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EDISCO: Equivariant Discrete Diffusion for Euclidean Combinatorial Optimization

Ruogu Chen, Jie Han

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

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Opening the Black Box of Classifier-Free Guidance via Information Bottleneck

Jiayang Gao, Tianyi Zheng, Jiayang Zou, Fengxiang Yang and 4 more

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

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Learning Reusable Options by Decomposing Neural Policies

Parnian Behdin, Reza Abdollahzadeh, Kiarash Aghakasiri, Levi Lelis

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Off-policy Learning with Excursion Policies

Jiamin He, Mark Rowland, Daniel (Zhaohan) Guo, Hado van Hasselt 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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TIDE: Trajectory-Aware Watermark Propagation for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Yihan Meng, Suping Xu, Yanfeng Wu, Chongjun Wang 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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Mechanistic Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoder Neural Operators

Bahareh Tolooshams, Ailsa Shen, Animashree Anandkumar

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

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Beyond Training Time, Test-Time Coordination is Essential for Cooperative MARL

Dongsu Lee, Sooraj Sathish, Joonkyung Kim, Woojun Kim 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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Read, Parse, Describe: Unified Document Parsing with Visual Element Description Generation

Yuheng Chen, Yufan Chen, Zhuojun Cai, Ruiping Liu and 7 more

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

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Reinforcement Learning Agents Are Swimmers

Juan Rojas, Jacob Adamczyk, Abhishek Naik, Volodymyr Makarenko and 5 more

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

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Robust Noisy Inductive Matrix Completion with Local Linear Convergence

Xingcai Zhou, Xin Dong, Linglong Kong

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

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NeurIPS 2026U AlbertaDeep RL

Deep Double Q-learning

Deep Double Q-learning trains two independent Q-functions to decouple selection and evaluation, reducing overestimation and outperforming Double DQN across 47 of 57 Atari games.

Prabhat Nagarajan, Martha White, Marlos C. Machado

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

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HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-training on Ascend NPUs

HiFloat4 enables stable FP4 LLM pretraining without stabilization stacks, achieving 1.55% relative loss versus 1.79% for MXFP4 and 2.00% for NVFP4 on Ascend NPUs.

Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng, Xing Huang, Yao Wang and 21 more

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

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Fine-Grained Benchmark Generation for Comprehensive Evaluation of Foundation Models

An automated framework generates fine-grained, contamination-robust benchmarks from textbooks that expose model differences missed by existing tests.

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Arash Afkanpour, Negin Baghbanzadeh, Farnaz Kohankhaki and 4 more

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

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Parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks

The poster argues parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks.

Marvin Theiss, Lukas Braun, Andrew Saxe, Erin Grant

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

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Measure-to-measure Regression with Transformers

This work formalizes nonlinear measure-to-measure regression and introduces two scalable transformer-based approaches for learning operators between probability distributions. The methods generalize to unseen measures in synthetic experiments, particle systems, and a large-scale colorectal cancer or

Matthew Vandergrift, Martha White, Yury Polyanskiy, Philippe Rigollet 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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The Minimax Rate of Second-Order Calibration

Sech perturbation kernels make calibration functions analytic, enabling polynomial regression to estimate second-order calibration error at the minimax optimal rate of tilde O(1/sqrt(n)). This yields the first finite-sample guarantee for second-order Platt scaling and a bucket-free calibration defin

Kamil Ciosek, Banafsheh Rafiee, Sina Ghiassian, Nicolò Felicioni

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

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HiFloat4 Format for End-To-End Reinforcement Learning Post-Training of Large Language Models

HiFloat4 enables end-to-end FP4 reinforcement learning by fixing rollout activation underflow with Rollout-ResQ, cutting accuracy gaps to 1.1% versus BF16.

Hei Yi Mak, Shadan Golestan, Hoang Le, Mehran Taghian Jazi 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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NeurIPS 2026U AlbertaDeep RL

The Laplacian Keyboard: Beyond the Linear Span

Laplacian Keyboard hierarchically combines Laplacian eigenvectors into a behavior library with a meta-policy, exceeding linear span limits for better zero-shot approximation and sample efficiency.

Siddarth Chandrasekar, Marlos C. Machado

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

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Neural Bayesian Filtering

Neural Bayesian Filtering maintains hidden-state beliefs via learned embeddings and particle-style updates, tracking multimodal distributions efficiently in partially observable environments.

Christopher Solinas, Radovan Haluška, David Sychrovský, Finbarr Timbers 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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Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models

NextLat adds latent self-prediction to transformers, theoretically converging to belief states and empirically improving world modeling, reasoning, and inference speed.

Jayden Teoh, Manan Tomar, Kwangjun Ahn, Edward Hu and 6 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 7 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 196

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