Ax Tianwei Chen, Takuya Furusawa, Yuki Hirakawa, Ryotaro Shimizu, Mo Fan, Takashi Wada 5/15/2026

MultiEmo-Bench: Multi-label Visual Emotion Analysis for Multi-modal Large Language Models

Multi-label visual emotion analysis benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models on image emotion prediction tasks.

Ax Matteo Cobelli, Stefano Sanvito 5/15/2026

Agentic Design of Compositional Descriptors via Autoresearch for Materials Science Applications

AI agent framework (Automat) for automated design of material descriptors through iterative proposal, implementation, and evaluation for materials science.

Ax Vicent Briva-Iglesias, Mar\'ia Ferre-Fern\'andez 5/15/2026

AI-assisted cultural heritage dissemination: Comparing NMT and glossary-augmented LLM translation in rock art documents

Comparing neural machine translation and glossary-augmented LLM approaches for translating specialized rock art terminology in cultural heritage documents.

Ax Konstantinos Kontras, Trui Osselaer, Stylianos G. Mouslech, Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou, Guido Gagliardi, Thomas Strypsteen, Mohammad Hossein Badiei, Anku Rani, Maarten Vanmarcke, Miguel Bhagubai, Chanakya Ekbote, Jaedong Hwang, Christos Chatzichristos, Paul Pu Liang, Maarten De Vos 5/15/2026

NeuroAtlas: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Clinical EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Benchmarking foundation models on EEG and brain-computer interface tasks with standardized datasets and metrics for clinical relevance evaluation.

Ax Posheng Chen, Powen Cheng, Gueter Josmy Faure, Hung-Ting Su, Winston H. Hsu 5/15/2026

SceneFunRI: Reasoning the Invisible for Task-Driven Functional Object Localization

arXiv paper on SceneFunRI: vision-language model benchmark for reasoning about occluded objects using spatial reasoning and context inference.

Ax Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin, Zhaolong Shen, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Yurun Jin, Haishan Liu, Changti Wu, Hang Yuan, Cong Huang, Kai Chen 5/15/2026

IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation

arXiv paper on IntentVLA: vision-language model for robot manipulation handling multimodal demonstrations and intent disambiguation.

Ax Krish Sharma, Omar Naim, Soumadeep Saha, Nicholas Asher 5/15/2026

TAPIOCA: Why Task- Aware Pruning Improves OOD model Capability

arXiv paper investigating task-aware layer pruning for LLMs; shows pruning improves out-of-distribution performance while maintaining in-distribution accuracy.

Ax Jos\'e Manuel de la Chica Rodr\'iguez, Carlos Mart\'i-Gonz\'alez 5/15/2026

Mechanical Enforcement for LLM Governance:Evidence of Governance-Task Decoupling in Financial Decision Systems

arXiv paper on governance failures in LLM-based financial systems; proposes metrics for auditable decision-making compliance beyond task accuracy.

Ax Weimin Xiong, Shuhao Gu, Bowen Ye, Zihao Yue, Lei Li, Feifan Song, Sujian Li, Hao Tian 5/15/2026

Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining

arXiv paper on Video2GUI: automated framework synthesizing large-scale GUI interaction data for pretraining generalized GUI agents using video.

Ax Sangwoo Kim 5/15/2026

Non-linear Interventions on Large Language Models

arXiv paper extending intervention methods for LLMs beyond linear approaches to capture non-linear feature representations in model internals.

Ax Yi Wang, Hongye Qiu, Yue Xu, Sibei Yang, Zhan Qin, Minlie Huang, Wenjie Wang 5/15/2026

EVA: Editing for Versatile Alignment against Jailbreaks

arXiv paper on EVA: defense against LLM jailbreaks through editing techniques to improve model safety alignment without computational overhead.

Ax Qirui Liu, Hao Chen, Weijie Shi, Jiajie Xu, Jia Zhu 5/15/2026

Cognitive-Uncertainty Guided Knowledge Distillation for Accurate Classification of Student Misconceptions

Knowledge distillation approach for identifying student misconceptions in educational settings with noisy labels.

