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NeurIPS 2026 — oral writing studies

The inventory contains 106 explicit accepted-oral records, including six with only a poster event so far. Statistics cover only actually inspected public author manuscripts. They do not represent every accepted paper or the accepted manuscript layouts.

Each study covers framing, argument order, visual explanation, comparison design, supporting-material navigation and wording. It is a writing-focused scan, not a proof audit or independent reproduction. Source versions and physically inspected visual pages are recorded per paper. Papers without retrieved full text remain visible without invented summaries or layout counts.

106 official oral records

68 source-inspected writing studies

0 selected scientific additions

Showing 106 of 106 papers.

001 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

Xun Liu, Yi E Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardissadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran

Writing lesson: A new behavioral benchmark should include contrastive task pairs, explicit metric denominators and observable-action checks, not only language-model judge opinions.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

002 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

The Attacker in the Mirror: Breaking Self-Consistency in Safety via Anchored Bipolicy Self-Play

Gabriele La Malfa, Emanuele La Malfa, Saar Cohen, Jie Zhang, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge, Elizabeth Black

Writing lesson: When changing a training interaction, contrast parameter and gradient paths directly and evaluate utility losses alongside the targeted safety gain.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

003 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

BEAST3D: animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding from multi-view video via Gaussian splatting

Yanchen Wang, Lenny Aharon, Wangshu Zhu, Kyle Daruwalla, Linghua Zhang, Jiaru Zou, Selmaan N Chettih, Xun H Hou, Liam Paninski, Matthew Whiteway

Writing lesson: For an applied representation paper, connect the acquisition constraints to the architecture and give each downstream evaluation its own question, protocol and unit of analysis.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for source-grounded writing analysis; scientific catalog promotion requires a separate method-focused review.

004 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

IDEA: Unwrapping Visual Black-box Models by Interaction Decomposition

Chaojie Ji, Jian Xu, He Zhang, Hongyan Wu, Yankai Cao, Ruxin Wang

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

005 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

HeMeR: Heterogeneous Memory Reconciliation for Embodied Agents via Structured KV Reuse

Saehun Chun, Wonje Choi, Jinwoo Jang, TaeYoon Kwack, Honguk Woo

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

006 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

ALTER: An Allen's Algebra-Based Evaluation Framework for Temporal Reasoning of LLMs

Zhou Hongkai, Yanhui Li

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

007 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

TALK: One-Shot Batch Design for Protein Variant Effect Prediction

qiao huang, Ao Shen, Jie Du, Manning Wang

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

008 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

PhaseLoRA: Control-Regime-Conditioned Low-Rank Adaptation for Continuous-Action Vision-Language-Action Policies

Yufei Guo, Yinan Wu, Haoran Duan, guiguang ding, Jungong Han

Writing lesson: For adaptive modules, put a mechanism-specific falsification control next to a time-aligned diagnostic rather than relying only on an overall success gain.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

009 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Learning interpretable Schur forms of recurrent weight matrices

Alexander Lanine, Liana Akobian, N Alex Cayco Gajic

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

010 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation

Jaehwi Song, Suchae Jeong, Byeongguk Jeon, Sungdong Kim, Hyungmok Son, Kimin Lee

Writing lesson: A dataset story should carry its taxonomy through collection, metrics and failure analysis, with explicit trial counts and inapplicable baseline cells.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

011 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Polar Transformers: SO(2)^K-Equivariant Angular Attention for Cryo-EM Image-Set Processing

Joakim Andén, Justus Sagemüller

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

012 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Fractional State Space Transition for Long Sequence Modeling

Ivan Kobyzev, Abbas Ghaddar, Ali Nasiri-Sarvi, Lifeng Shang, Yufei CUI

Writing lesson: Bridge a mathematical prior to an implementable recurrence, then test the targeted capability alongside capabilities that might regress.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

013 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

TiRex-2: Generalizing TiRex to Multivariate Data and Streaming

Patrick Podest, Marco Pichler, Elias Bürger, Levente Zólyomi, Bernhard Voggenberger, Wilhelm F Berghammer, Daniel Klotz, Sebastian Böck, Günter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter

Writing lesson: Pair a capability claim with explicit information-flow constraints, extrapolation boundaries and an ablation table that labels absolute values versus deltas.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

014 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Resilience Matters for Embodied Agents System: New Metrics, Systematic Evaluation, and Optimization

Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Xudong Gong, Feng Dawei, Bo Ding, Lin Wang, Huaimin Wang

Writing lesson: When proposing evaluation metrics, show why a familiar metric misses the phenomenon, validate the new dimensions, and report where metric-guided changes help.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

015 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

GeoSym127K: Scalable Symbolically-verifiable Synthesis for Multimodal Geometric Reasoning

Jinhao Jing, Zheng Ma, Jinwei Liang, Qiannian Zhao, Shuang Chen, Jing Yang, Prayag Tiwari, Jingjing Bai, Benyou Wang, Por L Yee, Zhan Su, Lewei Lu

Writing lesson: A synthetic-data paper needs a generation diagram, composition/attrition table, independent quality audit and downstream evidence, with different validation claims kept distinct.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

016 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models

Xingyu Dang, Rohit Agarwal, Rodrigo Porto, Anirudh Goyal, Liam Fowl, Sanjeev Arora

Writing lesson: For test-time reasoning systems, show accuracy versus monetary cost, disclose pricing date, and validate the grader rather than treating its score as ground truth.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

017 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Proactive Instance Navigation with Comparative Judgment for Ambiguous User Queries

Junhyuk Kwon, Seungjoon Lee, Hyejin Park, Kyle Min, Jungseul Ok

Writing lesson: For an interactive system, pair task outcomes with human burden and a staged failure decomposition that identifies where the proposed component can actually help.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

018 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators

Yuncong Yang, Zhengtao Han, Furkan Ozyurt, Zeyuan Yang, Han Yang, Junyi Cao, Haoyu Zhen, Yilun Du, Chuang Gan

Writing lesson: Separate model fidelity from downstream usefulness, and disclose diagnostic task selection beside the corresponding results.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for source-grounded writing analysis; scientific catalog promotion requires a separate method-focused review.

019 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Incentivizing Medical Vision Capabilities from Large-Scale Multimodal Pre-training

Junying Chen, Zhenyang Cai, Yunjin Yang, Kunyuan Cai, Rongsheng Wang, Xidong Wang, Geyang Yu, Xiangyi Feng, Benyou Wang

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

020 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Beyond Family Labels: A Taxonomic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Prior for Avian 3D Shape Recovery

Yunchan Jeon, SOO GON KIM, Seungwook Kim, CheolWon Lee, Jongmin Lee

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

021 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Benchmark Health Index: A Systematic Framework for Benchmarking the Benchmarks of LLMs

Longyuan Zhu, Hairan Hua, Linlin Miao, Wei Wang, Bing Zhao

Writing lesson: When proposing an evaluation index, show the failure-to-metric mapping and expose the component scores before presenting a single ranking.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for source-grounded writing analysis; scientific catalog promotion requires a separate method-focused review.

022 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Exact Gaussian Moment Matching for Residual Networks: a Second-Order Method

Simon Kuang, Xinfan Lin

Writing lesson: Use a compact assumptions table to establish the theoretical gap, then distinguish exact identities, approximation guarantees and empirical evidence.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for source-grounded writing analysis; scientific catalog promotion requires a separate method-focused review.

023 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Spectral Energy Allocation Enables Source-Free Domain Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting

Zhimin Mei, Gezheng Xu, Mohammad Hossein Moslemi, Ruiyi Fang, Nima Hosseini Dashtbayaz, Ziyan Wang, Jincheng Zhou, Haolin Jiang, Song Tang, Charles Ling, Boyu Wang

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

024 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Self-Programmed Execution for Language-Model Agents

Luke J O'Connor

Writing lesson: For a new agent runtime, distinguish formal possibility, implementation semantics and observed behavior, and publish source values and cost conventions for each headline plot.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

025 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization

Xuekang Zhu, Kaiwen Feng, Ruifeng Wang, Xiwen Wang, Xiaochen Ma, Bo Du, Changjiang Jiang, Chenfan Qu, Songyu Ye, Jian liu, Ji-Zhe, Knight Zhou

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

026 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

AdaSRU: Adaptive Source-Free Recommendation Unlearning via Gradient-Constrained Optimization

Xiaoran Zhao, Weiming Liu, Lianyong Qi, Weiyi Zhong, Yuwen Liu, Xiaolong Xu, Haolong Xiang, Qiang Ni, Xuyun Zhang, Wanchun Dou, Xiaokang Zhou

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

027 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Trellis4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation

Jiraphon Yenphraphai, Jianqi Chen, Jian Wang, Guocheng Qian, Sergey Tulyakov, Rameen Abdal, Raymond A. Yeh, Peter Wonka, Chaoyang Wang

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

028 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Soteria: Formally Verified Planning with Runtime Enforcement for Safe LLM Agents

Deyuan (Mike) He, Ankush Desai, Sharad Malik, Aarti Gupta

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

029 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Non-Colliding Biometric Identities for Digital Entities: Geometry, Capacity, and Million-Scale Virtual Identity Provisioning

Yuyang Ji, Yixuan Shen, Anil Jain, Xiaoming Liu, Feng Liu

Writing lesson: Define the objects and operating conditions first, draw the transformations between them, and report success separately before and after each transformation.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the pinned official NeurIPS 2026 accepted-oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

030 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

LLM-Enhanced Random Forests in Orthogonal Hyperbolic Subspaces for Tabular Learning

Shengpeng Wang, Yisen Gao, Han Xiang, lingyun liu, Ziwei Zhang, Qingyun Sun, Xianxian LI, Xingcheng Fu

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

031 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

SMART: Scalable Multi-Agent Role-conditioned Teaming via LLM-free Tree Search

Runzhe Zhang, Ning Li, Xingshan Zeng, Letian Chen, Yasheng Wang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Weiwen Liu

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

032 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Learning to Audit ML Models with Theory of Mind

Yao Rong, Vaibhav Unhelkar

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

033 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization

Zihan Wang, Ethan Ma, Zhongkui Ma, Shuofeng Liu, Akide Liu, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai

Writing lesson: For an algorithm whose behavior depends on a designated system, make that conditioning visible in definitions, diagram axes, table rows and the scope of each theorem.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the pinned official NeurIPS 2026 accepted-oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

034 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

DD-CAM: Minimal Sufficient Explanations for Vision Models Using Delta Debugging

Krishna Khadka, Yu Lei, Raghu Kacker, D. R Kuhn

Writing lesson: Introduce a discrete explanation algorithm with explicit pseudocode, then evaluate separately the properties named in its definition; use qualitative maps to illustrate those tests, not replace them.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the pinned official NeurIPS 2026 accepted-oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

035 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

The Power of a Random Sample in Online Algorithms

Omer Wasim, Sami Davies, Shallu Tomer, Rathish Das

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

036 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Graph Cascades: Contagion-Based Mesoscopic Rewiring for Structure-Aware Graph Machine Learning

Meher Chaitanya Pindiprolu, My Le, Luana Ruiz

Writing lesson: For a conditional mechanism claim, include a compact assumptions-to-regimes table and evaluate predicted failure regimes as well as favorable ones.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

037 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Query Lower Bounds for Diffusion Sampling

Zhiyang Xun, Eric Price

Writing lesson: A theory figure can visualize the hard instance and the informative regime, while theorem prose specifies exactly which algorithms and distributions the bound covers.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the official NeurIPS 2026 oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

038 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Déjà View: Looping Transformers for Multi-View 3D Reconstruction

Alessandro Burzio, Tobias Fischer, Sven Elflein, Qunjie Zhou, Riccardo de Lutio, Jiawei Ren, Jiahui Huang, Shengyu Huang, Marc Pollefeys, Laura Leal-Taixé, Zan Gojcic, Haithem Turki

Writing lesson: For a repeated/shared computation, pair a loop diagram with an explicit mechanism hypothesis, matched-training ablations, and a quality–resource table; test where extra iterations stop helping.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the pinned official NeurIPS 2026 accepted-oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

039 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

MOVEBENCH: A Benchmark for Global-Scale Wildlife Movement Forecasting

Justin Kay, Shir Bar, Ellen O Aikens, Martin Becker, Francesca Cagnacci, Juliet Cohen, Scott W Forrest, Jessica Kendall-Bar, Madeleine Lucas, Macon Overcast, Meredith S Palmer, Will Rogers, Nicholas J Russo, Christian Rutz, Larissa T Beumer, Michael B Brown, Ying-Chi Chan, Sarah C Davidson, Diego E Soto, Anne G Hertel, Roland Kays, Benjamin Koger, Guram Mikaberidze, Thomas Mueller, Ruth Oliver, Thorsten Papenbrock, Robert Patchett, Jared A Stabach, Dane Taylor, Scott W Yanco, Sara Beery

Writing lesson: For a heterogeneous benchmark, visualize coverage, define the prediction and split contract, report subgroup/horizon behavior, and make the original data sources and licenses independently inspectable.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included as a writing study of a publicly accessible manuscript matched to the pinned official NeurIPS 2026 accepted-oral inventory. Scientific-library promotion is a separate editorial task.

040 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Compact SO(3) Equivariant Atomistic Foundation Models via Structural Pruning

Chen Wang, Siyu Hu, Guangming Tan, Weile Jia

Writing lesson: For an efficiency contribution, draw the legal unit of compression and report accuracy, training cost, deployment cost and compatibility as separate evidence.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for source-grounded writing analysis; scientific catalog promotion requires a separate method-focused review.

041 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

The Algorithm Is Not the Behavior: Learned Priors Override Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network

Elias Sandmann, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

042 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Leaderboard Hacking: Preference-Based Model Evaluations are Vulnerable to Manipulation

Eve Fleisig, Joachim Baumann, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Dirk Hovy

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

043 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Decomposing Earth Embeddings with Sparse Autoencoders

Vitus Benson, Fanny Yang, Markus Reichstein

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

044 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Shaping Useful Noise: Energy Distributions Predict Visual Pretraining Quality

Ching Lam Choi, Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola, Stefanie Jegelka

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

045 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Mechanism-Aware Ensemble Conditioning for Data-Limited Emulation of Extreme Events

Isabella Thiel, Juan M. Bello-Rivas, Yannis Kevrekidis, Themis Sapsis

Writing lesson: For scientific ML, connect the physical mechanism to an explicit measured diagnostic and preserve both matched controls and unfavorable metrics.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

046 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Surprises in Proper Positive-Only Learning

Shai Ben-David, Farnam Mansouri, Anay Mehrotra, Manolis Zampetakis

Writing lesson: For a characterization paper, make the implication structure and quantifiers inspectable before sending readers to long proofs.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

047 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Emergence of Physical Intelligence via Controllable Information Production

Tristan Shah, Stas Tiomkin

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

048 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

C3P: Contrastive promoter-protein pretraining yields representations capturing bacterial gene regulation

Cameron Dufault, Scott Xu, Alan Moses

Writing lesson: For cross-modal scientific pretraining, show where pairs come from, what is frozen, which biological question each evaluation answers, and which pretraining costs are inherited.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

049 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Uniform-in-Time Weak Propagation of Chaos in Shallow Neural Networks

Margalit Glasgow, Joan Bruna

Writing lesson: When theory depends on a nontrivial condition, visualize that condition itself and retain examples that delimit when it fails.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

050 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Geometry-Aware Similarity Metrics for Neural Representations on Riemannian and Statistical Manifolds

N Alex Cayco Gajic, Arthur Pellegrino

Writing lesson: For a new analysis metric, align a worked geometric example with controlled model comparisons and state which interpretations remain correlational.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

051 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Behavioral Geometric Supervision Aligns Video Foundation Models with Human Social Perception

Kathy Garcia, Leyla Isik

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

052 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Bridging Compute- and Data-Optimal Pretraining

Tian Qin, Kimia Hamidieh, David Alvarez-Melis

Writing lesson: For scaling-law writing, show the raw explanatory trend, fitted transformation, held-out test, and decision map as separate evidential steps.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

053 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Unlocking Volition: Proactive Intention Decoding via Interpretable Graph Learning of Multi-Region ECoG

Kaizhong Zheng, JiaJunMA, Hongru Liu, Xinjian LI, Wei Xi, Liangjun Chen, Badong Chen

Full text not inspected: A matching full-text manuscript was not retrieved for inspection. Canonical OpenReview access returned verification challenges during this collection, and no reliable matching public author source was resolved for this record. The abstract and oral decision are not a substitute for reading the paper. Checked 2026-10-02. No writing or layout conclusions have been inferred from the title or abstract.

054 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Prediction Under Imperfect Compression: A Theory of Approximate MDL

Qian Li, Xinyu Mao, Shang-Hua Teng, Guangxu Yang

Writing lesson: For impossibility or threshold results, a regime table should encode assumptions and quantifiers, not only green/red or finite/infinite outcomes.

Scientific selection: Included for writing analysis only. Included for the official NeurIPS 2026 oral writing corpus; scientific-library membership and promotion are maintained separately.

055 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

The Stability of Online Algorithms in Performative Prediction

Gabriele Farina, Juan C Perdomo

Writing lesson: When weakening assumptions by changing the solution concept, put both changes in the same comparison table and explain the resulting limits in the conclusion.

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056 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Can In-Context Learning Support Intrinsic Curiosity?

Eric Elmoznino, Sangnie Bhardwaj, Johannes von Oswald, Rajai Nasser, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, João Sacramento, Rif A. Saurous, Guillaume Lajoie

Writing lesson: State the negative boundary and the constructive exception before presenting empirical success.

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057 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos

Aref Azizpour, Tai Nguyen, Matthew Stamm

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058 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Generative Modeling via Drifting

Mingyang Deng, He Li, Tianhong Li, Yilun Du, Kaiming He

Writing lesson: Give the geometric intuition and executable update adjacent roles, then separate mechanism ablations from scaled system comparisons.

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059 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Clarification as Supervision: Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Interfaces

John Gkountouras, Ivan Titov

Writing lesson: Make privileged training feedback visibly separate from deployment and test whether the interface actually changes.

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060 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

MaxSketch: Robust Distinct Counting in Streams via Random Projections

Nikos Tsikouras, Constantine Caramanis, Christos Tzamos

Writing lesson: Use a proof roadmap and tolerance-labeled experiments to connect a formal abstraction to learned representations.

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061 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Neural population tuning statistics as priors for multitask generalization

Zach Cohen, Jan Drugowitsch

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062 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

LatentUM: Unleashing the Potential of Interleaved Cross-Modal Reasoning via a Latent-Space Unified Model

Jiachun Jin, Zetong Zhou, Xiao Yang, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Jun Zhu, Zhijie Deng

Writing lesson: Show which representation crosses each interface, and keep optional visualization decoding distinct from reasoning computation.

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064 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Neural Chameleons: Language Models Can Learn to Hide Their Thoughts from Unseen Activation Monitors

Max McGuinness, Alex Serrano Terre, Luke Bailey, Scott Emmons

Writing lesson: For a failure-mode study, show both the targeted failure and the behavior that is supposed to remain unchanged.

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065 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

DIAGNO: Diagonal Spherical Neural Operators for Heterogeneous Earth Dynamics Modeling

Herui Li, Bin Lu, Haonan Qi, Lei Zhou, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang, Meng Jin

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066 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Learning Sparse Semantic-Cortical Atoms for Multisubject Naturalistic fMRI Encoding

Alicia Zeng

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067 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

LoRAcles: Self-Supervised Weight-Space Interpretability at Scale

Celeste De Schamphelaere, Jan Bauer, Neel Nanda, Euan Ong

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068 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Pruning and Distilling Mixture-of-Experts into Dense Language Models

Junhyuck Kim, Jihun Yun, Haechan Kim, Gyeongman Kim, Joonghyun Bae, Jaewoong Cho

Writing lesson: Expose the design space and distinguish screening budget from full training; report memory, active computation and accuracy as different quantities.

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069 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Free Decompression with Algebraic Spectral Curves

Siavash Ameli, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Michael Mahoney

Writing lesson: For mathematical computation, explain branch-selection geometry and report approximation error alongside runtime savings.

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070 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Thinking with Images as Continuous Policy: Numerical Visual Chain-of-Thought

Kesen Zhao, Beier Zhu, Junbao Zhou, Xingyu Zhu, Zhongqi Yue, Hanwang Zhang

Writing lesson: Use one worked input to compare representations, then measure the intermediate localization claim separately from answer accuracy.

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071 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Releasing Anchors from Cross-View Correspondence: Probabilistic Multi-View Anchor Graph Clustering

Zhoumin Lu, Yongbo Yu, Yu Duan, Feiping Nie, Yicong Zhou

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072 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Certifiably Optimal Robust Angular Synchronization

Daniel Barath, Keisuke Tateno, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari

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073 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

CausalBind: Causal Modeling and Learning for Protein-Molecule Virtual Screening

Longkang Li, Jin Tian, Kun Zhang

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074 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Impossibility of Distribution-Free Predictive Inference for Individual Treatment Effects

Chongguang Tao, Zheng Zhou, Yuhong Yang

Writing lesson: Pair an impossibility statement with the exact assumptions that restore a useful result, then visualize both validity and informativeness.

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075 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation

Jiawei Yang, Zhengyang Geng, Xuan Ju, Yonglong Tian, Yue Wang

Writing lesson: When optimizing an evaluation metric, show held-out representations and human evidence, not just improvement on that metric.

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076 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

ExComm: Exploration-Stage Communication for Error-Resilient Agentic Test-Time Scaling

Woomin Song, Beomjun Kim, Daewon Choi, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Saket Dingliwal, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan

Writing lesson: For agent systems, diagram mutable state and intervention timing, then test failure recovery and resource costs separately.

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077 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

ParetoSlider: Diffusion Models Post-Training for Continuous Reward Control

Shelly Golan, Michael Finkelson, Ariel Bereslavsky, Yotam Nitzan, Or Patashnik

Writing lesson: For controllability, align numerical trade-off curves and identical-input visual sweeps, and evaluate with rewards beyond the optimized ones.

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078 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

From Average Sensitivity to Small-Loss Regret Bounds under Random-Order Model

Shinsaku Sakaue, Yuichi Yoshida

Writing lesson: A theory paper can make its argument inspectable with named terms, pseudocode and a dependency map without adding decorative benchmark figures.

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079 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

FLIP: Fast and Accurate Global Lipschitz Estimation for Large Feedforward Networks

Hongbo Chen, Zihao Ren

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080 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

BrainWorld: A Structural-Prior-Conditioned Generative Model for Whole-Brain 4D fMRI Dynamics

Junfeng Xia, Wenhao Ye, Junxiang Zhang, Xuanye Pan, Mo WANG, Quanying Liu

Writing lesson: For a domain application, state data roles and information access, and separate reconstruction, augmentation and transfer as different claims.

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081 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Can LLM Agents Respond to Disasters? Benchmarking Heterogeneous Geospatial Reasoning in Emergency Operations

Junjue Wang, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi, Pengyu Dai, Kunyi Liu, Hongruixuan Chen, Zhuo Zheng, Junshi Xia, Stefano Ermon, Naoto YOKOYA

Writing lesson: When a system executes a chain of tools, define the chain's intermediate contracts and score them separately; pair the result table with the exact operators and tolerances that produced it.

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082 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

SALART-VQA: Diagnosing Whether VLMs Understand Salient Artifacts in Generated Images

Xiaoxiao Sun, Ruotian Zhang, Junzhe Huang, James Burgess, Serena Yeung-Levy

Writing lesson: If a task has a chain of subclaims, include a motivating counterexample, marginal metrics, joint correctness patterns, paired negative controls and an input-removal test rather than one aggregate accuracy.

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083 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Tessellations of Semi-Discrete Flow Matching

Emile Pierret, Johannes Hertrich, Samuel Hurault, Julie Delon

Writing lesson: For a theory paper, draw the construction that makes the theorem necessary and separate positive properties, counterexamples and empirical illustrations.

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084 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Scale-Sensitive Shattering: Learnability and Evaluability at Optimal Scale

Shashaank Aiyer, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Han Shao, Tom Waknine

Writing lesson: A theorem-centered paper can use one carefully chosen construction figure; prioritize precise assumptions, scales and proof navigation over a conventional experimental section.

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085 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

MindAlign: Bridging EEG, Vision, and Language for Zero-Shot Visual Decoding

Zexuan Chen, Sichao Liu, Runhao Lu, Huichao Qi, Alexandra Woolgar, Xi V Wang, Lihui Wang

Writing lesson: For multimodal alignment, draw training signals separately from retrieval outputs, define each generalization axis, and align every result block and ablation with those axes.

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086 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

SAM 3D Animal: Promptable Animal 3D Reconstruction from Images in the Wild

Xuyi Hu, Jin Lyu, Jiuming Liu, Yebin Liu, Silvia Zuffi, Liang An, Stefan Goetz

Writing lesson: For promptable models, show the information entering each experimental condition beside the quantitative comparison, and connect architecture components to the task obstacles they address.

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087 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

DD-Ranking: Rethinking the Evaluation of Dataset Distillation

Zekai Li, Xinhao Zhong, Samir Khaki, Zhiyuan Liang, Yuhao Zhou, Mingjia Shi, Ziqiao Wang, Xuanlei Zhao, Wangbo Zhao, Ziheng Qin, Mengxuan Wu, Pengfei Zhou, Haonan Wang, David Junhao Zhang, Jia-Wei Liu, Shaobo Wang, Dai Liu, Linfeng Zhang, Guang Li, Kun Wang, Zheng Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Jiancheng Lv, Yaochu Jin, Peihao Wang, Kaipeng Zhang, Yiran Huang, Zhiwei Deng, Xindi Wu, George Cazenavette, Yuzhang Shang, Justin CUI, Jindong Gu, Qian Zheng, Hao Ye, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Yan Yan, Angela Yao, Mike Zheng Shou, Tianlong Chen, Hakan Bilen, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Manolis Kellis, Konstantinos N Plataniotis, Zhangyang "Atlas" Wang, Bo Zhao, Yang You, Kai Wang

Writing lesson: When introducing an evaluation metric, first show the protocol mismatch, then expose the metric's components and sensitivity instead of presenting only its final ranking.

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088 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Do We Need Asynchronous SGD? On the Near-Optimality of Synchronous Methods

Grigory Begunov, Alexander Tyurin

Writing lesson: For a counterintuitive theory claim, give readers a shared visual model first, then organize guarantees, exceptions and experiments by the exact assumptions.

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089 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Learning Reveals Invisible Structure in Low-Rank RNNs

Yoav Ger, Omri Barak

Writing lesson: Introduce two easily conflated mathematical objects with one aligned schematic, then use diagnostics that directly test the assumptions needed to connect them.

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090 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Evaluating Neural Data Tokenizers: A Framework for Assessing Learned Representations of Spiking Activity

Federico D'Agostino, Alex Gilbert, Susanne Keller, Jaivardhan Kapoor, Nicolas Reategui, Vedang Lad, Matthias Kümmerer, Jai Bhagat, Emin Orhan, Hasan A Bedel, Nikos Karantzas, Fabian Sinz, Surya Ganguli, Jakob H Macke, Sophia Sanborn, Alexander Ecker, Katrin Franke, Matthias Bethge, Andreas Tolias, Konstantin Willeke

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091 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Binding Multiple Modalities via Multimodal Wasserstein Barycenter

Xiaole Tang, Jiayi Xu, Xiang Gu, Yan Yang, Jian Sun

Writing lesson: For a multi-loss alignment method, draw where each objective acts, ablate terms separately and distinguish local operation timing from end-to-end cost.

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092 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

TransmissiveGS: Residual-Guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting for Transmissive Scene Reconstruction and Rendering

Zhenyu Liang, Xiao Zhang, Tianchao Li, Jack C Cheng, Chi-Keung Tang

Writing lesson: For a staged rendering design, show intermediate physical quantities and distinguish forward computation, gradient flow, initialization and frozen components.

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093 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization

Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz

Writing lesson: For a unification paper, map both correspondences and non-equivalences, label the assumptions on every bridge and supply counterexamples where intuitive equivalence fails.

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094 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Computer Use at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice

Pierluca D'Oro, Sneha Silwal, William R Wong, Yuxuan Sun, Fanyi Xiao, Manchen Wang, Eric Gan, Allen Bolourchi, Joseph Tighe

Writing lesson: Align the uncertainty calculation with the hierarchy that generated the data, and show how a reporting choice changes a concrete model-selection decision.

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095 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Nemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning Models

Boxin Wang, Chankyu Lee, Nayeon Lee, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Wenliang Dai, Yang Chen, Yangyi Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Zihan Liu, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Wei Ping

Writing lesson: For a multi-stage training recipe, show stage order once and use stage-to-stage evidence to expose both transfer and forgetting across domains.

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096 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Coordination Connectivity: Shared Initialization Shapes the Joint-Policy Landscape in MARL

Yixiang Fan, Zhiqiang Pu, Hao Ma, Dongmin Li, Weihao Zhang, Yinxing Dai, Shijie Zheng, Jingjing Huang

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097 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Emergent Biological Capabilities in a Foundation Model for Molecular Interactions

Adi Mashiach

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098 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Offloading Score: Measuring AI Reliance through Counterfactual Workflows

Vishakh Padmakumar, Lujain Ibrahim, Zora Wang, Jennifer Wang, Q.Vera Liao, Diyi Yang

Writing lesson: For a human-AI metric, visualize the measurement pipeline and validate the construct separately from the behavioral conclusions drawn with it.

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099 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Colored Noise Diffusion Sampling

Hadar Davidson, Noam Issachar, Sagie Benaim

Writing lesson: Explain an inference intervention with a diagnostic in the same domain as its mechanism, then test the quality trade-offs and the operating regimes where it is not advantageous.

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100 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically-Controlled Knowledge Exposure

Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Ryan Cotterell, Wieland Brendel

Writing lesson: For a controlled-data resource, validate the intervention before interpreting downstream behavior, and reuse the same condition labels across every figure and conclusion.

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101 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Testable and Actionable Calibration for Full Swap Regret

Konstantina Bairaktari, Lunjia Hu, Huy Nguyen, Jonathan Ullman

Writing lesson: When proposing a theoretical metric, summarize the guarantee trade-off in one table, then organize the proof and empirical illustration by those same properties.

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102 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Quantized Reasoning Models Think They Need to Think Longer, but They Do Not

Sanae Lotfi, Polina Kirichenko, Steven Li, Zechun Liu

Writing lesson: For an efficiency diagnosis, pair mechanism-specific controls with both quality and cost, and define exactly what each uncertainty or variation statistic measures.

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103 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

CURE: Counterfactual Unsafe-token Re-masking for Diffusion Large Language Model Test-time Alignment

Lichao Wang, Mingquan Zhang, Xian Zhang, Juntao Dai, Chi Liu, Yaodong Yang, Jingwei Yi

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104 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

A multi-scale information geometry reveals the structure of mutual information in neural populations

Simone Azeglio, Steeve Laquitaine, Ulisse Ferrari, Matthew Chalk

Writing lesson: Use a minimal counterexample to motivate a mathematical object, then test whether empirical conclusions survive the modeling choices used to estimate it.

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105 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State

Antoine Guedon, Shu Nakamura, Nicolas Dufour, Jiahui Lei, Ko Nishino, Angjoo Kanazawa

Writing lesson: Make an architectural invariant visible: identify what stays fixed, what scales, and which inference-time operations implement the intended property.

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106 · NeurIPS 2026 oral · Study in progress

Follow the Regularized Leader Does Not Converge in Constrained Optimization

Ioannis Anagnostides, Ioannis Panageas, Nikolas Patris, Tuomas Sandholm

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