ACL 2026

2,650 papers

LePREC: Reasoning as Classification over Structured Factors for Assessing Relevance of Legal Issues

Fanyu Wang, Xiaoxi Kang, Paul Burgess, Aashish Srivastava, Chetan Arora

SpeechLLM-as-Judges: Towards General and Interpretable Speech Quality Evaluation

Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Yifan Yang, Shujie LIU, Junyang Chen

JPU: Bridging Jailbreak Defense and Unlearning via On-Policy Path Rectification

Xi Wang, Songlei Jian, Shasha Li, Xiaopeng Li, Zhaoye Li

Responsible Evaluation of AI for Mental Health

Hiba Arnaout, Anmol Goel, H. Andrew Schwartz, Steffen T. Eberhardt, Dana Atzil-Slonim

arXiv2Table: Toward Realistic Benchmarking and Evaluation for LLM-Based Literature-Review Table Generation

Weiqi Wang, Jiefu Ou, Yangqiu Song, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi

NeoAMT: Neologism-Aware Agentic Machine Translation with Reinforcement Learning

Zhongtao Miao, Kaiyan Zhao, Masaaki Nagata, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

ChartVerse: Scaling Chart Reasoning via Reliable Programmatic Synthesis from Scratch

Zheng Liu, Honglin Lin, Xiaoyang Wang, Xin Gao, Yu Li

Boundary-Guided Policy Optimization for Memory-efficient RL of Diffusion Large Language Models

Nianyi Lin, Jiajie Zhang, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization

Negar Foroutan, Clara Meister, Debjit Paul, Joel Niklaus, Sina Ahmadi

VideoPro: Adaptive Program Reasoning for Long Video Understanding

Chenglin Li, feng han, Yikun Wang, Ruilin Li, Shuai Dong

Safety-Utility Conflicts Are Not Global: Surgical Alignment via Head-Level Diagnosis

Wang Cai, Yilin Wen, Jinchang Hou, Du Su, Guoqiu Wang

Beyond Accuracy: Unveiling Inefficiency Patterns in Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Qisheng Su, Shiting Huang, Zhen Fang, Ziyan Chen, Zehui Chen

All Languages Matter: Understanding and Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual RAG

Dan Wang, Guozhao Mo, Yafei Shi, Cheng Zhang, Bo Zheng

AgencyBench: Benchmarking the Frontiers of Autonomous Agents in 1M-Token Real-World Contexts

Keyu Li, Junhao Shi, Yang Xiao, Mohan Jiang, Jie Sun

Arg-LLaDA: Argument Summarization via Large Language Diffusion Models and Sufficiency-Aware Refinement

Hao Li, Yizheng Sun, Viktor Schlegel, Kailai Yang, Riza Batista-Navarro

DeepPlanning: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Agentic Planning with Verifiable Constraints

Yinger Zhang, Shutong Jiang, Renhao Li, Jianhong Tu, Yang Su

Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMs

Huanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao, Yequan Wang, Wenhao Teng

ET-Agent: Incentivizing Effective Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent via Behavior Calibration

Yifei Chen, Guanting Dong, Zhicheng Dou

Reasoning Over Space: Enabling Geographic Reasoning for LLM-Based Generative Next POI Recommendation

Dongyi Lv, Qiuyu Ding, Heng-Da Xu, Zhaoxu Sun, Zhi Wang

Beyond Timestamps: Bridging Forward and Backward Reasoning in Temporal Numerical and Relational Understanding

Xinying Qian, Ying Zhang, Xuhui Sui, Yu Zhao, Baohang Zhou

Evo-Attacker: Memory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Tool Attacks on LLM-MAS

Bingyu Yan, Xiaoming Zhang, JinYu Hou, Chaozhuo Li, Ziyi Zhou

STEM: Structure-Tracing Evidence Mining for Knowledge Graphs-Driven Retrieval-Augmented Generation

peng yu, En Xu, Bin Chen, Haibiao Chen, Yinfei Xu

Reducing Token Redundancy in LVLMs: A Systematic Review of Token Pruning Methods

Hanzhang Yuan, Mengxuan Hu, Wenhao Zhang, Tianlong Wang, Zhongliang Zhou

When KV Cache Reuse Fails in Multi-Agent Systems: Cross-Candidate Interaction is Crucial for LLM Judges

Sichu Liang, Zhenglin Wang, Chujiajia, Pengfei Xia, Hui Zang

MixKVQ: Query-Aware Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization for Long-Context Reasoning

