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Workshop Sun, Dec 13, 2026 • 6:00 PM – 3:00 AM AEDT Amphiteater 34B

SLM-Agents: 1st Workshop on SLMs for Agentic Systems

Habib Hajimolahoseini ⋅ Mehdi Rezagholizadeh ⋅ Vahid Partovi Nia ⋅ Shahrzad Kianidehkordi ⋅ Mouloud Belbahri ⋅ Pavlo Molchanov ⋅ Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl ⋅ Masoud Asgharian
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Turnslide: Scalable Multi-Turn Data Synthesis by Walking a Finite-State Machine
Aaron Fainman ⋅ Gabriela Kadlecová ⋅ Maciej Gryka ⋅ Bartosz Kruszczyński ⋅ Usman Zafar ⋅ Cedric Archambeau ⋅ Aaron Klein ⋅ David Salinas ⋅ Selim Nowicki ⋅ Jacek Golebiowski
Turnslide: Scalable Multi-Turn Data Synthesis by Walking a Finite-State Machine
Aaron Fainman ⋅ Gabriela Kadlecová ⋅ Maciej Gryka ⋅ Bartosz Kruszczyński ⋅ Usman Zafar ⋅ Cedric Archambeau ⋅ Aaron Klein ⋅ David Salinas ⋅ Selim Nowicki ⋅ Jacek Golebiowski
KV-Pipe: On the Relation Between KV Sharing and Pipeline Parallel Efficiency in LLMs
Hossein Rajabzadeh ⋅ Maryam Dialameh ⋅ Harish Krishnamoorthy Murali ⋅ Walid Ahmed ⋅ Weiwei Zhang ⋅ HYOCK JU KWON
KV-Pipe: On the Relation Between KV Sharing and Pipeline Parallel Efficiency in LLMs
Hossein Rajabzadeh ⋅ Maryam Dialameh ⋅ Harish Krishnamoorthy Murali ⋅ Walid Ahmed ⋅ Weiwei Zhang ⋅ HYOCK JU KWON
Quantifying the Latency-Accuracy Trade-off in Local Agentic RAG Workflows
Haoqi Zhang ⋅ Niila Siilasjoki ⋅ Mikko Raatikainen ⋅ Jukka K Nurminen
Quantifying the Latency-Accuracy Trade-off in Local Agentic RAG Workflows
Haoqi Zhang ⋅ Niila Siilasjoki ⋅ Mikko Raatikainen ⋅ Jukka K Nurminen
Counterfactual Pairwise Augmentation Improves Small Pointwise LLM Judges
Mohammad Zangooei ⋅ Peyvand Teymoori ⋅ Mohammad Robati Shirzad ⋅ Soroosh Shahtalebi
Counterfactual Pairwise Augmentation Improves Small Pointwise LLM Judges
Mohammad Zangooei ⋅ Peyvand Teymoori ⋅ Mohammad Robati Shirzad ⋅ Soroosh Shahtalebi
Capability Retention under Post-Training Linearization of Small Language Models
Anamaria Roberta Hartl ⋅ Michael List ⋅ Balint Laszlo Szarvas ⋅ Lukas Hauzenberger ⋅ Niklas Schmidinger ⋅ Sebastian Böck ⋅ Günter Klambauer ⋅ Sepp Hochreiter
Capability Retention under Post-Training Linearization of Small Language Models
Anamaria Roberta Hartl ⋅ Michael List ⋅ Balint Laszlo Szarvas ⋅ Lukas Hauzenberger ⋅ Niklas Schmidinger ⋅ Sebastian Böck ⋅ Günter Klambauer ⋅ Sepp Hochreiter
SFT or RL for Tool-Calling LLM Agents? A Controlled Study Across Data, Method, and Scale
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar ⋅ Xue-Yong Fu ⋅ Shashi Bhushan TN
SFT or RL for Tool-Calling LLM Agents? A Controlled Study Across Data, Method, and Scale
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar ⋅ Xue-Yong Fu ⋅ Shashi Bhushan TN
Kronecker Product Attention: Memory-Efficient KV Compression via Structured Factorization
Bahareh Nikpour ⋅ Parsa Omidi ⋅ Hossein Rajabzadeh ⋅ Maryam Dialameh ⋅ Vahid Partovi Nia
Kronecker Product Attention: Memory-Efficient KV Compression via Structured Factorization
Bahareh Nikpour ⋅ Parsa Omidi ⋅ Hossein Rajabzadeh ⋅ Maryam Dialameh ⋅ Vahid Partovi Nia
Latent-Seed Sensitivity in Prompt Repair: Implications for Small Language Model Agents
Ioana-Alexandra Tonu ⋅ Sebastian Tonu ⋅ Otilia Zvoristeanu
Latent-Seed Sensitivity in Prompt Repair: Implications for Small Language Model Agents
Ioana-Alexandra Tonu ⋅ Sebastian Tonu ⋅ Otilia Zvoristeanu
Where Should a Diffusion-LM Agent Start Its Tools?
