ACL 2026

2,650 papers

Locomo-Plus: Beyond-Factual Cognitive Memory Evaluation Framework for LLM Agents

Yifei Li, Weidong Guo, Lingling Zhang, Rongman Xu, Muye Huang

Agent Newsroom: Efficient Chronological Report Generation via Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration

Zhenhua Wang, Chunlei Wang, Yue Geng, Bang Wang

Know Your Place: Diagnosing Implicit Social Adaptation Failures in Chinese Large Language Models

Yu Tian, Jie Xing, Ziming Li, Jiang Li, Zehua Duo

IF-CRITIC: Towards a Fine-Grained LLM Critic for Instruction-Following Evaluation

Bosi Wen, Yilin Niu, Cunxiang Wang, Pei Ke, Xiaoying Ling

PRISP: Privacy-Safe Few-Shot Personalization via Lightweight Adaptation

Junho Park, Dohoon Kim, Taesup Moon

CharTide: Data-Centric Chart-to-Code Generation via Tri-Perspective Tuning and Inquiry-Driven Evolution

Xiangxi Zheng, Kuang He, Jiayi Hu, Ping Yu, Rui Yan

FOREVER: Forgetting Curve-Inspired Memory Replay for Language Model Continual Learning

Yujie Feng, Hao Wang, Jian Li, Xu Chu, Zhaolu Kang

Agentic Oversight via Dialectic Reasoning

Leonardo Ranaldi, Federico Ranaldi

Mitigating Action-Relation Hallucinations in LVLMs via Relation-aware Visual Enhancement

Zhenxin Qin, Qiang Li, Qingzhuo Wang, Ruiyang Qin, Zhihua Wei

Psyche-R1: Towards Reliable Psychological LLMs through Unified Empathy, Expertise, and Reasoning

Chongyuan Dai, Jinpeng Hu, Hongchang Shi, Zhuo Li, Dan Guo

MED-COREASONER: Reducing Language Disparities in Medical Reasoning via Language-Informed Co-Reasoning

Fan Gao, Sherry T. Tong, Jiwoong Sohn, Jiahao Huang, Junfeng Jiang

Into the Gray Zone: Domain Contexts Can Blur LLM Safety Boundaries

Ki Sen Hung, Xi Yang, Chang Liu, Haoran Li, Kejiang Chen

Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning Capability of LLMs and LVLMs through Representation Engineering

Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Yixuan Ma, Ruihan Chen, Zihe Tong

GeoLaux: A Benchmark for Evaluating MLLMs’ Geometry Performance on Long-Step Problems Requiring Auxiliary Lines

Yumeng Fu, Jiayin Zhu, Lingling Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Bo Zhao

PARIF: Pushing the Pareto Frontier of Instruction Following and Reasoning with Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Rongchuan Mu, Zexin Wang, Qianyu Wang, Minghua Ma, Zekun Wang

DFAMS: Dynamic-flow guided Federated Alignment based Multi-prototype Search

Zhibang Yang, Xinke Jiang, Rihong Qiu, Ruiqing Li, Yihang Zhang

BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?

Fengqing Jiang, Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li, Luyao Niu, Basel Alomair

Learning to Edit Knowledge via Instruction-based Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Jinhu Fu, Yan Bai, Longzhu He, Yihang Lou, Yanxiao Zhao

Outcome-Grounded Advantage Reshaping for Fine-Grained Credit Assignment in Mathematical Reasoning

Ziheng Li, Liu Kang, Feng Xiao, Luxi Xing, Qingyi Si

AAPO: Enhancing the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs with Advantage Margin

Jian Xiong, Jingbo Zhou, Jingyong Ye, Qiang Huang, Dejing Dou

Adaptive Spatial and Temporal Redundancy Optimization for Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models

Tianle Chen, Pengyu Cheng, Qiyuan Zhu, Jiacheng Wang, Bei Liu

Lingua-Graph: A Unified Representation of Cross-Task Common Substructures for Analytic Language Processing

Mingming Sun, Runze Jiang, Zhu Zhangchenxi, Minlong Peng, Yunfeng Cai

FoE: Forest of Errors Makes the First Solution the Best in Large Reasoning Models

Kehan Jiang, Haonan Dong, Zhaolu Kang, Zhengzhou Zhu, Guojie Song

Can Persona-Prompted LLMs Emulate Subgroup Values? An Empirical Analysis of Generalisability and Fairness in Cultural Alignment

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Zhengyuan Liu, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jing Yao, Xing Xie

Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy

Zhaoxin Feng, Zheng Chen, Jianfei Ma, Yip Tin Po, Emmanuele Chersoni

SEARL: Joint Optimization of Policy and Tool Graph Memory for Self-Evolving Agents

