ACL 2026

2,650 papers

ACL 2026 Industry Track: Overview

Yunyao Li, Georg Rehm, Mei Tu

Does Memory Need Graphs? A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory

Sen Hu, Yuxiang Wei, Jiaxin Ran, Xueran Han, Zhiyuan Yao

Thinking with Reasoning Skills: Fewer Tokens, More Accuracy

Guangxiang Zhao, Qilong Shi, Xusen Xiao, Xiangzheng Zhang, Tong Yang

LatentGate: Low-Latency Semantic Routing via Frozen-Backbone Probing of Small Language Models

Shivam Ratnakar, Abhiroop Talasila, Vinayak K Doifode

CAT: Confidence-Adaptive Thinking for Efficient Reasoning of Large Reasoning Models

Qizhi Jiang, Shuo Wang, Pei Ke, Yuhang Song, Ke Qin

Graph-Based Phonetic Error Correction of Noisy ASR

Pratik Rakesh Singh, Mohammadi Zaki, Aneesh Mukkamla, Pankaj Wasnik

Benchmarking Testing in Automated Theorem Proving

Jongyoon Kim, Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang

Index-Time Prefix Injection for Multi-Tenant Retrieval: Improving Search Relevance Without Model Fine-Tuning

Vaibhav Varshney, Manjunatha Naik Mc

LoCar: Localization-Aware Evaluation of In-Vehicle Assistants through Fine-Grained Sociolinguistic Control

Seogyeong Jeong, Kiwoong Park, Seyoung Song, Eunsu Kim, Ken E Friedl

TingIS: Real-time Risk Event Discovery from Noisy Customer Incidents at Enterprise Scale

Jun Wang, Ziyin Zhang, Rui Wang, Hang Yu, Peng Di

ResoDiff-44k: High-Fidelity Cross-Lingual Speech and Singing Synthesis via Discrete Diffusion

Gyanendra Das, Sai Satyam Jena

VishBox v2: A Multi-Agent System for Adaptive Voice Phishing Simulation

Sungmi Park, Daon Choi, Yoonmo Yang, Hong Yunyi, Heedou Kim

Measuring and Mitigating Racial Bias in Embedding Models: A Comparative Study for Law Enforcement Retrieval

Archan Dutta

MTIVE: Multi-Task Image Verification Engine Using Vision-Language Models for E-commerce

Yu-Tong Cao, Vishnu Prabhakaran, Arunita Das, Purav Aggarwal, Anoop Saladi

Prompt-Level Distillation: A Non-Parametric Alternative to Model Fine-Tuning for Efficient Reasoning

Sanket Badhe, Deep Shah

Learning Selective LLM Autonomy from Copilot Feedback in Enterprise Customer Support Workflows

Nikita Borovkov, Elisei Rykov, Olga Tsymboi, Sergei Filimonov, Nikita Surnachev

From Graph to Text and Back: Semantic Fidelity in Automated Industrial Knowledge Graphs

Kamyar Zeinalipour, Silvia Severini, Alessia Borghini, Sara Cardarelli, Marco Maggini

RADAR: Risk-Aware Distilled Adaptive Routing for Efficient Short-Form Video Platform Ecosystem Governance

Baoyu Jing, Zixuan Wang, Junwen Chen, Xin Dong, Bingfeng Deng

TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically

Nikita Mehrotra, Aayush Kumar, Sumit Gulwani, Arjun Radhakrishna, Ashish Tiwari

Beyond Instruction Optimization: Multi-Agent Error-Driven Class Description Refinement for LLM-Based Classification

Hamvir Dev, Shivam Ratnakant Mhaskar, Sasanka Vutla, Anup Pattnaik

Transfer Learning for Generalizable Automated LLM Improvement Pipeline for IVR Navigation

Vishal Sankar Ram, Jason Kushner, Manas Paldhe, Youngseo Son

AesX: Enhance Your Images with Stunning Aesthetic Beauty

Yuyan Chen, Zhendong Hou, Lei Xia, Jiahao Li, Zhuolin Ji

MM-BizRAG: Rethinking Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation for General Purpose Enterprise Q&A

Hanoz Bhathena, Parin Rajesh Jhaveri, Rohan Mittal, Prateek Singh, Aymen Kallala

Agentic Context Strategies for Multi-Format Document Understanding: When Should Language Models Use Tools?

