EACL 2026

1,430 papers

What Really Matters for Table LLMs? A Meta-Evaluation of Model and Data Effects

Naihao Deng, Sheng Zhang, Henghui Zhu, Shuaichen Chang, Jiani Zhang

MultiCW: A Large-Scale Balanced Benchmark Dataset for Training Robust Check-Worthiness Detection Models

Martin Hyben, Sebastian Kula, Jan Cegin, Jakub Simko, Ivan Srba

Logits-Based Block Pruning with Affine Transformations for Large Language Models

Zekun Hu, Yichu Xu, De-Chuan Zhan

StrucSum: Graph-Structured Reasoning for Long Document Extractive Summarization with LLMs

Haohan Yuan, Sukhwa Hong, Haopeng Zhang

Blind Spot Navigation in Large Language Model Reasoning with Thought Space Explorer

Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Xinyue Ye, Dongjie Wang

Unlocking Large Audio-Language Models for Interactive Language Learning

Hongfu Liu, Zhouying Cui, Xiangming Gu, Ye Wang

Tailoring Memory Granularity for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Long Contexts

Peijun Qing, Xingjian Diao, Chiyu Ma, Saeed Hassanpour, Soroush Vosoughi

Interpretable Graph-Language Modeling for Detecting Youth Illicit Drug Use

YiYang Li, Zehong Wang, Zhengqing Yuan, Zheyuan Zhang, Keerthiram Murugesan

Beyond Coherence: Improving Temporal Consistency and Interpretability in Dynamic Topic Models

Thanh Vinh Nguyen, Ngo Van Dong, Minh Chu Xuan, Tung Nguyen, Linh Ngo Van

LitE-SQL: A Lightweight and Efficient Text-to-SQL Framework with Vector-based Schema Linking and Execution-Guided Self-Correction

Shengmin Piao, Jieun Lee, Sanghyun Park

ThinkPilot: Steering Reasoning Models via Automated Think-prefixes Optimization

Sunzhu Li, Zhiyu Lin, Jiale Zhao, Shuling Yang, CHEN WEI

Conformal Feedback Alignment: Quantifying Answer-Level Reliability for Robust LLM Alignment

Tiejin Chen, Xiaoou Liu, Vishnu Nandam, Kuan-Ru Liou, Hua Wei

AutoAnoEval: Semantic-Aware Model Selection via Tree-Guided LLM Reasoning for Tabular Anomaly Detection

Suhee Yoon, Sanghyu Yoon, Ye Seul Sim, Seungdong Yoa, DONGMIN KIM

Harnessing Consistency for Robust Test-Time LLM Ensemble

Zhichen Zeng, Qi Yu, Xiao Lin, Ruizhong Qiu, Xuying Ning

DWA-KD: Dual-Space Weighting and Time-Warped Alignment for Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Distillation

Duc Trung Vu, Pham Khanh Chi, Dat Phi Van, Linh Ngo Van, Dinh Viet Sang

Diffusion Language Model Inference with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Zheng Huang, Kiran Ramnath, Yueyan Chen, Aosong Feng, Sangmin Woo

AfriMMT-EA: Multi-domain Machine Translation for Low-Resource East African Languages

Naome A Etori, Kelechi Ezema, Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Davis David, Alfred Malengo Kondoro

Reasoning about Uncertainty: Do Reasoning Models Know When They Don’t Know?

Zhiting Mei, Christina Zhang, Tenny Yin, Justin Lidard, Ola Sho

DashboardQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Question Answering on Interactive Dashboards

Aaryaman Kartha, Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Thinh Lang, Shadikur Rahman

DS2-Instruct: Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for Large Language Models Instruction Tuning

Ruiyao Xu, Noelle I. Samia, Han Liu

Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation

Yanglei Gan, Peng He, Yuxiang Cai, Run Lin, Guanyu Zhou

SAGE: Steerable Agentic Data Generation for Deep Search with Execution Feedback

Fangyuan Xu, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen, Zifeng Wang, I-Hung Hsu

DRIVINGVQA: A Dataset for Interleaved Visual Chain-of-Thought in Real-World Driving Scenarios

Charles Corbière, Simon Roburin, Syrielle Montariol, Antoine Bosselut, Alexandre Alahi

