Ax Christina Baek, Ricardo Pio Monti, David Schwab, Amro Abbas, Rishabh Adiga, Cody Blakeney, Maximilian B\"other, Paul Burstein, Aldo Gael Carranza, Alvin Deng, Parth Doshi, Vineeth Dorna, Alex Fang, Tony Jiang, Siddharth Joshi, Brett W. Larsen, Jason Chan Lee, Katherine L. Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Haakon Mongstad, Fan Pan, Anshuman Suri, Darren Teh, Jason Telanoff, Jack Urbanek, Zhengping Wang, Josh Wills, Haoli Yin, Aditi Raghunathan, J. Zico Kolter, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Pratyush Maini 3/18/2026

The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data

Study of specialized pretraining strategy using domain data during pretraining to improve finetuning performance and reduce forgetting.

Ax Hoang Phan, Quang H. Nguyen, Hung T. Q. Le, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Khoa D. Doan 3/18/2026

Decoding the Critique Mechanism in Large Reasoning Models

Study of how large reasoning models use backtracking and self-verification to detect and correct errors in complex logical reasoning tasks.

Ax Laurent Cheret, Vincent L\'etourneau, Isar Nejadgholi, Chris Drummond, Hussein Al Osman, Maia Fraser 3/18/2026

Manifold-Matching Autoencoders

Unsupervised autoencoder regularization by aligning pairwise distances between latent and input spaces on learned manifolds.

Ax Hangting Ye, Peng Wang, Wei Fan, Xiaozhuang Song, He Zhao, Dandan Gun, Yi Chang 3/18/2026

Deep Tabular Representation Corrector

Deep learning methods for tabular data using representation correction to improve on in-learning and pre-learning paradigms.

Ax Gregor Kornhardt, Jannis Chemseddine, Christian Wald, Gabriele Steidl 3/18/2026

Self-Aware Markov Models for Discrete Reasoning

Method for discrete reasoning using self-aware Markov models that correct errors in masked diffusion models through adaptive denoising.