AAAI 2026

4,920 papers

CliCARE: Grounding Large Language Models in Clinical Guidelines for Decision Support over Longitudinal Cancer Electronic Health Records

Dongchen Li, Jitao Liang, Wei Li, Xiaoyu Wang, Longbing Cao

Res-Bench: Benchmarking the Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models to Dynamic Resolution Input

Chenxu Li, Zhicai Wang, Yuan Sheng, Xingyu Zhu, Yanbin Hao

HPSU: A Benchmark for Human-Level Perception in Real-World Spoken Speech Understanding

Chen Li, Peiji Yang, Yicheng Zhong, Jianxing Yu, Zhisheng Wang

Modeling Uncertainty Trends for Timely Retrieval in Dynamic RAG

Bo Li, TIAN TIAN, Zhenghua Xu, Hao Cheng, Shikun Zhang

Language Drift in Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Characterization and Decoding-Time Mitigation

Bo Li, Zhenghua Xu, Rui Xie

DegVoC: Revisiting Neural Vocoder from a Degradation Perspective

Andong Li, Tong Lei, Lingling Dai, Kai Li, Rilin Chen

TaREx: Reinforcement Learning for Code-Driven Table Reasoning

Fangyu Lei, Jinxiang Meng, Yiming Huang, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao

The Curious Case of Analogies: Investigating Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Taewhoo Lee, Minju Song, Chanwoong Yoon, Jungwoo Park, Jaewoo Kang

Confidence-Guided Stepwise Model Routing for Cost-Efficient Reasoning

Sangmook Lee, Dohyung Kim, Hyukhun Koh, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Reinforce Trustworthiness in Multimodal Emotional Support System

Huy M. Le, Dat Tien Nguyen, Ngan T. T. Vo, Tuan D. Q. Nguyen, Nguyen Le Binh

Template-Theorems Graph Construction to Enhance Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLM

Yarong Lan, Yajing Xu, Huajun Chen

LC3: Long Cross-Language Code Clone Detection Enhanced by Opcode Sequences and Affinity Aggregation

Xilin Lan, Huan Zhang, Yang Yang, Chengwu Xue, Li Kuang

Backdooring Rationalization

Lingxiao Kong, Jiahui Jiang, Wenchao Xu, Lei Wu

Rethinking the Sampling Criteria in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning: A Competence-Difficulty Alignment Perspective

Deyang Kong, Qi Guo, Xiangyu Xi, Wei Wang, Jingang Wang

Test-time Diverse Reasoning by Riemannian Activation Steering

Ly Tran Ho Khanh, Dongxuan Zhu, Man-Chung Yue, Viet Anh Nguyen

CATCH: A Controllable Theme Detection Framework with Contextualized Clustering and Hierarchical Generation

Rui Ke, Jiahui Xu, Shenghao Yang, Kuang Wang, Feng Jiang

SampurNER: Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition Dataset for 22 Indian Languages

Prachuryya Kaushik, Ashish Anand

WikiMAG: A Multi-Agent Guided Framework for Generating Structured Wikipedia-like Articles

Xiuli Kang, Yinlong Xiao, Minghao Hu, Yuan Huang, Bin Mao

Model Whisper: Steering Vectors Unlock Large Language Models’ Potential in Test-Time

Xinyue Kang, Diwei Shi, Li Chen

Causal-ERC: A Multimodal Framework with Causal Prompting for Emotion Recognition in Conversations with Large Language Models

Ran Jing, Geng Tu, Yice Zhang, Ruifeng Xu

Embracing Positional Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering via Permutation Equivariant Neural Networks

Chengyu Jiao, Siyin Huang, Yu Zhang

Difficulty Is Not Enough: Curriculum Learning for LLMs Fine-tuning Must Consider Utility

Zishang Jiang, Jinyi Han, Tingyun Li, Xinyi Wang, Sihang Jiang

EduGuardBench: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating the Pedagogical Fidelity and Adversarial Safety of LLMs as Simulated Teachers

Yilin Jiang, Mingzi Zhang, Xuanyu Yin, Sheng Jin, Suyu Lu

Large Language Model Unlearning for Source Code

Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong, Huangzhao Zhang, Tangxinyu Wang, Zheng Fang

From Chaos to Clarity: A Knowledge Graph-Driven Audit Dataset Generation Framework for LLM Unlearning

Weipeng Jiang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Ziyan Lei, Xiaofei Xie

