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NeurIPS 2026Stony BrookState University of New York at Steven Institute of TechnologyNew Jersey Institute of TechnoloU Technology SydneyUnified multimodal models

COSMIO: A Benchmark for Cross-Survey Modality Imputation

Dichang Zhang, Yixuan Shao, Jiali Cui, Haotian Yin and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026State University of New York at GoogleImperial College London / HuaweiGoogle DeepMindGeorgia Institute of TechnologyUnified multimodal models

Concurrent Image Understanding and Generation: Self-Correcting Coupled Markov Jump Process

Minh-Quan Le, Armand Comas, Alexandros Lattas, Stylianos Moschoglou and 6 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 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 2026SUNY - University at Stony BrookU North Carolina at CharlotteStony BrookState University of New York at State University of New York, StMedical imaging

Anatomy-Preserving Unpaired Medical Image Translation via Shared Latent Anchoring

Zhilin Zou, Hieu Le, Saumya Gupta, Jingyi Xu 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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NeurIPS 2026UC BerkeleyStony BrookU California, BerkeleyVision backbones

Prototypes of the Mind: A Unified Framework for Probing the Visual Brain

Shi Chen, Seoyoung Ahn, Doris Tsao

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

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NeurIPS 2026State University of New York at Stony BrookArgonne National LaboratoryAcademic medical center at StateU UtahDiffusion models

BigCell: Generating Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li, Kostas Triaridis and 9 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026BloombergStony BrookOptimization

Your Hypergradient is Skewed: Antithetic Neumann Estimation for Bilevel Optimization

Jason Bohne, Pawel Polak, Gary Kazantsev, David Rosenberg

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

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NeurIPS 2026EmoryHarvardU Wisconsin - MadisonStony BrookDeep RL

Provably Efficient Representation Learning for Low-Rank CMDPs

Kaixuan Liu, GUOJUN XIONG, Shengpu Tang, Wanyun Si and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Stony BrookETS MontrealState University of New York, StAutoregressive generation

Unlocking Any-Order Generation in Pretrained Autoregressive Image Models

Rishav Pramanik, Marco Pedersoli, Zhaozheng Yin

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

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NeurIPS 2026Stony BrookDeep learning theory

Subcritical Signal Propagation at Initialization in Normalization-Free Transformers

Average partial Jacobian norms in transformers reveal subcritical signal growth in normalization-free architectures via tanh-like nonlinearities, explaining initialization sensitivity in DyT and Derf models.

Sergey Alekseev

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

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NeurIPS 2026U ChicagoToyota Technological Institute aAllen Institute for AITTI-ChicagoStony BrookEfficient inference & serving

Distilling Sequential Computation in Transformer Language Models

A lightweight merge module replaces token spans with surrogate embeddings, cutting Transformer sequence lengths by up to 40% with minimal accuracy loss and no retraining.

Zixuan Lan, Jessica Yang, Yanhong Li, Karen Livescu and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026State University of New York at FacebookNorthwesternDukeMetaLong-context modeling

Learning Evidence Highlighting for Frozen LLMs

HiLight trains a lightweight actor via reinforcement learning to insert highlight tags around pivotal evidence spans in frozen LLM contexts, boosting reasoning without altering inputs or requiring evidence labels.

Shaoang Li, Yanhang Shi, Yufei Li, Mingfu Liang and 9 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 5 on Hugging Face

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightStony BrookState University of New York at AdelaideVision-language models

OmniGF: A Dual-Branch Vision-Language Framework for Unified Gaze Following

OmniGF unifies multi-person gaze following via dual-branch vision-language decoding with head embeddings, achieving state-of-the-art spatial, semantic, and social gaze reasoning.

Qiaomu Miao, Haoyu Wu, Jingyi Xu, Minh Hoai and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Stony BrookRowan2nd Set AIPrelight IncState University of New York, StText-to-image

SANEval: Open-Vocabulary Compositional Benchmarks with Failure-mode Diagnosis

SANEval introduces open-vocabulary compositional benchmarks using LLM-based prompt understanding and open-vocabulary detection to diagnose text-to-image failure modes. Its automated metric correlates more faithfully with human judgments across attribute binding, spatial relations, and numeracy than

Rishav Pramanik, Ian Nielsen, Jeffrey Smith, Saurav Pandit and 2 more

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

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