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.

Ax Cheng Zhen, Prayoga, Nischal Aryal, Arash Termehchy, Garrett Biwer, Lubna Alzamil 3/19/2026

Learning Over Dirty Data with Minimal Repairs

Proposes minimal repair concept showing imputing all missing values unnecessary; identifies critical missing data subsets for accurate ML models.

Ax Peter Holderrieth, Ezra Erives 3/19/2026

An Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models

Tutorial on diffusion and flow-based generative models covering mathematical foundations, ODEs, SDEs, and core algorithms for image, video, and multi-modal generation.

Ax Yuxiang Ji, Ziyu Ma, Yong Wang, Guanhua Chen, Xiangxiang Chu, Liaoni Wu 3/19/2026

Tree Search for LLM Agent Reinforcement Learning

Tree-based group relative policy optimization for LLM agents addressing sparse supervision in multi-turn tasks.