Importance-Aware Data Selection for Efficient LLM Instruction Tuning

Tingyu Jiang, Shen Li, Yiyao Song, Lan Zhang, Hualei Zhu

MedS³: Towards Medical Slow Thinking with Self-Evolved Soft Dual-sided Process Supervision

Shuyang Jiang, Yusheng Liao, Zhe Chen, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang

Consensus-Aligned Neuron Efficient Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Multi-Domain Machine Translation

Shuting Jiang, Ran Song, Yuxin Huang, Yan Xiang, Yantuan Xian

A Principle-Driven Adaptive Policy for Group Cognitive Stimulation Dialogue for Elderly with Cognitive Impairment

Jiyue Jiang, Yanyu Chen, Pengan CHEN, Kai Liu, Jingqi Zhou

MDF: A Modality-Aware Disentanglement and Fusion Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Zhongquan Jian, Wenhan Lv, Yanhao Chen, Guanran Luo, Wentao Qiu

MEML-GRPO: Heterogeneous Multi-Expert Mutual Learning for RLVR Advancement

Weitao Jia, Jinghui Lu, Haiyang Yu, Siqi Wang, Guozhi Tang

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs

Junlong Jia, Xing Wu, Chaochen Gao, Ziyang Chen, Zijia Lin

AutoTool: Efficient Tool Selection for Large Language Model Agents

Jingyi Jia, Qinbin Li

Bootstrapping LLMs via Preference-Based Policy Optimization

Chen Jia

Do Language Models Associate Sound with Meaning? A Multimodal Study of Sound Symbolism

Jinhong Jeong, Sunghyun Lee, Jaeyoung Lee, Seonah Han, Youngjae Yu

BiCycle: Group-wise Recursive Transformer Based on ASR Mechanism

Min Ho Jang, Eun Seo Seo, Jin Young Kim, Hyeongsoo Lim, Ji Won Yoon

Mem-PAL: Towards Memory-based Personalized Dialogue Assistants for Long-term User-Agent Interaction

Zhaopei Huang, Qifeng Dai, Guozheng Wu, Xiaopeng Wu, Xubin Li

SPA: Achieving Consensus in LLM Alignment via Self-Priority Optimization

Yue Huang, Xiangqi Wang, Xiangliang Zhang

Hybrid Routing for a Mixture of LoRA Experts

Yitong Huang, Ziqi Yang, Zihui Wang, Jianzhong Qi, Rongshan Yu

Relink: Constructing Query-Driven Evidence Graph On-the-Fly for GraphRAG

Manzong Huang, Chenyang Bu, Yi He, Xingrui Zhuo, Xindong Wu

QiMeng-CRUX: Narrowing the Gap Between Natural Language and Verilog via Core Refined Understanding eXpression

Lei Huang, Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, Yang Zhang, Di Huang

Whispering Agents: A Event-Driven Covert Communication Protocol for the Internet of Agents

Kaibo Huang, Yukun Wei, WanshengWu, Tianhua Zhang, Zhongliang Yang

Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Language Models via Certainty-Guided Reflection Suppression

Jiameng Huang, Baijiong Lin, Guhao Feng, Jierun Chen, Di He

EMODIS: A Benchmark for Context-Dependent Emoji Disambiguation in Large Language Models

Jiacheng Huang, Ning Yu, Xiaoyin Yi

Think-J: Learning to Think for Generative LLM-as-a-Judge

Hui Huang, Yancheng He, Hongli Zhou, Rui Zhang, Wei Liu

Long-form RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models for Long-form Generation

Hui Huang, Yancheng He, Wei Liu, Muyun Yang, Jiaheng Liu

A Reasoning Paradigm for Named Entity Recognition

Hui Huang, Yanping Chen, Ruizhang Huang, Chuan Lin, Yongbin Qin

RoSE: A Role Correlation Structure-Enhanced Model for Multi-Event Argument Extraction

Geting Huang, Jilong Zhang, Kai Zhou, Zhang Yi, Xiuyuan Xu

HAPO: Training Language Models to Reason Concisely via History-Aware Policy Optimization

Chengyu Huang, Zhengxin Zhang, Claire Cardie

Model Editing as a Double-Edged Sword: Steering Agent Behavior Toward Beneficence or Harm

Baixiang Huang, Zhen Tan, Haoran Wang, Zijie Liu, Dawei Li

Beyond Perplexity: Let the Reader Select Retrieval Summaries via Spectrum Projection Score

Zhanghao Hu, Qinglin Zhu, Siya Qi, Yulan He, Hanqi Yan

Iterative Multi-Granular RAG with Contextual Hierarchical Graph

Yanli Hu, Teng Liu, Zhuangyi Zhou, Weixin Zeng, Zhen Tan

SAR: A Structure-Aligned Reasoning Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Qianyi Hu, Jiaxue Liu, Xinhui Tu, Shoujin Wang

On the Evaluation of Capability Estimation Methods for Large Language Models

Qiang Hu, Jin Wen, Yao Zhang, Maxime Cordy, Yongqiang Lyu

TaxReasoning: Benchmarking Knowledge-Intensive Mathematical Reasoning with Evolving Tax Laws

Nan Hu, Yike Wu, Jiaye Li, HuiKang Hu, Guilin Qi

DUP: Detection-guided Unlearning for Backdoor Purification in Language Models

Man Hu, Yahui Ding, Yatao Yang, Liangyu Chen, Yanhao Jia

AgentMental: An Interactive Multi-Agent Framework for Explainable and Adaptive Mental Health Assessment

Jinpeng Hu, Ao Wang, Qianqian Xie, Zhuo Li, Hui Ma

End-to-End Contrastive Language-Speech Pretraining Model for Long-Form Spoken Question Answering

Jiliang Hu, Zuchao Li, Baoyuan Qi, Guoming Liu, Ping Wang

Cog-RAG: Cognitive-Inspired Dual-Hypergraph with Theme Alignment Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Hao Hu, Yifan Feng, Ruoxue Li, Rundong Xue, Xingliang Hou

Benchmarking LLMs’ Mathematical Reasoning with Unseen Random Variables Questions

Zijin Hong, Hao Wu, Su Dong, Junnan Dong, Yilin Xiao

Format Matters: The Robustness of Multimodal LLMs in Reviewing Evidence from Tables and Charts

Xanh Ho, Yun-Ang Wu, Sunisth Kumar, Florian Boudin, Atsuhiro Takasu

REINA: Regularized Entropy Information-Based Loss for Efficient Simultaneous Speech Translation

Nameer Hirschkind, Joseph Liu, Xiao Yu, Mahesh Kumar Nandwana

Exploring Depth Generalization in Large Language Models for Solving Recursive Logic Tasks

Zhiyuan He

FinMathBench: A Formula-Driven Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs’ Math Reasoning Capabilities in Finance

Yi He, Ping Wang, Shiqiang Xiong, Chao Chen, Haixiang Hu

TRACE: Trajectory-based Activation Change Estimation for Task-specific Data Selection

Ye He, Shangzhan Li, Yuxin Zhou, Qi SHI

ConInstruct: Evaluating Large Language Models on Conflict Detection and Resolution in Instructions

Xingwei He, Qianru Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Guanhua Chen, Linlin Yu

PaSE: Prototype-aligned Calibration and Shapley-based Equilibrium for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Kang He, Boyu Chen, Yuzhe Ding, Fei Li, Chong Teng

MentalGuide: Towards Multi-Turn, State-Aware and Strategy-Driven Conversations for Mental Health Support

Jinwei He, Feng Lu

Fact2Fiction: Targeted Poisoning Attack to Agentic Fact-checking System

Haorui He, Yupeng Li, Bin Benjamin Zhu, Dacheng Wen, Reynold Cheng

Uncovering and Mitigating Transient Blindness in Multimodal Model Editing

Xiaoqi Han, Ru Li, Ran Yi, Hongye Tan, Zhuomin Liang

Uncertainty-Based Methods for Automated Process Reward Data Construction and Output Aggregation in Mathematical Reasoning

Jiuzhou Han, Wray Buntine, Ehsan Shareghi

Multi-granularity Interactive Attention Framework for Residual Hierarchical Pronunciation Assessment

Hong Han, Hao-Chen Pei, Zhao-Zheng Nie, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu

LaTeX2Layout: High-Fidelity, Scalable Document Layout Annotation Pipeline for Layout Detection

Feijiang Han, Zelong Wang, Bowen Wang, Xinxin Liu, Skyler Cheung

MoSE: Hierarchical Self-Distillation Enhances Early Layer Embeddings

Andrea Gurioli, Federico Pennino, Joao Monteiro, Maurizio Gabbrielli

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools

Zikang Guo, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu, Wentao Hong, Xiaorui Wang

Extracting Events Like Code: A Multi-Agent Programming Framework for Zero-Shot Event Extraction

Quanjiang Guo, Sijie Wang, Jinchuan Zhang, Ben Zhang, Zhao Kang

Seeing Is Believing: Rich-Context Hallucination Detection for MLLMs via Backward Visual Grounding

