Ax Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury, Afreen Shaik, Yaparla Bhargavi, Brahma Kumar 7/3/2026

The Wiola Architecture for Efficient Small Language Models

Wiola is a novel small language model architecture from first principles with spiral rotary positional encoding and gating mechanisms for efficient inference.

Ax Jiacheng Miao, Jonathan K Pritchard, James Zou 7/3/2026

The Agentic Garden of Forking Paths

Study showing AI agents capture analytical variation among human researchers; different personas enable agents to report divergent conclusions from identical datasets.

Ax Oskar J. Hollinsworth, Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Sam Adam-Day, Adam Gleave, Chris Cundy 7/3/2026

Scaling Trends for Lie Detector Oversight in Preference Learning

Scaling analysis of SOLiD, a lie detector-based oversight method for identifying deceptive LLM responses, showing improved scaling with larger models in preference learning.

Ax Xingyuan Dai, Yue Liu, Xiaoyan Gong, Qinghai Miao, Junyou Shang, Yutong Wang, Chao Guo, Yonglin Tian, Yizhang Chai, Chao Xiang, Yisheng Lv, Fei-Yue Wang 7/3/2026

Autonomous discovery of traffic laws with AI traffic scientists

Autonomous AI system discovers universal traffic laws from observational data to identify recurrent congestion patterns across cities.

Ax Xudong Wu, Jian Qian, Pangpang Liu, Vaneet Aggarwal, Jiayu Chen 7/3/2026

Distributionally Robust Listwise Preference Optimization

Distributionally robust listwise preference optimization for LLM alignment under ranking-label uncertainty from annotator inconsistency and noise.

Ax Chunjiang Liu, Xiaoyuan Wang, Haoyu Chen, Yizhou Zhao, Ming-Hsuan Yang, L\'aszl\'o A. Jeni 7/3/2026

SimWorlds: A Multi-Agent System for Dynamic 3D Scene Creation

SimWorlds enables LLM agents to generate dynamic 4D scenes with physics simulation from text, supporting liquids, particles, and articulated motion.

Ax Maximo Rulli (Sapienza University of Rome), Thomas Fontanari (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Petruzzi (Sapienza University of Rome), Federico Alvetreti (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgio Strano (Sapienza University of Rome), Donato Crisostomi (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgos Nikolaou (EPFL), Tommaso Mencattini (EPFL), Andrea Santilli (Independent researcher), Emanuele Rodol\`a (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Scardapane (Sapienza University of Rome), Alessio Devoto (Independent researcher) 7/3/2026

Subliminal Clocks: Latent Time Modelling in Diffusion Language Models

Studies latent time representations in Diffusion Language Models, showing they internally encode denoising progress information without explicit timestep conditioning.

Ax Joshua Adrian Cahyono 7/3/2026

Safety Targeted Embedding Exploit via Refinement

STEER identifies safety gaps in LLM multilingual and code-switching inputs, revealing models generate harmful responses outside English safety training distribution.

Ax Jiankai Jin, Xiangzheng Zhang, Zhao Liu, Wenzhuo Xu, Dongdong Yang, Deyue Zhang, Quanchen Zou 7/3/2026

ElephantAgent: Contextual State Continuity in Agentic Systems

ElephantAgent: framework for maintaining verifiable contextual state continuity in agentic systems under tool and memory poisoning attacks.