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United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 buda-etal-2026-extraction https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2/ 2026-07 27 44 WikiVideo: Article Generation from Multiple Videos Alexander Martin author Reno Kriz author William Gantt Walden author Kate Sanders author Hannah Recknor author Eugene Yang author Francis Ferraro author Benjamin Van Durme author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 martin-etal-2026-wikivideo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.3/ 2026-07 45 70 Large Language Models Are Effective Human Annotation Assistants, But Not Good Independent Annotators Feng Gu author Zongxia Li author Carlos R Colon author Benjamin Evans author Ishani Mondal author Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber author 2026-07 text Findings of 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.7/ 2026-07 120 136 EMCompress: Video-LLMs with Endomorphic Multimodal Compression Zheyu Fan author Jiateng Liu author Yuji Zhang author Zihan Wang author Yi R Fung author Manling Li author Heng Ji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fan-etal-2026-emcompress https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.8/ 2026-07 137 162 Learning from Contrastive Prompts: An Automated Prompt Optimization Framework Mingqi Li author Karan Aggarwal author Yong Xie author Aitzaz Ahmad author Stephen Lau author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational 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David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.39/ 2026-07 794 820 C²DLM: Causal Concept-Guided Diffusion Large Language Models Kairong Han author Nuanqiao Shan author Ziyu Zhao author Zijing Hu author Xinpeng Dong author Ye Jun Jian author Lujia Pan author Fei Wu author Kun Kuang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-c2dlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.40/ 2026-07 821 838 CMTD: Cognitive Modeling with Traits and Distortions for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations Minh-Tien Nguyen author Huu-Loi Le author Manh-Cuong Phan author 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publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xia-huang-2026-anygraph https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.44/ 2026-07 882 896 DOSE: Data Selection for Multi-Modal LLMs via Off-the-Shelf Models Biao Wu author Yiwu Zhong author Meng Fang author Ling Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-dose https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.45/ 2026-07 897 911 MergeIT: From Selection to Merging for Efficient Instruction Tuning Hongyi Cai author Yuqian Fu author Hongming Fu author Bo Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United 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in LLMs Jonas Wallat author Wolfgang Nejdl author Sandipan Sikdar author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wallat-etal-2026-facts https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.103/ 2026-07 2154 2184 SCRIPT: A Subcharacter Compositional Representation Injection Module for Korean Pre-Trained Language Models SungHo Kim author Juhyeong Park author Eda Atalay author SangKeun Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-script https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.104/ 2026-07 2185 2213 PibE-MPP: A Play-it-by-Ear Masking Performance Plug-in for LLMs Mengwei Wang author Simin Niu author Xun Liang author Yuefeng Ma author Sensen Zhang author Jiawei Yang author Shichao Song author Hanyu Wang author Huayi Lai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-pibe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.105/ 2026-07 2214 2225 RoleCDE: Benchmarking and Mitigating Role–Alignment Trade-offs in Role-Playing Agents Huayi Lai author Shichao Song author Simin Niu author Hanyu Wang author Jiawei Yang author Zhouxing Wang author Zhiqiang Yin author Xun Liang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lai-etal-2026-rolecde https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.106/ 2026-07 2226 2248 PolicyLLM: Towards Excellent Comprehension of Public Policy for Large Language Models Han Bao author Penghao Zhang author Yue Huang author Zhengqing Yuan author Yanchi Ru author S U Rui author Yujun Zhou author Xiangqi Wang author Kehan Guo author Nitesh V Chawla author Yanfang Ye author Xiangliang Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bao-etal-2026-policyllm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.107/ 2026-07 2249 2274 BOOKAGENT: Orchestrating Safety-Aware Visual Narratives via Multi-Agent 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Comprehensive Benchmarking of Long-Form Speech Generation in Diverse Scenarios Changhao Pan author Rui Yang author Han Wang author Zhuan Zhou author Xuming He author Wenxiang Guo author Ziyue Jiang author Ruiqi Li author Yu Zhang author Chenyuhao Wen author Ke Lei author Xiang Yin author Jingyu Lu author Zhiyuan Zhu author Zhou Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pan-etal-2026-comprehensive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.112/ 2026-07 2365 2400 CAST: Achieving Stable LLM-based Text Analysis for Data Analytics Jinxiang Xie author Zihao Li author Wei He author Rui Ding author Shi Han author Dongmei Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-etal-2026-cast https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.113/ 2026-07 2401 2420 WavAlign: Enhancing Intelligence and Expressiveness in Spoken Dialogue Models via Adaptive Hybrid Post-Training Yifu Chen