ACL 2026

2,650 papers

MeepleLM: A Virtual Playtester Simulating Diverse Subjective Experiences

Zizhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Yibin Wang, Jianwen Sun, Yukang Feng

Learning to Select: Query-Aware Adaptive Dimension Selection for Dense Retrieval

Zhanyu Wu, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie

SearchGym: Bootstrapping Real-World Search Agents via Cost-Effective and High-Fidelity Environment Simulation

Xichen Zhang, Ziyi He, Yinghao Zhu, Sitong Wu, Shaozuo Yu

Team-Based Self-Play With Dual Adaptive Weighting for Fine-Tuning LLMs

Wu Li, Yigeng Zhou, Zesheng Shi, Yequan Wang, Min Zhang

CPT-Agent: A Cognitive Process Theory-driven Framework for Student Simulation in Writing Development

Yuhan Chen, Zizhuo Shen, Miaomiao Cheng, Xu Han, Jiefu Gong

Adaptive Planning for Multi-Attribute Controllable Summarization with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Sangwon Ryu, Heejin Do, Yunsu Kim, Gary Lee, Jungseul Ok

Curing Miracle Steps in LLM Mathematical Reasoning with Rubric Rewards

Youliang Yuan, Qiuyang Mang, Jingbang Chen, Hong Wan, Xiaoyuan Liu

ChartAgent: A Multimodal Agent for Visually Grounded Reasoning in Complex Chart Question Answering

Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Sumitra Ganesh

Soft Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation for Knowledge Sharing in Large Language Model Continual Learning

Yitong Wang, Xue Han, WenChun Gao, Qian Hu, Jiahui Wang

TARE: Lightweight Token-Aware Representation Editing for Fine-tuning Transformer-like Models

Yulong Wang, Siyu Zhao

TalkLoRA: Communication-Aware Mixture of Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models

Lin Mu, Haiyang Wang, Li Ni, Lei Sang, Zhize Wu

Beyond End-to-End: Dynamic Chain Optimization for Private LLM Adaptation on the Edge

Yebo Wu, Jingguang Li, Chunlin Tian, KaHou Tam, Zhijiang Guo

Branch-and-Browse: Efficient and Controllable Web Exploration with Tree-Structured Reasoning and Action Memory

Shiqi He, Yue Cui, Xinyu Ma, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding

GBV-SQL: Guided Generation and SQL2Text Back-Translation Validation for Multi-Agent Text2SQL

Daojun Chen, Xi Wang, Shenyuan Ren, Qingzhi Ma, Pengpeng Zhao

Calibration-Aware Policy Optimization for Reasoning LLMs

Ziqi Wang, Xingzhou Lou, Meiqi Wu, Zhengqi Wen, Junge Zhang

Semantic-Aware Logical Reasoning via a Semiotic Framework

Yunyao Zhang, Xinglang Zhang, Junxi Sheng, Wenbing Li, Junqing Yu

CADMate: Generating CAD Assembly Plan with Geometric Chain-of-Thought and Spatial Physical Rewards

Jiali Chen, DingBa Fu, Xusen Hei, Yuhang Liu, Yiyang Chen

Seeing No Evil: Blinding Large Vision-Language Models to Safety Instructions via Adversarial Attention Hijacking

Jingru Li, Wei Ren, Tianqing Zhu

ProActor: Timing-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Task Scheduling Agents

Lei Ding, Bin He, Chenguang Wang, Yang Liu

Would LLMs be Good Historical Linguists and Chinese Dialect Learners?

Yicheng Liu, Shumin Shi, Youchao Zhou, Xingchen Zhang

Beyond Value Benchmarks: Measuring Value-Structure Alignment in Large Language Models via Symmetric Q-Sorts

Jingting Zheng, Yuqi Ren, Linhao Yu, Yongqi Leng, Deyi Xiong

Beyond Chunking: Discourse-Aware Hierarchical Retrieval for Long Document Question Answering

Huiyao Chen, Yi Yang, Yinghui Li, Meishan Zhang, Baotian Hu

Persona-Grounded Safety Evaluation of AI Companions in Multi-Turn Conversations

Prerna Juneja, Lika Lomidze

Model-Based Imaginative Planning for Embodied Agents

Junru Song, Hengzhe Jin, Yucong Huang, Tingsong Jiang, Weien Zhou

Your Reasoning Benchmark May Not Test Reasoning: Revealing Perception Bottleneck in Abstract Reasoning Benchmarks

