EACL 2026

1,430 papers

Language Family Matters: Evaluating SpeechLLMs Across Linguistic Boundaries

Yuchen Zhang, Ravi Shekhar, Haralambos Mouratidis

Persuasion Tokens for Editing Factual Knowledge in LLMs

Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert, Jörg Schlötterer

Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs

Laya Iyer, Pranav Somani, Alice Guo, Dan Jurafsky, Chen Shani

Infinity-MoE: Generalizing Mixture of Experts to Infinite Experts

Shota Takashiro, Takeshi Kojima, Shohei Taniguchi, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

Learning to Ideate for Machine Learning Engineering Agents

Yunxiang Zhang, Kang Zhou, Zhichao Xu, Kiran Ramnath, Yun Zhou

Out of Distribution, Out of Luck: Process Rewards Misguide Reasoning Models

Alexey Dontsov, Anton Korznikov, Andrey V. Galichin, Elena Tutubalina

Exploring Generative Process Reward Modeling for Semi-Structured Data: A Case Study of Table Question Answering

Lei Tang, Wei Zhou, Mohsen Mesgar

MiSCHiEF: A Benchmark in Minimal-Pairs of Safety and Culture for Holistic Evaluation of Fine-Grained Image-Caption Alignment

Sagarika Banerjee, Tangatar Madi, Advait Swaminathan, Jolie Nguyen, Shivank Garg

STREAM-ZH: Simplified Topic Retrieval Exploration and Analysis Module for Chinese Language

Hongyi Li, Jianjun Lian, Anton Frederik Thielmann, Andre Python

SAFARI: A Community-Engaged Approach and Dataset of Stereotype Resources in the Sub-Saharan African Context

Aishwarya Verma, Laud Ammah, Olivia Nercy Ndlovu Lucas, Andrew Zaldivar, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

When Flores Bloomz Wrong: Cross-Direction Contamination in Machine Translation Evaluation

David Tan, Pinzhen Chen, Josef van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury

The Reasoning Lingua Franca: A Double-Edged Sword for Multilingual AI

Alan Saji, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Ratish Puduppully

Mind Your Special Tokens! On the Importance of Dedicated Sequence-End Tokens in Vision-Language Embedding Models

Elio Musacchio, Giovanni Semeraro, Goran Glavaš

Communication Enables Cooperation in LLM Agents: A Comparison with Curriculum-Based Approaches

Hachem Madmoun, Salem Lahlou

Morpheme Matters: Morpheme-Based Subword Tokenization for Korean Language Models

DongHyeok Lee, Jeongyeon Park, Kyungbeen Cho, Jae Sung Lee

Measuring Linguistic Competence of LLMs on Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Justin Vasselli, Arturo Mp, Frederikus Hudi, Haruki Sakajo, Taro Watanabe

How DDAIR you? Disambiguated Data Augmentation for Intent Recognition

Galo Castillo-lópez, Alexis Lombard, Nasredine Semmar, Gael de Chalendar

Optical Character Recognition for the International Phonetic Alphabet

Shu Okabe, Dejvi Zelo, Alexander Fraser

Task-Level Instructions Induction for Audio Question Answering from Few Examples

Po-Chun Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Korean Canonical Legal Benchmark: Toward Knowledge-Independent Evaluation of LLMs’ Legal Reasoning Capabilities

Hongseok Oh, Wonseok Hwang, Kyoung-Woon On

Exploring Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion Methods for Anonymizing Low-Resource Text-to-Speech

Shenran Wang, Aidan Pine, Mengzhe Geng

Hey, wait a minute: on at-issue sensitivity in Language Models

Sanghee J. Kim, Kanishka Misra

To Paraphrase or Not: Efficient Comment Detoxification with Unsupervised Detoxifiability Discrimination

Jing Ke, Zheyong Xie, Shaosheng Cao, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen

Hacking Neural Evaluation Metrics with Single Hub Text

Hiroyuki Deguchi, Katsuki Chousa, Yusuke Sakai

WebRollback: Enhancing Web Agents with Explicit Rollback Mechanisms

Zhisong Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang

Surprisal from Larger Transformer-based Language Models Predicts fMRI Data More Poorly

