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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 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 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 2026U California, BerkeleyU Southern CaliforniaOffice of Naval ResearchJohns HopkinsU California, Santa CruzAutoregressive generation

Context-Aware Autoregressive Image Generation for Emerging Reasoning Properties

Jixuan Ying, Haoyu Liu, Timing Yang, Tingyu Zhu and 6 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Universitat Politècnica de CatalStanfordUniversitat Pompeu FabraUniversidad Politécnica de CatalU California, BerkeleyDatasets & benchmarks

TabBioMed: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Biomedical Tabular Learning

Pau Mateo Bernadó, Saivenkata Nagavyjayanthi Polapragada, Pol Arbiol Rakuljic, Laia M Pladevall and 7 more

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U California, Santa CruzBayesian & probabilistic methods

Posterior Alternative Calibration in Ambiguous Inverse Problems

Jing Qiao, Yiyang Guo, Hao Ye

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 CruzUC Santa CruzMechanistic interpretability

Beyond Incremental Beam Search for Compositional Explanations of Neurons

Biagio La Rosa, Leilani Gilpin

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 CruzTongjiU EdinburghUC Santa CruzU California BerkeleyDatasets & benchmarks

GPT-Image-Edit-1M: An Auditable Million-Scale Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing

Yuhan Wang, Siwei Yang, Bingchen Zhao, Letian Zhang and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026PurdueU California, Santa CruzUC Santa CruzFlow matching

Stable GFlowNets with Probabilistic Guarantees

Zengxiang Lei, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Ruoyu Song and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026UC DavisMicrosoftU Southern CaliforniaU California, Santa CruzU California, DavisDeep RL

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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NeurIPS 2026PrincetonU California, Santa CruzCarnegie MellonUC BerkeleyLong-context modeling

Learning What to Remember: Test-Time Training via Context Distillation

TTCD uses a long-window teacher to supervise a short-window student's fast weights via hidden-state discrepancy, allocating limited memory to future-relevant context and outperforming existing long-context methods with minimal architectural changes.

Zixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixin Wen and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026UCSCU California, Santa CruzTechnische Universität BerlinOptimization

Learning-Augmented Online Scheduling with Parsimonious Preemption

Learning-augmented online scheduling achieves O(1)-competitive latency with O(1) preemptions per job on parallel machines, with overhead scaling logarithmically in prediction error.

Mugen Blue, Sungjin Im, Alexander Lindermayr

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

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