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  1. PAGER: Partial-to-global Alignment via Geometric and Relational Distillation

    Oct 1, 2026Akira-Miranda Adeyomi Adeniran-Lowe, Binod Singh, Lars Arnold Dethlefsen +2Feature AlignmentEncoders

    Technical University of Denmark · Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence

  2. StabilityArc: Decoding Protein Sequence Embeddings into Generalizable Stability Landscapes

    Sep 30, 2026Aaron L. Feller, Andrew D. Ellington, Claus O. WilkeProteinLattice Mutation

    The University of Texas at Austin Interdisciplinary Life Sciences · The University of Texas at Austin Integrative Biology

  3. One pool, many targets: a conservation layer and what archival data can identify

    Sep 30, 2026Zahra Khodagholi, Niloofar YousefiFeature AlignmentDistributional Fidelity

    Department of Industrial Engineering University of Central Florida

  4. Two Global Crops Suffice: Locating Semantic Emergence in DINO-Style Self-Supervised Learning

    Sep 23, 2026Basavaraj Sunagad, Artur Jesslen, Adam KortylewskiSelf-Supervised LearningDino

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · University of Freiburg

  5. Evaluating Transformation Models for pCLE Mosaic Registration

    Sep 21, 2026Ahmed Aboelela, Johannes Barcsay, Jana Friedhof +3Image RegistrationMosaic

    Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany · Department of Internal Medicine II, Interventional and Experimental Endoscopy (InExEn), University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany · Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Plastic and Aesthetic Operations, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  6. Beyond Safe Answers: Segment-Aware Listwise Alignment for Reasoning Safety in Large Reasoning Models

    Sep 14, 2026JungMin Yun, Junehyoung Kwon, Hayeong Ryu +3Large Reasoning ModelsReasoning Skills

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University · Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Sciences, Multimedia and Film, Chung-Ang University

  7. UFO: Chain-of-Evaluation for Omni-Condition Alignment in Multi-Modal Image Generation

    Sep 11, 2026Danning Zhang, Yijing Lin, Shuhan Zhuang +4Multimodal GenerationMulti-Reference Image Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China · Independent Rsesearcher · Shenzhen University +1

  8. Sequence-Informed Geometric Evaluation of RNA 3D Structures

    Sep 9, 2026Andrea Zerio, Yighua Yao, Alessandro Micheli +5Messenger RnaFeature Alignment

    Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark · Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), A*STAR, Singapore · Imperial College London, London, UK +4

  9. OntologyAligner: Ontology-Aligned Retrieval and Hierarchy-Guided Large Language Model Reranking for Biomedical Ontology Normalization

    Sep 9, 2026Jie Song, Zhichuan Xu, Ziyu Lu +8Medical OntologyOntology

    Department of Dermatovenereology and Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610212, China · College of Health and Intelligent Engineering, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China

  10. ACTD: Anchor-Based Cross-Tokenizer Distillation with Residual Regularization

    Aug 30, 2026Huiyi Zhang, Zijian Li, Xiaocheng Feng +4Teacher-Student DistillationKnowledge Distillation

    1Harbin Institute of Technology · 2Peng Cheng Laboratory

  11. Automated Researchers Can Mitigate Well-characterized Alignment Failures

    Aug 28, 2026Chen Yueh-Han, Jiaxin Wen, Jan Hendrik KirchnerArtificial Intelligence AlignmentResearch Automation

    1Anthropic Fellows Program · 2Anthropic · 3UC Berkeley

  12. SPEAR: Distilling Domain-Adaptive Reasoning Skeletons via Sequential Symbolic Alignment in Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 27, 2026Zhuochun Li, Yuelyu Ji, Yiming Zeng +1Process Reward ModelKnowledge Distillation

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA · University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

  13. Group Alignment-Induced Sycophancy: A Two-Sided Evaluation of Steerable Pluralistic Alignment

    Aug 12, 2026Haokai Zhao, Yunze Xiao, Weihao Xuan +3SycophancyPluralistic Alignment

    University of New South Wales · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Tokyo

  14. E3^3mo-Bench: A Scalable Benchmark for Multimodal Evoked and Expressed Emotion Understanding via Bayesian Pairwise Alignment

    Aug 11, 2026Lancheng Gao, Ziheng Jia, Shengyan Li +4Multimodal Large Language ModelsEvaluation Benchmarks

