ICLR 2026 Past Other

Third Workshop on Test-Time Updates (Main Track)

TTU at ICLR 2026 (Main)

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Feb 7, 2026, 11:59 UTC
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Accepted papers (48)

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  1. Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models

    Yunbei Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Chengyi Cai, Feng Liu, Jihun Hamm · PDF
  2. An Optimal Transport View of Activation Steering In Masked Diffusion Models

    Gert Lek, Chaoyi Zhu, Pin-Yu Chen, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen · PDF
  3. Caravan: Asynchronous Test-Time Adaptation for Faster Inference

    Jiayin Kralik, Ethan Zhao, Anrui Liu, Reto Achermann, Ivan Beschastnikh, Evan Shelhamer · PDF
  4. Challenges in Inference-Time Scaling with Uncertainty-Aware Tree Search

    Jacopo Minniti, Neil Band, Tim G. J. Rudner · PDF
  5. Directional Textual Inversion for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

    Kunhee Kim, NaHyeon Park, Kibeom Hong, Hyunjung Shim · PDF
  6. Directly Optimizing Calibrated Test-Time Uncertainty

    Carlos Stein Brito · PDF
  7. Dr.LLM: Dynamic Layer Routing in LLMs

    Ahmed Heakl, Martin Gubri, Salman Khan, Sangdoo Yun, Seong Joon Oh · PDF
  8. DSL-Monkeys: Self-Generated In-Context Examples for Low-Resource GPU DSL Kernels

    Nathan Paek, Simon Guo, Vishnu Sarukkai, Willy Chan, William Hu, Ethan Boneh, Simran Arora, Ludwig Schmidt, Kayvon Fatahalian, Azalia Mirhoseini · PDF
  9. Efficient Test-Time Adaptation via Decoupled BN Update For Edge Devices

    MA Xiao, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma · PDF
  10. Elbow-based MoE Routing: A Training-Free Inference Time Plugin for Expert Selection

    Robin Pan, Raymond Liu, Adelina Andrei, Zhijin Fang, Rosa Wu · PDF
  11. EoRA: Fine-tuning-free Compensation for Compressed LLM with Eigenspace Low-Rank Approximation

    Shih-Yang Liu, Maksim Khadkevich, Nai Chit FUNG, Charbel Sakr, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Chien-Yi Wang, Saurav Muralidharan, Hongxu Yin, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Pavlo Molchanov, Min-Hung Chen · PDF
  12. EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages

    Aman Sharma, Paras Chopra · PDF
  13. GradMem: Learning to Write Context into Memory with Test-Time Gradient Descent

    Yuri Kuratov, Matvey Kairov, Aydar Bulatov, Ivan Rodkin, Mikhail Burtsev · PDF
  14. HiDRA: A Blazing Fast LM-Head Replacement

    Satyajit Kumar, Henry Ndubuaku, Noah Cylich, Karen Mosoyan, Parkirat Sandhu, Justin H Lee, Jakub Mroz · PDF
  15. Hyper Experts: Language Models With Inference-Time Layer Reallocation

    Ilya Deriy, Edoardo Cetin · PDF
  16. Is Depth Heterogeneity a Barrier to Model Merging?

    Nour Shaheen, Sarath Chandar, Boris Knyazev, Ekaterina Lobacheva · PDF
  17. Joint Consistency: A Unified Test-Time Aggregation Framework with Pairwise Comparisons

    Hongye Wang, Yunzhen Yao, Yahong Wang, Michael Gastpar, Bo Jiang, Lie He · PDF
  18. KVpop - Retrofitting LLMs with xLSTM-guided Token Eviction

    Lukas Hauzenberger, Niklas Schmidinger, Anamaria-Roberta Hartl, David Stap, Thomas Schmied, Sebastian Böck, Günter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter · PDF
  19. Leveraging RAG for Training-Free Alignment of LLMs

    John Timothy Halloran · PDF
  20. LookSharp: Attention Entropy Minimization for Test-Time Adaptation

    Yash Mali, Evan Shelhamer · PDF
  21. Majority Voting For Code Generation

    Tim Launer, Jonas Hübotter, Marco Bagatella, Ido Hakimi, Andreas Krause · PDF
  22. MMT: Achieving Exact Federated Unlearning with Improved Post-Unlearning Performance

    Ze Yu Zhang, Nhung Bui, Arun Verma, Bolin Ding, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low · PDF
  23. MORPHEUS: Meta Test-Time Adaptation via Neural Collapse Geometry

    Michal Danilowski, Alexander Murphy, Young D. Kwon, Abhirup Ghosh · PDF
  24. On the Limits of Test-Time Compute: Sequential Reward Filtering for Better Inference

    Yue Yu, Qiwei Di, Quanquan Gu, Dongruo Zhou · PDF
  25. On the Path Dependence of Gradient Ascent-Based Unlearning

    Varun Sampath Kumar, Esmaeil S. Nadimi, Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni · PDF
  26. Persistent internal state helps maintain learning plasticity

    Nabil Iqbal · PDF
  27. Probing and Steering Chain-of-Thought Unfaithfulness in Language Models

    Giovanni Maria Occhipinti, Alessandro Abate, Nandi Schoots · PDF
  28. ProtoTTA: Prototype-Guided Test-Time Adaptation

    Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Parvin Mousavi, Purang Abolmaesumi, Evan Shelhamer · PDF
  29. RDUMB++: DRIFT-AWARE CONTINUAL TEST-TIME ADAPTATION

    Himanshu Mishra · PDF
  30. Reference-Guided Machine Unlearning

    Jonas Mirlach, Sonia Laguna, Julia E Vogt · PDF
  31. Refusal-Orthogonal Gated Editing for Safer Localized LLM Adaptation

    Nayeema Nonta, Sirisha Rambhatla · PDF
  32. Reinforced Fast Weights with Next-Sequence Prediction

    Hee Seung Hwang, Xindi Wu, Sanghyuk Chun, Olga Russakovsky · PDF
  33. Rethinking Machine Unlearning: Models Designed to Forget via Key Deletion

    Sonia Laguna, Jorge da Silva Gonçalves, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Alain Ryser, Irene Cannistraci, Julia E Vogt · PDF
  34. Retrieval, Refinement, and Ranking for Text-to-Video Generation via Prompt Optimization and Test-Time Scaling

    Zillur Rahman, Alex Sheng, Cristian Meo · PDF
  35. Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Data Generation via Residual RL

    Wenli Xiao, Haotian Lin, Andy Peng, Haoru Xue, Tairan He, Zhengyi Luo, Yuqi Xie, Fengyuan Hu, Linxi Fan, Guanya Shi, Yuke Zhu · PDF
  36. Self-Soupervision: Cooking and Seasoning Model Soups without Labels for Adaptation

    Anthony Fuller, James R Green, Evan Shelhamer · PDF
  37. Semantic Anchor Transport: Robust Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models

    Shambhavi Mishra, Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ismail Ben Ayed, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz · PDF
  38. SimMerge: Learning to Select Merge Operators from Similarity Signals

    Oliver Bolton, Aakanksha, Arash Ahmadian, Sara Hooker, Marzieh Fadaee, Beyza Ermis · PDF
  39. Stochastic KV Routing: Enabling Adaptive Depth-Wise Cache Sharing

    Anastasiia Filippova, David Grangier, marco cuturi, Joao Monteiro · PDF
  40. Terminator: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Ashok Vardhan Makkuva, Michael Gastpar, Hyeji Kim · PDF
  41. Test-Time Adaptation of High-Dimensional Simulation Surrogates via D-Optimal Statistics

    Anna Zimmel, Paul Setinek, Gianluca Galletti, Johannes Brandstetter, Werner Zellinger · PDF
  42. Test-time Graph Extrapolation via Progressive Anchor-Guided Expansion

    Abele Mălan, Roberto Gheda, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen · PDF
  43. Test-Time Planning for Robust Imitation: Learning to Search for Recovery in Autonomous Driving

    Rajat Sahay, Volker Fischer, Thomas Brox · PDF
  44. Test-Time Self-Distillation

    Jonas Hübotter, Frederike Lübeck, Lejs Deen Behric, Anton Baumann, Marco Bagatella, Daniel Marta, Ido Hakimi, Idan Shenfeld, Thomas Kleine Buening, Carlos Guestrin, Andreas Krause · PDF
  45. Towards Reasoning Reuse: A New Paradigm in Model Collaboration

    Zhengxi Li, Fuyuan Lyu, Qiyuan Zhang, Ye Yuan, Haolun Wu, Xue Liu · PDF
  46. TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference On The Fly

    Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jing Liu, Ye Wang · PDF
  47. When is Model Souping Tasty? Similarity, Transitivity, and Robustness

    Pierre Mackenzie, Simon Ghyselincks, Evan Shelhamer · PDF
  48. ZeroSiam: An Efficient Asymmetry for Test-Time Entropy Optimization without Collapse

    Guohao Chen, Shuaicheng Niu, Deyu Chen, Jiahao Yang, Zitian Zhang, Mingkui Tan, Pengcheng Wu, Zhiqi Shen · PDF