ACL 2026

2,650 papers

Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs

Zifeng Cheng, Lingyun Qian, Zhiwei Jiang, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin

A Game-Theoretica Negotiation Framework for Cross-Cultural Consensus

Guoxi Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Tianzhuo Yang, Jiaming Ji, Yaodong Yang

Learn to Relax with Large Language Models: Solving Constraint Optimization Problems via Bidirectional Coevolution

Beidan Liu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Chen Gao, Tianle Pu, Yong Zhao

XtraGPT: Context-Aware and Controllable Academic Paper Revision via Human-AI Collaboration

Nuo Chen, Andre Lin HuiKai, Jiaying Wu, Junyi Hou, Zining Zhang

RoBSA: RoPE-based Blockwise Sparse Multi-head Latent Attention

Xinyu Shi, Kairong Luo, Zhen Zheng, Wenguang Chen

What Makes Good Instruction-Tuning Data? An In-Context Learning Perspective

Guangzeng Han, Xiaolei Huang

Anchored Sliding Window: Toward Robust and Imperceptible Linguistic Steganography

Ruiyi Yan, Shiao Meng, Yugo Murawaki

MathFlow: Enhancing the Perceptual Flow of MLLMs for Visual Mathematical Problems

Shuhang Chen, Hangjie Yuan, Yunqiu Xu, Pengwei Liu, Tao Feng

CAPC-CG: A Large-Scale, Expert-Directed LLM-Annotated Corpus of Adaptive Policy Communication in China

BOLUN SUN, Charles Chang, Yuen Yuen Ang, Ruotong Mu, Yuchen Xu

MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search

Sheng Zhang, Junyi Li, Yingyi Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Yichao Wang

Uni-MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Unified Benchmark

Kai Zou, Ziqi Huang, Yuhao Dong, Shulin Tian, Dian Zheng

Efficient Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography via Range Coding

Ruiyi Yan, Yugo Murawaki

FastV-RAG: Towards Fast and Fine-Grained Video QA with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Gen Li, Peiyu Liu

NavA3: Understanding Any Instruction, Navigating Anywhere, Finding Anything

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Yingbo Tang, Haoxiang Fu, Xinyu Zheng

DecIF: Improving Instruction-Following through Decomposition

Tingfeng Hui, Pengyu Zhu, Bowen Ping, Ling Tang, Guanting Dong

ReEx-SQL: Reasoning with Execution-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Text-to-SQL

Yaxun Dai, Wenxuan Xie, Xialie Zhuang, Tianyu Yang, Ziyi Liu

MoCa: Modality-aware Continual Pre-training Makes Better Bidirectional Multimodal Embeddings

Haonan Chen, Hong Liu, Yuping Luo, Liang Wang, Nan Yang

AgentRouter: A Knowledge-Graph-Guided LLM Router for Collaborative Multi-Agent Question Answering

Zheyuan Zhang, Kaiwen Shi, Zhengqing Yuan, Zehong Wang, Tianyi Ma

Augur: Modeling Covariate Causal Associations in Time Series via Large Language Models

Zhiqing Cui, Binwu Wang, Qingxiang Liu, Yeqiang Wang, Zhengyang Zhou

Hybrid Autoregressive-Diffusion Model for Real-Time Sign Language Production

Maoxiao Ye, Xinfeng Ye, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan

Reasoning over Precedents Alongside Statutes: Case-Augmented Deliberative Alignment for LLM Safety

Can Jin, Rui Wu, Tong Che, Qixin Zhang, Hongwu Peng

IntrAgent: An LLM Agent for Content-Grounded Information Retrieval through Literature Review

Fengbo Ma, Zixin Rao, Xiaoting Li, ZheTao Chen, Hongyue Sun

SACTOR: LLM-Driven Correct and Idiomatic C to Rust Translation with Static Analysis and FFI-Based Verification

Tianyang Zhou, Ziyi Zhang, Haowen Lin, Somesh Jha, Mihai Christodorescu

How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following Behavior

Zidi Xiong, Yuping Lin, Wenya Xie, Pengfei He, Zirui Liu

ImReasoner: Improving Memory-based Language Models for Reasoning-in-a-Haystack Tasks

Ching-Yun Ko, Payel Das, Sihui Dai, Georgios Kollias, Subhajit Chaudhury

Your Reasoning Model Knows What Counts: Self-Guided Chain-of-Thought Pruning for Efficient Reasoning

