ACL 2026

2,650 papers

Sparrow: Text-Anchored Window Attention with Visual-Semantic Glimpsing for Speculative Decoding in Video LLMs

Libo Zhang, Zhaoning Zhang, Hongwanyang, Peng Qiao, Dongsheng Li

ThinkPersona: Thinking with Persona Graphs for Faithful Individualized Role-Playing

Yichen Cai, Pei Chen, Jiayang Li, Jingya Guo, Zejian Li

DREAM: Deep Research Evaluation with Agentic Metrics

Elad Ben Avraham, ChangHao Li, Ron Dorfman, Roy Ganz, Oren Nuriel

EvoSci: A Bio-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for the Evolution of Scientific Discovery

Xiaoyu Xiong, Yuqi Ren, Deyi Xiong

FinKario: Event-Enhanced Automated Construction of Financial Knowledge Graph

Xiang Li, Penglei Sun, Wanyun Zhou, Zikai Wei, Yongqi Zhang

TRACE: Traversal Retrieval-Augmented Chain of Evidence for Document Understanding

Liqi He, Zuchao Li, Hao Huang, Ping Wang

“I See What You Did There”: Can Large Vision-Language Models Understand Multimodal Puns?

Naen Xu, Jiayi Sheng, Changjiang Li, Chunyi Zhou, Yuyuan Li

VIGIL: Defending LLM Agents Against Tool-Stream Injection via Verify-Before-Commit

Junda Lin, Zhaomeng Zhou, Zhi Zheng, Shuochen Liu, Tong Xu

SGPVT: Self-Generated Proximal Visual Tokens for Mitigating Proximal Collateral Damage in MLLM Unlearning

Jiaqi Li, Zhijing Zhang, Jiahui Geng, Sheng Bi, Chuanyi Zhang

IEvoAgent: Evolving Conversational Agent based on User Implicit Feedback

Yichen Cai, Jiayang Li, Junyuan Qiu, Jingya Guo, Weitao You

AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling

Yongliang Miao, Yangyang Liang, Mengnan Du

Benchmarking and Learning Real-World Customer Service Dialogue

Tianhong Gao, Jundong Shen, Jiapeng Wang, Bei Shi, Ying Ju

CodeEvo: Interaction-Driven Synthesis of Code-centric Data through Hybrid and Iterative Feedback

Qiushi Sun, Jingyang Gong, Lei Li, Qipeng Guo, Fei Yuan

Alloc-MoE: Budget-Aware Expert Activation Allocation for Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference

Baihui Liu, Kaiyuan Tian, Wei Wang, Zhaoning Zhang, Linbo Qiao

Understanding or Memorizing? A Case Study of German Definite Articles in Language Models

Jonathan Drechsel, Erisa Bytyqi, Steffen Herbold

Tracing the Roots: A Multi-Agent Framework for Uncovering Data Lineage in Post-Training LLMs

Yu Li, Xiaoran Shang, Qizhi Pei, Yun Zhu, Xin Gao

AGSC: Adaptive Granularity and Semantic Clustering for Uncertainty Quantification in Long-text Generation

Guanran Luo, Wentao Qiu, Wanru Zhao, Wenhan Lv, Zhongquan Jian

One Battle After Another: Probing LLMs’ Limits on Multi-Turn Instruction Following with a Benchmark Evolving Framework

Qi Jia, Ye Shen, Xiujie Song, Kaiwei Zhang, Shibo Wang

PAM: Enhancing General Alignment of Large Reasoning Models through Priority-Aware Metacognition

Zhihao Xu, Fuzhen Yang, Liang Lin, Xiting Wang

OS-Sentinel: Towards Safety-Enhanced Mobile GUI Agents via Hybrid Validation in Realistic Workflows

Qiushi Sun, Mukai Li, Zhoumianze Liu, Zhihui Xie, Fangzhi Xu

Automatic Correction of Writing Anomalies in Hausa Texts

Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Sergiu Nisioi

UMMF: Protecting Copyright of Large Vision-Language Models through Unlearning-based Multimodal Memorization Fingerprint

Xiaofan Zheng, Xinghao Wang, Xiaojun Wan

Experience-driven Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for GUI Agents

Zhengxi Lu, Jiabo Ye, Fei Tang, Yongliang Shen, Haiyang Xu

Data Mixing Agent: Learning to Re-weight Domains for Continual Pre-training

Kailai Yang, Xiao Liu, Lei Ji, Hao Li, Xiao Liang

"Newspaper Eat" Means "Not Tasty": A Taxonomy and Benchmark for Coded Language in Real-World Chinese Online Reviews

