Ax Yan Xie, Tiansheng Wen, Tangda Huang, Bo Chen, Chenyu You, Stefanie Jegelka, Yifei Wang 3/25/2026

Scaling Attention via Feature Sparsity

Sparse Feature Attention method reducing transformer self-attention cost via k-sparse feature representations instead of sequence-level sparsity.

Ax Shreyansh Padarha, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Tristan Naidoo, Lingyi Yang, {\L}ukasz Borchmann, Piotr B{\L}aszczyk, Christian Morgenstern, Ruth McCabe, Sangeeta Bhatia, Philip H. Torr, Jakob Foerster, Scott A. Hale, Thomas Rawson, Anne Cori, Elizaveta Semenova, Adam Mahdi 3/25/2026

AgentSLR: Automating Systematic Literature Reviews in Epidemiology with Agentic AI

AgentSLR uses agentic AI to automate systematic literature reviews in epidemiology from retrieval through synthesis.

Ax Hanglin Li, Shuchang Tian, Chen Lin, Zhiyong Zhao, Kun Zhan 3/25/2026

FAAR: Format-Aware Adaptive Rounding for NVFP4

FAAR quantization method for NVFP4 ultra-low-bit format that adapts rounding to non-uniform numerical grid for efficient LLM edge deployment.

Ax Yuren Cai, Guangyi Wang, Zongqing Li, Li Li, Zhihui Liu, Songzhi Su 3/25/2026

Three Creates All: You Only Sample 3 Steps

MTEO method for few-step diffusion sampling by distilling layer-wise, step-wise time embeddings to accelerate inference.

Ax Davide Bucciarelli, Evelyn Turri, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara 3/25/2026

Tiny Inference-Time Scaling with Latent Verifiers

Inference-time scaling method using small latent verifiers instead of multimodal LLMs to score and select outputs while reducing computational cost.

Ax Shoubin Yu, Lei Shu, Antoine Yang, Yao Fu, Srinivas Sunkara, Maria Wang, Jindong Chen, Mohit Bansal, Boqing Gong 3/25/2026

Ego2Web: A Web Agent Benchmark Grounded in Egocentric Videos

Ego2Web benchmark for multimodal web agents grounded in egocentric video, evaluating agents performing real-world workflows with physical context awareness.