Friday, November 20, 2026 · Downtown Manhattan, New York City
Accepted Papers
12 lightning talks and 64 posters in two poster sessions.
Program format
Lightning talks (12)
Short talks given during the day's sessions. See the program for times.
- Talk 1
Controlling False Discoveries via Auditing Scientific Agents
Ziang Liu, Ryan Ye, Yuan Sui, Lauren Hyoseo Yoon, Adriane Otopalik, Yisong Yue, Kristin Branson, Jennifer J. Sun
- Talk 2
NatureBench: Can Coding Agents Match the Published SOTA of Nature-Family Papers?
Yuru Wang, Lejun Cheng, Yuxin Zuo, Sihang Zeng, Bingxiang He, Che Jiang, Junlin Yang, Yuchong Wang, Kaikai Zhao, Weifeng Huang, Kai Tian, Zhenzhao Yuan, Yu Fu, Jincheng Zhong, Weizhi Wang, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou, Kaiyan Zhang
- Talk 3
When AI Agents Fall Short: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents for Nonvisual Interaction
Satwik Ram Kodandaram, Monalika Padma Reddy, Xiaojun Bi, Jiawei Zhou, I. Ramakrishnan, Vikas Ashok
- Talk 4
ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?
John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Jeffrey Jian Ma, Parth Thakkar, Dmitrii Pedchenko, Sten Sootla, Emily McMilin, Pengcheng Yin, Rui Hou, Gabriel Synnaeve, Diyi Yang, Ofir Press
- Talk 5
CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games
Zhenhao Chen, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Junchi Yu, Xiangchen Song, Zijian Li, Jialin Li, Philip Torr, Bo Han, Kun Zhang
- Talk 6
E-valuator: Reliable Agent Verifiers with Sequential Hypothesis Testing
Shuvom Sadhuka, Drew Prinster, Clara Fannjiang, Gabriele Scalia, Bonnie Berger, Aviv Regev, Hanchen Wang
- Talk 7
Emerging Trends in AI Agent Evaluation
Felix Chen, Stephan Rabanser, Peter Kirgis, Nitya Nadgir, Rishi Bommasani, Magda Dubois, Elham Tabassi, Cozmin Ududec, Anka Reuel, Sanmi Koyejo, Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
- Talk 8
Rethinking Psychometric Evaluation of LLMs: When and Why Self-Reports Predict Behavior
Rafal Kocielnik, Pengrui Han, Peiyang Song, Myrl G Marmarelis, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
- Talk 9
What Benchmark Scores Alone Can't Tell You About Self-Evolving RL
Haonan Wang, Yusen Zhang, Jiaxiang Liu, Eugene Wu
- Talk 10
Who Checks the Citations? Benchmarking Legal Hallucination Detection
Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson
- Talk 11
Fast but False Progress on Benchmarks with Richer Feedback
Youssef Allouah, John Duchi, Sanmi Koyejo
- Talk 12
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, Jennifer Neville
Program format
Posters (64)
Presented at the poster session and reception, 4:30–5:45 PM, in two sessions. Posters were assigned to sessions at random; the poster number is the board number within each session.
Poster session 1 (32)
- Poster 1
Low-Cost Assays for Measuring Model Behavior Across Vendors and Releases
Tapan Parikh
- Poster 2
Selection Is Not Evaluation: Independent Continuations for Runtime Intervention in Language Agents
Mark Kashirskii, Aleksei Stepin, Mikhail Mozikov, Vladislav Kulikov, Boris Tolstokulakov, Mirzoeva Elena I., Ilya Makarov
- Poster 3
Canaries for Agent Graders: Which Check Enforces Which Contract, in One Pipeline and Four Public Lean Checkers
Rob Sneiderman
- Poster 4
DeployBench : Benchmarking LLM Agents for Research Artifact Deployment
Yuanli Wang, Yaoyao Qian, Yue Zhang, Hanhan Zhou, Jindan Huang, Tianfu Fu, Qiuyang Mang, Huanzhi Mao, Wenhao Chai, Wendong Fan, Liqiang Jing
- Poster 5
AlphaDiana: A Measurement System for Agents in Verifiable Reasoning Tasks
Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Weikai Huang, Xuan Li, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng, Xiangyu Lu, Jinbo Hu, Yi Xie, Nico Pelleriti, Shiyang Liu, Menghan Lu, Max Zimmer, Brando Miranda, Jiangchao Yao, Bo Liu, Sanmi Koyejo, Sebastian Pokutta, Bo Han
- Poster 6
Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions in Health?
