A Missing Piece for Trustworthy AI Reviewers: From Benchmarking Rhetorical Robustness to SciCore Review

Rhetorical robustness requires stable judgments across content-preserving rewrites and discrimination across papers; SciCore improves both via dual-branch science-core review.

Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Chengrui Fan, Jianpeng Chen and 3 more

Published Sep 30, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 76 on Hugging Face

Small RL Controller, Large Language Model: RL-Guided Adaptive Sampling for Test-Time Scaling

A lightweight RL controller formulates adaptive sampling as an MDP to balance LLM answer correctness, latency, and computation cost at test time.

Runpeng Dai, Tong Zheng, Rui Liu, Chengsong Huang and 1 more

Published Jun 2, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 13 on Hugging Face

Diversity Maximization: Algorithms for Distant $k$-Subsets

Shayan C Jahan, Hamed Abdi, Ali Ahmadi, Javier Marinković and 1 more

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

Pretraining Data Statistics Shape the Phases of Learning Entity Comparison in Language Models

Yik S Chan, Jing Huang, Yanai Elazar, Atticus Geiger

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

LogT: Logically Think with Images for Visual Search

Yanjun Fu, Quanzeng You, Jiadong Guo, Yujie Lu and 5 more

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

Structured Human-Like Agentic Flow for RTL Design

Yu-Tung Liu, Zhan Song, Chenhui Deng, Chia-Tung Ho and 1 more

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

MPQ: A Message-Passing View of Post-Training Quantization

Yanshuo Chen, chenxi liu, Reza Shirkavand, Heng Huang

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

Brute-Force Jailbreaks and Codon-Aware Watermarking for DNA Foundation Models

Munish B Persaud, Amrit Singh Bedi, Souradip Chakraborty

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

Plausible Biomolecular Structure Prediction via Physics-informed Reinforcement Learning

Tai Dang, Hieu Tran, Long-Hung Pham, Sang Truong and 3 more

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

Generalizing Action-Conditioned Latent World Models with Video Model Rewards

Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He, Van T Le and 2 more

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

Geometry-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization for Fine-Tuning Quantized LLMs

Shaocong Ma, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang

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

Beyond Copy-Paste: How Well Do Subject-Driven Video Models Understand Their Subjects?

Zun Wang, Kenan Deng, Daniel Blackburn, Linlin Lu and 4 more

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

XMNoise2Clean: Cross-Modal Denoising Under Sparse Data

Hirad Yazdankhah, Chris Metzler

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

Safe in Its Own Words: Self-Guided Safety Alignment for Multimodal Reasoning Models

Adeel Yousaf, Souradip Chakraborty, Mubarak Shah, Amrit Singh Bedi

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

AmbientFM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Sensing

Guozhen Zhu, Yuqian Hu, Sakila S Jayaweera, Wei-Hsiang Wang and 5 more

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

MotorSense: A Video-EMG Dataset of Motoric Representations for Action Understanding

Eadom T Dessalene, Michael Maynord, Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh, Botao He and 5 more

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

CSI-TextBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Language-Grounded Ambient Sensing Perception

Guozhen Zhu, Yuqian Hu, Sakila S Jayaweera, Wei-Hsiang Wang and 2 more

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

Efficient Dynamic Algorithms for Graph Neural Networks with Non-Linearity

Kiarash Banihashem, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Mahdi JafariRaviz, Silvio Lattanzi and 1 more

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

Finite-Sample and Communication-Efficient Networked Information Aggregation

Mohammadhossein Bateni, Zahra Hadizadeh, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Mahdi JafariRaviz and 1 more

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

Submodular Clustering beyond $1-1/e$

Kiarash Banihashem, Mohammadhossein Bateni, Hossein Esfandiari, Samira Goudarzi and 1 more

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

Spectrally Parameterized Neural Inverse Reconstruction

Harshvardhan Takawale, Aritrik Ghosh, Nirupam Roy

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

Mitigating Data Heterogeneity Effect in Client-Reshuffling-Based Federated Learning

Su Zhang, Peiran Yu, Heng Huang

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

Label-Free Consistency Correction for Weak-to-Strong Generalization

Qi He, Heng Huang

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

LongBanana: An Expert-Verified Benchmark for Long-Context Multi-Reference Image Synthesis

Haoxiang Cao, Yuxuan Zhang, Penghui Du, Bo Li and 15 more

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

Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation

ROMA improves multimodal reasoning robustness to visual corruption via dual-pass RL optimization that avoids reward poisoning while preserving clean accuracy.

Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Haolin Liu, Yucheng Shi and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 5 on Hugging Face

GauS: Differentiable Scheduling Optimization via Gaussian Reparameterization

GauS models operator scheduling via Gaussian reparameterization to capture time's ordinal nature, cutting optimization space and yielding Pareto-optimal results.

Yaohui Cai, Vesal Bakhtazad, CUNXI YU, Zhiru Zhang

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

Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling

Masked Visual Actions expresses robot and object motion as revealed pixel trajectories to unify forward dynamics, planning, and inverse modeling in video world models with minimal finetuning.

Hadi Alzayer, Wenlong Huang, Haonan Chen, Christopher Luey and 7 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 110

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

IDEAL: In-DEpth ALignment Makes A Discrete Representation AutoEncoder

IDEAL aligns discrete visual tokens with shallow and deep vision features to preserve both semantics and fine details, achieving 0.61 rFID and 1.89 gFID.

Yitong Chen, Zijie Diao, Junke Wang, Lingyu Kong and 4 more

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

SpecHop: Continuous Speculation for Accelerating Multi-Hop Retrieval Agents

SpecHop continuously speculates multi-hop retrieval trajectories via asynchronous verification and branch rollback, reducing latency by up to 40% losslessly.

Mehrdad Saberi, Keivan Rezaei, Soheil Feizi

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

G-Zero: Self-Play for Open-Ended Generation from Zero Data

G-Zero uses intrinsic predictive-shift rewards in a verifier-free co-evolutionary framework that enables continuous LLM self-improvement across open-ended unverifiable domains without external judges.

Chengsong Huang, Haolin Liu, Tong Zheng, Runpeng(Leo) Dai and 6 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 17 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 30

Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1: Prompt Interference in LLM Post-Training

Pass@k optimization degrades pass@1 via prompt interference, as its gradients conflict by upweighting negatively interfering, low-success prompts.

Anas Barakat, Souradip Chakraborty, Khushbu Pahwa, Amrit Singh Bedi

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

ROCKET: Residual-Oriented Multi-Layer Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models

ROCKET aligns multiple VLA layers to a 3D vision model via residual streams and shared projectors, achieving near-state-of-the-art LIBERO success with about 4% compute.

Guoheng Sun, Tingting Du, Kaixi Feng, Chenxiang Luo and 5 more

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

TAC: Timestamped Audio Captioning

TAC generates temporally grounded audio captions via synthetic training, reducing hallucinations and outperforming competitors in detection and dense captioning; cascading it with LLMs achieves state-of-the-art audio and audio-visual reasoning.

Sonal Kumar, Prem Seetharaman, Ke Chen, Oriol Nieto and 7 more

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

FlowBank: Query-Adaptive Agentic Workflows Optimization through Precompute-and-Reuse

FlowBank optimizes LLM agent workflows via a precomputed diverse portfolio selected per query, outperforming baselines by up to 14.92% at competitive cost.

Lingzhi Yuan, Chenghao Deng, Fangxu Yu, Souradip Chakraborty and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face

Online Set Learning from Precision and Recall Feedback

Online set learning with randomized precision or recall feedback is learnable exactly when the hypothesis class has finite VC dimension, though standard empirical risk minimization can fail and algorithms must handle feedback dependencies to achieve regret bounds.

Lee Cohen, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Han Shao

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

Posterior Contraction Rates for sparse Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Anisotropic Besov Spaces

Sparse Bayesian KANs with spike-and-slab priors achieve near-minimax posterior contraction over anisotropic Besov spaces with fixed depth, adaptive smoothness, and compositional structures avoiding the curse of dimensionality.

Jeunghun Oh, Lizhen Lin, Jaeyong Lee, Kyeongwon Lee

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

Improving Consistency in Retrieval Augmented Systems With Group Similarity Rewards

A framework decomposes RAG consistency into retrieval, generation, and end-to-end components, and PS-GRPO group similarity rewards train Con-RAG to boost consistency and accuracy across paraphrased queries.

Faisal Hamman, Chenyang Zhu, Anoop Kumar, Xujun Peng and 3 more

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

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

ThinkJEPA combines dense JEPA dynamics with sparse VLM reasoning via dual pathways to improve long-horizon latent world modeling and trajectory prediction.

Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He, Tushar Nagarajan and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 21 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 58

Model-Adaptive Tool Necessity Reveals the Knowing-Doing Gap in LLM Tool Use

This paper defines model-adaptive tool necessity and finds LLMs exhibit a knowing-doing gap where cognition and action diverge, causing 26.5, 54.0% mismatches.

Yize Cheng, Chenrui Fan, Mahdi JafariRaviz, Keivan Rezaei and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 12 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 17