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arXivU TorontoVector InstituteThomson ReutersReward models & LLM-as-a-judge

Equal Ranking Quality, Different Decisions: Measuring and Reducing Order Dependence in LLM Scorers

LLM scorers with equal ranking quality make unstable threshold and preference decisions under candidate reordering, and order-consistency fine-tuning fixes it without harming quality.

Markus Frohmann, Mahdiyar Alavi, Elizabeth Lingg, Navid Rekabsaz

Published Aug 27, 2026 · 0 citations · ▲ 17 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 2

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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 TorontoLLM pretraining & scaling laws

Laplacian Heads Improve Transformers by Smoothing Token Representations

Yuchong Zhang, Vardan Papyan

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

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NeurIPS 2026U TorontoU of Toronto; VectorBayesian & probabilistic methods

Sequential Probability Assignment against Smoothed Adversaries with Unknown Base Measure

Ziyi Liu, Dan Roy

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

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NeurIPS 2026U TorontoTELUS CommunicationsSemi- & weakly supervised learning

Integrated Imputation-Classification for Supervised Learning with Missing Data

Yue Liu, Ben Liang, Ali Tizghadam, Ilijc Albanese

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

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NeurIPS 2026U TorontoChalmers University of TechnologPrincetonU Toronto & Vector InstituteDistribution shift & OOD detection

When to Trust a PFN: Detecting Harmful Shift in Tabular Foundation Models

Viet Nguyen, Herman Bergström, Stephan Rabanser, Rahul Krishnan

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

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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightU TorontoUniversity Of Toronto / Vector IMolecules & drug discovery

Colour me shocked: Exact Molecular Hessians from MLIPs in O(N) time using sparse differentiation!

Luca Thiede, Andreas Burger, Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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

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NeurIPS 2026U TorontoBroad InstituteU Toronto & Vector InstituteU Toronto/Vector Institute/SickKRepresentation & contrastive learning

DynaSub: Adaptive Subgrouping for Scalable Representation Learning

Tina Behrouzi, Sana Tonekaboni, Rahul Krishnan, Anna Goldenberg

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

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NeurIPS 2026Vector InstituteU TorontoETH ZurichDepartment of Computer Science, Max Planck Institute for IntelliLLM evaluation & benchmarks

SuperSycophantic: Stress-Testing Frontier LLMs from Single- to Multi-Turn Sycophancy

Terry J Zhang, Oscar S Yasunaga, Wenyuan Jiang, Jessica Bo and 7 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 TorontoU BirminghamInstruction tuning

FedLoVA: Value-Only Aggregation for Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Ensieh Khazaei, Baturalp Buyukates, Dimitrios Hatzinakos

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Toronto & Vector InstituteMila, University of MontrealU TorontoGoogle DeepmindValence LabsMolecules & drug discovery

On the Selectivity of Generative Models in Structure-Based Drug Design

Ella Miray Rajaonson, Jungyoon Lee, William Chau, Alan Aspuru-Guzik 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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NeurIPS 2026SpotlightTsinghuaMicrosoftU TorontoMassachusetts Institute of TechnResearch, MicrosoftMulti-agent LLM systems

STAR-Math: Multi-Agent Mathematical Reasoning under Persistent Meta-Strategic Supervision

Jiaao Wu, Xian Zhang, Hanzhang Liu, Sophia Zhang and 2 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 TorontoU Toronto, University of TorontoLG Electronics, Toronto AI LabLLM agents & planning

Plan2Sense: Open-World Task Planning in Epistemic States via Interleaved Ontic and Sensing Actions

Xiaotian Liu, Armin Toroghi, Jiazhou Liang, Ali Pesaranghader 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 TorontoBrownU Toronto and Vector InstituteLLM agents & planning

Runtime Verification of Multiple Natural Language Criteria for Agent Governance

Silviu Pitis, Parand A. Alamdari, Jessica Tang, Toryn Klassen and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Department of Computer Science, U TorontoWaabi, University of TorontoWaabi3D vision & reconstruction

Towards Self-Supervised, Generalizable and Decomposable 4D Driving Scene Reconstruction

James Tu, Anqi Joyce Yang, Jingkang Wang, Sivabalan Manivasagam 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 TorontoU Hong KongTest-time compute

What should post-training optimize? A test-time scaling law perspective

Muheng Li, Jian Qian, Wenlong Mou

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Toronto, Vector InstituteU WaterlooThe Hospital for Sick ChildrenU TorontoJagiellonianMolecules & drug discovery

Hit Expansion via Localized Exploration of Synthesizable Chemical Space

Walter Virany, Yidong Jin, Andrew Lian, Dmytro Shevchuk and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026ACS ResearchCharles University Ovocný trh 5ACS Research, CharlesCharles University PragueU TorontoMechanistic interpretability

Think about how AIs think about themselves

Raymond Douglas, Jan Kulveit, Ondřej Havlíček, Theia Pearson-Vogel and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Mohamed bin Zayed University of U TorontoOptimization

Median-of-Means under Structured Heavy-Tailed Noise: High-Probability Bounds for Clipped Stochastic Optimization

Ahmed El Bajdali, Ohad Shamir, Samuel Horváth, Eduard Gorbunov

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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