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NeurIPS 2026Tsinghua The University of Sydney Stanford Baichuan Multimodal hallucination

VIGOR: Visual Gain Ordering for Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Junzhe Chen, Tian Qin, Eugenie Shi, Tianshu 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 2026The University of Sydney U Southern Queensland Macquarie U Oslo Macquarie University, Australia RL for LLMs

PRISM:Disentangling Preference Distributions for Generative Ranking

zhangkai wu, Kaize Shi, Xu Zhang, Zhihong Cui and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Huazhong University of Science a Nanyang Technological Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Mohamed bin Zayed University of Wuhan Multimodal hallucination

Object Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models via Self-Vision Dual Masking and Uncertainty-Triggered Assembly

Ziji Sheng, Guiyao Tie, Weidong Wang, Jiawen Shi and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026HubSpot, Inc.Huazhong University of Science a Nanyang Technological Wuhan U Warwick Adversarial robustness

Cross-Model Transfer Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models via Model Diversity Enrichment and Stochastic Parameter Sampling

Zhenze Yang, Xiaowen Cai, Junhao Dong, Guangke Chen and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Mohamed bin Zayed University of The University of Sydney HKBU / RIKEN Jilin Hong Kong Polytechnic Materials & chemistry

MaterialsPilot: An Execution-Feedback Framework for Generative Design of Complex Atomistic Architectures

Qiaolin Lu, Tongliang Liu, Qiang Qu, Bo Han 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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NeurIPS 2026The University of Sydney Harbin Institute of Technology S U Sydney, University of Sydney HKBU / RIKEN Mohamed bin Zayed University of Materials & chemistry

Symmetry-Guaranteed Prediction of High-Order Tensor Properties for Crystalline Materials via Irreducible Decomposition

Qiaolin Lu, Qiang Qu, Hao Jiang, Aoni Xu 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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NeurIPS 2026The University of Sydney U Sydney U Sydney, University of Sydney Hong Kong University of Science DeepWisdom Mechanistic interpretability

ScopeSAE: Model-Scope Feature Discovery with Interpretable Layer Selection

Qingwen Zeng, Zehao Fu, Shuyu Meng, Linghan Huang and 4 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 Sydney The University of Sydney Representation & contrastive learning

Approximation in Contrastive Representation Learning

Yuanfan Li, Zihan Zhang, Yiming Ying, Ding-Xuan Zhou

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

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NeurIPS 2026City University of Hong Kong Nanyang Technological Beihang The University of Sydney U Wisconsin - Madison Efficient attention & state-space models

LAPrune: Logits-Aligned Scoring Proxy for KV Pruning via Vector Quantization

Mingyang Yu, Rong-Cheng Tu, Yifu Ding, Hanqing Zhao 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 2026U Maryland, College Park The University of Sydney U Maryland College Park Instruction tuning

Geometry-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization for Fine-Tuning Quantized LLMs

Shaocong Ma, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang

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

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NeurIPS 2026Sun Yat-sen University & She SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY The University of Sydney Nanjing University of Science an Information Technology Service C Efficient & distributed training

Generalization Without Compression Penalty: A Stability Analysis of Error Feedback

Yifei Liang, Peng Wang, Yan Sun, Yingqi Liu 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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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightSun Yat-sen University & She The University of Sydney SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY Tencent AI Lab Sun Yat-Sen Optimization

Sparse Updates Generalize Better Than Optimization: Stability Analysis for Randomized Subspace Descent

Yifei Liang, Yan Sun, Yifei Cheng, Haobo Fu 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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NeurIPS 2026U Sydney U Southern Queensland U Sydney, University of Sydney The University of Sydney Domain adaptation

Domain-Conditioned Class Imbalance: Why Global Class Balance Fails Across Domains

Yongkun Deng, NAN YANG, Xiatong Guo, Zhiyong Wang and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026The University of Sydney Unimelb & MBZUAI City University of Hong Kong Mohamed bin Zayed University of Adversarial robustness

My Video Stays Mine: Temporally Consistent Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Video Customization

Yuxin Huang, Mingming Gong, Wanyu Wang, Jing Zhang 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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NeurIPS 2026Macquarie Macquarie University, Australia The University of Sydney Speech synthesis

DUET: Unified Dual-Space Emotion Control for Diffusion and Flow-Matching Driven Text-to-Speech

DUET enables plug-and-play emotion control for pretrained diffusion and flow-matching TTS by steering hidden states and guiding mel-spectra via a differentiable vocoder, surpassing supervised emotional baselines.

Xu Zhang, Longbing Cao, zhangkai wu

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

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NeurIPS 2026The University of Sydney Zhejiang National University of Defense T National University of Defense T Video generation

FreeSpec: Training-Free Long Video Generation via Singular-Spectrum Reconstruction

FreeSpec analyzes long-video diffusion via singular-spectrum analysis and proposes spectral reconstruction to reduce spectral concentration, preserving dynamics and consistency without training.

Fangda Chen, Shanshan Zhao, Longrong Yang, Chuanfu Xu and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Nanyang Technological The University of Sydney Alibaba Group RL for LLMs

STRIDE: Learnable Stepwise Language Feedback for LLM Reasoning

STRIDE replaces scalar process rewards with learnable stepwise language feedback co-trained via outcome rewards, enabling trajectory redirection and sustained LLM reasoning gains.

Junjie Zhang, Guozheng Ma, Shunyu Liu, Zetian Hu 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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NeurIPS 2026Wuhan Alibaba Group U Science and Technology of Chin Mohamed bin Zayed University of Southeast Multimodal reasoning

DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding

DocScope benchmarks verifiable long-document reasoning via structured trajectory evaluation, finding correct answers rarely include complete evidence chains and region grounding remains weakest.

Xiang Feng, Jiawei Zhou, Zhangfeng Huang, Kewei Wang 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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NeurIPS 2026U Sydney U New South Wales The University of Sydney Time series classification & imputation

ProCTI: Prototype-Refined Global Conditioning for Diffusion-Based Time Series Imputation

ProCTI retrieves global dataset prototypes to augment local conditioning in diffusion-based time series imputation, improving accuracy under sparse or noisy missingness with theoretical guarantees.

Fariza Rashid, Duc Van Le, Rahat Masood, Gustavo E Batista 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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NeurIPS 2026School of Computer Science, The Shanghai Artificial Intelligence U New South Wales The University of Sydney Unified multimodal models

BrainVista: Modeling Naturalistic Brain Dynamics as Multimodal Next-Token Prediction

BrainVista models brain dynamics via multimodal next-token prediction with network tokenizers and stimulus masking, achieving state-of-the-art fMRI encoding and up to 36% better long-horizon rollout correlations.

Xuanhua Yin, Ted Zhao, Lina Yao, Weidong Cai

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

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