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  1. Sharpening Tax in Post-Training

    Oct 1, 2026Changdae Oh, Qi Zeng, Qi Qi +7Reinforcement Learning Post-TrainingPost-Training

    Meta Superintelligence Labs · University of Wisconsin–Madison · Work done at Meta +2

  2. Sharpen Before You Adapt: Data-Free Entry-State Sharpening for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 1, 2026Zhanming Zhang, Vinoth SelvendranIntermediate CheckpointsSharpness-Aware Minimization

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

  3. Propagate, Then Sharpen: Post-Hoc Refinement of Frozen Node Classifiers

    Sep 28, 2026Preben Johnsen Bentdal, Nello Blaser, Xue-Cheng TaiPropagationSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Department of Informatics, University of Bergen · Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE)

  4. Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) Improves Classification Accuracy of Bacterial Raman Spectral Data Enabling Portable Diagnostics

    Sep 16, 2026Kaitlin Zareno, Jarett Dewbury, Siamak K. Sorooshyari +2RamanAntimicrobial Peptide

    Department of Mechanical Engineering MASSachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Statistics Stanford University Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA · Google Research Mountain View, CA 94043, USA

  5. SAM-on-the-Curve: Sharpness-Aware Mode Connectivity for Robust Weight-Space Interpolation

    Sep 15, 2026Alejandro Calatrava, Xu Zhang, Ren WangSharpness-Aware MinimizationAnisotropic Loss Landscapes

  6. Stochastic Gradient Descent over P2

    Sep 11, 2026Maria Oprea, Qin Li, Yunan YangStochastic Gradient DescentStochastic Differential Equations

    Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University · Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA · Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, USA

  7. Explaining f-Divergence-Based Regularization via Local Curvature and Sharpness-Aware Minimization

    Sep 8, 2026Nour Jamoussi, Marios KountourisSharpness-Aware MinimizationLocal Curvature

    Communication Systems Department EURECOM France · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain

  8. Sharpening the Ensemble: An SSIM-Aligned Residual Refiner for Brain-MRI Inpainting Post-Processing

    Sep 3, 2026Kubilay Kağan Kömürcü, İlkay ÖksüzMagnetic Resonance ImagingInpainting

    Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  9. A Geometric Phase Boundary for Volume-Sampled Linear Readouts

    Aug 27, 2026Kihun RheeCovarianceReadout

  10. A Compositional Theory of Curvature in Probabilistic Circuits

    Aug 13, 2026Hrithik Suresh, Sahil Sidheekh, Shelar Parth Vijay +3Sharpness-Aware MinimizationProbabilistic Model

    Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala, India · Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA · AT&T CDO

  11. On the Implicit Flatness Bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization: A Linear Stability Analysis with Quantitative Hyperparameter Bounds

    Aug 4, 2026Jiaxin Deng, Junbiao PangSharpness-Aware MinimizationHessian

    Beijing University of Technology

  12. FaithIR: Rethinking Infrared Image Super-Resolution from Perceptual Sharpness to Task Relevant Fidelity

    Aug 4, 2026Axi Niu, Zhenguo Wu, Kang Zhang +3Hyperspectral Image Super-ResolutionReconstruction Fidelity

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  13. Level, Sharpness, and Corpus: Why Zero-Shot OOD Detector Rankings Do Not Transfer

    Jul 29, 2026Ignacio M. De la Jara, Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Stephen Gould +1Out-Of-Distribution DetectionIn-Distribution

    University of Adelaide · 3Naval Group Pacific · 2Australian National University

  14. Sharpness-Aware Minimization and Muon: Robustness under the Spectral Norm

    Jul 28, 2026Wenzhi Zhong, Edward Milsom, Michael MurraySharpness-Aware MinimizationRegularization

    Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath · Department of Computer Science University of Bath

  15. When Can You Correct Distribution Drift in Temporal Graph Generation? A Sharpening--Drift Tension and an Impossibility for Observation-Based Correction

    Jul 27, 2026Tianpeng Li, Xuan Guo, Wenjun Wang +2Temporal Graph Neural NetworksGenerative Flow Networks

