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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin—MadisonU Wisconsin - MadisonUW-MadisonArgonne National LaboratoryU Wisconsin-MadisonLLM agents & planning

Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents

RL post-training yields progress advantage, a log-ratio that recovers optimal step-level advantage without dedicated reward models, outperforming trained alternatives across agent benchmarks.

Changdae Oh, Wendi Li, Seongheon Park, Samuel (Min-Hsuan) Yeh and 2 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 13 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 12

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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin-MadisonU Wisconsin - MadisonU Wisconsin -- MadisonDeep RL

Distributionally Robust Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Task Sampling

Nicholas Corrado, Wenyuan Huang, Josiah Hanna

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin–MadisonU Wisconsin - MadisonDeep RL

When Does Knowing the State Help? Diagnosing Process vs. Outcome Reward Design

Wenpei Shao, Ross Jacobucci

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

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NeurIPS 2026UW MadisonU Wisconsin-MadisonU Wisconsin - MadisonMechanistic interpretability

Spectral-Spatial Interpretation

Haotian Ma, Ruqi Yang, Philip Townsend

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

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NeurIPS 2026NortheasternTsinghuaU International Business and EcoSichuanU Wisconsin - MadisonDomain adaptation

Complementary Cache Guidance with Gradient Disentanglement for Continuous Test-Time Adaptation

Fanchun Meng, Yuhang Pei, Jiazhen Huang, Tao Ren and 3 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute KAISTU Wisconsin - MadisonKAIST / MetaPruning & sparsity

SKIM: Pruning Large Language Model Agents via Selective Knowledge Informed Masking

Moonseok Choi, Giung Nam, Jongwon Jeong, Minki Kang and 1 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026Nanjing AgricuturalEast China NormalPekingU WollongongU Central FloridaVision-language models

Beyond Global Alignment: Structured Compositional Reasoning for Vision-Language Models

Zhoujun Ye, Yiwei Fu, Qiyun Huang, Jie Yang 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 Wisconsin - MadisonFinance & economics

Fair Division of Work in Collaborative Mean Estimation via Bargaining

Michael O. Harding, Alex Clinton, Kirthevasan Kandasamy

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

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NeurIPS 2026U California, BerkeleyChinese University of Hong KongU California BerkeleyU Wisconsin - MadisonML systems & compilers

Approximation Algorithms for GPU Pricing under Finite Capacity

Yaolong Yu, Hanrui Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Kirthevasan Kandasamy

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

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NeurIPS 2026Nanjingnanjing universityChina University of Mining TechnU Wisconsin - MadisonPekingGraphs & LLMs

Uncovering Semantic Hierarchies in Text-Attributed Graphs via Variational EM-based LLM–GNN Synergy

Yunhui Liu, Xudong Jin, Qizhuo Xie, Chunhui Zhao and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026NortheasternFred Hutchinson Cancer Research U International Business and EcoSichuanTerminus GroupGraph neural networks

PATH: A Dual Perspective for High-quality Text-attributed Graph Learning

Yuhang Pei, Fanchun Meng, Changhu Wang, Tao Ren 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 2026SpotlightNortheasternTsinghuaNortheastern University, ChinaU International Business and EcoSichuanGraph neural networks

CLEAR: Complementary Tripartite Play with Bayesian Calibration for Semi-Supervised Edge Classification

Zhipeng Sun, Fanchun Meng, Jiazhen Huang, Yongpeng Zhang and 4 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026StanfordU Minnesota - Twin CitiesU Wisconsin - MadisonJohns HopkinsTexas A&M University - Colle3D generation

AnaDiffusion: Anatomically Compositional Latent Diffusion for Controllable 3D Brain MRI Generation

Tracy Han, Lulin Liu, Bangya Liu, Yuanhao Cai and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin - MadisonU Tokyo / SB IntuitionsColumbiaDeepMindPrincetonAgent benchmarks & environments

DEBATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Opinion Dynamics in Role-Playing LLM Agents

Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Ruixuan Tu, Chengtao Dai, You Li and 7 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026OhioU Wisconsin - MadisonMcGillMcGillNorthwesternClinical NLP & EHR

SMI: Semantic Medical ID for Hierarchy-Aware Concept Representation

Ziyang Song, Lia Shen, Yixuan Li, Qincheng Lu and 5 more

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

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NeurIPS 2026City University of Hong KongNanyang TechnologicalBeihangThe University of SydneyU Wisconsin - MadisonEfficient attention & state-space models

LAPrune: Logits-Aligned Scoring Proxy for KV Pruning via Vector Quantization

Mingyang Yu, Rong-Cheng Tu, Yifu Ding, Hanqing Zhao and 3 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 Wisconsin - MadisonDepartment of Computer Science, UW-MadisonDeep RL

Anatomy of Off-Policy Policy Gradient: Importance Sampling, KL Regularization, and Baselines

Haoqun Cao, Yurun Yuan, Tengyang Xie

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

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NeurIPS 2026U Wisconsin - MadisonUW-MadisonU Wisconsin-MadisonDeep RL

Entropy Dynamics of Agent Reinforcement Learning

Wendi Li, Shawn Im, Sharon Li

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

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NeurIPS 2026EmoryHarvardU Wisconsin - MadisonStony BrookDeep RL

Provably Efficient Representation Learning for Low-Rank CMDPs

Kaixuan Liu, GUOJUN XIONG, Shengpu Tang, Wanyun Si 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 2026U Wisconsin-MadisonU Wisconsin - MadisonKoreaNVIDIAUW-MadisonDeep learning theory

Fast Sandwich Products in Clifford Algebra

Travis Pence, Daisuke Yamada, Jiaqi Mo, Chanyoung Moon and 2 more

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

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