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  1. Faynt: Scaling and Optimizing Policies for Competitive Melee

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

    Frisson Labs

  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

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam · Center for AI Research, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

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

    Oct 1, 2026Yifan GuoFalse Discovery RateModel Selection

    Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Stony Brook University

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

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

    China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing · Macau University of Science and Technology · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3

  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

    University of Toronto · Stevens Institute of Technology · University of California, Santa Cruz +3

  6. Algorithmic Recourse Under Competition

    Sep 30, 2026Shahin JabbariAlgorithmic CoresTrade-Off

    Drexel University

  7. Retrieval Capacity of Self-Attention Under Competition

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

    University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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

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

    Accenture, Center for Advanced AI · Georgia Institute of Technology

  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

    Research and Development Sports Vision, Inc. Minnetonka, MN

  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

    Fudan University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Nanjing University +4

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

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

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska, USA · Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  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

    Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal de Goiás Goiânia, GO, Brazil

  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

    PNPL, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK · 2OHBA, Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK · 3FMRIB, Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK +6

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

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

    Independent; work conducted while contributing to Mantis at MIT CSAIL Kellis Lab · Independent · MIT CSAIL

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

    Aug 31, 2026Andrew J. LohnTechnologyCompetition

    Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA

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

    Aug 30, 2026Vinoth Selvendran, Zhanming ZhangSelf-PlayCurriculum

    Independent Researcher · Palo Alto, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA

  17. Characterizing Necessary Losers to Explain Tournaments Solutions

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

    Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) · Université de Toulouse · Université Toulouse Capitole

  18. Competing at Every Price Point with Agentic Evolution over a Menu of LLMs

    Aug 17, 2026Andrew BorthwickMulti-Llm AgentsSelf-Evolving Agents

    Independent Researcher

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

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

    Google · University of California, Berkeley · Google DeepMind

  20. ICM Out! Better Tournament Strategy from Computed Continuations, vs. Solvers and LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Boning Li, Longbo HuangPokerCompetition

    IIIS, Tsinghua University.

  21. 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

    National 111 Project Base of Intelligent Information Processing

  22. WorldCup Arena: Prospective, Leakage-Free Evaluation of Frontier LLMs on a Live Tournament

    Aug 4, 2026Zhenran Wang, Zhonghan Bian, Jinsong Li +1Large Language Model ForecastingCompetition

  23. Does the Competitive Component of Adversarial Self-Play Improve Legal Reasoning? A Controlled Negative Result

    Aug 3, 2026Miseog Shawn KimSelf-PlayLegal Reasoning Tasks

    Preprint, 2026-08-02

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

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

    University of Chicago · University of California, San Diego

  25. 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

    WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  26. 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

    Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Germany · Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany · Vilnius University, Lithuania +5

  27. 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

    1Hochschule Darmstadt (h-da), da/sec-Biometrics and Internet Security Research, Germany · 2Facephi Biometrics, Spain · 3Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany +1

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

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

    University of New Brunswick, Canada · ArogyaPandit Private Limited, India · Universit´e de Haute-Alsace, IRIMAS UR 7499, France +1

  29. 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

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Chattogram, Bangladesh.

  30. Compete Then Collaborate: Frontier AI Teachers Build a Verifiable Curriculum to Improve a Coding Student Beyond Imitation

    Jul 9, 2026Miseong Shawn KimArtificial Intelligence EducationCurriculum

    Genesis Cortex AI Inc.

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

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

    1 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland · University of Zurich, Switzerland

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

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

    University of Nebraska - Lincoln · Lincoln, Nebraska, United States · University of Georgia - Athens +3

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

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

    Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, USA · Amazon Research, UK · Amazon, USA

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

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

    Tübingen AI Center

  35. Beyond Static Leaderboards: Predictive Validity for the Evaluation of LLM Agents

    Jun 18, 2026Dhaval C. Patel, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Shuxin Lin +58Agentic EvaluationsAgentic Benchmarks

  36. Creative Collision: Directorial Persona Steering and Competition in Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Subramanyam Sahoo, Justin ShenkDramadirectorNarrative Generation

    Horizon Research.

  37. CARE: Context-Aware Ranking Evolution with Executable Scoring Programs for Budgeted Reaction Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Guanyu Liu, Weiyi Kong, Chao Tang +5Large Language Model Policy OptimizationScientific Discovery

    University of Macau · University of Toronto · UCLA +3

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

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

    University of Cambridge · 2Mistral AI · *Work done as an AI Scientist Intern at Mistral AI.

  39. Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention

    Jun 4, 2026Can SavcıMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningDecentralized Learning

    Independent Researcher Izmir, Turkey

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

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

    Department of Computer Science, University of Tabriz, 29 Bahman Boulevard, Tabriz 51666-16471, Iran

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

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

    Cairo, Egypt

  42. 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

    Renmin University of China · University of Southern California · Zhejiang University +1

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

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

    1eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), NYUAD Research Institute, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, USA

  44. DUEL: Adversarial Self-Play for Multimodal Reasoning

    May 24, 2026Lin Qiu, Hanqing Zeng, Yao Liu +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

    Meta AI

  45. 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

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

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

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

    HSE University · New Economic School · Central Economic Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences +3

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

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

    Physics Department, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA

  48. 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

    Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab, Seattle, WA, 98170, USA

  49. Breaking Winner-Takes-All\textit{Winner-Takes-All}: Cooperative Policy Optimization Improves Diverse LLM Reasoning

    May 12, 2026Haoxuan Chen, Tianming Liang, Wei-Shi Zheng +1Better Call Group Relative Policy OptimizationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    1ISEE Lab, Sun Yat-sen University

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

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

    MLIP Research Group, KUIS AI Center, Koç University · Department of EEE, Koç University

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

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

    Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany · Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

  52. Market-Alignment Risk in Pricing Agents: Trace Diagnostics and Trace-Prior RL under Hidden Competitor State

    May 7, 2026Peiying Zhu, Sidi ChangDynamic PricingTraces

    Blossom AI · Blossom AI Labs

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

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

    Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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

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

    Queen Mary University of London London, UK · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, Korea · KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden +5

  55. SF20K Competition 2025: Summary and findings

    May 2, 2026Ridouane Ghermi, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton +1Long Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

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

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

    Institute of Energy Materials and Devices (IMD-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

  57. Efficient Training on Multiple Consumer GPUs with RoundPipe

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

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China

  58. 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

    School of Engineering · Australian National University · Canberra, ACT 2601 +3

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

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

    University of California, Berkeley

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

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

    Federal University of Paraná, Brazil · Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil · Korea University, Republic of Korea +6