Ax Xinyang Lu, Jiabao Pan, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, See-Kiong Ng, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low 7/7/2026

De-attribute to Forget for LLM Unlearning

LLM unlearning method using de-attribution to remove inappropriate training data influence while maintaining model utility and avoiding over-forgetting.

Ax Wanghan Xu, Shuo Li, Tianlin Ye, Qinglong Cao, Yixin Chen, Hengjian Gao, Yiheng Wang, Qi Li, Kun Li, Sheng Xu, Shengdu Chai, Fangchen Yu, Xiangyu Zhao, Zhangrui Zhao, Weijie Ma, Zijie Guo, Koutian Wu, Haoyu Zhou, Haoxiang Yin, Lixue Cheng, Chaofan Hu, Haoxuan Li, Lu Mi, Xuxuan Xie, Yifan Zhou, Ruizhe Chen, Zhiwang Zhou, Xingjian Guo, Yuhao Zhou, Xuming He, Shengyuan Xu, Xinyu Gu, Jiamin Wu, Mianxin Liu, Chunfeng Song, Fenghua Ling, Dongzhan Zhou, Shixiang Tang, Yuqiang Li, Mao Su, Peng Ye, Siqi Sun, Bin Wang, Xue Yang, Zhenfei Yin, Tianfan Fu, Guangtao Zhai, Wanli Ouyang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Wenlong Zhang 7/7/2026

ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

ResearchClawBench: benchmark for evaluating autonomous AI coding agents on 40 scientific research tasks across 10 domains with real published papers and multimodal evaluation rubrics.

Ax Yuhan Liu, Pei Fu, Hang Li, Yukun Qi, Chao Jiang, Jingwen Fu, Zhen Liu, Bin Qin, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Jingmin Xin 7/7/2026

ELVA: Exploring Ranking-Driven Universal Multimodal Retrieval

ELVA improves multimodal retrieval using ranking-driven contrastive learning with MLLMs to address grain-level information blindness in universal retrieval.

Ax Yufei Li, Zaiwei Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Kavosh Asadi, Jay Xu, Jimmy Kim, Chongyang Bai, Jieyi Zhang, Hongye Xie, Prachi Agrawal, Dian Yu, Tianyi Chen, Jean-Pascal Billaud, Garret Buell, Yongkang Zhu, Sachin Patil, Brooke Bian, Zhou Fang, Kevin Huang, Shiva Sudanagunta, Yuzhen Huang, Emma Lu, Chris O'Brien, Yang Song, Lihong Li, Jacob Tao, Zhicheng Zhu, Chao Li, Gaoxiang Liu, Neil Wu, Zhongyin Hu, Li Han, Loki Chen, Ming Lei, Greg Rehm, Siyuan Song, Tianwei Zhang, Li Li, Ketan Singh, Yavuz Yetim, Ilyas Atishev, Satendra Gera, Ashkan Sadeghi, Rachel Yan, Nikko Mizutani, Shuaiwen Wang, Song Yang, Zhijing Li, Jiang Liu, Mengying Sun, Fei Tian, Xiaohan Wei, Chonglin Sun, Shuo Gu, Parish Aggarwal, Senthil Manickavelu, Kaushik Rangadurai, Zhi Hua, Frank Shyu, Ruchit Sharma, Liyuan Li, Shike Mei, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Ben Schulte, Deepak Chandra, Yang Song, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon 7/7/2026

GR2 Technical Report

Technical report on GR2, an LLM-based re-ranking system for industrial recommendation pipelines addressing deployment gaps.

Ax Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou, Hejian Sang, Xiaomin Li, Jiaxin Zhang, Xinchen Du, Sen Na, Zhipeng Wang, Alborz Geramifard 7/7/2026

TRIAGE: Role-Typed Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Credit assignment method for agentic reinforcement learning that differentiates between exploration and regressive actions in multi-step agent trajectories.

Ax Chengzhi Hu, Xuewen Liu, Jing Zhang, Mengjuan Chen, Zhikai Li, Qingyi Gu 7/7/2026

Post-Training Pruning for Diffusion Transformers

Develops post-training pruning methods for diffusion transformers to reduce computational overhead in image generation models.

Ax Zhuoxuan Zhang (Yang), Kangqi Ni (Yang), Yuhang Chen (Yang), Mingfu Liang (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Yunchen Pu (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Luke Simon, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu 7/7/2026

Diffusion-GR2: Diffusion Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

Block-diffusion decoder for faster generative reasoning re-rankers in recommendation systems, parallelizing token generation to reduce inference latency.

Ax Dang Quang Thien Tran, Quang V. Dang, Vinamra Tyagi, Sai Soorya Rao Veeravalli, Trang Nguyen, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Nedim Lipka, Koustava Goswami, Samyadeep Basu 7/7/2026

MultAttnAttrib: Training-Free Multimodal Attribution in Long Document Question Answering

Training-free attribution method for multimodal QA systems that maps model outputs to evidence using attention mechanisms for improved transparency in AI assistants.

Ax Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, Jesse Thomason, David Traum 7/7/2026

DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents

Q-learning framework for dynamically selecting dialogue policies in high-stakes persuasion scenarios with LLMs, addressing personalized strategy selection for resident evacuation.

Ax Yunhe Li, Hao Shi, Wenhao Liu, Mengzhe Ruan, Hanxu Hou, Zhongxiang Dai, Shuang Qiu, Linqi Song 7/7/2026

DemoPSD: Disagreement-Modulated Policy Self-Distillation

DemoPSD: disagreement-modulated policy self-distillation for LLMs reducing overfitting from privileged information while improving reasoning.