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NeurIPS 2026OralPrincetonMSLMathematical reasoning

Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models

An inference pipeline using off-the-shelf models and conjecture extraction with context detachment achieves state-of-the-art IMO-style math performance at much lower cost by escaping the Cognitive Well.

Xingyu Dang, Rohit Agarwal, Rodrigo Porto, Anirudh Goyal and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Max Planck Institute for Human DMilaMPI for Human DevelopmentMax-Planck InstituteMPI for Intelligent Systems, TübLLM reasoning & chain of thought

The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions

A framework samples coherent but cognitively unavailable "alien" research directions by maximizing idea coherence while minimizing existing community availability, broadening explored vocabularies 3.5-7x over LLM baselines.

Alejandro H. Artiles, Martin Weiss, Levin Brinkmann, Iyad Rahwan and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026National University of SingaporeTsinghuaNational university of SingaporeSuzhou Automobile Research InstiMetaAgent benchmarks & environments

FML-bench: A Controlled Study of AI Research Agent Strategies from the Perspective of Search Dynamics

FML-bench isolates agent strategy from infrastructure across 18 ML tasks, finding greedy hill-climbing nearly matches tree search, while adaptive exploration switching outperforms fixed strategies.

Qiran Zou, Hou Hei Lam, Wenhao Zhao, Tingting Chen and 10 more

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

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