Mansi Uniyal, Mukul Singh, Ryan Nadel

Entity Exchange in the Wild: A Diagnostic Study of LLM Based Real-World Conversational Entity Extraction

Soumya Jain, Ayush Kumar

Development and Benchmarking of a Blended Human-AI Qualitative Research Assistant

Joseph Matveyenko, James Liu, John David Parsons, Ryan Brown, Alina I. Palimaru

Intent-Driven Semantic ID Generation for Grounded Conversational News Recommendation

Hongyang Su, Beibei Kong, Lei Cheng, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li

RouteLMT: Learned Sample Routing for Hybrid LLM Translation Deployment

Yingfeng Luo, Hongyu Liu, DingYang Lin, Kaiyan Chang, Chenglong Wang

No Innocence in Styling: Discovery of Privacy Protection Capabilities and Security Risks in Consumer Generative AI Writing Assistants

Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik, Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Wanniarachchi Kankanamge Malithi Mithsara, Ahmed Imteaj, Abdur R. Shahid

RAPIDS: Resume Attack Prompt Injection Detection at Scale

Yohann Augey, Joshua H. Levy, Arda Akdemir

Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge

Junjie Wu, Xuan Kan, Zihao He, Shunwen Tan, Bo Pan

Modular Monolingual Adaptation using Pretrained Language Models

Nalin Kumar, Ondřej Dušek

FourCorners: A Production Knowledge Graph Unifying Thailand’s Legal System

Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong, Sarana Nutanong, Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot

Rethinking Scale: Deployment Trade-offs of Small Language Models under Agent Paradigms

Xinlin Wang

A Novel Matching Paradigm: Unified Generative and Discriminative LLM with Prompt Compression for Relevance Learning

Guoliang Zhao, Zixin Cui, Chao Ye, Dengwu He, Fei Huang

From TextBlob to LLM Agents: Sentiment Model Selection for B2B Technical Support with CSAT Ground Truth

Pedro Vidigal

LegalDrill: Diagnosis-Driven Synthesis for Legal Reasoning in Small Language Models

Tianchun Li, Haochen Liu, Vishwa Pardeshi, Xingchen Wang, Tianci Liu

OmniOData: Unleashing Small Language Models for OData Query Generation with Synthetic Data and Reinforcement Learning

Tao Bai, Zhaochen Li, Hongxin Shao, Daniel Dahlmeier

PAR2-RAG: Planned Active Retrieval and Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Xingyu Li, Rongguang Wang, Yuying Wang, Mengqing Guo, Chenyang Li

FinHarmBench: Financial Jailbreak Benchmark and Unsupervised Safety Fine-Tuning via Refusal Steering Distillation

Yubin Choi, Yujin Yang, Subin Kim, Seokil Ham, Seungju Cho

Don’t Stop Early: Scalable Enterprise Deep Research with Controlled Information Flow and Evidence-Aware Termination

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Jiaxin Zhang, Vaibhav Vats

Diagnose, Then Repair: A Two-Stage MQM-Guided Post-Editing Framework for Domain-Specific Machine Translation

Ji Hun Wang, Siyu Wu

Natural-Language Policies to Executable Decisions: An Interpretable Large Language Model Framework

Ziqiang Zhang, Jing Ma, Zilong Wang, Jiayuan Chen, Yi Qiao

What Question Did You Answer? Refining Contact Center Evaluation Plans via Backward Questions

Prajwal Sood, Rushikesh Pawar, Digvijay Anil Ingle, Anup Pattnaik

Efficient Agent Evaluation via Diversity-Guided User Simulation

Itay Nakash, George Kour, Ateret Anaby Tavor

Automatic Prompt Engineering for Scalable Prompt Inversion in Text-to-Image Ad Generation

Zixin Ding, Qi Zeng, Boying Gong, Wenlong Deng, Bo Pan

GuideTree: Guideline-Induced Review Trees for Long Medical Records

Chengze Ge, Ruiqing Zhang, Yining Wang, Shengping Liu, Liang Jiaen

Fanar-Sadiq: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Grounded Islamic QA

Ummar Abbas, Mourad Ouzzani, Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Omar Sinan, Gagan Bhatia

Hierarchical Reason-of-Contact Detection in Retail Banking Customer Interactions via LLM-Driven Taxonomy Induction

Yoages Kumar Mantri, Yagneswaran Sriraja, John Hartley, Greig A Cowan, Raad Khraishi

Let LLM Tutors Ask First: Proactive LLM-Based Tutoring at Scale in a 1,500-Student Online Classroom

Jonghoon Lee, Geonjae Youn, Seongmin Lee, Chaemoon Im, Joongheon Kim

Are Large Language Models Economically Viable for Industry Deployment?

