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Optimizing Analytic Constants via AI-Guided Lean Proof Refinement

Rahul Saha, Alan Li, Anton Xue, Adam Klivans 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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One-Shot Private Confidence Regions via Resampling

Po-Ling Loh, Debepsita Mukherjee, Shourya Pandey, Purnamrita Sarkar

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

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Proper Agnostic Learning of Functions of Halfspaces

Sergei Tikhonov, Arsen Vasilyan

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

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Taming CoT Obfuscation in VLMs: From Mechanistic Evidence to Activation-Level Enforcement

Xutao Mao, Jianing Zhu, Jinman Zhao, Tongliang Liu 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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Self-Cleaning Diffusion Models

Adrian Rodriguez-Munoz, Adam Klivans, Antonio Torralba, Constantinos Daskalakis 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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Parasite Features: Causal Abstraction Through Spurious Pathways

Denis Sutter, Qing Yao, Sasha Boguraev, Julian Minder and 4 more

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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RECAP: Looking Once Is Not Enough for Vision-Language Reasoning

Zhaolu Kang, Tailong Luo, Chenxin Li, Zhenyu Yu and 12 more

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

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Anchored Protein Engineering

Chi Zhang, Maria Rosaria Briglia, Litu Rout, Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang and 4 more

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

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TSFM Meets LLM: Context as Covariate

Hemanth Ram Govindarajan Kirubaharan, Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Shubhankar Agarwal, Sandeep Chinchali

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

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On the Fragility of Latent Knowledge: Layer-wise Influence under Unlearning in Large Language Model

Jianing Zhu, Zongze Li, Chandler Squires, Qizhou Wang and 2 more

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

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A Stability Analysis of AdamW: Unstable Equilibria and Non-Convergence

Baiyu Su, Lizhang Chen, Qiang Liu

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

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Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning

Jake Grigsby, Siddhant Agarwal, Yu Lei, Leonidas Varveropoulos and 1 more

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

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Test-time Multi-agent Coordination by Decomposed Value Gradient Flow

SCOUT combines generative behavioral priors with decomposed value functions via test-time Stein gradient transport, achieving scalable offline multi-agent coordination with vanishing joint soft-value gaps.

Dongsu Lee, Haoran Xu, Amy Zhang

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

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The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learning at Scale

PokeAgent is a large-scale Pokémon benchmark with battling and speedrunning tracks that expose major gaps between LLMs, RL agents, and human experts.

Seth Karten, Jake Grigsby, Tersoo Upaa, Junik Bae and 27 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 12 on Hugging Face

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AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems

AgentForesight introduces online trajectory auditing that predicts multi-agent failures during execution, with a 7B model outperforming GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro by up to 19.9% with 3x lower step error.

Boxuan Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Zeru Shi, Dongfang Liu and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 7 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 19

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TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Terminator learns optimal early-exit points for chain-of-thought reasoning to cut token lengths by 14%-55% and boost inference speed over 2x with minimal accuracy loss.

Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Michael Gastpar and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 19 on Hugging Face

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Optimal Recalibration of an Online Predictor

An online algorithm achieves optimal ε-recalibration with ε² excess error in ε⁻³ rounds via Blackwell approachability, and yields simultaneous calibration and calibeating for smooth losses.

Lunjia Hu, Kevin Tian, Chutong Yang

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

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Population-Aligned Persona Generation for LLM-based Social Simulation

A framework generates population-aligned personas from social media via quality filtering, importance sampling, and task-specific adaptation, reducing bias in LLM social simulations.

Zhengyu Hu, Jianxun Lian, Zheyuan Xiao, Max Xiong and 9 more

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

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Iterative Chow Filtering for Learning with Distribution Shift

Iterative Chow filtering enables efficient PQ learning via L1 sandwiching approximations, yielding quasipolynomial DNF algorithms and exponential improvements for circuits and polynomial thresholds.

Gautam Chandrasekaran, Georgios Gkrinias, Adam Klivans, Konstantinos Stavropoulos 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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CoreQ: Learning-Free Mismatch Correction and Successive Rounding for Quantization

CoreQ proposes a learning-free post-training quantization framework using a geometric closed-form layer-adaptive mismatch correction coefficient and successive rounding to improve LLM quantization accuracy without hyperparameter tuning.

Seohyeon Cha, Huancheng Chen, Dongjun Kim, Haoran Zhang and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face

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