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StableAvatar: Ultra-Long Audio-Driven Avatar Video Generation

Shuyuan Tu, Yueming Pan, Yinming Huang, Xintong Han and 5 more

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

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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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Logit-Conditioned Diffusion Decoding for Frozen Discrete-Token VLMs

Ji Woo Hong, Hee Suk Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo, Eunseop Yoon and 4 more

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

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The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models

Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Qingxiu Dong, Yaru Hao and 3 more

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

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HybridCache: Enhancing Prefix Caching for Linear–Softmax Language Models

Xin Wang, Hao Yu, Yi Zhang, jianwei zhang and 4 more

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

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DEFT: Disentanglement-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for EEG Foundation Models

Yuqiu Deng, Muyun Jiang, Zongpeng Zhang, Mingqing Xiao and 7 more

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

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DPIAgent: Divide, Protocol, Isolate for Agentic Reproduction Test Generation

DPIAgent divides reproduction test generation into isolated diagnosis and test phases with structured handoffs, achieving up to 86.17% success on SWT-Bench Verified.

Hao Liu, Steven Liu, Xin Zhang, Jane Luo and 7 more

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

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From Patches to Trajectories: Privileged Process Supervision for Software-Engineering Agents

P2T uses reference patches as privileged supervision to curate shorter, grounded agent trajectories via bi-objective optimization, improving SWE-bench Pass@1 by up to 10.8 points with ~15% lower inference cost.

Murong Ma, Tianyu Chen, Yun Lin, Shuai Lu 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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XL-DocBench: Benchmarking Evidence-Grounded Extra-Long Document Understanding

XL-DocBench introduces a human-verified benchmark for extra-long professional document understanding spanning thousands of pages with multi-page evidence, showing current systems still struggle with long-context structured reasoning.

Hongchen Wei, Yuanzhe Wang, Bei Liu, Yifan Yang and 8 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face

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DocAtlas: Long-Document Understanding as Mutable-State Interaction

DocAtlas treats long-document understanding as a mutable-state interaction process via a document harness with search, memory, and review tools, reaching 71.4% on MMLongBench-Doc and boosting a 4B VLM to 63.7% via reinforcement learning.

Hongchen Wei, Yuanzhe Wang, Bei Liu, Yifan Yang and 7 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 12

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Diffusion Models without Classifier-free Guidance

Model-guidance replaces classifier-free guidance by training on condition posterior probabilities, doubling inference speed and achieving 1.34 FID on ImageNet 256.

Zhicong Tang, Dong Chen, Jianmin Bao, Baining Guo

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 8 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 175

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Memory Grafting: Scaling Language Model Pre-training via Offline Conditional Memory

Memory Grafting uses frozen hidden states from a grafting model as conditional n-gram memory for language models, improving average benchmarks to 53.86 versus 52.43 for vanilla Engram at 2.8B scale with minimal overhead.

Runxi Cheng, Yuchen Guan, Yongxian Wei, Qianpu Sun and 6 more

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

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Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning

G2PO transforms agent trajectories into state-transition graphs to reduce variance and improve credit assignment, outperforming GRPO by up to 22.2% on long-horizon benchmarks.

Yunan Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang, Shaohan Huang and 5 more

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

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AI Evaluation Should Require Standardized Item-Level Data Releases

Standardized item-level benchmark releases should become AI evaluation infrastructure because aggregate scores obscure validity failures; OpenEval archives 10M responses to enable auditability and recover benchmark validity evidence.

Han Jiang, Susu Zhang, Dongyao Zhu, Yuzhuo Bai and 5 more

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

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OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence

OneVision-Encoder applies codec-aligned sparsity to video, processing only high-entropy regions to outperform dense backbones with fewer tokens. It achieves 4.1% higher video accuracy than Qwen3-ViT across 16 benchmarks.

feilong tang, Xiang An, Yunyao Yan, Yin Xie and 14 more

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026 · ▲ 52 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 403

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Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation

LCVN introduces a language-conditioned navigation benchmark and compares diffusion-based latent imagination against unified autoregressive prediction for embodied agents. Latent imagination yields more temporally coherent rollouts, while unified prediction generalizes better to unseen environments.

Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Yilong Dai, Lingdong Kong and 7 more

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

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