ACL 2026

2,650 papers

CamoQuery: Language-Guided Reasoning Camouflaged Object Segmentation

Tianxin Han, Qing Dong, Xingwei Wang, Jie Jia, Gang Wu

Nested Browser-Use Learning for Agentic Information Seeking

Baixuan Li, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang

The Proxy Presumption: From Semantic Embeddings to Valid Social Measures

Baishi Li, Ta Yu, Kelvin J.l. Koa, Ke-Wei Huang

Anti-Length Shift: Dynamic Outlier Truncation for Training Efficient Reasoning Models

Wei Wu, Liyi Chen, Congxi Xiao, Tianfu Wang, Qimeng Wang

SADA: Bridging In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning via State-Aligned Distillation Adapters

Wenhao Gao, Tianlong Wang, Wei Jia, Linhao Zhang, Aiwei Liu

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions

Zhiyin Yu, Yuchen Mou, Juncheng Yan, Junyu Luo, Chunchun Chen

See2Refine: Vision-Language Feedback Improves LLM-Based eHMI Action Designers

Ding Xia, Xinyue Gui, Mark Colley, Fan Gao, Zhongyi Zhou

Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Models for Ancient Chinese Character Evolution Analysis via Glyph-Driven Fine-Tuning

Rui Song, Lida Shi, Ruihua Qi, Yingji Li, Hao Xu

Causal2Vec: Improving Decoder-only LLMs as Embedding Models through a Contextual Token

Ailiang Lin, Zhuoyun Li, Yusong Wang, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura

Phun-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Phonological Understanding in Chinese

Xing Yue, Yongliang Shen, Weiming Lu

Comparing human and language models sentence processing difficulties on complex structures

Samuel Joseph Amouyal, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Jonathan Berant

SPIO: Ensemble and Selective Strategies via LLM-Based Multi-Agent Planning in Automated Data Science

Wonduk Seo, Juhyeon Lee, Yanjun Shao, Qingshan Zhou, Seunghyun Lee

Omni-Embed-Audio: Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Robust Audio-Text Retrieval

HaeJun Yoo, Yongseop Shin, Insung Lee, Myoung-Wan Koo, Du-Seong Chang

Comparative Analysis of the Intrinsic Metrics for Tokenizers and their effect on Downstream Tasks for Hindi and Marathi

Shagun Dwivedi, Kaushik Gopalan

LinkQA: Synthesizing Diverse QA from Multiple Seeds Strongly Linked by Knowledge Points

Xuemiao Zhang, Can Ren, Chengying Tu, Rongxiang Weng, Hongfei Yan

InsLogicBench: An Argumentation Logic Grounded Benchmark for Complex Insurance Claims Adjudication

Jin Liu, Yunpeng Liu, Keyi Wang, Jie Shi, Xiao Xu

Red Teaming Large Reasoning Models

Jiawei Chen, Yang Yang, Chao Yu, Yu Tian, Zhi Cao

NeuReasoner: Towards Explainable, Controllable, and Unified Reasoning via Mixture-of-Neurons

Haonan Dong, Kehan Jiang, Haoran Ye, Wenhao Zhu, Zhaolu Kang

Agent-based Substructure Counting under Local Differential Privacy

Yuting Zhang, Kai Wang, Wei Ni, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang

Hard2Verify: A Step-Level Verification Benchmark for Open-Ended Frontier Math

Shrey Pandit, Austin Xu, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Yifei Ming, Caiming Xiong

Steganography Beyond Pixels: Reimagining Image Steganography as Cross-Modal Linguistic Communication

Ren Lijing, Denghui Zhang

Debiasing Reward Models via Causally Motivated Inference-Time Intervention

Kazutoshi Shinoda, Kosuke Nishida, Kyosuke Nishida

MECH: A Cost-Effective Multi-Task Cascade Framework for Classroom Opinion Evolution Recognition

Yancui Li, Xiaoyu Zhou, Guoyi Miao, Fang Kong

MoEC: A Memory-Routed Mixture-of-Experts Controller for Adaptive Minecraft Control

Hui Wu, Chao Xu, Jianghui Wang, Ziqiong Liu, Dong Li

EpiCaR: Knowing What You Don’t Know Matters for Better Reasoning in LLMs

Jewon Yeom, Jaewon Sok, Seonghyeon Park, JeongJae Park, Taesup Kim

RST-Guarder: Enhancing Long-Context Robustness for Safeguards via RST Parsing and Probabilistic Inference