    College of New Media and Communication, Tianjin University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University · School of Cyberspace Security,Hangzhou Dianzi University

  16. Mini-batch Noise Lowers Sharpness via Dominant-Subspace Fluctuations

    Jul 25, 2026Junho So, Dongwook ShinStochastic Gradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Department of Mathematics, Ajou University, South Korea

  17. From Perturbation Correction to Geometry-Aware Sampling: Sharpness-Guided Equilibrium Sampling for Balanced Flat Minima in Long-Tailed Learning

    Jul 24, 2026Jiaxin Deng, Junbiao PangSharpness-Aware MinimizationBalanced Learning

    School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

  18. Gradient-Energy Guided Block-Wise Perturbations for Sharpness-Aware Minimization

    Jul 17, 2026Zhen Huang, Jiaxin Deng, Junbiao PangSharpness-Aware MinimizationLocal Curvature

    Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

  19. BCG-Former: Toward Pareto-Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification via Band-Contextual Gating

    Jul 17, 2026Gaurav Sharma, Eungjoo LeeHyperspectral ImageCnn-Transformer Tradeoff

    College of Information Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

  20. Sharper Analysis of Single-Loop Methods for Bilevel Optimization

    Jul 11, 2026Yubo Zhou, Jun Shu, Luo Luo +4Bilevel OptimizationConvergence

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University · School of Data Science, Fudan University · 3SGIT AI Lab, State Grid Corporation of China +1

  21. Dynamics of Gradient Descent with Large Step Size Near a Manifold of Flat Minima

    Jul 9, 2026Lachlan Ewen MacDonald, René VidalGradient DescentHessian

    Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) · University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, PA 19104

  22. Leveraging Extragradient for Effective Sharpness-Aware Minimization in Deep Learning

    Jul 7, 2026Yao Fu, Chunxia Zhang, Junmin Liu +3Stochastic Gradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China · SGIT AI Lab, State Grid Corporation of China, Xi’an, 710054, China · School of Software, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China +2

  23. SAMPLe: SAM-based Optimizer for Prompt Learning in VLMs

    Jul 7, 2026Hossein Rajoli, Fatemeh Lotfi, Niloufar Alipour Talemi +3Multiple Prompt Learning FrameworksVision-Language Model Adaptation

    Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634, USA · Siemens Energy (AI Lab), Orlando FL 32826, USA · University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA

  24. FedFFT: Taming Client Drift in Federated SAM via Spectral Perturbation Filtering

    Jul 5, 2026Liyang Yuan, Yibo Yang, Dandan GuoFederated LearningFrequency Domain

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

  25. Directional Curvature from Armijo Backtracking: A Low-Cost Sharpness Probe and a Calibration-Free Learning-Rate Safeguard for Adam

    Jul 4, 2026Ashmitha R, Jörg FrochteAdamSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Anna University, Coimbatore 641022, Tamil Nadu, India · Interdisciplinary Institute for Applied AI and Data Science Ruhr (AKIS), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Am Hochschulcampus 1, 44801 Bochum, Germany

  26. Don't Let Gains FADE: Breaking Down Policy Gradient Weights in RL

    Jul 1, 2026Juliette Decugis, Sean O'Brien, Francis Bach +2Sharpness-Aware Minimization

    FAIR at Meta · Work done at Meta, now working at the University of California, San Diego · Inria, Ecole Normale Supérieure

  27. Why Do Few-Step Text Latents Fail When Image Latents Work? Non-Commitment at Sharp Categorical Readouts

    Jun 29, 2026Zhongyao WangVideo LatentsFew-Step Generation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  28. How Far Can Sharpness and Complexity Jointly Explain Generalization?

