Ax Amir Noorizadegan, Sifan Wang 4/24/2026

Scaling of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

Systematic investigation of Gaussian scale parameter effects in Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks through first-layer geometry and approximation behavior.

Ax Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Charles Eret, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji 4/24/2026

How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments

Analysis of vision-language-action models in robotics for long-horizon tasks, examining how success metrics evaluate complex real-world manipulation problems.

Ax Shan Dong, Palakorn Achananuparp, Hieu Hien Mai, Lei Wang, Yao Lu, Ee-Peng Lim 4/24/2026

On Reasoning Behind Next Occupation Recommendation

Novel two-step reasoning approach using LLMs to enhance occupation prediction by generating reasons from career history before making recommendations.

Ax Zhaokun Wang, Jinyu Guo, Jingwen Pu, Hongli Pu, Meng Yang, Xunlei Chen, Jie Ou, Wenyi Li, Guangchun Luo, Wenhong Tian 4/24/2026

CAP: Controllable Alignment Prompting for Unlearning in LLMs

CAP method for selective knowledge unlearning in LLMs via controllable alignment prompting without modifying model weights, enabling closed-source model compliance.

Ax Lars van der Laan, Mark Van Der Laan 4/24/2026

Calibeating Prediction-Powered Inference

Calibrated prediction-powered inference method for semisupervised mean estimation with miscalibrated black-box predictors, extending augmented inverse-probability weighting.

Ax Yuchen Shi, Xin Guo, Huajie Chen, Tianqing Zhu, Bo Liu, Wanlei Zhou 4/24/2026

CSC: Turning the Adversary's Poison against Itself

CSC defense method against backdoor poisoning attacks in DNNs that leverages adversary's poison data to improve robustness without accuracy degradation.

Ax Shivam Rawat, Lucie Flek, Florian Mai, Nicholas Kluge Corr\^ea 4/24/2026

Reasoning Primitives in Hybrid and Non-Hybrid LLMs

Studies reasoning primitives (recall, state-tracking) in hybrid vs attention-only LLM architectures, evaluating suitability for joint reasoning tasks.

Ax Zhiqiu Lin, Chancharik Mitra, Siyuan Cen, Isaac Li, Yuhan Huang, Yu Tong Tiffany Ling, Hewei Wang, Irene Pi, Shihang Zhu, Ryan Rao, George Liu, Jiaxi Li, Ruojin Li, Yili Han, Yilun Du, Deva Ramanan 4/24/2026

Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight

Open datasets and benchmarks for precise video captioning using structured visual specification and human-AI oversight.

Ax Wujiang Xu, Jiaojiao Han, Minghao Guo, Kai Mei, Xi Zhu, Han Zhang, Dimitris N. Metaxas 4/24/2026

AEL: Agent Evolving Learning for Open-Ended Environments

Agent Evolving Learning: framework enabling LLM agents to learn from past episodes and improve behavior in open-ended environments.