April 23, 2026 – April 27, 2026

Microsoft at ICLR 2026

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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- Integer-Centric Neural Video Compression
  
  Zhaoyang Jia, Wenxuan Xie, Zongyu Guo, Bin Li, Jiahao Li, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | June 2026
  
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- A Nash Equilibrium Framework For Training-Free Multimodal Step Verification
  
  Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma, Vineeth N Balasubramanian
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | May 2026
  
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- Text2Grad: Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Feedback
  
  Hanyang Wang, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Tianjun Mao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
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- Do Not Let Low-Probability Tokens Over-Dominate in RL for LLMs
  
  Zhihe Yang, Xufang Luo, Zilong Wang, Dongqi Han, Zhiyuan He, Dongsheng Li, Yunjian Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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- Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster
  
  Grigory Bartosh, Teodora Pandeva, Sushrut Karmalkar, Javier Zazo
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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- MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
  
  Ruiying Ma, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yanjie Gao, Francis Y. Yan
  
  ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) | April 2026
  
  DOI
- Parallel Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Conditional Independence Testing
  
  Iskander Azangulov, Teodora Pandeva, Niranjani Prasad, Javier Zazo, Sushrut Karmalkar
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  DOI Publication
- VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability
  
  Dasha Metropolitansky, Jonathan Larson
  
  2026 ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication Video
- VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL
  
  Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Juheon Yi, Shicheng Zheng, Yifei Shen, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Muhammad Muaz, Lili Qiu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication Publication
- Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
  
  Siwei Wang, Yifei Shen, Haoran Sun, Shi Feng, Shang-Hua Teng, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Wei Chen
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Combinatorial Rising Bandits
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Preprint
- Learning to Generate Unit Test via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
  
  Dongjun Lee, Changho Hwang, Kimin Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Preprint
- Lipschitz Bandits with Stochastic Delayed Feedback
  
  Zhongxuan Liu, Yue Kang, Thomas C. M. Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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- MnemoDyn: Learning Resting State Dynamics from 40K FMRI sequences
  
  Sourav Pal, Viet Luong, Hoseok Lee, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu, Richard Davidson, Won Hwa Kim, Vikas Singh
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | April 2026
  
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- NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
  
  Yajie Zhou, Jiajun Ruan, Eric S. Wang, Sadjad Fouladi, Francis Y. Yan, Kevin Hsieh, Zaoxing Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Ranked 1st on the "Coding Agent" benchmark in Berkeley's AgentX competition
  
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- Online Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Training of Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Networks
  
  Mingqing Xiao, Qingyan Meng, Zongpeng Zhang, Di He, Dongsheng Li, Zhouchen Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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- A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
  
  Debjit Paul, D. Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, V. Prokhorov, L. Bolliger, Aysim Toker, Roy Miles, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Jasivan Sivakumar, Philipp Borchert, Ismail Elezi, Meiru Zhang, Kukjin Lee, Guchun Zhang, Jun Wang, Gerasimos Lampouras
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
- Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Cross-layer Concepts
  
  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
  
  Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- From Easy to Hard++: Promoting Differentially Private Image Synthesis Through Spatial-Frequency Curriculum
  
  Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin, Tianhao Wang
  
  Usenix Security 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization
  
  Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Yu Wang, Zinan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text
  
  Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy
  
  Aashish Kolluri, Rishi Sharma, Manuel Costa, Boris Köpf, Tobias Niessen, Mark Russinovich, Shruti Tople, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Preprint Project
- Temperature as a Meta-Policy: Adaptive Temperature in LLM Reinforcement Learning
  
  Haoran Dang, Cuiling Lan, Hai Wan, Xibin Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
  
  Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search
  
  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Training in Diffusion World Models
  
  Lior Cohen, Ofir Nabati, Kaixin Wang, Navdeep Kumar, Shie Mannor
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- SEMA: Simple yet Effective Learning for Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks
  
  Mingqian Feng, Xiaodong Liu, Weiwei Yang, Jialin Song, Xuekai Zhu, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
  
  Yuhang He, He Liang, Yash Jain, Andrew Markham, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR | February 2026
  
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- Score Distillation Beyond Acceleration: Generative Modeling from Corrupted Data
  
  Yasi Zhang, Tianyu Chen, Zhendong Wang, Yingnian Wu, Mingyuan Zhou, Oscar Leong
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
- SeerAttention-R: Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning
  
  Yizhao Gao, Shuming Guo, Shijie Cao, Yuqing Xia, Yu Cheng, Lei Wang, Lingxiao Ma, Yutao Sun, Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Yu Hua, Ting Cao, Fan Yang, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
  
  Shengqiong Wu, Bobo Li, Xinkai Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shuicheng YAN, Hao Fei, Tat-Seng Chua
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
  
  Shivank Garg, Sankalp Mittal, Manish Gupta
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding
  
  Zeliang Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hao Cheng, Hao Sun, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
  
  TrustGen Team, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
  
  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- How Far Are LLMs from Professional Poker Players? Revisiting Game-Theoretic Reasoning with Agentic Tool Use
  
  Min Lin, Enyan Dai, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuliang Yan, Zhenwei Dai, Jingying Zeng, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Hongcheng Gao, Chen Luo, Xiang Zhang, Qianyu He, Suhang Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
  
  Bowen Cao, Dongdong Zhang, Yixia Li, Junpeng Liu, Shijue Huang, Chufan Shi, Hongyuan Lu, Yaokang Wu, Guanhua Chen, Wai Lam, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- In Agents We Trust, but Who Do Agents Trust? Latent Source Preferences Steer LLM Generations
  
  Mohammad Aflah Khan, Mahsa Amani, Soumi Das, Bishwamittra Ghosh, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Author's Version Publication DOI
- AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
  
  Mingyang Song, Haoyu Sun, Jiawei Gu, Linjie Li, Luxin Xu, Ranjay Krishna, Yu Cheng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
  
  Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang, Youjun Chen, Jinyu Li, Helen M. Meng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Hokyun Im, Euijin Jeong, Andrey Kolobov, Jianlong Fu, Youngwoon Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed
  
  Brian Lu, Hongyu Zhao, Shuo Sun, Hao Peng, Rui Ding, Hongyuan Mei
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
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- DoVer: Intervention-Driven Auto Debugging for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
  
  Ming-Jie Ma, Jue Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, S. Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SpaceControl: Introducing Test-Time Spatial Control to 3D Generative Modeling
  
  Elisabetta Fedele, Francis Engelmann, Ian Huang, O. Litany, Marc Pollefeys, Leonidas J. Guibas
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
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- Beyond Membership: Limitations of Add/Remove Adjacency in Differential Privacy
  
  Gauri Pradhan, Joonas Jälkö, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin, Antti Honkela
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
  
  Botao Ye, Boqi Chen, Haofei Xu, Dániel Baráth, Marc Pollefeys
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
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- Align to Misalign: Automatic LLM Jailbreak with Meta-Optimized LLM Judges
  
  Hamin Koo, Minseon Kim, Jaehyung Kim
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Gistify! Codebase-Level Understanding via Runtime Execution
  
