Ax Elisabeth Griesbauer, Leiv R{\o}nneberg, Arnoldo Frigessi, Claudia Czado, Ingrid Hob{\ae}k Haff 3/25/2026

Stepwise Variational Inference with Vine Copulas

Novel stepwise variational inference method using vine copulas for estimating complex latent dependencies in probabilistic models.

Ax Huy Hoang Nguyen, C\'edric Jung, Shirin Salehi, Tobias Gl\"uck, Anke Schmeink, Andreas Kugi 3/25/2026

Conformal Cross-Modal Active Learning

Active learning method leveraging vision-language foundation models for data-efficient visual recognition.

Ax Chuong Huynh, Hossein Souri, Abhinav Kumar, Vitali Petsiuk, Deen Dayal Mohan, Suren Kumar 3/25/2026

ARGENT: Adaptive Hierarchical Image-Text Representations

ARGENT: vision-language model using hyperbolic geometry to capture hierarchical structure of visual and linguistic concepts.

Ax Yunni Qu (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Bhargav Vaduri (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Karthikeya Jatoth (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), James Wellnitz (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dzung Dinh (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Seth Veenbaas (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jonathan Chapman (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Alexander Tropsha (Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Junier Oliva (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 3/25/2026

Reliable OOD Virtual Screening with Extrapolatory Pseudo-Label Matching

ML model for virtual screening in drug discovery handling out-of-distribution regions with extrapolatory pseudo-label matching.

Ax Ekaterina Kochetkova, Kshiteej Sheth, Insu Han, Amir Zandieh, Michael Kapralov 3/25/2026

Streaming Attention Approximation via Discrepancy Theory

BalanceKV: streaming algorithm for approximating attention computations in LLMs using geometric process to reduce memory requirements for long-context generation.

Ax Enrico Parisini, Tapabrata Chakraborti, Chris Harbron, Ben D. MacArthur, Christopher R. S. Banerji 3/25/2026

Leakage and Interpretability in Concept-Based Models

Information-theoretic framework for characterizing and measuring information leakage in concept-based models.

Ax Lorenzo Steccanella, Joshua B. Evans, \"Ozg\"ur \c{S}im\c{s}ek, Anders Jonsson 3/25/2026

Learning The Minimum Action Distance

State representation learning from trajectories using minimum action distance metric for MDPs.