Ax Pum Jun Kim, Seung-Ah Lee, Seongho Park, Dongyoon Han, Jaejun Yoo 3/13/2026

On the Reliability of Cue Conflict and Beyond

Analysis of cue-conflict benchmarks for measuring neural network shape-texture bias, identifying instability in stylization-based bias estimation methods.

Ax Haihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Tommi K\"arkk\"ainen, Huiyan Xue, Zhonghua Chen, Qi Xu, Fengyu Cong 3/13/2026

Representation Finetuning for Continual Learning

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning approach for continual learning that controls representation-level adaptation in pretrained models.

Ax Jonas Mirlach, Sonia Laguna, Julia E. Vogt 3/13/2026

Reference-Guided Machine Unlearning

Machine unlearning method using reference-guided approach to remove data influence from trained models while preserving utility.

Ax Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Hamish Ivison, Huaisheng Zhu, Faeze Brahman, Nathan Lambert, Pradeep Dasigi, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi 3/13/2026

Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection for Agentic Search

MR-Search: meta-reinforcement learning framework for agentic search with self-reflection, enabling agents to improve in-context exploration.

Ax Andr\'es G. Mej\'ia Ram\'on, Kate Dudgeon, Nina Witteveen, Dolores Piperno, Michael Kloster, Luigi Palopoli, M\'onica Moraes R., Jos\'e M. Capriles, Umberto Lombardo 3/13/2026

Leveraging Phytolith Research using Artificial Intelligence

Sorometry pipeline for automated phytolith analysis using AI to digitize and classify microscope images, replacing manual labor-intensive analysis.

Ax Qijun Liao (School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), Jue Yang (School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), Yiting Kang (School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), Xinxin Zhao (School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), Yong Zhang (Jiangsu XCMG Construction Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd., China), Mingan Zhao (Jiangsu XCMG Construction Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd., China) 3/13/2026

Hybrid Energy-Aware Reward Shaping: A Unified Lightweight Physics-Guided Methodology for Policy Optimization

H-EARS combines potential-based reward shaping with energy-aware regularization for efficient deep reinforcement learning control.

Ax J\'er\^ome Adriaens (Neuroengineering Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Li\`ege), Guillaume Drion (Neuroengineering Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Li\`ege), Pierre Sacr\'e (Neuroengineering Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Li\`ege) 3/13/2026

Context-dependent manifold learning: A neuromodulated constrained autoencoder approach

Neuromodulated constrained autoencoders for context-dependent dimensionality reduction in varying environments.

Ax Aleksei Petrenko, Ben Lipkin, Kevin Chen, Erik Wijmans, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Raja Giryes, Philipp Kr\"ahenb\"uhl 3/13/2026

Entropy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning

Policy gradient methods for LLM reasoning naturally reduce trajectory diversity; proposes entropy-preserving training approach.