Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 acl-2026-long https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.0/ OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning Pan Lu author Bowen Chen author Sheng Liu author Rahul Thapa author Joseph Boen author James Zou author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 lu-etal-2026-octotools https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1/ 2026-07 1 86 No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand Jimin Jung author MyoungJin Kim author Jaehyung Seo author Heuiseok Lim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 jung-etal-2026-reader https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2/ 2026-07 87 116 Discover and Prove: An Open-source Agentic Framework for Hard Mode Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4 Chengwu Liu author Yichun Yin author Ye Yuan author Jiaxuan Xie author Botao Li author Siqi Li author Jianhao Shen author Yan Xu author Lifeng Shang author Ming Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 liu-etal-2026-discover https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.3/ 2026-07 117 133 Your Inference Request Will Become a Black Box: Confidential Inference for Cloud-based Large Language Models Chung-ju Huang author Huiqiang Zhao author Yuanpeng He author Lijian Li author Wenpin Jiao author Zhi Jin author Peixuan Chen author Leye Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 huang-etal-2026-inference https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.4/ 2026-07 134 154 Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study Louie Hong Yao author Vishesh Anand author Yuan Zhuang author Tianyu Jiang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 yao-etal-2026-rhetorical https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.5/ 2026-07 155 172 Dual-Axis Generative Reward Model Toward Semantic and Turn-taking Robustness in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Models Yifu Chen author Shengpeng Ji author Zhengqing Liu author Qian Chen author Wen Wang author Ziqing Wang author Yangzhuo Li author Tianle Liang author Zhou Zhao author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chen-etal-2026-dual https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.6/ 2026-07 173 208 Different types of syntactic agreement recruit the same units within large language models Daria Kryvosheieva author Andrea Gregor de Varda author Evelina Fedorenko author Greta Tuckute author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 kryvosheieva-etal-2026-different https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.7/ 2026-07 209 227 Empowering Tabular Data Preparation with Language Models: Why and How? Mengshi Chen author Yuxiang Sun author Tengchao Li author Jianwei Wang author Kai Wang author Xuemin Lin author Ying Zhang author Wenjie Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chen-etal-2026-empowering https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.8/ 2026-07 228 246 Learning Diverse Responses with Prefix-Conditioned Supervised Fine-Tuning Zhiyuan Fan author Guanqiao Chen author Yanyi Huang author Mingkuan Zhao author Dadi Guo author Yi R Fung author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 fan-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.9/ 2026-07 247 276 EASE: Entity-Aware Sub-table Generation for Real-world Multi-table QA Myunghoon Kang author Dahyun Jung author Suhyune Son author Seonmin Koo author Changwoo Chun author Daniel Rim author Haeyoung Kwon author Yuna Hur author Heuiseok Lim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 kang-etal-2026-ease https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.10/ 2026-07 277 302 Benchmarking LLM’s Capability in Reasoning over Conflicting Web References Yizhen Yuan author Rui Kong author Dongze Li author Yuanchun Li author Yunxin Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 yuan-etal-2026-benchmarking https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.11/ 2026-07 303 322 Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation Qianli Wang author Van Bach Nguyen author Yihong Liu author Fedor Splitt author Nils Feldhus author Christin Seifert author Hinrich Schuetze author Sebastian Möller author Vera Schmitt author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.660/ 2026-07 14484 14507 SARA: Selective and Adaptive Retrieval-augmented Generation with Context Compression Yiqiao Jin author Kartik Sharma author Vineeth Rakesh author Yingtong Dou author Menghai Pan author Mahashweta Das author Srijan Kumar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 jin-etal-2026-sara https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.661/ 2026-07 14508 14528 FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning Zhuohan Xie author Daniil Orel author Rushil Thareja author Dhruv Sahnan author Hachem Madmoun author Fan Zhang author Debopriyo Banerjee author Georgi Nenkov Georgiev author Xueqing Peng author Lingfei Qian 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Yicheng Liu author Shumin