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NeurIPS 2026U QueenslandU MelbourneU California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyDeep learning theory

Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality

Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Zhichao Wang 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 2026U California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyDomain adaptation

Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Adversarial Distribution Alignment

Kai Nelson, Tobias Kreiman, Sergey Levine, Aditi Krishnapriyan

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

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NeurIPS 2026UC BerkeleyTransluceValence Labs / RecursionU California, BerkeleyBandits & online learning

Assistive Dueling Bandits: No-Regret Algorithms for Assisting No-Regret Users

Mark Bedaywi, Cassidy Laidlaw, Austin Tripp, Nika Haghtalab

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

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NeurIPS 2026NvidiaU ChicagoTogether AI UChicagoUC BerkeleyAgent memory

RAG in a Trenchcoat: When Minimal Memory Is Enough for Agentic Systems, and When It Isn’t

Jingyu Liu, Zongze Li, Zach Xu, Zhanhui Zhou and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, Santa BarbaraU California, Santa CruzU ChicagoVirtue AI, University of California, SantDeep RL

NitroBox: Lightning-Fast Sandbox for Large-Scale RL Training

Yuzhou Nie, Ruilin Zhou, Zhaorun Chen, Jingyang Zhang and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026StanfordU California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyMaterials & chemistry

CME–SpectrumBench: Can LLMs Analyze Condensed Matter Spectral Data?

Jin Gene Wong, Anjney Midha, Joseph Tennyson, Wei-Lin Chiang 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 2026TsinghuaeinsiaShanghai Jiao TongThe Hong Kong University of ScieNanjingSoftware engineering agents

Frontier-Eng: Benchmarking Self-Evolving Agents on Real-World Engineering with Generative Optimization

Dapeng Jiang, Yizhe Chi, Kaisen Yang, Tianwei Luo and 18 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026National University of SingaporeUC BerkeleyNUS, CMUFairness & bias

Treat Bias as Noise: Training Bias-Robust LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Qian Wang, Xuandong Zhao, Zirui Zhang, Zhanzhi Lou 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 2026OralNortheasternUC BerkeleyU HoustonOptimization

The Power of a Random Sample in Online Algorithms

Omer Wasim, Sami Davies, Shallu Tomer, Rathish Das

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, BerkeleyTsinghuaUC BerkeleyAutoML & architecture search

Frontier Task Synthesis Via Solution-Centric Evolution

Yangzhen Wu, Aaron Li, Wenjie Ma, Li Cao and 9 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026UC BerkeleyMicrosoft ResearchU California, BerkeleyOpenAIEECS, UC BerkeleyEfficient inference & serving

SPECS: Faster Test-Time Scaling through Speculative Drafts and Dynamic Switching

Mert Cemri, Nived Rajaraman, Rishabh Tiwari, Xiaoxuan Liu 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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NeurIPS 2026U California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyTool use & function calling

I-PTC: Interactive Programmatic Tool Calling for Stateful Tool-Augmented Agents

Huanzhi Mao, Chengkun Cao, Shuo Yuan, Joseph Gonzalez

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, Santa CruzU California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyAgent benchmarks & environments

SudoBench: A Contextual Authorization Benchmark for LLM Agents

Vincent Siu, Tianneng Shi, Shangding Gu, Zhun Wang 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 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 2026NorthwesternTiktokU ChicagoUC BerkeleyNVIDIAMulti-agent RL

Is Decentralized LLM Agent RL Robust to Heterogeneity? An Asymmetric Tale

Canyu Chen, Kangyu Zhu, Zhaorun Chen, Zhanhui Zhou and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, Santa CruzUC Santa CruzU California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyAI oversight & deception

Position: A Safe LLM and a Safe Harness Do Not Make a Safe Agent

Vincent Siu, Kyle Montgomery, Yujin Potter, Zhun Wang 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 2026UC BerkeleyJaypee University of InformationNew YorkIIT roorkeeU OxfordLLM evaluation & benchmarks

IntegrityBench: Can LLMs Be Trusted as Co-Scientists? A Research Integrity Benchmark

Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Yash Tripathi, Silu Sharma, Shivank Garg 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 2026UC BerkeleyIn-context learning & prompting

Prompt Optimization Makes Misalignment Legible

Caleb Biddulph, Micah Carroll

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

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NeurIPS 2026McMasterUC BerkeleyAarhusETH ZurichLearning theory

Phase Transitions in Heavy-Tailed Mean Estimation under $\ell_p$ Norms

Ishaq Aden-Ali, Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Mikael Møller Høgsgaard, Kasper Green Larsen and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026UC Berkeley, University of CalifU California, BerkeleyUC BerkeleyDeep RL

Learning Process Rewards via Visitation Matching for Efficient RL

Raymond Tsao, Andrew Wagenmaker, Sergey Levine

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

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