Marek Suppa ⋅ Jaroslav Kopcan
Where Should a Diffusion-LM Agent Start Its Tools?
Marek Suppa ⋅ Jaroslav Kopcan
Alpha-R1: Alpha Screening with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Zuoyou Jiang ⋅ Li Zhao ⋅ Rui Sun ⋅ Ruohan Sun ⋅ Zhongjian Li ⋅ Jing Li ⋅ Daxin Jiang ⋅ Zuo Bai ⋅ Cheng Hua
Alpha-R1: Alpha Screening with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Zuoyou Jiang ⋅ Li Zhao ⋅ Rui Sun ⋅ Ruohan Sun ⋅ Zhongjian Li ⋅ Jing Li ⋅ Daxin Jiang ⋅ Zuo Bai ⋅ Cheng Hua
Towards continual in-context learning via training cartridges at test-time
Hongyi Huang ⋅ Kaitlyn Wang ⋅ Ajay Anubolu ⋅ Shayan Talaei ⋅ Arshia Soltani Moakhar ⋅ Azalia Mirhoseini ⋅ Amin Saberi
Towards continual in-context learning via training cartridges at test-time
Hongyi Huang ⋅ Kaitlyn Wang ⋅ Ajay Anubolu ⋅ Shayan Talaei ⋅ Arshia Soltani Moakhar ⋅ Azalia Mirhoseini ⋅ Amin Saberi
Explorer-Zero: Self-play from Environment Exploration for Long-Horizon Tasks
Tianyu Liu ⋅ Davide Belli ⋅ Bence Major ⋅ Arash Behboodi ⋅ Tribhuvanesh Orekondy
Explorer-Zero: Self-play from Environment Exploration for Long-Horizon Tasks
Tianyu Liu ⋅ Davide Belli ⋅ Bence Major ⋅ Arash Behboodi ⋅ Tribhuvanesh Orekondy
A Coherence-Gated SLM for Verifiable Security Triage
N. R Sakeng ⋅ Hajar Moudoud ⋅ Rokia Missaoui
A Coherence-Gated SLM for Verifiable Security Triage
N. R Sakeng ⋅ Hajar Moudoud ⋅ Rokia Missaoui
Who Wrote the Final Decision? Auditing Decision Provenance in Small Language Model Agents
Gi Y Lee ⋅ Byounggook Cho ⋅ Jong Won Baek ⋅ chansam park ⋅ Yohan jung ⋅ Tae H Kim ⋅ Kyoung J Won
Who Wrote the Final Decision? Auditing Decision Provenance in Small Language Model Agents
Gi Y Lee ⋅ Byounggook Cho ⋅ Jong Won Baek ⋅ chansam park ⋅ Yohan jung ⋅ Tae H Kim ⋅ Kyoung J Won
Training Small Agents on Evolving Verified Tool-Use Environments from Code Agents
Timur Ionov ⋅ Nikita Andriianov ⋅ Anastasiia Fedorova ⋅ Maksim Savkin ⋅ Andrey V Galichin ⋅ Vasily Konovalov ⋅ Valentin Malykh ⋅ Daria Pugacheva
Training Small Agents on Evolving Verified Tool-Use Environments from Code Agents
Timur Ionov ⋅ Nikita Andriianov ⋅ Anastasiia Fedorova ⋅ Maksim Savkin ⋅ Andrey V Galichin ⋅ Vasily Konovalov ⋅ Valentin Malykh ⋅ Daria Pugacheva
Small Models Learn to Call, and Stop Declining: Abstention Loss in Tool-Use RL at 1–2B
Zixiang Tang ⋅ Yunqing Li ⋅ Yilin Guo ⋅ Grant C Forbes ⋅ Jonathon Romero ⋅ Jiaying Zhuang ⋅ Vahid Jebraeeli ⋅ Adrian Chan ⋅ Jianbang Zhang