Ax Hongyu Lin, Antonio Briola, Yuanrong Wang, Tomaso Aste 5/15/2026

Compositional Sparsity as an Inductive Bias for Neural Architecture Design

Theoretical analysis of compositional sparsity as inductive bias enabling deep networks to overcome curse of dimensionality.

Ax Titouan Parcollet, Shucong Zhang, Xianrui Zheng, Rogier C. van Dalen 5/15/2026

Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation with a SpeechLLM

SpeechLLM system for streaming speech-to-text translation in real-time without waiting for complete utterances.

Ax Suorong Yang, Hanqi Zhu, Hai Gan, Fangjian Su, Guang Li, Furao Shen, Soujanya Poria 5/15/2026

Beyond What to Select: A Plug-and-play Oscillatory Data-Volume Scheduling for Efficient Model Training

Data selection scheduling method that dynamically adjusts training data volume throughout model training.

Ax William Lugoloobi, Samuelle Marro, Jabez Magomere, Joss Wright, Chris Russell 5/15/2026

Known By Their Actions: Fingerprinting LLM Browser Agents via UI Traces

Security analysis showing LLM browser agents can be fingerprinted through UI interaction traces and timing patterns.

Ax Songyang Gao, Yinghui Xia, Siyi Liu, Hui Xiong 5/15/2026

Graphs of Research: Citation Evolution Graphs as Supervision for Research Idea Generation

LLM-based research idea generation using citation evolution graphs as structural supervision signal.

Ax Licong Xu, Thomas Borrett 5/15/2026

Beyond AI as Assistants: Toward Autonomous Discovery in Cosmology

Autonomous AI agents for scientific discovery in cosmology using LLM-guided code evolution and multi-agent research labs.

Ax Paolo Mandica, Micha{\l} Brzozowski, Zuzanna Dubanowska, Neo Christopher Chung 5/15/2026

GPart: End-to-End Isometric Fine-Tuning via Global Parameter Partitioning

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning method improving upon LoRA through isometric global parameter partitioning.

Ax Thomas Witt 5/15/2026

XFP: Quality-Targeted Adaptive Codebook Quantization with Sparse Outlier Separation for LLM Inference

Dynamic weight quantization method for efficient LLM inference with adaptive codebook sizing and quality targets.

Ax Zhigao Huang, Zhengqing Hu, Dong Chen, Shaohan Zhang, Zhao Jin, Bo Zhang, Han Wu, Mingliang Xu 5/15/2026

IFPV: An Integrated Multi-Agent Framework for Generative Operational Planning and High-Fidelity Plan Verification

Multi-agent framework integrating operational plan generation and verification for complex battlefield planning.

Ax Zheng Yan, Jingxiang Weng, Charles Chen, Dengyun Peng, Ethan Qin, Jiannan Guan, Jinhao Liu, Qiming Yu, Yixin Yuan, Fanqing Meng, Carl Che, Mengkang Hu 5/15/2026

Do Coding Agents Understand Least-Privilege Authorization?

Evaluation of whether coding agents understand least-privilege authorization principles for safe deployment.

Ax Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Kangjin Wang, Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Rongqian Wang, Xi Peng, Meiling Wang, Gong Zhang, Renhai Chen, Ying Li 5/15/2026

Towards In-Depth Root Cause Localization for Microservices with Multi-Agent Recursion-of-Thought

Multi-agent AI system with recursion-of-thought for root cause localization in microservice systems.

Ax Hanbo Cheng, Limin Lin, Ruo Zhang, Yicheng Pan, Jun Du 5/15/2026

Unlocking Complex Visual Generation via Closed-Loop Verified Reasoning

Multi-step reasoning approach for text-to-image generation with closed-loop verification to handle complex semantics.

Ax Jakub Grzywaczewski, Dawid P{\l}udowski, Przemys{\l}aw Biecek 5/15/2026

Your CLIP has 164 dimensions of noise: Exploring the embeddings covariance eigenspectrum of contrastively pretrained vision-language transformers

Analysis of noise in CLIP vision-language model embeddings using spectral decomposition of covariance matrices.

