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.

Ax Om Roy, Yashar Moshfeghi, Keith Smith 3/25/2026

Graph Variate Neural Networks

Graph neural network architecture for modeling spatio-temporal signals with dynamic structure.

Ax Viacheslav Meshchaninov, Egor Shibaev, Artem Makoian, Ivan Klimov, Nikita Balagansky, Daniil Gavrilov, Aibek Alanov, Dmitry Vetrov 3/25/2026

Guided Star-Shaped Masked Diffusion

Novel sampling algorithm for masked diffusion models improving generation quality and efficiency.

Ax Bhavesh Kumar, Dylan Feng, Leonard Tang 3/25/2026

MJ1: Multimodal Judgment via Grounded Verification

arXiv paper MJ1: multimodal judge trained with RL enforcing visual grounding through structured verification chains and counterfactual consistency rewards.

Ax Sonia Laguna, Jorge da Silva Goncalves, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alain Ryser, Irene Cannistraci, Julia E. Vogt 3/25/2026

Rethinking Machine Unlearning: Models Designed to Forget via Key Deletion

arXiv paper proposing key deletion approach for machine unlearning designed at model development stage rather than post-hoc, addressing privacy regulations and data errors.