ACL 2026

2,650 papers

Interleaved Latent Visual Reasoning with Selective Perceptual Modeling

Shuai Dong, Siyuan Wang, Xingyu Liu, Chenglin Li, Haowen Hou

Persona-E²: A Human-Grounded Dataset for Personality-Shaped Emotional Responses to Textual Events

Yuqin Yang, Haowu Zhou, Haoran Tu, Zhiwen Hui, Shiqi Yan

MARS-RA: Rank Aggregation for Credit Assignment via Multimodal Comparisons in Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation

Dawei Wang, Di Zhao, Xinyuan Liu, Marci Chi Ma, Xiaoyang Liu

TLoRA: Task-aware Low Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Weicheng Lin, Yi Zhang, Jiawei Dang, Liang-Jie Zhang

Beyond Itinerary Planning—A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn and Tool-Using Travel Tasks

Xiang Cheng, Yulan Hu, Xiangwen Zhang, Lu Xu, Lide Tan

LLMs in Sarcasm Detection? It’s elementary! (Or is it?)

Priyanshu Mahato, Aniket Santosh Mishra, Kripabandhu Ghosh

Incorporating Temporal Coherence to Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution

Xinyu Chen, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

Location Not Found: Exposing Implicit Local and Global Biases in Multilingual LLMs

Guy Mor-Lan, Omer Goldman, Matan Eyal, Adi Mayrav Gilady, Sivan Eiger

QiMeng-PRepair: Precise Code Repair via Edit-Aware Reward Optimization

Changxin Ke, Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, Yuanbo Wen, Li Ding

LaCo: Layer-wise Compensation for Pruned Large Language Models

Yingen Liu, Fan Wu, Panxuyan, Ruihui Li, Zhuo Tang

On the (In-)Security of the Shuffling Defense in the Transformer Secure Inference

Zhengyi Li, Yakai Wang, Jingwen Leng, Kang Yang, Yu Yu

Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication

Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn, Kate McCurdy

Why Are We Moral? An LLM-based Agent Simulation Approach to the Study of Moral Evolution

Zhou Ziheng, Huacong Tang, Mingjie Bi, Wanying He, Fang Sun

Exploring and Distilling Multi-Dimensional Clues for Interpretable Social Bot Detection

Yi Han, Haiqi Lu, Lizi Liao, Shuhan Zhou, Yuanxing Liu

What If Consensus Lies? Selective-Complementary Reinforcement Learning at Test Time

Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Yanbo Wang, Shuo Lu, Ran He

Beyond Static Persona Consistency: Dynamic Persona Coherence in LLM Role-Playing

Yirui Qi, Xiaoming Zhang, Ruilin Zeng, Mengyao Liu, Ziyi Zhou

Don’t Act Blindly: Robust GUI Automation via Action-Effect Verification and Self-Correction

Yuzhe Zhang, Xianwei Xue, Xingyong Wu, Mengke Chen, Chen Liu

N-GLARE: An Non-Generative Latent Representation-Efficient LLM Safety Evaluator

Zheyu Lin, Jirui Yang, Yukui Qiu, Yubing Bao, Hengqi Guo

SDAR-VL: Stable and Efficient Block-wise Diffusion for Vision-Language Understanding

Shuang Cheng, Yuhua Jiang, Zineng Zhou, Dawei Liu, Tao Wang

It’s High Time: A Survey of Temporal Question Answering

Bhawna Piryani, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Jamshid Mozafari, Avishek Anand, Adam Jatowt

AEA: Adaptive Expert Allocation Improves Sentence Embeddings from Mixture-of-Experts LLM

Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Qingfeng Qi, Yafeng Yin

Think Faster Than Words: Efficient LLM Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Dynamic Shortcut Decoding

Fan LIU, Yanhao Wang, Min Zhang, Zhikang Chen, Zeyuan Li

Learn Like Humans: Use Meta-cognitive Reflection for Efficient Self-Improvement

Xinmeng Hou, Bohao Qu, Wuqi Wang, Peiliang Gong, Qing Guo

From Knowing to Teaching: Scaffolding Pedagogical Decisions for LLM Agent

Yucheng Wang, Shen Yang, Jifan Yu, Haoxuan Li, Joy Jia Yin Lim

Latent Attention Denoising: A Training-Free Energy-Based Framework for Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models

Zhiwen Luo, Siyu Jiang, Weilong Jiang, Kun He

EIFFEL: a novel benchmark to measure bias of English heavy training on French idiomatic expressions