author Shengpeng Ji author Qian Chen author Tianle Liang author Yangzhuo Li author Ziqing Wang author Wen Wang author Jingyu Lu author Haoxiao Wang author Xueyi Pu author Fan Zhuo author Zhou Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-wavalign https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.114/ 2026-07 2421 2444 OmniCompliance-100K: A 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author Siqi Bao author Zhao Cao author Zheng Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qian-etal-2026-aware https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.120/ 2026-07 2530 2540 Alignment Tuning for Large Language Models: A Data-Centric Lens on Alignment Data Pipelines Hwanjun Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-2026-alignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.121/ 2026-07 2541 2561 Purging the Gray Zone: Latent-Geometric Denoising for Precise Knowledge Boundary 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yang-etal-2026-temporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.123/ 2026-07 2577 2596 Towards LLM Agents for Earth Observation Chia Hsiang Kao author Wenting Zhao author Cheryl Lam author Aarush Umap author Shreelekha Revankar author Samuel Speas author Snehal Bhagat author Rajeev Datta author Cheng Perng Phoo author Utkarsh Mall author Carl Vondrick author Kavita Bala author Bharath Hariharan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kao-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.124/ 2026-07 2597 2611 Jamendo-MT-QA: A Benchmark for Multi-Track Comparative Music Question Answering Junyoung Koh author Jaeyun Lee author Soo Yong Kim author Gyu Hyeong Choi author Jung In Koh author Jordan Phillips author Yeonjin Lee 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Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-fusesearch https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.143/ 2026-07 2954 2967 Revisiting Self-Play Preference Optimization: On the Role of Prompt Difficulty Yao Xiao author Jung-jae Kim author Roy Ka-Wei Lee author Lidong Bing author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-revisiting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.144/ 2026-07 2968 2980 Multi-Agent Comedy Club: Investigating Community Discussion Effects on LLM Humor Generation Shiwei Hong author Lingyao Li author Ethan Z Rong author Chenxinran Shen author Zhicong Lu author 2026-07 text Findings 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editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-entropy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.206/ 2026-07 4239 4251 TopoDIM: One-shot Topology Generation of Diverse Interaction Modes for Multi-Agent Systems Rui Sun author Jie Ding author Chenghua Gong author Tianjun Gu author Yihang Jiang author Juyuan Zhang author Liming Pan author Linyuan Lü author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-topodim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.207/ 2026-07 4252 4269 AVA: Attentive VLM Agent for Mastering StarCraft II Weiyu Ma author Yuqian Fu author Zecheng Zhang author Bernard Ghanem author 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4788 DIFFA-2: A Practical Diffusion Large Language Model for General Audio Understanding Jiaming Zhou author Xuxin Cheng author Shiwan Zhao author Yuhang Jia author Cao Liu author Ke Zeng author Xunliang Cai author Yong Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-diffa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.235/ 2026-07 4789 4805 Beyond Marginal Distributions: A Framework to Evaluate the Representativeness of Demographic-Aligned LLMs Tristan Williams author Franziska Weeber author Sebastian Padó author Alan Akbik author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational 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Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-guess https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.238/ 2026-07 4848 4861 Hi-ZFO: Hierarchical Zeroth- and First-Order LLM Fine-Tuning via Importance-Guided Tensor Selection Feihu Jin author Ying Tan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-tan-2026-hi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.239/ 2026-07 4862 4876 MCP-Guard: A Multi-Stage Defense-in-Depth Framework for Securing Model Context Protocol in Agentic AI Wenpeng Xing author Zhonghao Qi author Yupeng 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California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 du-etal-2026-half https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.241/ 2026-07 4890 4903 F-Actor: Controllable Conversational Behavior in Full-Duplex Models Maike Züfle author Ondrej Klejch author Nicholas Sanders author Jan Niehues author Alexandra Birch author Tsz Kin Lam author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zufle-etal-2026-f https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.242/ 2026-07 4904 4921 APEX: Learning Adaptive Priorities for Multi-Objective Alignment in Vision-Language Generation Dongliang Chen author Xinlin Zhuang author Junjie Xu author Luojian Xie author Zehui Wang author Jiaxi Zhuang author Haolin Yang author Liang Dou author Xiao He author Xingjiao Wu author 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David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.248/ 2026-07 5049 5073 Uncovering Strategic Egoism Behaviors in Large Language Models Yaoyuan Zhang author Zonghao Ying author Aishan Liu author Jian Yang author Tianlin Li author Yaodong Yang author Xianglong Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-uncovering