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Counterfactual Predictive State Representations: The Intrinsic Dimension of Partial-Information Games

Manoj Saravanan, Rohit Kumar Salla, Shrikar Reddy Kota

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

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MCM-DM: Towards Better Spatio-Temporal Event Representation Learning via Discrete Morse Theory

Yuanheng Zhang, Jennifer Rozenblit, Chenguang Yang, Jaidev Goel and 2 more

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

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Verifier Choice is a Benchmark Design Variable: Auditing Structural Counting Evaluation in Text-to-Image Models

Shurun Li, Michael H Wang, Haibo Zeng, Long Wang

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

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LLM-ACES: Closed-Loop Discovery of Dynamic Systems with LLM-Guided Adaptive Search

Nikhil Abhyankar, Sha Li, Sanchit Kabra, Naren Ramakrishnan and 2 more

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

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LLM-AutoSciLab: Closed-Loop Scientific Law Discovery via Active Experimentation with LLMs

Sanchit Kabra, Nikhil Abhyankar, Saaketh Desai, Prasad Iyer and 1 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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Position: Neurosymbolic AI is a strong technical foundation for trustworthy, deployable AI by design

Chandler Squires, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara 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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AIM: Adaptive Interaction in Multi-Agent Debate for Multimodal LLM Inference

Wei Fan, JinYi Yoon, Bo Ji

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

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Evaluating an Evaluation: Membership Inference Attacks as Machine Unlearning Diagnostics

Umid Suleymanov, Laman Aliyeva, Nihat Abdullayev, Saida Zarbiyeva and 1 more

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

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Graph Label Alignment: A Diagnostic Atlas for Graph Classification

Neelam Akula, Varun Shiralkar, Murat Kantarcioglu, Baris Coskunuzer

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

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TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life

Mridul Khurana, Amin Karimi Monsefi, Justin Lee, Medha Sawhney and 8 more

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

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Why Muon Outperforms Adam: A Curvature Perspective

Muon achieves larger one-step loss decreases than Adam via lower curvature penalties driven by reduced normalized directional sharpness rather than update scale, with advantages amplified by data imbalance and within-layer curvature.

Shuche Wang, Fengzhuo Zhang, Jiaxiang Li, Dirk Bergemann and 1 more

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

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VideoMLA: Low-Rank Latent KV Cache for Minute-Scale Autoregressive Video Diffusion

VideoMLA replaces per-head video diffusion KV caches with shared low-rank latents to cut memory by 92.7% and improve long-horizon streaming quality and throughput.

Hidir Yesiltepe, Jiazhen Hu, Tuna Han Salih Meral, Adil K Akan and 3 more

Atlanta Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 24 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 18

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Budgeting Discretion: Theory and Evidence on Street-Level Decision-Making

Formalizing discretion as a dynamic budget problem yields time-dependent override thresholds and shape-dependent spending rates, with homelessness data showing budget-constrained discretionary patterns.

Gaurab Pokharel, Sanmay Das, Patrick J Fowler

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

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ReGDiff: Guided Diffusion in Regulated Latent Space for Exploring Metamaterial Voxel Geometry

ReGDiff couples regulated latent diffusion with repel-and-sink smoothing and short-range repulsion guidance to generate plausible, novel metamaterial voxel geometries, improving plausibility by 8.9%, novelty by 46.4%, and diversity by 128.6% over baselines.

Wangzhi Zhan, Jianpeng Chen, Dongqi Fu, Dawei Zhou

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

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Leviathan: Decoupling Input and Output Representations in Language Models

Leviathan decouples input and output embeddings via learned continuous token vectorization, cutting perplexity up to 9% and rare-token perplexity by 81% with only 0.2% extra parameters.

Reza T Batley, Sourav Saha

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face

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RAVEL: Rare Concept Generation and Editing via Graph-driven Relational Guidance

RAVEL uses graph-driven retrieval and self-correcting prompt refinement to improve rare-concept text-to-image generation and editing without training.

Kavana Venkatesh, Yusuf Dalva, Ismini Lourentzou, Pinar Yanardag

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

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GitInject: Real-World Prompt Injection Attacks in AI-Powered CI/CD Pipelines

GitInject tests real AI CI/CD workflows and finds all providers vulnerable to prompt injection via structural credential and config handling flaws.

Jafar Isbarov, Umid Suleymanov, I Shumailov, Murat Kantarcioglu

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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CASPIAN: Online Detection and Attribution of Cascade Attacks in LLM Multi-Agent Systems via Cross-Channel Causal Monitoring

CASPIAN detects cascade attacks in LLM multi-agent systems via online cross-channel causal monitoring, accurately identifying attack origins and propagation paths with sub-1% overhead.

Kavana Venkatesh, Jafar Isbarov, Saad Amin, Murat Kantarcioglu and 1 more

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

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SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance

SAGE mitigates long-horizon reasoning biases via symbolic closure analysis, using algebraic sparsification and hyperbolic guidance to suppress spurious branching and compounding errors, achieving up to 8-fold gains on sparse-reward benchmarks.

Xinyue Zeng, Jiawei zhang, Yujun Yan, Dawei Zhou

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026 · ▲ 8 on Hugging Face · Code

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