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arXivWashington University in St. Lou Google U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Agent benchmarks & environments

EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning

EnvHarness wraps static environments with programmable components to reshape agent behavior without altering underlying logic, improving benchmarks by up to 9.0 points while enabling continuous policy-environment co-evolution.

Chengsong Huang, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han, Jun Yan and 13 more

Published Aug 20, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 175 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 619

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arXivU North Carolina at Chapel Hill U Maryland, College Park Washington University in St. Lou RL for LLMs

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

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AAAI 2025U Virginia Arizona State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Florida State Graph neural networks

BrainMAP: Learning Multiple Activation Pathways in Brain Networks

BrainMAP learns multiple brain network activation pathways via sequential models and Mixture-of-Experts, improving fMRI analysis and interpretability.

Song Wang, Zhenyu Lei, Zhen Tan, Jiaqi Ding and 7 more

Published Apr 11, 2025 · 2 citations

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina U Michigan - Ann Arbor Clinical NLP & EHR

Distribution-First Framework for Learning Risk-Sensitive Individualized Treatment Rules

Zhen Fang, Guanting Chen, Yufeng Liu

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

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NeurIPS 2026New Jersey Institute of Technolo U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U Electronic Science and Technol Shandong University of North Carolina at Multi-agent LLM systems

UMAS: System-Level Uncertainty Quantification for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Hanwen Li, Jinhao Duan, Xiaoshuang Shi, Yue Zhang and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Rice Arizona State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Multimodal reasoning

Do More Modalities Always Help? A Geometric Perspective on Missing-Modality Robustness

Songyuan Sui, Zhen Tan, Mohan Zhang, Rana M Khan and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Arizona State University of North Carolina at Privacy

Guarding the Life Code: Preserving Membership Privacy in Genomic Foundation Models

Xinyu Zhao, Jinhao Duan, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Chinese University of Hong K The Chinese University of Hong K U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute of automation, Chinese RL for LLMs

Auto-Rubric as Reward: From Implicit Preference to Explicit Generative Criteria

Juanxi Tian, Fengyuan Liu, Jiaming Han, Yilei Jiang and 5 more

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill National University of Singapore U California, Santa Barbara Harvard University, Harvard Nanyang Technological Test-time compute

Denoising Time Matters: Diverse Generation in Diffusion Language Models

jingxuan wu, Zhenglin Wan, Yuzhe YANG, Yiqiao Huang and 4 more

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NeurIPS 2026Nanyang Technological National University of Singapore Centre for Frontier AI Research,U North Carolina at Chapel Hill A*STAR LLM agents & planning

Calibration Is Not Control: Intervention Advantage for LLM-Agent Oversight

Chubin Zhang, Zhenglin Wan, Xingrui Yu, jingxuan wu 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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NeurIPS 2026Duke U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duke Explainable AI

Diverse Representative Rashomon Sets for Sparse Generalized Additive Models

Varun Babbar, Christopher Li, Chudi Zhong, Cynthia Rudin

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

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NeurIPS 2026Southwest Jiaotong Southwest Jiaotong university Harbin Institute of Technology China University of Petroleum Beihang Segmentation

Panoptic Saliency Ranking

Zhenyu Wu, Min Li, Chong Ma, Xun Gong 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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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Brain imaging & connectomics

MiCo: Microstructure-Consistent Flow Matching for Diffusion MRI Angular Super-Resolution

Zhixuan Zhou, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu

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

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NeurIPS 2026Shanghai Jiao Tong Shanghai Jiaotong U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Time series foundation models

Vibe-Spike: An Energy-Preserving EEG Foundation Model Through the Landscape of Neural Coherence

Jun Ye, yuting li, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Controllable generation

From Heartbeat to Cardiochoreography: A Mechanics Foundation Model for Individualized 4D Cardiac Motion Generation Conditioned on Electrophysiology

Ziquan Wei, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu

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

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightU North Carolina at Chapel Hill U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Deep learning theory

