Publication Toward Cultural Alignment: Human-Centered Evaluation of Multimodal AI Stories Across Five African Communities Millicent Ochieng, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Elizabeth Ankrah, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Migisha Boyd, Stephanie Nyairo, Mercy Muchai, Samuel Chege Maina, Aditya Vashistha, Anja Thieme, Jacki O'Neill EMNLP 2026 | August 2026 Project
Publication Twist and Shout: Faster Memory Checking Arguments via One-Hot Addressing and Increments Srinath Setty, Justin Thaler, Michael Zhu Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2026
Publication TailSFT: Filtered Fine-Tuning Improves Post-Training Performance Sadhika Malladi, Samy Jelassi, Dylan Foster, Jordan Ash, Akshay Krishnamurthy August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication VGI-Bench: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models Xuan He, Cong Wei, Yuhao Cheng, Linrui Ma, Yuxuan Zhang, Zuojun Li, Yuhao Wen, Jize Jiang, Zeyi Liu, Yuren Hao, Songcheng Cai, Keming Wu, Penghui Du, Kai Zou, Rui Yang, Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Ping Nie, Kelsey R. Allen, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, ChengXiang Zhai August 2026 August 2026
Publication Simple is Better than Complex: A Representation-centric Perspective for Prompting-based Vision–Language Fusion Yujia Yin, Jinhong Ni, Renjie Wu, Hongji Li, Tianxin Wei, Zhong Li, Yifan Chen Transactions on Machine Learning Research | August 2026
Publication Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store for Accelerating Applications and Services Badrish Chandramouli, Vasileios Zois, Ted Hart, Tal Zaccai, Lukas M. Maas, Yoganand Rajasekaran, Darren Gehring VLDB 2026 Project
Publication Rubrics as Visual-Repair Context for Self-Evolving UI-to-Code Generation Tianyi Xiong, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiaofei Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, Ruichun Ma, Kevin Lin, Zhendong Wang, Linjie Li, Chenxi Liu, Ruibo Chen, R. Duraiswami, Heng Huang, Lijuan Wang August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication AgentSpec: Speculative Decoding for Batch Inference of LLM Agents Xin Wang, Ziming Miao, Yi Zhu, Hui Shen, Zhongwei Wan, Fan Yang, Mi Zhang EMNLP 2026 | August 2026
Publication Preference Data Selection for Mitigating the Alignment Tax in Large Language Models Minsu Kim, Jianxun Lian, Xing Xie, Steven Euijong Whang August 2026 arXiv | August 2026