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Inverse Linear Bandits via Linear Programs

Ziqing Song, Lin Yang, Ruosong Wang

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

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Does Inference-Time Reasoning Really Improve Video Understanding?

Zhuohao Yu, Yu Zhou, Zhecan Wang, Rui Sun and 2 more

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

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Optimizing Analytic Constants via AI-Guided Lean Proof Refinement

Rahul Saha, Alan Li, Anton Xue, Adam Klivans 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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RAHF: Reward-Amplified Human Feedback for Closed-Loop Policy Fine-Tuning

Haoyuan Cai, Seth Zhao, Jason Zhang, Bolei Zhou

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

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Efficient and Accurate Zero Shot Generation of Symmetric Protein Complexes

Rory Gao, Yuanzhou Chen, Prajit Rajkumar, Wei Wang

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

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Graph Anomaly Detection as Dynamical Transport: Training-Free Scoring via Empirical Bayes

Fred Xu, Thomas Markovich, florence regol, Yizhou Sun

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

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Speeding up Log-Sum-Exp: Kernel Fusion at the Memory Wall, Integer Arithmetic at the Compute Wall

Lingyun Yao, Martin Andraud, Niki Loppi, Andrea Pilzer and 3 more

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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From Weeks to Hours: Fast and Principled SFT Curation for LLM

Hongyi Henry Jin, Wenhan Yang, Meysam Ghaffari, Carlos Morato and 1 more

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

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TabWorld: A World-Modeling Foundation Model for Tabular Generation

Xiaofeng Lin, Chunhe Wang, Tung Sum Thomas Kwok, Guang Cheng

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

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Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training: Chess as a Controlled Testbed

Jingyan Shen, Ang Li, Salman Rahman, Yifan Sun and 3 more

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

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Demystifying Numerical Errors in LLM Inference: Achieving Reproducible Inference for Mission-Critical Tasks with HEAL

Zhenting Zhu, Lucas Thai, Shan Yu, Yicheng Liu and 4 more

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

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Arena-T2I Hard: Benchmarking and Improving Faithfulness with Dependency-Aware Checklist Rewards

Yuanhao Ban, Tong Xie, Sohyun An, Yunqi Hong and 5 more

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

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TriSearch: Learning to Optimize Triangulations via Bistellar Flips

TriSearch uses reinforcement learning and circuit-based flip representations to optimize triangulations across dimensions, discovering more Calabi-Yau triangulations than existing samplers.

Yiran Wang, Guido Montufar

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

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Conditional Evaluation of Language Models with Cheap Auxiliary Signals

LACE estimates conditional LLM accuracy profiles using cheap auxiliary signals via local centering to achieve calibration-free, unbiased, locally optimal semi-supervised evaluation.

Zhi Zhang, Lingfeng Lyu, Yue Kang, Doudou Zhou

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

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Emergent representations of graphical structure in mechanistic neural models of causal judgment

Task-optimized recurrent neural networks learn to judge causal relations and implicitly represent complete graphical structures via low-level neural mechanisms.

Marcus Triplett, Kenneth Kay

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

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Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles

A training-free test-time defense uses stochastic resonance of latent ensembles via input translations to recover up to 68.1% of adversarial accuracy loss on classification and dense prediction tasks.

DONG LAO, Yuxiang Zhang, Haniyeh E Oskouie, Yangchao Wu and 2 more

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

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MURPHY: Feedback-Aware GRPO with Retrospective Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Code Generation

MURPHY extends GRPO to multi-turn code generation via feedback-conditioned rollout trees with retrospective credit assignment, achieving up to 6% absolute pass@1 gains over prior methods.

Chanakya Ekbote, Vijay Lingam, Sujay Sanghavi, Luke Huan 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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PG-LRF: Physiology-Guided Latent Rectified Flow for Electro-Hemodynamic PPG-to-ECG Generation

PG-LRF uses a physiology-guided latent rectified flow with an electro-hemodynamic simulator to generate physiologically plausible ECGs from PPG, improving generation and cardiovascular disease classification.