Xinhe Wang, Jin Huang, Xingjian Zhang, Tianhao Wang, Jiaqi W. Ma

PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models

Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Yoonjae Kim, Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo

Threshold Differential Attention for Sink-Free, Ultra-Sparse, and Non-Dispersive Language Modeling

Xingyue Huang, Xueying Ding, Mingxuan Ju, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah

TRN-R1-Zero: Text-rich Network Reasoning via LLMs with Reinforcement Learning Only

Yilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation via Adaptive Prefix Alignment

Zhenghao Liu, Zhuoyang Wu, Xinze Li, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang

Improving Autoformalization Using Direct Dependency Retrieval

Shaoqi Wang, Lu Yu, Siwei Lou, Feng Yan, Chunjie Yang

AdvancedIF: Rubric-Based Benchmarking and Reinforcement Learning for Advancing LLM Instruction Following

Yun He, Wenzhe Li, Hejia Zhang, Songlin Li, Karishma Mandyam

Towards Efficient and Effective Diffusion Language Model Inference via Semantic-Aware Adaptive Denoising

Fan Li, Yu Gu, Zhigang Wang, Fangling Leng, Zhenghao Liu

HiKEY: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval for Open-Domain Document Question Answering

Joongmin Shin, Gyuho Shim, Jeongbae Park, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim

SAGE: Synergistic Adaptive Gating of Experts for Hateful Video Detection

Jie Huang, Xin Liao, Junjie Wang, Mingyang Li, Wenshuo Wang

Efficiently Learning To Reason or Not to Reason: Root-token Policy Optimization for Adaptive Thinking

Taehyeon Kim, Hyunsoo Lee, Youngsoo Jang, Moontae Lee

CIA: Inferring the Communication Topology from LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Yongxuan Wu, Xixun Lin, He Zhang, Nan Sun, Kun Wang

LCR-RAG: Enhancing Logical Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning

Wenxiang Zheng, Guo Tang, Shixin Jiang, Liangyu Huo, Xiyuan Zhang

POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model

Chin-Jou Li, Kalvin Chang, Shikhar Bharadwaj, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi

Reference Attack: A New Cross-Modal Jailbreaking Attack against Multimodal Large Language Models

Yulong Wang, Yifei Fu, Jiayi Gao

TAMA: Target-Aware Multilingual Abuse Detection by Cascaded Conditional Multi-Task Learning

Jiyan Liu, Youzheng Liu, Taihang Wang, Yimin Wang, Ye Jiang

REZE: Representation Regularization for Domain-adaptive Text Embedding Pre-finetuning

Seungmin Lee, Jeonghwan Lee, Hyunkuk Lim, Sejoon Kim, Mingi Sung

Tracing Logit Trajectories Across Layer Depth: Dataset-Level Explainability for Language Models

Jeesu Jung, Sangkeun Jung

Immediate Inference: The Missing Foundation in Large Language Model Logical Reasoning

Sihang Jiang, Zhiyu Lu, Keyi Wang, Jiaqing Liang, Yanghua Xiao

SciFlow-Bench: Evaluating Structure-Aware Scientific Diagram Generation via Inverse Parsing

Tong Zhang, Honglin Lin, Zhou Liu, Chong Chen, Wentao Zhang

Cognitive Policy-Driven LLM for Diagnosis and Intervention of Cognitive Distortions in Emotional Support Conversation

Lin Zhong, Renjin Zhu, Shujuan Ma, Jinhao Cui, Lingzhi Wang

XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models

Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim, Hongchuan Zeng, Zhiying Zou, Xinyuan Cheng

Adaptive Text2GQL: Integrating Structural Twig Linking and Evolutionary In-Context Learning

Fang Niu, Chaokun Wang, Hang Zhang, Songyao Wang

On the Continued Value of Universal Dependencies in the Era of Large Language Models

Wenxi Li, Jingyu Peng

Controlling Distributional Bias in Multi-Round LLM Generation via KL-Optimized Fine-Tuning