Charlotte Noel, Nicholas Asher, Olivier Gouvert, Farah Benamara, Julie Hunter

SpidR-Adapt: A Universal Speech Representation Model for Few-Shot Adaptation

Mahi Luthra, Jiayi Shen, Maxime Poli, Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Yosuke Higuchi

GMSA: Enhancing Context Compression via Group Merging and Layer Semantic Alignment

Jiwei Tang, Zhicheng Zhang, Shunlong Wu, Jingheng Ye, Lichen Bai

FactVerse: A Benchmark for Factual Consistency in Interleaved Image–Text Generation

Yubo Shan, Kun Zhang, Qiming Xu, Liping Cao, Yingying Cao

LGSA: Label Geometry Structuring and Aligning for Hierarchical Text Classification

SHUAI ZHANG, Weibo Xu, Jiahao Nie, Kecheng Huang

CURE: Critique-Driven Unified Reinforcement Learning for Test-Time Self-Improvement

Guirong Chen, Shuqi Ye, Wenkai Yang, Shiqi Shen, Guangyao Shen

Selective Test-Time Debiasing for CLIP via Reward Gating

Jaeho Han, Jisoo Yang, Hyeondong Woo, Mingyu Jeon, Sunjae Yoon

GenesisFunc: Multi-Agent Data Generation for Accurate and Generalizable Function-Calling

Hao-Xiang Xu, Chong Deng, Jiaqing Liu, Wen Wang, Qian Chen

DVI-DTM: Dual-View Representation Learning for Interpretable Short Text Dynamic Topic Modeling

Di Liu, Zheng Fang, Bin Wu

Fair-CCD: Mitigating Bias in Large Language Models for Tabular Classification Through Context-Contrastive Decoding

Donghan Liu, Han Sun, Zhaohui Wang, Qin Li, Min Zhang

Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection

Yuchen Zhang, Yaxiong Wang, Kecheng Han, Yujiao Wu, Lianwei Wu

Bloom-Eval: A Hierarchical Evaluation Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Fei Zhang, Zhe Zhao, Haibin Wen, Tianshuo Wei, ZAIXI ZHANG

MagicBench: Diagnosing Visual Agency Loss and Semantic Dependency in Multimodal LLMs

Tang Da Huang, Weidong Tang, Wen Qi Xu, Xianpeng Guo

InfiniteWeb: Scalable Web Environment Synthesis for GUI Agent Training

Ziyun Zhang, Zezhou Wang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zongyu Guo, Jiahao Li

Enhancing Two Steps Textual Anomaly Detection through Anisotropy Mitigation

Pierre Fihey, Matthieu Labeau, Pavlo Mozharovskyi

KoCo-Bench: Can Large Language Models Leverage Domain Knowledge in Software Development?

Xue Jiang, Ge Li, Jiaru Qian, Xianjie Shi, Chenjie Li

OASIS: Mitigating Harmful Fine-tuning Attacks on LLMs via Orthogonal and Adaptive Safety Alignment Strategy

Jiayu Tang, Guowei Peng, Qiuhao Xie, Yuning Yang, Xiurui Xie

Read As Human: Compressing Context via Parallelizable Close Reading and Skimming

Jiwei Tang, Shilei Liu, Zhicheng Zhang, Qingsong Lv, Runsong Zhao

STAPO: Selective Trajectory-Aware Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training

Qiuyi Qi, Tian Liang, Mutian Bao, Jinjian Zhang, Dongnan Liu

Benchmarking Deflection and Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

Nicholas Moratelli, Christopher Davis, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Bill Byrne, Gonzalo Iglesias

Conflict-Aware Memory for Embodied Agents: Enhancing Vector Data Quality via Detection Rules

Kexin Ma, Haotian Wang, Shenglin Chen, Yishuai Cai, Huangyuyu

Temporal Sampling for Forgotten Reasoning in LLMs

Yuetai Li, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Luyao Niu

VerilogLAVD: LLM-Aided Pattern Generation for Verilog CWE Detection

Xiang Long, Yingjie Xia, Li Kuang, Yao Wan, Zihao Liu

Difference in Task Performance on Sparse Speech Representations

Wenjie Peng, Chen Chen, Thomas Hain

Semantic Hardness Is Not Visual Hardness: Sign-Aware Hard Negative Mining for Sign Language Retrieval

Junmyeong Lee, Chan Hur, ChangSu Choi, Sukmin Cho, Fitsum Gaim

ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptation in Large Language Models