What Makes a Good Path? Factoring Manifold Support and Path Geometry

Zhixuan Zhou, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu

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

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NeurIPS 2026Anhui AnHui U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Vision-language models

RADAR: Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation via Residual Aggregation and Dense Alignment Representations

Jie Gui, Hang Tu, Yunfeng Dou, Wen Sha and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Case Western Reserve U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Deep learning theory

Emergence, Retention and Mitigation of Ill-conditioning due to Basis Lifting in KANs

Ferhat Arslan, Weihong Guo, Shuo Li

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

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NeurIPS 2026Case Western Reserve U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Efficient inference & serving

ProjKAN: Model Compression via KAN Projections to Bridge the Hypothesis and Capacity Gaps

Ferhat Arslan, Weihong Guo, Shuo Li

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Amazon U Maryland, College Park UNC Chapel Hill Adobe Video generation

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

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

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NeurIPS 2026Shandong university Shandong nanjing university U Manchester U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Instruction tuning

When Catastrophic Inheritance Meets Forgetting in Continual Adaptation of Foundation Models

Quanyu Zhang, Zhongyi Han, Zhenxue Chen, Xiao-Long Yin and 2 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 Sydney Australian National Arizona State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mohamed bin Zayed University of LLM reasoning & chain of thought

Chain-of-Thought Oversight Should Not Treat Faithfulness as Monitorability

Sichao Li, Sai Ma, Xiyang Hu, Chudi Zhong and 1 more

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NeurIPS 2026Guidelight Aarhus Institute for AI Policy and Stra Apollo Research U North Carolina at Chapel Hill AI oversight & deception

AIs with Secret Loyalties are a Serious but Addressable Threat

Joe Kwon, Alfie Lamerton, Andrew Draganov, Dave Banerjee and 6 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Department of Computer Science, Rice U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michigan State University & University of North Carolina at Machine unlearning

Words Before Pixels: Selective Modality Routing for Vision-Language Model Unlearning

Laura Yao, Haochen Zhang, Jinhao Duan, Sijia Liu and 1 more

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michigan State Hong Kong University of Science University of North Carolina at Object detection

Rethinking Geometric Depth in Monocular 3D Object Detection: A Projection-Consistent Reformulation

Zhihao Zhang, Abhinav Kumar, Huaizhi Qu, Tianlong Chen and 1 more

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science, U Texas at Austin UNC Chapel Hill Agent memory

LongMINT: Evaluating Memory under Multi-Target Interference in Long-Horizon Agent Systems

Hyunji Lee, Justin Chen, Joykirat Singh, Zaid Khan and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, Santa Cruz Tongji U Edinburgh UC Santa Cruz U California Berkeley Datasets & benchmarks

GPT-Image-Edit-1M: An Auditable Million-Scale Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing

Yuhan Wang, Siwei Yang, Bingchen Zhao, Letian Zhang and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Carnegie Mellon U Notre Dame CMU, Carnegie Mellon U Pittsburgh U North Carolina at Chapel Hill LLM evaluation & benchmarks

Can Agents Price a Reaction? Evaluating LLMs on Chemical Cost Reasoning

Yuyang Wu, Yue Huang, Shuaike Shen, Xujian Wang and 7 more

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NeurIPS 2026Renmin University of China Department of Computer Science, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Video understanding

Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding

Shuo Gao, Chenhao Zheng, Jason Ren

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NeurIPS 2026Wharton Statistics, Amazo U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Deep RL

From POMDP Theory to Deep RL with Particle Filters

Kevin Tan, Ziping Xu

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC - Chapel Hill Active learning

Information Templates: A New Paradigm for Intelligent Active Feature Acquisition

Hung-Tien Huang, Dzung Dinh, Junier Oliva

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Vision-language models

Multimodal LLMs Outperform Pathology Foundation Models in Cross-Domain Histological Similarity

Multimodal LLMs outperform pathology foundation models in cross-institution histological similarity by avoiding shortcut acquisition features tied to learning objectives rather than scale.

