EACL 2026

1,430 papers

From Semantics to Style: A Cross-Dataset Comparative Framework for Sentence Similarity Predictions

Yusuke Yamauchi, Akiko Aizawa

WebNovelBench: Placing LLM Novelists on the Web Novel Distribution

Liangtao Lin, Jun Zheng, Haidong Wang

RV-Syn: Rational and Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning Data Synthesis based on Structured Function Library

Jiapeng Wang, Jinhao Jiang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Xin Zhao

Breaking the Illusion of Reasoning in Polish LLMs: Quality over Quantity of Thought

Dzmitry Pihulski, Mikołaj Langner, Jan Eliasz, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Jan Kocon

Quantifying the Impact of Structured Output Format on Large Language Models through Causal Inference

Han Yuan, Yue Zhao, Li Zhang, Wuqiong Luo, Zheng Ma

Confidence-Driven Multi-Scale Model Selection for Cost-Efficient Inference

Bo-Wei Chen, Chung-Chi Chen, An-Zi Yen

Garbage In, Reasoning Out? Why Benchmark Scores are Unreliable and What to Do About It

Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Edoardo Cecchinato, Lucia Horníková, Giuseppe Riccardi

RB-LoRA: Rank-Balanced Aggregation for Low-Rank Adaptation with Federated Fine-Tuning

Sihyeon Ha, Yongjeong Oh, Yo-Seb Jeon

See More, Store Less: Memory-Efficient Resolution for Video Moment Retrieval

Mingyu Jeon, Sungjin Han, Jinkwon Hwang, Minchol Kwon, Jonghee Kim

VN-MTEB: Vietnamese Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

Loc Pham, Tung Luu, Thu Vo, Minh Nguyen, Viet Hoang

Beyond Accuracy: Alignment and Error Detection across Languages in the Bi-GSM8K Math-Teaching Benchmark

Jieun Park, KyungTae Lim, Joon-Ho Lim

TELLME: Test-Enhanced Learning for Language Model Enrichment

MinJun Kim, Inho Won, HyeonSeok Lim, Minkyu Kim, Junghun Yuk

Unified Multimodal Interleaved Document Representation for Retrieval

Jaewoo Lee, Joonho Ko, Jinheon Baek, Soyeong Jeong, Sung Ju Hwang

SCAN: Semantic Document Layout Analysis for Textual and Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Nobuhiro Ueda, Yuyang Dong, Krisztián Boros, Daiki Ito, Takuya Sera

Pushing the Frontiers of Scientific Fact-Checking: The SCINLP Dataset

Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi

Bias in the Ear of the Listener: Assessing Sensitivity in Audio Language Models Across Linguistic, Demographic, and Positional Variations

Sheng-Lun Wei, Yu-Ling Liao, Yen-Hua Chang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

CrowdSelect: SyntheticInstruction Data Selection with Multi-LLM Wisdom

Yisen Li, Lingfeng Yang, Wenxuan Shen, Pan Zhou, Yao Wan

NLP Privacy Risk Identification in Social Media (NLP-PRISM): A Survey

Dhiman Goswami, Jai Kruthunz Naveen Kumar, Sanchari Das

Unsupervised Detection of LLM-Generated Text in Korean Using Syntactic and Semantic Cues

Heejeong Jeon, Minsu Park, YunSeok Choi, Eunil Park

SymCode: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Mathematical Reasoning via Verifiable Code Generation

Sina Bagheri Nezhad, Yao Li, Ameeta Agrawal

ETOM: A Five-Level Benchmark for Evaluating Tool Orchestration within the MCP Ecosystem

Jia-Kai Dong, I-Wei Huang, Chun-Tin Wu, Yi-tien Tsai

One Sentence, Two Embeddings: Contrastive Learning of Explicit and Implicit Semantic Representations

Kohei Oda, Po-Min Chuang, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn

ParsTranslit: Truly Versatile Tajik-Farsi Transliteration

Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang

Persona Jailbreaking in Large Language Models

Jivnesh Sandhan, Fei Cheng, Tushar Sandhan, Yugo Murawaki

COMMUNITYNOTES: A Dataset for Exploring the Helpfulness of Fact-Checking Explanations

