EACL 2026

1,430 papers

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams

Andrei Vlad Man, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Cristian-George Craciun, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop

Tackling Distractor Documents in Multi-Hop QA with Reinforcement and Curriculum Learning

Jerry Huang, Siddarth Madala, Risham Sidhu, Cheng Niu, Hao Peng

GRAFF: GRaph-Augmented Fine-grained Fusion for Large Language Models

Himanshu Chaudhary, Ruida WANG, Gowtham Ramesh, Junjie Hu

ART: Attention-Regularized Transformers for Multi-Modal Robustness

Mohammed Bouri, Mohammed Erradi, Adnane Saoud

Do LLMs model human linguistic variation? A case study in Hindi-English Verb code-mixing

Mukund Choudhary, Madhur Jindal, Gaurja Aeron, Monojit Choudhury

code-transformed: The Influence of Large Language Models on Code

Yuliang Xu, Siming Huang, Mingmeng Geng, Yao Wan, Xuanhua Shi

Revealing the Numeracy Gap: An Empirical Investigation of Text Embedding Models

Ningyuan Deng, Hanyu Duan, Yixuan Tang, Yi Yang

COIG-P: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Chinese Preference Dataset for Alignment with Human Values

Siwei Wu, JinCheng Ren, Xeron Du, Shuyue Guo, Xingwei Qu

MMRA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Granularity and Multi-Image Relational Association Capabilities in Large Visual Language Models

Siwei Wu, King Zhu, Yu Bai, Yiming Liang, Yizhi Li

Improving the OOD Performance of Closed-Source LLMs on NLI Through Strategic Data Selection

Joe Stacey, Lisa Alazraki, Aran Ubhi, Beyza Ermis, Aaron Mueller

Hierarchical User Intent Inference with Knowledge Graph Grounding

Tzu-Cheng Peng, Chien Chin Chen, Yung-Chun Chang

MangaVQA and MangaLMM: A Benchmark and Specialized Model for Multimodal Manga Understanding

Jeonghun Baek, Kazuki Egashira, Shota Onohara, Atsuyuki Miyai, Yuki Imajuku

Ranking Human and LLM Texts Using Locality Statistics

Yiyang Wang, Chen Ding, Hangfeng He

DFPE: A Diverse Fingerprint Ensemble for Enhancing LLM Performance

Seffi Cohen, Nurit Cohen Inger, Niv Goldshlager, Bracha Shapira, Lior Rokach

IRPO: Implicit Policy Regularized Preference Optimization

Youngsoo Jang, Yu Jin Kim, Geon-hyeong Kim, Honglak Lee, Moontae Lee

LogToP: Logic Tree-of-Program with Table Instruction-tuned LLMs for Controlled Logical Table-to-Text Generation

Yupian Lin, Guangya Yu, Cheng Yuan, Huan Du, Hui Luo

Let’s Simplify Step by Step: Guiding LLM Towards Multilingual Unsupervised Proficiency-Controlled Sentence Simplification

Jingshen Zhang, Xin Ying Qiu, Lifang Lu, Zhuhua Huang, Yutao Hu

Leveraging Digitized Newspapers to Collect Summarization Data in Low-Resource Languages

Noam Dahan, Omer Kidron, Gabriel Stanovsky

ORSO QGen: Odds-Ratio Steerable Optimization for Controlling Question Generation

Andreea Dutulescu, Stefan Ruseti, Mihai Dascalu, Danielle S McNamara

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Performance, Consistency, and Faithfulness Across Languages

Raoyuan Zhao, Yihong Liu, Hinrich Schuetze, Michael A. Hedderich

Diagnosis of Dysarthria Severity and Explanation Generation Using XAI-Enhanced CLINIC-GENIE on Diadochokinetic Tasks

Jihyeon Kim, Insung Lee, Myoung-Wan Koo

The Art of Saying "Maybe": A Conformal Lens for Uncertainty Benchmarking in VLMs

Asif Azad, Mohammad Sadat Hossain, MD Sadik Hossain Shanto, M Saifur Rahman, Md Rizwan Parvez

DuFFin: A Dual-Level Fingerprinting Framework for LLMs IP Protection

Yuliang Yan, Haochun Tang, Shuo Yan, Enyan Dai

Argument Component Segmentation with Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

