WEFT: Scaling Tool-Use Post-Training for General-Purpose Agents

WEFT evolves whole agentic interaction systems for tool-use post-training, outperforming environment-scaling baselines by up to 12.27 points across benchmarks.

Bo Mao, Hang He, Linting Wang, Lizhi Lin and 16 more

Published Sep 29, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 19 on Hugging Face

SolvMix: Learning Formulation-State Landscapes for Liquid Electrolyte Conductivity Prediction

Kexin Zhang, Minzhang Li, Guotao Qiu, Tianqi Zhao and 5 more

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

Enhancing Agentic Code Localization with Traceability Recovered from Repository Evolution

Yiming Liu, Binhang Qi, Weiyu Kong, Jiawei Liu and 3 more

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

PULSE: A Synchronized Five-Modality Dataset for Sensorimotor Coordination in Long-Horizon Daily Activities

Wolin Liang, Yang Gao, Peiyu Yan, YueXiang Hu and 5 more

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

Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models

Zhoujun Ye, Yiwei Fu, Qiyun Huang, Jie Yang and 2 more

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

OPSRL-SSP: Optimistic Posterior Sampling for Stochastic Shortest Path with Minimax-Optimal Regret

YIMING XU, Xian Wei, Cheng Chen

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

Fully First-Order Algorithms for Online Non-Convex Bilevel Optimization

Tingkai Jia, Ting Wang, Cheng Chen

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

MMLongCite: A Benchmark for Evaluating Faithfulness of Long-Context Vision-Language Models

Keyan Zhou, Zecheng Tang, Lingfeng Ming, Qiguang Chen and 8 more

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

BayesJudge: Uncertainty-Aware Bayesian Meta-Evaluation of Human and LLM Judgments

Jiahao Zhang, Pengbin Feng, Chunlei Meng, Hang He and 1 more

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

Rubato: Signature Attention for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Jintao Yang, Meng Wang, Chenjuan Guo, Bin Yang

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

Ensuring Deployment-Time Safety of Neural Network Controlled Systems via Localized Certificate Repair

Xiaoyang Lv, Peixin Wang, Jianhao Bai, Bai Xue and 2 more

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

D-GAP: Improving Out-of-Domain Robustness via Dataset-Agnostic and Gradient-Guided Augmentation in Amplitude and Pixel Spaces

Ruoqi Wang, Haitao Wang, Shaojie Guo, Qiong Luo

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

Hermes: A Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Hypergraph Network for Stock Time Series Forecasting

Xiangfei Qiu, Liu Yang, Xiangyu Xu, Hanyin Cheng and 8 more

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

From Views to Worlds: Active Exploration over 3D Worlds for Vision-Language Models

Qijian Tian, Jiayu Ying, Ke Fan, Lizhuang Ma and 1 more

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

KVFocus: A Perturbation-Theoretic Token-Risk Score for Selective KV Cache Reuse in RAG

Shizhuo Zhang, Nuowen Kan, Chenglin Li, Rui-Xiao Zhang and 9 more

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

NarrativeBench: Benchmarking Multi-trait Automated Scoring and Feedback Efficacy of Large Language Models for Chinese Narrative Essays

Jin Wu

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

GMO-E²DIT: Grounded Multi-Operation Editing for E-Commerce Images

Zipeng Guo, Xiaoan Liu, Lichen Ma, Cheng Wang and 8 more

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

Geometric Velocity Regularity for Flow Matching on Manifold-Concentrated Data

Shuntuo Xu, Zhou Yu, Kenji Fukumizu

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

When the Most Disruptive Messages Are Safe to Prune in Aggregate: Functional Analysis of Communication Pruning in Two-Agent LLM Systems

Zhen Sun, Xueyang Zhou, Yongchao Chen

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

FLoRA-Chef: Making A Good LoRA Recipe in Federated Generalization

Wenwen He, Wenke Huang, Yiyan Qi, He Li and 3 more

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

Spherical Bayesian Experimental Design for Active View Selection in 3D Gaussian Splatting

Yan Song, Yunfei Guo, Guyeli Yang, Li He and 9 more

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

Q-Focus: Let the Question Guide What to See in Long Videos

Junbo Qiao, Xinning Chai, Dong Fang, Sifa Xie and 1 more

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

LaSA-Net: A Language-Guided Network for Outdoor Generalized 3D Referring Expression Segmentation

Lingfei Ma, Bin Liu, Wen Li, Wentao Sun and 3 more

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

Penalize to Verify: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Trustworthy LLM Evaluation

Jia-chen Zhang, Zheng Zhou, Zhuo Wang, Qi Jia and 6 more

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

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

Phase-Adaptive Fusion: Spatio-Temporal Modulation for VLA Models

Lueke Ni, Junhao Zhu, Xinyu Zhang

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

DART: Zero-Shot Dual-Side Alignment Routing for LLM Performance-Cost Tradeoffs

Yuejun Jiao, Yanxin Yang, Boyu Wang, Yonghao Yang and 2 more

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

BiHashFormer: Hash-Driven Dual-Branch Transformer for Efficient Object Detection in HRW Shots

