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Reconstruction or Semantics? What Makes a Latent Space Useful for Robotic World Models

Nilaksh, Saurav Jha, Artem Zholus, Sarath Chandar

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

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RobustGenBench: A Benchmark for Robust Generalization to Adversarial and Common Perturbations, with Applications to Vision and Vision-Enabled Large Language Models

Maxime Heuillet, JONAS NGNAWE, Yann Pequignot, Rishika Bhagwatkar and 5 more

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

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CP-MLPs: A Tensor-Rank Theory of Tied and Untied MLP Blocks

Md Rifat Arefin, Farzaneh Heidari, Irina Rish, Guillaume Rabusseau

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

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Plausibility Is Not Prediction: Contrastive Evidence for LLM-Based Cellular Perturbation Reasoning

LLM-based cellular perturbation reasoning relies on intrinsic gene tendencies rather than true perturbation effects, and contrastive evidence organization improves prediction accuracy substantially.

XINYU YUAN, Xixian Liu, Jianan Zhao, Ya Shi Zhang and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 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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Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models

Self-supervised pre-training on one real table yields strong tabular transfer, where feature count predicts usefulness and in-context generalization is retrieval-based.

Nour Shaheen, Junwei (Jeremy) Ma, Alex Labach, Frank Hutter and 2 more

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

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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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Position: Adopt Constraints Over Fixed Penalties in Deep Learning

Fixed weighted penalties poorly enforce hard deep learning constraints; use constrained formulations directly instead of scalarized surrogates.

Juan Ramirez, Seyed Meraj Hashemizadehaghda, Simon Lacoste-Julien

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

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Controllable and Content Based Recommendations

CCBR builds recommendations from textual user profiles via content-derived text bottlenecks, enabling controllable multimodal steering with competitive accuracy across image, audio, and video datasets.

Firat Oncel, Jihoon Jeong, Emiliano Penaloza, Mirco Ravanelli and 2 more

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

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A Measure-Theoretic Analysis of Reasoning: Structural Generalization and Approximation Limits

Reasoning is formalized via optimal transport to bound transformers' OOD generalization by architectural Lipschitz continuity and approximation limits, proving depth is needed for backtracking and shift-invariant attention reduces risk.

Yuyang Zhang, Yifu Zhang, Xuehai Zhou, Xiaoyin Chen

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

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GeneZip: Region-Aware Compression for Long Context DNA Modeling

GeneZip uses region-aware compression to achieve high base-pairs-per-token ratios, improves DNA modeling benchmarks, and enables 128K-context training on limited hardware.

Jianan Zhao, Xixian Liu, Zhihao Zhan, XINYU YUAN and 2 more

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

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Proteus: Incremental Memory Activation for Long-Context Sequence Modeling

Proteus progressively expands memory capacity during long-context modeling to reduce interference and boost retention, consistently improving state-of-the-art memory architectures.

Reza Bayat, Ali Behrouz, Vahab Mirrokni, Aaron Courville

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

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