EACL 2026

1,430 papers

Boundary-Aware LLM Augmentation for Low-Resource Event Argument Extraction

Zhaoyue Sun, Gabriele Pergola, Yulan He

DITTO: A Spoofing Attack Framework on Watermarked LLMs via Knowledge Distillation

Hyeseon An, Shinwoo Park, Suyeon Woo, Yo-Sub Han

SEMIROUTER: Sparse-Data Enhanced Routing for Adaptive Multi-LLM System

Zijie Wang, Xinyu Yan, Che Wang, Zeng Zihao, Lei Xiao

Bringing Emerging Architectures to Sequence Labeling in NLP

Ana Ezquerro, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares

Recursive numeral systems are highly regular and easy to process

Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt Dubhashi, Moa Johansson

Can you map it to English? The Role of Cross-Lingual Alignment in the Multilingual Performance of LLMs

Kartik Ravisankar, HyoJung Han, Sarah Wiegreffe, Marine Carpuat

LaCoMSA: Language-Consistency Multilingual Self-Alignment with Latent Representation Rewarding

Khanh-Tung Tran, Barry O'Sullivan, Hoang D. Nguyen

Calibrating Beyond English: Language Diversity for Better Quantized Multilingual LLMs

Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Mostafa Elhoushi, Bruce Bassett

Knowing the Facts but Choosing the Shortcut: Understanding How Large Language Models Compare Entities

Hans Hergen Lehmann, Jae Hee Lee, Steven Schockaert, Stefan Wermter

Cross-lingual and Word-Independent Methods for Quantifying Degree of Grammaticalization

Ryo Nagata, Daichi Mochihashi, Misato Ido, Yusuke Kubota, Naoki Otani

Unlocking Latent Discourse Translation in LLMs Through Quality-Aware Decoding

Wafaa Mohammed, Vlad Niculae, Chrysoula Zerva

Beyond Memorization: A Rigorous Evaluation Framework for Medical Knowledge Editing

Shigeng Chen, Linhao Luo, Zhangchi Qiu, Yanan Cao, Carl Yang

Taxation Perspectives from Large Language Models: A Case Study on Additional Tax Penalties

Eunkyung Choi, Young Jin Suh, Siun Lee, Hongseok Oh, Juheon Kang

Steering Large Language Models for Machine Translation Personalization

Daniel Scalena, Gabriele Sarti, Arianna Bisazza, Elisabetta Fersini, Malvina Nissim

Document-Level Zero-Shot Relation Extraction with Entity Side Information

Mohan Raj, Lay-Ki Soon, Huey Fang Ong, Bhawani Selvaretnam

BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen, Hwaran Lee

Where Do LLMs Compose Meaning? A Layerwise Analysis of Compositional Robustness

Nura Aljaafari, Danilo Carvalho, Andre Freitas

Re2-DocRED: Revisiting Revisited-DocRED for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

Chen Kim Heng, Shao Wen Tong, Julian Wong Wei Sheng

ARREST: Adversarial Resilient Regulation Enhancing Safety and Truth in Large Language Models

Sharanya Dasgupta, Arkaprabha Basu, Sujoy Nath, Swagatam Das

Word Surprisal Correlates with Sentential Contradiction in LLMs

Ning Shi, Bradley Hauer, David Basil, John Zhang, Grzegorz Kondrak

Attribution-Guided Multi-Object Hallucination and Bias Detection in Vision-Language Models

Sirat Samyoun, Yingtai Xiao, Jian Du

Chat-Ghosting: Methods for Auto-Completion in Dialog Systems

Anubhab Mandal, Sandeep Mishra, Bishal Santra, Tushar Abhishek, Pawan Goyal

Confidence-Calibrated Small-Large Language Model Collaboration for Cost-Efficient Reasoning

Chuang Zhang, Zizhen Zhu, Yihao Wei, Bing Tian, Junyi Liu

BeDiscovER: The Benchmark of Discourse Understanding in the Era of Reasoning Language Models

Chuyuan Li, Giuseppe Carenini

GAST: Gradient-aligned Sparse Tuning of Large Language Models with Data-layer Selection

