Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-11-0215.2% of agent runs take an unauthorized action, 81% collision avoidance from coupled guidance, and a 6.24× log-sum-exp kernel: twelve top-conf papers from October 24–30, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from October 24–30, 2026 — ten accepted at NeurIPS 2026, one at ICML 2026 and one at CVPR 2026 as a Highlight — covering speculative decoding on sparse mixture-of-experts models, log-sum-exp kernels, steering vectors as a training signal, calibration by head intervention, agent side effects, offline goal-conditioned RL, causal explanations of policies, 3D reconstruction and generation, flow-matching guidance, publicly verifiable watermarking and Newton boosting.1
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-10-261110 tokens a second, 79% of unlearned text rebuilt, and a 14B agent 0.2 points off Opus: twelve top-conf papers from October 17–23, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from October 17–23, 2026 — nine accepted at NeurIPS 2026, two at ICML 2026 and one at CVPR 2026 — covering low-bit inference, SVD compression, reasoning-token control, test-time selection, emergence claims, agent reinforcement learning, MCP fault tolerance, forecasting, latent dynamics, unlearning privacy, world models and longitudinal radiology reports.
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-10-19Flawed reasoning traces, model-heavy audio, and five-megabyte scene memory: twelve top-conf papers from October 10–16, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from October 10–16, 2026, ten accepted at NeurIPS 2026 and one each at ICML 2026 and ICLR 2026, covering multimodal data mixtures, chain-of-thought distillation, self-correction policy learning, linear-probe diagnostics, coding and memory agents, multimodal agent safety, masked distributed attention, planar memory for video world models, fractional neural operators, RNA inverse folding and discrete mutual-information estimation.2
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-10-12Tool-call vectors, superposed experts, and provably hidden capabilities: twelve top-conf papers from October 3–9, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from October 3–9, 2026, eleven accepted at NeurIPS 2026 and one published at ICML 2026, covering multi-agent scheduling, tool-call interpretability, sparse attention decoding, no-thinking evaluation, mixture-of-experts routing, hidden-capability audits, offline reinforcement learning, model-quality theory, pose-free 3D inpainting, video editing, guidance schedules, and causal virtual screening.
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-10-05Task graphs, proximal entropy, and split experts: twelve top-conf papers from September 26 – October 2, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from September 26 – October 2, 2026, all accepted at NeurIPS 2026 and three of them spotlights, covering deep-research agent planning, self-evolving coding rules, token-level credit assignment, test-time search theory, multilingual tokenization, abstention and hallucination control, video-diffusion scaling, visual token compression, quality-diversity search, Adam's convergence, and neural PDE pre-training.2
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-09-28Skill cascades, editable transcripts, and gradient leakage: twelve top-conf papers from September 19–25, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from September 19–25, 2026, eleven of them accepted at NeurIPS 2026, covering agent skill composition, tool-search reinforcement learning, editable conversation state, continual fine-tuning, long-horizon reasoning, audio-visual binding, gigapixel scientific imaging, neural implicit surfaces, gradient-inversion privacy, image provenance, chance-constrained reinforcement learning and interpretable risk trees.1
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-09-21Enforcement gaps, terminal constraints, and perceptual subspaces: twelve top-conf papers from September 12–18, 2026Twelve first-submission arXiv papers from September 12–18, 2026 cover agent enforcement, LLM serving and post-training, multimodal continual learning, image restoration and quality assessment, physics-constrained generation, remote-sensing insertion, gait recognition, distributed scientific fitting, and AI-assisted deliberation.
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-09-14Optimal transport, noisy latents, and alignment resistance: ten top-conf papers from September 7–11, 2026Ten first-submission arXiv papers from September 7–11, 2026 cover optimal-transport planning, noisy-space diffusion policies, conditioned attention initialization, spectral diffusion geometry, alignment resistance in mid-training, compositional category discovery, conformal calibration transfer, adaptive vision propagation, pruning concentration bounds, and multimodal alignment evaluation.2
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-09-07Sparse paths, dense evidence: nine top-conf papers from August 31-September 4, 2026Nine first-submission arXiv papers from August 31-September 4, 2026 cover efficient LLM training and inference, multimodal reasoning, collaborative perception, agent evaluation, memory safety, and KAN tooling.1
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-08-31Temporal chunks, recovery skills, and the interaction tax: eight top-conf papers from August 24–28, 2026Eight first-submission arXiv papers from August 24–28, 2026 cover LLM post-training, multi-agent communication, robotic recovery, video abstraction, medical VQA, and equivariant uncertainty.2
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-08-24Top-conf paper digest — week of August 17–21, 2026Six first-submission arXiv papers from August 17–21, grouped across LLM evaluation and safety, 3D generation, diffusion transfer, and personalized graph federated learning.1
Top-conf Paper Weekly Digest2026-08-17Top-conf paper digest — week of August 10–14, 2026Ten first-submission arXiv papers posted August 10–14 with explicit ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS Competition Track, or top-conference status language, grouped across LLM systems, multimodal learning, vision, test-time adaptation, multi-agent theory, radar-language reasoning, and robotics.1