  Hyunji Lee, Minseon Kim, Chinmay Singh, Matheus Pereira, Atharv Sonwane, Isadora White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal, Zhengyan Shi, Alessandro Sordoni, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan, Lucas Caccia
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data
  
  Haoran Deng, Yingyu Lin, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu, Yizhou Sun, Yian Ma, Yeyun Gong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models
  
  Noah Golowich, Allen Liu, Abhishek Shetty
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- AESCoder: Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback
  
  Lingjie Jiang, Bang Xiao, Shaohan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Yupan Huang, Xun Wu, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- LoongRL: Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning over Long Contexts
  
  Siyuan Wang, Gaokai Zhang, L. Zhang, Ning Shang, Fan Yang, Dongyao Chen, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
  
  Zhiyuan Feng, Zhaolu Kang, Qijie Wang, Zhiying Du, Jiongrui Yan, Shubin Shi, Chengbo Yuan, Huizhi Liang, Yu Deng, Qixiu Li, Rushuai Yang, Arctanx An, Leqi Zheng, Weijie Wang, Shawn Chen, Sicheng Xu, Yaobo Liang, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control-Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems
  
  Rishi Jha, Harold Triedman, Justin Wagle, Vitaly Shmatikov
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Holdout-Loss-Based Data Selection for LLM Finetuning via In-Context Learning
  
  Ling Zhang, Xianliang Yang, Juwon Yu, Park Cheonyoung, Lei Song, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training
  
  Fan Chen, Audrey Huang, Noah Golowich, Sadhika Malladi, Adam Block, Jordan Ash, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dylan Foster
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- EvoTest: Evolutionary Test-Time Learning for Self-Improving Agentic Systems
  
  Yufei He, Juncheng Liu, Yue Liu, Yibo Li, Tri Cao, Zhiyuan Hu, Xinxing Xu, Bryan Hooi
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
  
  Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
  
  Chuangchuang Tan, Xiang Ming, Jinglu Wang, Renshuai Tao, Bin Li, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
  Publication
- Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models
  
  Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- The Markovian Thinker
  
  Milad Aghajohari, Kamran Chitsaz, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Sarath Chandar, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron C. Courville, Siva Reddy
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- EEPO: Exploration-Enhanced Policy Optimization via Sample-Then-Forget
  
  Liang Chen, Xueting Han, Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Jing Bai, Hinrich Schutze, Kam-Fai Wong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
  
  Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, V. Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, K. Olukotun
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
  
  Dachuan Shi, Abedelkadir Asi, Keying Li, Xiangchi Yuan, Leyan Pan, Wenke Lee, Wen Xiao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading
  
  Zifan Song, Kaitao Song, Guosheng Hu, Ding Qi, Junyao Gao, Xiaohua Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- Wavelet Predictive Representations for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
  
  Min Wang, Xin Li, Ye He, Yao-Hui Li, Hasnaa Bennis, Riashat Islam, Mingzhong Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
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- Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
  
  Erfan Shayegani, Keegan Hines, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Roman Lutz, Spencer Whitehead, Vidhisha Balachandran, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates
  
  Jiaqi Li, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Hu, Leying Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Heng Lu, Manthan Thakker, Jinyu Li, Sheng Zhao, Zhizheng Wu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
  
  Boshi Wang, Weijian Xu, Yunsheng Li, Mei Gao, Yujia Xie, Huan Sun, Dongdong Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models
  
  Thierry Blankenstein, Jialin Yu, Zixuan Li, Vassilis Plachouras, Sunando Sengupta, Philip H. S. Torr, Yarin Gal, Alasdair Paren, Adel Bibi
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel
  
  Chuanyang Zheng, Jiankai Sun, Yihang Gao, Enze Xie, Yuehao Wang, Peihao Wang, Ting Xu, Matthew Chang, Liliang Ren, Jingyao Li, Jing Xiong, Kashif Rasul, Mac Schwager, Anderson Schneider, Zhangyang Wang, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
  
  Guolin Ke, Hui Xue
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent System for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images
  
  Shuoshuo Zhang, Zijian Li, Yizhen Zhang, Jingjing Fu, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Jun Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Rui Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- When MLLMs Meet Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs
  
  Jinming Liu, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- In-Context Compositional Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
  
  Qiushui Xu, Yuhao Huang, Yushu Jiang, Lei Song, Jinyu Wang, Wenliang Zheng, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems
  
  Qian Cheng, Ruize Tang, Emilie Ma, Finn Hackett, Peiyang He, Yiming Su, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yu Huang, Xiaoxing Ma, Tianyin Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner-Actor Collaboration
  
  Gaole Dai, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Yuqing Yang, Yuanchun Li, Rui Tan, Mo Li, Lili Qiu
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
  
  Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
  
  Ben Finkelshtein, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Ryen W. White
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
  
  Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengli Li, Kaiyan Zhang, Che Jiang, Youbang Sun, Ermo Hua, Yuxin Zuo, Xingtai Lv, Qizheng Zhang, Lin Chen, Fanghao Shao, Bo Xue, Yunchong Song, Zhenjie Yang, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong Liu, Bowen Zhou, Hongyuan Mei, Zhouhan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
  
  Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, K. Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Y. Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- UnLoc: Leveraging Depth Uncertainties for Floorplan Localization
  
  Matthias Wüest, Francis Engelmann, Ondrej Miksik, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- Is In-Context Learning Learning?
  
  Adrian de Wynter
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- Understanding and Improving Shampoo and SOAP via Kullback-Leibler Minimization
  
  Wu Lin, Scott C. Lowe, Felix Dangel, Runa Eschenhagen, Zikun Xu, Roger B. Grosse
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
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- Any-Order Flexible Length Masked Diffusion
  
  Jaeyeon Kim, C. Lee, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yilun Du, S. Kakade, Timothy Ngotiaoco, Sitan Chen, M. S. Albergo
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Beyond Pass@1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR
  
  Xiao Liang, Zhong-zhi Li, Yeyun Gong, Yelong Shen, Yingchun Wu, Zhijiang Guo, Weizhu Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
  
  Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shivam Garg, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  Publication Author's Version
- VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
  
  Lingjie Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Xun Wu, Yixia Li, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
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- Characterizing Deep Research: A Benchmark and Formal Definition
  
  Abhinav Java, Ashmit Khandelwal, S. Midigeshi, Aaron L Halfaker, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal, Ankur Gupta, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Harnessing Temporal Databases for Systematic Evaluation of Factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering in Large Language Models
  
  Soyeon Kim, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Steven Euijong Whang
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Xiaoyu Chen, Hangxing Wei, Pushi Zhang, Chuheng Zhang, Kaixin Wang, Yanjiang Guo, Rushuai Yang, Yucen Wang, Xinquan Xiao, Li Zhao, Jianyu Chen, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
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- Geometric-Mean Policy Optimization
  
  Yuzhong Zhao, Yue Liu, Junpeng Liu, Jingye Chen, Xun Wu, Yaru Hao, Tengchao Lv, Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Qixiang Ye, Fang Wan, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- STITCH: Simultaneous Thinking and Talking with Chunked Reasoning for Spoken Language Models
  
  Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Shujie Liu, Zhendong Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Hung-yi Lee, Lijuan Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
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- Learning to summarize user information for personalized reinforcement learning from human feedback
  
  Hyunji Nam, Yanming Wan, Mickel Liu, Peter Ahnn, Jianxun Lian, Natasha Jaques
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
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- CodeSense: a Real-World Benchmark and Dataset for Code Semantic Reasoning
  
  Monoshi Kumar Roy, Simin Chen, Benjamin Steenhoek, Jinjun Peng, Gail E. Kaiser, Baishakhi Ray, Wei Le
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning
  
  Peng Xia, Jinglu Wang, Yibo Peng, Kaide Zeng, Xian Wu, Xiangru Tang, Hongtu Zhu, Yun Li, Shujie Liu, Yan Lu, Huaxiu Yao
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Token-Importance Guided Direct Preference Optimization
  
  Ning Yang, Hai Lin, Yibo Liu, Baoliang Tian, Guoqing Liu, Haijun Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
  
  Sihan Chen, Dan Zhao, Jongwoo Ko, Colby R. Banbury, Huiping Zhuang, Luming Liang, Tianyi Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
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- ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
  
  Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
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- AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Measurement of LLMs’ Value Difference
  
  Shitong Duan, Xiaoyuan Yi, Peng Zhang, Dongkuan Xu, Jing Yao, Tun Lu, Ning Gu, Xing Xie
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
  
  Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  ICLR 2026 Best Paper Award
  
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- Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots
  
  Erfan Shayegani, G. M. Shahariar, Sara Abdali, Lei Yu, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Yue Dong
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Hierarchical Concepts
  
  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Memory-Efficient Training of LLMs
  
  Liming Liu, Zhenghao Xu, Zixuan Zhang, Hao Kang, Zichong Li, Chen Liang, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Pretrain Value, Not Reward: Decoupled Value Policy Optimization
  
  Chenghua Huang, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Zhixu Li, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Dongmei Zhang, S. Rajmohan, Qi Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- Towards Efficient Optimizer Design for LLM via Structured Fisher Approximation with a Low-Rank Extension
  
  Wenbo Gong, Meyer Scetbon, Chao Ma, Edward Meeds
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts
  
  Jihoon Tack, Jack Lanchantin, Jane Yu, Andrew Cohen, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lan, Shibo Hao, Yuandong Tian, Jason Weston, Xian Li
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Combinatorial Rising Bandit
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Refining Counterfactual Explanations With Joint-Distribution-Informed Shapley Towards Actionable Minimality
  
  Lei You, Yijun Bian, Lele Cao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Hey, That’s My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
  
  Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem, Yanan Cai
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2024
  
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- Integer-Centric Neural Video Compression
  
  Zhaoyang Jia, Wenxuan Xie, Zongyu Guo, Bin Li, Jiahao Li, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | June 2026
  
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- A Nash Equilibrium Framework For Training-Free Multimodal Step Verification
  
  Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma, Vineeth N Balasubramanian
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | May 2026
  
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- Text2Grad: Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Feedback
  
  Hanyang Wang, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Tianjun Mao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication
- Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster
  
  Grigory Bartosh, Teodora Pandeva, Sushrut Karmalkar, Javier Zazo
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
- Parallel Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Conditional Independence Testing
  
  Iskander Azangulov, Teodora Pandeva, Niranjani Prasad, Javier Zazo, Sushrut Karmalkar
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  DOI Publication
- VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL
  
  Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Juheon Yi, Shicheng Zheng, Yifei Shen, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Muhammad Muaz, Lili Qiu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication Publication
- Do Not Let Low-Probability Tokens Over-Dominate in RL for LLMs
  
  Zhihe Yang, Xufang Luo, Zilong Wang, Dongqi Han, Zhiyuan He, Dongsheng Li, Yunjian Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
- MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
  
  Ruiying Ma, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yanjie Gao, Francis Y. Yan
  
  ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) | April 2026
  
  DOI
- VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability
  
  Dasha Metropolitansky, Jonathan Larson
  
  2026 ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication Video
- Online Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Training of Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Networks
  
  Mingqing Xiao, Qingyan Meng, Zongpeng Zhang, Di He, Dongsheng Li, Zhouchen Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
- MnemoDyn: Learning Resting State Dynamics from 40K FMRI sequences
  
  Sourav Pal, Viet Luong, Hoseok Lee, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu, Richard Davidson, Won Hwa Kim, Vikas Singh
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | April 2026
  
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- Combinatorial Rising Bandits
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Preprint
- NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
  
  Yajie Zhou, Jiajun Ruan, Eric S. Wang, Sadjad Fouladi, Francis Y. Yan, Kevin Hsieh, Zaoxing Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Ranked 1st on the "Coding Agent" benchmark in Berkeley's AgentX competition
  
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- Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
  
  Siwei Wang, Yifei Shen, Haoran Sun, Shi Feng, Shang-Hua Teng, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Wei Chen
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
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- Lipschitz Bandits with Stochastic Delayed Feedback
  
  Zhongxuan Liu, Yue Kang, Thomas C. M. Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
- Learning to Generate Unit Test via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
  
  Dongjun Lee, Changho Hwang, Kimin Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Preprint
- A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
  
  Debjit Paul, D. Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, V. Prokhorov, L. Bolliger, Aysim Toker, Roy Miles, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Jasivan Sivakumar, Philipp Borchert, Ismail Elezi, Meiru Zhang, Kukjin Lee, Guchun Zhang, Jun Wang, Gerasimos Lampouras
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
  
  Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization
  
  Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Yu Wang, Zinan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Temperature as a Meta-Policy: Adaptive Temperature in LLM Reinforcement Learning
  
  Haoran Dang, Cuiling Lan, Hai Wan, Xibin Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy
  
  Aashish Kolluri, Rishi Sharma, Manuel Costa, Boris Köpf, Tobias Niessen, Mark Russinovich, Shruti Tople, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Preprint Project
- Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search
  
  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
  
  Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Training in Diffusion World Models
  
  Lior Cohen, Ofir Nabati, Kaixin Wang, Navdeep Kumar, Shie Mannor
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- SEMA: Simple yet Effective Learning for Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks
  
  Mingqian Feng, Xiaodong Liu, Weiwei Yang, Jialin Song, Xuekai Zhu, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
  
  Yuhang He, He Liang, Yash Jain, Andrew Markham, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR | February 2026
  
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  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
  
  Shivank Garg, Sankalp Mittal, Manish Gupta
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding
  
  Zeliang Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hao Cheng, Hao Sun, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
  
  TrustGen Team, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
  
  Shengqiong Wu, Bobo Li, Xinkai Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shuicheng YAN, Hao Fei, Tat-Seng Chua
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- SeerAttention-R: Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning
  
  Yizhao Gao, Shuming Guo, Shijie Cao, Yuqing Xia, Yu Cheng, Lei Wang, Lingxiao Ma, Yutao Sun, Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Yu Hua, Ting Cao, Fan Yang, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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- Score Distillation Beyond Acceleration: Generative Modeling from Corrupted Data
  
