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HearSayBench: Can LLMs Navigate from Abstract Human Rights to Lived Lives?

Sobhan Lotfi, Ava Iranmanesh, Ali Iranmanesh, Liwei Jiang

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

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Progress-Aware Distillation for Mitigating Stagnation in Small Language Model Agents

Yuanpu Cao, Saket Sathe, Hanyu Wang, Ziyi Yin and 2 more

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

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Uncertainty Aware SURE Transfer Learning for Classification Problems

Haoyue Li, Shubo Li, Runze Li

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

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Move on Muon : A Hamiltonian probability gradient flow perspective of Muon optimizer

Regularized Muon induces a Hamiltonian probability gradient flow with mirror-descent structure, yielding exponential convergence under gradient dominance and mean-field propagation of chaos.

Aratrika Mustafi, Soumya Mukherjee, Bharath Sriperumbudur

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

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Sobolev Regularized MMD Gradient Flow

Sobolev-regularized MMD gradient flow penalizes witness function gradients to ensure global convergence without isoperimetric assumptions, applying to both sampling and generative modeling.

Chenyang Tian, Bharath Sriperumbudur, Arthur Gretton, Zonghao Chen

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

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Factor Augmented High-Dimensional SGD

FSGD is a streaming SGD method that uses latent factor representations for high-dimensional tasks, achieving scalable optimization with theoretical convergence guarantees including factor estimation error.

Shubo Li, Yuefeng Han, Xiufan Yu

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

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ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory

ForecastCompass organizes forecasting experience into reusable predictive factors and calibration principles via adaptive memory, improving agentic forecasting accuracy and calibration.

Yurui Chang, Yongkang Du, Yuanpu Cao, Jinghui 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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Correlating Cross-Iteration Noise for DP-SGD using Model Curvature

NoiseCurve uses model curvature from public unlabeled data to improve cross-iteration noise correlation in DP-SGD, significantly boosting accuracy over DP-MF.

Xin Gu, Yingtai Xiao, Guanlin He, Jiamu Bai and 2 more

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

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Forced Deferral: Manipulating Routing Decisions in Multimodal LLM Cascades

Forced Deferral Attack uses adversarial image triggers to suppress weak-model confidence and force multimodal LLM cascades to route queries to strong models. It learns universal border triggers via temperature-flattened optimization, consistently increasing unintended strong-model usage across datas

Zhongye Liu, Yaopei Zeng, Yurui Chang, Lu Lin

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

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