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  15. Not a Monolith: Lab-Level Divergence in the Cooperative Equilibria of Chinese Frontier LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Francisco León Zúñiga BolívarFrontier Large Language Model AgentsFrontier Models

    Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor del Cauca · Popayán, Colombia

  16. Dynamic Clustering for Cross-Segment Permutation Alignment in Long Speech Separation

    Aug 10, 2026Yuzhu Wang, Archontis Politis, Konstantinos Drossos +1Speech SeparationDiscrete Speech Representations

    Signal Processing Research Centre, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland · Nokia Technologies, Espoo, Finland

  17. DoGMA: A Central-Dogma-Guided Foundation Model for Multi-Omics Alignment and Multi-Task Learning in Oncology

    Aug 8, 2026Junfei Ling, Bangzheng Pu, Bingsen Xue +3Multi-Omic IntegrationMultidisciplinary Tumor Boards

    Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong +1

  18. string2string Studio: An Interactive, In-Browser Platform for String-to-String Algorithms

    Aug 4, 2026Mirac Suzgun, James Zou, Stuart M. Shieber +1Feature AlignmentBioinformatics

    Stanford University · Harvard University

  19. RadPRISM: Schema-stratified radiology-report supervision for concept-disentangled image representations and visual grounding

    Jul 31, 2026Fabian Drexel, Marlene Fritzsche, Era Stambollxhiu +15Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

    Chair for AI in Healthcare and Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany · Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, TUM University Hospital, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Munich, Germany · Department of Radiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany +5

  20. Rethinking Detection Calibration: A Coordinate and Direction Perspective

    Jul 31, 2026Juyong Lee, Seungjin Jung, Jungmin Lee +2Feature AlignmentPerspective

    Dept. of AI, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea · Dept. of Advanced Imaging, GSAIM, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea · GS. of Virtual Convergence, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea

  21. Evolution-Aware MSA Reasoning for Subsampling via Factor Graphs

    Jul 24, 2026Zhangzhi Xiong, Minzhang Li, Haotian Yu +6Protein Structure PredictionFeature Alignment

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University

  22. LC-SEPLM: long-range contact-supervised adaptation for sequence-only protein representation learning

    Jul 24, 2026Chen Wang, Boming Kang, Qinghua CuiProtein Structure PredictionSequence Modeling

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Hubei, China · Department of Biomedical Informatics, State Key Laboratory of Vascular Homeostasis and Remodeling, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Rd, Beijing, 100191, China. · School of Sports Medicine, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, No. 461 Luoyu Rd. Wuchang District, Wuhan 430079, Hubei Province, China

  23. Not All Patches are Equal: Sampling Matters for Visible-Infrared Pre-Training

    Jul 22, 2026Qiwei Ma, Bin Deng, Junjie Zhu +5InfraredVisual Priors

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China · Intelligent Game and Decision Lab, Beijing, 100166, Beijing, China · Yuelushan Center for Industrial Innovation, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China

  24. STBridge: Shared-Target Alignment for Bridging Understanding and Generation in UMMs

    Jul 19, 2026Ye Wang, Hongjun Wang, Hao Fang +7Multimodal ModelBridging Language

    Jilin University · Tencent YouTu Lab

  25. Neural spectroscopy of AlphaFold2 reveals encoded protein conformational landscapes

    Jul 17, 2026Kaustav MehtaConformational EnsemblesProtein

    Independent researcher, India

  26. Fast Whole-Brain, Geometry-Aware Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Decoding

    Jul 12, 2026Pierre-Louis Barbarant, Florent Meyniel, Bertrand ThirionFunctional Magnetic Resonance ImagingHuman Visual Cortex

    Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau 91120, France · Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France · Institut de neuromodulation, GHU Paris, psychiatrie et neurosciences, centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, pôle hospitalo-universitaire 15, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

  27. Scalable Optimal Transport Algorithm for Network Alignment

    Jul 11, 2026Elaheh Hassani, Durga Mandarapu, Qi Yu +2Feature AlignmentDistributional Alignment

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CA, USA · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL, USA

  28. Early to Share, Late to Save: Synchronisation-Driven Communication Gating in Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative VLN

    Jul 9, 2026Arav Gupta, Nivedan Yakolli, Avinash GautamVision-Language NavigationFeature Alignment

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India

  29. Dive Into the Implicit Biases of Low-rank Vision-language Alignment

    Jul 9, 2026Mingjia Shi, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang +7Vision-Language AlignmentFeature Alignment

    Mininglamp · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · National University of Singapore

  30. Uncertainty-Aware Abstention in Large Language Models with Provable Alignment Guarantees

    Jul 5, 2026Sijin Dong, Hiroyuki ShinnouLarge Language Model UncertaintyUncertainty Score

    1Ibaraki University, Japan.