Tao Zhang, Ziqian Zeng, Hao Peng, HUIPING ZHUANG, Cen Chen

Planning-Guided Tutoring with Assessment-Driven Memory for Pedagogical LLM Tutors

Zechen Li, Qiannan Zhu, Mei Wang, Jia Li, Hua Huang

Efficient Learned Data Compression via Dual-Stream Feature Decoupling

Huidong Ma, Xinyan Shi, Sun Hui, Xiaofei Yue, Xiaoguang Liu

SharedRequest: Privacy-Preserving Model-Agnostic Inference for Large Language Models

Peihua Mai, Xuanrong Gao, Youlong Ding, Xianglong Du, Wei Liu

GRAPHIA: Harnessing Social Graph Data to Enhance LLM-Based Social Simulation

Jiarui Ji, Zehua Zhang, Zhewei Wei, Bin Tong, Guan Wang

STRIDE-ED: A Strategy-Grounded Stepwise Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Dialogue Systems

Hongru Ji, Yuyin Fan, Meng Zhao, Xianghua Li, Lianwei Wu

SeLaR: Selective Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models

Renyu Fu, Guibo Luo

Two Streams, One Sarcasm: Orthogonal Expert Tuning for Holistic Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding

Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan, Pin Xu, Cheng Hu

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Step-Level Transitions for LLM Agents

Shuai Zhen, Yanhua Yu, Ruopei Guo, Nan Cheng, Yang Deng

HoWToBench: Holistic Evaluation for LLM’s Capability in Human-level Writing using Tree of Writing

Andrew Zhuoer Feng, Cunxiang Wang, Yu Luo, Lin Fan, Irene Zhou

MAS-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Shortcut-Augmented Hybrid Mobile GUI Agents

Pengxiang Zhao, Guangyi Liu, Yaozhen Liang, Weiqing He, Zhengxi Lu

Beyond Hard Masks: Progressive Token Evolution for Diffusion Language Models

Linhao Zhong, Linyu Wu, Bozhen Fang, Tianjian Feng, Chenchen Jing

Metaphor Reasoning is Meta-reasoning

Qianyu He, Junting Lu, Yikai Zhang, Siyu Yuan, Xiaojun Meng

DPC: Training-Free Text-to-SQL Candidate Selection via Dual-Paradigm Consistency

Boyan Li, Ou Ocean Kun Hei, Yue Yu, Yuyu Luo

LAFaCT: Attribution-based Localization and Focused Sequential Analysis of Fact-Critical Tokens for Hallucination Detection

Xin Wang, Jiahao Li, Licheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao

Empirical Analysis of Decoding Biases in Masked Diffusion Models

Pengcheng Huang, Tianming Liu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang

Don’t Click That: Teaching Web Agents to Resist Deceptive Interfaces

Yilin Zhang, Yingkai Hua, Chunyu Wei, Xin Wang, Yueguo Chen

Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects

Verena Blaschke, Miriam Winkler, Barbara Plank

QuantileMark: A Message-Symmetric Multi-bit Watermark for LLMs

Junlin Zhu, Baizhou Huang, Xiaojun Wan

In-depth Research Impact Summarization through Fine-Grained Temporal Citation Analysis

Hiba Arnaout, Noy Sternlicht, Tom Hope, Iryna Gurevych

Diff4TST: Masked Diffusion Language Model for Text Style Transfer

Xinchen Ma, Gaole He, Yunshi Lan, Weining Qian

Calibrating Inference Time Alignment with Sequence-level Risk Accumulation

Shanwen Tan, Ziyang Dong, Wei Ju, Yiwei Fu, Hao Wu

From "Aha Moments" to Controllable Thinking: Toward Meta-Cognitive Reasoning in LRMs via Decoupled Reasoning and Control

Rui Ha, Rui Pu, Chaozhuo Li, Li Sun, Sen Su

Text2Tabular – Reconstructing Tabular Research Data from Scientific Publications

Jonas Gottal, Florian Matthes

Don’t Be Misled by Style: A Style-Adaptive Reranker for Capturing Effective Knowledge in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ruwen Zhang, Bo Liu, Zhang Sheng Xiang, Yida Chen, Hantao Zhao

Visually-Guided Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning

Zengbin Wang, Feng Xiong, Liang Lin, Xuecai Hu, Yong Wang

Faithful Serum: Mitigating the Faithfulness Gap in Textual Explanations of LLM Decisions via Attribution Guidance

