ChatSOP: An SOP-Guided MCTS Planning Framework for Controllable LLM Dialogue Agents

ChatSOP introduces an SOP-guided MCTS framework that improves LLM dialogue agents' controllability and task success by following structured operational procedures.

Zhigen Li, Jianxiang Peng, Yanmeng Wang, Yong Cao and 12 more

Published 2025 · 3 citations

Breaking the Static: Dynamic Text Conditioning for Diverse Image Generation

Meng Yu, Ruidong Chen, qingfeng shi, Yingmao Miao and 5 more

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

Learning Continuously Evolving Spatio-Temporal Explanations for Traffic Flow Forecasting

Cuiying Huo, Baoxu Wang, Lin Wu, Yu Mei and 3 more

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

Adaptive Attribute Completion with Representation Space for Incomplete Graph Domain Adaptation

Niya Yang, Di Jin, Zhizhi Yu, Liang Yang and 3 more

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

Confounding-Aware Client Selection in Federated Learning via Causal Mediation Analysis

Xiaoyang Yi, Yuru Bao, Rihao Chang, Binhan Yang and 1 more

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

All Roads Lead to Rome: Flow-driven Multi-Anchor Exploration for Open-Environment Active 3D Mapping

Yang Li, Aming WU, Zihao Zhang, Ziju Han and 2 more

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

DASM: Dynamic Autoregressive Subgraph Mining via Two-Stage Policy Alignment

Yuming Huang, Haoran Yin, Wu

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

Reliable Clustering and Quantization via Distortion-Constrained Optimal Transport

Tianhao Wu, Wei Zhang, Haoran Pang, Haoran YANG and 1 more

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

Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?

Tianyuan Yuan, Zibin Dong, Yicheng Liu, Hang Zhao

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

ADKV: A Low-Overhead Adaptive Delta Quantization for KV Cache in LLM Inference

Honghao Jia, Zhenxing Li, Jialiang Guo, Jiacheng Gan

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

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

What Kind of Diffusion Models Do We Need in Online Reinforcement Learning?

Zihao Wu, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, YAN ZHENG and 2 more

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

The Locality Cost of Semantic Patch Self-Distillation

Xi Weng, Zhaoyu Liu, lianyu hu, Jin Song Dong

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

Lemon: Evidence-Risk-Aware Adaptive Organization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Zimo Yin, Haipeng Jiang, Kailong Ren, Zhetao Sun and 7 more

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

Foresight-over-Graph: Reasoning Beyond Local Horizons for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Yang Hong, Yang Yajun, Xin Wang, Liping Jing and 1 more

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

RankVQ: Low-Rank Parameterized Commutative Vector Quantization for KV Cache Compression

Jianglin Zhou, Huaming Wu, Huijun Tang

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

Efficient Gradient-Aware Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning for LLM Post-Training

Songhan Yang, Jie Wang, Yinqi Bai, Tong Xialiang and 3 more

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

BoxTuning: Object-Aware Visual Prompting for Multimodal Model Fine-Tuning

Zekun Qian, Ruize Han, Wei Feng

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

SteadyThought: Mitigating LLM Under-Thinking via Thought-Level Preference Optimization

Zhenyue Peng, Lin Yang, Jie Wang, Xiaoqi Ni and 6 more

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

Observations Drift, Structures Remain: Structural Pretraining with Time Alignment for Electromagnetic Signals

Wenjin Gui, Junyu Shen, Haibo Xu, Yuchuang Sun and 6 more

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

SICAF: Time-Varying Focus Bottleneck for Self-Supervised Event-Based Optical Flow with Spiking Neural Network

Shuangming Yang, Qing He, Shangqi Guo, Badong Chen

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

LocalAgent: Collaborative Agentic Verification for Fine-Grained Instance-Level Consistency

jiachen Guo, Xinshan Zhu, Boyun Wang, Yanyan Liang and 3 more

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

AET-Bench: Pixel-Accurate Atomic Tomography Is Not Atom-Accurate

Zicheng Liu, Wenzhuo Ma, Jintao Chen, Di Huang

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

FC-DGCN: Deep Graph Convolutional Network for Face Clustering and Recognition

Ling Ding, Di Jin, Zhizhi Yu, Liang Yang and 1 more

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

Beyond Correctness: Robustness-Driven Evolutionary Self-Training for Large Language Models

Wei Guo, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Jinyi Liu and 5 more

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

PACE: Progress Actively-internalized Conditioning Execution for Long-horizon Manipulation

Fei Ni, Zhuo Chen, Xianze Yao, Zerui Chen and 5 more

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

Riemannian Optimization for Low-Rank Adaptation via Desingularization

Tiancan Feng, Daorui Ding, Fanhua Shang, Xiaoyuan Zhang

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

Reformulate LLM Reinforcement Learning for Stable Training under Black-box Discrepancy

Jiashun Liu, Runze Liu, Xu Wan, Jing Liang and 2 more

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

Does Your Large Language Model Have An Intuitive Sense of The Difficulty of A Question?

Ruitao Wang, Jinyi Liu, Hongyao Tang, Rong Cheng and 8 more

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

DRIVE: Fine-tuning via Data Contribution- and Diversity-aware Weighting with Prior Regularization

qing liu, Xinrui Chen, Weiyao Zhu, Yi Du and 1 more

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

STDec: Spatio-Temporal Stability Guided Decoding for dLLMs

STDec improves dLLM decoding speed via spatial and temporal stability-guided adaptive thresholds without training, achieving up to 14.17x speedup.

Yuzhe Chen, Jiale Cao, Xuyang Liu, Jin Xie and 2 more

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

The Mirage of Optimizing Training Policies: Monotonic Inference Policies as the Real Objective for LLM Reinforcement Learning

LLM RL suffers from training-inference policy mismatch; MIPU optimizes monotonic inference policy improvement to stabilize training and boost reasoning performance.

