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Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling with Camera-Induced Priors for Multi-View Stereo

Aoxiang Fan, Corentin Dumery, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua

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

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Raven: High-Recall Sequence Modeling via Sparse Memory Routing

Arshia Afzal, Aviv Bick, Eric Xing, Volkan Cevher 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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Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning with Pooling-Induced Substructures

Luca Sbicego, Xiaowen Dong, Dorina Thanou

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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spora: A Unified Multimodal Dataset for Spatial Proteomics

Benedikt von Querfurth, Eeshaan Jain, Johann Wenckstern, Lukas Klein and 8 more

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Breaking Adversarial Transferability in Fine-Tuned Speech Recognition

Mojtaba Nafez, Aref Mousavi, Mohammad E Mahdavi, Mobina Poulaei and 2 more

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

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Who Called? V33DA: A Physically Verified Multimodal Benchmark for Vocal Attribution in Zebra Finch Groups

Maris Basha, Yuhang Wang, Xiaoran Chen, Longbiao Cheng and 4 more

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

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A General Concept-based Decomposition for Vision–Language Embeddings

Simone Alberto Peirone, Ortal Senouf, Francesca Pistilli, Giuseppe Averta and 1 more

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

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Recovering the Apresjan Hierarchy Using Linkage-Based Clustering

Maximilien Dreveton, Matthias Grossglauser, Daichi Kuroda, Patrick Thiran

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

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Bridging 1D, 2D, and 3D with Any-to-Any Multimodal Modeling

Jason Toskov, Oriol Barbany, Rishubh Singh, Jinya Sakurai and 9 more

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

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Why Routers Freeze: Infinite Width Learning Dynamics for Mixture of Experts

Anish Dhir, Volkan Cevher, Leena Chennuru Vankadara

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

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When Does Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning

Luca Viano, Antoine Moulin, Audrey Huang, Volkan Cevher 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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Position: Lottery Tickets Do Not Explain Overparameterization. How About Escape Dimensions?

Flavio Martinelli, Johanni Brea, Wulfram Gerstner

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

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SciReason: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs

Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Better Language Models Require Better Domain-Specific Inductive Biases

Damien Teney, Liangze Jiang, Zachary Shinnick, Hemanth Saratchandran 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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Robust and Scalable Collaborative Learning via Pull-Based Epidemic Communication

Abdellah El Mrini, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rachid Guerraoui

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

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AcceleGrad#: Adaptive Geometry-Aware Acceleration

Hanka Goralija, Francesco Tonin, Kimon Antonakopoulos, Alp Yurtsever 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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Scaling Laws for Multimodal Data Mixtures

Aditi Khandelwal, Ayush Kumar Tarun, Yixuan Xu, Imanol Schlag 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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DiPhon: Diffusion on Graphons for Scalable Graph Generation

DiPhon defines graphon diffusion via a Jacobi SDE for scalable graph generation, matching first moments exactly and preserving topology across sizes without retraining.

Sergio Rozada, Yiming QIN, Manuel Madeira, Pascal Frossard 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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Probing Persona-Dependent Preferences in Language Models

Linear probes on LLM residual streams identify a shared preference vector tracking pairwise choices across personas, with cross-persona transfer and causal steering.

Oscar Gilg, Pierre Beckmann, Daniel Paleka, Patrick Butlin

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

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Frame the adversary: a structure-aware attack methodology

A structure-aware optimization framework crafts frequency adversarial attacks via weighted projections onto structured non-orthogonal transform constraints, yielding effective cross-architecture vulnerabilities.

Vicky Kouni, Stelios Perrakis, Francis Bach, Pascal Frossard and 1 more

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

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Joint Consistency: A Unified Test-Time Aggregation Framework via Energy Minimization

Joint Consistency frames test-time aggregation as energy minimization using pairwise interactions and evaluation signals, outperforming existing voting methods across reasoning benchmarks.

Yunzhen Yao, Hongye Wang, Yahong Wang, Michael Gastpar and 2 more

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

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Provable Quantization with Randomized Hadamard Transform

Dithered randomized Hadamard quantization is unbiased and achieves mean squared error asymptotically matching dense random rotations at O(d log d) cost.

