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EMNLPFindingsU VirginiaNetflixMicrosoftU WashingtonLLM reasoning & chain of thought

TeacherGRPO: Closing the Capacity Gap in Reasoning Distillation via Teacher Alignment

TeacherGRPO aligns teachers to student distributions via reinforcement learning to overcome reasoning distillation's Gap Curse and improves student performance.

Zhenyu Lei, Zihan Chen, Yaochen Zhu, Shangbin Feng and 4 more

Published Aug 20, 2026 · 0 citations

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightMicrosoftU Wisconsin-MadisonRL for LLMs

ECHO: Terminal Agents Learn World Models for Free

ECHO trains terminal agents to predict environment responses for dense supervision, doubling GRPO pass@1 on TerminalBench-2.0.

Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Dimitris Papailiopoulos

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

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NeurIPS 2026OralMassachusetts Institute of TechnMicrosoftPrincetonMITWeather & climate

Mechanism-Aware Ensemble Conditioning for Data-Limited Emulation of Extreme Events

Isabella Thiel, Juan M. Bello-Rivas, Yannis Kevrekidis, Themis Sapsis

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

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NeurIPS 2026Thinking Machines LabMicrosoftLLM pretraining & scaling laws

Rethinking Language Model Scaling under Transferable Hypersphere Optimization

Liliang Ren, Yang Liu, yelong shen, Weizhu Chen

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

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NeurIPS 2026MicrosoftMicrosoft ResearchResearch, MicrosoftMicrosoft Research, Redmond, WAMeta, transfer & few-shot learning

Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library

Weijia Xu, Alessandro Sordoni, Chandan Singh, Zelalem Gero and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026MicrosoftAdvanced Micro DevicesU ChicagoMBZUAINVIDIAEfficient inference & serving

The $1/\mathcal{W}$ Law: Context Length is the Dominant Energy Lever in LLM Inference Fleets

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Yuhan Liu, Junchen Jiang and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Independent ResearcherResearch, MicrosoftMicrosoftIn-context learning & prompting

CAPO: A Primal-Dual Framework for Constraint-Aware Prompt Optimization

Victor Ye Dong, Reid Pryzant, Yi Liu, Jian Jiao

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

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NeurIPS 2026MicrosoftNortheasternSouthern Methodist University, SVideo-language models

AdShot: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Advertisement Clipping

Wen Xie, Om Rastogi, Sai S Rangoju, Gijs Overgoor and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026ZhejiangNanjingAlibaba GroupBeijing University of Chemical TZhejiang LabVision-language models

ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Transitions for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zuojin Tang, Haoyun Liu, Xinyuan Chang, Changjie Wu 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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NeurIPS 2026CUHK & Microsoft Research AsResearch, MicrosoftMicrosoftU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe Chinese University of Hong KAgent benchmarks & environments

RoutingBench: Can Agentic Routing Analysis Scale to Production Datacenter Networks?

Wenlong Ding, Zhixiong Niu, Jianan Yang, Fajun Zhang 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 2026U Maryland, College ParkByteDanceCursorMetaMicrosoftImage recognition

LogT: Logically Think with Images for Visual Search

Yanjun Fu, Quanzeng You, Jiadong Guo, Yujie Lu and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026SoochowResearch, MicrosoftMicrosoft Research AsiaStony BrookPekingRL for LLMs

Agent$^2$ RL-Bench: Can LLM Agents Engineer Agentic RL Post-Training?

Wanyi Chen, Xiao Yang, Xu Yang, Tianming Sha and 6 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 Science and Technology of ChinMicrosoftMicrosoft Research Asia VancouveByteDance Inc.Recommender systems

PreDiff: Sequential Recommendation by Denoising Preference Distributions

Yaoqi Chen, Jianjin Zhang, Qi Chen, Weihao Han 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 2026PrincetonArizona StateMicrosoftAgent benchmarks & environments

Synthetic Tasks for Training AutoResearch

Ziyang Cai, Seyyedamirhossein Saeidi, Harkirat Singh Behl

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin, MadisonMicrosoftAgent benchmarks & environments

Synthetic Web: Benchmarking Language Agents under Adversarial Search Ranking

Shrey Shah, Levent Ozgur

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

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NeurIPS 2026MicrosoftU WashingtonStanfordResearch, MicrosoftPUC-RIORL for LLMs

Multi-Turn RL Makes Small Language Model Competitive for Optimization Modeling

Xinzhi Zhang, Zeyi Chen, Humishka Zope, Hugo Barbalho and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026MicrosoftMetaRL for LLMs

Relaxed On-Policy Distillation: Selective Credit Allocation for Scaling Reasoning Efficiently

Jongwoo Ko, Sara Abdali, Young Jin Kim, Tianyi Chen 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 2026SpotlightTsinghuaMicrosoftU TorontoMassachusetts Institute of TechnResearch, MicrosoftMulti-agent LLM systems

STAR-Math: Multi-Agent Mathematical Reasoning under Persistent Meta-Strategic Supervision

Jiaao Wu, Xian Zhang, Hanzhang Liu, Sophia Zhang 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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NeurIPS 2026StanfordPrincetonHarvardUIUCFacebookCode generation

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Jeffrey Ma, Parth Thakkar and 8 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026TsinghuaInstitute for AI Industry ResearInstitute of AI Industry ResearcU the Chinese Academy of ScienceDell TechnologyLLM evaluation & benchmarks

CSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Project-Level System Construction in Computer Science

Hongli Yu, Huan-ang Gao, Botian Wang, Hanlin Wu and 11 more

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

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