https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.249/ 2026-07 5074 5087 EMA: An Episodic Memory Agent for Efficient and Selective Memory Hongyi Lan author Jiaqi Song author Zhengjia Zhong author Hui Li author Hong Liu author Xianming Lin author Rongrong Ji 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.251/ 2026-07 5103 5116 SrDetection: A Self-Referential Framework for Data Leakage Detection in Code Large Language Models Shuaimin Li author Liyang Fan author Zeyang li author Zhuoyue Wan author Yufang Lin author Shiwen Ni author Feiteng Fang author Hamid Alinejad-Rokny author Yuanfeng Song author Kun Jing author Chen Jason Zhang author Min Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-srdetection https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.252/ 2026-07 5117 5129 Memo-SQL: Structured Decomposition and Experience-Driven Self-Correction for Training-Free NL2SQL Yang Zerui author Weichuan Wang author Yanwei Xu author Linqi Song author Yudai Matsuda author Wei Han author Bo Bai author 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RAG-KT: Cross-platform Explainable Knowledge Tracing with Multi-view Fusion Retrieval Generation Zhiyi Duan author Hongyu Yuan author Rui Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 duan-etal-2026-rag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.257/ 2026-07 5217 5232 Conformal Event Prediction with Temporal Knowledge Graph Cheng Hu author Cong Cao author Fangfang Yuan author Diandian Guo author Pin Xu author Yu Liu author Yanbing Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-conformal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.258/ 2026-07 5233 5248 Infinite Babble: Inflating 3D Vision-Language Model Inference Overhead via Adversarial Geometric Perturbation Shuoyang Sun author Jiaxin Hong author Yv Zhang author Kuofeng Gao author Hao Fang author Fan Mo author Bin Chen author Shu-Tao Xia author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-infinite https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.259/ 2026-07 5249 5267 Uncertainty-Calibrated Elastic Alignment for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Missing Modalities Kang He author Yuzhe Ding author Rao Fu author Yukang Feng author Kaipeng Zhang author Yiming Liu author Fei Li author Chong Teng author Donghong Ji author 2026-07 text Findings of the 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Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-k https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.275/ 2026-07 5574 5612 V-GameGym: Visual Game Generation for Code Large Language Models Wei Zhang author Jian Yang author Renshuai Tao author Linzheng Chai author Shuyue Guo author Jiajun Wu author Xiaoming Chen author Ganqu Cui author Ning Ding author Xander Xu author H U Wei author Bowen Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-v https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.276/ 2026-07 5613 5641 UCoder: Unsupervised Code Generation by Internal Probing of Large Language Models Jiajun Wu author Jian Yang author Wei Zhang author Linzheng Chai author Yuchi Ma author Ensheng Shi author Yuqing Ma author Zhoujun Li author Xianglong Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-ucoder https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.277/ 2026-07 5642 5655 Deciphering Cultural Representations in Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders Chenye Zou author Difan Jiao author Lijie Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zou-etal-2026-deciphering https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.278/ 2026-07 5656 5677 Fin-Bias: Comprehensive Evaluation for LLM Decision-Making under human bias in Finance Domain Xiaoyu Hu author Jinman Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-zhao-2026-fin https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.279/ 2026-07 5678 5694 Duplicate-Aware Controlled Code Generation: Enhancing Copyright Protection with Targeted Reordering Beam Search in LLMs Junbo Fu author Guoshuai Zhao author Linkang Yang author Yunqi Mi author Xueming Qian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fu-etal-2026-duplicate https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.280/ 2026-07 5695 5707 Graph-Based Chain-of-Thought Pruning for Reducing Redundant Reflections in Reasoning LLMs Hongyuan Yuan author Xinran He author Run Shao author Bolei He author Xianwei Xue author Mengke Chen author Qiutong Pan author Haiwei Wang author Haifeng Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-graph-based https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.281/ 2026-07 5708 5723 Too Good to be Bad: On the Failure of LLMs to Role-Play Villains Zihao Yi author Qingxuan Jiang author Ruotian Ma author Xingyu Chen author Qu Yang author Mengru Wang author Fanghua Ye author Ying Shen author Zhaopeng Tu author Xiaolong Li author Liefeng Bo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yi-etal-2026-good https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.282/ 2026-07 5724 5734 AudioPrivacy: Parallel Audio Dataset for Speaker Profiling with Diverse Audio Types and Rich Attributes Jiabei He author Yanzhe Zhang author Jiaming Zhou author Hui Wang author Haoqin Sun author Yong Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-audioprivacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.283/ 2026-07 5735 5748 Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning with Pipelined Error-Mitigated Aggregation and Matrix-Wise Freezing Haoran Wang author Xiong Wang author Yuqing Li author Jing Chen author Junyi Zhang author Nan Yan author Kun He author