Who You Are, What You Say: Intra- and Inter- Context Personality for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Tazeek Bin Abdur Rakib, Lay-Ki Soon, Wern Han Lim

SIRAJ: Diverse and Efficient Red-Teaming for LLM Agents via Distilled Structured Reasoning

Kaiwen Zhou, Ahmed Elgohary, A S M Iftekhar, Amin Saied

ConVerse: Benchmarking Contextual Safety in Agent-to-Agent Conversations

Amr Gomaa, Ahmed Salem, Sahar Abdelnabi

SMART-Editor: A Multi-Agent Framework for Human-Like Design Editing with Structural Integrity

Ishani Mondal, Meera Bharadwaj, Ayush Roy, Aparna Garimella, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

PagedEviction: Structured Block-wise KV Cache Pruning for Efficient Large Language Model Inference

Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata, Jie Ye, Siddhisanket Raskar, Anthony Kougkas, Xian Sun

Token-Level Precise Attack on RAG: Searching for the Best Alternatives to Mislead Generation

Zizhong Li, Haopeng Zhang, Jiawei Zhang

HapticLLaMA: A Multimodal Sensory Language Model for Haptic Captioning

Guimin Hu, Daniel Hershcovich, Hasti Seifi

BayesFlow: A Probability Inference Framework for Meta-Agent Assisted Workflow Generation

Bo Yuan, Yun Zhou, Zhichao Xu, Kiran Ramnath, Aosong Feng

Imbalanced Gradients in RL Post-Training of Multi-Task LLMs

Runzhe Wu, Ankur Samanta, Ayush Jain, Scott Fujimoto, Jeongyeol Kwon

CLEAR-3K: Assessing Causal Explanatory Capabilities in Language Models

Naiming Liu, Richard Baraniuk, Shashank Sonkar

XMAD-Bench: Cross-Domain Multilingual Audio Deepfake Benchmark

Ioan-Paul Ciobanu, Andrei-Iulian Hîji, Nicolae Catalin Ristea, Paul Irofti, Cristian Rusu

Analyzing LLM Instruction Optimization for Tabular Fact Verification

Xiaotang Du, Giwon Hong, Wai-Chung Kwan, Rohit Saxena, Ivan Titov

DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router

Minghao Guo, Qingcheng Zeng, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Wenchao Yu

MADIAVE: Multi-Agent Debate for Implicit Attribute Value Extraction

Wei-Chieh Huang, Cornelia Caragea

Multi-Agent Procedural Graph Extraction with Structural and Logical Refinement

Wangyang Ying, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Wei Cheng, Zhengzhang Chen

Negative Sampling Techniques in Dense Retrieval: A Survey

Laurin Wischounig, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt

FLAT-LLM: Fine-grained Low-rank Activation Space Transformation for Large Language Model Compression

Jiayi Tian, Ryan Solgi, Jinming Lu, Yifan Yang, Hai Li

TruthTrap: A Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Factually Correct Yet Misleading Information in Question Answering

Mohammadamin Shafiei, Hamidreza Saffari, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Alessandro Raganato

Defeating Cerberus: Privacy-Leakage Mitigation in Vision Language Models

Boyang Zhang, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Ruichuan Chen, Alice Dethise, Klaus Satzke

Thinking Long, but Short: Stable Sequential Test-Time Scaling for Large Reasoning Models

Michael R. Metel, Yufei CUI, Boxing Chen, Prasanna Parthasarathi

Improving Chain-of-Thought for Logical Reasoning via Attention-Aware Intervention

Phuong Minh Nguyen, Dang Huu-Tien, Naoya Inoue

Hearing Between the Lines: Unlocking the Reasoning Power of LLMs for Speech Evaluation

Arjun Chandra, Kevin Miller, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Constantinos Papayiannis, Venkatesh Saligrama

DF-RAG: Query-Aware Diversity for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Saadat Hasan Khan, Spencer Hong, Jingyu Wu, Kevin Lybarger, Youbing Yin

Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations

Zijie Liu, Xinyu Zhao, Jie Peng, Jinhao Duan, Zhuangdi Zhu

Better as Generators Than Classifiers: Leveraging LLMs and Synthetic Data for Low-Resource Multilingual Classification