Yishu Zhang, Yun Li, David Zhang

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Maryland, College Park Meta U Virginia U Georgia U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Multimodal reasoning

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Imitation learning

Imitation from Observations with Trajectory-Level Generative Embeddings

TGE constructs smooth trajectory-level diffusion embeddings to estimate expert state density for robust offline imitation from observations with scarce expert data.

Yongtao Qu, Shangzhe Li, Weitong Zhang

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U California, San Diego UC San Diego U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bytedance Seed; The University o UCSD Efficient inference & serving

SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

SimSD proposes a plug-and-play masking strategy that enables token-level speculative decoding in diffusion language models, achieving up to 7.46x faster throughput without training.

Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo and 8 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U Washington Paul G. Allen Center for Compute Department of Computer Science, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Video generation

RefDecoder: Enhancing Visual Generation with Conditional Video Decoding

RefDecoder conditions video VAE decoders on reference images via attention to recover lost detail, boosting reconstruction PSNR by up to 2.1 dB and improving consistency across video generation tasks without retraining.

Xiang Fan, Yuheng Wang, Bohan Fang, Jason Ren and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026OralDrexel Michigan State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image recognition

Non-Colliding Biometric Identities for Digital Entities: Geometry, Capacity, and Million-Scale Virtual Identity Provisioning

Biometric identity provisioning allocates virtual face identities as non-colliding gaps within the real identity manifold, scaling to ten million embeddings and one million photorealistic images via gap-aware generation.

Yuyang Ji, Yixuan Shen, Anil Jain, Xiaoming Liu and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Michigan State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Drexel Image recognition

SapiensID 2.0: Aligning Human Recognition Foundation Models with Human Perception

SapiensID 2.0 aligns human recognition with perception via soft-biometrics, noise disentanglement, and kinematic attention to achieve state-of-the-art re-identification and gait recognition.

Yiyang Su, Jie Zhu, Feng Liu, Anil Jain and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Carnegie Mellon Allegheny Health Network Highmark Health U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carnegie Mellon University / Abr Medical imaging

Reporting Practice Matters: The Impact of Reference Choice on Chest X-ray Report Evaluation

Evaluation metrics for AI radiology reports are highly sensitive to reference reporting style, altering model rankings and revealing poor clinical interpretation decoupling.

Daniel P Jeong, Charles Q Li, Hossein Hosseiny, Nitya M Bhalla 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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NeurIPS 2026Columbia U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Domain adaptation

Group-Aware Matrix Estimation and Latent Subspace Recovery

GAME regularizes overlapping subgroup submatrices with nuclear norms for local low-rank matrix completion, improving reconstruction and subspace recovery under structured missingness.

Hamza Golubovic, Matthew Shen, Genevera Allen, Tarek M Zikry

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightCMU, Carnegie Mellon Department of Computer Science, U Washington Google U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pose & motion

MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction

MolmoMotion predicts goal-conditioned 3D point trajectories from visual history and language, outperforming baselines on PointMotionBench and improving robot manipulation and video synthesis.

Jianing Zhang, Chenhao Zheng, Yajun Yang, Rustin Soraki and 6 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 53 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 151

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill LSE UNC Chapel Hill Brain imaging & connectomics

FAST-Brain: A Flow-Aligned Spatio-Temporal Surrogate Brain Model

FAST-Brain unifies flow-aligned generation, graph convolutions, and transformers to model rs-fMRI directly, with approximation error scaling by intrinsic dimension rather than ambient dimension, achieving state-of-the-art functional and effective connectivity recovery.

Shucheng Liu, Chengchun Shi, Kai Zhang, Hongtu Zhu

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

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NeurIPS 2026Department of Computer Science, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sony Group Corporation UNC Chapel Hill LLM agents & planning

Searching Videos as Trees: Self-Correcting Agents for Grounded Long Video QA

VTS frames grounded long-video QA as self-correcting search over an adaptive temporal tree with explicit backtracking, improving grounding and answer accuracy across benchmarks.