Xu Zhang, Xiaojun Wan

LitVISTA: A Benchmark for Narrative Orchestration in Literary Text

Mingzhe Lu, Yiwen Wang, Yanbing Liu, Qi You, Chong Liu

BrowseComp-Plus: A Fair and Disentangled Evaluation Benchmark for Deep Search Agents

Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Ping Nie, Kai Zou

Learning from Cognition: Enhancing RL Efficiency for LLM Reasoning via Hierarchical Metacognitive Decomposition and Refinement

Zexu Sun, Yongcheng Zeng, Erxue Min, Heyang Gao, Bokai Ji

OS-Symphony: A Holistic Framework for Robust and Generalist Computer-Using Agents

Bowen Yang, Kaiming Jin, Zhenyu Wu, Zhaoyang Liu, Qiushi Sun

Bit-by-Bit: Progressive QAT Strategy with Outlier Channel Splitting for Stable Low-Bit LLMs

Binxing Xu, Hao Gu, Lujun Li, Hao Wang, Bei Liu

MAESTRO: Meta-learning Adaptive Estimation of Scalarization Trade-offs for Reward Optimization

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

FLARE: Fine-Grained Length-Aware Routing for Resource-Efficient Heterogeneous LLM Serving

Yujia Fu, Heming Zhong, Dan Huang, Yutong Lu

IRIS: Interleaved Reinforcement with Incremental Staged Curriculum for Cross-Lingual Mathematical Reasoning

Navya Gupta, Rishitej Reddy Vyalla, Avinash Anand, Chhavi Kirtani, Erik Cambria

MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents

Hao Sun, Yu Song, Teng Shiyu, Ziwei Niu, Yen-Wei Chen

Template-assisted Contrastive Learning of Task-oriented Dialogue Sentence Embeddings

Minsik Oh, Jiwei Li, Guoyin Wang

Markovian Linguistic-Temporal Bridge: Unlocking the Potential of LLMs for Time Series Forecasting

Siming Sun, Kai Zhang, Xuejun Jiang, Wenchao Meng, Qinmin Yang

Efficient Prior-Guided Reasoning for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation under Conflicts

Xiaowei Yuan, Ziyang Huang, Zhao Yang, Yequan Wang, Jun Zhao

MACS: Modality-Aware Capacity Scaling for Efficient Multimodal MoE Inference

Bo Li, Chuan Wu, Shaolin Zhu

MAGIC: Deep Geometric Evolution with Structural Consensus for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Chengao Liu, Yuan Li, Yingze Wang, Jianbin Jiao

Counteracting the Matthew Effect in Self-Improvement of LVLMs through Head-Tail Re-balancing

Xin Guo, Zhiheng Xi, Yiwen Ding, Yitao Zhai, Xiaowei Shi

Benchmarking Web Agent Safety under E-commerce Deceptive Interfaces

Zijing Shi, Meng Fang, Ling Chen

SelFusion: Self-distillation for Diffusion Language Models

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

Task-Aware LLM Routing with Multi-Level Task-Profile-Guided Data Synthesis for Cold-Start Scenarios

Hui LIU, Bin Zou, Kecheng Chen, Jie Liu, Wenya Wang

ATIR: Towards Audio-Text Interleaved Contextual Retrieval

Tong Zhao, Chenghao Zhang, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou

ReasonRank: Empowering Passage Ranking with Strong Reasoning Ability

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Weiwei Sun, Yutao Zhu, Yuchen Li

Distributional Clarity: The Hidden Driver of RL-Friendliness in Large Language Models

Shaoning Sun, Mingzhu Cai, Huang He, Bingjin Chen, Siqi Bao

Can Large Language Models Infer Causal Relationships from Real-World Text?

Ryan Saklad, Aman Chadha, Oleg V. Pavlov, Raha Moraffah

How Can Synthetic Data Improve Multilingual Language Model Pretraining? A Data Quality Perspective

Tongyao Zhu, Qian Liu, Chang Ma, Jinghan Zhang, Longxu Dou

AutoReproduce: Automatic AI Experiment Reproduction with Paper Lineage

Xuanle Zhao, Zilin Sang, Yuxuan Li, Qi SHI, Weilun Zhao

Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on CFMME: A Comprehensive Chinese Financial Multimodal Evaluation Dataset

Qian Chen, Xianyin Zhang, Yanzhi Liu, Lifan Guo, Feng Chen

Perplexity-Aware Data Scaling Law: Perplexity Landscapes Predict Performance for Continual Pre-training