Branislav Pecher, Jan Cegin, Robert Belanec, Ivan Srba, Jakub Simko

SAGE : A Top-Down Bottom-Up Knowledge-Grounded User Simulator for Multi-turn Agent Evaluation

Ryan Shea, Yunan Lu, Liang Qiu, Zhou Yu

SafeSearch: Do Not Trade Safety for Utility in LLM Search Agents

Qiusi Zhan, Angeline Budiman-Chan, Abdelrahman Zayed, Xingzhi Guo, Daniel Kang

Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks

Haowei Fu, Bo Ni, Han Xu, Kunpeng Liu, Dan Lin

Do GUI Grounders Truly Understand UI Elements?

Surgan Jandial, Yinheng Li, Justin Wagle, Kazuhito Koishida

Multilingual-To-Multimodal (M2M): Unlocking New Languages with Monolingual Text

Piyush Singh Pasi

TechING: Towards Real World Technical Image Understanding via VLMs

Tafazzul Nadeem, Bhavik Shangari, Manish Rai, Gagan Raj Gupta, Ashutosh Modi

MIMIC: Multi-party Dialogue Augmentation via Speaker Stylistic Transfer

Gaetano Cimino, Giuseppe Carenini, Vincenzo Deufemia

Process Evaluation for Agentic Systems

Milan Gritta, Debjit Paul, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang, Jun Wang

Are Multimodal LLMs Movie Buffs?

Carlo Bretti, Pascal Mettes, Nanne Van Noord

Beyond Divergent Creativity: A Human-Based Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models

Kumiko Nakajima, Jan Zuiderveld, Sandro Pezzelle

Seeing All Sides: Multi-Perspective In-Context Learning for Subjective NLP

Benedetta Muscato, Yue Li, Gizem Gezici, Zhixue Zhao, Fosca Giannotti

The Correlation Between Emotion in Text and Speech Segments is Limited: A Cross-Modal Study

David Lindevelt, Suzan Verberne, Joost Broekens

Binary Token-Level Classification with DeBERTa for All-Type MWE Identification: A Lightweight Approach with Linguistic Enhancement

Diego Rossini, Lonneke van der Plas

SchemaGraphSQL: Efficient Schema Linking with Pathfinding Graph Algorithms for Text-to-SQL on Large-Scale Databases

Amirhossein Safdarian, Milad Mohammadi, Ehsan Jahanbakhsh Bashirloo, Mona Shahamat Naderi, Heshaam Faili

Unsupervised Text Style Transfer for Controllable Intensity

Shuhuan Gu, Wenbiao Tao, Xinchen Ma, Kangkang He, Ye Guo

Enhancing Reliability in Community Question Answering with an Expert-Oriented RAG System

Seyyede Zahra Aftabi, Saeed Farzi

MathMist: A Parallel Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Mathematical Problem Solving and Reasoning

Mahbub E Sobhani, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Md Mofijul Islam, Swakkhar Shatabda

TextMineX: Data, Evaluation Framework and Ontology-guided LLM Pipeline for Humanitarian Mine Action

Chenyue Zhou, Gürkan Solmaz, Flavio Cirillo, Kiril Gashteovski, Jonathan Fürst

Unveiling Decision-Making in LLMs for Text Classification : Extraction of influential and interpretable concepts with Sparse Autoencoders

Mathis Le Bail, Jérémie Dentan, Davide Buscaldi, Vanier Sonia

Testing Low-Resource Language Support in LLMs Using Language Proficiency Exams: the Case of Luxembourgish

Cedric Lothritz, Jordi Cabot, Laura Bernardy

Can LLMs Reason Like Doctors? Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models in Complex Medical Reasoning

Flavio Merenda, José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, German Rigau

Representation Collapse in Machine Translation Through the Lens of Angular Dispersion

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, Maya K. Nachesa, Sergey Troshin, Vlad Niculae

Aggregating Crowd of LLMs for Cost-Effective Data Annotation

Jiacheng Liu, Xiaofeng Hou

A Simple and Efficient Learning-Style Prompting for LLM Jailbreaking

Xuan Luo, Yue Wang, Zefeng He, Geng Tu, Jing Li

Ask Me Again Differently: GRAS for Measuring Bias in Vision Language Models on Gender, Race, Age, and Skin Tone

Shaivi Malik, Hasnat Md Abdullah, Sriparna Saha, Amit Sheth

Bias in the East, Bias in the West: A Bilingual Analysis of LLM Political Bias on U.S.- and China-Related Issues

Ying Ying Lim, Paul Röttger

FiNERweb: Datasets and Artifacts for Scalable Multilingual Named Entity Recognition

Jonas Golde, Patrick Haller, Alan Akbik

Can Calibration of Positional Encodings Enhance Long Context Utilization?

Tom Zehle, Matthias Aßenmacher

TIPA: Typologically Informed Parameter Aggregation

Stef Accou, Wessel Poelman

The Hidden Bias: A Study on Explicit and Implicit Political Stereotypes in Large Language Models

Konrad Löhr, Shuzhou Yuan, Michael Färber

PIRA: Preference-Oriented Instruction-Tuned Reward Models with Dual Aggregation

Yongfu Xue

Uncertainty Quantification for Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation

Ieva Staliūnaitė, Julius Cheng, Andreas Vlachos

FOL-Traces: Verified First-Order Logic Reasoning Traces at Scale

Isabelle Lee, Sarah Liaw, Dani Yogatama

Investigating Gender Stereotypes in Large Language Models via Social Determinants of Health

Trung Hieu Ngo, Adrien Bazoge, Solen Quiniou, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Emmanuel Morin

Foundations of LLM Knowledge Materialization: Termination, Reproducibility, Robustness

Luca Giordano, Simon Razniewski

SEAM: Bridging the Temporal-Semantic Granularity Gap for LLM-based Speech Recognition

Junseok Oh, Ji-Hwan Kim

MemeWeaver: Inter-Meme Graph Reasoning for Sexism and Misogyny Detection

Paolo Italiani, David Gimeno-Gómez, Luca Ragazzi, Gianluca Moro, Paolo Rosso

Which Works Best for Vietnamese? A Practical Study of Information Retrieval Methods across Domains

Long S. T. Nguyen, Tho T. Quan

MEDAL: A Framework for Benchmarking LLMs as Multilingual Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluators

John Mendonça, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso

Adversarial Decoding: Generating Readable Documents for Adversarial Objectives

Collin Zhang, Tingwei Zhang, Vitaly Shmatikov

Do Large Language Models Reflect Demographic Pluralism in Safety?

Usman Naseem, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Sushant Kumar Ray, Rafiq Ali, Ebad Shabbir

Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures

Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg

RECAP: REwriting Conversations for Intent Understanding in Agentic Planning

Kushan Mitra, Dan Zhang, Hannah Kim, Estevam Hruschka

Actors, Frames and Arguments: A Multi-Decade Computational Analysis of Climate Discourse in Financial News using Large Language Models

Ruiran Su, Markus Leippold, Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Detection of Adversarial Prompts with Model Predictive Entropy

Franziska Rubenbauer, Sebastian Steindl, Patrick Levi, Daniel Loebenberger, Ulrich Schäfer

Revealing the Truth with ConLLM for Detecting Multi-Modal Deepfakes

Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Harsh Joshi, Niharika Jain, Ebad Shabbir, Jiechao Gao

Persona Switch: Mixing Distinct Perspectives in Decoding Time

Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung

Nuanced Toxicity Detection in Spanish: A New Corpus and Benchmark Study

Alba María Mármol-Romero, Robiert Sepúlveda-Torres, Estela Saquete, María-Teresa Martín-Valdivia, L. Alfonso Ureña

Best-of-L: Cross-Lingual Reward Modeling for Mathematical Reasoning

Sara Rajaee, Rochelle Choenni, Ekaterina Shutova, Christof Monz

The Devil is in the Distributions: Explicit Modeling of Scene Content is Key in Zero-Shot Video Captioning

Mingkai Tian, Guorong Li, Yuankai Qi, Anton van den Hengel, Qingming Huang

Detecting Winning Arguments with Large Language Models and Persuasion Strategies

Tiziano Labruna, Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Giorgio Satta, Giovanni Da San Martino

Feature Drift: How Fine-Tuning Repurposes Representations in LLMs

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