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  1. Team MSU GenText-Forensics Challenge 2026 Technical Report

    Sep 29, 2026Kirill Koltsov, Aleksandr Gushchin, Dmitriy Vatolin +1ForgeriesMachine-Generated Text Detection

    Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia · MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Moscow, Russia

  2. Challenges and Solutions for Bandits in the Wild: Warm-Started Mixture Bandits for Cross-Cohort Slate Recommendation

    Sep 29, 2026Serafima Lebedeva, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Ali Arshad Sadal +8RecommendationBandits

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern · RPTU, Kaiserslautern-Landau · LMU, Munich

  3. Cross-Organizational SysML Model Integration: A Survey of Challenges and AI-Supported Tasks

    Sep 29, 2026Zirui Li, Torsten Brix, Stephan HusungEngineeringChallenges

    Product and Systems Engineering Group Technische Universität Ilmenau Ilmenau, Germany

  4. Reliability Engineering for AI Systems: Challenges, Methods, and Directions

    Sep 28, 2026Rong Pan, Yili Hong, Min XieArtificial Intelligence RiskArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA · Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  5. Codoku: Renewable Program-Reasoning Challenges for Frontier Coding Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Cong Li, Hao Sun, Zenan Li +1Coding AgentsPuzzle

    ETH Zurich

  6. LLMs as Adaptive Meta-Solvers: Strategy-Diverse RL for Industrial-Scale Optimization

    Sep 28, 2026Shihao Zhang, Weiting Liu, Siyu Shao +4Optimization ModelingLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    East China Normal University · Alibaba Group · Fudan University +4

  7. SEE Challenge 2026: Event-Guided Brightness Adjustment Across a Broad Illumination Range

    Sep 24, 2026Yunfan Lu, Mingchao Xu, Hanyu Zhou +9RestorationChallenges

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · National University of Singapore · Xidian University +5

  8. Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents

    Sep 23, 2026Yue Huang, Zhangchen Xu, Yuchen Ma +12Challenges

    Bake AI · University of Notre Dame · University of Washington +6

  9. Faithful Faithfulness Evaluations: Challenges & Pitfalls Learned from a Breast MRI Case Study

    Sep 22, 2026Peachapong Poolpol, Henrik H. J. Detjen, Eike PetersenExplainabilitySaliency

    Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany · Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

  10. Challenges of Multi-Speaker Extraction for Real Conversational Speech Enhancement

    Sep 22, 2026Robert Sutherland, Stefan Goetze, Jon BarkerTarget Speaker ExtractionSpeech Enhancement

    School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom · South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Iserlohn, Germany

  11. Applications of Neural Cellular Automata: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities

    Sep 21, 2026Nick Lemke, Niklas Ihm, John Kalkhof +11Neural Cellular AutomataMedical Images

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany · ImFusion GmbH, Munich, Germany · Inria Center at University Cˆote d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France +9

  12. Epidemiological Causal Graph Identification: Challenges, Identifiability and Algorithms

    Sep 17, 2026Sambit Mishra, Yingying Wang, Christine K. Johnson +1Causal Discovery MethodsCausal Graph

    University of Southern California · University of California, Davis

  13. Language-Augmented Video Action Anticipation: Design Fundamentals, Benchmarks, and Open Challenges

    Sep 15, 2026Mahsa Mohammadi, Zeyu Fu, Sareh RowlandsAction PredictionChallenges

    Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Harrison Building, Streatham Campus, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, Devon, United Kingdom

  14. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Space Robot Operations: Technologies, Challenges and Prospects

    Sep 15, 2026Zeyuan Huang, Gang Chen, Zixuan Hao +7Artificial Intelligence SystemsChallenges

    School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  15. Challenges of Auditing: Variability in Outputs of Large Language Models for Health

    Sep 15, 2026Yuan Pu, Yewon Chang, Furong Jia +4Model AuditingArtificial Intelligence Models

    Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 308 Research Drive, Durham, 27708, NC. · Department of Medicine, Duke University, 40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, 27710, NC. · Geriatrics and Extended Care, Durham VA Health System, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, 27705, NC. +2

  16. Performance, Efficiency and Collapse -- Advantages and Challenges in Offline Post-training of Code LLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Abhinav Anand, Sanjana Reddy Pachika, Shweta Verma +1Reinforcement Learning Post-TrainingLarge Language Model Training

    TU Darmstadt · Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany · National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE

  17. How AI Coders Discuss, Disagree, and Reach Consensus: Challenges and Opportunities for LLM-Based Qualitative Coding

    Sep 12, 2026Jeongyeon Kim, John MitchellQualitative ResearchCoding Agents

    Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  18. Finishing the Task Is Not Enough: Evaluating Agent Resilience and Considerate Participation under Accumulating Challenge

    Sep 12, 2026Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Angelique TaylorResilienceParticipation

    Cornell Tech / Cornell University · University of Maryland, College Park · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  19. How to Better Train VLAs: Lessons Learned From the REAL-I Challenge at ICRA 2026

    Sep 12, 2026Jiaming Wang, Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu +11Embodied Artificial IntelligenceAction Prediction

  20. The Eloquence submission for Task 2 of the Interspeech 2026 MLC-SLM challenge

    Sep 11, 2026Jordi Luque, Lorenzo Concina, Marco Matassoni +2FluencyChallenges

    Telefónica Innovación Digital, Scientific Group · Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

  21. From Simulated Citizens to Simulated Deliberation: Challenges in Representation and Interaction

    Sep 7, 2026Chaemin Jang, Junsik Min, Jaewoo Choi +9DeliberationLarge Language Model Decisions

    1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · 2Seoul National University

  22. Ctrl-F-Resist. Practices, Challenges, and Technical Needs of Civil Society Organizations Monitoring the Far-Right Online

    Sep 1, 2026Elisabeth Steffen, Helena MihaljevićDemocracyChallenges

    Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, University of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany · Technische Universität, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

  23. Foundation Models Meet Agriculture: Challenges Beyond Pretraining

    Aug 31, 2026Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Marc Rußwurm +1Geospatial Foundation ModelsAgricultural Monitoring

    Artificial Intelligence and Plant Science Group Wageningen University and Research Wageningen, Netherlands · Institute of Digital Agriculture Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences Hangzhou, China · Machine Learning in Earth Observation Lab University of Bonn Bonn, Germany

  24. The ISCSLP 2026 Real-World Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge

    Aug 24, 2026Kai Li, Wenze Ren, Junjie Li +11Speech EnhancementAudio-Visual Consistency

    1Tsinghua University · 2National Taiwan University · 3The Hong Kong Polytechnic University +8

  25. Three-Phase Scribble-Adaptive Curriculum Learning for autoPETV Grand Challenge

    Aug 22, 2026Libo Zhang, Yue NingLesion SegmentationPositron Emission Tomography

    Duke University

  26. VOS-Agent: The 1st Place Solution for the 8th LSVOS Challenge (MOSEv2 Track)

    Aug 13, 2026Canyang Wu, Jinrong Zhang, Xusheng He +3Video Object SegmentationNeural Mask Estimation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Nanyang Technological University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  27. Training Under Challenge: Executable Certificates and Challenge-Closed Optimality for Neural Networks

    Aug 12, 2026Farhang Yeganegi, Arian Eamaz, Mojtaba SoltanalianNeural Network VerificationFinite-Sample Certificates

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA

  28. NTIRE 2026 Low-light Enhancement: Twilight Cowboy Challenge

    Aug 10, 2026Aleksei Khalin, Egor Ershov, Artyom Panshin +46Low-Light ImagesLow-Light Image Enhancement

  29. Challenges in Evaluating Explanation Methods for Static and Evolving Data

    Aug 6, 2026Jerzy StefanowskiExplainable Artificial IntelligenceExplainable AI Methods

    Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Computing Sciences, Poland

  30. Trustworthy AI in Digital Health: A Comprehensive Review of Robustness and Explainability

    Aug 3, 2026Abdullah Mamun, Shovito Barua Soumma, Hassan GhasemzadehTrustworthy Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare

    College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA · School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

  31. Radar Detection in the CBRS Band: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

    Aug 3, 2026Madan Baduwal, Priyanka PaudelRadarChallenges

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA

  32. The 1st AI Children Challenge

    Aug 1, 2026Boyi Li, Yifan Shen, Houze Yang +7ChildrenGait Analysis

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 2PediaMed AI · 1Shenzhen Children’s Hospital +2

  33. Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

    Jul 31, 2026Jonas Frey, Matías Mattamala, Hae-Won Park +5Legged RobotsHumanoid

    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA +9

  34. Challenges in annotations by humans and LLMs: A case study of evaluative language

    Jul 30, 2026Mirela Imamovic, Aenne Cecilia Kristine Knierim, Khushi Pitroda +1Large Language Model AnnotationsHuman Annotations

    University of Hildesheim, Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, Germany · University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, TransCrit, France · University of Hildesheim, Institute of Information Science and Language Technology, Germany

  35. Multi-Agent Debate Strategies: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges

    Jul 28, 2026Quim Motger, Marc Oriol, Jordi Marco +1Multi-Agent DebateDebate

    Dpt. of Service and Information System Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain · Dpt. of Computer Science, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  36. Agentic AI in medicine: architectures, applications, evaluation, and challenges for clinical translation

    Jul 28, 2026Zheng Tong, Yang Liu, Wanshu Fan +6Real-World Clinical WorkflowsMultimodal Clinical Data

    School of Software Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, China · Department of Surgery, Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China +3

  37. Medical world models in healthcare: foundations, applications, and challenges for trustworthy clinical translation

    Jul 28, 2026Zhaoyan Chen, Zhongxiu Cong, Zhuanfeng Jin +7Medical World ModelHealthcare

    National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Computer Aided Design, School of Software Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, China · Department of Radiology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University, Dalian, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China +3

  38. Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Ecosystem: Evolutionary Developments, Challenges, and Future Directions

    Jul 27, 2026Zhimin Zhang, Chengzhen Ma, Jia Chai +5InnovationArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Beijing Institute of Computer Technology and Applications, Beijing 100854, China · School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China +1

  39. On the post-hoc Evaluation of PDE Discovery: A Multifaceted Challenge of Scientific Advancement

    Jul 26, 2026Baptiste Mathevon, Farah Cherfaoui, Amaury Habrard +1Partial Differential EquationsEvaluation Metrics

    Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, CNRS, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Inria, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR 5516, F-42023, SAINT-ÉTIENNE, France · Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)

  40. Diffusion Models in Medical Image Inpainting: Challenges, Solution Taxonomy, and Future Directions

    Jul 24, 2026Arthur Dantas Mangussi, Joana Cristo Santos, Ricardo Cardoso Pereira +3InpaintingMedical Images

    Computer Science Division, Aeronautics Institute of Technology and Science and Technology Institute, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil · LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal · University of Coimbra, CISUC/LASI – Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Department of Informatics Engineering, Portugal +1

  41. Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge

    Jul 23, 2026Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh +4Deepfake DetectionAi-Generated Video Detection

    American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  42. On the Systematic Challenges of Culturally Loaded Machine Translation: Dream of the Red Chamber as the Cultural Lens

    Jul 22, 2026Yiming Wang, Jiayuan DiMachine Translation QualityMachine Translation

    School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology

  43. Computational Humor with Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges

    Jul 21, 2026Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Disheng Liu +2HumorMultimodal Large Language Models

    Case Western Reserve University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  44. Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies

    Jul 16, 2026Andrew Liao, Hanchen Cui, Karthik Desingh +1Real-WorldChallenges

    University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  45. AIMO Interpretability Challenge

    Jul 15, 2026Michal Štefánik, Philipp Mondorf, Andreas Waldis +11Olympiad-Level ProblemInterpretability

    National Institute of Informatics, Japan · Munich Center for Machine Learning / MaiNLP LMU · University of Tübingen +6

  46. Learning Speaker Identity Beyond Language and Modality Constraints: Insights from the POLY-SIM 2026 Challenge

    Jul 15, 2026Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +9SpeakerModalities

    Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Albatross AI Linz, Austria · University of Michigan-Flint Flint, United States of America · BDO DIGITAL Gmbh Düsseldorf, Germany +5

  47. Delving into the Temporal Challenges of Unified Video Protection Against Image-to-Video and Fine-Tuning-based Customization

    Jul 14, 2026Yuxin Huang, Ziming Hong, Mingming Gong +3Conditional Variational AutoencoderWhite-Box Spectral-Subspace-Guided Attack

    1Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney · University of Melbourne · 5Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence +2

  48. An Omnilingual-ASR-Based Speech-LLM System for the 2nd MLC-SLM Challenge

    Jul 14, 2026Shuming Fang, Shuifei ZengSpeaker DiarizationWav2Vec

    UGREEN AI Lab, Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science (National Pilot Software Engineering School), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  49. Isolation as a First-Class Principle for LLM-Agent System Safety: Concepts, Taxonomy, Challenges and Future Directions

    Jul 14, 2026Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen +10Multi-Llm AgentsProduction Agentic Systems

    HKUST · NYU · SWUPL

  50. Technical Report on the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Challenge

    Jul 13, 2026Tianyuan Zhang, Zonglei Jing, Jiangfan Liu +47CvprChallenges

  51. The SonicAGI System for the REAL-TSE Challenge

    Jul 13, 2026Kai Li, Wendi Sang, Jintao Cheng +1Target Speaker ExtractionLookahead

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute for AI, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR), Beijing, China

  52. Capabilities of Claude Fable 5 on Biomedical Challenge Problems

    Jul 12, 2026Dominic Okonkwo, Magnus Hodgson, Temitope I. David +1Biomedical TextDiagnostic Benchmark

    School of Computing, University of Georgia · Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois · Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia

  53. Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions

    Jul 11, 2026Cem Suulker, Thomas Mack, Qingzheng Cong +4Soft RoboticsColonoscopy

    School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.

  54. LLM for EDA in Front-End Design: Challenges and Opportunities

    Jul 10, 2026Kangwei Xu, Bing Li, Ulf SchlichtmannElectronic Design AutomationHigh-Level Synthesis

    Chair of Electronic Design Automation, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany · Resource-Efficient AI Group, Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

  55. JEPA for AI-Native 6G: Predictive Representations and Open Challenges

    Jul 9, 2026Sheikh Salman Hassan, Irshad A. Meer, Almoatssimbillah Saifaldawla +9Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesAi-Native

    IDCoM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden · SnT, University of Luxembourg, L-1855 Luxembourg +6

  56. SoccerNet 2026 Challenges Results

    Jul 8, 2026Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Håkan Ardö +102ChallengesComputer Vision

  57. Security and Privacy in Agentic AI: Grand Challenges and Future Directions

    Jul 7, 2026Adam Jenkins, Agnieszka Kitkowska, Caterina Maidhof +22SecurityPrivacy

    Department of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

  58. Deriving Benchmarking Datasets from Long-Form Recordings: Challenges and Opportunities

    Jul 3, 2026Kaveri K. Sheth, Lawrence Borst, Tarek Kunze +6Language AcquisitionSeed-Tts-Eval Benchmark

    LAAC, LSCP, DEC, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France · Laboratoire d’Informatique et Syst`emes, Universit´e Aix-Marseille, CNRS, France · Signal Processing Research Centre, Tampere University, Finland

  59. Challenges and Recommendations for LLM-as-a-Judge in Multilingual Settings and for Low-Resource Languages

    Jul 2, 2026A. Seza Doğruöz, Xixian Liao, Verena Blaschke +3Llm-As-A-JudgeLow-Resource Languages

    LT3, IDLab, Universiteit Gent · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · LMU Munich & Munich Center for Machine Learning +5

  60. "Don't Say It!": Constraints, Compliance, and Communication when Language Models Play Taboo

    Jul 1, 2026Sara Candussio, Francesca Padovani, Daniel Scalena +1Large Language Models FailCompliance

    AILab, MIGe, Univeristy of Trieste, Italy · Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen, The Netherlands · University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy