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7 papers in the last four weeks, down 12% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

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  1. Faynt: Scaling and Optimizing Policies for Competitive Melee

    Oct 1, 2026Ali Janati, Nikita Kuzmin, Rohit Swamy +1Boltzmann PoliciesCompetition

  2. Sharp Non-Asymptotic Analysis of the Penalized Challenger in ββ-EB-TCI for Bernoulli Bandits

    Oct 1, 2026Nam Nguyen, Tuan Quang DamOptimal Sample ComplexityBest-Of-N

  3. Evidence-Gated Research: Statistically Controlled Model Adoption in Adaptive Search

    Oct 1, 2026Yifan GuoFalse Discovery RateModel Selection

  4. OpenSpace Lab Solution to the IROS 2026 Indoor Exploration Competition

    Oct 1, 2026Yuxuan Zhang, Dong Li, Zezhou Sun +5Multi-Robot SystemsIndoor Environments

  5. Probe with Participation Trophies: Random-Reward RL as a Probe of LLM Capability

    Oct 1, 2026Yu Mao, Lei Yu, Zining Zhu +6Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningLLM Reasoning Strategies

  6. Algorithmic Recourse Under Competition

    Sep 30, 2026Shahin JabbariAlgorithmic CoresTrade-Off

  7. Retrieval Capacity of Self-Attention Under Competition

    Sep 29, 2026Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Radu StateLinear AttentionCompetition

  8. Direct Self-Evolving Optimization: Evolving LLMs without Challenger Training

    Sep 28, 2026Yuyang Deng, Yu Wang, Jiayun WangOn-Policy Self-EvolutionLLM Reasoning Strategies

  9. Prompt, Probe, Train, or Annotate? Single-camera sports video understanding in amateur settings

    Sep 23, 2026Sai Varun Kodathala, Prashanth Pollishetty, Jaylen CargillFine-Grained Video UnderstandingAthleticism

  10. What Should a Self-Teacher See? Privileged Context Design for On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Sep 22, 2026Kanghui Tian, Siyuan Liu, Tianxiang Jiang +8Self-TeacherTeacher

  11. Guiding Worker Self-Selection in Crowdsourcing Contests: An LLM-Augmented Algorithmic Approach

    Sep 7, 2026Nguyen Thach, Hau Chan, David Parkes +1Crowdsourced FrameworkCompetition

  12. SQL-Zero: Self-Evolving Text-to-SQL

    Sep 7, 2026Daniel Machado Pedrozo, Julia Soares Dollis, Bryan Lincoln Marques de Oliveira +3Text-To-SqlSelf-Play

  13. The 2026 PNPL Competition: Word Classification and Efficient Cross-Subject Generalisation in LibriBrain100

    Sep 3, 2026Francesco Mantegna, Gereon Elvers, Dulhan Jayalath +18Brain-Computer InterfacePretraining

  14. Retrieved but not ranked: surface-form bias in structural retrieval, from mathematics to agent trajectories

    Sep 1, 2026Nabira Rashid, Manolis KellisCross-Encoder RerankingMathematics

  15. Rock, Paper, Scissors, ... Dynamite - A Model of Disruption from New Technologies

    Aug 31, 2026Andrew J. LohnTechnologyCompetition

  16. Beyond Uncertainty: Multi-Solver Disagreement Rewards for Self-Evolving Reasoning Curricula

    Aug 30, 2026Vinoth Selvendran, Zhanming ZhangSelf-PlayCurriculum

  17. Characterizing Necessary Losers to Explain Tournaments Solutions

    Aug 24, 2026Contet Clément, Umberto Grandi, Jérôme MenginCompetitionExplainable Artificial Intelligence

  18. ArchAgent v2: A Case Study with the Data Prefetching Championship

    Aug 10, 2026Abraham Gonzalez, Raghav Gupta, Akanksha Jain +12Hardware EfficiencyPreemption

  19. Agreement-Based Audio-Visual Segmentation:Champion Report for the MeViS-Audio Track in the 8th LSVOS Challenge

    Aug 10, 2026Yiwen Ren, Jianing Liu, Yingxin Wang +4Video Object SegmentationFine-Grained Video Understanding

  20. Question Begets Question: Self-Evolving Curriculum for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning on Competition Mathematics

    Aug 2, 2026Longtian Bao, Jianyou Wang, Yang Zhang +2Faithful Question GenerationCompetition

  21. The Disruptive Impact of Large Language Models on Capture the Flag Competitions and the Path Toward Fair Play

    Jul 28, 2026Michael Macaulay, Harmony Bouabid, Guo Gen Ang +1Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

  22. IJCB-AFMFR 2026: Competition on Adapting Foundation Models for Face Recognition Using Synthetic Training Data

    Jul 27, 2026Tahar Chettaoui, Guray Ozgur, Eduarda Caldeira +13Face Recognition ModelSynthetic Training Data

  23. The Third Competition on Document Forgery Detection on ID-Cards and Passports

    Jul 17, 2026Juan E. Tapia, Mario Nieto, Juan M. Espin +4Face Forgery DetectionCard

  24. The 2nd International StepUP Competition for Biometric Footstep Recognition: From Steps to Strides

    Jul 15, 2026Robyn Larracy, Anant Gupta, Gourav Gupta +8BiometricsPedestrian Detection

  25. Task-Specific Multimodal Question Answering Agents via Confidence Calibration and Incremental Reasoning for QANTA 2026

    Jul 10, 2026Nirjhar Das, Md. Al-Mamun ProvathMultimodal QueryReasoning Skills

  26. ICDAR 2026 HIPE-OCRepair Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Historical Documents

    Jul 9, 2026Maud Ehrmann, Emanuela Boros, Juri Opitz +3ArchiveCompetition

  27. Second MOASEI Competition at AAMAS'2026: A Technical Report

    Jul 3, 2026Ceferino Patino, Tyler J. Billings, Alireza Saleh Abadi +4Bike-Sharing SystemsAgentic Evaluations

  28. TurnNat: Automatic Evaluation of Turn-Taking Naturalness in Dyadic Spoken Dialogue

    Jul 1, 2026Hao Zhang, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev +2Turn-TakingDialogue

  29. RevengeBench: Reverse Engineering Code-Space Policies from Behavioral Experiments

    Jun 24, 2026Babak Rahmani, Sebastian Dziadzio, Joschka Strüber +2Reverse EngineeringAgentic Benchmarks

  30. Reasoning Arena: Trace Tournaments When Verifiable Rewards Fall Short

    Jun 8, 2026Han Zhou, Adam X. Yang, Laurence Aitchison +2Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardVerifiable Rewards

  31. Challenger at MultiPRIDE: Is It Hate Speech or Reclaimed?

    May 31, 2026Hadi Bayrami Asl Tekanlou, Mahdi Bakhtiyarzadeh, Jafar RazmaraHate Speech DetectionHate Speech

  32. Maat: The Agentic Legal Research Assistant for Competition Protection

    May 26, 2026Basant Mounir, Farida Madkour, Amira Abdelaziz +1Agentic SearchCompetition

  33. Tournament-GRPO: Group-Wise Tournament Rewards for Reinforcement Learning in Open-Ended Long-Form Generation

    May 26, 2026Zixuan Yang, Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang +7Group-Based Reinforcement LearningCompetition

  34. PennySynth: RAG-Driven Data Synthesis for Automated Quantum Code Generation

    May 25, 2026Minghao Shao, Nouhaila Innan, Hariharan Janardhanan +3Llm-Driven Code SynthesisSynthetic Data

  35. VISTA: Validation-Guided Integration of Spatial and Temporal Foundation Models with Anatomical Decoding for Rare-Pathology VCE Event Detection -- after competition results

    May 21, 2026Bo-Cheng Qiu, Fang-Ying Lin, Ming-Han Sun +3ColonoscopyVista

  36. Not Yet: Humans Outperform LLMs in a Colonel Blotto Tournament

    May 21, 2026Dmitry Dagaev, Egor Ivanov, Petr Parshakov +2Strategic ReasoningCompetition

  37. Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable behavior

    May 14, 2026Neil F. Johnson, Frank Yingjie HuoAgent Behavior ModelingForecast

  38. A Constraint Programming Approach for n-Day Lookahead Playoff Clinching in the NHL

    May 13, 2026Gili Rosenberg, Kyle E. C. Booth, J. Kyle Brubaker +1CompetitionBreak

  39. Learnability and Competition in High-Dimensional Multi-Component ICA

    May 8, 2026Eser Ilke Genc, Samet Demir, Zafer DoganIndependent Component AnalysisHigh-Dimensional

  40. ICDAR 2026 Competition on Writer Identification and Pen Classification from Hand-Drawn Circles

    May 8, 2026Thomas Gorges, Janne van der Loop, Lukas Hüttner +4HandwritingBiometrics

  41. Retrieval and competition: how a protein foundation model starts a protein

    May 5, 2026Piotr Jedryszek, Oliver M. CrookLanguage ModelingConfidence Calibration

  42. RenCon 2025: Revival of the Expressive Performance Rendering Competition

    May 3, 2026Huan Zhang, Taegyun Kwon, Anders Friberg +7InstrumentCompetition

  43. RCMAES: A Robust CMA-ES Variant for CEC2026 Competition

    Apr 29, 2026Khoirul Faiq Muzakka, Sören Möller, Martin FinsterbuschCovariancePopulation Dynamics

  44. Efficient Training on Multiple Consumer GPUs with RoundPipe

    Apr 29, 2026Yibin Luo, Shiwei Gao, Huichuan Zheng +2Cpu-Gpu Hybrid DesignsGraphics Processing Unit Architectures

  45. From Cursed to Competitive: Closing the ZO-FO Gap via Input-to-State Stability

    Apr 28, 2026Amir Ali Farzin, Philipp Braun, Iman ShamesZeroth-OrderLyapunov Function

  46. Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent Conquest

    Apr 28, 2026Abigail O'Neill, Alan Zhu, Mihran Miroyan +2NegotiationCooperation

  47. ICPR 2026 Competition on Low-Resolution License Plate Recognition

    Apr 24, 2026Rayson Laroca, Valfride Nascimento, Donggun Kim +19Robust License Plate RecognitionLow-Resolution