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EMNLP 2022U Technology Sydney U Washington U California San Diego Xi'an Jiaotong Tsinghua Computational social science

PAR: Political Actor Representation Learning with Social Context and Expert Knowledge

PAR learns political actor representations by integrating social context and expert knowledge into a unified framework.

Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zilong Chen, Ningnan Wang and 4 more

Published 2022 · 8 citations

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightU Technology Sydney Singapore Management U Wisconsin-Madison " University of Technology,Hallucination & factuality

CHORD: Cross-Model Hallucination Detection via Relational Graph Discrimination

Yongxin Deng, Zhen Fang, Guansong Pang, Sharon Li 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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NeurIPS 2026Stony Brook State University of New York at Steven Institute of Technology New Jersey Institute of Technolo U Technology Sydney Unified multimodal models

COSMIO: A Benchmark for Cross-Survey Modality Imputation

Dichang Zhang, Yixuan Shao, Jiali Cui, Haotian Yin and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Shandong University; infec Shandong Tianjin Hong Kong Polytechnic China University of Petroleum Time series forecasting

IMTS-Tokenizer: Time-Aware Tokenization for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Bin Xu, Yinghua Li, Linqi Han, Xiaoyu Li 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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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightBeijing Institute of Technology U Central Florida U Technology Sydney Time series forecasting

Paloma: Phase-Conditioned Residual Modulation for Time Series Forecasting

Jingru Fei, Kun Yi, Wei Fan, Qi Zhang 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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NeurIPS 2026nanjing university Australian National Nanyang Technological National University of Singapore Nanjing Diffusion models

Beyond the Dirac Delta: Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Image Generation

Jinmei Liu, Haoru Li, Zhenhong Sun, Chaofeng Chen and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026XIDIAN UNIVERSITY Xidian Hangzhou Institute of Technology U Technology Sydney Diffusion models

StyleRoute: Diffusion Style Transfer via Regional Routing and Conflict-aware Projection

Xunhao Lin, Yu Sun, Xinpeng Ding, Fei Gao and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Tongji Shanghai Jiaotong U Technology Sydney Agent memory

MemCode: Discrete Semantic Representations for Long-Term Agent Memory

Xin Li, Liang Hu, Duoqian Miao, Ming Peng 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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NeurIPS 2026U Technology Sydney Tsinghua Microsoft Research Microsoft Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Vision-language-action models

Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation

Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin, Yuhua Jiang, Kaixin 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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NeurIPS 2026U Hong Kong U Technology Sydney Jilin University of Finance and SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY Machine unlearning

Hallucination-Guided Unlearning: Using Hallucination Traces to Reveal Overfitted Memories

Jiayu Zhang, Ziqi Zhong, Yuliang Gai, Canran Xiao

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Sydney Adelaide Shanghai Normal Shanxi University Of Technology Sydney Representation & contrastive learning

Resolution-Aware Structural Density Peak Clustering

Jie Yang, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Yan Ma, Xinyan Liang and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Swinburne University of Technolo Western Sydney U Technology Sydney CSIRO Fairness & bias

Adversarial Group Fairness in Contextual Bandits: When Robust is Not Fair

Ray Telikani, Jaber valizadeh, Amir H Gandomi, Bao Q Vo 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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NeurIPS 2026UNSW Sydney U Technology Sydney Shanghai Jiao Tong the university of new south wale Shanghai Jiaotong Link prediction

A New Perspective on Target-Conditioned Structural Dynamics for Link Prediction in Dynamic Graphs

YUANYUAN XU, Yin Chen, Yingxuan Li, Wenjie Zhang 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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NeurIPS 2026Institute of Automation, Chinese Jilin Tencent YouTu Lab Hangzhou Dianzi Huazhong University of Science a Watermarking & AI-text detection

MixForensics: Blend Before You Encode for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection

Ruiqi Liu, ZiAn Wang, Ruoxin Chen, Xuehai Bai and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Southwest UNSW Sydney HCP - Sun Yat-sen U Technology Sydney LLM agents & planning

Long-Horizon Agency Belongs in the Harness, Not the Context Window Only

Yi Han, YUANYUAN XU, jusheng zhang, Wenhao Wang

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

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NeurIPS 2026Shanghai University of Electric Shanghai university of electrici East China Normal U Technology Sydney Federated learning

FedPeel: Peeling Stabilized Layers for Robust Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Haizhou Du, Lixin Huang, Zonghan Wu, Huan Huo 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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NeurIPS 2026ByteDance Inc.Tongji Xiaomi Corporation U Trento Via Calepina n. 14 - 38 U Technology Sydney Multimodal reasoning

OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation

Jinghui Lu, Jiayi Guan, Zhijian Huang, Jinlong Li and 36 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Shanxi U Technology Sydney Xiaomi Corporation U Trento Via Calepina n. 14 - 38 Huazhong University of Science a Embodied agents

Think Densely, Act Sparsely: Latent Expert Cognitive Chains for Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving

Jie Wang, Guang Li, Zhijian Huang, Jinlong Li 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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NeurIPS 2026U Technology Sydney Amazon U Technology Sydney The Education University of Hong Recommender systems

ALIGN-Rec: Continual Recommendation under Heterogeneous Unlearning Requests

Nitin Bisht, Sumit Bisht, Tong Zhang, Yu Yang 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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NeurIPS 2026U Technology Sydney Peking U Auckland; Monash Video generation

Video Generation Research Needs a Legally Sustainable Data Infrastructure

Wenhao Wang, Biao Wu, Jiabin Luo, Xinyu Zhang

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

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NeurIPS 2026Fudan East China Normal U Technology Sydney Southern University of Science a Shanghai University of Finance a Video-language models

VideoSleuth: A Narrative-Centric Agentic System with Video-Audio Native MLLM for Long-Form Video Understanding

Conglin Li, Yang Li, Qi Zhang, Guanhua Chen and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightHCP - Sun Yat-sen SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY The Hong Kong University of Scie Pengcheng Laboratory U Technology Sydney Multimodal reasoning

Self-Rewarded Multimodal Coherent Reasoning Across Diverse Visual Domains

SR-MCR aligns multimodal reasoning via intrinsic process rewards and a critic-free GRPO objective, achieving 81.4% average accuracy across visual benchmarks.

jusheng zhang, Ningyuan Liu, Kaitong Cai, Sidi Liu 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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NeurIPS 2026Nanjing U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign U Technology Sydney Microsoft Research Vision-language-action models

Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models

RAW-Dream disentangles world models from task data by using task-agnostic pre-trained dynamics and VLM rewards to fine-tune VLAs entirely in zero-shot imagination with verified rollouts.

Yucen Wang, Rui Yu, Fengming Zhang, Junjie Lu and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Huazhong University of Science a Institute of automation, Chinese Jilin Institute of Automation, Chinese Carnegie Mellon Video understanding

Rethinking the Readout: Unlocking Video Backbones for AI-Generated Video Detection

Standard video backbone readouts suppress patch-level temporal dynamics needed to detect AI-generated videos; a lightweight velocity-gated patch profiling readout reaches 95.28 AUC on frozen backbones.

Manni Cui, Ziheng Qin, ZiAn Wang, Ruiqi Liu and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Technology Sydney Tsinghua Hong Kong University of Science Time series forecasting

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting needs Cross Variable Loss

Direct forecasting ignores cross-variable future dependencies, so adding CvLoss regularizes forecast residuals on cross-variable graphs to improve multivariate time series forecasting accuracy.

Kuiye Ding, Yifan Hu, Hanchen Wang, Hao Xue

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

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightHong Kong Polytechnic Department of Computer Science a Zhejiang U Technology Sydney The Hong Kong Polytechnic Model merging

FeatCal: Feature Calibration for Post-Merging Models

FeatCal reduces post-merging feature drift via layer-wise closed-form weight calibration without gradients, outperforming Surgery and ProbSurgery on CLIP and GLUE benchmarks.

Yanggan Gu, Shuo CAI, Zihao Wang, Wenjun Wang and 6 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Technology Sydney U Sydney CSIRO ELLIS Institute of Finland and U ELLIS Institute Finland LLM reasoning & chain of thought

Diversity Combining for Multi-Path LLM Reasoning

Multi-path LLM reasoning is modeled as diversity combining, showing path correlation limits majority-vote gains and that adaptive sampling retains near-peak accuracy.

Guangsheng Yu, Litianyi Zhang, Qin Wang, Xu Wang and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026ELLIS Institute of Finland and U U Technology Sydney ELLIS Institute Finland Retrieval-augmented generation

Frozen Memory Is Not Enough: Rethinking External Memory as Extraction

Cross-model frozen-memory extraction shows target-aligned readers matter more than frozen tables, with dual-layer readers nearly closing reuse gaps and compatible interfaces enabling direct utility.

Mingyuan Li, Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Shaoxiong Ji

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 8 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 3

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