Ax Pengcheng Jiang, Judith Yue Li, Moonkyung Ryu, R. Lily Hu, Kun Su, Zhong Yi Wan, Liam Hebert, Hao Peng, Jiawei Han, Dima Kuzmin, Craig Boutilier 3/9/2026

Efficient, Property-Aligned Fan-Out Retrieval via RL-Compiled Diffusion

RL-based method for retrieving diverse, property-aligned result sets using diffusion models for set-valued retrieval objectives.

Ax Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo 3/9/2026

Semantics-Aware Caching for Concept Learning

Optimization technique using semantic-aware caching to improve instance retrieval efficiency in concept learning on knowledge bases.

Ax Yuanji Zhang, Yuhao Huang, Haoran Dou, Xiliang Zhu, Chen Ling, Zhong Yang, Lianying Liang, Jiuping Li, Siying Liang, Rui Li, Yan Cao, Yuhan Zhang, Jiewei Lai, Yongsong Zhou, Hongyu Zheng, Xinru Gao, Cheng Yu, Liling Shi, Mengqin Yuan, Honglong Li, Xiaoqiong Huang, Chaoyu Chen, Jialin Zhang, Wenxiong Pan, Alejandro F. Frangi, Guangzhi He, Xin Yang, Yi Xiong, Linliang Yin, Xuedong Deng, Dong Ni 3/9/2026

Artificial Intelligence for Detecting Fetal Orofacial Clefts and Advancing Medical Education

ML system trained on 45k+ ultrasound images to detect fetal orofacial clefts prenatally, addressing shortage of specialist expertise.

Ax Vishal Thengane, Zhaochong An, Tianjin Huang, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Lu Yin, Na Zhao, Xiatian Zhu 3/9/2026

SCOPE: Scene-Contextualized Incremental Few-Shot 3D Segmentation

SCOPE incremental few-shot 3D point cloud segmentation addressing catastrophic forgetting by leveraging unlabeled background scenes in sparse supervision settings.

Ax Tiago da Silva, Bruna Bazaluk, Eliezer de Souza da Silva, Ant\'onio G\'ois, Salem Lahlou, Dominik Heider, Samuel Kaski, Diego Mesquita, Ad\`ele Helena Ribeiro 3/9/2026

Expert-Aided Causal Discovery of Ancestral Graphs

Expert-aided causal discovery method incorporating background knowledge ex-post to improve reliability of ancestral graph discovery while minimizing expert probing costs.

Ax Ahmad Mousavi, Ramin Zandvakili, Zheming Gao 3/9/2026

L0-Regularized Quadratic Surface Support Vector Machines

L0-regularized kernel-free quadratic surface SVMs addressing overfitting and interpretability by reducing model parameters that scale quadratically with dimensionality.

Ax Xiangwen Wang, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Zhoujie Ding, Katherine Tsai, Haolun Wu, Sanmi Koyejo 3/9/2026

Aligning Compound AI Systems via System-level DPO

System-level DPO method for aligning compound AI systems with multiple interacting components including LLMs, foundation models, and external tools to human preferences.

Ax Haiqing Hao, Nikola Zubi\'c, Weihua He, Zhipeng Sui, Davide Scaramuzza, Wenhui Wang 3/9/2026

Maximizing Asynchronicity in Event-based Neural Networks

Asynchronous-to-synchronous paradigm for event cameras using learned feature encoding to improve expressivity and generalizability for sparse sequential visual data.

Ax Nodens Koren, Samuel Lanthaler 3/9/2026

Merging Memory and Space: A State Space Neural Operator

State Space Neural Operator for learning solution operators of time-dependent PDEs using structured state space models with adaptive damping and learnable frequency modulation.

Ax Fred Zhangzhi Peng, Zachary Bezemek, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Shuibai Zhang, Anru R. Zhang, Michael Bronstein, Alexander Tong, Avishek Joey Bose 3/9/2026

Planner Aware Path Learning in Diffusion Language Models Training

arXiv paper on training diffusion language models with planner-aware path learning to optimize generation strategies.

Ax Jaewoo Lee, Minsu Kim, Sanghyeok Choi, Inhyuck Song, Sujin Yun, Hyeongyu Kang, Woocheol Shin, Taeyoung Yun, Kiyoung Om, Jinkyoo Park 3/9/2026

Diffusion Alignment as Variational Expectation-Maximization

arXiv paper formulating diffusion model alignment as variational EM to reduce reward over-optimization and mode collapse.

Ax Timo Klein, Thomas Lang, Andrii Shkabrii, Alexander Sturm, Kevin Sidak, Lukas Miklautz, Claudia Plant, Yllka Velaj, Sebastian Tschiatschek 3/9/2026

Understanding and Improving Hyperbolic Deep Reinforcement Learning

Analysis of optimization challenges in hyperbolic deep RL identifying gradient factors affecting training success for hierarchical state embeddings.

Ax Chenghua Zhu, Siyan Wu, Xiangkang Zeng, Zishan Xu, Zhaolu Kang, Yifu Guo, Yuquan Lu, Junduan Huang, Guojing Zhou 3/9/2026

EDIS: Diagnosing LLM Reasoning via Entropy Dynamics

EDIS analyzes token-level entropy trajectories during LLM generation to diagnose reasoning quality beyond aggregate confidence statistics.