  Yasi Zhang, Tianyu Chen, Zhendong Wang, Yingnian Wu, Mingyuan Zhou, Oscar Leong
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
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  Min Lin, Enyan Dai, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuliang Yan, Zhenwei Dai, Jingying Zeng, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Hongcheng Gao, Chen Luo, Xiang Zhang, Qianyu He, Suhang Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
  
  Bowen Cao, Dongdong Zhang, Yixia Li, Junpeng Liu, Shijue Huang, Chufan Shi, Hongyuan Lu, Yaokang Wu, Guanhua Chen, Wai Lam, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
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  Mohammad Aflah Khan, Mahsa Amani, Soumi Das, Bishwamittra Ghosh, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
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- AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
  
  Mingyang Song, Haoyu Sun, Jiawei Gu, Linjie Li, Luxin Xu, Ranjay Krishna, Yu Cheng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
  
  Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang, Youjun Chen, Jinyu Li, Helen M. Meng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Hokyun Im, Euijin Jeong, Andrey Kolobov, Jianlong Fu, Youngwoon Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed
  
  Brian Lu, Hongyu Zhao, Shuo Sun, Hao Peng, Rui Ding, Hongyuan Mei
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  Publication
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  Ming-Jie Ma, Jue Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, S. Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SpaceControl: Introducing Test-Time Spatial Control to 3D Generative Modeling
  
  Elisabetta Fedele, Francis Engelmann, Ian Huang, O. Litany, Marc Pollefeys, Leonidas J. Guibas
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  Publication
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  Gauri Pradhan, Joonas Jälkö, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin, Antti Honkela
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
  
  Botao Ye, Boqi Chen, Haofei Xu, Dániel Baráth, Marc Pollefeys
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
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  Hamin Koo, Minseon Kim, Jaehyung Kim
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
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  Hyunji Lee, Minseon Kim, Chinmay Singh, Matheus Pereira, Atharv Sonwane, Isadora White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal, Zhengyan Shi, Alessandro Sordoni, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan, Lucas Caccia
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data
  
  Haoran Deng, Yingyu Lin, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu, Yizhou Sun, Yian Ma, Yeyun Gong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models
  
  Noah Golowich, Allen Liu, Abhishek Shetty
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
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  Lingjie Jiang, Bang Xiao, Shaohan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Yupan Huang, Xun Wu, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- LoongRL: Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning over Long Contexts
  
  Siyuan Wang, Gaokai Zhang, L. Zhang, Ning Shang, Fan Yang, Dongyao Chen, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
  
  Zhiyuan Feng, Zhaolu Kang, Qijie Wang, Zhiying Du, Jiongrui Yan, Shubin Shi, Chengbo Yuan, Huizhi Liang, Yu Deng, Qixiu Li, Rushuai Yang, Arctanx An, Leqi Zheng, Weijie Wang, Shawn Chen, Sicheng Xu, Yaobo Liang, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control-Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems
  
  Rishi Jha, Harold Triedman, Justin Wagle, Vitaly Shmatikov
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training
  
  Fan Chen, Audrey Huang, Noah Golowich, Sadhika Malladi, Adam Block, Jordan Ash, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dylan Foster
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
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  Ling Zhang, Xianliang Yang, Juwon Yu, Park Cheonyoung, Lei Song, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EvoTest: Evolutionary Test-Time Learning for Self-Improving Agentic Systems
  
  Yufei He, Juncheng Liu, Yue Liu, Yibo Li, Tri Cao, Zhiyuan Hu, Xinxing Xu, Bryan Hooi
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
  
  Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
  
  Chuangchuang Tan, Xiang Ming, Jinglu Wang, Renshuai Tao, Bin Li, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
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  Milad Aghajohari, Kamran Chitsaz, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Sarath Chandar, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron C. Courville, Siva Reddy
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
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  Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EEPO: Exploration-Enhanced Policy Optimization via Sample-Then-Forget
  
  Liang Chen, Xueting Han, Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Jing Bai, Hinrich Schutze, Kam-Fai Wong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading
  
  Zifan Song, Kaitao Song, Guosheng Hu, Ding Qi, Junyao Gao, Xiaohua Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
  
  Dachuan Shi, Abedelkadir Asi, Keying Li, Xiangchi Yuan, Leyan Pan, Wenke Lee, Wen Xiao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Wavelet Predictive Representations for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
  
  Min Wang, Xin Li, Ye He, Yao-Hui Li, Hasnaa Bennis, Riashat Islam, Mingzhong Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
  
  Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, V. Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, K. Olukotun
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
  
  Erfan Shayegani, Keegan Hines, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Roman Lutz, Spencer Whitehead, Vidhisha Balachandran, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
  
  Boshi Wang, Weijian Xu, Yunsheng Li, Mei Gao, Yujia Xie, Huan Sun, Dongdong Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates
  
  Jiaqi Li, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Hu, Leying Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Heng Lu, Manthan Thakker, Jinyu Li, Sheng Zhao, Zhizheng Wu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel
  
  Chuanyang Zheng, Jiankai Sun, Yihang Gao, Enze Xie, Yuehao Wang, Peihao Wang, Ting Xu, Matthew Chang, Liliang Ren, Jingyao Li, Jing Xiong, Kashif Rasul, Mac Schwager, Anderson Schneider, Zhangyang Wang, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models
  
  Thierry Blankenstein, Jialin Yu, Zixuan Li, Vassilis Plachouras, Sunando Sengupta, Philip H. S. Torr, Yarin Gal, Alasdair Paren, Adel Bibi
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent System for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images
  
  Shuoshuo Zhang, Zijian Li, Yizhen Zhang, Jingjing Fu, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Jun Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Rui Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
  
  Guolin Ke, Hui Xue
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- When MLLMs Meet Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs
  
  Jinming Liu, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- In-Context Compositional Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
  
  Qiushui Xu, Yuhao Huang, Yushu Jiang, Lei Song, Jinyu Wang, Wenliang Zheng, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems
  
  Qian Cheng, Ruize Tang, Emilie Ma, Finn Hackett, Peiyang He, Yiming Su, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yu Huang, Xiaoxing Ma, Tianyin Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner-Actor Collaboration
  
  Gaole Dai, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Yuqing Yang, Yuanchun Li, Rui Tan, Mo Li, Lili Qiu
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
  
  Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
  
  Ben Finkelshtein, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Ryen W. White
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
  
  Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengli Li, Kaiyan Zhang, Che Jiang, Youbang Sun, Ermo Hua, Yuxin Zuo, Xingtai Lv, Qizheng Zhang, Lin Chen, Fanghao Shao, Bo Xue, Yunchong Song, Zhenjie Yang, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong Liu, Bowen Zhou, Hongyuan Mei, Zhouhan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
  
  Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, K. Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Y. Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- UnLoc: Leveraging Depth Uncertainties for Floorplan Localization
  
  Matthias Wüest, Francis Engelmann, Ondrej Miksik, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Is In-Context Learning Learning?
  