Rui Xing, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau

Don’t Judge Code by Its Cover: Exploring Biases in LLM Judges for Code Evaluation

Jiwon Moon, Yerin Hwang, Dongryeol Lee, Taegwan Kang, Yongil Kim

Reflect, Rewrite, Repeat: How Simple Arithmetic Enables Advanced Reasoning in Small Language Models

Mengdie Flora Wang, Haochen Xie, Mun Young Kim, Baishali Chaudhury, Meghana Ashok

Comprehensive Study of Bilingual and Multi-category Instruction Pre-training

Takashi Kodama, Yusuke Oda

MapAgent: A Hierarchical Agent for Geospatial Reasoning with Dynamic Map Tool Integration

Md Hasebul Hasan, Mahir Labib Dihan, Tanzima Hashem, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Md Rizwan Parvez

ReAttn: Improving Attention-based Re-ranking via Attention Re-weighting

Yuxing Tian, Fengran Mo, Weixu Zhang, Yiyan Qi, Jian-Yun Nie

Intention-Adaptive LLM Fine-Tuning for Text Revision Generation

Zhexiong Liu, Diane Litman

Suppressing Final Layer Hidden State Jumps in Transformer Pretraining

Keigo Shibata, Kazuki Yano, Ryosuke Takahashi, Jaesung Lee, Wataru Ikeda

Hire Your Anthropologist! Rethinking Culture Benchmarks Through an Anthropological Lens

Mai Alkhamissi, Yunze Xiao, Badr AlKhamissi, Mona T. Diab

HiGraAgent: Dual-Agent Adaptive Reasoning over Hierarchical Knowledge Graph for Open Domain Multi-hop Question Answering

Hung Luu, Long S. T. Nguyen, Trung Pham, Hieu Pham, Tho Quan

PromptPrism: A Linguistically-Inspired Taxonomy for Prompts

Sullam Jeoung, Yueyan Chen, Yi Zhang, Shuai Wang, Haibo Ding

VaseVQA: Multimodal Agent and Benchmark for Ancient Greek Pottery

Jinchao Ge, Tengfei Cheng, Biao Wu, Zeyu Zhang, Shiya Huang

LLMs Faithfully and Iteratively Compute Answers During CoT: A Systematic Analysis With Multi-step Arithmetics

Keito Kudo, Yoichi Aoki, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Shusaku Sone, Masaya Taniguchi

Causal Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Uyen Le, Thin Nguyen, Toan Nguyen, Toan Doan, Trung Le

Causal Activation Steering via Sparse Mediation

Toan Doan, Uyen Le, Thin Nguyen

DRAGON: Domain-specific Robust Automatic Data Generation for RAG Optimization

Haiyang SHEN, Hang Yan, Zhongshi Xing, Mugeng Liu, Yue Li

Towards the First NLP Benchmark for Ladin - an Extremely Low-Resource Language

Ulin Nuha, Adam Jatowt

The Model’s Language Matters: A Comparative Privacy Analysis of LLMs

Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Antoine Boutet, Lucas Magnana

The Unintended Trade-off of AI Alignment: Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in LLMs

Omar Mahmoud, Ali Khalil, Thommen George Karimpanal, Buddhika Laknath Semage, Santu Rana

Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models with Synthetic Data

Hirokazu Kiyomaru, Yusuke Oda, Takashi Kodama, Chaoran Liu, Daisuke Kawahara

Where do LLMs currently stand on biomedical NER in both clean and noisy settings ?

Christophe Ye, Cassie S. Mitchell

On the Interplay between Human Label Variation and Model Fairness

Kemal Kurniawan, Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Jey Han Lau

ATOM: AdapTive and OptiMized dynamic temporal knowledge graph construction using LLMs

Yassir Lairgi, Ludovic Moncla, Khalid Benabdeslem, Rémy Cazabet, Pierre Cléau

CodeGuard: Improving LLM Guardrails in CS Education

Nishat Raihan, Noah Erdachew, Jayoti Devi, Joanna C. S. Santos, Marcos Zampieri

Toward Beginner-Friendly LLMs for Language Learning: Controlling Difficulty in Conversation