Zi-Ao Ma, Xian-Ling Mao, Tian Lan, Chen Xu, Zhijing Wu

MauBERT: Universal Phonetic Inductive Biases for Few-Shot Acoustic Units Discovery

Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Manel Khentout, Youssef Benchekroun, Thomas Hueber, Emmanuel Dupoux

CAPruner: Conceptual-Adjacent Scene Graph Pruner for Enhancing 3D Spatial Reasoning of Large Language Models

Shengli Zhou, Xiangchen Wang, Guanhua Chen, Feng Zheng

PR-XAI: PageRank-Based Feature Attribution for Transformers

Behrooz Azarkhalili, Linyi Li, Maxwell W. Libbrecht

WebSTAR: Scalable Data Synthesis for Computer Use Agents with Step-Level Filtering

Yifei He, Pranit Chawla, Yaser Souri, Subhojit Som, XIA SONG

SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations

Pierluigi Cassotti, Naomi Baes, Stefano De Pascale, Jáder Martins Camboim de Sá, Francesco Periti

Sense and Sensitivity: Examining the Influence of Semantic Recall on Long Context Code Understanding

Adam Storek, Mukur Gupta, Samira Hajizadeh, Prashast Srivastava, Suman Jana

MINTQA: A Multi-Hop Question Answering Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on New and Long-tail Knowledge

Jie He, Nan Hu, Wanqiu Long, Jiaoyan Chen, Jeff Z. Pan

Can Continual Pretraining Bridge the Performance Gap between General-purpose and Specialized Language Models in the Medical Domain?

Niclas Doll, Jasper Schulze Buschhoff, Shalaka Satheesh, Hammam Abdelwahab, Héctor Allende-Cid

SLR: Automated Synthesis for Scalable Logical Reasoning

Lukas Helff, Ahmad Omar, Felix Friedrich, Antonia Wüst, Hikaru Shindo

PosterForest: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Collaboration for Scientific Poster Generation

Jiho Choi, Seojeong Park, Seongjong Song, Hyunjung Shim

Aligning Language Models with Real-time Knowledge Editing

Chenming Tang, Yutong Yang, Kexue Wang, Yunfang Wu

CLEAR: Cross-Lingual Enhancement in Retrieval via Reverse-training

Seungyoon Lee, Minhyuk Kim, SeongTae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Dongsuk Oh

Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation

Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Yihong Liu, Fedor Splitt, Nils Feldhus

Benchmarking LLM’s Capability in Reasoning over Conflicting Web References

Yizhen Yuan, Rui Kong, Dongze Li, Yuanchun Li, Yunxin Liu

EASE: Entity-Aware Sub-table Generation for Real-world Multi-table QA

Myunghoon Kang, DaHyun Jung, Suhyune Son, Seonmin Koo, Changwoo Chun

Learning Diverse Responses with Prefix-Conditioned Supervised Fine-Tuning

Zhiyuan Fan, Guanqiao Chen, Yanyi Huang, Mingkuan Zhao, Dadi Guo

Empowering Tabular Data Preparation with Language Models: Why and How?

Mengshi Chen, Yuxiang Sun, Tengchao Li, Jianwei Wang, Kai Wang

Different types of syntactic agreement recruit the same units within large language models

Daria Kryvosheieva, Andrea Gregor de Varda, Evelina Fedorenko, Greta Tuckute

Dual-Axis Generative Reward Model Toward Semantic and Turn-taking Robustness in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Models

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Zhengqing Liu, Qian Chen, Wen Wang

Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study

Louie Hong Yao, Vishesh Anand, Yuan Zhuang, Tianyu Jiang

Your Inference Request Will Become a Black Box: Confidential Inference for Cloud-based Large Language Models

Chung-ju Huang, Huiqiang Zhao, Yuanpeng He, Lijian Li, Wenpin Jiao

Discover and Prove: An Open-source Agentic Framework for Hard Mode Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4

Chengwu Liu, Yichun Yin, Ye Yuan, Jiaxuan Xie, Botao Li

No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand

Jimin Jung, MyoungJin Kim, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim

OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning

Pan Lu, Bowen Chen, Sheng Liu, Rahul Thapa, Joseph Boen