Bar Alon, Itamar Zimerman, Lior Wolf

DeReA: Improving Idiom Translation with Detect-Retrieve-Arbitrate Reasoning

Rongqing Jiang, Xuebo Liu, Shengxin Liu, Yutong Wang, Min Zhang

Efficient Self-Evaluation for Diffusion Language Models via Sequence Regeneration

Linhao Zhong, Linyu Wu, Wen Wang, Yuling Xi, Chenchen Jing

Integrating Data Validation with Large Language Models for Regulation-Guided Tabular Anomaly Detection

Haoliang Huang, Zihuang Cai, Zhuo Tang, Yifan liu, Chen Tian

Efficient Multi-Agent System Training with Data Influence-Oriented Tree Search

Wentao Shi, Zichun Yu, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Chenyan Xiong

StealthGraph: Exposing Domain-Specific Risks in LLMs through Knowledge-Graph-Guided Harmful Prompt Generation

Huawei Zheng, Xinqi Jiang, Sen Yang, Shouling Ji, Yingcai Wu

ContextLens: Modeling Imperfect Privacy and Safety Context for Legal Compliance

Haoran Li, Yulin Chen, Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Tsz Ho Li

What’s Left Unsaid? Detecting and Correcting Misleading Omissions in Multimodal News Previews

Fanxiao Li, Jiaying Wu, Tingchao Fu, Dayang Li, Herun Wan

TriEx: A Game-based Tri-View Framework for Explaining Internal Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLMs

Ziyi Wang, Chen Zhang, Wenjun Peng, Qi Wu, Xinyu Wang

LLMs Enable Bag-of-Texts Representations for Short-Text Clustering

I-Fan Lin, Faegheh Hasibi, Suzan Verberne

SCOUT: Selective Coupling via Optimal Unbalanced Transport for Interpretable Text Classification

Junhao Jia, Hanwen Zheng, Yueyi Wu, Huangwei Chen, Haishuai Wang

Annotating Dimensions of Social Perception in Text: A Sentence-Level Dataset of Warmth and Competence

Mutaz Ayesh, Saif M. Mohammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum

FS-Researcher: Test-Time Scaling for Long-Horizon Research Tasks with File-System-Based Agents

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Mingxuan Du, Shaohan Wang, Xiaorui Wang

UNIKIE-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Key Information Extraction in Visual Documents

Yifan Ji, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Zulong Chen, Qian Zhang

Logical Consistency as a Bridge: Improving LLM Hallucination Detection via Label Constraint Modeling between Responses and Self-Judgments

Hao Mi, Qiang Sheng, Shaofei Wang, Beizhe Hu, Yifan Sun

UniSpec: Training-Free Speculative Decoding for Robust LLM Acceleration Across Languages and Hardware

Truong Dinh Do, Nguyen-Khang Le, Le-Minh Nguyen

Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Language Models through Template Infilling

JunHoo Lee, Seungyeon Kim, Nojun Kwak

From Insight to Action: A Novel Framework for Interpretability-Guided Data Selection in Large Language Models

Ling Shi, Xinwei Wu, Xiaohu Zhao, Hao Wang, Heng Liu

CiteGuard: Faithful Citation Attribution for LLMs via Retrieval-Augmented Validation

Yee Man Choi, Xuehang Guo, Yi R. Fung, Qingyun Wang

ACE-Router: Generalizing History-Aware Routing from MCP Tools to the Agent Web

Zhiyuan Yao, Zishan Xu, Yifu Guo, Zhiguang Han, Cheng Yang

AutoTaskEval: Towards Domain-Specific and Fine-Grained Evaluation for LLMs

Qingqing Lyu, Linjuan Wu, Yongliang Shen, Hengwei Liu, Hao Li

Measuring Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Content Generation

Yueqi Xie, Tao Qi, Jingwei Yi, Xiyuan Yang, Ryan Whalen

MobileWorld: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents in Agent-User Interactive and MCP-Augmented Environments

Quyu Kong, Xu Zhang, Zhenyu Yang, Nolan Gao, Chen Liu

Structured Episodic Event Memory

Zhengxuan Lu, Dongfang Li, Yukun Shi, Beilun Wang, Longyue Wang

OCP: Outlier-Centric Probing for Dynamic Structured Pruning of LLMs

Yang Ji, Ying Sun

Bridging the Sensory Gap: Visual Injection for Taxonomy Completion

Yuhang Niu, Hongyuan Xu, Ciyi Liu, Bofan Wei, Jiaqi Ye

Editing the Moving World: Model Editing for Video LLMs

Qian Zhang, Xinye Li, Xiaokai Wu, Junhao Xu, Zhanyue Qin

Mirroring Users: Towards Building Preference-aligned User Simulator with User Feedback in Recommendation

Tianjun Wei, Huizhong Guo, Yingpeng Du, Zhu Sun, Huang Chen

Heterogeneous Adaptive Policy Optimization: Tailoring Optimization to Every Token’s Nature

Zheng Liu, Mengjie Liu, Siwei Wen, Mengzhang Cai, Bin CUI

EXCEEDS: Extracting Complex Events via Nugget-based Grid Modeling in Scientific Domain

Yi-Fan Lu, Xian-Ling Mao, Bo Wang, Xiao Liu, Heyan Huang

Lying with Truths: Open-Channel Multi-Agent Collusion for Belief Manipulation via Generative Montage

Jinwei Hu, Xinmiao Huang, Youcheng Sun, Yi Dong, Xiaowei Huang

OctoBench: Benchmarking Scaffold-Aware Instruction Following in Repository-Grounded Agentic Coding

Deming Ding, Shichun Liu, Enhui Yang, Jiahang Lin, Ziying Chen

What Does LLM Refinement Actually Improve? A Systematic Study on Document-Level Literary Translation

Shaomu Tan, Dawei Zhu, Ke Tran, Michael Denkowski, Sony Trenous

AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages

Hao Yu, Tianyi Xu, Michael A. Hedderich, Wassim Hamidouche, Syed Waqas Zamir

Dual-Cluster Memory Agent: Resolving Multi-Paradigm Ambiguity in Optimization Problem Solving

Xinyu Zhang, Yuchen Wan, Boxuan Zhang, Zesheng Yang, Lingling Zhang

FinSight: Towards Real-World Financial Deep Research

Jiajie Jin, Yuyao Zhang, Yimeng Xu, Hongjin Qian, Yutao Zhu

Modeling Human-Like Cognition for Stance Detection: Integrating Intuitive Judgment and Analytical Reasoning

ZhaoDan Zhang, Jin Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

FlexGuard: Continuous Risk Scoring for Strictness-Adaptive LLM Content Moderation

Zhihao Ding, Jinming Li, Ze Lu, Jieming SHI

Revisit What You See: Revealing Visual Semantics in Vision Tokens to Guide LVLM Decoding

Beomsik Cho, Jaehyung Kim

TiKMiX: Efficient Semi-Dynamic Data Mixture via Data Influence for LLM Pre-training

Yifan Wang, Binbinliu, Fengze Liu, Yuanfan Guo, Jiyao Deng

LLM-VA: Resolving the Jailbreak-Overrefusal Trade-off via Vector Alignment

Haonan Zhang, Dongxia Wang, Yi Liu, Kexin Chen, Wenhai Wang

Demystifying Uncertainty in LLMs: Active Calibration between Concepts and Human Evaluations

Pengqi Li, Lizhong Ding, Zhehao Zhou, Chunhui Zhang, Jiarun Fu

Compete to Complete: Co-opetition Adversarial Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Xin Liu, Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Yixing Fan, Lixin Su

ROSE: An Intent-Centered Evaluation Metric for NL2SQL

Wenqi Pei, Shizheng Hou, Boyan Li, Chen Han, Zhichao Shi

Spec-o3: A Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agent for Rare Celestial Object Candidate Vetting via Automated Spectral Inspection

Minghui Jia, Qichao Zhang, Ali Luo, Linjing Li, Shuo Ye

Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Xuanyu Lei, Chenliang Li, Yuning Wu, Kaiming Liu, Weizhou Shen

Incentivizing Parametric Knowledge via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards for Cross-Cultural Entity Translation

Jiang Zhou, Xiaohu Zhao, Xinwei Wu, Tianyu Dong, Hao Wang

Par-ITA: Benchmarking Seq2Seq and LLMs on a Human-Supervised Parallel Corpus for Italian Hyperpartisan Neutralization

Michele Joshua Maggini, Søren Fomsgaard, Michele Maestroni, Gaël Dias, Pablo Gamallo

LogicPoison: Logical Attacks on Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yilin Xiao, Jin Chen, Qinggang Zhang, Yujing Zhang, Chuang Zhou

GuideDog: A Real-World Egocentric Multimodal Dataset for Blind and Low-Vision Accessibility-Aware Guidance

Junhyeok Kim, Jaewoo Park, Junhee Park, Sangeyl Lee, Jiwan Chung