Ax Yang Sui, Jin Zhou, Hua Zhou, Xiaowu Dai 3/9/2026

Prediction-Powered Conditional Inference

Develops prediction-powered conditional inference method combining localization and prediction-based variance reduction for scarce labeled data.

Ax Dylan R. Ashley, Jan Przepi\'ora, Yimeng Chen, Ali Abualsaud, Nurzhan Yesmagambet, Shinkyu Park, Eric Feron, J\"urgen Schmidhuber 3/9/2026

RACAS: Controlling Diverse Robots With a Single Agentic System

Presents RACAS, an agentic system for controlling diverse robotic platforms with unified API and autonomous behavior pipeline.

Ax Tongda Xu, Mingwei He, Shady Abu-Hussein, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Haotian Zhang, Kai Zhao, Chao Zhou, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yan Wang 3/9/2026

Making Reconstruction FID Predictive of Diffusion Generation FID

Introduces interpolated FID metric to improve correlation between VAE reconstruction and diffusion model generation quality.

Ax Zhouchonghao Wu, Raymond Song, Vedant Mundheda, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Christof Schoenborn, Jeff Schneider 3/9/2026

TADPO: Reinforcement Learning Goes Off-road

Reinforcement learning approach for off-road autonomous driving handling unmapped terrain, variable dynamics, and long-horizon planning.

Ax Vittorio Rossi, Giacomo Cir\`o, Davide Beltrame, Luca Gandolfi, Paul R\"ottger, Dirk Hovy 3/9/2026

Diffusion Language Models Are Natively Length-Aware

Diffusion Language Models adapt generation length dynamically, reducing computational waste on short responses in reasoning tasks.

Ax Yifan Peng, Jiafei Fan, Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, Jianning Wang, Xiaojian Luo, Wenyuan Yu, Jingren Zhou, Haibo Chen 3/9/2026

Efficient Vector Search in the Wild: One Model for Multi-K Queries

Method for efficient vector search that generalizes across multiple K values in top-K retrieval without retraining, improving serving performance.

Ax Akash Haridas, Utkarsh Saxena, Parsa Ashrafi Fashi, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum 3/9/2026

Dynamic Chunking Diffusion Transformer

Diffusion Transformer variant with dynamic token chunking that adapts compute allocation based on image content detail and denoising stages.

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 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 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 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.