  Adrian de Wynter
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Understanding and Improving Shampoo and SOAP via Kullback-Leibler Minimization
  
  Wu Lin, Scott C. Lowe, Felix Dangel, Runa Eschenhagen, Zikun Xu, Roger B. Grosse
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Any-Order Flexible Length Masked Diffusion
  
  Jaeyeon Kim, C. Lee, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yilun Du, S. Kakade, Timothy Ngotiaoco, Sitan Chen, M. S. Albergo
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Beyond Pass@1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR
  
  Xiao Liang, Zhong-zhi Li, Yeyun Gong, Yelong Shen, Yingchun Wu, Zhijiang Guo, Weizhu Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
  
  Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shivam Garg, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  Publication Author's Version
- VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
  
  Lingjie Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Xun Wu, Yixia Li, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  Publication
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  Abhinav Java, Ashmit Khandelwal, S. Midigeshi, Aaron L Halfaker, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal, Ankur Gupta, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Harnessing Temporal Databases for Systematic Evaluation of Factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering in Large Language Models
  
  Soyeon Kim, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Steven Euijong Whang
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Xiaoyu Chen, Hangxing Wei, Pushi Zhang, Chuheng Zhang, Kaixin Wang, Yanjiang Guo, Rushuai Yang, Yucen Wang, Xinquan Xiao, Li Zhao, Jianyu Chen, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
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  Yuzhong Zhao, Yue Liu, Junpeng Liu, Jingye Chen, Xun Wu, Yaru Hao, Tengchao Lv, Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Qixiang Ye, Fang Wan, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- STITCH: Simultaneous Thinking and Talking with Chunked Reasoning for Spoken Language Models
  
  Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Shujie Liu, Zhendong Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Hung-yi Lee, Lijuan Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
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  Hyunji Nam, Yanming Wan, Mickel Liu, Peter Ahnn, Jianxun Lian, Natasha Jaques
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
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  Peng Xia, Jinglu Wang, Yibo Peng, Kaide Zeng, Xian Wu, Xiangru Tang, Hongtu Zhu, Yun Li, Shujie Liu, Yan Lu, Huaxiu Yao
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- CodeSense: a Real-World Benchmark and Dataset for Code Semantic Reasoning
  
  Monoshi Kumar Roy, Simin Chen, Benjamin Steenhoek, Jinjun Peng, Gail E. Kaiser, Baishakhi Ray, Wei Le
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Token-Importance Guided Direct Preference Optimization
  
  Ning Yang, Hai Lin, Yibo Liu, Baoliang Tian, Guoqing Liu, Haijun Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
  
  Sihan Chen, Dan Zhao, Jongwoo Ko, Colby R. Banbury, Huiping Zhuang, Luming Liang, Tianyi Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
  
  Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
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  Shitong Duan, Xiaoyuan Yi, Peng Zhang, Dongkuan Xu, Jing Yao, Tun Lu, Ning Gu, Xing Xie
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
  
  Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  ICLR 2026 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Github
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  Erfan Shayegani, G. M. Shahariar, Sara Abdali, Lei Yu, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Yue Dong
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Hierarchical Concepts
  
  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Pretrain Value, Not Reward: Decoupled Value Policy Optimization
  
  Chenghua Huang, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Zhixu Li, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Dongmei Zhang, S. Rajmohan, Qi Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Memory-Efficient Training of LLMs
  
  Liming Liu, Zhenghao Xu, Zixuan Zhang, Hao Kang, Zichong Li, Chen Liang, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Towards Efficient Optimizer Design for LLM via Structured Fisher Approximation with a Low-Rank Extension
  
  Wenbo Gong, Meyer Scetbon, Chao Ma, Edward Meeds
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts
  
  Jihoon Tack, Jack Lanchantin, Jane Yu, Andrew Cohen, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lan, Shibo Hao, Yuandong Tian, Jason Weston, Xian Li
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Combinatorial Rising Bandit
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Refining Counterfactual Explanations With Joint-Distribution-Informed Shapley Towards Actionable Minimality
  
  Lei You, Yijun Bian, Lele Cao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Hey, That’s My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
  
  Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem, Yanan Cai
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Integer-Centric Neural Video Compression
  
  Zhaoyang Jia, Wenxuan Xie, Zongyu Guo, Bin Li, Jiahao Li, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | June 2026
  
  Publication
- A Nash Equilibrium Framework For Training-Free Multimodal Step Verification
  
  Rohit Sinha, Kunal Tilaganji, Tanuja Ganu, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma, Vineeth N Balasubramanian
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | May 2026
  
  Publication
- Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Cross-layer Concepts
  
  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- From Easy to Hard++: Promoting Differentially Private Image Synthesis Through Spatial-Frequency Curriculum
  
  Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin, Tianhao Wang
  
  Usenix Security 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
  
  Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
  
  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
  
  Botao Ye, Boqi Chen, Haofei Xu, Dániel Baráth, Marc Pollefeys
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  Publication
- Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
  
  Chuangchuang Tan, Xiang Ming, Jinglu Wang, Renshuai Tao, Bin Li, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- When MLLMs Meet Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs
  
  Jinming Liu, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
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  Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, K. Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Y. Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
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  Matthias Wüest, Francis Engelmann, Ondrej Miksik, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
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  Debjit Paul, D. Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, V. Prokhorov, L. Bolliger, Aysim Toker, Roy Miles, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Jasivan Sivakumar, Philipp Borchert, Ismail Elezi, Meiru Zhang, Kukjin Lee, Guchun Zhang, Jun Wang, Gerasimos Lampouras
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
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  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Characterizing Deep Research: A Benchmark and Formal Definition
  
  Abhinav Java, Ashmit Khandelwal, S. Midigeshi, Aaron L Halfaker, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal, Ankur Gupta, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
  
  Yuhang He, He Liang, Yash Jain, Andrew Markham, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR | February 2026
  
  Publication
- VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
  
  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang, Youjun Chen, Jinyu Li, Helen M. Meng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
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  Jiaqi Li, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Hu, Leying Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Heng Lu, Manthan Thakker, Jinyu Li, Sheng Zhao, Zhizheng Wu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Do Not Let Low-Probability Tokens Over-Dominate in RL for LLMs
  
  Zhihe Yang, Xufang Luo, Zilong Wang, Dongqi Han, Zhiyuan He, Dongsheng Li, Yunjian Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Preprint
- Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
  
  Siwei Wang, Yifei Shen, Haoran Sun, Shi Feng, Shang-Hua Teng, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Wei Chen
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF DOI Publication
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  Zhongxuan Liu, Yue Kang, Thomas C. M. Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
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  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
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  Dasha Metropolitansky, Jonathan Larson
  
  2026 ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication Video
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  Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
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  Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Yu Wang, Zinan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Shivank Garg, Sankalp Mittal, Manish Gupta
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  ICLR 2026 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Github
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  Ruiying Ma, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yanjie Gao, Francis Y. Yan
  
  ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) | April 2026
  
  DOI
- NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
  
  Yajie Zhou, Jiajun Ruan, Eric S. Wang, Sadjad Fouladi, Francis Y. Yan, Kevin Hsieh, Zaoxing Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Ranked 1st on the "Coding Agent" benchmark in Berkeley's AgentX competition
  
  Publication
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  Bowen Cao, Dongdong Zhang, Yixia Li, Junpeng Liu, Shijue Huang, Chufan Shi, Hongyuan Lu, Yaokang Wu, Guanhua Chen, Wai Lam, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
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  Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin, Tianhao Wang
  
