Ax Devashish Gaikwad, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Gyunam Park 4/2/2026

Neuro-Symbolic Process Anomaly Detection

Neuro-symbolic approach combining neural networks with domain knowledge for process anomaly detection in event logs.

Ax Yufei Xu, Fanxu Meng, Fan Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Ruijie Zhou, Zhaohui Wang, Jiexi Wu, Zhixin Pan, Xiaojuan Tang, Wenjie Pei, Tongxuan Liu, Di yin, Xing Sun, Muhan Zhang 4/2/2026

HISA: Efficient Hierarchical Indexing for Fine-Grained Sparse Attention

HISA improves efficiency of sparse attention mechanisms by optimizing hierarchical indexing to reduce bottlenecks in token-level key selection for LLMs.

Ax Adrian Mart\'inez, Ananya Gupta, Hanka Goralija, Mario Rico, Sa\'ul Fenollosa, Tamar Alphaidze 4/2/2026

Evolution Strategies for Deep RL pretraining

Evolution strategies for Deep RL pretraining offering derivative-free, computationally efficient alternative to standard deep reinforcement learning.

Ax Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, David Balcells, Anton Bochkarev, Jacqueline M. Cole, Volker L. Deringer, Werner Dobrautz, Adrian Ehrenhofer, Thorben Frank, Pascal Friederich, Rico Friedrich, Janine George, Luca Ghiringhelli, Alejandra Hinostroza Caldas, Veronika Juraskova, Hannes Kneiding, Yury Lysogorskiy, Johannes T. Margraf, Hanna T\"urk, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Milica Todorovi\'c, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Mariana Rossi, Gianaurelio Cuniberti 4/2/2026

Perspective: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning

Perspective on sustainability challenges in AI-driven molecular and materials discovery across QM data, training, and automation pipelines.

Ax Anurag Kumar, Raghuveer Peri, Jon Burnsky, Alexandru Nelus, Rohit Paturi, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Yanjun Qi 4/2/2026

Robust Multimodal Safety via Conditional Decoding

Conditional decoding strategy (CASA) for improving safety alignment in multimodal LLMs against cross-modal attacks.

Ax Weyl Lu, Chenjie Hao, Yubei Chen 4/2/2026

Deep Networks Favor Simple Data

Study showing deep networks assign higher density to simpler out-of-distribution data than in-distribution test data.

Ax Yaqi Chen, Shixun Huang, Ryan Twemlow, Lei Wang, John Le, Sheng Wang, Willy Susilo, Jun Yan, Jun Shen 4/2/2026

A Cross-graph Tuning-free GNN Prompting Framework

Tuning-free GNN prompting framework for cross-graph adaptation without task-specific parameter updates.