Abdullah Mohammad, Sushant Kumar Ray, Pushkar Arora, Rafiq Ali, Ebad Shabbir

Practical Guidelines for Model Merging in LLMs Pre-Training

Giuseppe Curci, Stefano Simonazzi, Andrea molinari, Andrea Zugarini

From Pixels to Policies: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Language Models for Content-Aware Layout Design

Sha Li, Stefano Petrangeli, Yu Shen, Xiang Chen

CI-Work: Benchmarking Contextual Integrity in Enterprise LLM Agents

Wenjie Fu, Xiaoting Qin, Jue Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Lukas Wutschitz

Accurate Legal Reasoning at Scale: Neuro-Symbolic Offloading and Structural Auditability for Robust Legal Adjudication

Stanisław Sójka, Witold Kowalczyk

Structure-Guided Entity Resolution: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Robust Name Matching in Complex Linguistic Contexts

Shivam Chourasia, Hitesh Kapoor, Nilesh Patil

Effective Performance Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities in KPI Extraction from Earnings Calls

Rasmus T. Aavang, Rasmus Tjalk-Bøggild, Alexandre Iolov, Giovanni Rizzi, Mike Zhang

A Multistage Extraction Pipeline for Long Scanned Financial Documents: An Empirical Study in Industrial KYC Workflows

Han Yuxuan, Yuanxing Zhang, Yushuo Wang, Yichao Jin

Optimal Expert-Attention Allocation in Mixture-of-Experts: A Scalable Law for Dynamic Model Design

Junzhuo Li, Peijie Jiang, Changxin Tian, Jia Liu, Zhiqiang Zhang

ReList: A Multi-objective Reasoning Framework for Diversified Listwise Query Recommendation

Shuxian Bi, Chenxu Wang, Wenjie Wang, Yueqi Mou, Fuli Feng

ProductResearch: Training E-Commerce Deep Research Agents via Multi-Agent Synthetic Trajectory Distillation

Jiangyuan Wang, Kejun Xiao, Huaipeng Zhao, Tao Luo, Xiaoyi Zeng

SimRPD: Optimizing Recruitment Proactive Dialogue Agents through Simulator-Based Data Evaluation and Selection

Zhiyong Cao, Dunqiang Liu, Qi Dai, Haojun Xu, Huai Yuen Khor

SemViQA: A Semantic Question Answering System for Vietnamese Information Fact-Checking

Dien X. Tran, Nam V. Nguyen, Tran Tan Thanh, Anh T. Hoang, Dương Văn Tài

CascadeDebate: Multi-Agent Deliberation for Cost-Aware LLM Cascades

Raeyoung Chang, Dongwook Kwon, Jisoo Lee, Nikhil Verma

FinRAG-12B: A Production-Validated Recipe for Grounded Question Answering in Banking

Denys Katerenchuk, Pablo Duboue, Keelan Evanini

How to Train a Real-World Silicon Concierge? Internalizing Complex Business Workflow to Only OneModel

Yongqi Tong, Xiaoyun Feng, Lyuxin Xue, Jianshe Li, Xin Zhang

RedOne 2.0: Rethinking Domain-specific LLM Post-Training in Social Networking Services

Fei Zhao, Chonggang Lu, Haofu Qian, Fangcheng Shi, Zijie Meng

IPS: In-Prompt Process Supervision for Short Video Content Moderation

Mingchao Liu, Yu Sun, Ruixiao Sun, Xin Dong, Xiang Shen

Ada-RS: Adaptive Rejection Sampling for Selective Thinking

Yirou Ge, Yixi Li, Alec M. Chiu, Shivani Shekhar, Zijie Pan

Toward Scalable Verifiable Reward: Proxy State-Based Evaluation for Multi-turn Tool-Calling LLM Agents

Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Alec M. Chiu, Avinash Thangali, Zijie Pan

CLARITY: A Framework and Benchmark for Conversational Language Ambiguity and Unanswerability in Interactive NL2SQL Systems

Tabinda Sarwar, Farhad Moghimifar, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Xiaoxiao Ma, Shawn Chang Xu

Adaptive Weighted Proxy Tuning: Efficient Gray-Box Steering for Image Captioning.

Nafew Azim, Fuad Rahman, Nabeel Mohammed

MemoPhishAgent: Memory-Augmented Multi-Modal LLM Agent for Phishing URL Detection

Xuan Chen, Hao Liu, Tao Yuan, Mehran Kafai, Piotr Habas

FlowHN: Adaptive Token Routing for Efficient Parallel Hybrid Networks

Mohammad Mahdi Moradi, Walid Ahmed, Shuangyue Wen, Sudhir Mudur, Weiwei Zhang

VEG: Verbal 𝜖-greedy for Semantic Exploration in Multi-Turn RL Agents

Yongchang Hao, Jie Hao, Yongsheng Mei, Ze Ye, Junyi Chai

Robust Explanations for User Trust in Enterprise NLP Systems

Guilin Zhang, KAI ZHAO, Jeffrey Friedman, Xu Chu, Amine Anoun

Agentic Economic Modeling

Bohan Zhang, Jiaxuan Li, Ali Hortacsu, Xiaoyang Ye, Victor Chernozhukov

DQA: Diagnostic Question Answering for IT Support

Vishaal Kapoor, Mariam Dundua, Evren Yortucboylu, Sarthak Ahuja, Neda Kordjazi

SchemaRAG: Dynamic Large Schema Reduction for LLM-driven Structured Information Extraction