  Usenix Security 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
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  Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
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  Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
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  Dongjun Lee, Changho Hwang, Kimin Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Preprint

- Integer-Centric Neural Video Compression
  
  Zhaoyang Jia, Wenxuan Xie, Zongyu Guo, Bin Li, Jiahao Li, Houqiang Li, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | June 2026
  
  Publication
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  Hanyang Wang, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Tianjun Mao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  Iskander Azangulov, Teodora Pandeva, Niranjani Prasad, Javier Zazo, Sushrut Karmalkar
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  DOI Publication
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  Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Juheon Yi, Shicheng Zheng, Yifei Shen, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Muhammad Muaz, Lili Qiu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
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  Zhihe Yang, Xufang Luo, Zilong Wang, Dongqi Han, Zhiyuan He, Dongsheng Li, Yunjian Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  Ruiying Ma, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yanjie Gao, Francis Y. Yan
  
  ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) | April 2026
  
  DOI
- VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability
  
  Dasha Metropolitansky, Jonathan Larson
  
  2026 ICLR’26 | April 2026
  
  Publication Video
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  Mingqing Xiao, Qingyan Meng, Zongpeng Zhang, Di He, Dongsheng Li, Zhouchen Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  Sourav Pal, Viet Luong, Hoseok Lee, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu, Richard Davidson, Won Hwa Kim, Vikas Singh
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | April 2026
  
  PDF
- Combinatorial Rising Bandits
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Preprint
- NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
  
  Yajie Zhou, Jiajun Ruan, Eric S. Wang, Sadjad Fouladi, Francis Y. Yan, Kevin Hsieh, Zaoxing Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Ranked 1st on the "Coding Agent" benchmark in Berkeley's AgentX competition
  
  Publication
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  Siwei Wang, Yifei Shen, Haoran Sun, Shi Feng, Shang-Hua Teng, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Wei Chen
  
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) | April 2026
  
  PDF DOI Publication
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  Zhongxuan Liu, Yue Kang, Thomas C. M. Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Publication
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  Dongjun Lee, Changho Hwang, Kimin Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | April 2026
  
  Preprint
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  Debjit Paul, D. Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, V. Prokhorov, L. Bolliger, Aysim Toker, Roy Miles, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Jasivan Sivakumar, Philipp Borchert, Ismail Elezi, Meiru Zhang, Kukjin Lee, Guchun Zhang, Jun Wang, Gerasimos Lampouras
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
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  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- From Easy to Hard++: Promoting Differentially Private Image Synthesis Through Spatial-Frequency Curriculum
  
  Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin, Tianhao Wang
  
  Usenix Security 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
  
  Kaiyi Huang, Yukun Huang, Xintao Wang, Zinan Lin, Xuefei Ning, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Yu Wang, Xihui Liu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text
  
  Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization
  
  Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Yu Wang, Zinan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Haoran Dang, Cuiling Lan, Hai Wan, Xibin Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Aashish Kolluri, Rishi Sharma, Manuel Costa, Boris Köpf, Tobias Niessen, Mark Russinovich, Shruti Tople, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Preprint Project
- Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search
  
  Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kiran Shiragur
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Project
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
  
  Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Training in Diffusion World Models
  
  Lior Cohen, Ofir Nabati, Kaixin Wang, Navdeep Kumar, Shie Mannor
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
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  Mingqian Feng, Xiaodong Liu, Weiwei Yang, Jialin Song, Xuekai Zhu, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
  
  Yuhang He, He Liang, Yash Jain, Andrew Markham, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR | February 2026
  
  Publication
- VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
  
  Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions
  
  Shivank Garg, Sankalp Mittal, Manish Gupta
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding
  
  Zeliang Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Hao Cheng, Hao Sun, Chenliang Xu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
  
  TrustGen Team, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
  
  Shengqiong Wu, Bobo Li, Xinkai Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shuicheng YAN, Hao Fei, Tat-Seng Chua
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- SeerAttention-R: Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning
  
  Yizhao Gao, Shuming Guo, Shijie Cao, Yuqing Xia, Yu Cheng, Lei Wang, Lingxiao Ma, Yutao Sun, Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Yu Hua, Ting Cao, Fan Yang, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication
- Score Distillation Beyond Acceleration: Generative Modeling from Corrupted Data
  
  Yasi Zhang, Tianyu Chen, Zhendong Wang, Yingnian Wu, Mingyuan Zhou, Oscar Leong
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2026
  
  Publication Publication
- How Far Are LLMs from Professional Poker Players? Revisiting Game-Theoretic Reasoning with Agentic Tool Use
  
  Min Lin, Enyan Dai, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuliang Yan, Zhenwei Dai, Jingying Zeng, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Hongcheng Gao, Chen Luo, Xiang Zhang, Qianyu He, Suhang Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics
  
  Bowen Cao, Dongdong Zhang, Yixia Li, Junpeng Liu, Shijue Huang, Chufan Shi, Hongyuan Lu, Yaokang Wu, Guanhua Chen, Wai Lam, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- In Agents We Trust, but Who Do Agents Trust? Latent Source Preferences Steer LLM Generations
  
  Mohammad Aflah Khan, Mahsa Amani, Soumi Das, Bishwamittra Ghosh, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Author's Version Publication DOI
- AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
  
  Mingyang Song, Haoyu Sun, Jiawei Gu, Linjie Li, Luxin Xu, Ranjay Krishna, Yu Cheng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning
  
  Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Tianhua Zhang, Youjun Chen, Jinyu Li, Helen M. Meng
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Hokyun Im, Euijin Jeong, Andrey Kolobov, Jianlong Fu, Youngwoon Lee
  
  ICLR 2026 | January 2026
  
  Publication
- Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed
  
  Brian Lu, Hongyu Zhao, Shuo Sun, Hao Peng, Rui Ding, Hongyuan Mei
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  Publication
- DoVer: Intervention-Driven Auto Debugging for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
  
  Ming-Jie Ma, Jue Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, S. Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SpaceControl: Introducing Test-Time Spatial Control to 3D Generative Modeling
  
  Elisabetta Fedele, Francis Engelmann, Ian Huang, O. Litany, Marc Pollefeys, Leonidas J. Guibas
  
  ICLR 2026 | December 2025
  
  Publication
- Beyond Membership: Limitations of Add/Remove Adjacency in Differential Privacy
  
  Gauri Pradhan, Joonas Jälkö, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin, Antti Honkela
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting
  
  Botao Ye, Boqi Chen, Haofei Xu, Dániel Baráth, Marc Pollefeys
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  Publication
- Align to Misalign: Automatic LLM Jailbreak with Meta-Optimized LLM Judges
  
  Hamin Koo, Minseon Kim, Jaehyung Kim
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Gistify! Codebase-Level Understanding via Runtime Execution
  
  Hyunji Lee, Minseon Kim, Chinmay Singh, Matheus Pereira, Atharv Sonwane, Isadora White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal, Zhengyan Shi, Alessandro Sordoni, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan, Lucas Caccia
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data
  
