Ax Shiyuan Li, Yixin Liu, Yu Zheng, Xiaofeng Cao, Shirui Pan, Heng Tao Shen 3/17/2026

Towards One-for-All Anomaly Detection for Tabular Data

OFA-TAD proposes generalist one-for-all anomaly detection for tabular data with cross-domain generalization, replacing dataset-specific training approaches.

Ax Jan Kobiolka, Christian Frey, Arlind Kadra, Gresa Shala, Josif Grabocka 3/17/2026

Learning to Order: Task Sequencing as In-Context Optimization

Demonstrates deep neural networks can meta-learn task sequencing from few demonstrations, enabling generalization to new sequencing problems without task-specific training.

Ax Ian Osband 3/17/2026

Delightful Policy Gradient

Delightful policy gradient method that addresses variance issues in policy gradient updates by accounting for action likelihood under current policy.

Ax Yu Hao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Qiuyu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Cheng Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Yawen Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Zhiqiang Zhang (Ant Group), Chuan Shi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) 3/17/2026

GNNVerifier: Graph-based Verifier for LLM Task Planning

GNNVerifier uses graph neural networks to verify and correct task plans generated by LLMs in autonomous agent systems, reducing hallucinations.

Ax Xuanfei Ren, Allen Nie, Tengyang Xie, Ching-An Cheng 3/17/2026

POLCA: Stochastic Generative Optimization with LLM

POLCA framework uses LLMs as optimizers to automatically improve complex systems like prompts and multi-turn agents through numerical rewards and text feedback.

Ax Kevin Taylor 3/17/2026

Directional Routing in Transformers

Introduces directional routing mechanism for transformer attention heads with learned suppression directions, analyzed via mechanistic interpretability.