Ax Guangchen Lan, Sipeng Zhang, Tianle Wang, Yuwei Zhang, Daoan Zhang, Xinpeng Wei, Xiaoman Pan, Hongming Zhang, Dong-Jun Han, Christopher G. Brinton 5/11/2026

MaPPO: Maximum a Posteriori Preference Optimization with Prior Knowledge

MaPPO: preference optimization for LLM alignment incorporating prior reward knowledge into Direct Preference Optimization framework.

Ax Yuqi Pan, Yupeng Feng, Jinghao Zhuang, Siyu Ding, Han Xu, Zehao Liu, Bohan Sun, Yuhong Chou, Xuerui Qiu, Anlin Deng, Anjie Hu, Shurong Wang, Peng Zhou, Man Yao, Jibin Wu, Jian Yang, Guoliang Sun, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li 5/11/2026

SpikingBrain: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models

SpikingBrain: spiking neural network-based large models addressing quadratic training and linear inference complexity bottlenecks in Transformers for long-context.

Ax Alexandre Galashov, Natha\"el Da Costa, Liyuan Xu, Philipp Hennig, Arthur Gretton 5/11/2026

Closed-Form Last Layer Optimization

Closed-form optimization method for neural network last layers using known linear solution during training.

Ax Alessandro De Palma, Greta Dolcetti, Caterina Urban 5/11/2026

Faster Verified Explanations for Neural Networks

FaVeX: algorithm for computing verified explanations of neural networks faster by dynamically combining verification techniques.

Ax Muhammad Bilal Shahid, Zhanhong Jiang, Prajwal Koirala, Soumik Sarkar, Cody Fleming 5/11/2026

Neural CDEs as Correctors for Learned Time Series Models

Predictor-Corrector framework using neural controlled differential equations to correct forecast errors in learned time-series models.

Ax John Cartmell, Mihaela Cardei, Ionut Cardei 5/11/2026

Bloom Filter Encoding for Machine Learning

Bloom filter-based data encoding method for ML that compresses features into fixed-length bit arrays with optional keyed hashing for obfuscation.

Ax Michael Y. Hu, Jane Pan, Ayush Rajesh Jhaveri, Nicholas Lourie, Kyunghyun Cho 5/11/2026

Neural Neural Scaling Laws

Neural scaling laws study showing diverse task-level scaling behaviors diverge from aggregate validation loss predictions.

Ax Saul Santos, Nuno Gon\c{c}alves, Daniel C. McNamee, Marcos Treviso, Andr\'e F. T Martins 5/11/2026

Sparse Attention as Compact Kernel Regression

Establishes formal correspondence between sparse attention mechanisms in transformers and compact kernel regression.

Ax Sahil Joshi, Agniva Chowdhury, Wyatt Bellinger, Amar Kanakamedala, Ekam Singh, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Aditya Desai, Anshumali Shrivastava 5/11/2026

SOCKET: SOft Collision Kernel EsTimator for Sparse Attention

arXiv paper introducing SOCKET, a soft collision kernel estimator for sparse attention in long-context LLM inference using locality-sensitive hashing.