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3 accepted papers

2026

BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language

ICML 2026poster

While humans develop core visual skills long before acquiring language, contemporary Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) still rely heavily on linguistic priors to compensate for their fragile visual understanding. We uncovered a crucial fact: state-of-the-art MLLMs consistently fail on basic visual tasks that …

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2026

Nonparametric Teaching of Attention Learners

ICLR 2026poster

Attention learners, neural networks built on the attention mechanism, e.g., transformers, excel at learning the implicit relationships that relate sequences to their corresponding properties, e.g., mapping a given sequence of tokens to the probability of the next token. However, the learning process…

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2026

SWINGARENA: Adversarial Programming Arena for Long-context GitHub Issue Solving

ICLR 2026oral

We present \textsc{SwingArena}, a adversarial evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) that closely mirrors real-world software development workflows. Unlike traditional static benchmarks, \textsc{SwingArena} models the collaborative process of software iteration by pairing LLMs as \tex…

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