Ettore Caputo, Sergio Greco, Lucio La Cava

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing

Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan, Nikolaos Aletras, Ning Ma

Sparse Brains are Also Adaptive Brains: Cognitive-Load-Aware Dynamic Activation for LLMs

Yiheng Yang, Yujie Wang, Chi Ma, Lei Yu, Emmanuele Chersoni

FLUKE: A Linguistically-Driven and Task-Agnostic Framework for Robustness Evaluation

Yulia Otmakhova, Thinh Hung Truong, Rahmad Mahendra, Zenan Zhai, Rongxin Zhu

Stay Focused: Problem Drift in Multi-Agent Debate

Jonas Becker, Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Andreas Stephan, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas

Benchmarking Direct Preference Optimization for Medical Large Vision–Language Models

Dain Kim, Jiwoo Lee, Jaehoon Yun, Yong Hoe Koo, Qingyu Chen

Multilingual Self-Taught Faithfulness Evaluators

Carlo Alfano, Aymen Al Marjani, Zeno Jonke, Amin Mantrach, Saab Mansour

Show or Tell? Modeling the evolution of request-making in Human-LLM conversations

Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey Rzeszotarski, David Mimno

CLICKER: Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing via In-Context Learning with Adaptive Stepwise Reasoning

Zehui Jiang, Xin Zhao, Yuta Kumadaki, Naoki Yoshinaga

Think Just Enough: Leveraging Self-Assessed Confidence for Adaptive Reasoning in Language Models

Junyeob Kim, Sang-goo Lee, Taeuk Kim

Open-Domain Safety Policy Construction

Di Wu, Siyue Liu, Zixiang Ji, Ya-Liang Chang, Zhe-Yu Liu

Position Encoding with Random Float Sampling Enhances Length Generalization of Transformers

Atsushi Shimizu, Shohei Taniguchi, Yutaka Matsuo

Enabling Autoregressive Models to Fill In Masked Tokens

Daniel Mingyi Israel, Aditya Grover, Guy Van den Broeck

R-GDA: Reflective Guidance Data Augmentation with Multi-Agent Feedback for Domain-Specific Named Entity Recognition

Hyeonseok Kang, Hyuk Namgoong, Goun Pyeon, Sangkeun Jung

From Numbers to Narratives: Efficient Language Model-Based Detection for Safety-Critical Minority Classes

Ahatsham Hayat, Hunter Tridle, Mohammad Rashedul Hasan

Program-of-Thought Reveals LLM Abstraction Ceilings

Mike Zhou, Fenil Bardoliya, Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth

Beyond Sampling: Self-Sorting for Long-Context Ranking

Juseon Do, Sungwoo Han, Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Katsuhiko Hayashi

ConRAS: Contrastive In-context Learning Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Summarization

Juseon Do, Sungwoo Han, Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Manabu Okumura

We Are What We Repeatedly Do: Improving Long Context Instruction Following

Preston K Robinette, Andrew Hard, Swaroop Ramaswamy, Ehsan Amid, Rajiv Mathews

A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Modeling Engagement and Topic-Sensitive Responses in Arabic Women’s Discourse

Mabrouka Bessghaier, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani

Completely Modular Fine-tuning for Dynamic Language Adaptation

Zhe Cao, Yusuke Oda, Qianying Liu, Akiko Aizawa, Taro Watanabe

What Makes a Good Query? Measuring the Impact of Human-Confusing Linguistic Features on LLM Performance

William Watson, Nicole Cho, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso

Thunder-NUBench: A Benchmark for LLMs’ Sentence-Level Negation Understanding

Yeonkyoung So, Gyuseong Lee, Sungmok Jung, Joonhak Lee, Jia Kang

Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies

Rohit Dutta, Paramita Koley, Soham Poddar, Janardan Misra, Sanjay Podder

UniToolBench: A Benchmark for Tool-Augmented LLMs in Cross-Domain, Universal Task Automation

Xiaojie Guo, Yang Zhang, Bing Zhang, Ryo Kawahara, Mikio Takeuchi

SALT: Step-level Advantage Assignment for Long-horizon Agents via Trajectory Graph

Jiazheng Li, Yawei Wang, Qiaojing Yan, Yijun Tian, Zhichao Xu

Crafting Adversarial Inputs for Large Vision-Language Models Using Black-Box Optimization

Jiwei Guan, Haibo Jin, Haohan Wang

BSCodec: A Band-Split Neural Codec for High-Quality Universal Audio Reconstruction

Haoran Wang, Jiatong Shi, Jinchuan Tian, Bohan Li, Kai Yu

Jailbreaking Safeguarded Text-to-Image Models via Large Language Models

Zhengyuan Jiang, Yuepeng Hu, Yuchen Yang, Yinzhi Cao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Reducing Hallucinations in Language Model-based SPARQL Query Generation Using Post-Generation Memory Retrieval

Aditya Sharma, Christopher Pal, Amal Zouaq

Improving Language Identification for Code-Switched Speech: The Pivotal Role of Accented English

Adyasha Patra, Dhiraj Kumar Sah, Preethi Jyothi

Pretraining Language Models for Diachronic Linguistic Change Discovery

Elisabeth Fittschen, Sabrina Xin Li, Tom Lippincott, Leshem Choshen, Craig Messner

SpARK: An Embarrassingly Simple Sparse Watermarking in LLMs with Enhanced Text Quality

Duy Cao Hoang, Thanh Quoc Hung Le, Rui Chu, Ping Li, Weijie Zhao

Linguistic Cues for LLM-based Implicit Discourse Relation Classification

Yi Fan, Michael Strube, Wei Liu

Toward Safe and Human-Aligned Game Conversational Recommendation via Multi-Agent Decomposition

Zheng Hui, Xiaokai Wei, Yexi Jiang, Kevin Gao, Chen Wang

PEAR: Planner-Executor Agent Robustness Benchmark

Shen Dong, Mingxuan Zhang, Pengfei He, Li Ma, Bhavani Thuraisingham

Rethinking Schema Linking: A Context-Aware Bidirectional Retrieval Approach for Text-to-SQL

Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei, Weiwei Zhang, Yong Zhang

ExpressivityBench: Can LLMs Communicate Implicitly?

Joshua Tint, Som Sagar, Aditya Taparia, Kelly Raines, Bimsara Pathiraja

Debiasing Large Language Models via Adaptive Causal Prompting with Sketch-of-Thought

Bowen Li, Ziqi Xu, Jing Ren, Renqiang Luo, Xikun Zhang

MAPRO: Recasting Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization as Maximum a Posteriori Inference

Zheyuan Zhang, Lin Ge, Hongjiang Li, Weicheng Zhu, Chuxu Zhang

Parameter-Efficient Routed Fine-Tuning: Mixture-of-Experts Demands Mixture of Adaptation Modules

Yilun Liu, Yunpu Ma, Yuetian Lu, Shuo Chen, Zifeng Ding

MATH-IDN: A Multilingual Mathematical Problem Solving Dataset Featuring Local Languages in Indonesia

Xiao Xiao, Iftitahu Ni'mah, Yuyun Wabula, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Meng Fang

HARM: Learning Hate-Aware Reward Model for Evaluating Natural Language Explanations of Offensive Content

Lorenzo Puppi Vecchi, Alceu De Souza Britto Jr., Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Rafael M. O. Cruz

Language Model-Driven Data Pruning Enables Efficient Active Learning

Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Agha Ali Raza

RiddleBench: A New Generative Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs

Deepon Halder, Alan Saji, Thanmay Jayakumar, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Ratish Puduppully

FedReFT: Federated Representation Fine-Tuning with All-But-Me Aggregation

Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Juan Pablo Munoz, Tanya G. Roosta, Anuj Sharma

Efficient Table Retrieval and Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models

Zhuoyan Xu, Haoyang Fang, Boran Han, Bonan Min, Bernie Wang

QueerGen: How LLMs Reflect Societal Norms on Gender and Sexuality in Sentence Completion Task

Mae Sosto, Delfina S. Martinez Pandiani, Laura Hollink

QFrBLiMP: a Quebec-French Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs

David Beauchemin, Pier-Luc Veilleux, Richard Khoury, Johanna-Pascale Roy

How Many Ratings per Item are Necessary for Reliable Significance Testing?

Christopher M Homan, Flip Korn, Deepak Pandita, Chris Welty

Towards Fair and Efficient De-identification: Quantifying the Efficiency and Generalizability of De-identification Approaches

Noopur Zambare, Kiana Aghakasiri, Carissa Lin, Carrie Ye, J Ross Mitchell

JuriFindIT: an Italian legal retrieval dataset

Niko Dalla Noce, Davide Colla, Sina Farhang Doust, Lorenzo De Mattei, Davide Bacciu

Mitigating Causal Bias in LLMs via Potential Outcomes Framework and Actual Causality Theory

Yiheng Zhao, Yuanliang Li, Shreya Savant, Jun Yan

PATS: Personality-Aware Teaching Strategies with Large Language Model Tutors

Donya Rooein, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Mariia Eremeeva, Yuan Qin, Debora Nozza

The Curse of Verbalization: How Presentation Order Constrains LLM Reasoning

Yue Zhou, Henry Peng Zou, Barbara Di Eugenio, Yang Zhang

Knowing What’s Missing: Assessing Information Sufficiency in Question Answering

Akriti Jain, Aparna Garimella

Can ChatGPT Really Understand Modern Chinese Poetry?

Shanshan Wang, Derek F. Wong, Jingming Yao, Lidia S. Chao

A Scalable Framework for Automated NER Annotation Correction in Low-Resource Languages

Toqeer Ehsan, Thamar Solorio

Revealing Redundant Syntax in Large Language Models through Multi-Hop Dependency Paths

Masaki Sashida, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

Demystifying Mixed Outcomes of Self-Training: Pre-training Analyses on Non-Toy LLMs

Yusuke Nakamura, Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Chaoran Liu, Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara

Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations through Speaker Identification, Knowledge Distillation, and Hierarchical Fusion

Li Xiao, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura

ReBPE: Iteratively Improving the Internal Structure of a Structured Tokeniser by Mining its Internal Structure

Thomas Bauwens, Miryam de Lhoneux

ReciFine: Finely Annotated Recipe Dataset for Controllable Recipe Generation

Nuhu Ibrahim, Rishi Ravikumar, Robert Stevens, Riza Batista-Navarro

Attribute-Controlled Translation with Preference Optimization

Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Najmeh Sadoughi, Vimal Bhat, Zhu Liu, Massimo Piccardi

VIGiA: Instructional Video Guidance via Dialogue Reasoning and Retrieval

Diogo Glória-Silva, David Semedo, Joao Magalhaes

Marking Code Without Breaking It: Code Watermarking for Detecting LLM-Generated Code

Jungin Kim, Shinwoo Park, Yo-Sub Han

KGHaluBench: A Knowledge Graph-Based Hallucination Benchmark for Evaluating the Breadth and Depth of LLM Knowledge

Alex Robertson, Huizhi Liang, Mahbub Gani, Rohit Kumar, Srijith Rajamohan

TABED: Test-Time Adaptive Ensemble Drafting for Robust Speculative Decoding in LVLMs

Minjae Lee, Wonjun Kang, Byeongkeun Ahn, Christian Classen, Kevin Galim

Science Across Languages: Assessing LLM Multilingual Translation of Scientific Papers

Hannah Calzi Kleidermacher, James Zou

SLANG-GraphRAG: Multi-Layered Retrieval with Domain-Specific Knowledge for Low Resource Social Media Conversations

Ifeoluwa Wuraola, Daniel Marciniak, Nina Dethlefs

Learning to Ask: Multi-Decoder Fine-Tuning for Multi-Hop Visual Question Generation with External Knowledge

Arpan Phukan, Manish Gupta, Asif Ekbal

Al-Amin Sany, Mohaiminul Islam, Tanzima Hashem, Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali

Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Summarization

Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, Seyed Ali Bahrainian

The Problem of Ambiguity in Table Question Answering

Jorge Osés Grijalba, L. Alfonso Ureña, Eugenio Martínez-Cámara, Jose Camacho-Collados

BitBypass: A New Direction in Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models with Bitstream Camouflage

Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena

MOSAIC: Masked Objective with Selective Adaptation for In-domain Contrastive Learning

Vera Pavlova, Mohammed Makhlouf

Evaluating Morphological Plausibility of Subword Tokenization via Statistical Alignment with Morpho-Syntactic Features

Abishek Stephen, Jindřich Libovický