  Haoran Deng, Yingyu Lin, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu, Yizhou Sun, Yian Ma, Yeyun Gong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models
  
  Noah Golowich, Allen Liu, Abhishek Shetty
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- AESCoder: Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback
  
  Lingjie Jiang, Bang Xiao, Shaohan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Yupan Huang, Xun Wu, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- LoongRL: Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning over Long Contexts
  
  Siyuan Wang, Gaokai Zhang, L. Zhang, Ning Shang, Fan Yang, Dongyao Chen, Mao Yang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes
  
  Zhiyuan Feng, Zhaolu Kang, Qijie Wang, Zhiying Du, Jiongrui Yan, Shubin Shi, Chengbo Yuan, Huizhi Liang, Yu Deng, Qixiu Li, Rushuai Yang, Arctanx An, Leqi Zheng, Weijie Wang, Shawn Chen, Sicheng Xu, Yaobo Liang, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control-Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems
  
  Rishi Jha, Harold Triedman, Justin Wagle, Vitaly Shmatikov
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training
  
  Fan Chen, Audrey Huang, Noah Golowich, Sadhika Malladi, Adam Block, Jordan Ash, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dylan Foster
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Holdout-Loss-Based Data Selection for LLM Finetuning via In-Context Learning
  
  Ling Zhang, Xianliang Yang, Juwon Yu, Park Cheonyoung, Lei Song, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EvoTest: Evolutionary Test-Time Learning for Self-Improving Agentic Systems
  
  Yufei He, Juncheng Liu, Yue Liu, Yibo Li, Tri Cao, Zhiyuan Hu, Xinxing Xu, Bryan Hooi
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning
  
  Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
  
  Chuangchuang Tan, Xiang Ming, Jinglu Wang, Renshuai Tao, Bin Li, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
  Publication
- The Markovian Thinker
  
  Milad Aghajohari, Kamran Chitsaz, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Sarath Chandar, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron C. Courville, Siva Reddy
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models
  
  Tarek Naous, Philippe Laban, Wei Xu, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EEPO: Exploration-Enhanced Policy Optimization via Sample-Then-Forget
  
  Liang Chen, Xueting Han, Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Jing Bai, Hinrich Schutze, Kam-Fai Wong
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading
  
  Zifan Song, Kaitao Song, Guosheng Hu, Ding Qi, Junyao Gao, Xiaohua Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs
  
  Dachuan Shi, Abedelkadir Asi, Keying Li, Xiangchi Yuan, Leyan Pan, Wenke Lee, Wen Xiao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Wavelet Predictive Representations for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
  
  Min Wang, Xin Li, Ye He, Yao-Hui Li, Hasnaa Bennis, Riashat Islam, Mingzhong Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Publication
- Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
  
  Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, V. Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, K. Olukotun
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
  
  Erfan Shayegani, Keegan Hines, Yue Dong, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Roman Lutz, Spencer Whitehead, Vidhisha Balachandran, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory
  
  Boshi Wang, Weijian Xu, Yunsheng Li, Mei Gao, Yujia Xie, Huan Sun, Dongdong Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates
  
  Jiaqi Li, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Hu, Leying Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Heng Lu, Manthan Thakker, Jinyu Li, Sheng Zhao, Zhizheng Wu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel
  
  Chuanyang Zheng, Jiankai Sun, Yihang Gao, Enze Xie, Yuehao Wang, Peihao Wang, Ting Xu, Matthew Chang, Liliang Ren, Jingyao Li, Jing Xiong, Kashif Rasul, Mac Schwager, Anderson Schneider, Zhangyang Wang, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models
  
  Thierry Blankenstein, Jialin Yu, Zixuan Li, Vassilis Plachouras, Sunando Sengupta, Philip H. S. Torr, Yarin Gal, Alasdair Paren, Adel Bibi
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent System for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images
  
  Shuoshuo Zhang, Zijian Li, Yizhen Zhang, Jingjing Fu, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Jun Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Rui Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
  
  Guolin Ke, Hui Xue
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- When MLLMs Meet Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs
  
  Jinming Liu, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng, Yan Lu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- In-Context Compositional Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
  
  Qiushui Xu, Yuhao Huang, Yushu Jiang, Lei Song, Jinyu Wang, Wenliang Zheng, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems
  
  Qian Cheng, Ruize Tang, Emilie Ma, Finn Hackett, Peiyang He, Yiming Su, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yu Huang, Xiaoxing Ma, Tianyin Xu
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner-Actor Collaboration
  
  Gaole Dai, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Yuqing Yang, Yuanchun Li, Rui Tan, Mo Li, Lili Qiu
  
  International Conference on Learning Representations | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
  
  Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Actions Speak Louder than Prompts: A Large-Scale Study of LLMs for Graph Inference
  
  Ben Finkelshtein, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Ryen W. White
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
  
  Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengli Li, Kaiyan Zhang, Che Jiang, Youbang Sun, Ermo Hua, Yuxin Zuo, Xingtai Lv, Qizheng Zhang, Lin Chen, Fanghao Shao, Bo Xue, Yunchong Song, Zhenjie Yang, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong Liu, Bowen Zhou, Hongyuan Mei, Zhouhan Lin
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
  
  Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, K. Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Y. Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- UnLoc: Leveraging Depth Uncertainties for Floorplan Localization
  
  Matthias Wüest, Francis Engelmann, Ondrej Miksik, Marc Pollefeys, Dániel Baráth
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Is In-Context Learning Learning?
  
  Adrian de Wynter
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Understanding and Improving Shampoo and SOAP via Kullback-Leibler Minimization
  
  Wu Lin, Scott C. Lowe, Felix Dangel, Runa Eschenhagen, Zikun Xu, Roger B. Grosse
  
  ICLR 2026 | September 2025
  
  Publication
- Any-Order Flexible Length Masked Diffusion
  
  Jaeyeon Kim, C. Lee, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yilun Du, S. Kakade, Timothy Ngotiaoco, Sitan Chen, M. S. Albergo
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Beyond Pass@1: Self-Play with Variational Problem Synthesis Sustains RLVR
  
  Xiao Liang, Zhong-zhi Li, Yeyun Gong, Yelong Shen, Yingchun Wu, Zhijiang Guo, Weizhu Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
  
  Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shivam Garg, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  Publication Author's Version
- VisCodex: Unified Multimodal Code Generation via Merging Vision and Coding Models
  
  Lingjie Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Xun Wu, Yixia Li, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  Publication
- Characterizing Deep Research: A Benchmark and Formal Definition
  
  Abhinav Java, Ashmit Khandelwal, S. Midigeshi, Aaron L Halfaker, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal, Ankur Gupta, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Harnessing Temporal Databases for Systematic Evaluation of Factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering in Large Language Models
  
  Soyeon Kim, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Steven Euijong Whang
  
  ICLR 2026 | August 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models
  
  Xiaoyu Chen, Hangxing Wei, Pushi Zhang, Chuheng Zhang, Kaixin Wang, Yanjiang Guo, Rushuai Yang, Yucen Wang, Xinquan Xiao, Li Zhao, Jianyu Chen, Jiang Bian
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
- Geometric-Mean Policy Optimization
  