Shi author Youchao Zhou author Xingchen Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 liu-etal-2026-llms-good https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.831/ 2026-07 18231 18256 ProActor: Timing-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Task Scheduling Agents Lei Ding author Bin He author Chenguang Wang author Yang Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ding-etal-2026-proactor https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.832/ 2026-07 18257 18303 Seeing No Evil: Blinding Large Vision-Language Models to Safety Instructions via Adversarial Attention Hijacking Jingru Li author Wei Ren author Tianqing Zhu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 li-etal-2026-seeing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.833/ 2026-07 18304 18323 CADMate: Generating CAD Assembly Plan with Geometric Chain-of-Thought and Spatial Physical Rewards Jiali Chen author DingBa Fu author Xusen Hei author Yuhang Liu author Yiyang Chen author Jiayuan Xie author Wenqi Fan author Yi Cai author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational 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LoFa: A Benchmark for LLM Robustness Against Logical Fallacies Xudong Shen author li Yuan author Ye Chen author Xin Wu author Yi Cai author Zhiyong Wu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 shen-etal-2026-truth https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1112/ 2026-07 24236 24268 Merging Triggers, Breaking Backdoors: Defensive Poisoning for Instruction-Tuned Language Models San Kim author Gary Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States 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2026-07 25961 25981 VisRet: Visualization Improves Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-Image Retrieval Di Wu author Yixin Wan author Kai-Wei Chang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wu-etal-2026-visret https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1192/ 2026-07 25982 26001 Selective Knowledge Distillation: Fusing LLM Semantic Strengths with DNN Efficiency for Binary Code Similarity Detection Shize Zhou author Peiyu Liu author Lirong Fu author Tong Ye author Wenhai Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for 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A Unified Framework and Empirical Analysis for Long-Term Dialog Memory Sen Hu author Yuxiang Wei author Jiaxin Ran author Xueran Han author Zhiyuan Yao author Huacan Wang author Ronghao Chen author Lei Zou author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 hu-etal-2026-memory-need https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1232/ 2026-07 26758 26782 False Friends in the Shell: Unveiling the Emoticon Semantic Confusion in Large Language Models Weipeng Jiang author Xiaoyu Zhang author Juan Zhai author Shiqing Ma author Chao Shen author Yang Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 jiang-etal-2026-false https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1233/ 2026-07 26783 26803 DocLens: A Tool-Augmented Multi-Agent Framework for Long Visual Document Understanding Dawei Zhu author Rui Meng author Jiefeng Chen author Sujian Li author Tomas Pfister author Jinsung Yoon author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhu-etal-2026-doclens https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1234/ 2026-07 26804 26829 Stability Implies Redundancy: Delta Attention Selective Halting for Efficient Long-Context Prefilling Yujie Chen author Tailai Chen author Yifeng Gao author Zoe Wanying He author Yijue Xu author Shaobo Wang author Linfeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chen-etal-2026-stability https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1235/ 2026-07 26830 26848 Beyond Self-Report: Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap in Critical Thinking Assessment via Interpretable Multi-Agent System Zekun Li author Jifan Yu author Haoxuan Li author Ye He author Daniel Zhang-Li author Shangqing Tu author Joy Jia Yin Lim author Yikun Jiang author Jiaxin Yuan author Yu Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 li-etal-2026-beyond-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1236/ 2026-07 26849 26871 LLM Reasoning as Trajectories: Step-Specific Representation Geometry and Correctness Signals Lihao Sun author Hang Dong author Bo Qiao author Qingwei Lin author Dongmei Zhang author Saravan Rajmohan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 sun-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1237/ 2026-07 26872 26887 A Data-Efficient Path to Multilingual LLMs: Language Expansion via Post-training PARAMΔ Integration into Upcycled MoE Hao Zhou author Tianhao Li author Zhijun Wang author Shuaijie She author Linjuan Wu author Hao-Ran Wei author Baosong Yang author Jiajun Chen author Shujian Huang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhou-etal-2026-data https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1238/ 2026-07 26888 26904 The Evolution of Thought: Tracking LLM Overthinking via Reasoning