Kai Yao, Zhenghan Song, Kaixin Wu, Mingjie Zhong, Danzhao Cheng

CHROMIC: Chronological Reasoning Across Multi-Panel Comics

Bingxuan Hou, Jiayi Lin, Chenyang Zhang, Dapeng Yin, Shuyue Zhu

Don’t Generate, Classify! Low-Latency Prompt Optimization with Structured Complementary Prompt

Hee-Soo Kim, Jun-Young Kim, Jeong-Hwan Lee, Seong-Jin Park, Kang-Min Kim

RAGPPI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Benchmark for Protein–Protein Interactions in Drug Discovery

Youngseung Jeon, Ziwen Li, Thomas Li, JiaSyuan Chang, Morteza Ziyadi

Zer0-Jack: A memory-efficient gradient-based jailbreaking method for black box Multi-modal Large Language Models

Tiejin Chen, Kaishen Wang, Hua Wei

Prompt-driven Detection of Offensive Urdu Language using Large Language Models

Iffat Maab, Usman Haider, Junichi Yamagishi

A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation

Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Leyao Wang, Branislav Kveton, Franck Dernoncourt

Measuring Mechanistic Independence: Can Bias Be Removed Without Erasing Demographics?

Zhengyang Shan, Aaron Mueller

HateXScore: A Metric Suite for Evaluating Reasoning Quality in Hate Speech Explanations

Yujia Hu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Enhancing the Safety of Medical Vision-Language Models by Synthetic Demonstrations

Zhiyu Xue, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Ramtin Pedarsani

MetaLead: A Comprehensive Human-Curated Leaderboard Dataset for Transparent Reporting of Machine Learning Experiments

Roelien C. Timmer, Necva Bölücü, Stephen Wan

Automating Android Build Repair: Bridging the Reasoning-Execution Gap in LLM Agents with Domain-Specific Tools

Ha Min Son, Huan Ren, Xin Liu, Zhe Zhao

Journey Before Destination: On the importance of Visual Faithfulness in Slow Thinking

Rheeya Uppaal, Phu Mon Htut, Min Bai, Nikolaos Pappas, Zheng Qi

Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores

Yi Zheng, Bjorn Ross, Walid Magdy

Rethinking Reading Order: Toward Generalizable Document Understanding with LLM-based Relation Modeling

Weishi Wang, Hengchang Hu, Daniel Dahlmeier

Instructional Agents: Reducing Teaching Faculty Workload through Multi-Agent Instructional Design

Huaiyuan Yao, Wanpeng Xu, Justin Turnau, Nadia Kellam, Hua Wei

Reasoning’s Razor: Reasoning Improves Accuracy but Hurts Recall at Critical Operating Points in Safety and Hallucination Detection

Atoosa Chegini, Hamid Kazemi, Garrett Souza, Maria Safi, Yang Song

Text Classification Under Class Distribution Shift: A Survey

Adriana Valentina Costache, Silviu-Florin Gheorghe, Eduard Poesina, Paul Irofti, Radu Tudor Ionescu

ToxiGAN: Toxic Data Augmentation via LLM-Guided Directional Adversarial Generation

Peiran Li, Jan Fillies, Adrian Paschke

TempViz: On the Evaluation of Temporal Knowledge in Text-to-Image Models

Carolin Holtermann, Nina Krebs, Anne Lauscher

Gender and Politeness Perception: A Novel Approach for Exploring Annotations Disagreement

Ahmad Aljanaideh

SoS: Analysis of Surface over Semantics in Multilingual Text-To-Image Generation

Carolin Holtermann, Florian Schneider, Anne Lauscher

It’s All About the Confidence: An Unsupervised Approach for Multilingual Historical Entity Linking using Large Language Models

Cristian Santini, Marieke van Erp, Mehwish Alam

Amory: Building Coherent Narrative-Driven Agent Memory through Agentic Reasoning

Yue Zhou, Xiaobo Guo, Belhassen Bayar, Srinivasan H. Sengamedu

IDEAlign: Comparing Ideas of Large Language Models to Domain Experts

HyunJi Nam, Lucía Langlois, Jim Malamut, Mei Tan, Dorottya Demszky

DocPolarBERT: A Pre-trained Model for Document Understanding with Relative Polar Coordinate Encoding of Layout Structures

Benno Uthayasooriyar, Antoine Ly, Franck Vermet, Caio Corro

When Can We Trust LLMs in Mental Health? Large-Scale Benchmarks for Reliable LLM Evaluation

Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Sheri Grach, Lindsay Bertrand

KAD: A Framework for Proxy-based Test-time Alignment with Knapsack Approximation Deferral

Ayoub Hammal, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Caio Corro

Is Information Density Uniform when Utterances are Grounded on Perception and Discourse?

Matteo Gay, Coleman Haley, Mario Giulianelli, Edoardo Ponti

FaithLM: Towards Faithful Explanations for Large Language Models

Yu-Neng Chuang, Guanchu Wang, Chia-Yuan Chang, Ruixiang Tang, Shaochen Zhong

NarraBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Narrative Benchmarking

Sil Hamilton, Matthew Wilkens, Andrew Piper

FormGym: Doing Paperwork with Agents

Matthew Toles, Isaac Song, Rattandeep Singh, Zhou Yu

Spotlight Your Instructions: Instruction-following with Dynamic Attention Steering

Praveen Venkateswaran, Danish Contractor

A Representation Sharpening Framework for Zero Shot Dense Retrieval

Dhananjay Ashok, Suraj Nair, Mutasem Al-Darabsah, Choon Hui Teo, Tarun Agarwal

Better Generalizing to Unseen Concepts: An Evaluation Framework and An LLM-Based Auto-Labeled Pipeline for Biomedical Concept Recognition

Shanshan Liu, Noriki Nishida, Fei Cheng, Narumi Tokunaga, Rumana Ferdous Munne

AfriMTEB and AfriE5: Benchmarking and Adapting Text Embedding Models for African Languages

Kosei Uemura, Miaoran Zhang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

ToxiPrompt: A Two-Stage Red-Teaming Approach for Balancing Adversarial Prompt Diversity and Response Toxicity

Seungho Lee, Kyumin Lee

Learning Multilingual Agentic Policy to Control Sycophancy

Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci

AudioJudge: Understanding What Works in Large Audio Model Based Speech Evaluation

Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Michael J Ryan, Ali Sartaz Khan, Warit Sirichotedumrong

ARC: Argument Representation and Coverage Analysis for Zero-Shot Long Document Summarization with Instruction Following LLMs

Mohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman

TRACE: A Framework for Analyzing and Enhancing Stepwise Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Shima Imani, Seungwhan Moon, Lambert Mathias, Lu Zhang, Babak Damavandi

A Unified View on Emotion Representation in Large Language Models

Aishwarya Maheswaran, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Too Many Frames, Not All Useful: Efficient Strategies for Long-Form Video QA

Jongwoo Park, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Wonjeong Ryu, Donghyun Kim

Is This LLM Library Learning? Evaluation Must Account For Compute and Behaviour

Ian Berlot-Attwell, Tobias Sesterhenn, Frank Rudzicz, Xujie Si

Martingale Foresight Sampling: A Principled Approach to Inference-Time LLM Decoding

Huayu Li, ZhengXiao He, Siyuan Tian, Jinghao Wen, Ao Li

Breach in the Shield: Unveiling the Vulnerabilities of Large Language Models

Runpeng Dai, Run Yang, Fan Zhou, Hongtu Zhu

Mapping the Course for Prompt-based Structured Prediction

Matt Pauk, Maria Leonor Pacheco

HalluZig: Hallucination Detection using Zigzag Persistence

Shreyas N. Samaga, Gilberto Gonzalez Arroyo, Tamal K. Dey

Decision-Making with Deliberation: Meta-reviewing as a Document-grounded Dialogue

Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, Anne Lauscher, Iryna Gurevych

ABCD-LINK: Annotation Bootstrapping for Cross-Document Fine-Grained Links

Serwar Basch, Ilia Kuznetsov, Tom Hope, Iryna Gurevych

Polyglots or Multitudes? Multilingual LLM Answers to Value-laden Multiple-Choice Questions

Léo Labat, Etienne Ollion, François Yvon

Finding Culture-Sensitive Neurons in Vision-Language Models

Xiutian Zhao, Rochelle Choenni, Rohit Saxena, Ivan Titov

How Much Pretraining Does Structured Data Need?

Daniel Fadlon, Kfir Bar

Personality Editing for Language Models through Adjusting Self-Referential Queries

Seojin Hwang, Yumin Kim, Byeongjeong Kim, Donghoon Shin, Hwanhee Lee

BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data

Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya

FAID: Fine-grained AI-generated Text Detection using Multi-task Auxiliary and Multi-level Contrastive Learning

Minh Ngoc Ta, Dong Cao Van, Duc-Anh Hoang, Minh Le-Anh, Truong Nguyen

Vision-Language Models Align with Human Neural Representations in Concept Processing

Anna Bavaresco, Marianne de Heer Kloots, Sandro Pezzelle, Raquel Fernández

AudioSAE: Towards Understanding of Audio-Processing Models with Sparse AutoEncoders

Georgii Aparin, Tasnima Sadekova, Alexey Rukhovich, Assel Yermekova, Laida Kushnareva

Helios: A Foundational Language Model for Smart Energy Knowledge Reasoning and Application

Haoyu Jiang, Fanjie Zeng, Boan Qu, Xiaojie Lin, Wei Zhong

Classifying and Addressing the Diversity of Errors in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Kin Kwan Leung, Mouloud Belbahri, Yi Sui, Alex Labach, Xueying Zhang

Expanding the Boundaries of Vision Prior Knowledge in Multi-modal Large Language Models

Qiao Liang, Yanjiang Liu, Weixiang Zhou, Ben He, Yaojie Lu

When Meanings Meet: Investigating the Emergence and Quality of Shared Concept Spaces during Multilingual Language Model Training

Felicia Körner, Max Müller-Eberstein, Anna Korhonen, Barbara Plank

MALicious INTent Dataset and Inoculating LLMs for Enhanced Disinformation Detection

Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Witold Sosnowski, Eleni Papadopulos, Elisa Sartori, Tiziano Labruna

Live API-Bench: 2500+ Live APIs for Testing Multi-Step Tool Calling

Benjamin Elder, Anupama Murthi, Jungkoo Kang, Ankita Naik, Kinjal Basu

LAILA: A Large Trait-Based Dataset for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring

May Bashendy, Walid Massoud, Sohaila Eltanbouly, Salam Albatarni, Marwan Sayed

Decoding the Market’s Pulse: Context-Enriched Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation for Predicting Post-Earnings Price Shocks

Chenhui Li, Weihai Lu

PEFT-Bench: A Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods Benchmark

Robert Belanec, Branislav Pecher, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova

Safe-Unsafe Concept Separation Emerges from a Single Direction in Language Models Activation Space

Andrea Ermellino, Lorenzo Malandri, Fabio Mercorio, Antonio Serino

Guided by the Plan: Enhancing Faithful Autoregressive Text-to-Audio Generation with Guided Decoding

Juncheng Wang, Zhe Hu, Chao Xu, Siyue Ren, Yuxiang Feng

Coupling Local Context and Global Semantic Prototypes via a Hierarchical Architecture for Rhetorical Roles Labeling

Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Monceaux Laura, Warren Bonnard, Mary Catherine Lavissière

Do LLM hallucination detectors suffer from low-resource effect?

Debtanu Datta, Mohan Kishore Chilukuri, Yash Kumar, Saptarshi Ghosh, Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Tug-of-war between idioms’ figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs

Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg

How Good Are LLMs at Processing Tool Outputs?

Kiran Kate, Yara Rizk, Poulami Ghosh, Ashu Gulati, Tathagata Chakraborti

Test-Time Scaling of Reasoning Models for Machine Translation

Zihao Li, Shaoxiong Ji, Jörg Tiedemann

MathEDU: Feedback Generation on Problem-Solving Processes for Mathematical Learning Support

Wei-Ling Hsu, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen

DETECT: Determining Ease and Textual Clarity of German Text Simplifications

Maria Korobeynikova, Alessia Battisti, Lukas Fischer, Yingqiang Gao