Meiqing Jin, Liam Dugan, Chris Callison-Burch

Harmful Factuality: LLMs Correcting What They Shouldn’t

Mingchen Li, Hanzhi Zhang, Heng Fan, Junhua Ding, Yunhe Feng

Personal Information Parroting in Language Models

Nishant Subramani, Kshitish Ghate, Mona T. Diab

DebateQA: Evaluating Question Answering on Debatable Knowledge

Rongwu Xu, Xuan Qi, Zehan Qi, Wei Xu, Zhijiang Guo

Linking Knowledge to Care: Knowledge Graph-Augmented Medical Follow-Up Question Generation

Liwen Sun, Xiang Yu, Ming Tan, Zhuohao Chen, Anqi Cheng

MAPS: A Multilingual Benchmark for Agent Performance and Security

Omer Hofman, Jonathan Brokman, Oren Rachmil, Shamik Bose, Vikas Pahuja

Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vectors for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs

Zara Siddique, Irtaza Khalid, Liam Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke

Denoising Concept Vectors with Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Language Model Steering

Haiyan Zhao, Xuansheng Wu, Fan Yang, Bo Shen, Ninghao Liu

KETCHUP: K-Step Return Estimation for Sequential Knowledge Distillation

Jiabin Fan, Guoqing Luo, Michael Bowling, Lili Mou

How Important is ‘Perfect’ English for Machine Translation Prompts?

Patricia Schmidtova, Niyati Bafna, Seth Aycock, Gianluca Vico, Wiktor Kamzela

Skill Discovery for Software Scripting Automation via Offline Simulations with LLMs

Paiheng Xu, Gang Wu, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Chang Xiao

SpatialMath: Spatial Comprehension-Infused Symbolic Reasoning for Mathematical Problem-Solving

Ashutosh Bajpai, Akshat Bhandari, Akshay Nambi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering Task

Leonardo Ranaldi, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Complexity-aware fine-tuning

Andrey Goncharov, Daniil Vyazhev, Petr Sychev, Edvard Khalafyan, Alexey Zaytsev

HiKE: Hierarchical Evaluation Framework for Korean-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition

Gio Paik, Yongbeom Kim, Soungmin Lee, Sangmin Ahn, Chan Woo Kim

Towards Robust Evaluation of Visual Activity Recognition: Resolving Verb Ambiguity with Sense Clustering

Louie Hong Yao, Nicholas Jarvis, Tianyu Jiang

KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization

Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, Chak Tou Leong, Qiancheng Xu

VisDoT : Enhancing Visual Reasoning through Human-Like Interpretation Grounding and Decomposition of Thought

Eunsoo Lee, Jeongwoo Lee, Minki Hong, Jangho Choi, Jihie Kim

VortexPIA: Indirect Prompt Injection Attack against LLMs for Efficient Extraction of User Privacy

Yu Cui, Sicheng Pan, Yifei Liu, Haibin Zhang, Cong Zuo

ART: Adaptive Reasoning Trees for Explainable Claim Verification

Sahil Wadhwa, Himanshu Kumar, Guanqun Yang, Abbaas Alif Mohamed Nishar, Pranab Mohanty

The Price of Thought: A Multilingual Analysis of Reasoning, Performance, and Cost of Negotiation in Large Language Models

Sherzod Hakimov, Roland Bernard, Tim Leiber, Karl Osswald, Kristina Richert

Exploring Iterative Controllable Summarization with Large Language Models

Sangwon Ryu, Heejin Do, Daehui Kim, Hwanjo Yu, Dongwoo Kim

Persona-driven Simulation of Voting Behavior in the European Parliament with Large Language Models

Maximilian Kreutner, Marlene Lutz, Markus Strohmaier

I Know, but I Don’t Know! How Persona Conflict Undermines Instruction Adherence in Large Language Models

Seonmin Koo, JINSUNG KIM, Heuiseok Lim

Pelican Soup Framework: A Theoretical Framework for Language Model Capabilities

Ting-Rui Chiang, Dani Yogatama

Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM Benchmarks

Go Inoue, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Timothy Baldwin

Continual Pretraining on Encrypted Synthetic Data for Privacy-Preserving LLMs

Honghao Liu, Xuhui Jiang, Chengjin Xu, Cehao Yang, Yiran Cheng

Geometric Interpretation of Layer Normalization and a Comparative Analysis with RMSNorm