  Yuzhong Zhao, Yue Liu, Junpeng Liu, Jingye Chen, Xun Wu, Yaru Hao, Tengchao Lv, Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Qixiang Ye, Fang Wan, Furu Wei
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- STITCH: Simultaneous Thinking and Talking with Chunked Reasoning for Spoken Language Models
  
  Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Shujie Liu, Zhendong Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Hung-yi Lee, Lijuan Wang
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
- Learning to summarize user information for personalized reinforcement learning from human feedback
  
  Hyunji Nam, Yanming Wan, Mickel Liu, Peter Ahnn, Jianxun Lian, Natasha Jaques
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2025
  
  Publication
- MMedAgent-RL: Optimizing Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Medical Reasoning
  
  Peng Xia, Jinglu Wang, Yibo Peng, Kaide Zeng, Xian Wu, Xiangru Tang, Hongtu Zhu, Yun Li, Shujie Liu, Yan Lu, Huaxiu Yao
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- CodeSense: a Real-World Benchmark and Dataset for Code Semantic Reasoning
  
  Monoshi Kumar Roy, Simin Chen, Benjamin Steenhoek, Jinjun Peng, Gail E. Kaiser, Baishakhi Ray, Wei Le
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Token-Importance Guided Direct Preference Optimization
  
  Ning Yang, Hai Lin, Yibo Liu, Baoliang Tian, Guoqing Liu, Haijun Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
  
  Sihan Chen, Dan Zhao, Jongwoo Ko, Colby R. Banbury, Huiping Zhuang, Luming Liang, Tianyi Chen
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- ELEPHANT: Measuring and understanding social sycophancy in LLMs
  
  Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  Publication
- AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Measurement of LLMs’ Value Difference
  
  Shitong Duan, Xiaoyuan Yi, Peng Zhang, Dongkuan Xu, Jing Yao, Tun Lu, Ning Gu, Xing Xie
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
  
  Philippe Laban, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yingbo Zhou, Jennifer Neville
  
  ICLR 2026 | May 2025
  
  ICLR 2026 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Github
- Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots
  
  Erfan Shayegani, G. M. Shahariar, Sara Abdali, Lei Yu, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, Yue Dong
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Hierarchical Concepts
  
  Yubin Wang, Xinyang Jiang, De Cheng, Xiangqian Zhao, Zilong Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | March 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Pretrain Value, Not Reward: Decoupled Value Policy Optimization
  
  Chenghua Huang, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Zhixu Li, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Dongmei Zhang, S. Rajmohan, Qi Zhang
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Memory-Efficient Training of LLMs
  
  Liming Liu, Zhenghao Xu, Zixuan Zhang, Hao Kang, Zichong Li, Chen Liang, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Towards Efficient Optimizer Design for LLM via Structured Fisher Approximation with a Low-Rank Extension
  
  Wenbo Gong, Meyer Scetbon, Chao Ma, Edward Meeds
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  Publication
- LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts
  
  Jihoon Tack, Jack Lanchantin, Jane Yu, Andrew Cohen, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lan, Shibo Hao, Yuandong Tian, Jason Weston, Xian Li
  
  ICLR 2026 | February 2025
  
  DOI Publication
- Combinatorial Rising Bandit
  
  Seockbean Song, Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok
  
  ICLR 2026 | November 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Refining Counterfactual Explanations With Joint-Distribution-Informed Shapley Towards Actionable Minimality
  
  Lei You, Yijun Bian, Lele Cao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2024
  
  DOI Publication
- Hey, That’s My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
  
  Mark Russinovich, Ahmed Salem, Yanan Cai
  
  ICLR 2026 | July 2024
  
  DOI Publication

Microsoft at ICLR 2026

Publications

Integer-Centric Neural Video Compression

A Nash Equilibrium Framework For Training-Free Multimodal Step Verification

Text2Grad: Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Feedback

Do Not Let Low-Probability Tokens Over-Dominate in RL for LLMs

Forward-Learned Discrete Diffusion: Learning how to noise to denoise faster

MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation

Parallel Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Conditional Independence Testing

VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability

VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL

Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective

Combinatorial Rising Bandits

Learning to Generate Unit Test via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Lipschitz Bandits with Stochastic Delayed Feedback

MnemoDyn: Learning Resting State Dynamics from 40K FMRI sequences

NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation

Online Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Training of Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Networks

A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis

Exploring Interpretability for Visual Prompt Tuning with Cross-layer Concepts

FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation

From Easy to Hard++: Promoting Differentially Private Image Synthesis Through Spatial-Frequency Curriculum

NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization

PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text

Optimizing Agent Planning for Security and Autonomy

Temperature as a Meta-Policy: Adaptive Temperature in LLM Reinforcement Learning

GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing

Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search

Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Training in Diffusion World Models

SEMA: Simple yet Effective Learning for Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attacks

Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale

Score Distillation Beyond Acceleration: Generative Modeling from Corrupted Data

SeerAttention-R: Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning

Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking

Text2Arch: A Dataset for Generating Scientific Architecture Diagrams from Natural Language Descriptions

Training Large Reasoning Models Efficiently via Progressive Thought Encoding

TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models

VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion

How Far Are LLMs from Professional Poker Players? Revisiting Game-Theoretic Reasoning with Agentic Tool Use

From Abstract to Contextual: What LLMs Still Cannot Do in Mathematics

In Agents We Trust, but Who Do Agents Trust? Latent Source Preferences Steer LLM Generations

AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning

EmotionThinker: Prosody-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Explainable Speech Emotion Reasoning

TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models

Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed

DoVer: Intervention-Driven Auto Debugging for LLM Multi-Agent Systems

SpaceControl: Introducing Test-Time Spatial Control to 3D Generative Modeling

Beyond Membership: Limitations of Add/Remove Adjacency in Differential Privacy

YoNoSplat: You Only Need One Model for Feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting

Align to Misalign: Automatic LLM Jailbreak with Meta-Optimized LLM Judges

Gistify! Codebase-Level Understanding via Runtime Execution

Beyond Length: Quantifying Long-Range Information for Long-Context LLM Pretraining Data

Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models

AESCoder: Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback

LoongRL: Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Reasoning over Long Contexts

Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control-Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems

Holdout-Loss-Based Data Selection for LLM Finetuning via In-Context Learning

The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training

EvoTest: Evolutionary Test-Time Learning for Self-Improving Agentic Systems

Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning

Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images

Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents

Flipping the Dialogue: Training and Evaluating User Language Models

The Markovian Thinker

EEPO: Exploration-Enhanced Policy Optimization via Sample-Then-Forget

Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models

SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reasoning LLMs

Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading

Wavelet Predictive Representations for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning

Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness

FlexiCodec: A Dynamic Neural Audio Codec for Low Frame Rates

Improving Code Localization with Repository Memory

BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models

Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel

Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation

PixelCraft: A Multi-Agent System for High-Fidelity Visual Reasoning on Structured Images

When MLLMs Meet Compression Distortion: A Coding Paradigm Tailored to MLLMs

In-Context Compositional Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning

SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems