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  1. Intelligence Under Time Constraints: Rethinking Test-Time Compute

    Sep 14, 2026Xiaotian ZhangComputational CostTest Time

  2. Confidence-Gated Transductive Test Generation for Code Reranking

    Sep 14, 2026Sungjae Lee, Youngsik Yoon, Seockbean Song +3Test GenerationTest Time

  3. An Open Recipe for IMO Gold: Training Nemotron for Olympiad Mathematics

    Sep 12, 2026Ivan Moshkov, Stephen Ge, George Armstrong +3Olympiad-Level ProblemProof

  4. Rethinking Indirect Prompt Injection as a Test-Time Search Problem

    Sep 7, 2026Duong M. Nguyen, Joon Sik Kim, Blazej Manczak +1Indirect Prompt InjectionMultiple Attack Surfaces

  5. A Removal Based Approach to Improve LLM Faithfulness at Test-Time

    Sep 7, 2026Qinglan Luo, S M A Nahian, John Guttag +2Explanation FaithfulnessLarge Language Model Reliability

  6. What Else Needs Fixing? Exploring Cost-Effective Test-Time Compute for Revision Propagation in Artifacts Generated Through Conversation

    Sep 3, 2026Daisuke KikutaTest Time

  7. Claim-Level Reliability Assessment for Efficient Test-Time Reasoning

    Aug 12, 2026Sen Xu, Wei Wang, Shixi Liu +5FalsehoodTest Time

  8. Consilience for Verifier-Free Test-Time Scaling

    Aug 10, 2026Lecheng Kong, Like Hui, Haitao Mao +1Test-Time ScalingTest Time

  9. Efficient Test-Time Scaling for LLM-based Time Series Forecasting

    Aug 9, 2026Xuan-May Le, Minh-Tuan Tran, Ling Luo +3Test-Time ScalingNeural Scaling Laws

  10. Reproducing and Stress-Testing Two Approaches to LLM Reasoning Reliability: Test-Time Probability Aggregation and Logic-Representation Editing

    Aug 9, 2026Minhan Cho, Jimin KweonLarge Language Model ReasoningValidity

  11. Forgotten History or Test-of-Time? Retrospect and Prospect on RAG from an IR Perspective

    Aug 9, 2026Xiaoyan Zhao, Yujie Cai, Yang Zhang +2Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsHistory

  12. Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Jiawei Zhao +2Large Reasoning ModelsTest Time

  13. Thinking Hard, Not Smart: Reasoning Models Fail to Ration Test-Time Compute Across Questions

    Aug 8, 2026Chenrui Fan, Yize Cheng, Ming Li +3Large Reasoning ModelsTest Time

  14. CoBa: Cost-Effective Test-Time Scaling via Compute-Balanced Routing

    Aug 7, 2026Yan Zhou, Yue Ouyang, Kaiyang Zheng +1Test-Time ScalingTest Time

  15. Refining Over Resampling: Test-Time Self-Correction for LLM Reasoning

    Aug 6, 2026Ahsan Bilal, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer +4Large Language Model ReasoningTest Time

  16. Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Xuehang Guo, Pengyuan Li, Tom Hope +3Self-Supervised RepresentationsCo-Evolution

  17. Interpretable Adaptive Sampling for LLM Test-Time Scaling

    Aug 4, 2026Mobina Kashaniyan, Ali JannesariTest-Time ScalingTest Time

  18. Aligning Large Vision-Language Models at Test Time: A Trajectory-Guided Structured Sampling Approach

    Aug 4, 2026Tianbao Jiang, Weicong Ni, Gerard de Melo +1Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  19. It's the Decoding Format, Not the Perturbation: Auditing Consistency-Based Selection for Vision-Language Test-Time Scaling

    Aug 2, 2026Puzhuo Zheng, Hasan KurbanTextvqaTest Time

  20. PeCA: Palette Context Assisted Inference for Test-Time Paint-Bucket Colourisation on Animation Videos

    Aug 2, 2026Dongheng Lin, Jianbo JiaoPixelloopPixel-Level Annotation

  21. SVR: Self-Verifying Refinement via Joint Verdict-Confidence Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Test-Time Compute

    Jul 30, 2026Hongyu Chen, Liang Lin, Guangrun WangReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardVerifier

  22. Eviction as Estimation: A Fixed-Lag Smoothing View of Test-Time Memory, and When Measuring Beats Accumulating

    Jul 27, 2026Maruthi Vemula, Neeraj Praneeth GajulaWorking MemoryEviction

  23. CachedSearch: Training-Free Cached Exploration for Test-Time Search in Video Diffusion

    Jul 25, 2026Shreshth Saini, Neil Birkbeck, Yilin Wang +2Pre-Trained Video Diffusion ModelsLongvideobench

  24. When Does Recurrence Become an Algorithm? Convergence Selection in Weight-Tied Looped Transformers

    Jul 22, 2026Tong Zhang, Junhao Hu, Yun Peng +1RecurrenceLearning Rates

  25. Test-Time Registers as Global Priors for Tokenized Image Generation

    Jul 18, 2026Cheng-Yao Hong, Yifan Wang, Yuewei Lin +1Text-To-ImageAttention-Based Models

  26. Efficient Frame Selection for Long Videos at Test Time with Attention-Based MLLM Selectors

    Jul 17, 2026Yilin Wang, Xiangxi Zheng, Dongxing Mao +6VideosMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  27. 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

  28. Forgetful Attention: A Trainable Support-Vector Memory with Certified Selection and Exact Unlearning

    Jul 13, 2026Vishwajith RameshSoftmax AttentionForgetting

  29. Interaction Scaling: Grounding the Third Axis of Test-Time Compute

    Jul 13, 2026Bojie Li, Noah ShiTest TimeReviewer

  30. Fail-Aware and Explainable Test Oracle Prediction

    Jul 13, 2026Yue Zhao, Binish Tanveer, Jelena ZdravkovicTest GenerationOracles

  31. TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution

    Jul 9, 2026Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Jun Song +5Large Language Model AgentsTest Time

  32. Selective Left-Shift: Turning Test-Time Compute and Difficulty-based Curation into Training Data for Low-Resource Code Generation

    Jul 8, 2026Didula Samaraweera, Anjana Supun, Srinath PereraCode GenerationSmall Language Models

  33. PriGo: Test-Time Primitive Guidance to Diffusion and Flow Policies for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Zezeng Li, Enda Xiang, Thuy Tran +3Imitation LearningGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  34. WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time

    Jul 8, 2026Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu +13Efficient World-Action ModelVideo Pretraining

  35. Cost-Effective Agent Harnesses for Abstract Reasoning and Generalization on ARC-AGI-1

    Jul 7, 2026Kabir Moghe, Peter ChinAgentic ReasoningTest Time

  36. Search-based Testing of Vision Language Models for In-Car Scene Understanding

    Jul 2, 2026Lev Sorokin, Chen Yang, Ken E. Friedl +1Driving SceneLarge Vision Language Models

  37. DART-VLN: Test-Time Memory Decay and Anti-Loop Regularization for Discrete Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie MeiVision-Language NavigationFrozen Vision-Language Models

  38. Selective Test-Time Debiasing for CLIP via Reward Gating

    Jul 1, 2026Jaeho Han, Jisoo Yang, Hyeondong Woo +3Bias MitigationTest Time

  39. ELASTIC: Efficiently Learning to Adaptively Scale Test-Time Compute for Generative Control Policies

    Jun 30, 2026Andrew Zou Li, Gokul Swamy, Yonatan Bisk +1Test-Time ScalingTest Time

  40. ReGuide: From Test-Time Guidance to Self-Improving Diffusion Policies

    Jun 27, 2026Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dileep Kalathil +1Diffusion PoliciesReward Gradients

  41. VGB for Masked Diffusion Model: Efficient Test-time Scaling for Reward Satisfaction and Sample Editing

    Jun 26, 2026Kijung Jeon, Thuy-Duong Vuong, Molei TaoMasked Diffusion Language ModelsInference-Time

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

    Jun 24, 2026Xibai WangSearch AlgorithmsTrajectory Optimization

  43. TEXEDO : Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen, Yuzhen Song +3Human Motion GenerationMotion Generation

  44. ENVS: Environment-Native Verified Search for Long-Horizon GUI Agents

    Jun 22, 2026Yincheng Zhou, Athena Zhuoming Zhong, Shijie Zhang +3Graphical User Interface AgentsMultimodal Agents

  45. Adaptive Recurrent Message Passing for Test Time Computing on Graphs

    Jun 21, 2026Junshu Sun, Wanxing Chang, Qingming Huang +1Message Passing Neural NetworksStable Test-Time Adaptation

  46. A Test-time Actor-Critic Approach to News Images Generation

    Jun 19, 2026Damianos Galanopoulos, Vasileios MezarisImage GenerationSoft Actor-Critic

  47. REVES: REvision and VErification--Augmented Training for Test-Time Scaling

    Jun 17, 2026Yuanxin Liu, Ruida Zhou, Xinyan Zhao +6Large Language Model ReasoningTest Time

  48. LLM-Guided Test-Time Discovery of Quantum-Chemical Approximation Algorithms

    Jun 17, 2026Masaya Hagai, Yuta Suzuki, Tomoya Murata +2Computational ChemistryQuantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

  49. Retrieve, Don't Retrain: Extending Vision Language Action Models to New Tasks at Test Time

    Jun 14, 2026Jeongeun Park, Juhan Park, Taekyung Kim +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsUnseen-Task Adaptation

  50. Variational Test-time Optimization for Diffusion Synchronization

    Jun 14, 2026Hyunsoo Lee, Farrin Marouf Sofian, Kushagra Pandey +1Generative ModelsTest Time

  51. PolicyGuard: Towards Test-time and Step-level Adversary (Backdoor) Defense for Reinforcement Learning Agent

    Jun 11, 2026Junfeng Guo Heng HuangBackdoor AttacksTest Time

  52. DIRECT: When and Where Should You Allocate Test-Time Compute in Embodied Planners?

    Jun 10, 2026Jadelynn Dao, Milan Ganai, Yasmina Abukhadra +7Test TimeClassical Planning

  53. Titans-as-a-Layer: Test-Time Memory for Conversational Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jun 7, 2026Daniel Chen, Qicong Hu, Yang Xiao +2Large Audio Language ModelsEmotion Recognition

  54. ThinkBooster: A Unified Framework for Seamless Test-Time Scaling of LLM Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Vladislav Smirnov, Chieu Nguyen, Sergey Senichev +14Test-Time ScalingTest Time

  55. Double Preconditioning (DoPr): Optimization for Test-Time Performance, not Validation Loss

    Jun 4, 2026Thomas T. Zhang, Alok Shah, Yifei Zhang +3Downstream Fine-TuningLoss Function

  56. Question-Aware Evidence Ledgers for Video Relational Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yilin Ou, Mengshi Qi, Huadong MaVideo Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  57. CultureForest: Understanding and Evaluating Cultural Norm Grounded Reasoning in LLMs

    Jun 1, 2026Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Jialong Tang +5Cultural KnowledgeKnowledge-Grounded Reasoning

  58. Adaptive Dense Evidence Refinement for Video Relational Reasoning for VRR-QA Challenge

    May 31, 2026Yuyang Sun, Yongliang Wu, Xingyu Zhu +8Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  59. FineVerify: Scaling Test-Time Compute with Fine-Grained Self-Verification for Agentic Search

    May 30, 2026James Xu Zhao, Hui Chen, Bryan Hooi +1Agentic SearchVerifier

  60. Diversity Matters: Revisiting Test-Time Compute in Vision-Language Models

    May 29, 2026Yijie Tong, Yifan Hou, Shaobo Cui +2Large Vision Language ModelsTest Time