Ax Stefano Woerner, Seong Joon Oh, Christian F. Baumgartner 2/17/2026

Universal Algorithm-Implicit Learning

Theoretical framework for meta-learning defining practical universality and distinguishing algorithm-implicit learning capabilities.

Ax Julien Siems, Riccardo Grazzi, Kirill Kalinin, Hitesh Ballani, Babak Rahmani 2/17/2026

Learning State-Tracking from Code Using Linear RNNs

Converts state-tracking tasks from sequence-to-sequence to next-token prediction format for training language models with linear RNNs.

Ax Yu Huang, Zixin Wen, Yuejie Chi, Yuting Wei, Aarti Singh, Yingbin Liang, Yuxin Chen 2/17/2026

On the Learning Dynamics of RLVR at the Edge of Competence

Theoretical analysis of training dynamics in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for transformers on compositional reasoning tasks.

Ax Jivat Neet Kaur, Isaac Gibbs, Michael I. Jordan 2/17/2026

Locally Adaptive Multi-Objective Learning

Online learning approach for multi-objective prediction with adaptive algorithms handling arbitrary distribution shift and multiple simultaneous objectives.

Ax Alicja Maksymiuk, Alexandre Duplessis, Michael Bronstein, Alexander Tong, Fernanda Duarte, \.Ismail \.Ilkan Ceylan 2/17/2026

MacroGuide: Topological Guidance for Macrocycle Generation

Generative modeling framework for macrocycles incorporating topological guidance to enforce ring-shaped molecular constraints in drug discovery.

Ax Xander Davies, Giorgi Giglemiani, Edmund Lau, Eric Winsor, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal 2/17/2026

Boundary Point Jailbreaking of Black-Box LLMs

New jailbreak attack method (BPJ) that automatically evades classifier-based safeguards in frontier LLMs without requiring white/grey-box access.

Ax Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Zhihan Yang, Justin Deschenaux, Jingyu Liu, John Thickstun, Ante Jukic 2/17/2026

Scaling Beyond Masked Diffusion Language Models

First scaling law study comparing masked diffusion and uniform-state discrete diffusion language models, showing masked diffusion performance characteristics.

Ax Nicolas Bourriez, Alexandre Verine, Auguste Genovesio 2/17/2026

Spectral Collapse in Diffusion Inversion

Analysis of spectral collapse in diffusion inversion for unpaired image-to-image translation.