Yi-Chien Lin, William Schuler

McMining: Automated Discovery of Misconceptions in Student Code

Erfan Al-Hossami, Răzvan Bunescu

Lost in Activations: A Neuron-level Analysis of Encoders for Cross-Lingual Emotion Detection

Pranaydeep Singh, Orphee De Clercq, Els Lefever

When Words Wear Masks: Detecting Malicious Intents and Hostile Impacts of Online Hate Speech

Priyansh Singhal, Piyush Joshi

Training in Step-by-Step Formal Reasoning Improves Pronominal Reasoning in Language Models

Vagrant Gautam

Benchmarking Temporal Reasoning and Alignment Across Chinese Dynasties

Zhenglin Wang, Jialong Wu, Pengfei Li, Yong Jiang, Deyu Zhou

Progressive Visual Refinement for Multi-modal Summarization

Ye Xiong, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Soichiro Murakami, Peinan Zhang, Hiroya Takamura

When Does Auxiliary Modality Matter in Solving Geometric Problems? A Comprehensive Study of Textual, Formal, and Visual Modalities

Hyuk Namgoong, Jeesu Jung, Yerim Han, Sangkeun Jung

Logic Haystacks: Probing LLMs’ Long-Context Logical Reasoning (Without Easily Identifiable Unrelated Padding)

Damien Sileo

Detecting Subtle Sense Shift with Polysemy-Aware Trends

Ondřej Herman, Pavel Rychlý

Investigating the Multilingual Calibration Effects of Language Model Instruction Tuning

Jerry Huang, Peng Lu, Qiuhao Zeng, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

Stop Taking Tokenizers for Granted: They Are Core Design Decisions in Large Language Models

Sawsan Alqahtani, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Tasnim Mohiuddin, M Saiful Bari

IYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects

Christine De Kock, Arij Riabi, Zeerak Talat, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Pranava Madhyastha

Debate, Deliberate, Decide (D3): A Cost-Aware Adversarial Framework for Reliable and Interpretable LLM Evaluation

Abir Harrasse, Chaithanya Bandi, Hari Bandi

Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs

Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, Yoelle Maarek, Fabrizio Silvestri

What Does Infect Mean to Cardio? Investigating the Role of Clinical Specialty Data in Medical LLMs

Xinlan Yan, Di Wu, Yibin Lei, Christof Monz, Iacer Calixto

CAIRE: Cultural Attribution of Images with Retrieval

Arnav Yayavaram, Siddharth Yayavaram, Simran Khanuja, Michael Saxon, Graham Neubig

Wikontic: Constructing Wikidata-Aligned, Ontology-Aware Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models

Alla Chepurova, Aydar Bulatov, Mikhail Burtsev, Yuri Kuratov

Can MLLMs Find Their Way in a City? Exploring Emergent Navigation from Web-Scale Knowledge

Dwip Dalal, Utkarsh Mishra, Narendra Ahuja, Nebojsa Jojic

Tandem Training for Language Models

Robert West, Ashton Anderson, Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz

TimeMachine-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Capabilities in Repository-Level Migration Tasks

Ryo Fujii, Makoto Morishita, Kazuki Yano, Jun Suzuki

Navigating the Infinite Dynamic Web Space: Effective In-Context Exploration via Cognitive Multi-Agent Collaboration

Guozhao Mo, Yanjiang Liu, Yafei Shi, Jiawei Chen, Yang Li

Generating Multi-Aspect Queries for Conversational Search

Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Simon Lupart, Mohammad Aliannejadi

Tomoyuki Jinno, Kazuki Hayashi, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe

ReFACT: A Benchmark for Scientific Confabulation Detection with Positional Error Annotations

Yindong Wang, Martin Preiß, Margarita Bugueño, Jan Vincent Hoffbauer, Abdullatif Ghajar

Do Psychometric Tests Work for Large Language Models? Evaluation of Tests on Sexism, Racism, and Morality

Jana Jung, Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen, Markus Strohmaier

Repairing Regex Vulnerabilities via Localization-Guided Instructions

Sicheol Sung, Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets

Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrieß

COMPACT: Building Compliance Paralegals via Clause Graph Reasoning over Contracts

Ayush Singh, Dishank Aggarwal, Pranav Bhagat, Ainulla Khan, Sameer Malik

Teaching Small Language Models to Learn Logic through Meta-Learning

Leonardo Bertolazzi, Manuel Vargas Guzmán, Raffaella Bernardi, Maciej Malicki, Jakub Szymanik

A Regex Minimization Benchmark: A PSPACE-Complete Challenge for Language Models

Hyundong Jin, Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Are All Prompt Components Value-Neutral? Understanding the Heterogeneous Adversarial Robustness of Dissected Prompt in LLMs

Yujia Zheng, Tianhao Li, Haotian Huang, Tianyu Zeng, Jingyu Lu

Engagement Undermines Safety: How Stereotypes and Toxicity Shape Humor in Language Models

Atharvan Dogra, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Ameet Deshpande, Ashwin Kalyan, Dinesh Manocha

Language Lives in Sparse Dimensions: Toward Interpretable and Efficient Multilingual Control for Large Language Models

Chengzhi Zhong, Fei Cheng, Qianying Liu, Yugo Murawaki, Chenhui Chu

Image Corruption-Inspired Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models

Zongyu Wu, Minhua Lin, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Xianren Zhang

Unveiling Intrinsic Dimension of Texts: from Academic Abstract to Creative Story

Pedashenko Vladislav, Laida Kushnareva, Yana Khassan Nibal, Eduard Tulchinskii, Kristian Kuznetsov

BILLY: Steering Large Language Models via Merging Persona Vectors for Creative Generation

Tsung-Min Pai, Jui-I Wang, Li-Chun Lu, Shao-Hua Sun, Hung-yi Lee

FanarGuard: A Culturally-Aware Moderation Filter for Arabic Language Models

Masoomali Fatehkia, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar

Look Before You Leap: A Lookahead Reasoning Quality Gate for Speculative Decoding

Hiroaki Kingetsu, Kaoru Yokoo, Kenji Fukumizu, Manohar Kaul

SCALAR: Scientific Citation-based Live Assessment of Long-context Academic Reasoning

Renxi Wang, Honglin Mu, Liqun Ma, Lizhi Lin, Yunlong Feng

Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods

Haeji Jung, Jinju Kim, Kyungjin Kim, Youjeong Roh, David R. Mortensen

“Yuki Gets Sushi, David Gets Steak?”: Uncovering Gender and Racial Biases in LLM-Based Meal Recommendations

Xuefeng Wei, Xuan Zhou, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe

H-Mem: Hybrid Multi-Dimensional Memory Management for Long-Context Conversational Agents

Zihe Ye, Jingyuan Huang, Weixin Chen, Yongfeng Zhang

LitBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Reliable Evaluation of Creative Writing

Daniel Fein, Sebastian Russo, Violet Xiang, Kabir Jolly, Rafael Rafailov

Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models

Roy Xie, Deepak Gopinath, David Qiu, Dong Lin, Haitian Sun

Jailbreaks as Inference-Time Alignment: A Framework for Understanding Safety Failures in LLMs

James Beetham, Souradip Chakraborty, Mengdi Wang, Furong Huang, Amrit Singh Bedi

RAFFLES: Reasoning-based Attribution of Faults for LLM Systems

Chenyang Zhu, Spencer Hong, Jingyu Wu, Kushal Chawla, Yuhui Tang

Active Generalized Category Discovery with Diverse LLM Feedback

Henry Peng Zou, Siffi Singh, Yi Nian, Jianfeng He, Jason Cai

Tokenizer-Aware Cross-Lingual Adaptation of Decoder-Only LLMs through Embedding Relearning and Swapping

Fan Jiang, Honglin Yu, Grace Y Chung, Trevor Cohn

Diagnosing Vision Language Models’ Perception by Leveraging Human Methods for Color Vision Deficiencies

Kazuki Hayashi, Shintaro Ozaki, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe

Beyond Semantics: How Temporal Biases Shapes Retrieval in Transformer and State-Space Models

Anooshka Bajaj, Deven Mahesh Mistry, Sahaj Singh Maini, Yash Aggarwal, Zoran Tiganj

Zero-Shot Open-Schema Entity Structure Discovery

Xueqiang Xu, Jinfeng Xiao, James Barry, Mohab Elkaref, Jiaru Zou

Verification-Aware Planning for Multi-Agent Systems

Tianyang Xu, Dan Zhang, Kushan Mitra, Estevam Hruschka

NG-Router: Graph-Supervised Multi-Agent Collaboration for Nutrition Question Answering

Kaiwen Shi, Zheyuan Zhang, Zhengqing Yuan, Keerthiram Murugesan, Vincent Galassi

How Robust Are Router-LLMs? Analysis of the Fragility of LLM Routing Capabilities

Aly M. Kassem, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin

A Review of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs

Zizhou Liu, Ziwei Gong, Lin Ai, Zheng Hui, Run Chen

Multimodal Conversation Structure Understanding

Kent K. Chang, Mackenzie Hanh Cramer, Anna Ho, Ti Ti Nguyen, Yilin Yuan

GRAVITY: A Framework for Personalized Text Generation via Profile-Grounded Synthetic Preferences

Priyanka Dey, Daniele Rosa, Wenqing Zheng, Daniel Barcklow, Jieyu Zhao

Compressing Language Models for Specialized Domains

Miles Williams, George Chrysostomou, Vitor Amancio Jeronymo, Nikolaos Aletras

HarfoSokhan: A Comprehensive Parallel Dataset for Transitions between Persian Colloquial and Formal Variations

Hamid Jahad Sarvestani, Vida Ramezanian, Saee Saadat, Neda Taghizadeh Serajeh, Maryam Sadat Razavi Taheri

Detecting Subtle Biases: An Ethical Lens on Underexplored Areas in AI Language Models Biases

Shayan Bali, Farhan Farsi, Mohammad Hosseini, Adel Khorramrouz, Ehsaneddin Asgari

An Empirical Study of Collective Behaviors and Social Dynamics in Large Language Model Agents

Farnoosh Hashemi, Michael Macy

Do You See Me : A Multidimensional Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs

Aditya Sanjiv Kanade, Tanuja Ganu

VietMix: A Naturally-Occurring Parallel Corpus and Augmentation Framework for Vietnamese-English Code-Mixed Machine Translation

Hieu Tran, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Huy Nghiem, Quang-Nhan Nguyen, Wei Ai

Beyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs’ Cultural Processing of Figurative Language

Mena Attia, Aashiq Muhamed, Mai Alkhamissi, Thamar Solorio, Mona T. Diab

User-Centric Evidence Ranking for Attribution and Fact Verification

Guy Alt, Eran Hirsch, Serwar Basch, Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman

Agent-Testing Agent: A Meta-Agent for Automated Testing and Evaluation of Conversational AI Agents

Sameer Komoravolu, Khalil Mrini

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robust and Secure LLM Watermarking

Li An, Yujian Liu, Yepeng Liu, Yuheng Bu, Yang Zhang

DivMerge: A divergence-based model merging method for multi-tasking

Brahim Touayouch, Loïc Fosse, Geraldine Damnati, Gwénolé Lecorvé

Incentivizing Strong Reasoning from Weak Supervision

Yige Yuan, Teng Xiao, Shuchang Tao, xue wang, Jinyang Gao

SCENEBench: An Audio Understanding Benchmark Grounded in Assistive and Industrial Use Cases

Laya Iyer, Angelina Wang, Sanmi Koyejo

Evidential Semantic Entropy for LLM Uncertainty Quantification

Lucie Kunitomo-Jacquin, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Ken Fukuda, Masahiro Hamasaki

Dynamic Cheatsheet: Test-Time Learning with Adaptive Memory

Mirac Suzgun, Mert Yuksekgonul, Federico Bianchi, Dan Jurafsky, James Zou

DeepInsert: Early Layer Bypass for Efficient and Performant Multimodal Understanding

Moulik Choraria, Xinbo Wu, Akhil Bhimaraju, Nitesh Sekhar, Yue Wu

BLUR: A Bi-Level Optimization Approach for LLM Unlearning

Hadi Reisizadeh, Jinghan Jia, Zhiqi Bu, Bhanukiran Vinzamuri, Anil Ramakrishna