Xiaoda Wang, Minxiao Wang, Kaiqiao Han, Defu Cao and 9 more

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

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Improving Function Space Flow Matching with Kernel Optimal Transport

kFFM replaces arbitrary pairing in Functional Flow Matching with kernel optimal transport to improve infinite-dimensional generative modeling and outperforms baselines on time-series and PDE benchmarks.

Fred Xu, Thomas Markovich, Barbora Barancikova, Yizhou Sun

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

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From Table to Cell: Attention for Better Reasoning with TABALIGN

TABALIGN improves multi-step table reasoning by pairing diffusion planners generating binary cell masks with attention verifiers, raising accuracy 15.76 points and accelerating execution 44.64%.

Tung Sum Thomas Kwok, Zeyong Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Chunhe Wang and 5 more

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

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Most ReLU Networks Admit Identifiable Parameters

Deep ReLU networks with input and hidden widths ≥2 have open sets of identifiable parameters, yielding exact functional dimensions and generic depth hierarchies.

Moritz Grillo, Guido Montufar

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

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The Symmetries of Three-Layer ReLU Networks

This paper characterizes generic parameter fibers of three-layer ReLU bottleneck networks via semi-algebraic descriptions, yielding polynomial-time functional equivalence tests and analyzing symmetry-induced gradient flow conservation laws.

Johanna Marie Gegenfurtner, Moritz Grillo, Guido Montufar

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

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Inertia-1: An Open Exploration of Wearable Motion Foundation Models

Inertia-1 explores wearable motion foundation models via 18.2M hours of accelerometer data, yielding state-of-the-art recipes and open design principles for diverse sensing tasks.

Zongzhe Xu, Aakarsh Anand, Sarah Jiang, Chuntung Zhuang and 3 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 35

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Expanding the Role of Diffusion Models for Robust Classifier Training

Diffusion representations provide diverse, partially robust features that improve adversarial training robustness as an auxiliary signal, complementing synthetic data.

Pin-Han Huang, Shang-Tse Chen, Hsuan-Tien (Tien) Lin

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

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Beyond What Seems Necessary: Hidden Gains from Scaling Training-Time Reasoning Length under Outcome Supervision

Under outcome-only supervision, scaling training-time reasoning length improves OOD performance after ID saturation via stronger inductive biases and reduced shortcut reliance.

Yihao Xue, Allan Zhang, Jianhao Huang, Amit Sahai and 1 more

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

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Fast Rates for Offline Contextual Bandits with Forward-KL Regularization under Single-Policy Concentrability

Forward-KL-regularized offline contextual bandits achieve epsilon^{-1} sample complexity under single-policy concentrability via pessimism, with matching lower bounds showing slow rates at weak regularization.

Qingyue Zhao, Kaixuan Ji, Heyang Zhao, Quanquan Gu

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

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A Unified Uncertainty Representation for Graph Neural Networks via Doubly-Spectral Stochastic Expansion

Doubly-spectral stochastic GNN expansions yield unified uncertainty representations improving calibration, OOD detection, and distribution-shift robustness.

Fred Xu, Thomas Markovich, florence regol, Yizhou Sun

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

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Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis

Unify-Agent reframes image synthesis as an agent pipeline with search and recaptioning, improving generation of long-tail factual concepts via 143K curated trajectories.

Shuang Chen, Quanxin Shou, Hangting Chen, Yucheng Zhou and 11 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 44 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 93

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Stress-Testing Neural Network Verifiers with Provably Robust Instances

A framework generates provably robust verification instances with known ground-truth labels and exposes numeric errors and bugs in state-of-the-art neural network verifiers.

David Troxell, Yulia Alexandr, Sofia Hunt, Stephanie Lei and 1 more

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

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