Dynamics Analysis Zihao Wei author Liang Pang author Jiahao Liu author Wenjie Shi author Jingcheng Deng author Shicheng Xu author Zenghao Duan author Jingang Wang author Fei Sun author Huawei Shen author Xueqi Cheng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long 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Seonjeong Hwang author Hyounghun Kim author Gary Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 hwang-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1241/ 2026-07 26951 26966 ReCoQA: A Benchmark for Tool-Augmented and Multi-Step Reasoning in Real Estate Question and Answering Yindong Zhang author Wenmian Yang author Yiquan Zhang author Weijia Jia author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhang-etal-2026-recoqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1242/ 2026-07 26967 26987 Human or LLM as Standardized Patients? A Comparative Study in Medical Education Bingquan Zhang author Xiaoxiao Liu author Yuchi Wang author Zhou Lei author Qianqian Xie author Benyou Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhang-etal-2026-human https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1243/ 2026-07 26988 27012 Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMs Jinhui Chen author Shizhu He author Xingchang Yang author Huanxuan Liao author Yequan Wang author Xiangwen Liao author Wenhao Teng author Kang Liu author Jun Zhao author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chen-etal-2026-harmonizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1244/ 2026-07 27013 27033 Attention Weights as an Indicator: Analyzing and Improving Document Utilization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Jing Jin author Yuhan Song author Wen Luo author Houfeng Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 jin-etal-2026-attention https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1245/ 2026-07 27034 27052 Inertia in Moral and Value Judgments of Large Language Models Bruce W Lee author Yeongheon Lee author 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pham-etal-2026-liveculturebench https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1247/ 2026-07 27076 27105 Enabling Agents to Communicate Entirely in Latent Space Zhuoyun Du author Runze Wang author Huiyu Bai author Zouying Cao author Xiaoyong Zhu author Yu Cheng author Bo Zheng author Wei Chen author Haochao Ying author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 du-etal-2026-enabling https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1248/ 2026-07 27106 27129 DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents Yiwen Gao author Ruochen Zhao author Yang Deng author Wenxuan Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 gao-etal-2026-dr https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1249/ 2026-07 27130 27152 Question Tells You Where the Answer Is: Intention-aware Long-Context KV Cache Compression Liang Zhao author Xiaocheng Feng author Weihong Zhong author Lei Huang author Kun Zhu author Baoxin Wang author Dayong Wu author Guoping Hu author Ting Liu author Bing Qin author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhao-etal-2026-question https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1250/ 2026-07 27153 27169 LADR: Locality-Aware Dynamic Rescue for Efficient Text-to-Image Generation with Diffusion Large Language Models Chenglin Wang author Yucheng Zhou author Shuang Chen author Tao Wang author Kai Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wang-etal-2026-ladr https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1251/ 2026-07 27170 27183 PACE: Predictive Adaptive Context Extraction for Long-Horizon LLM Agents Lei Wei author Xiao Peng author Tt author Guannan Zhang author Chenhao Jiang author Hongyu Li author Lanbo Lin author Yuanwu Xu author Jiayao Liu author Kesu Wang author Bin Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata 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Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 liu-etal-2026-seeing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1264/ 2026-07 27395 27422 CuMA: Aligning LLMs with Sparse Cultural Values via Demographic-Aware Mixture of Adapters Ao Sun author Xiaoyu Wang author Zhe Tan author Yu Li author Zhu Jiachen author Yuheng Jia author Shu Su author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 sun-etal-2026-cuma https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1265/ 2026-07 27423 27441 Neo-Classic: A 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Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 hwang-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1267/ 2026-07 27466 27488 ToMMeR - Efficient Entity Mention Detection from Large Language Models Victor Morand author Nadi Tomeh author Josiane Mothe author Benjamin Piwowarski author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 morand-etal-2026-tommer https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1268/ 2026-07 27489 27509 Shuttle Between Symbolic Instructions and Neural Parameters of Large Language Models Wangtao Sun