Small Models Learn to Call, and Stop Declining: Abstention Loss in Tool-Use RL at 1–2B
Zixiang Tang ⋅ Yunqing Li ⋅ Yilin Guo ⋅ Grant C Forbes ⋅ Jonathon Romero ⋅ Jiaying Zhuang ⋅ Vahid Jebraeeli ⋅ Adrian Chan ⋅ Jianbang Zhang
STAGE: Source-grounded Text-to-JSON Artifact GEneration
Sunghee Ahn ⋅ Guijin Son ⋅ Youngjae Yu
STAGE: Source-grounded Text-to-JSON Artifact GEneration
Sunghee Ahn ⋅ Guijin Son ⋅ Youngjae Yu
When Speech Errors Break Tasks: Cross-Layer Evaluation of Conversational Voice Agents
Ancheng Deng ⋅ Yanyu Yan ⋅ Manling Li ⋅ Yimin Liu ⋅ Jin Lai
When Speech Errors Break Tasks: Cross-Layer Evaluation of Conversational Voice Agents
Ancheng Deng ⋅ Yanyu Yan ⋅ Manling Li ⋅ Yimin Liu ⋅ Jin Lai
G-CARB: Graph-Localized Conformal Agent Risk Budget for Compositional Harm
Zijun Yu ⋅ Yu Gu ⋅ Vahid Partovi Nia ⋅ Masoud Asgharian
G-CARB: Graph-Localized Conformal Agent Risk Budget for Compositional Harm
Zijun Yu ⋅ Yu Gu ⋅ Vahid Partovi Nia ⋅ Masoud Asgharian
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Stable Temporal Abstraction for Language Model Agents
Shayan Mohajer Hamidi ⋅ Yize Cheng ⋅ Yuanda Xu ⋅ Z Zhou ⋅ Alborz Geramifard
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Stable Temporal Abstraction for Language Model Agents
Shayan Mohajer Hamidi ⋅ Yize Cheng ⋅ Yuanda Xu ⋅ Z Zhou ⋅ Alborz Geramifard
Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agents: Learning to Learn from Experience
Thomas Palmeira Ferraz ⋅ Romain Deffayet ⋅ Vassilina Nikoulina ⋅ Hervé Déjean ⋅ Stéphane Clinchant
Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agents: Learning to Learn from Experience
Thomas Palmeira Ferraz ⋅ Romain Deffayet ⋅ Vassilina Nikoulina ⋅ Hervé Déjean ⋅ Stéphane Clinchant
OAMP-TQ: Ultra-Low-Bit TurboQuant KV Cache Compression for Small Language Models
Rabab Alomairy ⋅ Deema Alresheed ⋅ Lina AlYahya ⋅ Shahad S Alfawzan ⋅ Shaden M AlSahli ⋅ Waad Alahmed
OAMP-TQ: Ultra-Low-Bit TurboQuant KV Cache Compression for Small Language Models
Rabab Alomairy ⋅ Deema Alresheed ⋅ Lina AlYahya ⋅ Shahad S Alfawzan ⋅ Shaden M AlSahli ⋅ Waad Alahmed
Beyond Accuracy: How Quantization Affects Coding Agents
Areej Mehboob ⋅ Muhammad Ali Shafique ⋅ Muhammad Usman Qadeer ⋅ Hamza Farooq
Beyond Accuracy: How Quantization Affects Coding Agents
Areej Mehboob ⋅ Muhammad Ali Shafique ⋅ Muhammad Usman Qadeer ⋅ Hamza Farooq
VERLA: Verified Lattice Decoding for Reliable Small Language Model Agents
Krishna Harish ⋅ Ishant Ghimiray ⋅ Craig V Vishwesh
VERLA: Verified Lattice Decoding for Reliable Small Language Model Agents
Krishna Harish ⋅ Ishant Ghimiray ⋅ Craig V Vishwesh
Benchmarking Small Language Models as Agentic Workflow Executors in Enterprise Customer Support
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar ⋅ Xue-Yong Fu ⋅ Gundeep Singh ⋅ Karol Chang ⋅ Kevin Sanders ⋅ Shi Zong ⋅ Tania Habib ⋅ Julien B Tremblay ⋅ Shayna Gardiner ⋅ Harsh Saini ⋅ Matthias Lee ⋅ Elena Khasanova ⋅ Quinten McNamara ⋅ Shashi Bhushan TN
Benchmarking Small Language Models as Agentic Workflow Executors in Enterprise Customer Support
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar ⋅ Xue-Yong Fu ⋅ Gundeep Singh ⋅ Karol Chang ⋅ Kevin Sanders ⋅ Shi Zong ⋅ Tania Habib ⋅ Julien B Tremblay ⋅ Shayna Gardiner ⋅ Harsh Saini ⋅ Matthias Lee ⋅ Elena Khasanova ⋅ Quinten McNamara ⋅ Shashi Bhushan TN
PRISM: Prompt-Refined In-Context System Modeling for Financial Retrieval
Chun Chet Ng ⋅ Jia Yu Lim ⋅ Zhen Hao Chu ⋅ Yixi Zhou ⋅ Low W Zeng
PRISM: Prompt-Refined In-Context System Modeling for Financial Retrieval
Chun Chet Ng ⋅ Jia Yu Lim ⋅ Zhen Hao Chu ⋅ Yixi Zhou ⋅ Low W Zeng
Right Tool, Wrong Arguments: Permission Drift in Quantized Tool-Calling LLMs
Sivadinesh Ponrajan ⋅ Monik Raj Behera ⋅ Thorsteinn S Rögnvaldsson ⋅ Prayag Tiwari
Right Tool, Wrong Arguments: Permission Drift in Quantized Tool-Calling LLMs
Sivadinesh Ponrajan ⋅ Monik Raj Behera ⋅ Thorsteinn S Rögnvaldsson ⋅ Prayag Tiwari
Beyond Query Linearity: The Case for Nonlinear Queries
Jiwon Jeong ⋅ Dun Li Chan ⋅ Andrew Ceniccola ⋅ Rahul Sharma ⋅ Simon Sang ⋅ Parva Mehta ⋅ Pietro Di Nicco ⋅ Neel Kumar ⋅ Karim Saraipour ⋅ Marko Karbevski
Beyond Query Linearity: The Case for Nonlinear Queries
Jiwon Jeong ⋅ Dun Li Chan ⋅ Andrew Ceniccola ⋅ Rahul Sharma ⋅ Simon Sang ⋅ Parva Mehta ⋅ Pietro Di Nicco ⋅ Neel Kumar ⋅ Karim Saraipour ⋅ Marko Karbevski
Small Models, Exact Memories: Stress-Testing Optical Memory for Small Multimodal Agents
Göktuğ Aslanoğlu ⋅ Viswanadh Vadlamani ⋅ Şuayp Talha Kocabay
Small Models, Exact Memories: Stress-Testing Optical Memory for Small Multimodal Agents
Göktuğ Aslanoğlu ⋅ Viswanadh Vadlamani ⋅ Şuayp Talha Kocabay
Evaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon
Kyrylo Yemets ⋅ Andrii Yaroshevych ⋅ Victor Muryn ⋅ Ostap Khomenko ⋅ Pavlo Kryven ⋅ Maksym Kmet ⋅ Maksym Shamrai ⋅ Mariya Hirna
Evaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon
Kyrylo Yemets ⋅ Andrii Yaroshevych ⋅ Victor Muryn ⋅ Ostap Khomenko ⋅ Pavlo Kryven ⋅ Maksym Kmet ⋅ Maksym Shamrai ⋅ Mariya Hirna
Adaptive Rank K-Subspace for Compressing LLMs
Samirasadat Jamalidinan ⋅ Yue Xu ⋅ Kazem Cheshmi
Adaptive Rank K-Subspace for Compressing LLMs
Samirasadat Jamalidinan ⋅ Yue Xu ⋅ Kazem Cheshmi
Not Every Call Needs a Frontier Model: Per-Call-Site Evaluation of Small Language Models in a Deployed Agentic Home-Automation System
Panagiotis Kasnesis ⋅ Christos Chatzigeorgiou ⋅ Lazaros Toumanidis ⋅ Amalia C Syropoulou
Not Every Call Needs a Frontier Model: Per-Call-Site Evaluation of Small Language Models in a Deployed Agentic Home-Automation System
Panagiotis Kasnesis ⋅ Christos Chatzigeorgiou ⋅ Lazaros Toumanidis ⋅ Amalia C Syropoulou
COMPASS: Critique-guided Optimization of MetaPolicies for Agentic Systems
Krishna Sayana ⋅ Ketan Todi ⋅ Ambarish Jash ⋅ Sukhdeep Sodhi
COMPASS: Critique-guided Optimization of MetaPolicies for Agentic Systems
Krishna Sayana ⋅ Ketan Todi ⋅ Ambarish Jash ⋅ Sukhdeep Sodhi
MemLoRA: Specializing Small Language Models with Expert Adapters for Lightweight Agent Memory
Massimo Bini ⋅ Ondrej Bohdal ⋅ Umberto Michieli ⋅ Zeynep Akata ⋅ Mete Ozay ⋅ Taha Ceritli
MemLoRA: Specializing Small Language Models with Expert Adapters for Lightweight Agent Memory
Massimo Bini ⋅ Ondrej Bohdal ⋅ Umberto Michieli ⋅ Zeynep Akata ⋅ Mete Ozay ⋅ Taha Ceritli
Verification Turns Capability Gaps into Routing Decisions: Small Language Models for Clinical Documentation
Nina Fatehi ⋅ Meysam Ghaffari ⋅ Animesh Agarwal ⋅ Anushka Swarup ⋅ Carlos Morato
Verification Turns Capability Gaps into Routing Decisions: Small Language Models for Clinical Documentation
Nina Fatehi ⋅ Meysam Ghaffari ⋅ Animesh Agarwal ⋅ Anushka Swarup ⋅ Carlos Morato
TRACE: Separating Action and Reasoning Teachers for Strategic SLM Training
Suketh Ankeshwar ⋅ Vaikunth Muthuraman ⋅ Eunbi Yoon ⋅ Varsha Ravichandran ⋅ Renhao Zhang ⋅ Yaswanth Chittepu ⋅ Sailik Sengupta
TRACE: Separating Action and Reasoning Teachers for Strategic SLM Training
Suketh Ankeshwar ⋅ Vaikunth Muthuraman ⋅ Eunbi Yoon ⋅ Varsha Ravichandran ⋅ Renhao Zhang ⋅ Yaswanth Chittepu ⋅ Sailik Sengupta
How Should a Personal Agent Store Its Facts? Granularity, Compute, and Robustness in Parametric Memory
Mahdi Ghodsi ⋅ Megha Sri Satya Sai Devineni ⋅ Chandra Shekhar Pandey
How Should a Personal Agent Store Its Facts? Granularity, Compute, and Robustness in Parametric Memory
Mahdi Ghodsi ⋅ Megha Sri Satya Sai Devineni ⋅ Chandra Shekhar Pandey
Execution-First Synthetic Tool-Use Traces for Small Language Model Agents
Hafsa Ouajdi ⋅ Francesco Giannuzzo ⋅ Alaa Boukhary ⋅ Paolo Papotti ⋅ Gerard Conangla ⋅ Adam Elwood
Execution-First Synthetic Tool-Use Traces for Small Language Model Agents
Hafsa Ouajdi ⋅ Francesco Giannuzzo ⋅ Alaa Boukhary ⋅ Paolo Papotti ⋅ Gerard Conangla ⋅ Adam Elwood
Knowing the Questions before the Exam: Enabling Selective Memory in Linear Attention Layers
Sam I Aegerter ⋅ Lorenz K. Müller ⋅ Jiawei Zhuang ⋅ Lukas Cavigelli
Knowing the Questions before the Exam: Enabling Selective Memory in Linear Attention Layers
Sam I Aegerter ⋅ Lorenz K. Müller ⋅ Jiawei Zhuang ⋅ Lukas Cavigelli
LEGR: Latent Execution-Graph Retrieval for Multi-Tool Tasks
Daniel Omeiza ⋅ Tanay Kadam ⋅ John W Nicholson ⋅ Joe Webb ⋅ Fijoy Vadakkumpadan
LEGR: Latent Execution-Graph Retrieval for Multi-Tool Tasks
Daniel Omeiza ⋅ Tanay Kadam ⋅ John W Nicholson ⋅ Joe Webb ⋅ Fijoy Vadakkumpadan
Chain-of-Molecules: Agentic Reasoning in Chemical Space for Constrained Molecular Optimization
Christoph Bartmann ⋅ Günter Klambauer ⋅ Sohvi Luukkonen ⋅ Johannes Schimunek
Chain-of-Molecules: Agentic Reasoning in Chemical Space for Constrained Molecular Optimization
Christoph Bartmann ⋅ Günter Klambauer ⋅ Sohvi Luukkonen ⋅ Johannes Schimunek
Rethinking Exploration in Modern Mixture-of-Experts
Bingcong Li ⋅ Hao Ma ⋅ Michael Muehlebach ⋅ Niao He ⋅ Yi Ma
Rethinking Exploration in Modern Mixture-of-Experts
Bingcong Li ⋅ Hao Ma ⋅ Michael Muehlebach ⋅ Niao He ⋅ Yi Ma
Beyond Binary Benchmarks: Telemetry-Grounded Evaluation of On-Device Computer-Using Agents
Samreen Anjum ⋅ Muhammad Saad ⋅ Ibrahim Abu Alhaol ⋅ Gwenael Poitau
Beyond Binary Benchmarks: Telemetry-Grounded Evaluation of On-Device Computer-Using Agents
Samreen Anjum ⋅ Muhammad Saad ⋅ Ibrahim Abu Alhaol ⋅ Gwenael Poitau
Harness Recession: When Small Models Outgrow Their Scaffolding
Md. Samiul Alim ⋅ Mahir S Tamim ⋅ Shahriyar Z Ridoy ⋅ Sharjil khan ⋅ Azmine Toushik Wasi
Harness Recession: When Small Models Outgrow Their Scaffolding
Md. Samiul Alim ⋅ Mahir S Tamim ⋅ Shahriyar Z Ridoy ⋅ Sharjil khan ⋅ Azmine Toushik Wasi
E8 Lattice Key Quantization for Low-Bit KV-Cache Compression
Sasho Nedelkoski ⋅ Alexander Acker ⋅ Soeren Becker ⋅ Dominik Scheinert ⋅ Odej Kao
E8 Lattice Key Quantization for Low-Bit KV-Cache Compression
Sasho Nedelkoski ⋅ Alexander Acker ⋅ Soeren Becker ⋅ Dominik Scheinert ⋅ Odej Kao