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Multigroup Fairness and Omniprediction: Separations and Equivalences

Sílvia Casacuberta, Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, Omer Reingold 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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StarCraft Motion: A Dataset for Agent Simulation in Adversarial and Partially Observable Scenarios

Yi-Chung Chen, Mingyu Kim, Ruqi Bai, James Z Hare and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · 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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The Communication Bottleneck: A Round-Trip Study of Compositional Serialization in Language Models

Xavier Suau, Alex Ferrando, Luca Zappella, Samy Bengio

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

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Too Smart to Teach: The Articulability Ceiling in Language Models

Shervin Ghasemlou

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

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Robust Graph Diffusion Model

Yancheng Wang, Ping Li, Dongfang Sun, Yingzhen Yang

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

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Split-and-scale Latent 3D Representations

Dorian Chan, Muhammed Kocabas, Xiaoming Zhao, Oncel Tuzel 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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TabK: Amortized Bayesian Estimation of the Number of Clusters in Tabular Data

Mohammadreza Bakhtyari, Bogdan Mazoure, Renato C de Amorim, Guillaume Rabusseau and 1 more

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

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PORTool: Importance-Aware Policy Optimization with Rewarded Tree for Multi-Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Feijie Wu, Weiwu Zhu, Yuxiang Zhang, Soumya Chatterjee and 4 more

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

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On the Efficiency of Structured Pruning in Small Language Model Pretraining

Yixiao Li, Xianzhi Du, AJAY JAISWAL, Tao Lei and 3 more

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

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TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life

Mridul Khurana, Amin Karimi Monsefi, Justin Lee, Medha Sawhney and 8 more

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

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Expanding LLM Agent Boundaries with Strategy-Guided Exploration

Strategy-Guided Exploration improves LLM agent reinforcement learning by planning in language strategies rather than actions, boosting performance across UI, tool, coding, and embodied tasks.

Andrew Szot, Michael Kirchhof, Omar Attia, Alexander Toshev

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

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Understanding Private Evolution as Learning-Augmented Clustering

Private Evolution is recast as learning-augmented clustering to derive tighter bounds via generative models and propose a geometry-aware variant with convergence guarantees.

Audra McMillan, Kunal Talwar, Felix Zhou

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

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TGPO: Temporal Grounded Policy Optimization for Signal Temporal Logic Tasks

TGPO decomposes signal temporal logic into timed subgoals and invariant constraints for hierarchical reinforcement learning, achieving 31.6% higher success rates than baselines on complex long-horizon robotics tasks.

Yue Meng, Fei Chen, Chuchu Fan

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 3 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 2

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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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Faster Rates For Federated Variational Inequalities

Refined analysis and a new LIPPAX algorithm improve federated stochastic variational inequality convergence rates and reduce client drift.

Guanghui Wang, Satyen Kale

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

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Locking Pretrained Weights via Deep Low-Rank Residual Distillation

DLR-Lock replaces MLP weights with deep low-rank residual networks to impose linear backprop memory growth and disrupt optimization, blocking adaptive fine-tuning while preserving model capabilities.

Keitaro Sakamoto, Pierre Ablin, Federico Danieli, Marco Cuturi

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · 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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LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text

LensVLM lets VLMs scan compressed rendered text and selectively expand only relevant regions via learned tools, maintaining near-full accuracy at 4.3x compression and outperforming baselines up to 10.1x across text QA benchmarks.

Roy Xie, Dan Friedman, Donghan Yu, Bowen Pan and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 7 on Hugging Face

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Theoretical Limits of Language Model Alignment

Optimal alignment gains follow a Jeffreys-divergence limit, best-of-N approaches it, and reward hacking grows with error while ensembling mitigates it.

Lucas Monteiro Paes, Natalie Mackraz, Barry-John Theobald, Federico Danieli

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

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