author Haotian Xu author Huanxuan Liao author Xuanqing Yu author Zhongtao 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28666 28689 GMSA: Enhancing Context Compression via Group Merging and Layer Semantic Alignment Jiwei Tang author Zhicheng Zhang author Shunlong Wu author Jingheng Ye author Lichen Bai author Zitai Wang author Tingwei Lu author Lin Hai author Yiming Zhao author Hai-Tao Zheng author Hong-Gee Kim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 tang-etal-2026-gmsa https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1324/ 2026-07 28690 28704 SpidR-Adapt: A Universal Speech Representation Model for Few-Shot Adaptation Mahi Luthra author Jiayi Shen author Maxime Poli author Angelo Ortiz Tandazo author Yosuke Higuchi author Youssef Benchekroun author Martin Gleize author Charles-Éric Saint-James author Dongyan Lin author 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Selective-Complementary Reinforcement Learning at Test Time Dong Yan author Jian Liang author Yanbo Wang author Shuo Lu author Ran He author Tieniu Tan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 yan-etal-2026-consensus https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1337/ 2026-07 28957 28970 Exploring and Distilling Multi-Dimensional Clues for Interpretable Social Bot Detection Yi Han author Haiqi Lu author Lizi Liao author Shuhan Zhou author Yuanxing Liu author Weinan Zhang author Ting Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 han-etal-2026-exploring https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1338/ 2026-07 28971 28992 Why Are We Moral? 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Priyanshu Mahato author Aniket Santosh Mishra author Kripabandhu Ghosh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 mahato-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1346/ 2026-07 29169 29199 Beyond Itinerary Planning—A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn and Tool-Using Travel Tasks Xiang Cheng author Yulan Hu author Xiangwen Zhang author Lu Xu author Lide Tan author Zheng Pan author Xin Li author Yong Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, 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zhang-etal-2026-evoroute https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1771/ 2026-07 38213 38225 Foresight Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models Jessie Wang author Jiawen Duan author Jian Wang author Kaitao Song author Chunpu Xu author Johnny K W Ho author Y U Fenggang author Johan F Hoorn author Wenjie Li author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wang-etal-2026-foresight https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1772/ 2026-07 38226 38246 DetectRL-X: Towards Reliable Multilingual and Real-World LLM-Generated Text Detection Junchao Wu author Yefeng Liu author Chenyu Zhu author Hao Zhang author Zeyu Wu author Tianqi Shi author Yichao Du author Longyue Wang author Weihua Luo author Jinsong Su author Derek F Wong author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wu-etal-2026-detectrl https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1773/ 2026-07 38247 38294 ImmersiveTTS: Environment-Aware Text-to-Speech with Multimodal Diffusion Transformer and Domain-Specific Representation Alignment Jun-Hak Yun author Seung-Bin Kim author Seong-Whan Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 yun-etal-2026-immersivetts https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1774/ 2026-07 38295 38314 When Efficiency Becomes a Vulnerability: Computational Cost Attacks on WebAgents Liang-Bo Ning author Yuchen Zhu author Heqing Huang author Xin Wang author Yi Chang author Li Qing author Wenqi Fan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ning-etal-2026-efficiency https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1775/ 2026-07 38315 38335 Evolving Beyond Snapshots: Harmonizing Structure and Sequence via Entity State Tuning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting Siyuan Li author Yunjia Wu author Yiyong Xiao author Pingyang Huang author Peize Li author Ruitong Liu author Yan Wen author Te Sun author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 li-etal-2026-evolving https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1776/ 2026-07 38336 38350 CodeRipple: Wavelet-Based Detection of LLM-Generated Code Xingyu Yao author Zhendong Mao author Quan Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 yao-etal-2026-coderipple https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1777/ 2026-07 38351 38364 PHOTON: Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Lightspeed and Memory-Efficient Language Generation Yuma Ichikawa author Naoya Takagi author Takumi Nakagawa author Yuzi Kanazawa author Akira Sakai author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ichikawa-etal-2026-photon https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1778/ 2026-07 38365 38383 CoMeT: Collaborative Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Modeling Runsong Zhao author Shilei Liu author Jiwei Tang author Langming Liu author Haibin Chen author Weidong Zhang author Yujin Yuan author Tong Xiao author JingBo Zhu author Wenbo Su author Bo Zheng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhao-etal-2026-comet https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1779/ 2026-07 38384 38402 CheckRLM: Effective Knowledge–Thought Coherence Checking in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Dingling Xu author Ruobing Wang author Qingfei Zhao author Yukun Yan author Zhichun Wang author Daren Zha author Shi Yu author Zhenghao Liu author Shuo Wang author Xu Han author Maosong Sun author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 xu-etal-2026-checkrlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1780/ 2026-07 38403 38426 CAMEC: Complexity-Aware Multi-Expert Collaboration for Reliable Chinese Medical Question Answering Yukang Wu author Xiyuan Jia author Jiayi Wu author HongChen Yu author Yuhan Qiu author Wu Guohua author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wu-etal-2026-camec https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1781/ 2026-07 38427 38457 Vocabulary Hijacking in LVLMs: Unveiling Critical Attention Heads by Excluding Inert Tokens to Mitigate Hallucination Yangneng Chen author Junlin Li author Weijun Yao author Xilai Ma author Guodong DU author Wenya Wang author Jing Li author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chen-etal-2026-vocabulary https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1782/ 2026-07 38458 38485 HumanLLM: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Anthropomorphism via Human Cognitive Patterns Xintao Wang author Jian Yang author Weiyuan Li author Rui Xie author Jen-tse Huang author Jun Gao author Shuai Huang author Yueping Kang author Yuanli Guo author Hongwei Feng author Yanghua Xiao author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wang-etal-2026-humanllm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1783/ 2026-07 38486 38517 Vision-Language Introspection: 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Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 shi-etal-2026-v https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1785/ 2026-07 38544 38567 Beyond Single Representations: Multi-Model Embedding Fusion for Stable Text Classification Jiho Gwak author Yuchul Jung author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 gwak-jung-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1786/ 2026-07 38568 38577 Confidence Should Be Calibrated More Than One Turn Deep Zhaohan Zhang author Chengzhengxu Li author Xiaoming Liu 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United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 luo-etal-2026-navimaster https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1788/ 2026-07 38595 38615 Teaching LLMs Human-Like Editing of Inappropriate Argumentation via Reinforcement Learning Timon Ziegenbein author Maja Stahl author Henning Wachsmuth author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ziegenbein-etal-2026-teaching https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1789/ 2026-07 38616 38637 FLAIR: Steering LLM Mathematical Problem Solving based on A Fuzzy-Logic-AssIsted Reasoner Hao Wu author Hongru Sun author Wanqing Li author Xinguo Yu author Hao Ming author Xiao Luo author Wenbin Zhang author Jiahong Zhao author Yi Guo author Jie Yang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wu-etal-2026-flair https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1790/ 2026-07 38638 38661 QuDAR: Query-Wise Dual-Perspective Adaptive Retrieval Joeun Kim author Seunghyouk Yoon author Xuan-Bach Le author Youngeun Nam author Doyoung Kim author Hwanjun Song author Jae-Gil Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 kim-etal-2026-qudar https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1791/ 2026-07 38662 38679 Trait Activation in Silicon: A Situation-Aware Framework for Psychologically Grounded Role-Playing Zuolong Li author Pingyu Wu author Xianwen Huang author Tianyi Wei author Wenbo Zhou author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 li-etal-2026-trait https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1792/ 2026-07 38680 38698 SPARKLE: A Structured and Plug-and-play Agentic Retrieval Policy for Adaptive RAG Models Jinyuan Fang author Zaiqiao Meng author Craig Macdonald author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor 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Analyzing the Grammar and Lexicon of Two Generations of LLMs Adrián Gude author Roi Santos-Rios author Francis Bond author Dan Flickinger author Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez author Olga Zamaraeva author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 gude-etal-2026-aligned https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1803/ 2026-07 38900 38911 MemCoRL: Alternating Co-Optimization of Memory Retrieval and Utilization via Collaborative Reinforcement Learning Yuewen Liu author Peng Xu author Muxi Diao author Anyi Zhang author Yang Li author Yutong Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 liu-etal-2026-memcorl https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1804/ 2026-07 38912 38924 Fast and Accurate Fisher-Guided Quantization via Efficient Kronecker Factorization Viktoriia A Chekalina author Gerasin Timofey author Andrey Kuznetsov author Evgeny Frolov author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 chekalina-etal-2026-fast https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1805/ 2026-07 38925 38935 Discovering a Shared Logical Subspace: Steering LLM Logical Reasoning via Alignment of Natural-Language and Symbolic Views Feihao Fang author My T Thai author Yuanyuan Lei author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 fang-etal-2026-discovering https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1806/ 2026-07 38936 38956 One Refiner to Unlock Them All: Inference-Time Reasoning Elicitation via Reinforcement Query Refinement Yixiao Zhou author Dongzhou Cheng author Zhiliang wu author Yi Yang author Yu Cheng author Hehe Fan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 zhou-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1807/ 2026-07 38957 38978 Why Does Reinforcement Learning Generalize? 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Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 kim-etal-2026-investigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2041/ 2026-07 44092 44138 Response-G1: Explicit Scene Graph Modeling for Proactive Streaming Video Understanding Ke Ma author Jiaqi Tang author Bin Guo author Xueting Han author Ruonan Xu author Qingfeng He author Ziheng Wang author Xu Wang author Qifeng Chen author Zhiwen Yu author Yunhao Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ma-etal-2026-response https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2042/ 2026-07 44139 44153 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A Benchmark for Multimodal UI/UX Design Understanding Jaehyun Jeon author Min Soo Kim author Janghan Yoon author Sumin Shim author Yejin Choi author Hanbin Kim author Dae Hyun Kim author Youngjae Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 jeon-etal-2026-mllms https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2049/ 2026-07 44269 44294 DarwinTOD: LLM-Driven Lifelong Self-evolution for Task-oriented Dialog Systems Shuyu Zhang author Yujie Liu author Xinru Wang author Cheng Zhang author Yanmin Zhu author Bin Li author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor 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Multi-LLM Agent Collaboration via Reinforcement Learning Zheng Hui author Yijiang River Dong author Sanhanat Sivapiromrat author Ehsan Shareghi author Nigel Collier author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 hui-etal-2026-privacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2130/ 2026-07 45924 45937 Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion LLMs via Energy-Based Gibbs Alignment Yijia Fan author Jing Yang author Mingyu Liu author Kaitong Cai author Jian Wang author Keze Wang author Jusheng Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens 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and Enhancing MLLMs on Real-World Receipt Document Understanding Yandi Wang author Libin Zhan author Ziwei Huang author Tiancheng Luo author Yuxuan Jiang author Wang Dong author Leilei Gan author Jun Chen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 wang-etal-2026-recognition https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2135/ 2026-07 46007 46024 LogicEval: A Systematic Framework for Evaluating Automated Repair Techniques for Logical Vulnerabilities in Real-World Software Syed Md Mukit Rashid author Abdullah Al Ishtiaq author Kai Tu author Yilu Dong author Tianwei Wu author Ali Ranjbar author Tianchang Yang author Najrin Sultana author Shagufta Mehnaz author Syed Rafiul Hussain author 2026-07 text 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Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 choi-etal-2026-compass https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2139/ 2026-07 46087 46133 Paper2Rebuttal: A Multi-Agent Framework for Transparent Author Response Assistance Qianli Ma author Chang Guo author Zhiheng Tian author Siyu Wang author Jipeng Xiao author Yuanhao Yue author Zhipeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 ma-etal-2026-paper2rebuttal https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2140/ 2026-07 46134 46166 Data Efficient RLVR via Off-Policy Influence Guidance Erle Zhu 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Graph-Based Alternatives to LLMs for Human Simulation Joseph Suh author Suhong Moon author Serina Chang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-390-6 suh-etal-2026-graph https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2157/ 2026-07 46479 46506 Minimal Free Resolution Guided Adaptive Tree Reasoning Dezhao Tang author Meihan Liu author Yulai Tong author Guan Yuan author Qiuyan Yan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 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