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arXivU Southern CaliforniaCalifornia SouthernSouthern StatesSeoul NationalNew Generation University CollegEfficient inference & serving

Prefill-Free Cross-Family KV Cache Transfer for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent LLMs

HeteroFold enables prefill-free cross-family KV cache transfer between frozen heterogeneous LLM agents, accelerating 32K context transfer up to 10.7x while matching text-based multi-agent performance.

Vincent-Daniel Yun, Woosang Lim, Haneul Yoo, Sungjoo Yoo and 2 more

Published Sep 26, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 95 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 1

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GoogleU Southern CaliforniaU TorontoMachine translation

Attention Is All You Need

The Transformer replaces recurrence and convolutions with attention, achieving superior translation quality and faster training.

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Jitendra Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit and 4 more

Published Aug 23, 2025 · 26,828 citations

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaImitation learning

Reinforcement Learning from Rich Feedback with Distributional DAgger

Rishabh Agrawal, Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad

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

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NeurIPS 2026GoogleU Southern CaliforniaGoogle ResearchUC San Diego / MilaRepresentation & contrastive learning

A Foundational Model System for Datacenter Machine Repairs

Yuanlin Wen, Elan S Markowitz, Zubo Gu, Sami Abu-El-Haija and 10 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Oxford / MartianU OxfordIndependentMartianGoogle DeepMindExplainable AI

Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability

Fazl Barez, Tung-Yu Wu, Iván Arcuschin Moreno, Michael Lan and 12 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaIntel LabsNorthwesternIntelCarnegie MellonMulti-agent LLM systems

TritonTune: LLM-Guided Multi-Agent Optimization of GPU Kernel Configurations

Shukai Duan, Mihai Capotă, Guixiang Ma, Hou-Jen Ko and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaRL for LLMs

C-GRPO: Conformal Group Relative Policy Optimization

Arya Fayyazi, Seyedarmin Azizi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud Pedram

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

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NeurIPS 2026National University of SingaporeNanyang TechnologicalTongjiHarvard Medical SchoolU Southern CaliforniaAdversarial robustness

Even Sailors Need Calm Seas: Taming the Geometry of VLMs for Fast Adversarial Fine-Tuning

Yuqing Wen, Junhao Dong, Ting Peng, Xudong Zhang 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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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaU Southern California (USC), USAIntelActivation steering

The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering

Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi, Parsa Razmara, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaU ArizonaGeneral MotorsU MichiganEmbodied agents

Say the Same, Act Differently: Text-Orthogonal Action Subspaces in Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models

Zihao Feng, Qingzhao Zhang, Chunyu Xia, Bo Yu and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · 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 2026Beijing University of Posts and TsinghuaU Southern CaliforniaShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Vision-language models

Modality-Depth Routing for Visual Reasoning in VLM Post-Training

Yiming Ren, Yiran Xu, Chufan Shi, Yu Qiao and 2 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026PekingDartmouth CollegeU Science and Technology of ChinU TorontoU Southern CaliforniaRL for LLMs

The Heel of RLVR: Benchmark Glory Should Not Outpace Honest Measurement

Shuo Yang, Chiyu Ma, Kexin Huang, Jinda Lu and 10 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026National University of SingaporeU Southern CaliforniaDeep learning theory

Generalized Laplacian in Spectral Seriation on Manifold Data

Ruizi Wu, Wanjie Wang, Jinchi Lv

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaYaleOptimization

Accelerated last-iterate convergence of Extragradient via power-law stepsizes

Yue Wu, Weiqiang Zheng, Yang Cai, Haipeng Luo

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaAgent benchmarks & environments

DDBench: A Benchmark for Agentic Debugging on Distributed Systems

Yibo Yan, Huijuan Wang, Junzhou He, Yizhuo Liang and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaTime series forecasting

Preferential dynamic modeling with forward-backward smoothing

Omid G. Sani, Trisha Jha, Mohammad Hosseini, Maryam Shanechi

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

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NeurIPS 2026U ChicagoU Southern CaliforniaU California RiversideNVIDIAU TorontoLLM evaluation & benchmarks

Precise Debugging Benchmark: Is Your Model Debugging or Regenerating?

Miaosen Chai, Wang Bill Zhu, Shangshang Wang, Yejia Liu and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Southern CaliforniaStevens Institute of TechnologyWestlakepeking universityInstitute of automation, ChineseImage recognition

PhysGraphNet: Physical-State Scene Graphs via Latent Graph Reasoning and Counterfactual Supervision

Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Yan Wen, Guang Yang and 6 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026peking universityXi'an JiaotongWestlakeU Southern CaliforniaShanghai JiaotongDiffusion models

Not All Slots Are Equal: Non-Co-Progressive Markov Bridge for Bundle Construction

Rongchao Zhang, Haodong Jing, Siheng Wang, Zhengtao Yao 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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