Ax Senne Deproost, Denis Steckelmacher, Ann Now\'e 5/15/2026

Critic-Driven Voronoi-Quantization for Distilling Deep RL Policies to Explainable Models

Distillation method for converting deep RL policies to interpretable surrogate models using Voronoi quantization.

Ax Wei Ding, Yilin Li, Yudong Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Jiansheng Chen, Yu Wang 5/15/2026

MHSA: A Lightweight Framework for Mitigating Hallucinations via Steered Attention in LVLMs

MHSA: lightweight framework for mitigating hallucinations in vision-language models via steered attention mechanisms.

Ax Haoze Wu, Rocky Klopfenstein, Keith Farkas, Nina Narodytska 5/15/2026

Viverra: Text-to-Code with Guarantees

Viverra: text-to-code system generating verifiable, correct code with guarantees, reducing developer review burden.

Ax Xiaofei Hui, Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani, Shuohong Wang, Jeff W. Lichtman, Jun Liu 5/15/2026

MicroscopyMatching: Towards a Ready-to-use Framework for Microscopy Image Analysis in Diverse Conditions

MicroscopyMatching: framework for automated microscopy image analysis across diverse biological and imaging conditions.

Ax Sanjeev Manivannan, Shuban V 5/15/2026

Second-Order Actor-Critic Methods for Discounted MDPs via Policy Hessian Decomposition

Second-order actor-critic methods for discounted MDPs using policy Hessian decomposition for accelerated convergence.

Ax Rebecca Handler, Suhana Bedi, Nigam Shah 5/15/2026

Quantifying and Mitigating Premature Closure in Frontier LLMs

Study quantifying premature closure in frontier LLMs—inappropriate commitment under uncertainty—with mitigation strategies.

Ax Kai Yan, Alexander G. Schwing, Yu-Xiong Wang 5/15/2026

Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance

Method for improving sample efficiency in RLVR by using randomly selected few-shot guidance for LLM chain-of-thought tasks.

Ax Zihan Deng, Xiaozhen Zhong, Chuanzhi Xu 5/15/2026

COTCAgent: Preventive Consultation via Probabilistic Chain-of-Thought Completion

COTCAgent: LLM-based clinical decision support using probabilistic chain-of-thought reasoning on longitudinal EHR data.

Ax Kiljae Lee, Ziqi Liu, Weijing Tang, Yuan Zhang 5/15/2026

Generalized Priority-Aware Shapley Value

Generalized Priority-Aware Shapley Value: extension of Shapley value for valuation on arbitrary weighted priority graphs.

Ax Georgios Liargkovas, Mihir Nitin Joshi, Hubertus Franke, Kostis Kaffes 5/15/2026

SemaTune: Semantic-Aware Online OS Tuning with Large Language Models

SemaTune: LLM-based system for online OS tuning that models cross-knob policy structure for long-running service optimization.

Ax Tri Cao, Yulin Chen, Hieu Cao, Yibo Li, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen, Yuexin Li, Yufei He, Yue Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Bryan Hooi 5/15/2026

WARD: Adversarially Robust Defense of Web Agents Against Prompt Injections

WARD: defense framework against prompt injection attacks on web agents, improving robustness across unseen domains and attack patterns.

Ax Vinicius Covas, Jorge Alberto Hidalgo Toledo 5/15/2026

AI Knows When It's Being Watched: Functional Strategic Action and Contextual Register Modulation in Large Language Models

Study of linguistic adaptation in multi-agent LLM systems under social observation, examining LLM behavior as communicative actors.

Ax KiHyun Nam, Jungwoo Heo, Siu Bae, Ha-Jin Yu, Joon Son Chung 5/15/2026

SpeakerLLM: A Speaker-Specialized Audio-LLM for Speaker Understanding and Verification Reasoning

SpeakerLLM: audio-specialized LLM for speaker understanding, verification, and reasoning in audio-first agents and conversational robots.

Ax Anurup Ganguli 5/15/2026

TFGN: Task-Free, Replay-Free Continual Pre-Training Without Catastrophic Forgetting at LLM Scale

TFGN: architectural method for continual pre-training of LLMs without replay buffers or task labels, addressing catastrophic forgetting at scale.

