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The Optimization Prior: Instilling depth for shallow networks, detail for coarse networks

Vighnesh Subramaniam, Boris Katz, Brian Cheung

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

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Network of Theseus (Like the ship)

Network of Theseus progressively replaces guide network modules with a different target architecture via representational alignment, preserving performance across vastly different deployed architectures.

Vighnesh Subramaniam, Colin Conwell, Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu and 1 more

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

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Adaptive auditing of AI systems with anytime-valid guarantees

An adaptive auditing framework using anytime-valid betting tests rigorously evaluates AI failure modes with as few as 20 observations and certifies global robustness upon passing stringent audits.

Siyu Zhou, Patrick Vossler, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Yifan Mai and 1 more

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

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Words That Make Language Models Perceive

Sensory prompting cues text-only LLMs to activate vision- or audio-aligned representations, aligning them with specialist encoders without multimodal training.

Sophie L. Wang, Phillip Isola, Brian Cheung

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 4 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 42

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