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Halt Fast! Early Stopping for Certified Robustness

Andrew Cullen, Paul Montague, Benjamin Rubinstein

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

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Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality

Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Zhichao Wang 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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What Should Remain After Forgetting? Rethinking LLM Unlearning as Predictive Posterior Correction

Jingyue Cong, Andy Song, Alexis Horde-Vo, Kai Wei 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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Dynamic Dual-Feedback Conformal Inference for Time Series Forecasting

Songlin Du, Ling Luo, Uwe Aickelin

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

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Bet Imaginatively, not Historically in Independent-Data Sequential Testing

Nathaniel Xu, Feng Liu, Danica J. Sutherland

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

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Susceptibilities for Neural Networks Learning from Physical Data

Rohan Hitchcock, Gary W Delaney, Jonathan H Manton, Richard Scalzo and 1 more

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

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What Was That Again? Certified Robustness for Automatic Speech Recognition

Andrew Cullen, Neil Marchant, Jiani Xie, Paul Montague and 1 more

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

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Adversarial Risk in the Generative AI Era Necessitates Dropping the Small Epsilon Ball

Andrew Cullen, Neil Marchant, Paul Montague, Jiani Xie and 1 more

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

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Towards Multi-Human-Value Alignment via Value Localization in LLMs

Xueqi Ma, Yanbei Jiang, Xingjun Ma, James Bailey 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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Out-of-Distribution Detection in Continual Learning

Nimeshika Udayangani Hewa Dehigahawattage, Sarah Erfani, Flora Salim, Christopher Leckie

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

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Permute-then-Adapt: Weak-to-Strong Contrastive Image--Text Adaptation

Jinhao Li, Sarah Erfani, Lei Feng, Guangrui Li 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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Spectral Estimation with Deformed Decompression

Siavash Ameli, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Michael Mahoney

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

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Understanding Model Reprogramming: A Reachability and Relabeling Perspective

Zesheng Ye, Pin-Yu Chen, Feng Liu

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

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PhysGuard: Fisher-Guided Gradient Projection for Sim-to-Real Neural PDE Surrogates

PhysGuard uses Fisher-guided gradient projection to adapt neural PDE surrogates to real data while preserving physics-critical parameters, cutting low-frequency error by up to 32% under severe domain shift.

Changjian Zhou, Junfeng Fang, Negin Yousefpour, peng wu 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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Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models

BETA uses a local steering model and prediction harmonization to stabilize black-box test-time adaptation with zero extra API queries and large accuracy gains.

Yunbei Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Chengyi Cai, Feng Liu and 1 more

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

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From Cursed to Competitive: Closing the ZO–FO Gap via Input-to-State Stability

Using input-to-state stability, zeroth-order optimization achieves first-order convergence rates without extra dimension dependence when perturbations are small.

Amir Ali Farzin, Philipp Braun, Iman Shames

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

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RAIL: Rethinking Auditory Intelligence in Large Audio-Language Models with a CHC-Grounded Benchmark

RAIL introduces a CHC-based benchmark evaluating LALMs across five auditory cognitive abilities, revealing highly uneven performance among 26 state-of-the-art models.

Hongyu Jin, Siyi Wang, Yang Xiao, Jiaheng Dong and 9 more

Published 2026 · ▲ 5 on Hugging Face

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VEX-Bench: Benchmarking Verification Complexity of LLM-Generated Misinformation

VEX-Bench benchmarks verification complexity of LLM-generated misinformation, showing high-VEX false content costs 3-169x less to create than to verify and risks misallocating scarce screening resources.

Hanxun Huang, Oscar W, Qizhou Wang, Silvia Montaña-Niño and 8 more

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

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SVoT: State-aware Visualization-of-Thought for Spatial Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

SVoT uses reinforcement learning to generate verifiable intermediate states and visualizations for multi-hop spatial reasoning, achieving up to 65% out-of-distribution accuracy gains.

Chao Lei, Yanbei Jiang, Markus Hiller, Zhijian Zhou and 3 more

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

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CELEUS: Certifiable and Efficient LLM Evaluation via E-Processes

CELEUS uses E-processes with uncertainty-guided sampling and surrogate approximations to provide anytime-valid confidence intervals for LLM evaluation, cutting required samples by 54-62%.

Zhijian Zhou, Zesheng Ye, Zhaorun Chen, Bo Li and 1 more

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

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Disentangling Continuous-Time Latent Dynamics: Identifiability of Latent SDEs via Diffusion Shifts

Environment-induced diffusion shifts identify latent SDE coordinates and drift-Jacobian causal graphs up to permutation and scaling without sparsity assumptions.

Yuanyuan Wang, Wenjie Wang, Haoxuan Li, Mingming Gong and 1 more

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

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Combating Data Laundering in LLM Training

Data laundering transforms proprietary data to hide LLM training traces, and Synthesis Data Reversion restores detection by synthesizing likely transformed queries via goal-detail abstraction.

Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li, Feng Liu

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

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FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance

FiLoRA is an instruction-conditioned LoRA framework that modulates multimodal model reliance on internal feature pathways via gated low-rank modules, enabling controllable amplification or suppression of feature groups without changing task semantics.

Hyunsuk Chung, Caren Han, Seungyeon Ji, Jinwoo Kim 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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The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining

Mechanistic analysis reveals a Commit-Abstain Circuit where early commitment signals overpower later abstention corrections, causing hallucinations; training on its activations improves abstention accuracy by 12.2 points.

Gavin Vy Nguyen, Ziqi Xu, Jeffrey Chan, Estrid He 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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TrajWiki: Source-Grounded Memory Trajectories for Long-Horizon Dialogue Agents

TrajWiki represents memory as source-grounded evolution trajectories with claim-level updates and a wiki layer to improve long-horizon dialogue performance and interpretability.

Jingyu Sun, Yuyang Xue, Mingyang Li, Zhengtao Yao and 8 more

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

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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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Free Decompression with Algebraic Spectral Curves

Algebraic spectral curves extend free decompression to multi-scale, multi-modal, and atomic spectral densities, enabling realistic neural network and diffusion model extrapolation.

Siavash Ameli, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Michael Mahoney

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

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USAD: Uncertainty-aware Statistical Adversarial Detection

USAD improves adversarial detection via variance and perturbation covariance discrepancy statistics that capture global and local uncertainty patterns in adversarial examples.

Zhijian Zhou, Xunye Tian, Jiacheng Zhang, Zesheng Ye 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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