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Compositional Policy Optimization with Language Models

Wensen Mao, Yuanlin Duan, He Zhu

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Train at the Moving Edge: Rollout-Efficient RL for Large Reasoning Models

Jiahao Wu, Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu, Kun Wang and 5 more

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

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When Debate Helps: Proposal Supply and Verification-Aware Readout in Multi-Agent Reasoning

Zihao Zhao, Tunyu Zhang, Haizhou Shi, Yusong Zhao and 2 more

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

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Sequential Probabilistic Uncertainty Estimation for Parallel Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

Tunyu Zhang, Zihao Zhao, Yusong Zhao, Haizhou Shi and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Harder the Task, Sparser the Representation: Sparsity as a Learning Signature of Capability in LLMs

Mingyu Jin, Yutong Yin, Jingcheng Niu, Qingcheng Zeng and 7 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Diagnosing Math-Reasoning Failure Structure with Milestone Oracles

Zhuohan Wang, Haoran Ma, Tianyu Wu, Yuanlin Duan 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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Two Drifts, One Principle: Conflict-Aware Spectral Consolidation for Multimodal Continual Learning

Haiyi Zhang, Qianyi Cai, Hanqing Wang, Zilin Wang and 6 more

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

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DeltaFugue: Orchestrating Spatial and Associative Memory for Algorithmic Length Generalization

Anh T Nguyen, Quan Dao, Bing Liu

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Towards Hyperparameter Transfer for Differentially Private Optimization

Tianze Wang, Zhiqi Bu, Linjun Zhang

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

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The Price of Locality in Label Privacy: Optimal Rates for Classification and Regression

Zongrui Zou, Mina Dalirrooyfard, Jingcheng Liu, Jalaj Upadhyay

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

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FlashControl: One-Step Controllable Generator via Distillation-Friendly Single-Stream Teachers.

Ngan Nguyen, Dung Nguyen, Quan Dao, Dimitris Metaxas 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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Sparse Multimodal Switching State-Space Models for Regime-Dependent Neural Connectivity under Partial Observations

Rahul K Sharma, Feng Liu, Xiaochen Xian

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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\texttt{FEROM}: Frontier Endogenous Reveal-Order Marginal Policy Optimization for Masked Diffusion LMs

Zian Su, Ziyang Huang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Crafter: Towards Automated Reproducible Machine Learning via Agentic Code Generation

Fangru Linghu, Jackson R Ye, Jieying Wang, Alexandre V Morozov and 2 more

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

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Act, Validate, Adapt: Closing the Causal Discovery-Control Loop

Taqiya Ehsan, Shuren Xia, Jorge Ortiz

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

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RoMo Hands: A Large Scale Richly Organized Text to Hand Motion Dataset

Yizhak Ben-Shabat, Jiahao Zhang, Joseph Liu, Seonghyeon Moon and 4 more

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

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Learning Preference Representations for Preference-Conditioned Image Generation

Wenyi Mo, Tianyu Zhang, Yalong Bai, Ligong Han and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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UniPro: Unified Multi-Mode Medical Image Segmentation from 2D Images to 3D Volumes via Propagation

Bangwei Guo, Yunhe Gao, Meng Ye, Yang Zhou and 4 more

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

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TabClustPFN: A Prior-Fitted Network for Tabular Data Clustering

TabClustPFN is a prior-fitted network that performs amortized Bayesian clustering of tabular data in one forward pass without retraining, outperforming baseline methods.

Tianqi Zhao, Guanyang Wang, Yan Shuo Tan, Qiong Zhang

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

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AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems

AgentForesight introduces online trajectory auditing that predicts multi-agent failures during execution, with a 7B model outperforming GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro by up to 19.9% with 3x lower step error.

Boxuan Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Zeru Shi, Dongfang Liu and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 7 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 19

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Attention as In-Context Empirical Bayes: A Two-Stage View via Particle Dynamics

Attention-only transformers under token corruption implement two-stage in-context empirical Bayes via depth-refined particle dynamics and skip-connection queries, enabling depth-dependent denoising without explicit noise schedules and posterior-mean convergence to Bayes-optimal predictors.

Matthew Smart, Soumya Ganguly, Nilava Metya, Alexandre V Morozov and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · 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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PieArena: Ranking and Profiling Language Agents in Realistic Negotiation Scenarios

PieArena benchmarks LLM negotiation via multi-agent MBA scenarios, ranking agents with order-invariant payoffs and finding GPT-5 matches trained human baselines while profiling cross-model behavioral heterogeneity.

Chris Zhu, Sasha Cui, Will S Dufallo, Runzhi Jin and 3 more

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

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LACE: Lattice Attention for Cross-thread Exploration

LACE enables parallel reasoning paths to share insights and correct errors during inference via cross-thread attention, improving reasoning accuracy by over 7 points.

Yang LI, Zirui Zhang, Yang Liu, Chengzhi Mao

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Decentralized Aggregation of LLM Predictions via Wagering Mechanisms

WALLA uses advantage-aligned wagering mechanisms to aggregate LLM predictions with dominant-strategy incentive compatibility and decentralized learning of wager policies.

Yuhong Luo, David Pennock, Xintong Wang

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

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Alignment Collapse Under KV Cache Quantization: Diagnosis and Mitigation

Low-bit KV cache quantization silently collapses LLM safety alignment via geometric subspace vulnerability, and per-channel reduction diagnostics recover up to 97% of lost refusals.

Bruce C Xu, Adarsh Kumarappan, Mu Zhou

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

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Attention Sinks and Outliers in Attention Residuals

OASIS stabilizes dual-normalized attention-residual architectures via null routing and token-to-depth null coupling, reducing activation outliers by 81.75% and improving low-bit quantized reasoning by 42.11%.

Haozheng Luo, Haoran Dai, Shaoyang Zhang, Xi Chen and 9 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 3

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Learning Visual Feature-Based World Models via Residual Latent Action

Residual Latent Action predicts visual feature dynamics via flow matching, outperforming diffusion world models with orders-of-magnitude faster inference and enabling offline robot learning from videos.

Xinyu Zhang, Zhengtong Xu, Yutian Tao, Yeping Wang and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 3 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 47

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On the Token Value Inequality in Efficient Reasoning

Token value inequality in reasoning traces enables identifying core versus redundant tokens via log probabilities, yielding 76% token reduction with preserved accuracy via selective compression.

Runjia Zeng, Hang Hua, Yiyang Liu, Zhiqiang Tao and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Solaris: Building a Multiplayer Video World Model in Minecraft

Solaris introduces a multiplayer video world model and automated data system for Minecraft, collecting 12.64M frames to enable consistent multi-agent simulation via staged training that outperforms single-player baselines.

Oscar Michel, Georgy Savva, Daohan Lu, Suppakit Waiwitlikhit and 6 more

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

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Few-Step Diffusion Language Models via Trajectory Self-Distillation

Trajectory self-distillation trains few-step diffusion language models to match full-step trajectories, mitigating factorization error to enable fast, high-quality parallel decoding.

Tunyu Zhang, Xinxi Zhang, Ligong Han, Haizhou Shi and 9 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 27

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Reward Modeling for Multi-Agent Orchestration

OrchRM uses self-supervised orchestration-level reward modeling to train multi-agent orchestrators, cutting token usage by 10x and boosting accuracy up to 8%.

King Yeung Tsang, Zihao Zhao, Vishal Venkataramani, Haizhou Shi and 4 more

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

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