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  1. FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization

    Jul 20, 2026Michal Ciebielski, Shafeef Omar, Aaron Johnson +1Humanoid Loco-ManipulationRobot Trajectories

  2. Beyond the Edge of Chaos: Stability-Expressivity Transfer in Reservoir Forecasting

    Jul 20, 2026Yao Du, Xingang WangReservoir ComputingChaos

  3. ANNLib: A Development Framework for Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

    Jul 20, 2026Zheqi Shen, Jingbo Su, Zijin Wan +2Approximate Nearest-Neighbor SearchNeural Architecture Search

  4. Lookahead Branching for Neural Network Verification

    Jul 19, 2026Liam Davis, Duo Zhou, Huan Zhang +3Neural Network VerificationFormal Verification

  5. SynH-Rank: Quality-Aware Code Search via Diverse Data Synthesis and Hierarchical Ranking Training

    Jul 19, 2026Keyu Liang, Haoye Wang, Yanfu Yan +2Code QualityReranking

  6. SEER: Supervised Learning to Control Energetic Reasoning

    Jul 17, 2026Sascha Van Cauwelaert, Michele Lombardi, Pierre SchausClassical SolversRecursive Reasoner

  7. CSS-BA: Gate-Guided Column Space Search for Bundle Adjustment

    Jul 17, 2026Ayano Kaneda, Takafumi Taketomi, Shugo Yamaguchi +1Feed-Forward Visual Geometry Estimation3D Reconstruction

  8. Hard Rules, Soft Preferences: Bridging Reasoning, Learning, and Optimization for Personalized Packing Checklist Generation

    Jul 17, 2026Himel Dev, Madhusudan Basak, Tanmoy Sen +2TourModel Preference

  9. EXPLORE: Exploration with Guided Search for Analog Topology Generation using Language Models

    Jul 15, 2026Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen +5Analog CircuitsMonte Carlo Tree Search

  10. CayleyR: Solving the TopSpin puzzle via cycle intersection

    Jul 14, 2026Yuri BaramykovPermutationPuzzle

  11. Dynamic Resource Allocation for Ensemble Determinization MCTS

    Jul 14, 2026Jakub Kowalski, Adam Ciężkowski, Artur Krzyżyński +1Monte Carlo Tree SearchUnknown Environments

  12. Who Grades the Grader? Co-Evolving Evaluation Metrics and Skills for Self-Improving LLM Agents

    Jul 14, 2026Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4Agentic EvaluationsEvaluation Metrics

  13. Heuristic Learning for Active Flow Control Using Coding Agents

    Jul 13, 2026Paul Garnier, Jonathan Viquerat, Elie HachemDeep Reinforcement LearningHeuristics

  14. TreeThink: A Modular Tree Search Library for Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs

    Jul 13, 2026Burak S. Akbudak, Zeynel A. Uluşan, Can S. Erer +1TheoremTree Search

  15. Lightning Fast Matching Dependency Discovery with Desbordante

    Jul 12, 2026Alexey Shlyonskikh, Michael Sinelnikov, Daniil Nikolaev +2Data MiningSemantic Deduplication

  16. Adaptive Search in Collatz Exponent-Code Space via 2-adic and 3-adic Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Oliver KramerConjectureSearch Algorithms

  17. Learning Partition Trees for Nearest Neighbor Search

    Jul 10, 2026Sanjeev Khanna, Ashwin Padaki, Erik WaingartenApproximate Nearest-Neighbor SearchPartitioning

  18. AlphaZero in Sparsely Rewarded Games: Limits and Auxiliary Supervision

    Jul 9, 2026Brent Kong, Tejas Ram, Tony Yue YuMonte Carlo Tree SearchSelf-Play

  19. GATS: Graph-Augmented Tree Search with Layered World Models for Efficient Agent Planning

    Jul 9, 2026Maureese Williams, Dymitr NowickiLarge Language Model PlanningClassical Planning

  20. Offline Nash Solvers Meet Online Tree Search in Multi-Agent Games on Graphs

    Jul 9, 2026Mukesh Kumar, Yue Guan, Panagiotis TsiotrasNash EquilibriumMulti-Agent Path Finding

  21. DominoTree: Conditional Tree-Structured Drafting with Domino for Speculative Decoding

    Jul 9, 2026Saw S. Lin, Jyh-Shing Roger JangSpeculative DecodingLLM Inference Efficiency

  22. Improving Ad-hoc Search Effectiveness for Conversational Information Retrieval via Model Merging

    Jul 9, 2026Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Jose G. Moreno, Lynda TamineRetrieversModel Merging

  23. Answering Without Referring: How AI Search Rewrites the Web's Economic Bargain

    Jul 8, 2026Qiaoni Shi, Kai Zhu, Kai GuHeuristic SearchAi-Driven

  24. Reward-Density Heuristic for Dynamic Multi-Vehicle Routing: Performance and Computational Efficiency

    Jul 7, 2026Manish Kolachalam, Rani MalhotraVehicle Routing ProblemPatient-To-Room Assignment Problem

  25. Graph Sparse Sampling: Breaking the Curse of the Horizon in Continuous MDP Planning

    Jul 6, 2026Idan Lev-Yehudi, Vadim IndelmanClassical PlanningExponential Horizon Dependence

  26. Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models

    Jul 4, 2026Xinyi Xie, Zican Hu, Zhanyu Liu +7Frozen Vision-Language ModelsTree Search

  27. CONTRA: Red-Teaming Configurations of Personalizable Agents

    Jul 3, 2026Jonathan Nöther, Adish Singla, Goran RadanovicRed-TeamingMalicious Code

  28. Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

    Jul 3, 2026Chengyuan Yang, Yifan Wang, Chun Kwang Tan +5Human-Robot InteractionSim-To-Real Gap

  29. HNSW with Accuracy Guarantees Using Graph Spanners

    Jul 2, 2026Minghao Li, Raghav Mittal, Sanjivni Rana +3Approximate Nearest-Neighbor SearchGraph Theory

  30. AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration

    Jul 1, 2026Junfeng Chen, YinHang Luo, Xinyi Wang +2Unknown EnvironmentsMonte Carlo Tree Search

  31. Scaling Laws for Grid-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensions

    Jul 1, 2026Matthew J Liu, Wei Hang Zheng, Vidhan Purohit +4Approximate Nearest-Neighbor SearchScaling Laws

  32. RAISE: LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design with Robust Adversary Instance Search

    Jun 30, 2026Fei Liu, Alessio Figalli, Patrick Owen +1HeuristicsEvolutionary Search

  33. Why can genetic algorithms work in high-dimensional search spaces?

    Jun 29, 2026Stephen WhitelamGenetic AlgorithmsGradient Descent

  34. Self-Evolving Agentic Image Restoration via Deliberate Planning and Intuitive Execution

    Jun 27, 2026Shuang Cui, Fan Ji, Guanglong Sun +4Image RestorationRestoration

  35. Road to scalability for efficient graph search on massively parallel neuromorphic hardware

    Jun 27, 2026Oskar von Seeler, Elena C. Offenberg, Carlo Michaelis +4Neuromorphic HardwareShortest Paths

  36. Latent Visual Diffusion Reasoning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

    Jun 26, 2026Xirui Teng, Nan Xi, Junsong YuanLatent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  37. Exact and Deterministic Patch Descriptor Retrieval via Hierarchical Normalization

    Jun 25, 2026Koichi SatoApproximate Nearest-Neighbor SearchVector Database

  38. MIRROR: Novelty-Constrained Memory-Guided MCTS Red-Teaming for Agentic RAG

    Jun 25, 2026Inderjeet Singh, Andrés Murillo, Motoyoshi Sekiya +2Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsMulti-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  39. Random Walk on Bézier Curves for Global Optimization

    Jun 25, 2026Jinpeng Wang, Xingguo Xu, Yujing Sun +3MetaheuristicsInformation-Geometric Optimization

  40. Geometry-Aware MCTS for Extremal Problems in Combinatorial Geometry

    Jun 24, 2026Luoning Zhang, Xu Zhuang, Tianhao Wang +1Monte Carlo Tree SearchRepresentational Geometry

  41. FactorLibrary: From Polynomials to Circuits via Recursive Subgoals

    Jun 24, 2026Rohan Pandey, Michael Ruofan Zeng, Weikun K. Zhang +5PolynomialsFactor

  42. UC-Search: Risk-Aware Test-Time Search for Delayed Constrained Time-Series Control

    Jun 24, 2026Xibai WangSearch AlgorithmsTrajectory Optimization

  43. Cost-Optimal Decision Diagrams for Stochastic Boolean Function Evaluation

    Jun 23, 2026Xia Zong, Tuomo Lehtonen, Jussi RintanenHeuristicsDecision Trees

  44. LLM-Aided A* Search in Non-Geometric Network Graphs

    Jun 22, 2026Nouf Alabbasi, Esraa Ghourab, Omar AlhusseinShortest PathsSearch Algorithms

  45. Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery

    Jun 20, 2026Gurusha Juneja, Arnav Kumar Jain, Deepak Nathani +2Tree SearchAgentic Reasoning

  46. The Two-Hump Problem: Bridging the Difficulty Gap in Mathematical Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Lucas Fagan, Michele Tarquini, Ali Shehper +6Deep Reinforcement LearningSparse Rewards

  47. Interpreting Neural Combinatorial Optimization via Evolving Programmatic Bottlenecks

    Jun 18, 2026Haocheng Duan, Yuxin Guo, Jieyi Bi +4Concept Bottleneck ModelsLlm-Based Optimization Modeling

  48. Prioritizing Search Space Regions in the Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequences Problem

    Jun 17, 2026Blaž Pšeničnik, Borko Bošković, Jan Popić +1Search AlgorithmsThompson Sampling

  49. VERITAS: Verifier-Guided Proof Search for Zero-Shot Formal Theorem Proving

    Jun 17, 2026Manish Acharya, Zhenyu Liao, Yueke Zhang +3TheoremProof

  50. N(CO)2^2: Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Chance Constraints to Solve Stochastic Orienteering

    Jun 16, 2026Anas Saeed, Marcos Abel Zuzuárregui, Stefano CarpinCombinatorial OptimizationHeuristics

  51. SproutRAG: Attention-Guided Tree Search with Progressive Embeddings for Long-Document RAG

    Jun 16, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Issam H. Laradji, Peter West +1Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsTree Search

  52. Free Energy Heuristics: Fast-And-Frugal Cognition as Active Inference Under Uncertain Precision

    Jun 14, 2026Alex BogdanCognitive ScienceChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  53. Discovering Lattice Reduction Strategies via Self-Play

    Jun 13, 2026Mohamed Malhou, Kristin Lauter, Ludovic PerretLatticeDeep Reinforcement Learning

  54. StarOR: Synergizing Tree Search and Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Optimization Modeling

    Jun 13, 2026Jiajun Li, Yu Ding, Shisi Guan +2Llm-Based Optimization ModelingDeep Reinforcement Learning

  55. Causal Object-Centric Models for Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

    Jun 12, 2026Rodion Vakhitov, Leonid Ugadiarov, Alexey Skrynnik +1Monte Carlo Tree SearchObject-Centric Learning

  56. The Program Is Still There: A Conservation Law for Program Discovery

    Jun 11, 2026Jorge Miguel SilvaSearch AlgorithmsComputable

  57. Arbor: Tree Search as a Cognition Layer for Autonomous Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Neha Prakriya, Chaojun Hou, Zheng Gong +5Tree SearchLLM Inference Efficiency

  58. TreeSeeker: Tree-Structured Trial, Error, and Return in Deep Search

    Jun 10, 2026Zhuofan Shi, Mingzhe Ma, Lu Wang +8Tree SearchContext-Aware Sub-Goal Generation

  59. The Voronoi Bottleneck: Capacity-Aware Dense Retrieval for Product Search

    Jun 9, 2026Charith Chandra Sai Balne, Rithwik Maramraju, Siddharth Pratap Singh +4Retrieval LayerRelevance

  60. Learning Splitting Heuristics for Parallel String Solvers

    Jun 9, 2026Chenhao Gao, Peisen YaoHeuristicsParallel