Ax Jialai Wang, Ya Wen, Zhongmou Liu, Yuxiao Wu, Bingyi He, Zongpeng Li, Ee-Chien Chang 3/12/2026

Targeted Bit-Flip Attacks on LLM-Based Agents

Research paper introducing Flip-Agent, first framework for targeted bit-flip attacks on multi-stage LLM-based agent pipelines with external tools.

Ax Reza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Mohit Malu, Edison Thomaz, Giulia Pedrielli, Pavan Turaga, Hassan Ghasemzadeh 3/12/2026

Gated Adaptation for Continual Learning in Human Activity Recognition

Research paper on continual learning for wearable sensor activity recognition, addressing catastrophic forgetting in IoT human activity recognition systems.

Ax Dan Lee, Seungwook Han, Akarsh Kumar, Pulkit Agrawal 3/12/2026

Training Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

Proposes neural cellular automata for synthetic data generation in LLM pre-training to address natural language limitations and reduce human bias.

Ax Tianyu Pang, Yujie Fang, Zihang Liu, Shenyang Deng, Lei Hsiung, Shuhua Yu, Yaoqing Yang 3/12/2026

HTMuon: Improving Muon via Heavy-Tailed Spectral Correction

HTMuon optimizer improves upon Muon by preserving heavy-tailed weight spectra for more effective LLM training using spectral correction.

Ax Sijia Cui, Pengyu Cheng, Jiajun Song, Yongbo Gai, Guojun Zhang, Zhechao Yu, Jianhe Lin, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun Jiang 3/12/2026

CLIPO: Contrastive Learning in Policy Optimization Generalizes RLVR

CLIPO framework improving LLM reasoning by using contrastive learning in policy optimization to evaluate intermediate reasoning step correctness.

Ax Yasuyuki Fujii (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan), Emika Kameda (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Fukada (Production and Technology Department, NIPPN CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan), Yoshiki Mori (University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan), Tadashi Matsuo (National Institute of Technology, Ichinoseki College, Iwate, Japan), Nobutaka Shimada (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan) 3/12/2026

Few-Shot Adaptation to Non-Stationary Environments via Latent Trend Embedding for Robotics

Few-shot adaptation framework for robots in non-stationary environments using latent trend embeddings to handle concept shift.

Ax Ruicheng Ao, Hongyu Chen, Siyang Gao, Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi 3/12/2026

Designing Service Systems from Textual Evidence

Framework using LLMs to design service systems by analyzing textual evidence from customer support and compliance data to optimize configurations.