Wei Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-federated https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.284/ 2026-07 5749 5762 RTCFake: Speech Deepfake Detection in Real-Time Communication Jun Xue author Zhuolin Yi author Yihuan Huang author Yanzhen Ren author Yujie Chen author Cunhang Fan author Zicheng Su author Yongcheng Zhang author Bo Cai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xue-etal-2026-rtcfake https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.285/ 2026-07 5763 5775 Progress Ratio Embeddings: An Impatience Signal for Robust Length Control in Neural Text Generation Ivanhoé Botcazou author Tassadit Amghar author Sylvain Lamprier author Frédéric Saubion author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 botcazou-etal-2026-progress https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.286/ 2026-07 5776 5789 LeakDojo: Decoding the Leakage Threats of RAG Systems Maosen Zhang author Jianshuo Dong author Lu Boting author Li Wenyue author Xiaoping Zhang author Tianwei Zhang author Han Qiu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-leakdojo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.287/ 2026-07 5790 5811 CodeWiki: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Generate Holistic Documentation for Large-Scale Codebases Anh Nguyen Hoang author Minh Le-Anh author Bach Le author Nghi D Q Bui author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hoang-etal-2026-codewiki https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.288/ 2026-07 5812 5827 ARISE: An Adaptive Resolution-Aware Metric for Test-Time Scaling Evaluation 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Zuo author Lei Zhang author Hailiang Sun author Shengzhi Huo author Changyu Dong author Xin Wang author Bo Wang author Hao Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zuo-etal-2026-speak https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.439/ 2026-07 9039 9053 EmotionTalk: An Interactive Chinese Multimodal Emotion Dataset With Rich Annotations Haoqin Sun author Jinghua Zhao author Xuechen Wang author Shiwan Zhao author Jiaming Zhou author Hui Wang author Xi Yang author Yequan Wang author Yonghua Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-emotiontalk https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.440/ 2026-07 9054 9071 What Prompts Don’t Say: Understanding and Managing Underspecification in LLM Prompts Chenyang Yang author Yike Shi author Qianou Ma author Michael Xieyang Liu author Christian Kaestner author Tongshuang Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-prompts https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.441/ 2026-07 9072 9101 AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling Jiacheng Shi author Hongfei Du author Xinyuan Song author Y Alicia Hong author Yanfu Zhang author Ashley Gao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-affectcodec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.442/ 2026-07 9102 9124 Agentic Conversational Search with Contextualized Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning Fengran Mo author Yifan Gao author Sha Li author Hansi Zeng author Xin Liu author Zhaoxuan Tan author Xian Li author Jianshu Chen author Dakuo Wang author Meng Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mo-etal-2026-agentic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.443/ 2026-07 9125 9138 Do Multimodal RAG Systems Leak Data? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Membership Inference and Image Caption Retrieval Attacks Ali Al-Lawati author Suhang Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 al-lawati-wang-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.444/ 2026-07 9139 9154 PED: Route-Decoupled Diagnostics for Persona Consistency in Spoken Agents Weihao Liu author Junrui Wei author Zhao Zhang author Ju Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-ped https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.445/ 2026-07 9155 9168 Interpretable Semantic Gradients in SSD: A PCA Sweep Approach and a Case Study on AI Discourse Hubert Plisiecki author Maria Leniarska author Jan Piotrowski author Marcin Zajenkowski author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 plisiecki-etal-2026-interpretable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.446/ 2026-07 9169 9177 Self-Sum: Teaching an Agent to Decide Itself When and What to Summarize Hongru Wang author Rui Wang author Jushi Kai author Boyang Xue author Yongqi Li author Shijue Huang author Xiaoteng Ma author Jeff Z Pan author Amos Storkey author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.447/ 2026-07 9178 9192 GreekMMLU: A Native-Sourced Multitask Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in Greek Yang Zhang author Mersin Konomi author Christos Xypolopoulos author Konstantinos Divriotis author Konstantinos Skianis author Giannis Nikolentzos author Giorgos Stamou author Guokan Shang author Michalis Vazirgiannis author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-greekmmlu https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.448/ 2026-07 9193 9217 User-Assistant Bias in LLMs Xu Pan author Jingxuan Fan author Zidi Xiong author Ely Hahami author Jorin Overwiening author Ziqian Xie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pan-etal-2026-user https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.449/ 2026-07 9218 9241 ICLAD: In-Context Learning with Comparison-Guidance for Audio Deepfake Detection Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou author Yi Zhu author Surya Koppisetti author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chou-etal-2026-iclad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.450/ 