Hayoung Jung, Pedro Viana Diniz, José Reinaldo Corrêa Roveda, Abner Fernandes da Silva, Haeun Jung, Enoch Tsai, Aleksandra Korolova, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
- Poster 7
DEBATE: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Opinion Dynamics in Role-Playing LLM Agents
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Ruixuan Tu, Chengtao Dai, You Li, Smit Vasani, Binwei Yao, Michael Henry Tessler, Sijia Yang, Dhavan V. Shah, Robert D. Hawkins, Junjie Hu, Timothy T. Rogers
- Poster 8
Auditing the Winner: An Upper Bound on What Critic Disagreement Adds Beyond the Selector on SWE-Agent Trajectories
Joseph M. Morante Jr.
- Poster 9
Which Model for Which Role? Cost-Efficient Pareto Recommendation for LLM Agentic Workflows
Qian Xie, Wenyue Hua, Yueli He, Sripad Karne, Armaan Agrawal, Nikos Pagonas, Eugene Wu, Kostis Kaffes, Tianyi Peng, Nairen Cao
- Poster 10
EnterpriseBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on End-to-End Spreadsheet Tasks in Finance
Thomson Yen, Julian Poeltl, Harshith Srinivas Gear, Yilin Meng, Joshua Fan, Adam Shen, Yili Liu, Ali Bauyrzhan, Siri Du, Haoyang Liu, C. Daniel Guetta, Hongseok Namkoong
- Poster 11
When the Conclusion Breaks: Evaluating Claim Revision in Scientific Agents
Sarvesh Tiku, Gauri Sharma
- Poster 12
Self-Direction: Measuring and Correcting Agent Mistakes Across Sessions
Yuval Kansal, Karen Ullrich, Polina Kirichenko, Ilia Kulikov, Niraj Jha, Mohammad Pezeshki, Mark Ibrahim
- Poster 13
Qualifying AI Agents Under Cost-Aware Human Oversight
Veronica Chatrath, Bryan Zhu, Jingxuan Fan, George Pu, Soham Dinesh Tiwari, Soham Dan, Ryan Young, Varun Ursekar, Christy Yuan Li, Yuang Yao, Apaar Shanker, Vijay S Kalmath, Minglai Yang, Daniel Yue Zhang, Yunzhong He, Ying Liu, Chenguang Wang, Zhijun Yin, Yuan Xue
- Poster 14
Babysitting AI Agents: A User-Centered Taxonomy and Study of Agentic Delegation Failures
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
- Poster 15
MBABench-2.0: Evaluating AI Agents on Constructing Financial Spreadsheets Beyond Simple Verifiability
Thomson Yen, Julian Poeltl, Patrick Shea, Shubham Anil Varma, Dhruv Rastogi, Mengshi Zhang, Zihao Chen, Hongseok Namkoong
- Poster 16
Beyond Final Answers: Trace-Level Evaluation of Multi-Agent Robustness
Anna Mazhar, Muhammad Huzaifa Khan Suri, sainyam galhotra
- Poster 17
JANUS: Evaluating Goal-Conditioned Distortion in Factually Grounded LLM Communication
Polydoros Giannouris, Mohsinul Kabir, Sophia Ananiadou
- Poster 18
agent-vitals: White-box Evaluation and Monitoring of Agent Harnesses Under Evolving Context
Ye Ziwei
- Poster 19
Synthetic Stakeholders? Agreement and Stability of Open-Weight LLM Agent Panels in Participatory Model Selection
Tereza Blazkova
- Poster 20
Can Small Databases Preserve SQL Evaluation Signals?
Kate Gwimm, Carson Eisenach
- Poster 21
Noise-Calibrated Conclusion Robustness: Separating Manipulation from Variance in Financial Research Agents
Zixin Audrey Cai
- Poster 22
Beyond Isolated Biases: How LLM-Judge Surface Sensitivities Compose
Jiya Sheetal Rathi
- Poster 23
Did the Role Fire? Auditing the Manipulation Checks Behind Role-Prompted Multi-Agent Systems
Kevin Zhou, Sparsh Roy, Maxim Kudryashov
- Poster 24
The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge
Alexander Gill, Md Farhan Ishmam, Xuyen Nguyen, Neha Bhat, Parker Henry DeYoung, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Nathan Stringham, Kenneth Marino, Ana Marasovic
- Poster 25
Evaluating autoresearch agents without verifiable rewards: a case study
Xinhui Li, Zijiao Chen
- Poster 26
Agents Catching Agents: Evaluating Shortcut Cascades and Silent Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multiagent Committees
Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordóñez, Yehudhah Kennedy Rodríguez Moran, Agastya Munnangi, Aldo Marzullo, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Quang Bui, Mohammad Shahin, Armaan Grewal, Emmanuel Paul Kwesiga, Anqi Peter Li, Josephine Nanyonjo, Aaditya Panchal, Arshnoor Bhutani, Nikhil Jaiswal, Milit S. Patel, Maximin Lange, Renato Umeton, Leo Anthony Celi
- Poster 27
Iterated creation, grading, and revision of data science projects by language models
Rohan Alexander
- Poster 28
Decision-Model Controllers Do Not Make Terminal Agents Cheaper: A Placebo-Controlled Replication
Naman Vats
- Poster 29
Agent Plasticity: Measuring Self-Improvement Through Experience
Harman Singh, Anton Bakhtin, Rulin Shao, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ilia Kulikov, Rob Fergus, Sanjeev Arora, Kurt Keutzer, Anuj Mahajan, Anirudh Goyal
- Poster 30
Which Citation Grader? The Measured Hallucination Rate of Research Agents Depends on How References Are Checked
Faris Raza
- Poster 31
World of SWECraft: Agent Collaboration at Scale via Simulated Software Worlds
Shannon Zejiang Shen, Yapei Chang, Qiyao Liang, Benjamin Newman, Jenny Liang, Rulin Shao, Ziqiao Ma, Junjie Oscar Yin, Yung-Sung Chuang, Weijia Shi, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Pang Wei Koh, Mohit Iyyer, Tongshuang Wu, David Sontag
- Poster 32
Can AI Agents Improve Models Without Making Them Unsafe? Toward Safe Recursive Self-Improvement
Collin Zhang, Tingwei Zhang, Vitaly Shmatikov
Poster session 2 (32)
- Poster 1
Evaluate the Deployed Path: Continual Evaluation Finds Coverage Drift in an Enterprise Agent Governance Layer
Shaishav Pindadi
- Poster 2
The Next Challenge for Agentic Cybersecurity: A Realistic, Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark
Jeremy Spence, Nicholas Assaderaghi, Feng Xiao, Jinhao Zhu, Nikil Ravi, Xiangyu Qi, Matthew Jagielski, Raluca Ada Popa, Eric Wallace, Guannan Wei, Yangruibo Ding, Zhuo Zhang
- Poster 3
Time to REFLECT: Can We Trust LLM Judges for Evidence-based Research Agents?
Leyao Wang, Yanan He, Peng Chen, Asaf Yehudai, Yixin Liu, Rex Ying, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Arman Cohan
- Poster 4
Can Coding-Agent Leaderboards Tell Whether a Harness Advantage Is Model-Specific? An Audit of Terminal-Bench and SWE-bench
Yuanyuan Tan, Yingxin Jia, Youwen Zhu, Weijia Han, Shijin Wang, Jinming He
- Poster 5
Paying Attention: The Challenges of Expert-Grounded Agent Evaluation
Andre Shiu, Nathaniel Anleitner, Igor Molybog, Daniel Port, Narayana Santhanam
- Poster 6
Better, Faster, Stronger: Programmatic Skill Learning Best Reduces Agent Cost
Zixi Huang, Xiheng Wang, Andrew Wang, William Jurayj, Bernal Jiménez Gutiérrez, Daniel Khashabi, Nicholas Andrews
- Poster 7
Human-Like Generalization of Risk Preferences in LLMs
Sara Fish, Felix Anthony Sosa, Sonia Krishna Murthy
- Poster 8
Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict
Kaiser Sun, Bernal Jiménez Gutiérrez, Hongjun Liu, Jingyu Zhang, Jie Gao, Mark Dredze, Daniel Khashabi
- Poster 9
OpenEstimate: Evaluating LLM Priors for Probabilistic Estimation on Real-World Data
Alana Marzoev, Jillian Ross, Mike Cafarella, Jacob Andreas
- Poster 10
Threat-Preserving Representation Sensitivity in Agent-Security Benchmarks
Neeraj Karamchandani, Piyush Nagasubramaniam, Xinhong Xie, SENCUN ZHU, Dinghao Wu
- Poster 11
Harness-Delta Attribution: Dissecting Gains From Harness Evolution
Wenxuan Ding, Qin Lu, Changlong Yu, Sha Li, Shuowei Jin, Xin Liu, Zhenyu Shi, Greg Durrett
- Poster 12
SWE-sweep: Can Agents Autonomously Find and Fix Bugs?
Kilian Lieret, Jeffrey Jian Ma, Rahul Kindi, Yuxiang Wei, Jeremy Ma, Sten Sootla, Parth Thakkar, Chao Beyond Zhou, Pengcheng Yin, Rui Hou, Ofir Press, John Yang
- Poster 13
Accounting for Every Agent-Second in LLM Teams
Xiang Fu
- Poster 14
Persuaded, Not Informed: How Trajectories Bias LLM Judges of Coding Agents
Kiera McCormick
- Poster 15
How State-Transition Fidelity Affects Financial Agent Evaluation
Gauri Sharma, Sarvesh Tiku
- Poster 16
OpenApps: A Simulation Engine for Reliable Computer-Use Agents
Karen Ullrich, Jingtong Su, Arjun Subramonian, Claudia Shi, Amir Bar, Ivan Evtimov, Nikolaos Tsilivis, Julia Kempe, Randall Balestriero, Mark Ibrahim
- Poster 17
What Does a MemoryAgentBench Score Measure? Auditing the Harness and the Published Claims
Yitao Sun
- Poster 18
Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems
Deepak Akkil, Karthik Vikram Kuduva Gopal Kabirdoss, Tamer Abuelsaad, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra, Ravi Kokku, Satya V. Nitta
- Poster 19
Evaluating a Terminal Task Is Itself a Terminal Task: What LLM Graders Need to Judge Agent Work
Tiancheng Ge, Jiakai Xu, Zhou Yu, Eugene Wu, Kostis Kaffes
- Poster 20
Who Took the Hint? Applying Methods of Causal Inference to Evaluate Chain of Thought Monitorability
Alexis J Diamond
- Poster 21
Accurate Diagnosis and Safe Mitigation: A Benchmark for DevOps Agents
Zhehui Huang, Shlomo Tannor, Suhaib Abdurahman, Amir Abbas Tahmasbi, Patrick Blöbaum, Purak Jain, Xing Niu
- Poster 22
Same Data, Different Answers: Shortcuts and Sensitivity in Coding Agents
Joyce Fang
- Poster 23
Exploring Mismatches Between Scientific and Operative Causal Models in LLM Drug-Induced Arrhythmia Reasoning
Haomiao Chen, Suho Lee, Muhammad Ubadah Tanveer, Timothy Zhou, Manjari Narayan
- Poster 24
Auditing Acceptance Decisions in Self-Improving Agent Loops
Shaurya Beriwala
- Poster 25
Representational Control over Self-Report & Behavior Coherence in LLM Risk-Taking
Rafal Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Pengrui Han, Myrl G Marmarelis, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, R. Michael Alvarez
- Poster 26
Known-groups validity is not enough for evaluation-awareness detectors
Ariel Arevalo-Alvarado, Antonio Badilla-Olivas
- Poster 27
GDP.xlsx: Benchmarking Language Agents on Professional Workbooks
Sushant Mehta
- Poster 28
ForkSCOPE: Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths
Tian Zheng, Batuhan Duru Yeltekin, Arjun Balaji
- Poster 29
SciBench:Review - Toward Continuous Evaluation of AI Scientific Reviewers
Tom Cohen, Jiaxin Pei, Julia Leviev
- Poster 30
DeepFact: Co-Evolving Benchmarks and Agents for Deep Research Factuality
Yukun Huang, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Momchil Hardalov, Bhuwan Dhingra, Markus Dreyer, Venkatesh Saligrama
- Poster 31
Communication Failure in Distributed Runtime Agent Coordination
Xisen Wang, Yaqi Zhao, Zijian Liu, Yu Chen, Yi Li, Yusen Zhang, Eugene Wu, Jindong Gu
- Poster 32
Colosseum: Auditing Collusion in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems
Mason Nakamura, Abhinav Kumar, Saswat Das, Sahar Abdelnabi, Saaduddin Mahmud, Nando Fioretto, Shlomo Zilberstein, Eugene Bagdasarian