Akshat Gupta, Atahan Ozdemir, Caoqinwei Gong, Gopala Anumanchipalli

Detecting Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) from Text: A Benchmarking Study

Ghofrane Merhbene, Fabian Lecron, Philippe Fortemps, Bradford C. Dickerson, Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

JEEM: Vision-Language Understanding in Four Arabic Dialects

Karima Kadaoui, Hanin Atwany, Hamdan Al-Ali, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Ali Mekky

Unleashing the Unseen: Harnessing Benign Datasets for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

Wei Zhao, Zhe Li, Yige Li, Jun Sun

The Mediomatix Corpus: Parallel Data for Romansh Language Varieties via Comparable Schoolbooks

Zachary William Hopton, Jannis Vamvas, Andrin Büchler, Anna Rutkiewicz, Rico Cathomas

Rethinking Data Mixture for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey and New Perspectives

Yajiao Liu, Congliang Chen, Junchi Yang, Ruoyu Sun

How to Make LMs Strong Node Classifiers?

Zhe Xu, Kaveh Hassani, Si Zhang, Hanqing Zeng, Michihiro Yasunaga

Mitigating Copy Bias in In-Context Learning through Neuron Pruning

Ameen Ali Ali, Lior Wolf, Ivan Titov

ThinkNote: Enhancing Knowledge Integration and Utilization of Large Language Models via Constructivist Cognition Modeling

Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Shi Yu

I-MCTS: Enhancing Agentic AutoML via Introspective Monte Carlo Tree Search

Zujie Liang, Feng Wei, Wujiang Xu, Yuxi Qian, Lin Chen

Rad-Flamingo: A Multimodal Prompt driven Radiology Report Generation Framework with Patient-Centric Explanations

Md. Tousin Akhter, Devansh Lalwani, Kshitij Sharad Jadhav, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Position Paper: How Should We Responsibly Adopt LLMs in the Peer Review Process?

Juhwan Choi, JungMin Yun, Changhun Kim, YoungBin Kim

Examining the Utility of Self-disclosure Types for Modeling Annotators of Social Norms

Kieran Henderson, Kian Omoomi, Vasudha Varadarajan, Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch

Plane Geometry Problem Solving with Multi-modal Reasoning: A Survey

Seunghyuk Cho, Zhenyue Qin, Yang Liu, Youngbin Choi, Seungbeom Lee

Let’s Put Ourselves in Sally’s Shoes: Shoes-of-Others Prefilling Improves Theory of Mind in Large Language Models

Kazutoshi Shinoda, Nobukatsu Hojo, Kyosuke Nishida, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Keita Suzuki

Joint Multimodal Preference Optimization for Fine-Grained Visual-Textual Alignment

Jiwon Kim, Hyunsoo Yoon

Being Kind Isn’t Always Being Safe: Diagnosing Affective Hallucination in LLMs

Sewon Kim, Jiwon Kim, SeungWoo Shin, Hyejin Chung, Daeun Moon

WorkForceAgent-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLM-based Web Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Yuchen Zhuang, Di Jin, Jiaao Chen, Wenqi Shi, Hanrui Wang

Entity-aware Cross-lingual Claim Detection for Automated Fact-checking

Rrubaa Panchendrarajan, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Unveiling the Deficiencies of Pre-trained Text-and-Layout Models in Real-world Visually-rich Document Information Extraction

Chong Zhang, Yixi Zhao, Yulu Xie, Chenshu Yuan, Yi Tu

Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications

Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Ahmed Masry, Spandana Gella, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models

Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, Subba Reddy Oota

Cognitive Effects and Biases in Large Language Models

Markus Schedl, Ralph Hertwig, Antonela Tommasel, Shahed Masoudian

AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation

Yufang Hou, Steffen Eger, Anne Lauscher, Wei Zhao, Yong Cao

DIRECT: Directional Relevance in Conversational Trajectories

Anshuman Mourya, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Prerna Jolly, Vinayak S Puranik, Sivaramakrishnan R Kaveri