Lei Liu, Hao Zhu, Xiaoyan Yang, Yue Shen, Zhixuan Chu

Rectifying the Emotional Flow: Aligning Priors and Dynamic Guidance for High-Arousal Text-to-Speech

Fangming Feng, Dongjie Fu, Zequn Xie, Yu Zhang, Yangyang Wu

BoYaEval: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Understanding Ancient Chinese Musical Scores

Jiajia Li, Weizhi Xue, Yao Yao, Qiwei Li, Chenchong

Nirvana: A Specialized Generalist Model With Task-Aware Memory Mechanism

Yuhua Jiang, Shuang Cheng, Yihao Liu, Ermo Hua, Che Jiang

Traffic-R1: Reinforced LLMs Bring Human-Like Reasoning to Traffic Signal Control Systems

Xingchen Zou, Yuhao Yang, Zheng Chen, Xixuan Hao, Yiqi Chen

d-TreeRPO: Towards More Reliable Policy Optimization for Diffusion Language Models

Leyi Pan, Shuchang Tao, Yunpeng Zhai, Zheyu Fu, Liancheng Fang

The Digital Dunning-Kruger Effect: Decoupling Hallucinations via Geometric Hidden-state Observation for Semantic Truthfulness

Yueheng Mao, Min Yu, Gengwang Li, Jianguo Jiang, Gang Li

Rethinking Jailbreak Detection of Large Vision Language Models with Representational Contrastive Scoring

Peichun Hua, Hao Li, Shanghao Shi, Zhiyuan Yu, Ning Zhang

Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Geometry Solving with Efficient Heuristic Auxiliary Constructions

Boyan Duan, Xiao Liang, Shuai Lu, Yaoxiang Wang, Yelong Shen

Step-GRPO: Internalizing Dynamic Early Exit for Efficient Reasoning

Benteng Chen, Weida Wang, Shufei Zhang, Mingbao Lin, Min Zhang

MMAC: A Multilingual, Multimodal Alignment Framework for Cultural Grounding Evaluation

Weihua Zheng, Zhengyuan Liu, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Weiwen Xu, Xiaoxue Gao

WebClipper: Efficient Evolution of Web Agents with Graph-based Trajectory Pruning

Junjie Wang, Zequn Xie, Dan Yang, Jie Feng, Yue Shen

EduBench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Dataset for Evaluating Large Language Models in Diverse Educational Scenarios

Bin Xu, Yu Bai, Huashan Sun, Yiguan Lin, Siming Liu

Query-Aware Knowledge Retrieval via Hyperbolic Structuring

Chuang Zhou, Junnan Dong, Yilin Xiao, Shengyuan Chen, Su Dong

Community-Aware Assessment of Social Textual Engagement and Resonance: A Human-Centric Perspective on User-Generated Content Evaluation

Tianjiao Li, KAI ZHAO, Xiang Li, Yang Liu, Huyang Sun

MTR-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Turn Reasoning Evaluation

Xiaoyuan Li, Keqin Bao, Yubo Ma, Moxin Li, Wenjie Wang

Tailoring Diagnostic Modeling to Individual Learners: Personalized Distractor Generation via MCTS-Guided Reasoning Reconstruction

Tao Wu, Jingyuan Chen, Wang Lin, Jian Zhan, Mengze Li

Profiling-Free Mixed-Precision Quantization for MoE LLMs via Fuzzy Rule Interpolation

Huachen Qi, Ruiyu Zhuo, Bowen Shi, Xiang Chang, Fei Chao

Agentic Memory: Learning Unified Long-Term and Short-Term Memory Management for Large Language Model Agents

Yi Yu, Liuyi Yao, Yuexiang Xie, Qingquan Tan, Jiaqi Feng

LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases

Yida Cai, Ranjuexiao Hu, Huiyuan Xie, Chenyang Li, Yun Liu

TamEdit: Trajectory-Aware Meta-Learning for Specificity-Preserving Continual Knowledge Editing

Shiqiang Tian, Cheng Ding, Qin Chen, Jie Zhou, Liang He

METRO: Towards Strategy Induction from Expert Dialogue Transcripts for Non-collaborative Dialogues

Haofu Yang, Jiaji Liu, Chen Huang, Faguo Wu, Wenqiang Lei

The GaoYao Benchmark: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Multilingual and Multicultural Abilities of Large Language Models

Yilun Liu, Chunguang Zhao, Mengyao Piao, Lingqi Miao, Shimin Tao

AEGIS: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of AI-Generated Academic Images

