Ax Jacob Adamczyk, Juan Sebastian Rojas, Rahul V. Kulkarni 3/16/2026

Thermodynamics of Reinforcement Learning Curricula

Applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics to formalize curriculum learning in reinforcement learning, proposing geometric framework interpreting reward parameters as task coordinates.

Ax Jacob Adamczyk, Adam Kamoski, Rahul V. Kulkarni 3/16/2026

Maximum Entropy Exploration Without the Rollouts

Develops efficient exploration methods for reinforcement learning maximizing entropy of steady-state visitation distribution without requiring rollouts during training.

Ax Ping He, Om Khangaonkar, Hamed Pirsiavash, Yikun Bai, Soheil Kolouri 3/16/2026

Sinkhorn-Drifting Generative Models

Establishes theoretical connection between drifting generative dynamics and gradient flows induced by Sinkhorn divergence with cross-minus-self decomposition.

Ax Vincent Zhihao Zheng, \'Etienne Marcotte, Arjun Ashok, Andrew Robert Williams, Lijun Sun, Alexandre Drouin, Valentina Zantedeschi 3/16/2026

Overcoming the Modality Gap in Context-Aided Forecasting

Investigates performance gap between multimodal and unimodal models in context-aided forecasting, proposing solutions for improving context quality in datasets.

Ax Jan Rathjens, Robin Schiewer, Laurenz Wiskott, Anand Subramoney 3/16/2026

Probing Length Generalization in Mamba via Image Reconstruction

Studies length generalization degradation in Mamba sequence models through controlled image reconstruction tasks, analyzing performance when inference lengths exceed training lengths.

Ax Haoyu Chu, Xiaotong Chen, Wei Zhou, Wenjun Cui, Kai Zhao, Shikui Wei, Qiyu Kang 3/16/2026

Lyapunov Stable Graph Neural Flow

Lyapunov stable graph neural flow uses control theory to defend GNNs against adversarial perturbations without adversarial training.

Ax Alexander K Taylor, Junyi Zhang, Ethan Ji, Vigyan Sahai, Haikang Deng, Yuanzhou Chen, Yifan Yuan, Di Wu, Jia-Chen Gu, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng, Amit Sahai, Wei Wang 3/16/2026

TaoBench: Do Automated Theorem Prover LLMs Generalize Beyond MathLib?

Benchmark evaluating automated theorem prover LLMs on novel mathematical frameworks beyond standard libraries.