Ruyuan Wan, Changye Li, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang

VAPO: End-to-end Slide-Enhanced Speech Recognition with Omni-modal Large Language Models

Rui Hu, Delai Qiu, Yining Wang, Shengping Liu, Jitao Sang

Empathy in Diversity: Personalized Depression and Anxiety Therapy via Dialogue State Tracking and Patient-Aware Planning

Xinwei Yang, Junyi Fan, Yuqing Liu, Jiaxuan Wang, Jiashuai Zhang

XY-Tokenizer: Mitigating the Semantic-Acoustic Conflict in Low-Bitrate Speech Codecs

Yitian Gong, Luozhijie Jin, Kuangwei Chen, Dong Zhang, Ruifan Deng

ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline

Morris Alper, Moran Yanuka, Raja Giryes, Gasper Begus

CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models

Mengfan Li, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng

VisPCO: Visual Token Pruning Configuration Optimization via Budget-Aware Pareto-Frontier Learning for Vision-Language Models

Huawei Ji, Yuanhao Sun, Yuan Jin, Cheng Deng, Jiaxin Ding

Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMs

Zhenyu Liu, Xuanyu Zhang, Yunxin Li, Qixun Teng, Shenyuan Jiang

Teach a Reward Model to Correct Itself: Reward Guided Adversarial Failure Discovery for Robust Reward Modeling

Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Furong Huang

ContrastKV: Robust KV Cache Eviction via Contrastive Signal Fusion for Multi-Query Generalization

Xingchi Chen, Peiyuan Zong, Ziqiang Gao, Qing Li, Yong Jiang

CityCube: Benchmarking Cross-view Spatial Reasoning on Vision-Language Models in Urban Environments

Haotian Xu, Yue Hu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Chen Gao, Ziyou Wang

RepoGenesis: Benchmarking End-to-End Microservice Generation from Readme to Repository

Zhiyuan Peng, Xin Yin, Pu Zhao, Fangkai Yang, Lu Wang

KCVR: Knowledge-Centric Video Reconstruction for Structured Pedagogical Summarization via Dynamic Graph Planning

Jingjiang Liu, Jia Zhu, Hanghui Guo, Weijie Shi, Yue Cui

Are LLMs Reliable Rankers? Rank Manipulation via Two-Stage Token Optimization

Tiancheng Xing, Jerry Li, Yixuan Du, Xiyang Hu

UniMoE-Audio: Unified Speech and Music Generation with Dynamic-Capacity Mixture-of-Experts

Zhenyu Liu, Yunxin Li, Xuanyu Zhang, Qixun Teng, Shenyuan Jiang

Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts

Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng, Haoyu Wang, Zhikang Niu

LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication

Peter Zeng, Weiling Li, Amie J. Paige, Zhengxiang Wang, Panagiotis Kaliosis

Investigating More Explainable and Partition-Free Compositionality Estimation for LLMs: A Rule-Generation Perspective

Ziyao Xu, Cong Wang, Houfeng Wang

LearnerCoMPASS: Intelligent Tutoring System with Dynamic Cognitive Diagnosis and Multi-Model Path Planning

Ziji Sheng, Guiyao Tie, Weidong Wang, Pan Zhou, Daizong Liu

VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free Adaptation

Yixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan, Dongdong Zhang, Lingjie Jiang

Visual Attention Reasoning via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification

Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan, Tianle Zhang, Ming Zhu

Efficient KL Divergence Estimation via Truncated Top-K Integration for Large Language Models

Xinyuan Wang, Luozhijie Jin, Bo Wang, Yuan Li, Zhangyue Yin

Shanks: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models

Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin

SCVQ: Sparse-Compensated Vector Quantization for Large Language Models

Zixuan Zhou, Yujun Diao, Zicheng Kong, Dehua Ma, Zhenbo Xu

QBridge: Bridging Natural Language and SQL via Gold Query Rewriting with Agentic Refinement

Zhensheng Luo, Sai Wu, Yuan Qiu, Chang Yao, Gang Chen

Dissecting Failure Dynamics in Large Language Model Reasoning

Wei Zhu, Jian Zhang, Lixing Yu, Kun Yue, Zhiwen Tang

Privacy Collapse: Benign Fine-Tuning Can Break Contextual Privacy in Language Models

Anmol Goel, Cornelius Emde, Seong Joon Oh, Sangdoo Yun, Martin Gubri

From Laboratory to Real-World Applications: Benchmarking Agentic Code Reasoning at the Repository Level

Jia Li, Yuxin Su, Michael R. Lyu

Is this chart lying to me? Automating the detection of misleading visualizations

Jonathan Tonglet, Jan Zimny, Tinne Tuytelaars, Iryna Gurevych

SEA-BED: How Do Embedding Models Represent Southeast Asian Languages?

Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Raymond Ng, Jann Railey Montalan, Thura Aung

Beyond Transcripts: A Renewed Perspective on Audio Chaptering

Fabian Retkowski, Maike Züfle, Thai Binh Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel

When Correct Beliefs Collapse: Epistemic Resilience of LLMs under Clinical Pressure

Boyu Xiao, Xiuqi Tian, Xuwen Song, Haochun Wang, Guanchun Song

Ted-Tok: Maintaining an Evolving Vocabulary for Lifelong Learning

Jiameng Huang, Zhi Zhang, Zhenyu He, Jiacheng Sun, Di He

Gained in Translation: Privileged Pairwise Judges Enhance Multilingual Reasoning

Lintang Sutawika, Gokul Swamy, Steven Wu, Graham Neubig

LiGen: Active Lipid Generation via a Molecular Language Model

Ying Zhan, Xiuqi Tang, Yan Zhang, Xiao Tan, Dian Shen

MulVul: Retrieval-augmented Multi-Agent Code Vulnerability Detection via Cross-Model Prompt Evolution

Zihan Wu, Jie Xu, Yun Peng, Chun Yong Chong, Xiaohua Jia

MirageBackdoor: A Stealthy Attack that Induces Think-Well-Answer-Wrong Reasoning

Yizhe Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yunpeng Li, Juxin Xiao, Xiao Wang

Revisiting Model Interpolation for Efficient Reasoning

Taiqiang Wu, Runming Yang, Tao Liu, Jiahao Wang, Ngai Wong

ARCQuant: Boosting NVFP4 Quantization with Augmented Residual Channels for LLMs

Haoqian Meng, Yilun Luo, Yafei Zhao, Wenyuan Liu, Peng Zhang

Look Light, Think Heavy: What Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Can and Cannot Do

Zhuoran jin, Kejian Zhu, Hongbang Yuan, Yupu Hao, Pengfei Cao

Beyond Monolingual Assumptions: A Survey on Code-Switched NLP in the Era of Large Language Models across Modalities

Rajvee Sheth, Samridhi Raj Sinha, Mahavir Patil, Himanshu Beniwal, Mayank Singh

Detecting RAG Extraction Attack via Dual-Path Runtime Integrity Game

Yuanbo Xie, Yingjie Zhang, Yulin Li, Shouyou Song, Xiaokun Chen

ReportLogic: Evaluating Logical Quality in Deep Research Reports

Jujia Zhao, Zhaoxin Huan, Zihan Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou

InferenceDynamics: Adaptive LLM Routing through Structured Capability and Knowledge Profiling

Haochen Shi, Tianshi Zheng, Weiqi Wang, Baixuan Xu, Chunyang Li

Reasoning with OmniThought: A Large CoT Dataset with Verbosity and Cognitive Difficulty Annotations

Wenrui Cai, Chengyu Wang, Junbing Yan, Jun Huang, Xiangzhong Fang

HERMES: KV Cache as Hierarchical Memory for Efficient Streaming Video Understanding

Haowei Zhang, Shudong Yang, Jinlan Fu, See-Kiong Ng, Xipeng Qiu

AgentCoMa: A Compositional Benchmark Mixing Commonsense and Mathematical Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

Lisa Alazraki, Lihu Chen, Ana Brassard, Joe Stacey, Hossein A. Rahmani

Repeated Sequences Reveal Gaps between Large Language Models and Natural Language

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Dual Activation-Weight Sparsity: A Training-Free Framework for Efficient Large Language Model Compression

Luoyang Sun, Guangyan Li, Cheng Deng, Haifeng Zhang, Jian Zhao

Protecting multimodal large language models against misleading visualizations

Jonathan Tonglet, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens, Iryna Gurevych

The Reasoning Trap: How Enhancing LLM Reasoning Amplifies Tool Hallucination

Chenlong Yin, Zeyang Sha, shiwen cui, Changhua Meng, Zechao Li

RSDA: Restoring Stale Data Affinity via Dynamic Renovation Strategy for Mitigating Data Scarcity

