Ax Jiaxin Jiang, Lei Shi, Jiyuan Tan 3/19/2026

Mirror Descent on Riemannian Manifolds

arXiv paper proposing Riemannian Mirror Descent, generalizing first-order optimization methods to Riemannian manifolds with convergence guarantees.

Ax Marco De Nadai, Edoardo D'Amico, Max Lefarov, Alexandre Tamborrino, Divita Vohra, Mark VanMiddlesworth, Shawn Lin, Jacqueline Wood, Jan Stypka, Eliza Klyce, Keshi Dai, Timothy Christopher Heath, Martin D. Gould, Yves Raimond, Sandeep Ghael, Tony Jebara, Andreas Damianou, Vladan Radosavljevic, Paul N. Bennett, Mounia Lalmas, Praveen Chandar 3/19/2026

A Unified Language Model for Large Scale Search, Recommendation, and Reasoning

Unified LLM for search, recommendation, and reasoning over large heterogeneous catalogs generating unambiguous item references under latency constraints.

Ax Edoardo D'Amico, Marco De Nadai, Praveen Chandar, Divita Vohra, Shawn Lin, Max Lefarov, Paul Gigioli, Gustavo Penha, Ilya Kopysitsky, Ivo Joel Senese, Darren Mei, Francesco Fabbri, Oguz Semerci, Yu Zhao, Vincent Tang, Brian St. Thomas, Alexandra Ranieri, Matthew N. K. Smith, Aaron Bernkopf, Bryan Leung, Ghazal Fazelnia, Mark VanMiddlesworth, Timothy Christopher Heath, Petter Pehrson Skiden, Alice Y. Wang, Doug J. Cole, Andreas Damianou, Maya Hristakeva, Reid Wilbur, Tarun Chillara, Vladan Radosavljevic, Pooja Chitkara, Sainath Adapa, Juan Elenter, Bernd Huber, Jacqueline Wood, Saaketh Vedantam, Jan Stypka, Sandeep Ghael, Martin D. Gould, David Murgatroyd, Yves Raimond, Mounia Lalmas, Paul N. Bennett 3/19/2026

Deploying Semantic ID-based Generative Retrieval for Large-Scale Podcast Discovery at Spotify

Semantic ID-based generative retrieval system deployed at Spotify balancing long-term preferences with intent-aware podcast discovery using contextual signals.

Ax Qianpu Chen, Giulio Barbero, Mike Preuss, Derya Soydaner 3/19/2026

In Trust We Survive: Emergent Trust Learning

Emergent Trust Learning: lightweight trust-based control algorithm for AI agents enabling cooperation in competitive multi-agent environments with shared resources.

Ax Matthew Wiesner, Samuele Cornell, Alexander Polok, Lucas Ondel Yang, Luk\'a\v{s} Burget, Sanjeev Khudanpur 3/19/2026

Modeling Overlapped Speech with Shuffles

Uses shuffle products and finite-state automata to model overlapped speech for alignment and speaker-attributed transcription via marginalizing serializations.

Ax Narjes Ansari, C\'esar Feniou, Nicola\"i Gouraud, Daniele Loco, Siwar Badreddine, Baptiste Claudon, F\'elix Aviat, Marharyta Blazhynska, Kevin Gasperich, Guillaume Michel, Diata Traore, Corentin Villot, Thomas Pl\'e, Olivier Adjoua, Louis Lagard\`ere, Jean-Philip Piquemal 3/19/2026

The Convergence Frontier: Integrating Machine Learning and High Performance Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Drug Discovery

Framework integrating HPC, ML, and quantum computing for drug discovery, replacing trial-and-error with quantitative precision in molecular dynamics.

Ax Jefferson Hernandez, Swarnadeep Saha, Chenxi Whitehouse, Sanjeel Parekh, Calvin Murdock, Yuliang Li, W. Owen Brimijoin, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla 3/19/2026

Text-to-Stage: Spatial Layouts from Long-form Narratives

Language model infers stage-play layouts (scenes, positions, movements) from narrative text without explicit spatial cues, testing spatial reasoning capabilities.

Ax Dharshan Kumaran, Arthur Conmy, Federico Barbero, Simon Osindero, Viorica Patraucean, Petar Velickovic 3/19/2026

How do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence

Physics-informed ML surrogates for power grid simulation validation. Application of ML to scientific computing.

Ax Niladri Shekhar Dutt, Zifan Shi, Paul Guerrero, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Duygu Ceylan, Niloy J. Mitra, Xuelin Chen 3/19/2026

LoST: Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes

LoST: level-of-semantics tokenization method for 3D shape generation improving autoregressive 3D generative models.

Ax Jianrui Zhang, Yue Yang, Rohun Tripathi, Winson Han, Ranjay Krishna, Christopher Clark, Yong Jae Lee, Sangho Lee 3/19/2026

Unified Spatio-Temporal Token Scoring for Efficient Video VLMs

Token pruning framework for efficient video vision-language models reducing computational cost via temporal token scoring.

Ax Chuang Liu, Zelin Yao, Xueqi Ma, Mukun Chen, Luzhi Wang, Jia Wu, Wenbin Hu 3/19/2026

Hi-GMAE: Hierarchical Graph Masked Autoencoders

Hi-GMAE: hierarchical graph masked autoencoders for multi-scale self-supervised learning on graph-structured data.