Yanbei Jiang, Amr Keleg, Ryandito Diandaru, Jey Han Lau, Lea Frermann

Activation-Guided Local Editing for Jailbreaking Attacks

Jiecong Wang, Haoran Li, Hao Peng, Ziqian Zeng, Zihao Wang

All Changes May Have Invariant Principles: Improving Ever-Shifting Harmful Meme Detection via Design Concept Reproduction

Ziyou Jiang, Mingyang Li, Junjie Wang, Yuekai Huang, Jie Huang

ETR: Entropy Trend Reward for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xuan Xiong, Huan Liu, Li Gu, Zhixiang Chi, Yue Qiu

PaperRegister: Boosting Flexible-grained Paper Search via Hierarchical Register Indexing

Zhuoqun Li, Xuanang Chen, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han

Free Energy-Driven Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Advantage Shaping for Unsupervised Reasoning in LLMs

Yiming Huang, Zhenbo Shi, Xin-Cheng Wen, Jichuan Zeng, Cuiyun Gao

A Data-Centric Approach to Generalizable Speech Deepfake Detection

Wen Huang, Yuchen Mao, Yanmin Qian

DiZiNER: Disagreement-guided Instruction Refinement via Simulating Pilot Annotation for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition

Siun Kim, Hyung-Jin Yoon

FedProxy: Federated Fine-Tuning of LLMs via Proxy SLMs and Heterogeneity-Aware Fusion

Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yuanfeng Song, Lixin Fan, Kai Chen

LENS: LLM-Enabled Narrative Synthesis for Mental Health by Aligning Multimodal Sensing with Language Models

Wenxuan Xu, Arvind Pillai, Subigya Nepal, Amanda C. Collins, Daniel M Mackin

Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models

Haoxiang Sun, Yingqian Min, Zhipeng Chen, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen

OpenRubrics: Towards Scalable Synthetic Rubric Generation for Reward Modeling and LLM Alignment

Tianci Liu, Ran Xu, Tony Yu, Ilgee Hong, Carl Yang

Multi-Agent-as-Judge: Aligning LLM-Agent-Based Automated Evaluation with Multi-Dimensional Human Evaluation

Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Xiaojie Wang, Huimin Zeng, Jing Huang

What Do LLMs Learn First? Asymmetric Learning Dynamics of Input Complexity and Output Ambiguity in Preference Alignment

Mengyang Li, Jingwen Wang, Pinlong Zhao

Your Reasoning Model is Secretly a Reward Model - Optimization-Free Verification from Experience

Zhenwen Liang, Ruosen Li, Yujun Zhou, Linfeng Song, Dian Yu

From Inheritance to Saturation: Disentangling the Evolution of Visual Redundancy for Architecture-Aware MLLM Inference Acceleration

Jiaqi Shi, Xulong Zhang, Yuechan Li, Xiaoyang Qu, Jianzong Wang

SpecAgent: A Speculative Retrieval and Forecasting Agent for Code Completion

George Ma, Anurag Koul, Qi Chen, Yawen Wu, Sachit Kuhar

CaseFacts: A Benchmark for Legal Fact-Checking and Precedent Retrieval

Akshith Reddy Putta, Jacob Devasier, Chengkai Li

VOYAGER: A Training Free Approach for Generating Diverse Datasets using LLMs

Avinash Amballa, Yashas Malur Saidutta, Chi-Heng Lin, Vivek Kulkarni, Srinivas Chappidi

Paraphrasing as Zero-shot Translation with Feature-guided Diversity Enhancement

Ziyue Yan, Hongying Zan, Xinglin Lyu, Hongfei Xu

From Isolation to Entanglement: When Do Interpretability Methods Identify and Disentangle Known Concepts?

Aaron Mueller, Andrew Lee, Shruti Joshi, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Dhanya Sridhar

Lost in Translation, and Found: Detecting and Interpreting Translation Effects

Shira Wein, Anna Serbina, Jiyuan Ji, Nathan Wolf, Jason DeGraaff

Select Before Use: On the Importance of Reference Model Selection in Preference Alignment

Muyang Li, Runze Wu, Xiangyu Zhao, Bo Han, Daoyi Dong

SceneAlign: Aligning Multimodal Reasoning to Scene Graphs in Complex Visual Scenes

Chuhan Wang, Xintong Li, Jennifer Yuntong Zhang, Junda Wu, Chengkai Huang

Subject-level Inference for Realistic Text Anonymization Evaluation

Myeong Seok Oh, Dong-Yun Kim, Hanseok Oh, Chaean Kang, Joeun Kang

Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering

Zizhen Wang, Bo Feng, Zhengfeng Lai, Shiyu Li, Yang Lu

From Query to Counsel: Structured Reasoning with a Multi-Agent Framework and Dataset for Legal Consultation

Mingfei Lu, Yi Zhang, Mengjia Wu, Yue Feng

When One LLM Drools, Multi-LLM Collaboration Rules

Shangbin Feng, Wenxuan Ding, Alisa Liu, Zifeng Wang, Weijia Shi

Anchor: Branch-Point Data Generation for GUI Agents

Jinbiao Wei, Yilun Zhao, Kangqi Ni, Arman Cohan

Do LLMs Really Need 10+ Thoughts for “Find the Time 1000 Days Later”? Towards Structural Understanding of LLM Overthinking

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Anhad Mohananey, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Pinelopi Papalampidi, Somit Gupta

Mapping the Circumplex of Affect: Geometric Analysis of Emotion Representations via Hyperspherical Contrastive Learning

Yusuke Yamauchi, Akiko Aizawa

Bidirectional LMs are Better Knowledge Memorizers? A Benchmark for Real-world Knowledge Injection

Yuwei Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Shangbin Feng, Yifan Zhu, Letian Peng

MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application

Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He

Quantifying Metric and Model Agreement in Bias Evaluation of Large Language Models

Arash Asgari, Huan Wu, Amirreza Naziri, Mojtaba Kolahdouzi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari

In-Context Representation Hijacking

Itay Yona, Amir Sarid, Michael Karasik, Yossi Gandelsman

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents

Jiateng Liu, Zhenhailong Wang, Xiaojiang Huang, Yingjie Li, Xiang Li

Mind the Gap in Cultural Alignment: Task-Aware Culture Management for Large Language Models

Binchi Zhang, Xujiang Zhao, Jundong Li, Haifeng Chen, Zhengzhang Chen

GS-Quant: Granular Semantic and Generative Structural Quantization for Knowledge Graph Completion

Qizhuo Xie, Yunhui Liu, Yu Xing, Qianzi Hou, Xudong Jin

Decoupling Task-Solving and Output Formatting in LLM Generation

Haikang Deng, Po-Nien Kung, Nanyun Peng

PubMed Reasoner: Dynamic Reasoning-based Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Biomedical Question Answering

Yiqing Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Fabricio Murai

When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors

Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han, Boran Han, Zhengyuan Shen

Student Guides Teacher: Weak-to-Strong Inference via Spectral Orthogonal Exploration

Dayu Wang, Jiaye Yang, Weikang Li, Jiahui Liang, Yang Li

LOKA: Conflict-Aware LLM Knowledge Update with Adaptive Knowledge Memory

Binchi Zhang, Zhengzhang Chen, Zaiyi Zheng, Jundong Li, Haifeng Chen

Check Your Work: Structured Checklist Feedback for Improving Large Language Models

Jonathan Cook, Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Dennis Aumiller, Alex Wang

Text-to-Distribution Prediction with Quantile Tokens and Neighbor Context

Yilun Zhu, Yuan Zhuang, Nikhita Vedula, Dushyanta Dhyani, Shaoyuan Xu

TabEmb: Joint Semantic-Structure Embedding for Table Annotation

Ehsan Hoseinzade, Ke Wang, Anandharaju Durai Raju

Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets

Lei Hsiung, Tianyu Pang, Yung-Chen Tang, Linyue Song, Tsung-Yi Ho

ViDoRe V3: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation in Complex Real-World Scenarios

Antonio Loison, Quentin Macé, Antoine Edy, Victor Xing, Tom Balough

Evolving Agents

Leonardo Ranaldi

Text-Attributed Knowledge Graph Enrichment with Large Language Models for Medical Concept Representation

Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Chen Chen, Dongjie Wang, Zijun Yao

Label and Explanation Variation in LLM-Based Annotation: a Case Study in Natural Language Inference

Artur Kulmizev, Erika Lombart, Patrick Watrin, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

CoAct: Co-Active LLM Preference Learning with Human-AI Synergy

Ruiyao Xu, Mihir Parmar, Tiankai Yang, Zhengyu Hu, Yue Zhao