Xinshun Feng, Xinhao Song, Lijun Li, Gongshen Liu, Jing Shao

WebAggregator: Enhancing Compositional Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Research Agent Foundation Models

Rui Wang, Ce Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma, Jianshu Zhang, Hongru Wang

When Efficiency Meets Safety: A Benchmark Security Analysis of KV Cache Compression in Large Language Models

Xiaoxiao Ma, Kuofeng Gao, Zeyi Lu, Wenxi Jiang, Hao Fang

ImCoref-CeS: An Improved Lightweight Pipeline for Coreference Resolution with LLM-based Checker-Splitter Refinement

kangyang Luo, Yuzhuo Bai, Shuzheng Si, Cheng Gao, Zhitong Wang

TEMA: Anchor the Image, Follow the Text for Multi-Modification Composed Image Retrieval

Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu, Zhiheng Fu, Zhiwei Chen, Yongqi Li

Safe-FedLLM: Delving into the Safety of Federated Large Language Models

Mingxiang Tao, Yu Tian, Wenxuan Tu, Yue Yang, Xue Yang

Ascending the Infinite Ladder: Benchmarking Spatial Deformation Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Jiahuan Zhang, Shunwen Bai, Tianheng Wang, Kaiwen Guo, Zijia Song

LAMCL: A Length-aware Momentum Contrastive Learning Framework for Multiscale Machine-Revised Text Detection

Bing Zhou, Zhe Huang, Shilei Tan, KAI ZHAO, Zhou Yongcheng

Attention as Selector: Unlocking VLM Attention for Long Document Page Retrieval

Minfeng Zhu, Linxin Bao, Wei Chen, Linchao Zhu

JanusMM: A Benchmark for Self-Deprecation Understanding in Real-World Multimodal Conversations

Xinyi Xu, Bingguang Hao, Yongyi Xiong, Zimo Chen, Xinchen Liu

Looking Beyond the One: Operationalizing and Eliciting Visual Ambiguity in VLLMs

Yuchong Chen, Bowei Zou, Yuhan Chen, Yifan Fan, Xinyu Li

SHAPE: Stage-aware Hierarchical Advantage via Potential Estimation for LLM Reasoning

Zhengyang Ai, Zikang Shan, Xiaodong Ai, Jingxian Tang, Hangkai Hu

Merging Triggers, Breaking Backdoors: Defensive Poisoning for Instruction-Tuned Language Models

San Kim, Gary Lee

Truth or Sophistry? LoFa: A Benchmark for LLM Robustness Against Logical Fallacies

Xudong Shen, Li Yuan, Ye Chen, Xin Wu, Yi Cai

KoCo: Conditioning Language Model Pre-training on Knowledge Coordinates

Yudong Li, Jiawei Cai, Linlin Shen

GeoRA: Geometry-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for RLVR

Jiaying Zhang, Lei Shi, Jiguo Li, Jun Xu, Jiuchong Gao

ADAPT: Benchmarking Commonsense Planning under Unspecified Affordance Constraints

Pei-An Chen, Yongching Liang, Jia-Fong Yeh, Hung-Ting Su, Yi-Ting Chen

Text-Guided Multi-Scale Frequency Representation Adaptation

Weicai Yan, Xinhua Ma, Wang Lin, Tao Jin

SecureVibeBench: Benchmarking Secure Vibe Coding of AI Agents via Reconstructing Vulnerability-Introducing Scenarios

Junkai Chen, Huihui Huang, Yunbo Lyu, Junwen An, Jieke Shi

AT²PO: Agentic Turn-based Policy Optimization via Tree Search

Zefang Zong, Dingwei Chen, Yang Li, Qi Yi, Bo Zhou

Knowledge Beyond Language: Bridging the Gap in Multilingual Machine Unlearning Evaluation

Kyomin Hwang, Hyeonjin Kim, Sangyeon Cho, Nojun Kwak

Taming Actor-Observer Asymmetry in Agents via Dialectical Alignment

Bobo Li, Wu Rui, Zibo Ji, Meishan Zhang, Hao Fei

VRPO: Rethinking Value Modeling for Robust RL under Noisy Supervision in LLM Post-Training

Dingwei Zhu, Shihan Dou, Zhiheng Xi, Senjie Jin, Guoqiang Zhang

When TableQA Meets Noise: A Dual Denoising Framework for Complex Questions and Large-scale Tables

Shenghao Ye, Yu Guo, Dong Jin, Yuxiang Wang, Yikai Shen

Scaling Laws for Code: A More Data-Hungry Regime

Xianzhen Luo, Wenzhen Zheng, Qingfu Zhu, Rongyi Zhang, Houyi Li

SPARK: Strategic Policy-Aware Exploration via Dynamic Branching for Long-Horizon Agentic Learning

Jinyang Wu, Shuo Yang, Yuhao Shen, SHUAI ZHANG, Zhengqi Wen

Powering Verifiable Learning via Automated Evolutionary Data Synthesis

He Du, Bowen Li, Aijun Yang, Siyang He, Qipeng Guo

ADVICE: Answer-Dependent Verbalized Confidence Estimation

KiJung Seo, Sehun Lim, Taeuk Kim

Consolidation or Adaptation? PRISM: Disentangling SFT and RL Data via Gradient Concentration

Yang Zhao, Yangou Ouyang, Xiao Ding, Hepeng Wang, Bibo Cai

Mnemis: Dual-Route Retrieval on Hierarchical Graphs for Long-Term LLM Memory

Zihao Tang, Xin Yu, Ziyu Xiao, Zengxuan Wen, Zelin Li

Beyond Meta-Reasoning: Metacognitive Consolidation for Self-Improving LLM Reasoning

Ziqing Zhuang, Linhai Zhang, Jiasheng Si, Deyu Zhou, Yulan He

InsideOut: Measuring and Mitigating Insider–Outsider Bias in Interview Script Generation

Yixin Wan, Xingrun Chen, Kai-Wei Chang

LegalChainReasoner: Grounding Criminal Judicial Opinion Generation via Structured Legal Chains

Weizhe Shi, Qiqi Wang, Yihong Pan, Qian Liu, Kaiqi Zhao

IF-RewardBench: Benchmarking Judge Models for Instruction-Following Evaluation

Bosi Wen, Yilin Niu, Cunxiang Wang, Xiaoying Ling, Ying Zhang

DEBAR: Mitigating Contextual Bias in Cross-Document Relation Extraction via Dual-Stream Decoupling

Zhixuan Yang, Fu Zhang, Huangming Xu, Jingwei Cheng

ASTRA: Adaptive Semantic Tree Reasoning Architecture for Complex Table Question Answering

Xiaoke Guo, Songze Li, Zhiqiang Liu, Zhaoyan Gong, Yuanxiang Liu

Gradient-Guided Multi-Judge Prompt Optimization

ChenZhuo Zhao, Xinda Wang, Pu Zhao, Yue Huang, Junting Lu

LaoBench: A Large-Scale Multidimensional Lao Benchmark for Large Language Models

Jian Gao, Richeng Xuan, Zhaolu Kang, Dingshi Liao, Wenxin Huang

See the Forest for the Trees: Loosely Speculative Decoding via Visual-Semantic Guidance for Efficient Inference of Video LLMs

Yicheng Ji, Jun Zhang, Jinpeng Chen, Cong Wang, Lidan Shou

Right at My Level: A Unified Multilingual Framework for Proficiency-Aware Text Simplification

Jinhong Jeong, Junghun Park, Youngjae Yu

What Do Prosody and Text Convey? Characterizing How Meaningful Information is Distributed Across Multiple Channels

Aditya Yadavalli, Tiago Pimentel, Tamar I Regev, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Alex Warstadt

I²B-LPO: Latent Policy Optimization via Iterative Information Bottleneck

Huilin Deng, Hongchen Luo, Yue Zhu, Long Li, Zhuoyue Chen

Safeguarding LLM Fine-tuning via Push-Pull Distributional Alignment

Haozhong Wang, Zhuo Li, Yibo Yang, He Zhao, Hongyuan Zha

From Off-Policy to On-Policy: Enhancing GUI Agents via Bi-level Expert-to-Policy Assimilation

Zezhou Wang, Ziyun Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Zhuzhong Qian, Yan Lu

Instant Personalized Large Language Model Adaptation via Hypernetwork

Zhaoxuan Tan, Zixuan Zhang, Haoyang Wen, Zheng Li, Rongzhi Zhang

When Is Thinking Enough? Early Exit via Sufficiency Assessment for Efficient Reasoning

Yang Xiang, Yixin Ji, Ruotao Xu, Dan Qiao, Zheming Yang

Detoxification for LLM: From Dataset Itself

Wei Shao, Yihang Wang, Gao yu Zhu, Ziqiang Cheng, Lei Yu

VIB-Probe: Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models via Variational Information Bottleneck

Feiran Zhang, Yixin Wu, Zhenghua Wang, Xiaohua Wang, Changze Lv

TED-TTS: Training-Free Intra-Utterance Emotion and Duration Control for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Qifan Liang, Yuansen Liu, Ruixin Wei, Nan Lu, Junchuan Zhao

Stop Hardening Everything: A Training-Free Neuron-Level Defense for Neural Ranking Models

Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Hongru Song, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan

SAIR-Comb : A Structure-Aware Iterative Refinement Framework for Combinatorics Autoformalization

Weijie Jiang, Gaolei He, Beibei Xiong, Jianlin Wang, Zhengfeng Yang

Are they lovers or friends? Evaluating LLMs’ Social Reasoning in English and Korean Dialogues

Eunsu Kim, Junyeong Park, Juhyun Oh, Kiwoong Park, Seyoung Song

Experience Retrieval-Augmentation with Electronic Health Records Enables Accurate Discharge QA

Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Yilun Zhao, Ziyang Yu, Peiqing Lu

Gap-K%: Measuring Top-1 Prediction Gap for Detecting Pretraining Data

Minseo Kwak, Jaehyung Kim

Understanding Structured Financial Data with LLMs: A Case Study on Fraud Detection

Xuwei Tan, Yao Ma, Xueru Zhang

AutoGraph-R1: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Construction

Hong Ting Tsang, Jiaxin Bai, Haoyu Huang, Qiao Xiao, Tianshi Zheng

GrACE: A Generative Approach to Better Confidence Elicitation and Efficient Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models

Zhaohan Zhang, Ziquan Liu, Ioannis Patras

MMTutorBench: The First Multimodal Benchmark for AI Math Tutoring

Tengchao Yang, Sichen Guo, Mengzhao Jia, Jiaming Su, Yuanyang Liu

Learning What to Ignore: Mitigating Negative Transfer in Medical Knowledge Fusion via Clinical Task-Adaptive Selection

Xinyan Deng, Shoubin Dong, Xiaorou Zheng

BTC-LLM: Efficient Sub-1-Bit LLM Quantization via Learnable Transformation and Binary Codebook

Hao Gu, Lujun Li, Hao Wang, Lei Wang, Zheyu Wang

PAR: Training-Free Positional Perturbation and Attention Recycling for Faithful OCR

Yao Yao, Manwen Liao, Weitian Zhang, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao

How Training Data Shapes the Use of Parametric and In-Context Knowledge in Language Models

Minsung Kim, Dong-Kyum Kim, Jea Kwon, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

From Synthesis to Clinical Assistance: A Strategy-Aware Agent Framework for Autism Intervention based on Real Clinical Dataset

Junhong Lai, Shuzhong Lai, Yanhao Yu, Wanlin Chen, Chenyu Yan

Aligning Agents via Planning: A Benchmark for Trajectory-Level Reward Modeling

Jiaxuan Wang, Yulan Hu, Wenjin Yang, Zheng Pan, Xin Li

Automated Creativity Evaluation of Language Models Across Open-Ended Tasks

Tan Min Sen, Zachary Choy Kit Chun, Syed Ali Redha Alsagoff, Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Banerjee Mohor

PEAP: Proactive Embodied Action Sequence Planning with Joint Understanding of Vision and Audio Perception

Tianwei Lan, Jiaqi Wu, Zeming Liu, Zhaoxin Fan, Haifeng Wang

BiMol-Diff: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Molecular Generation and Captioning

Aditya Hemant Shahane, Anuj Kumar Sirohi, Devansh Arora, Nitin Kumar, Prathosh AP

MUR: Momentum Uncertainty guided Reasoning for Large Language Models

Hang Yan, Fangzhi Xu, Rongman Xu, Yifei Li, Jian Zhang

FormalScience: Scalable Human-in-the-Loop Autoformalisation of Science with Agentic Code Generation in Lean

Jordan Meadows, Lan Zhang, Andre Freitas

Make LLMs See Like Investigators, Not Just Think More: The Role of Structured Analysis in Investigative Reasoning

Jaewook Lee, Myeong-Cheol Kang, Jong-hun Shin

CoEvolve: Training LLM Agents via Agent-Data Mutual Evolution

Shidong Yang, Ziyu Ma, Tongwen Huang, Yiming Hu, Yong Wang

DVCQR: Dual-View Conversational Query Rewriting with Stage-wise Reinforcement Learning

Chenyi Li, Xinhui Tu, Zaixiang Wang

MAB-DQA: Addressing Query Aspect Importance in Document Question Answering with Multi-Armed Bandits

Yixin Xiang, Yunshan Ma, Xiaoyu Du, Yibing Chen, Yanxin Zhang

PROMPRINT: Prompt Fingerprinting via First-Token Response for LLM App Cloning Detection

Jungmin Lee, Peizhuo Lv, Yeonjoon Lee

Large Language Models Are Bad Dice Players: LLMs Struggle to Generate Random Numbers from Statistical Distributions

Minda Zhao, Yilun Du, Mengyu Wang