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PACO: Partial-order-Augmented Continuous Optimization for Differentiable Causal Discovery

Xiaoxuan Li, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley, Lina Yao 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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SIGA: Scientific Simulation Coding Agent Adapter- A Geophysics Case Study

Matthew Ho, Brian Z. Liu, Jixuan Chen, Lianhui Qin

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

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Qubrio: High-Performance Quantum Compilation via Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

Jixuan Ruan, Zhuo Cui, Zhengding Hu, Zhongkai Yu and 9 more

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

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Reasoning Pathologies in Large Language Models: A Diagnostic Perspective

Rohan Surana, Junda Wu, Sheldon Yu, Gagan Mundada and 5 more

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

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The Geometry of Agent Skills: Non-Commutative Composition in Representation Space

Junda Wu, Yifan Wang, Zihan Huang, Xunyi Jiang 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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Sample Complexity of Linear Regression under Random-Location Coordinate Corruptions

Ilias Diakonikolas, Jingyi Gao, Daniel Kane, Thanasis Pittas

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

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(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers

Ilias Diakonikolas, Jingyi Gao, Daniel Kane, Sihan Liu and 1 more

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

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TRACE: Trajectory-Aware Conceps for Explainable Video Understanding

Wooil Lee, Junpyo Hong, Jongseo Lee, Tuomas Oikarinen and 2 more

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

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ManiTaskGen: A Comprehensive Task Generator for Benchmarking and Improving Vision-Language Agents on Embodied Decision-Making

Liu Dai, Haina Wang, Weikang Wan, Hao Su

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

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Forced Orders: What LLM Leaderboards Hide About Model Comparisons

Zonglin Di, Berk Ustun, Yang Liu

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

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AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers

Xinwei Qiang, Yue Guan, Ruihan Zhu, Mihir Jagtap and 6 more

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

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Cosine is Human: The Reproducibility Ceiling of Perceptual Similarity

Benjamin TenWolde, Virginia de Sa

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

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Learnable Chernoff Baselines for Provable Inference-Time Alignment

Sunil Madhow, Yuchen Liang, Ness Shroff, Yingbin Liang and 1 more

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

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Position: LLM Privacy Requires a Lifecycle-Wide Approach

Niloofar Mireshghallah, Tianshi Li

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

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Gumbo: Gumbel Optimized High-Temperature Speculative Sampling

Jonah Yi, Dan Fu, Yu-Xiang Wang

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

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Does Sparse Connectivity Improve Generalization? Convolutional Networks Below the Edge of Stability

Tongtong Liang, Esha Singh, Rahul Parhi, Alex Cloninger and 1 more

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

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Sharpness of Minima in Deep Matrix Factorization

Anıl Kamber, Rahul Parhi

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

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LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools - Even Without Reasoning

When2Tool finds LLMs linearly encode tool necessity in hidden states, and Probe&Prefill uses this to cut unnecessary tool calls by 48% with minimal accuracy loss.

Chung-En Sun, Linbo Liu, Ge Yan, Zimo Wang and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 16

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Distance Marching for Generative Modeling

Distance Marching improves time-unconditional generative models via distance-focused losses and inference, surpassing flow matching FID with fewer steps and aiding OOD detection.

Zimo Wang, Ishit Mehta, Haolin Lu, Xunpeng Huang 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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SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

SimSD proposes a plug-and-play masking strategy that enables token-level speculative decoding in diffusion language models, achieving up to 7.46x faster throughput without training.

Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo and 8 more

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

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AMPS: Adaptive Modality Preference Steering via Functional Entropy

AMPS uses instance-aware functional entropy to adaptively steer multimodal model modality preferences, improving control while minimizing inference errors.

Zihan Huang, Xintong Li, Rohan Surana, Tong Yu and 4 more

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

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Measuring What Matters: Synthetic Benchmarks for Concept Bottleneck Models

Synthetic benchmarks for concept bottleneck models generate controlled labeled datasets to evaluate decision support and automation use cases, diagnose failure modes, and guide testing.

Julian Skirzynski, Harry Cheon, Shreyas Kadekodi, Meredith Stewart and 1 more

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

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Live Music Diffusion Models: Efficient Fine-Tuning and Post-Training of Interactive Diffusion Music Generators

Live Music Diffusion Models modify diffusion inference with block-wise KV caching to surpass discrete autoregressive efficiency, enabling stable alignment via ARC-Forcing and real-time interactive generation on consumer hardware.

Zachary Novack, Stephen Brade, Haven Kim, Hugo Flores and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 3 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 50

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A second order regret bound for NormalHedge

A NormalHedge variant achieves second-order ε-quantile regret O(sqrt(V_T log(V_T/ε))) for easy sequences via self-concordance analysis.

Yoav S Freund, Nicholas Harvey, Victor S. Portella, Yabing Qi and 1 more

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

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Testable Learning of General Halfspaces under Massart Noise

A testable learning algorithm learns general Massart halfspaces under Gaussian marginals with quasi-polynomial complexity matching SQ lower bounds.

Ilias Diakonikolas, Giannis Iakovidis, Daniel Kane, Sihan Liu

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

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Steer2Edit: From Activation Steering to Component-Level Editing

Steer2Edit converts inference-time activation steering into training-free, component-level rank-1 weight edits that improve safety, truthfulness, and reasoning efficiency over global interventions.

Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Zimo Wang, Lily Weng

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

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AgentKVShift: Efficient KV Cache Reuse for Agentic Memory Systems

AgentKVShift uses probe-guided KV residual correction to reuse agentic memory caches with near-full accuracy at 10-30% recompute, yielding 2-3.5x prefill speedups.

Nilesh Pandey, Jason Kong, Lanxiang Hu, Quanling Zhao and 4 more

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

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Optimal Contextual Pricing under Agnostic Non-Lipschitz Demand

Conservative-Markdown Redirect-UCB Pricing achieves optimal Õ(T^{2/3}) regret for contextual dynamic pricing with agnostic non-Lipschitz demand, closing the prior regret gap.

Jianyu Xu, Yu-Xiang Wang

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

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AnyHand: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for RGB(-D) Hand Pose Estimation

AnyHand provides 6.6M synthetic RGB-D hand images with occlusions and aligned depth, significantly improving 3D hand pose estimation benchmarks and showing data diversity rivals scale.

Chen Si, Yulin Liu, Bo Ai, Jianwen Xie and 3 more

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

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Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Smoothed Agnostic Learning

Smoothed agnostic halfspace learning requires SQ complexity d^Ω(1/σ²+log(1/ε)), nearly matching the best known upper bound.

Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane

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

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Low-Rank Adaptation for Critic Learning in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Low-rank adaptation regularizes critic learning by constraining updates to low-dimensional subspaces via frozen base weights, reducing loss and improving off-policy RL performance.

Yuan Zhuang, Yuexin Bian, Sihong He, Jie Feng and 6 more

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

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Language-Based Agent Control

LBAC is a programming model that enforces user policies on agentic applications by requiring agents to generate well-typed programs rejected by a type-checker before execution.

Timothy Zhou, Loris D'Antoni, Nadia Polikarpova

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

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