    Jun 27, 2026Ziyu Cheng, Xitong Zhang, Longxiu Huang +1Sharpness-Aware MinimizationOverparameterization

    Michigan State University

  29. Recovering Sharp Conductivity Features in the Finite-Data Calderón Problem with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

    Jun 26, 2026Ali AlHadi Kalout, Pablo Tejerina-Pérez, Konstantin Karchev +5Parametric Physics-Informed Neural NetworkPhysics-Informed Learning

    Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain · Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain · ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain +2

  30. Certification of Machine Learning Models via Directional Sharpness

    Jun 23, 2026Gefei Tan, Adria Gascon, Sarah Meiklejohn +1CertificationSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Northwestern University & Google · Google · University College London

  31. Flatness Preserves Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Haochen Zhang, Yonatan BiskDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsInstruction

    Carnegie Mellon University

  32. TALAS: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation

    Jun 20, 2026Quoc Phong Dao, Hoang Son Nguyen, Pham Khanh Chi +4Knowledge DistillationDistributional Alignment

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology · VNU University of Engineering and Technology · University of Oregon +1

  33. Fisher-Geometric Sharpness and the Implicit Bias of SGD toward Flat Minima

    Jun 18, 2026Md Sakir Ahmed, Kumaresh Sarmah, Hemen DuttaStochastic Gradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Department of Electronics and Communication Technology Gauhati University Guwahati, Assam, India · Department of Mathematics Gauhati University Guwahati, Assam, India

  34. Edge Flow: A Tractable and Predictive Continuous-Time Model for Gradient Descent at the Edge of Stability

    Jun 16, 2026Pierre MarionGradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Inria, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University

  35. 5% > 100%: Flatness Preference is All You Need for Multimodal Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

    Jun 9, 2026Yifan Zhu, Can Lin, Hangjie Yuan +4Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning MethodsModel Fine-Tuning

    School of Computer Sciences, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310027, China · ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  36. Improving the sharpness in neural network-based parametric post-processing of ensemble forecasts

    Jun 7, 2026Ágnes Baran, Máté MihalinaNumerical Weather PredictionPost-Processing

    Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  37. Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization with a Polyak-type Step size: A Theory-Grounded Scheduler

    Jun 1, 2026Dimitris Oikonomou, Nicolas LoizouStochastic Gradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  38. Confidence-Adaptive SwiGLU for Mixture-of-Experts

    May 30, 2026Shaohua Li, Xiuchao Sui, Xiaobing Sun +4Mixture-Of-ExpertsGating

    Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China

  39. Self-Consistency via Marginal Sharpening

    May 27, 2026Aleksei Arzhantsev, Otmane Sakhi, Nicolas ChopinInference-TimeReasoning Skills

    Criteo AI Lab, CREST IP Paris · Criteo AI Lab · ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

  40. Rethinking Gradient Modulation in Multimodal Regression

    May 26, 2026Haojie Yin, Chengcheng Feng, Tianyi Liu +2OphthalmologyOptical Coherence Tomography

    Duke Kunshan University, China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China · Soochow University

  41. A Sharper Picture of Generalization in Transformers

    May 20, 2026Paul Lintilhac, Sair ShaikhGeneralization BoundsSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College · Dartmouth College

  42. DASM: Domain-Aware Sharpness Minimization for Multi-Domain Voice Stream Steganalysis

    May 19, 2026Pengcheng Zhou, Pianran Guo, Shuhua Chen +3SteganographySharpness-Aware Minimization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore · School of Cyberspace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  43. Graph Transductive Sharpening: Leveraging Unlabeled Predictions in Node Classification

    May 18, 2026Brown Zaz, Mar Gonzàlez I Català, Ferran Hernandez Caralt +2Transductive LearningUnlabeled Data

    University of Cambridge

  44. Navigating Potholes with Geometry-Aware Sharpness Minimization

    May 15, 2026Simon Dufort-Labbé, Mehrab Hamidi, Razvan Pascanu +3Sharpness-Aware MinimizationFlat Minima

    Mila, Université de Montréal · Samsung – SAIL Montreal

  45. Deep Image Segmentation via Discriminant Feature Learning

    May 14, 2026Adam Dawid Sztamborski, Raül Pérez-Gonzalo, Antonio AgudoImage ClassificationFeature Pyramid

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain · Politechnika Łódzka, Łód´z, Poland

  46. Sharpen Your Flow: Sharpness-Aware Sampling for Flow Matching

    May 12, 2026Aditi Gupta, Soon Hoe Lim, Annan Yu +1Conditional Flow MatchingAccelerated Sampling

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · International Computer Science Institute · 1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2International Computer Science Institute +4

  47. SLASH the Sink: Sharpening Structural Attention Inside LLMs

    May 11, 2026Yiming Liu, Bin Lu, Xinbing Wang +2Concept Bottleneck ModelsSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  48. Fix the Loss, Not the Radius: Rethinking the Adversarial Perturbation of Sharpness-Aware Minimization

    May 11, 2026Jinping Wang, Qinhan Liu, Zhiwu Xie +1Sharpness-Aware MinimizationApproximate Nearest-Neighbor Search

    Wenzhou-Kean University · International Frontier Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Wenzhou-Kean University

  49. FedVSSAM: Mitigating Flatness Incompatibility in Sharpness-Aware Federated Learning

    May 9, 2026Bingnan Xiao, Yuan Gao, Bingcong Li +3Federated LearningSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Fudan University · ETH Zurich · Edith Cowan University +1

  50. Sharper Guarantees for Misspecified Kernelized Bandit Optimization

    May 7, 2026Davide Maran, Csaba SzepesváriKernel MethodBandits

    Politecnico di Milano · University of Alberta

  51. LIVEditor-14B: Lightning Unified Video Editing via In-Context Sparse Attention

    May 6, 2026Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou, Haopeng Li +4Dynamic Sparse AttentionVideo Editing

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ), Hong Kong · University of Arizona, USA

  52. Where Reliability Lives in Vision-Language Models: A Mechanistic Study of Attention, Hidden States, and Causal Circuits

    May 5, 2026Logan Mann, Ajit Saravanan, Ishan Dave +4Vision-Language Foundation ModelsHidden States

    UC Santa Barbara · UC Berkeley · NVIDIA +2

  53. Sharpness-Aware Pretraining Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting

    May 4, 2026Ishaan Watts, Catherine Li, Sachin Goyal +2Catastrophic ForgettingPost-Training

    Carnegie Mellon University

  54. SGD at the Edge of Stability: The Stochastic Sharpness Gap

    Apr 22, 2026Fangshuo Liao, Afroditi Kolomvaki, Anastasios KyrillidisStochastic Gradient DescentSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Rice CS · Rice CS, Ken Kennedy Institute

  55. Too Sharp, Too Sure: When Calibration Follows Curvature

    Apr 22, 2026Alessandro Morosini, Matea Gjika, Tomaso Poggio +1Sharpness-Aware MinimizationDeep Network

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  56. Generalization at the Edge of Stability

    Apr 21, 2026Mario Tuci, Caner Korkmaz, Umut Şimşekli +1Generalization BoundsSharpness-Aware Minimization

    INRIA, CNRS, Département d’Informatique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure / PSL, France · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  57. Beyond Distribution Sharpening: The Importance of Task Rewards

    Apr 17, 2026Sarthak Mittal, Leo Gagnon, Guillaume LajoieDistributional Reinforcement LearningSharpness-Aware Minimization

    1Mila · 2Universit´e de Montr´eal

  58. Multigrain-aware Semantic Prototype Scanning and Tri-Token Prompt Learning Embraced High-Order RWKV for Pan-Sharpening

    Apr 16, 2026Junfeng Li, Wenyang Zhou, Xueheng Li +3Fine-Grained PerceptionConvolutional

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · Xidian University · University of Science and Technology of China +3

  59. Non-Euclidean Gradient Descent Operates at the Edge of Stability

    Mar 5, 2026Rustem Islamov, Michael Crawshaw, Jeremy Cohen +1Gradient DescentGradient

    University of Basel, Switzerland · George Mason University, USA · Flatiron Institute, USA

  60. Do Flat Minima Improve Sparse Novel View Synthesis?

    Nov 22, 2025Youngsik Yun, Dongjun Gu, Youngjung UhNovel View SynthesisSparse-View

    Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea