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FETTUCCINE: Fast and efficient brain-to-text decoding on mobile devices

Jonathan McCart, Pranav Deevi, Mehdi Azabou, Nanda H Krishna 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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ContractBench: Can LLM Agents Preserve Observation Contracts?

Jicheng Wang, Yifeng He, Zili Wang, Hanwen Xing and 2 more

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

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Brain2voice 2.0: High-performance voice synthesis brain-computer interface

Brain2voice 2.0 synthesizes highly intelligible real-time voice from brain signals using a multimodal Transformer, cutting word error rates to 5.24%.

Maitreyee Wairagkar, Aparna Srinivasan, Nicholas S Card, Tyler Singer-Clark and 6 more

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

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Video Models Can Reason with Verifiable Rewards

VideoRLVR applies reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to video diffusion models, improving rule-consistent visual reasoning and cutting training latency 40% via early-step optimization.

Tinghui Zhu, Sheng Zhang, James Yipeng Huang, Selena Song and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 9 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 28

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Data-Constrained Language Model Pretraining: Improved Regularization and Scaling Laws

Masked-input regularization improves autoregressive pretraining over weight decay alone, and SoftQ scaling laws better capture data-constrained training than Chinchilla.

Zhiwei Xu, Shihao Wu, Hanseul Cho, Wei Hu and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Rethinking Personalized Generation: Test-time Alignment via Factorized Ranking Models

Test-time alignment via million-parameter factorized ranking models exploits massive headroom for personalized generation, outperforming billion-parameter reward models with minimal overhead.

Qiyao Ma, Junshan Zhang, Zhe Zhao

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 11 on Hugging Face

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Diagnosing and Mitigating Modality Interference in Multimodal Large Language Models

Multimodal LLMs suffer spurious cross-modality interference that distorts decisions, and a unified finetuning framework with perturbation augmentation and consistency regularization improves robustness and generalization.

Rui Cai, Bangzheng Li, Xiaofei Wen, Muhao Chen and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 8

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OceanCBM: A Concept Bottleneck Model for Mechanistic Interpretability in Ocean Forecasting

OceanCBM is a concept bottleneck model that predicts ocean heat content through physically derived intermediate concepts, yielding consistent interpretable representations without sacrificing predictive skill.

Sanah Suri, Kieran Ringel, Maike Sonnewald

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

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Total Variation Rates for Riemannian Flow Matching

Nonasymptotic total variation analysis of Riemannian flow matching bounds sampling error by discretization and learning terms via curvature-aware differential inequalities. Explicit polynomial iteration complexities follow on hyperspheres and SPD manifolds.

Yunrui Guan, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Shiqian Ma

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

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SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

SkillsBench benchmarks agent skills across 87 tasks, finding curated skills boost pass rates by 16.6 points, with focused small bundles often outperforming larger ones.

Xiangyi Li, Yimin Liu, Wenbo Chen, Shenghan Zheng and 36 more

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

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Exact Gaussian Moment Matching for Residual Networks: a Second-Order Method

Exact Gaussian moment matching propagates mean and covariance through residual networks with exact nonlinear layer formulas, cutting KL divergence errors by orders of magnitude versus approximate methods.

Simon Kuang, Xinfan Lin

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

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Transformers Provably Implement In-Context Reinforcement Learning with Policy Improvement

Linear self-attention transformers provably implement in-context policy-improvement via explicit constructions, with gradient flow converging exponentially to optimal RL update parameters under distribution richness conditions.

Haodong Liang, Lifeng LAI

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

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ModelLens: Finding the Best for Your Task from Myriads of Models

ModelLens learns a latent space over model-dataset-metric tuples from noisy leaderboard data to rank unseen models on unseen datasets without target evaluation, improving routing by up to 81%.

Rui Cai, Wenjie Mo, Xiaofei Wen, Qiyao Ma and 4 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 14 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 130

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Rank-Transformed Dissimilarity Profiles for High-Dimensional Classification

Rank-transformed dissimilarity profiles convert high-dimensional observations into robust class-wise rank profiles that encode moment differences and improve low-sample-size classification.

Xiangbo Mo, Hao Chen

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

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