NEURIPS / EMNLP / LOG
2026
Self-play, retrieval, and evaluation.
NeurIPS
SCOPE

Self-play for open-ended tasks

Cyrus Kwan et al.

LOCOS

What retrieval heads actually write

Aryo Gema et al.

Composed image retrieval

When benchmarks admit shortcuts

Matteo Attimonelli et al.

AI psychophysics

Grounding behavioural evaluation

Jonas Leo Mueller, Dario Zanca et al.

EMNLP
Multimodal retrieval heads

Can retrieval heads see images?

Aaron Branson Cigres Li et al.

Hidden VLM instability

Same answer, different representations

Farooq Ahmad Wani et al.

Composing steering vectors

Controlling behaviours without interference

Giwon Hong et al.

LoG
Graph-to-table interfaces

What controls relational generalisation?

Alessandro Cagiano et al.

PREPRINTS
SPSD

Self-play search distillation

Lorenzo Molfetta et al.

FACE-Eval

Chain-of-thought faithfulness

Aryo Gema et al.

VLM frequency filtering

Why verbose prompts help robustness

Farooq Ahmad Wani et al.