Ying Feng, Piotr Indyk, Michael Kapralov, Dmitrii Krachun and 1 more

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

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MyoChallenge 2025: A New Benchmark for Human Athletic Intelligence

MyoChallenge 2025 benchmarks musculoskeletal sports control via simulated table tennis and soccer tasks, advancing agile motor algorithms across 70 teams.

Cheryl Wang, Chun Kwang Tan, Balint Hodossy, Shirui Lyu and 20 more

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

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Your Neighbors Know: Leveraging Local Neighborhoods for Backdoor Detection in Decentralized Learning

Argus detects backdoor attacks in decentralized learning by having nodes share local trigger analyses with neighbors and filter updates via structural similarity, reducing attack success by up to 90 points without a central server.

Sayan Biswas, Antoine Boutet, Davide Frey, Romaric Gaudel and 6 more

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

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TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Terminator learns optimal early-exit points for chain-of-thought reasoning to cut token lengths by 14%-55% and boost inference speed over 2x with minimal accuracy loss.

Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Michael Gastpar and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 19 on Hugging Face

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Constrained Stochastic Spectral Preconditioning Converges for Nonconvex Objectives

Proximal preconditioned stochastic gradient methods extend Muon/Scion to nonconvex constrained optimization with heavy-tailed noise convergence and faster variance-reduced variants.

Konstantinos Oikonomidis, Jan Quan, Kimon Antonakopoulos, Antonio Silveti-Falls 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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LoRIF: Low-Rank Influence Functions for Scalable Training Data Attribution

LoRIF exploits low-rank gradient structure to reduce storage and query I/O to O(c√D) and inverse Hessian memory to O(Dr), achieving up to 20× speedups over LoGRA at scale.

Shuangqi Li, Hieu Le, Jingyi Xu, Mathieu Salzmann

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

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Stabilizing Extrapolation in Looped Transformers via Learned Stochastic Stopping

Learned stochastic stopping reduces out-of-distribution variance in looped transformers by decoupling loop count from sequence length during training. It improves accuracy-stability trade-offs across algorithmic tasks, though it can stabilize suboptimal computation.

Hsun-Yu Kuo, El Mahdi Chayti, Patrik Reizinger, Wieland Brendel and 1 more

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

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Stochastic Optimization with Random Search

Random search for stochastic optimization works under weaker smoothness assumptions and achieves faster convergence via variance-reduced variants using translation invariance to balance noise.

El Mahdi Chayti, Taha EL BAKKALI EL KADI, Omar Saadi, Martin Jaggi

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

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Brenier Meets Adversarial Training: Optimal Transport Geometry for Robust Learning

Penalized DRO reformulates adversarial risk via optimal transport maps that are cyclically monotone, and enforcing this property via multi-start particle ascent or input-convex networks improves robustness over standard adversarial training.

alireza abdollahpour, Ehsan Sharifian, Buse Şen, Marco Cuturi 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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KroQuant: Kronecker-Structured Block Transforms for Efficient Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers

KroQuant applies a learned Kronecker-structured block transform to DiT activations for efficient W4A4 post-training quantization that outperforms SVDQuant and LoRaQ on image quality.

Yann Bouquet, Alireza Khodamoradi, Kristof Denolf, Mathieu Salzmann

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

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Quantitative Local Convergence of Mean-Field Stein Variational Gradient Flow

Quantitative local convergence rates for mean-field SVGD with Riesz kernels are established via explicit polynomial L² decay, with sharpness verified numerically.

Lénaïc Chizat, Maria Colombo, Roberto Colombo, Xavier Fernández-Real

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Split the Differences, Pool the Rest: Provably Efficient Multi-Objective Imitation

MA-BC partitions conflicting expert trajectories while pooling compatible data to recover Pareto-optimal policies in multi-objective imitation with minimax optimal rates.

Ziyad Sheebaelhamd, Luca Viano, Volkan Cevher, Claire Vernade

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

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BalCapRL : A Balanced Framework for RL-Based MLLM Image Captioning

BalCapRL balances RL for MLLM captioning across correctness, coverage, and fluency via normalized multi-objective rewards and length masking, boosting quality metrics substantially.

Shaokai Ye, Vasileios Saveris, Yihao Qian, Jiaming Hu and 2 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026 · ▲ 4 on Hugging Face

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Learn from your own latents and not from tokens: A sample-complexity theory

Latent prediction learns hierarchical latent trees with samples constant in depth L, exponentially more efficient than token-level self-supervision, making explicit multi-scale stacking largely redundant.