Jing Liang, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Yancheng He and 7 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 51 on Hugging Face

MM-IssueLoc: A Controlled Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Evidence in Multimodal Repository-Level Issue Localization

MM-IssueLoc benchmarks multimodal repository-level issue localization using visual evidence across 652 instances, showing current systems achieve under 39% file accuracy and text-only scores do not transfer.

Shaoxiong Zhan, Shi Hu, Hai Lin, BoyuFeng and 6 more

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

ChainFlow-VLA: Causal Flow Planning with Vision-Language Models

ChainFlow-VLA unifies causal trajectory generation and global diffusion refinement via vision-language-conditioned residual distributions, scoring 94.85 on NAVSIM v1.

Xiyang Wang, Xinlin Wang, Tingguang Zhou, Gong Chen and 6 more

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

ReflectDrive-2: Reinforcement-Learning-Aligned Self-Editing for Discrete Diffusion Driving

ReflectDrive-2 is a discrete diffusion planner that uses reinforcement learning to train self-editing trajectory tokens, boosting NAVSIM PDMS to 91.0 with 31.8 ms latency.

Huimin Wang, Yue Wang, Bihao Cui, Pengxiang Li and 6 more

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

AffectGPT-RL: Revealing Roles of Reinforcement Learning in Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition

AffectGPT-RL applies reinforcement learning to open-vocabulary emotion recognition, improving performance by optimizing non-differentiable metrics and enabling reasoning.

Zheng Lian, Fan Zhang, Lan Chen, Yazhou Zhang and 7 more

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

LinearARD: Linear-Memory Attention Distillation for RoPE Restoration

LinearARD restores RoPE-scaled LLMs via linear-memory attention self-distillation, recovering 98.3% short-text performance with 4.25M tokens versus 256M.

Ning Yang, Hengyu Zhong, Wentao Wang, Baoliang Tian and 3 more

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

ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching

ForceFlow uses force-aware flow matching with asymmetric multimodal fusion and vision-to-force handover to achieve robust contact-rich manipulation with 37% higher success and stronger zero-shot generalization.

Shuoheng Zhang, Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang, YAN ZHENG and 6 more

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

Linguistic Trajectory Encoding for Efficient Long-Horizon Spatial Memory in Embodied Agents

Linguistic Trajectory Encoding compresses long-horizon object motion into hybrid language-spatial-visual timelines, outperforming baselines on multi-day spatial memory benchmarks with high compression and sub-second queries.

Xie Tianyidan, Shenyi Wang, Qiang Tang, Mingjie Wang and 6 more

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

One Algorithm, Two Goals: Dual Scoring for Parameter and Data Selection in LLM Fine-Tuning

A shared gradient-interaction scoring rule unifies parameter and data selection for LLM fine-tuning via DualSFT, improving joint efficiency and trade-offs.

Xinrui Chen, Liu Yang, Ou Wu

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

Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models

Embodied-R1.5 is an 8B-parameter embodied foundation model achieving state-of-the-art results on 16 of 24 embodied VLM benchmarks via multi-task balanced RL and a closed-loop planner-grounder-corrector framework.

Yifu Yuan, Yaoting Huang, Xianze Yao, Shuoheng Zhang and 19 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 59 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 60

Neural‑Visual Decoding via Cognitive‑guided Adaptive Blurring and Information‑Constrained Alignment

CAIA improves EEG visual decoding by cognitively guided adaptive blurring and information-constrained alignment, significantly boosting zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval accuracy.

Fan Yin, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong, Donghai Guan and 1 more

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

DECEIVE-AFC: Adversarial Claim Attacks against Search-Enabled LLM-based Fact-Checking Systems

DECEIVE-AFC is an adversarial framework that attacks search-enabled LLM fact-checking by perturbing claims to disrupt retrieval and reasoning, reducing accuracy from 78.7% to 53.7%.

Haoran Ou, Kangjie Chen, Gelei Deng, Hangcheng Liu and 3 more

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

PRECISE: SDE-Consistent Stochastic Sampling for RL Post-Training of Flow-Matching Models

PRECISE introduces an SDE-consistent stochastic sampler balancing exploration and stability for RL post-training of flow-matching models, enabling faster, more stable reward optimization with significantly reduced training time.

Bo Peng, Tao Huang, Weijie Kong, Junzhe Li and 6 more

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

TELEVAL: A Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios

TELEVAL benchmarks Chinese spoken language models on interactional audio-conditioned dialogue, finding competitive semantic accuracy but degraded interactional performance under acoustic variability and a recurring caption trap failure.

Zehan Li, Hongjie Chen, Qing Wang, Yuxin Zhang and 8 more

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

CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving

CoWorld-VLA embeds multi-expert world tokens into vision-language-action models and couples diffusion planning with scene context to generate continuous ego trajectories, improving autonomous driving performance.

Jingqi Wang, minqing huang, Zihan Liang, Yujiao Xiang and 6 more

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

Hydra-X: Native Unified Multimodal Models with Holistic Visual Tokenizers

Hydra-X unifies image and video tokenization in one vision transformer via causal temporal attention and hierarchical compression, achieving strong unified understanding and generation performance.

Guozhen Zhang, Xuerui Qiu, Yutao Cui, Tianhui Song and 10 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 31 on Hugging Face

COVD: Continual Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Novel Concept Injection

COVD enables continual open-vocabulary detection via novel concept injection, and NoIn-Det freezes visual encoders to align text representations with new concepts without extra parameters, outperforming existing continual methods on Novel-114.

Yupeng Zhang, Ruize Han, Yuzhong Feng, Zixin Ren and 2 more

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