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RPI Team at SemEval-2026 Task 3: An LLM-Encoder Ensemble for Coarse-to-Fine Valence-Arousal Sentiment Prediction SemEval 2026 Schoenfeld’s Anatomy of Mathematical Reasoning by Language Models ACL 2026 SemEval-2026 Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays SemEval 2026 SemVideo: Reconstructs What You Watch from Brain Activity via Hierarchical Semantic Guidance CVPR 2026 SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations ACL 2026 Similar Predictions, Different Processes: A Multi-Level Comparison of Human and Multimodal LLM Language Prediction CoNLL 2026 SMILE-Next: Teaching Large Language Models to Detect, Classify, and Reason about Laughter ACL 2026 Sparse-to-Field Reconstruction via Stochastic Neural Dynamic Mode Decomposition L4DC 2026 Splits! Flexible Sociocultural Linguistic Investigation at Scale ACL 2026 Steering Where to Diffuse: Generative Modeling of Phenotypic Response Simulation with Steered Diffusion Bridge CVPR 2026 Surprisal Minimisation over Goal-directed Alternatives Predicts Production Choice in Dialogue ACL 2026 Syntactically-guided Information Maintenance in Sentence Comprehension CoNLL 2026 Synthia: Scalable Grounded Persona Generation from Social Media Data ACL 2026 Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication ACL 2026 TAIGR: Towards Modeling Influencer Content on Social Media via Structured, Pragmatic Inference ACL 2026 TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent ACL 2026 Tears or Cheers? Benchmarking LLMs via Culturally Elicited Distinct Affective Responses ACL 2026 The PID Controller Strikes Back: Classical Controller Helps Mitigate Barren Plateaus in Noisy Variational Quantum Circuits L4DC 2026 The Prosody of Emojis ACL 2026 TIGER: Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval ACL 2026 Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies EACL 2026 Toward Generalizable Whole Brain Representations with High-Resolution Light-Sheet Data CVPR 2026 Towards A Scanpath-Conditioned Surprisal Theory: Modeling Reader Information States ACL 2026 Towards Identifiability of Interventional Stochastic Differential Equations UAI 2026 Traces of Social Competence in Large Language Models CoNLL 2026