Jingchen Huang, Wenxi Li, Chenyang Lyu, Moran Liu and 2 more

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

MIRAGE: Duality-Inspired MILP Augmentation for Representation Learning

Ziao Guo, Shiyue Wang, Jiayuan Yang, Junchi Yan

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

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Xu Guo, Tianyi Liang, Jian Tong, Xiaogui Yang and 5 more

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

Hypergraph-guided Global Mean-field Negotiation For Multiview Evidential Classification

Shaobo Hu, Shiliang Sun, Nan Zhang

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

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

Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists

Intern-Atlas builds a methodological evolution graph from over one million AI papers to model how methods emerge and adapt, enabling automated idea evaluation and generation.

Yujun Wu, Dongxu Zhang, Xinchen Li, Jinhang Xu and 10 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 47 on Hugging Face

Achieving Better Local Regret Bound for Online Non-Convex Bilevel Optimization

An adaptive algorithm achieves optimal O(1+V_T) local regret for online non-convex bilevel optimization with O(T log T) gradient evaluations, and a window-based method attains optimal Ω(T/W²) window-averaged regret via single-loop updates.

Tingkai Jia, Haiguang Wang, Ting Wang, Cheng Chen

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

HyFAD: Hybrid Time-Frequency Diffusion with Frequency-Aware Embedding for Time Series Imputation

HyFAD couples time- and frequency-domain diffusion for time series imputation, using frequency-aware step embeddings to improve high-frequency reconstruction and achieve state-of-the-art results.

Hongfan Gao, Wangmeng Shen, Bin Yang, Jilin Hu

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

Relation-Aware Graph Foundation Model

REEF proposes relation tokens as graph foundation model units and uses hypernetworks to adapt aggregators and classifiers, outperforming existing methods in pre-training and transfer learning.

Jianxiang Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Yibo Zhao, HAO QIAN and 3 more

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

FLAME: Flow Enhanced Legendre Memory Models for General Time Series Forecasting

FLAME is a lightweight time series foundation model using Legendre Memory and normalizing flows for efficient probabilistic forecasting with strong benchmark performance.

Xingjian Wu, Hanyin Cheng, Xiangfei Qiu, Zhengyu Li and 3 more

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

DiPO: Disentangled Perplexity Policy Optimization for Fine-grained Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off

DiPO disentangles perplexity into exploration and exploitation subspaces to enable fine-grained trade-offs, improving LLM reasoning and function calling via stable perplexity-guided policy optimization.

Xiaofan Li, Ming Yang, Zhiyuan Ma, Shichao Ma and 8 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 13 on Hugging Face

TSQAgent: Rating Time Series Data Quality via Dedicated Agentic Reasoning

TSQAgent uses collaborative agent roles and external analytical tools to automatically identify relevant time series quality dimensions and perform quantitative comparisons, substantially improving LLM assessment and downstream data selection.

Shunyu Wu, Dan Li, Haozheng Ye, Weibin Feng and 5 more

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

Harnessing Streaming Video in the Wild

Streaming-Train-248K and Streaming Harness adapt VLMs to real-time video streams with proactive interaction, 12-hour memory, and sub-second latency.

Dingyu Yao, Shuhuan Gu, Qingyi Si, Junhao Zhou and 7 more

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

OpenSearch-VL: An Open Recipe for Frontier Multimodal Search Agents

OpenSearch-VL introduces an open-source recipe training multimodal deep search agents via curated data, diverse tools, and multi-turn fatal-aware GRPO, achieving over 10-point benchmark gains comparable to proprietary models.

Shuang Chen, Kaituo Feng, Hangting Chen, Wenxuan Huang and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 57 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 289

Flow Matching from Viewpoint of Proximal Operators

Optimal transport conditional flow matching equals exact proximal operators via extended Brenier potentials without density assumptions, yields explicit vector fields, converges with batch size, and contracts exponentially normal to manifold-supported targets.

Kenji Fukumizu, Wei Huang, Han Bao, Shuntuo Xu and 1 more

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

Orthogonal Uplift Learning with Permutation-Invariant Representations for Combinatorial Treatments

Orthogonal uplift learning embeds combinatorial policies via permutation-invariant mixtures into low-rank models, yielding robust, stable effects robust to nuisance errors and rare policies.

Jiacan Gao, Xinyan Su, Mingyuan Ma, Xiao Xu and 5 more

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

Exemplar2VQA: A Scalable Exemplar-Driven Visual Question Answering Generation Framework via Multi-Agent Coding

Exemplar2VQA uses multi-agent coding with geometric libraries to generate scalable 3D spatial question-answer pairs that improve MLLM spatial reasoning across indoor, outdoor, and mixed benchmarks.

Jiayu Ying, Qijian Tian, Ruijie Xu, Xinnan Zhu and 3 more

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