Yidan Liang, Jia Zhu, Weijie Shi, Hanghui Guo, Yue Cui

A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Search Agents

Yunjia Xi, Jianghao Lin, Yongzhao Xiao, Zheli Zhou, Rong Shan

Taming "Zombie" Agents: A Markov State-Aware Framework for Resilient Multi-Agent Evolution

Taolin Zhang, Pukun Zhao, Qizhou Chen, Jiuheng Wan, Chen Chen

On the Emotion Understanding of Synthesized Speech

Yuan Ge, Haishu Zhao, AoKai Hao, Junxiang Zhang, Bei Li

ARK: Answer-Centric Retriever Tuning via KG-augmented Curriculum Learning

Jiawei Zhou, Hang Ding, Haiyun Jiang

Mem2ActBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Utilization in Task-Oriented Autonomous Agents

Yiting Shen, Kun Li, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu

Flattery in Motion: Benchmarking and Analyzing Sycophancy in Video-LLMs

Wenrui Zhou, Mohamed Hendy, Shu Yang, Qingsong Yang, Zikun Guo

Large Language Model-Enhanced Multi-Armed Bandits

Jiahang Sun, Zhiyong Wang, Runhan Yang, Chenjun Xiao, John C.S. Lui

GAMBIT: A Gamified Jailbreak Framework for Multimodal Large Language Models

Xiangdong Hu, Yangyang Jiang, Qin Hu, Xiaojun Jia

From Word to World: Can Large Language Models be Implicit Text-based World Models?

Yixia Li, Hongru Wang, Jiahao Qiu, Zhenfei Yin, Dongdong Zhang

Dynamic Long Context Reasoning over Compressed Memory via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning

Zhuoen Chen, Dongfang Li, Meishan Zhang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang

iTAG: Inverse Design for Natural Text Generation with Accurate Causal Graph Annotations

Wenshuo Wang, Boyu Cao, Nan Zhuang, Wei Li

Do Not Step Into the Same River Twice: Learning to Reason from Trial and Error

Chenming Tang, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Weijie Liu, Clive Bai, Saiyong Yang

What Makes an Ideal Quote? Recommending “Unexpected yet Rational” Quotations via Novelty

Powei Chang, Jin Xiao, Guanglei Yue, Qianyu He, Yanghua Xiao

From Completion to Editing: Unlocking Context-Aware Code Infilling via Search-and-Replace Instruction Tuning

Jiajun Zhang, Zeyu Cui, Jiaxi Yang, Lei Zhang, Yuheng Jing

ChessArena: A Chess Testbed for Evaluating Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models

Jincheng Liu, Sijun He, Jingjing Wu, Xiangsen Wang, Yang Chen

AMATA: Adaptive Multi-Agent Trajectory Alignment for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering

Taolin Zhang, Dongyang Li, Chen Chen, Qizhou Chen, Jiuheng Wan

GIFT: Guided Fine-Tuning and Transfer for Enhancing Instruction-Tuned Language Models

Zhiwen Ruan, Yichao Du, Jianjie Zheng, Longyue Wang, Yun Chen

Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Exploiting Reparameterization Invariance

Ao Wang, Xinghao Yang, Yongshun Gong, Wei Liu, Bao-di Liu

SPPO: Sequence-Level PPO for Long-Horizon Reasoning Tasks

Tianyi Wang, Yixia Li, Long Li, Yibiao Chen, Shaohan Huang

EfficientLLM: Unified Pruning-Aware Pretraining for Auto-Designed Compact Language Models

Xingrun Xing, Zheng Liu, Shitao Xiao, Boyan Gao, Yiming Liang

Revisiting the Reliability of Language Models in Instruction-Following

Jianshuo Dong, Yutong Zhang, Liu Yan, Zhenyu Zhong, Tao Wei

HCSpec: Two-Tier Horizontal Cascade Speculative Decoding for High-Efficiency Large Language Model Inference

Yizhou Zhang, Siming Chen, Hao Ye, Erhu Feng

DART: Disambiguation-Aware Reasoning for Video-guided Machine Translation

Boyu Guan, Chuang Han, Yang Zhao, Chengqing Zong

S2O: Early Stopping for Sparse Attention via Online Permutation

Yu Zhang, Songwei Liu, Chenqian Yan, Linsheng, Beichen Ning