, Heming Zou and 10 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 67 on Hugging Face

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Structured Transforms for Low-Overhead Quantization of Language Models

Replacing dense orthogonal matrices with sign-randomized DCTs accelerates Kashin-based LLM quantization to O(N log N) with guaranteed convergence, achieving 4-bit accuracy competitive with OPTQ and QuIP while maintaining numerical stability and native 2-bit hardware compatibility.

Daria Cherniuk, Alexander Rudikov, Boris Kashin, Ivan Oseledets

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

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Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models

Self-supervised pre-training on one real table yields strong tabular transfer, where feature count predicts usefulness and in-context generalization is retrieval-based.

Nour Shaheen, Junwei (Jeremy) Ma, Alex Labach, Frank Hutter and 2 more

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

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TwinRouterBench: Fast Static and Live Dynamic Evaluation for Realistic Agentic LLM Routing

TwinRouterBench introduces static and live dynamic tracks to benchmark LLM routing at agent step-level using deterministic scoring and live execution on SWE-bench.

Pei Yang, Wanyi Chen, Tongyun Yang, Pengbin Feng and 11 more

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

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Prompts to Proxies: Emulating Human Preferences via a Compact LLM Ensemble

P2P uses adaptive prompting and L1-regularized regression to build compact LLM ensembles that emulate human preferences at low cost without fine-tuning. It achieves 0.014 test MSE on American Trends Panel surveys for about $0.80 each and outperforms supervised baselines with under 3% of their traini

Bingchen Wang, Zi-Yu Khoo, Jingtan Wang

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

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Medmarks: A Comprehensive Open-Source LLM Benchmark Suite for Medical Tasks

Medmarks introduces 30 open-source medical benchmarks evaluating 61 LLMs, finding frontier reasoning models lead, proprietary models are more token-efficient, medical fine-tuning helps, and smaller models show answer-order bias.

Benjamin Warner, Ratna S Grandhi, Max Kieffer, Aymane Ouraq and 31 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face

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AmaraSpatial-10K: A Spatially and Semantically Aligned 3D Dataset for Spatial Computing and Embodied AI

AmaraSpatial-10K is a 10,000 synthetic 3D asset dataset optimized for deployment, achieving 3.4x CLIP recall over Objaverse and 99.1% physics stability.

Mohammadsadegh Salehi, Alexander J Perkins, Igor P Maurell, Ashkan Dabbagh and 1 more

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026 · ▲ 3 on Hugging Face

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Position: Let’s Strengthen Verifiability if We Can’t Enforce Reproducibility

Machine learning papers are hard to reproduce due to missing code, so researchers should prioritize verifiable results through concrete checkability improvements.

Samet Hicsonmez, Nermin Samet, Renaud Marlet

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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The Geometric Inductive Bias of Grokking: Bypassing Phase Transitions via Architectural Topology

Architectural topology modifications eliminate Transformer's grokking phase by bounding representations and fixing attention, but only when aligned with task symmetries.

Alper YILDIRIM

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

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Progressive Risk Estimation for Accident Anticipation

PRE-ACT models accident risk as a continuously evolving signal that increases approaching crashes, enforcing temporal ordering and distance awareness to suppress false alarms and improve anticipation performance.

Samet Hicsonmez, Eray Çakar, Nermin Samet, Fatma Guney

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

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Evaluating AI-based Scientific Knowledge Synthesis with Epidemiological Systematic Reviews

AgentSLR evaluates LLMs on epidemiological systematic reviews, revealing sub-task specialization, poor structured extraction (F1 < 0.67), and unreliable unsupervised deployment.

Shreyansh Padarha, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Tristan M Naidoo, Lingyi Yang and 12 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 25

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Truth as a Compression Artifact in Language Model Training

Language models prefer correct answers because errors are less compressible, not because they detect truth directly, with coherent false rules eliminating accuracy until competing rules restore it.

Konstantin Krestnikov

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

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