Ce Zhang, Ziyang Wang, Yulu Pan, Oluwatumininu Oguntola and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightWashington University, Saint Lou U Virginia U Maryland, College Park U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Washington University in St. Lou Alignment & preference optimization

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill New York U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Capital One CapitalOne Alignment & preference optimization

AVSD: Adaptive-View Self-Distillation by Balancing Consensus and Teacher-Specific Privileged Signals

AVSD separates cross-view consensus from privileged residuals in multi-view self-distillation to adaptively supervise reasoning models, improving math and code benchmarks over single-view methods and GRPO.

Duy Nguyen, Hanqi Xiao, Archiki Prasad, Zaid Khan and 6 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sun Yat-sen University of North Carolina at 3D vision & reconstruction

RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D Detection

RefineAny3D treats monocular 3D depth refinement as visual alignment via categorical vision-language action tokens, boosting detectors without numerical regression.

Zhihao Zhang, Gengwei Zhang, Tianlong Chen, Xiaoming Liu

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

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science, LG AI Research FieldAI NTU Singapore Video generation

PhyMotion: Structured 3D Motion Reward for Physics-Grounded Human Video Generation

PhyMotion evaluates human video motion via physics-simulated 3D trajectory rewards across kinematics, contact, and dynamics, improving RL post-training realism by +68 Elo.

Yidong Huang, Zun Wang, Han Lin, Dong-Ki Kim and 5 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 6 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 49

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NeurIPS 2026Brigham Young Pennsylvania State U North Carolina at Chapel Hill LLM reasoning & chain of thought

LARK: Learnability-Grounded Trajectory Selection for Efficient Reasoning Distillation

LARK selects reasoning trajectories by student learnability via a training-loss rate factor and chi-squared-regularized policy, improving reasoning distillation efficiency and generalization.

Tianrun Yu, Kaixiang Zhao, Chih-Chun Chen, Amanda Hughes and 4 more

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

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CVPR 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adobe Research Purdue Adobe Systems Adobe Research Video-language models

StreamGaze: Gaze-Guided Temporal Reasoning and Proactive Understanding in Streaming Videos

StreamGaze introduces a benchmark for evaluating gaze-guided temporal and proactive reasoning in streaming videos, revealing large performance gaps between state-of-the-art MLLMs and humans.

Daeun Lee, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Branislav Kveton, Ryan Rossi and 5 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 8 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 28

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NeurIPS 2026U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U North Carolina, Chapel Hill Representation & contrastive learning

From Cortical Synchronous Rhythm to Brain Inspired Learning Mechanism: An Oscillatory Spiking Neural Network with Time-Delayed Coordination

An oscillatory spiking neural network uses time-delayed synchronization to coordinate distributed neural spiking and achieve efficient brain-inspired information processing.

Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu

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

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NeurIPS 2026Department of Computer Science, U North Carolina at Chapel Hill NTU Singapore UNC-Chapel Hill UNC Chapel Hill Multimodal reasoning

When and How Much to Imagine: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Visual Spatial Reasoning

AVIC adaptively scales test-time visual imagination via world models for spatial reasoning, matching fixed strategies with fewer calls while exceeding GPT-4o.

Shoubin Yu, Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Jaehong Yoon and 3 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 20

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NeurIPS 2026UNC-Chapel Hill U North Carolina at Chapel Hill U Chicago Department of Computer Science, U California, San Diego RL for LLMs

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

SkillRL evolves agents via recursive skill-augmented reinforcement learning with automatic skill discovery and hierarchical library co-evolution, cutting token use while achieving state-of-the-art results across complex tasks.

Peng Xia, Jianwen Chen, Hanyang Wang, Jiaqi Liu and 9 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 75 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 998

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NeurIPS 2026U Oxford Georgia Institute of Technology U North Carolina at Chapel Hill MATS Redwood Research AI oversight & deception

Attack Selection In Agentic AI Control Evaluations Meaningfully Decreases Safety

Strategic attack selection via start and stop policies substantially lowers measured AI control safety without changing attack capability, reducing safety by up to 28 percentage points and yielding overly optimistic estimates.

Catherine Ge-Wang, Tyler Crosse, Benjamin Hadad, Joachim Schaeffer and 2 more

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

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