Chonghan Qin, Xiachong Feng, Weitao Ma, Xiaocheng Feng, Lingpeng Kong

VLN-MME: Diagnosing MLLMs as Language-guided Visual Navigation Agents

Xunyi Zhao, Gengze Zhou, Qi Wu

MAGNET: Towards Adaptive GUI Agents with Memory-Driven Knowledge Evolution

Libo Sun, Jiwen Zhang, Siyuan Wang, zhongyu wei

VCORE: Variance-Controlled Optimization-based Reweighting for Chain-of-Thought Supervision

Xuan Gong, Senmiao Wang, Hanbo Huang, Ruoyu Sun, SHIYU LIANG

You Can Have a Second Chance: Unbiased and Multi-bit Watermarking for Diffusion Language Models with Regret-based Remasking

Ke Yang, Dongyang Liang, Jing Yu, Shuguang Yuan, Chi Chen

REST: Stress Testing Large Reasoning Models by Asking Multiple Problems at Once

Zhuoshi Pan, Qizhi Pei, Yu Li, Zinan Tang, QiYao Sun

HopWeaver: Cross-Document Synthesis of High-Quality and Authentic Multi-Hop Questions

Zhiyu Shen, Jiyuan Liu, Yunhe Pang, Yanghui Rao, Fu Lee Wang

AgentAsk: Multi-Agent Systems Need to Ask

Bohan Lin, Kuo Yang, Zelin Tan, Yingchuan Lai, Chen Zhang

UniSonate: A Unified Model for Speech, Music, and Sound Effect Generation with Text Instructions

Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang, Kang Yin, Yuzhe Liang, Yuxin Guo

Process Reward Models Meet Planning: Generating Precise and Scalable Datasets for Step-Level Rewards

Raffaele Pisano, Roberto Navigli

Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages

Gerrit Quaremba, Amy Rechkemmer, Elizabeth Black, Denny Vrandecic, Elena Simperl

LLM-MC-Affect: LLM-Based Monte Carlo Modeling of Affective Trajectories and Latent Ambiguity for Interpersonal Dynamic Insight

Yu-Zheng Lin, Bono Po-Jen Shih, John Paul Martin Encinas, Elizabeth Victoria Achom, Karan Patel

Collaboration of Fusion and Independence: Hypercomplex-driven Robust Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Completion

Zhiqiang Liu, Yichi Zhang, Mengshu Sun, Lei Liang, Wen Zhang

Rethinking the Role of Entropy in Optimizing Tool-Use Behaviors for Large Language Model Agents

Zeping Li, Hongru Wang, Yiwen Zhao, Guanhua Chen, Yixia Li

MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning

Weikang Shi, Aldrich Yu, Rongyao Fang, Houxing Ren, Ke Wang

Probing Semantic Alignment, Lexical Invariance, and Syntactic Influence in LLM Metaphor Processing

Fengying Ye, Shanshan Wang, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong

Towards Fine-grained Audio Captioning with Multimodal Contextual Fusion

Shunian Chen, Xinyuan Xie, Zheshu Chen, Owen Lee, Liyan Zhao

MemBuilder: Reinforcing LLMs for Long-Term Memory Construction via Attributed Dense Rewards

Zhiyu Shen, Ziming Wu, Fuming Lai, Shaobing Lian, Yanghui Rao

OptiCo: Adaptive Distributed Training Optimization via Collaborative Agent Reasoning

Sheng Chen, Tang Zhe, Weixing Zhang, Fei Yang, Yuanyuan. Wang

Semantically Comprehensive Token Pruning in LVLMs via Maximizing Concept Coverage

Xueting Li, Qi Liu, Chenghao Xu, Xu Yang, Guangtao Lyu

Video-MMMU: Evaluating Knowledge Acquisition from Multidisciplinary Professional Videos

Kairui Hu, Penghao Wu, Fanyi Pu, Wang Xiao, Xiang Yue

Jianzhu Bao, Haozhen Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Bozhi Wu, Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi

CompTab: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Real-World TableQA with Complex Reasoning and Irregular Tables

Zhen Yang, Wei Du, Jie Wang, Wenze Zhou, Xiangfeng Meng

FusionFlow: Enabling Deep Structural Exploration for Automated Agentic Workflow Generation

Xiang Wang, Zongtao Yang, Zhuojian Hong, Shuhao Zhang, Wei Wei

RPC-Bench: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Research Paper Comprehension