Daniel Korchinski, Alessandro Favero, Matthieu Wyart

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 3 on Hugging Face

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LOSCAR-SGD: Local SGD with Communication-Computation Overlap and Delay-Corrected Sparse Model Averaging

LOSCAR-SGD combines local SGD, sparse communication, and overlap with a delay-corrected merge for heterogeneous workers, yielding convergence guarantees and faster training.

Peter Richtarik, Yassine Maziane, Ammar Mahran, Artavazd Maranjyan

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

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MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding

MIRAGE predicts whole-brain fMRI from audiovisual stimuli via adaptive multimodal gating, outperforming unimodal feature aggregation with interpretable cortical modality patterns.

Abdulkadir Gokce, Badr AlKhamissi, Martin Schrimpf

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

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Task-Induced Riemannian Metrics for Vision Transformer Feature Spaces

Task-induced Riemannian metrics define ViT feature geometry via decoder Jacobians, and a learnable low-rank approximation enables accurate geometric token pruning without fine-tuning.

Andrew Bond, Ege E Özlü, Tuna Çimen, Ilkin U Melanlioglu and 3 more

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

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Cephalonauts One: A deep fMRI dataset for decoding naturalistic speech in the human brain

Cephalonauts One provides 30 hours per subject of whole-brain fMRI during naturalistic speech, paired with audio, transcripts, and embeddings, plus a brain decoding benchmark showing continuous performance gains with more training data.

Antoine Collas, Louis Jalouzot, Géraud Ilinca, Corentin Caris and 10 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Rare Events, Real Signals: Functional Ensembles as Units of Computation in Deep Spiking Networks

Deep spiking ResNets preserve cortical-like functional connectivity where rare, coordinated 1FC ensemble cofiring reliably predicts downstream responses via ReLU-like scaling, encodes class identity, and breaks under adversarial perturbation and weight permutation.

Aditi Aravind, Konstantinos Ladakis, Mario Alexios Savaglio, Stelios Smirnakis and 1 more

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

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Attention-Discounted Adaptive Sampler for Masked Diffusion Language Models

ADAS reranks masked diffusion sampling by discounting token confidence via attention to selected uncertain positions, improving low-step reasoning and code accuracy by up to 10.5 points with minimal overhead.

Yusuf Sahin, Ahmed R Saikia, Volkan Cevher, Paolo Favaro

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

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Learning What to Forget: Improving LLM Unlearning via Learned Token-Level Importance

ATWU learns token-level forget-specificity via retain-conflict scoring to improve LLM unlearning, achieving state-of-the-art forget-retain trade-offs without external supervision.

Gizem Yüce, Giorgos Nikolaou, Nicolas Flammarion

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

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Deep Learning as Neural Low-Degree Filtering: A Spectral Theory of Hierarchical Feature Learning

Neural LoFi frames deep training as iterative spectral low-degree filtering, predicting layer-wise feature selection, concept emergence, and compositional depth via low-degree correlation dynamics.

Yatin Dandi, Matteo Vilucchio, Luca Arnaboldi, Hugo Tabanelli and 1 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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EverAnimate: Minute-Scale Human Animation via Latent Flow Restoration

EverAnimate restores drifted latent flows via persistent memory and restorative matching, improving long human animation quality and identity consistency over minutes.

WUYANG LI, Yang Gao, Mariam Hassan, Lan Feng and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face

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Rescaled Asynchronous SGD: Optimal Distributed Optimization under Data and System Heterogeneity

Rescaled ASGD corrects asynchronous SGD's bias toward fast workers via computation-time-proportional step sizes, matching optimal time complexity with only lower-order heterogeneity penalties.

Ammar Mahran, Artavazd Maranjyan, Peter Richtarik

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

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Neural Galerkin Normalizing Flows for Bayesian Inference of Diffusions with Inaccessible Boundaries

Neural Galerkin normalizing flows learn diffusion transition densities via Fokker-Planck equations to enable efficient MCMC inference without real-time solves.

Riccardo Saporiti, Fabio Nobile

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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LoRaQ: Optimized Low Rank Approximation for 4-bit Quantization

LoRaQ uses data-free optimization to quantize low-rank branches for 4-bit diffusion transformers, outperforming high-precision methods at equal overhead.