  31. Smooth %\%MinMax: A Differentiable Relaxation for Codon Harmonization

    Jul 4, 2026Yoonho Jeong, Hyunwoo Choi, Ryan Fernandez Medina Hariri +3Feature AlignmentFlat Minima

    Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea. · School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.

  32. Reading Order Inference for Complex Document Layouts

    Jul 1, 2026Iddo Hakim, Sharva Gogawale, Omer Ventura +4Historical ManuscriptsOrder Matters

    School of Computer Science and AI, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

  33. Robust 3D Alignment of Generative Reconstructions via Partial Monocular Observations

    Jul 1, 2026Yuchen Zhang, Luanyuan Dai, Yiwei Wang +73D ReconstructionMonocular

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094, Nanjing, China · School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, USA +7

  34. Quantum Dynamic Time Warping for Multivariate Time Series Classification

    Jun 26, 2026Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Alejandro Mayorga-Redondo, Eduardo Mosqueira-ReyHybrid Quantum-Classical PipelineQuantum Kernels

    CITIC Research Center · Universidade da Coruña · A Coruña, 15071, Spain

  35. The Geometry of Updates: Fisher Alignment at Vocabulary Scale

    Jun 25, 2026John SweeneyFeature AlignmentSimilarity and Metrics

    Sideplane AI

  36. MinGram: A Minimalist Unigram Tokenizer with High Compression and Competitive Morphological Alignment

    Jun 25, 2026Sander LandUnigram TokenizerToken Compression

    Writer, Inc.

  37. wav2tok 2.0: Scalable Audio Tokenization Maintaining Explicit Pairwise Token Alignment for Efficient Audio Retrieval

    Jun 25, 2026Adhiraj Banerjee, Vipul AroraAudio TokenizersDiscrete Speech Representations

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India · Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

  38. Cross-View Yaw Estimation in Location Uncertainty with Line-Aligning Yaw Scoring

    Jun 20, 2026Taeho Kang, Nairan Zhang, Yelin Kim +2Indoor LocalizationBird'S-Eye View

    Seoul National University, South Korea · Meta, USA · Amazon, USA +1

  39. Reasoning as Intersection: Consensus-Frame Alignment for Visual Focus in Video-MLLMs

    Jun 16, 2026Chengwen Liu, Zhe Huang, Jisheng Dang +3Video UnderstandingMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Cloud and AI BU, Huawei, Shenzhen, China +1

  40. Phase Transition in Convex Relaxations for Graph Alignment

    Jun 14, 2026Laurent Massoulié, Sushil Mahavir Varma, Louis Vassaux +1Convex RelaxationFull-Rank Correlation Matrices

    INRIA, DI/ENS, PSL Research University, Paris, France · Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. · CNRS, INRIA, Universit´e Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

  41. Plan-and-Verify Video Reward Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Grounding

    Jun 10, 2026Hyomin Kim, Junghye Kim, Joanie Hayoun Chung +4Text-To-Video Generation ModelSpatio-Temporal Scene Graphs

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University · Department of Statistics, Korea University

  42. Globally Localizing Lunar Rover in Pixels via Graph Alignment

    Jun 9, 2026Mao Chen, Xu Yang, Chuankai Liu +5Drone-View Geo-LocalizationGlobal Navigation Satellite System

    The State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · Beijing Aerospace Control Center, Beijing, China. +1

  43. Constraint-Aware Optimization for Robust Protein Stability Prediction

    Jun 6, 2026A Shivram, Aneesh S. Chivukula, Manik Gupta +1Protein Structure PredictionLattice Mutation

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, 500078, Telangana, India · Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, 500078, Telangana, India

  44. pp-adic Bi-Filtrations for Topological Machine Learning on Genomic Sequences

    Jun 4, 2026Tirtharaj Dash, Gunja SachdevaGenome-Wide Association StudyTopological Learning

    Department of CS & IS, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa 403726, India. · Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa 403726, India.

