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arXivU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU MichiganNvidiaNvidiaAI oversight & deception

Covert Assistance: Helpful LLM Agents Evade Oversight in Multi-Agent Systems

Benign multi-agent LLM planners disguise secrets to help developers evade oversight, with rare per-episode leaks compounding to high breach risk across repeated exchanges.

Deema Alnuhait, Gengyu Wang, Muhammad Khalifa, Hao Peng

Published Sep 30, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 13 on Hugging Face

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arXivU California, Santa BarbaraU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignEmbodied agents

ProgressCompass: Embodied Progress Reward Models Are Lost Without the Right Context

Embodied progress reward models fail at long tasks due to missing context, but ProgressCompass supplies needed context to cut progress estimation errors by up to 82%.

Jianshu Zhang, Keyi Wu, Chengxuan Qian, Xiyuan Yang and 5 more

Published Sep 29, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 11 on Hugging Face

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arXivCarnegie MellonU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU California San DiegoEmbodied agents

Video2Skill: From Streaming Experience to Reusable Embodied Skills

Video2Skill benchmarks streaming embodied skill discovery, showing VLMs group manipulation events poorly and rarely expand skill libraries despite supervised fine-tuning.

Jianshu Zhang, Ce Zhang, Xiyuan Yang, Chenwei Xu and 5 more

Published Sep 29, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 11 on Hugging Face

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arXivMicrosoftU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignReward models & LLM-as-a-judge

StudentSim: Training LLM-based Student Simulators

StudentSim trains LLM student simulators via pooled training and per-student specialization, outperforming GPT-5.4 on behavioral fidelity and guidance responsiveness across chess, writing, and math.

Ke Yang, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Chandan Singh and 3 more

Published Sep 1, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 495 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 53

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arXivShanghai Jiao TongAlibaba GroupU Wisconsin–MadisonU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMila - Quebec Artificial IntelliLLM pretraining & scaling laws

OPUS: Towards Efficient and Principled Data Selection in Large Language Model Pre-training in Every Iteration

OPUS defines optimizer-induced update-space data utility for dynamic LLM pre-training selection, outperforming full-scale baselines with minimal overhead.

Shaobo Wang, Xuan Ouyang, Tianyi Xu, Yuzheng Hu and 8 more

Published Feb 5, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 354 on Hugging Face

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arXivU WashingtonTexas A&MU Notre DameU VirginiaNew YorkLLM evaluation & benchmarks

MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research

MoCo unifies 26 model collaboration methods and 25 benchmarks to show collaboration outperforms single models in 61% of settings by up to 25.8%.

Shangbin Feng, Yuyang Bai, Ziyuan Yang, Yike Wang and 16 more

Published Jan 29, 2026 · 0 citations · Code ★ 63

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arXivU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU California San DiegoLLM agents & planning

A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents

This survey organizes LLM agentic reasoning into foundational, self-evolving, and collective layers, distinguishing in-context and post-training methods across applications while outlining open challenges.

Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu, Xuying Ning and 25 more

Published Jan 18, 2026 · 1 citation · ▲ 208 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 1,398

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U Notre DameWashington University in St. LouPurdue University West LafayetteU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignNankaiInstruction tuning

From Personal to Collective: On the Role of Local and Global Knowledge in LLM Personalization

LoGo augments individual user signals with evolving global and community-level behavioral patterns via adaptive mediation, improving LLM personalization and reducing overfitting.

Zehong Wang, Junlin Wu, Zhaoxuan Tan, Bolian Li and 3 more

Published 2026 · 0 citations

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ICLR 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGoogleYaleAgent memory

ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory

ReasoningBank distills reasoning strategies from agent successes and failures into a retrievable memory bank that improves over time, with memory-aware test-time scaling amplifying gains across web and software benchmarks.

Siru Ouyang, Yan, Jun, I-Hung Hsu, Yanfei Chen and 13 more

Published Sep 29, 2025 · 0 citations · ▲ 15 on Hugging Face

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUIUCFinance & economics

The Stability of Data Exchange in Competitive Markets

Yuanchen Brian Tang, Jiaxin Song, Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Ruta Mehta

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMax Planck Institute for MathemaSolverXRepresentation & contrastive learning

SIEVE: Overcoming Topological Obstruction in Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning

Jongann Lee, Sun Woo Park, Yun Young Choi

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana ChampaignU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUIUCOptimization

GEAR: A GPU-Accelerated Global Solver for Nonlinear Programs via Linear Bound Propagation

Duo Zhou, Hesun Chen, Xiangru Zhong, Grani A. Hanasusanto and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026OralU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignCS @ UIUCLLM agents & planning

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUIUCGoogle ResearchU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois, Urbana ChampaignDeep RL

RL-Inf: Tracking Non-local Training Data Influence for Online Reinforcement Learning

Shixuan Liu, Cheng Tang, Yuzheng Hu, Fan Wu and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUIUC, Co-Founder, CTO of Medicas3D vision & reconstruction

Feature Recovery for Object Understanding Under Physical Transformation

Aditi Tiwari, Sofia Stoica, Savya Khosla, David Forsyth 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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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU California, San DiegoU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSelf-supervised vision

Complementing DINO Features with Image Structure for Part Discovery

Samyak Rawlekar, Nikhil C Paleti, Amey Gupta, Narendra Ahuja

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026Johns HopkinsU WashingtonU California, Los AngelesU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLLM evaluation & benchmarks

Can We Trust Item Response Theory for AI Evaluation?

Han Jiang, Sunbeom Kwon, Jinwen Luo, Ziang Xiao and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPediaMed AIPose & motion

ChildPose: Foundation for Children Pose Modeling

Jiakai Chen, Yifan Shen, Boyi Li, Chuanmiao Dong 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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NeurIPS 2026U Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPekingU Illinois, Urbana ChampaignUIUC3D generation

Trivialized Generative Models on Lie Groups

Neil He, Meenal Jhajharia, Qianxi Wu, Chaoran Cheng and 2 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 California San DiegoU EdinburghGoogle DeepMindPekingU Illinois Urbana-ChampaignVision-language models

Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Atari Gameplay

Mingjia Huo, Yao Fu, Bo Chang, Yaqing Wang 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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