Sin Yu Bonnie Ho, Arlie Coles, Erik Larsson, Eric Marshall, Nathan Bodenstab

FROST: Factual Reasoning via Optimized Stochastic Trajectories in Large Language Models during Inference

Soumedhik Bharati, Ebad Shabbir, Jiechao Gao

SCAIR: Schema-Conditioned Agentic Iterative Reasoning for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Prateek Chaturvedi, Yuqicheng Zhu, Hongkuan Zhou, Dongzhuoran Zhou, Yunjie He

Know What You See: Grounded localization of product components

Manan Soni, Abinesh Kanagarajan, Shyam Mohan

Harmonizing Dense and Sparse Signals in Multi-turn RL: Dual-Horizon Credit Assignment for Industrial Sales Agents

Haojin Yang, Ai Jian, Yiwei Wang, Xinyue Huang, Weipeng Zhang

Hemolix.TabGen: Optimized Table Generation from Documents

Gyanendra Shrestha, Todor Ivanov, Karthik Vemireddy, Anna Pyayt, Michael Gubanov

EVE: A Domain-Specific LLM Framework for Earth Intelligence

Àlex R. Atrio, Antonio Lopez, Jino Rohit, Yassine El Ouahidi, Marcello Politi

Decoding Text Spans for Efficient and Accurate Named-Entity Recognition

Andrea Maracani, Savas Ozkan, Junyi Zhu, Sinan Mutlu, Mete Ozay

Actionable Interpretability for Churn Classification: A Text Bottleneck Model Case Study at a Major Telecom Provider

Adrian Sauter, Vera Neplenbroek, Georgios Vlassopoulos, Gianluigi Bardelloni

Diffusion-Pretrained Dense and Contextual Embeddings

Sedigheh Eslami, Maksim Gaiduk, Markus Krimmel, Louis Mark Milliken, Bo Wang

LLM as a Risk Manager: LLM Semantic Filtering for Lead–Lag Trading in Prediction Markets

Sumin Kim, Minjae Kim, Jihoon Kwon, Yoon Kim, Oscar Levy

An Efficient Framework for Whole-Page Reranking via Single-Modal Supervision

Zishuai Zhang, Sihao Yu, Xiewenyi, Ying Nie, Junfeng Wang

From 2:4 to 8:16 sparsity patterns in LLMs for Outliers and Weights with Variance Correction

Egor Maximov, Yulia Kuzkina, Egor Shvetsov, Azamat Kanametov, Aleksandr Prutko

ACRM: Multi-Agent Trajectory Learning for Automated Credit Risk Model Refreshing in Production

Liangzu Liu, Mengzhe Ruan, Xiaotian Chen, HaonanChen, XudongNiu

TrendPulse: A Simple yet Efficient Framework for Capturing Viral E-Commerce Spikes via LLM-Driven Contextualization

Arin Jain, Devashish Gupta, Bhavuk Singhal, Divay Jindal, Vinit Rongata

Multi-Agent Orchestration for Terminology-Constrained Machine Translation in Industrial Localization

Emanuele Di Rosa

Memory-Efficient Structured Backpropagation for On-Device LLM Fine-Tuning

Juneyoung Park, Yuri Hong, Seongwan Kim, Jaeho Lee

Aggregate vs. Personalized Judges in Business Idea Evaluation: Evidence from Expert Disagreement

Wataru Hirota, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma, Kosuke Takahashi, Takahiro Omi

When Good OCR Is Not Enough: Benchmarking OCR Robustness for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Lin Sun, Wangdexian, Jingang Huang, Linglin Zhang, Change Jia

Enhancing Job Evaluation with Data Augmentation and Text Classification

Samaneh Jalilian, Niels van Weeren, Mohammad Shokri, Thijmen Bijl, Suzan Verberne

Securing the Tool Layer: A Threat Taxonomy and Runtime Defense Framework for Model Context Protocol Deployments

Saurabh Yergattikar

Unleashing Low-Bit Inference on Ascend NPUs: A Comprehensive Evaluation of HiFloat Formats

Pengxiang Zhao, Hui-Ling Zhen, Xing Li, Han Bao, Weizhe Lin