Pinxue Guo, Chongruo Wu, Xinyu Zhou, Lingyi Hong, Zhaoyu Chen

Mitigating Error Accumulation in Knowledge Editing for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Jiaxin Guo, Hao Sun, Wenhao Zhang, Xuanbo Fan, Yan Zhang

Beyond Superficial Forgetting: Thorough Unlearning Through Knowledge Density Estimation and Block Re-Insertion

Feng Guo, Yuntao Wen, Shen Gao, Junshuo Zhang, Shuo Shang

Beware of Reasoning Overconfidence: Pitfalls in the Reasoning Process for Multi-solution Tasks

Jiannan Guan, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Dengyun Peng, JinHao Liu

Group Causal Policy Optimization for Post-Training Large Language Models

Ziyin Gu, Jingyao Wang, Ran Zuo, Chuxiong Sun, Zeen Song

Analyze–Compose–Execute: A Dynamic Dialogue Framework for Multi-Agent Debate

WenYuan Gu, Haowen Wang, Jiale Han, Xiang Li, Zhixuan Wu

Control Illusion: The Failure of Instruction Hierarchies in Large Language Models

Yilin Geng, Haonan Li, Honglin Mu, Xudong Han, Timothy Baldwin

SageLM: A Multi-aspect and Explainable Large Language Model for Speech Judgement

Yuan Ge, Junxiang Zhang, Xiaoqian Liu, Bei Li, Xiangnan Ma

Expert-Guided Prompting and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Emergency Medical Service Question Answering

Xueren Ge, Sahil Murtaza, Anthony Cortez, Homa Alemzadeh

DeCoRL: Decoupling Reasoning Chains via Parallel Sub-Step Generation and Cascaded Reinforcement for Interpretable and Scalable RLHF

Ziyuan Gao, Di Liang, Xianjie Wu, Philippe Morel, Minlong Peng

S2D-Align: Shallow-to-Deep Auxiliary Learning for Anatomically-Grounded Radiology Report Generation

Jiechao Gao, Chang Liu, Yuangang Li

I Have Covered All the Bases Here: Interpreting Reasoning Features in Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

Andrey V. Galichin, Alexey Dontsov, Polina Druzhinina, Anton Razzhigaev, Oleg Rogov

Harnessing the Unseen: The Hidden Influence of Intrinsic Knowledge in Long-Context Language Models

Yu Fu, Haz Sameen Shahgir, Hui LIU, Xianfeng Tang, Qi He

GraphIC: A Graph-Based In-Context Example Retrieval Model for Multi-Step Reasoning

Jiale Fu, Yaqing Wang, Simeng Han, Jiaming Fan, Xu Yang

The Visual Prism: Refracting Images into Parallel Multilingual Descriptions with Structured Visual Guidance

Chengpeng Fu, Xiaocheng Feng, Yichong Huang, Wenshuai Huo, Baohang Li

Efficient and Adaptive Simultaneous Speech Translation with Fully Unidirectional Architecture

Biao Fu, Donglei Yu, Minpeng Liao, Chengxi Li, Xinjie Chen

Graph-of-Mark: Promote Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models with Graph-Based Visual Prompting

Giacomo Frisoni, Lorenzo Molfetta, Mattia Buzzoni, Gianluca Moro

PASS: Probabilistic Agentic Supernet Sampling for Interpretable and Adaptive Chest X-Ray Reasoning

Yushi Feng, Junye Du, Yingying Hong, Qifan Wang, Lequan Yu

Towards Better Correctness and Efficiency in Code Generation

Yunlong Feng, Yang Xu, Xiao Xu, Binyuan Hui, Junyang Lin

SCIR: A Self-Correcting Iterative Refinement Framework for Enhanced Information Extraction Based on Schema

Yushen Fang, Jianjun Li, Mingqian Ding, Chang Liu, Xinchi Zou

Toward Better EHR Reasoning in LLMs: Reinforcement Learning with Expert Attention Guidance

Yue Fang, Yuxin Guo, Jiaran Gao, Hongxin Ding, Xinke Jiang

RESTL: Reinforcement Learning Guided by Multi-Aspect Rewards for Signal Temporal Logic Transformation

Yue Fang, Zhi Jin, Jie An, Hongshen Chen, Xiaohong Chen

Boosting ASR Robustness via Test-Time Reinforcement Learning with Audio-Text Semantic Rewards

Linghan Fang, Tianxin Xie, Li Liu

Graph of Verification: Structured Verification of LLM Reasoning with Directed Acyclic Graphs

Jiwei Fang, Bin Zhang, Changwei Wang, Jin Wan, Zhiwei Xu