Bo Zhang, Tzu-Yen Ma, Zichen Tang, Junpeng Ding, Zirui Wang

LEDOM: Reverse Language Model

Xunjian Yin, Sitao Cheng, Yuxi Xie, Xinyu Hu, Li Lin

Controllable LLM Reasoning via Sparse Autoencoder-Based Steering

Yi Fang, Wenjie Wang, Mingfeng Xue, Boyi Deng, Fengli Xu

SAME: Signer-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Test-Time Adaptation in Sign Language Translation

Lujia Yang, Weicai Yan, Yongbo He, Qifei Zhang, Tao Jin

LLMEval-Fair: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on Robust and Fair Evaluation of Large Language Models

Ming Zhang, Yujiong Shen, Jingyi Deng, Yuhui Wang, Huayu Sha

FlowSearch: Advancing Deep Research with Dynamic Structured Knowledge Flow

Yusong Hu, Runmin Ma, Yue Fan, Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao

USB: A COMPREHENSIVE AND UNIFIED SAFETY EVALUATION BENCHMARK FOR MULTIMODAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Baolin Zheng, Guanlin Chen, Qingyang Teng, Hongqiong Zhong, Yingshui Tan

Placing Puzzle Pieces Where They Matter: A Question Augmentation Framework for Reinforcement Learning

Yangyi Fang, Haolin Shi

LoopTool: Closing the Data–Training Loop for Robust LLM Tool Calls

Kangning Zhang, Weiwen Liu, Wenxiang Jiao, Kounianhua Du, Yuan Lu

Probing the Safety Robustness of LLMs in Latent Space

Tianle Gu, Kexin Huang, Zongqi Wang, Yixu Wang, Jie Li

Beyond the Context Window: Scaling Agentic RL via End-to-end Optimized Context Compression

Miao Lu, Weiwei Sun, Weihua Du, Zhan Ling, Xuesong Yao

MoA: Heterogeneous Mixture of Adapters for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Jie Cao, Tianwei Lin, Bo Yuan, Rolan Yan, Hongyang He

ReRec: Reasoning-Augmented LLM-based Recommendation Assistant via Reinforcement Fine-tuning

Jiani Huang, Shijie Wang, Liang-Bo Ning, Wenqi Fan, Li Qing

Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues

Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan, Bilal Elbouardi, Younes Samih

ChatHLS: Towards Systematic Design Automation and Optimization for High-Level Synthesis

Runkai Li, Jia Xiong, Xiuyuan He, Jieru Zhao, Jiaqi Lv

Retrieving to Recover: Towards Incomplete Audio-Visual Question Answering via Semantic-consistent Purification

Jiayu Zhang, Shuo Ye, Qilang Ye, Zihan Song, Jiajian Huang

Measure Twice, Click Once: Co-evolving Proposer and Visual Critic via Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding

Wenkai Wang, Xiyun Li, Hongcan Guo, Wenhao Yu, Tianqing Fang

ExPerT: Personalizing LLM Responses to Users’ Domain Expertise via Query-Wise Semantic and Keystroke Behavioral Cues

Yeji Park, Jiwon Tark, Taesik Gong

From AR to Diffusion: Efficiently Adapting Large Language Models with Strictly Causal and Elastic Horizons

Xiangyu Ma, Teng Xiao, Zuchao Li, Lefei Zhang

Fisher-Driven Adaptive Locating for Knowledge Editing in Large Language Models

Chenghao Xu, Jiexi Yan, Guangtao Lyu, Qi Liu, Muli Yang

GeoArena: Evaluating Open-World Geographic Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models

Pengyue Jia, Yingyi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Sharon Li

Language on Demand, Knowledge at Core: Composing LLMs with Encoder-Decoder Translation Models for Extensible Multilinguality

Mengyu Bu, Yang Feng

Visual Inception: Compromising Long-term Planning in Agentic Recommenders via Multimodal Memory Poisoning

Jiachen Qian

VideoCuRL: Video Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Orthogonal Difficulty Decomposition

Hongbo Jin, Kuanwei Lin, Wenhao Zhang, Yichen Jin, Ge Li

Mem2Evolve: Towards Self-Evolving Agents via Co-Evolutionary Capability Expansion and Experience Distillation

Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Yingyu Shan, Xinyi Wang, Xiangrong Zhu

Think Natively: Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning with Consistency-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning

Xue Zhang, Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Songming Zhang, Kaiyu Huang