Yann Bouquet, Alireza Khodamoradi, Sophie Y Shen, Kristof Denolf 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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RePercENT: Scaling Disentangled Representation Learning Beyond Two Modalities

RePercENT scales disentangled multimodal representation learning beyond two modalities via a plug-and-play framework that extracts shared and unique factors with formal guarantees and lower complexity.

Vasiliki Rizou, Pascal Frossard, Dorina Thanou

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

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PICID: A Modular Evaluation Infrastructure for Reproducible PHM Across Tasks and Domains

PICID introduces a modular infrastructure that formalizes reproducible PHM evaluation pipelines and enables fair cross-task comparisons across diagnostics and prognostics.

Lev Telyatnikov, Raffael Theiler, Leandro Von Krannichfeldt, Olga Fink

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

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WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife

WildBox provides aerial monocular 3D wildlife annotations and benchmarks showing zero-shot 3D detection collapses to zero, with fine-tuning reaching 13.17 AP3D and depth as the dominant failure mode.

Vandita Shukla, Kilian Meier, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, Camille R Saint-Jean and 5 more

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

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NASDAQ: Normalized Observation Space Dynamics-Augmented Q-Learning

NASDAQ normalizes low-dimensional observations to balance dynamics prediction losses and couples value learning with short-term value and next-observation prediction, achieving strong sample efficiency and faster training across diverse domains.

Xinwei Liu, Junyuan Liang, Zicong Hong, Jianting Zhang 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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Causal Evaluation of Membership Inference Attacks

Causal inference framing of membership inference attacks defines memorization as training inclusion effects, reveals interference and distribution-shift biases, and yields reliable estimators without retraining.

Mathieu Even, Clément Berenfeld, Linus Bleistein, Tudor Cebere and 2 more

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

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MUX: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens

MUX compresses reasoning into continuous multiplexed tokens via lossless superposition, accelerating reasoning and outperforming latent baselines across 32 settings.

Ayhan Suleymanzade, Halil Alperen Gozeten, Michael Bronstein, Ismail Ilkan Ceylan and 1 more

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

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Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining

Standardized LLM pretraining benchmarks compare optimizers across model sizes, batch sizes, and training durations to guide selection and highlight future research directions.

Andrei Semenov, Matteo Pagliardini, Martin Jaggi

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 25 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 61

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Measure Less, Know More: Self-Supervised Test-Time Feature Acquisition

ECHO-k uses pretrained representations as proxy targets for self-supervised reinforcement learning to sequentially acquire informative modalities at test time, improving budgeted downstream performance across diverse backends.

Eeshaan Jain, Linus Bleistein, Bart Deplancke, Charlotte Bunne

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Extracting Governing Equations from Latent Dynamics via Multi-View Contrastive Learning

DYSCO uses multi-view contrastive learning to recover latent dynamics and governing equations from noisy high-dimensional data, with theoretical identification guarantees and empirical validation across diverse regimes.

Paolo Muratore, Mackenzie Mathis

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

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Free Heavy-Tailed Lunch for Muon: A Theoretical Justification of Empirical Success

Muon achieves optimal heavy-tailed sample complexity with dimension-independent convergence for nuclear-norm stationarity, unlike Euclidean methods.

Florian Hübler, Thomas Pethick, Suvrit Sra

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

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Optimistic Dual Averaging Unifies Modern Optimizers

SODA unifies modern optimizers via optimistic dual averaging and improves them with a theoretical 1/k weight decay schedule requiring no tuning.

Thomas Pethick, Wanyun Xie, Roman Machacek, Volkan Cevher

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

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Active Context Selection Improves Simple Regret in Contextual Bandits

Active context selection improves contextual bandit simple regret from order root n over T times L1/2 norm of p to root n over T times L2/3 norm, with gains up to k to the 1/4.

Mohammad Shahverdikondori, Jalal Etesami, Negar Kiyavash

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Soft-Radial Projection for Constrained End-to-End Learning

Soft-Radial Projection uses radial interior mapping to enforce hard constraints with full-rank Jacobians, avoiding gradient saturation and improving convergence.

Philipp Schneider, Daniel Kuhn

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

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