Ax Alessio Caviglia, Filippo Marostica, Roberta Bardini, Alessandro Savino, Stefano Di Carlo 5/15/2026

NeuroTrain: Surveying Local Learning Rules for Spiking Neural Networks with an Open Benchmarking Framework

Survey of training algorithms for spiking neural networks with taxonomy and benchmarking framework.

Ax Mukul Ranjan, Prince Jha, Khushboo Kumari, Zhiqiang Shen 5/15/2026

On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models

Research identifying cultural anachronism in Vision-Language Models interpreting historical artifacts with temporally inappropriate concepts.

Ax Guangyu Feng, Huanzhi Mao, Prabal Dutta, Joseph E. Gonzalez 5/15/2026

Concurrency without Model Changes: Future-based Asynchronous Function Calling for LLMs

AsyncFC: Execution framework enabling concurrent function calling for LLM agents by decoupling decoding from function execution, reducing latency.

Ax Ziyin Zhang, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu, Peng Di, Rui Wang 5/15/2026

ML-Embed: Inclusive and Efficient Embeddings for a Multilingual World

ML-Embed: Suite of inclusive multilingual text embedding models addressing computational costs, linguistic coverage, and transparency barriers in open-source framework.

Ax Daniel Asare Kyei, Alimatu Saadia-Yussiff, Maame G. Asante-Mensah, Abdul Lateef-Yussiff, Charles Roland Haruna, Derry Emmanuel 5/15/2026

Novel Dynamic Batch-Sensitive Adam Optimiser for Vehicular Accident Injury Severity Prediction

DBS-Adam optimizer for deep learning on imbalanced/sequential datasets, applied to vehicular accident injury severity prediction.

Ax Renning Pang, Tian Lan, Leyuan Liu, Xiaoming Huang, Piao Tong, Xiaosong Zhang 5/15/2026

Improving Multi-turn Dialogue Consistency with Self-Recall Thinking

Method improving LLM multi-turn dialogue consistency using self-recall thinking to track non-adjacent turn dependencies and reduce context bottlenecks.

Ax Connor Douglas, Joel Persson, Foster Provost 5/15/2026

Logging Policy Design for Off-Policy Evaluation

Research on designing logging policies to minimize off-policy evaluation error for treatment policies like recommender systems.

Ax Sining Ang, Yuguang Yang, Canyu Chen, Yan Wang 5/15/2026

CLOVER: Closed-Loop Value Estimation \& Ranking for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Planning

CLOVER: Closed-loop value estimation and ranking for end-to-end autonomous driving planning with training-evaluation mismatch resolution.

Ax Laleh Nourian, Anisa Callis, Stephanie Patterson, Jadeline Miao, Jamison Heard, Garreth W. Tigwell 5/15/2026

Understanding How International Students in the U.S. Are Using Conversational AI to Support Cross-Cultural Adaptation

Study on international students using conversational AI (ChatGPT, Gemini) for cross-cultural adaptation support.

Ax Xiaohua Zhan, Kazuki Egashira, Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Martin Vechev 5/15/2026

Widening the Gap: Exploiting LLM Quantization via Outlier Injection

Security research on adversarial attacks exploiting LLM quantization via outlier injection, showing quantized models can exhibit malicious behavior.

Ax Yi Zhang, Yinda Chen, Che Liu, Zeyuan Ding, Jin Xu, Shilong Zou, Junwei Liao, Jiayu Hu, Xiancong Ren, Xiaopeng Zhang, Yechi Liu, Haoyuan Shi, Zecong Tang, Haosong Sun, Renwen Cui, Kuishu Wu, Wenhai Liu, Yang Xu, Yingji Zhang, Yidong Wang, Senkang Hu, Jinpeng Lu, Nga Teng Chan, Yechen Wu, Yong Dai, Jian Tang, Xiaozhu Ju 5/15/2026

Pelican-Unified 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action

Pelican-Unified 1.0: Embodied foundation model using single VLM for unified understanding, reasoning, imagination, and action in shared semantic space.