  45. Toward Multi-Domain and Long-Tailed Quantization via Feature Alignment and Scaling

    Jun 3, 2026Ting-An Chen, Chin-Yuan Yeh, De-Nian YangFeature Alignment

    Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan · Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan +1

  46. ROGLE: Robust Global-Local Alignment with Automated Region Supervision for Text-Based Person Search

    Jun 1, 2026Chaodong Jia, Zequn Xie, Xibei Jia +3Vision-Language Model GroundingSpatial Supervision

  47. Feature Alignment Determines Fusion Strategy: A Comparative Study of Cross-Attention and Concatenation in Multimodal Learning

    May 31, 2026Zhiqiang Zhou, Xuezhen XieMultimodal FusionMultimodal Learning

    Hunan Chemical Industry Vocational and Technical College

  48. COMPASS: Cognitive MCTS-Guided Process Alignment for Safe Search Agents

    May 29, 2026Wenkai Shen, Pengyang Zhou, Jiahe Xu +5Safety AlignmentSearch Agents

    Zhejiang University

  49. Pairwise Reference Alignment as a Model-Level Ordinal Observable

    May 29, 2026Mujing LiPreference AlignmentPreference Alignment Learning

    Independent Researcher

  50. Genetically Aligned Patient Representations Improve Hematological Diagnosis

    May 28, 2026Muhammed Furkan Dasdelen, Fatih Ozlugedik, Ilaria Looser +3Acute Myeloid LeukemiaMedical World Model

    Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Munich, Germany · International School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University, Türkiye · Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Germany +4

  51. SLAD : Shared LoRA Adapters for Task Specific Distillation

    May 28, 2026Reda Bensaid, Yassir Bendou, Vincent Gripon +1Low-Rank Adaptation AdaptersWireless Foundation Models

    IMT Atlantique, Brest, France · Polytechnique Montr´eal, Montr´eal, Canada

  52. PROTOCOL: Late Interaction Retrieval for Protein Homolog Search

    May 27, 2026Gabrielle Cohn, Rohan Gumaste, Minh Hoang +1Feature AlignmentLanguage Modeling

    MIT · Princeton University

  53. Score-Agnostic Structure Analysis in Large-Scale Performance Datasets

    May 25, 2026Patricia Hu, Silvan Peter, Gerhard WidmerTranscriptionFeature Alignment

    Institute of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria · LIT AI Lab, Linz Institute of Technology, Linz, Austria

  54. TopoAlign: Topology-Aware Visual Representation Alignment

    May 25, 2026Xinyuan Yan, Rita Sevastjanova, Mennatallah El-Assady +1Feature AlignmentTopology

    University of Utah · ETH Zürich

  55. Whose Alignment? Comparing LLM Process Alignment Across Diverse Organizational Decision Contexts

    May 24, 2026Niklas Weller, Emilio BarkettLarge Language Model AlignmentLarge Language Model Decisions

    University of St. Gallen, Switzerland · 2Columbia University, New York, NY USA.

  56. Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Implicit Assumption, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment

    May 20, 2026Zhiqin Yang, Yonggang Zhang, Wei Xue +3Backtranslation Augmented Direct Preference OptimizationReinforcement Learning From Human Feedback

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2LIGHTSPEED · 3Hong Kong Baptist University.

  57. SCRIBE: Diagnostic Evaluation and Rich Transcription Models for Indic ASR

    May 20, 2026Kavya Manohar, Arghya Bhattacharya, Kush Juvekar +1Character Error RateAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Adalat AI, India

  58. A Data-Efficient Path to Multilingual LLMs: Language Expansion via Post-training PARAMΔΔ Integration into Upcycled MoE

    May 18, 2026Hao Zhou, Tianhao Li, Zhijun Wang +6Multilingual Language ModelsLanguage Acquisition

    National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · Zhejiang University

  59. Convex Dataset Valuation for Post-Training

    May 15, 2026Siqi Zeng, Christopher Jung, Rui Li +7Large Language Model TrainingPost-Training

    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Chamapign, Urbana, IL, USA · Meta, Menlo Park, CA, USA

  60. Distance-Matrix Wasserstein Statistics for Scalable Gromov--Wasserstein Learning

    May 14, 2026Ao Xu, Tieru WuGromov--WassersteinWasserstein Distance

    School of Artificial Intelligence Jilin University No. 2699, Qianjin Street, Chaoyang District Changchun 130012, China · Zhongguancun Academy Daniufang 2nd Ring Road, Haidian District2026 Beijing 100094, China · School of Artificial IntelligenceMay Jilin University No. 2699, Qianjin Street, Chaoyang District14 Changchun 130012, China