Yelin Chen, Fanjin Zhang, Suping Sun, Yunhe Pang, Yuanchun Wang

Trust Within? Seek Beyond? Knowledge Boundary Aware Policy Optimization for Agentic Search

Tao Feng, Xinke Jiang, Xinyan Hu, Yonggang Zhang, Zhen Tao

SoundBreak: A Systematic Study of Audio-Only Adversarial Attacks on Trimodal Models

Aafiya Shamshad Hussain, Gaurav Srivastava, Alvi Md Ishmam, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Chris Thomas

SOCIA-EVO: Automated Simulator Construction via Dual-Anchored Bi-Level Optimization

Yuncheng Hua, Sion Weatherhead, Mehdi Jafari, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim

Achieving Multi-Hop Calculation and Safe Abstention in Financial Numerical Reasoning by Metric Graph Constrained LLMs

Aoyuan Jiang, Liang Hong, Haoxuan Liu, Rui Wang

Hetero-Designer: Automated Design of Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous LLMs

Zhiheng Zhang, Yuanzhe Zhang, Bohan Yu, Daojian Zeng, Kang Liu

Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Minping Chen, Bowen Xiao, Du Liang, Chuxuan Zeng, Zeyi Wen

Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Text Classification Using Latent Space Geometry

Jiasen Gao, Xiaoliang Chen, Duoqian Miao, Xu Gu, Xianyong Li

Shuttle Between Symbolic Instructions and Neural Parameters of Large Language Models

Wangtao Sun, Haotian Xu, Huanxuan Liao, Xuanqing Yu, Zhongtao Jiang

ToMMeR - Efficient Entity Mention Detection from Large Language Models

Victor Morand, Nadi Tomeh, Josiane Mothe, Benjamin Piwowarski

A Multi-Agent Framework for Feature-Constrained Difficulty Control in Reading Comprehension Item Generation

Seonjeong Hwang, Jun Seo, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Lee

Neo-Classic: A Benchmark for Evaluating Linguistic-Aesthetic Reasoning in Classical Chinese Poetry

Han Zhang, Zihan Gu, Zhiyuan Wang, Tianyi Ma, Jiacheng Lu

CuMA: Aligning LLMs with Sparse Cultural Values via Demographic-Aware Mixture of Adapters

Ao Sun, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhe Tan, Yu Li, Zhu Jiachen

When Seeing Is not Enough: Revealing the Limits of Active Reasoning in MLLMs

Hongcheng Liu, Pingjie Wang, Yuhao Wang, Siqu Ou, Yanfeng Wang

Beyond Single View: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Medical Multimodal Large Language Models on Multi-Image Understanding

Dexuan Xu, Yuan Jiayin, Jianing Wang, Yanyuan Chen, Hanpin Wang

Demystifying Data Organization for Enhanced LLM Training

Yalun Dai, Yangyu Huang, Tongshen Yang, Yonghan Wang, Xin Zhang

AlphaContext: An Evolutionary Tree-based Psychometric Context Generator for Creativity Assessment

Yixuan Wang, Yue Huang, Hong Qian, Yunzhao Wei, Yifei Ding

When Personalization Legitimizes Risks: Uncovering Safety Vulnerabilities in Personalized Dialogue Agents

Jiahe Guo, Xiangran Guo, Yulin Hu, Zimo Long, Xingyu Sui

Audio Jailbreak: An Open Comprehensive Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Audio-Language Models

Zirui Song, Qian Jiang, Mingxuan Cui, Mingzhe Li, Lang Gao

CaRL-EM: Cost-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Entity Matching with LLMs

Chaohui Guo, Michel C. A. Klein, Zhisheng Huang

Improving Long-Context Translation via Self-Supervised Dual Learning

Shanbo Cheng, Shuaijie She, Yu Bao, Jianbing Zhang, Jiajun Chen

Stop When Enough: Adaptive Early-Stopping for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Renliang Sun, Wei Cheng, Dawei Li, Haifeng Chen, Wei Wang

SAM3-I: Segment Anything with Instructions

Jingjing Li, Yue Feng, Yuchen Guo, Jincai Huang, Wei Ji

Draft, Verify, Restore: Self-Refining Historical Inscription Restoration with a Unified MLLM

Yuyi Zhang, Junle Liu, Peirong Zhang, Jianliang Liu, Zhenhua Yang

PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning

Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, Shijie Shang, Xiaobo Yang, Yue Peng

PACE: Predictive Adaptive Context Extraction for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Lei Wei, Xiao Peng, Tt, Guannan Zhang, Chenhao Jiang