2026-07 9242 9256 ReStyle-TTS: Relative and Continuous Style Control for Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis Haitao Li author Chunxiang Jin author Chenglin Li author Wenhao Guan author Zhengxing Huang author Xie Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-restyle https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.451/ 2026-07 9257 9269 Who Gets Which Message? Auditing Demographic Bias in LLM-Generated Targeted Text Tunazzina Islam author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 islam-2026-gets https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.452/ 2026-07 9270 9297 FACTS: Table Summarization via Offline Template Generation with Agentic Workflows Ye Yuan author Mohammad Amin Shabani author Siqi Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-facts https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.453/ 2026-07 9298 9315 How Language Models Conflate 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California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.455/ 2026-07 9348 9372 AlphaQuanter: An End-to-End Tool-Augmented Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Stock Trading Zheye Deng author Weixiang Yan author Changlong Yu author Jiashu Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 deng-etal-2026-alphaquanter https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.456/ 2026-07 9373 9394 Distribution Shift Alignment Helps LLMs Simulate Survey Response Distributions Ji Huang author Mengfei LI author Shuai Shao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David 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editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-generalizable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.586/ 2026-07 12070 12091 Distilling the Essence: Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Sequence Truncation Wei-Rui Chen author Vignesh Kothapalli author Ata Fatahibaarzi author Hejian Sang author Shao Tang author Qingquan Song author Zhipeng Wang author Muhammad Abdul-Mageed author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-distilling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.587/ 2026-07 12092 12122 Beyond Cross-Modal Alignment: Measuring and Leveraging Modality Gap in Vision-Language Models Hanqi Yan author Xiangxiang Cui author Lu Yin author Jindong Gu author Paul Pu Liang author Yulan He author Yifei Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yan-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.588/ 2026-07 12123 12138 Data Swarms: Optimizable Generation of Synthetic Evaluation Data Shangbin Feng author Yike Wang author Weijia Shi author Yulia Tsvetkov author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-data https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.589/ 2026-07 12139 12157 Concept rather than Document: Context Compression via AMR-based Conceptual Entropy Kaize Shi author Xueyao Sun author Xiaohui Tao author Lin Li author Qika Lin author Guandong Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-concept https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.590/ 2026-07 12158 12173 Can LLMs Understand the Impact of Trauma? Costs and Benefits of LLMs Coding the Interviews of Firearm Violence Survivors Jessica H Zhu author Shayla Stringfield author Vahe Zaprosyan author Michael Wagner author Michel Cukier author Joseph Richardson author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.591/ 2026-07 12174 12192 “I Don’t Know What to Say”: A Fact-Filling Questionnaire Method to Help Non-Experts Talk to LegalAI Assistant Yuting Huang author Yiquan Wu author Meitong Guo author Ang Li author Xiaozhong Liu author Keting Yin author Fei Wu author Kun Kuang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-dont https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.592/ 2026-07 12193 12210 BnMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Bengali Saman Sarker Joy author Swakkhar Shatabda author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 joy-shatabda-2026-bnmmlu https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.593/ 2026-07 12211 12230 Diagnosing LLMs via Information Spectrum Analysis: Tail Behavior and the Effects of Side Information Yuuki Tachioka author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tachioka-2026-diagnosing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.594/ 2026-07 12231 12253 Scaling Collaborative Effort with Agents Shannon Zejiang Shen author Valerie Chen author Ken Gu author Alexis Ross author Zixian Ma author Jillian Ross author Alex Gu author Chenglei Si author Wayne Chi author Andi Peng author Jocelyn J Shen author Ameet Talwalkar author Tongshuang Wu author David Sontag author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shen-etal-2026-scaling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.595/ 2026-07 12254 12271 CriticSearch: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Search Agents via a Retrospective Critic Yaocheng Zhang author Haohuan Huang author Zijun Song author Zijie Zhao author Qichao Zhang author Yuanheng Zhu author Dongbin Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-criticsearch https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.596/ 2026-07 12272 12290 Double-Edged Sword or Sharp Tool? Designing and Evaluating Triadic LLM-Teacher Collaboration for K-12 Writing at Scale Canran Wang author Yuwen Yang author Zhen Wang author Ming MA author Ding Yu author Chentai Wang author Keman Huang author Xiaoyong Du author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-double https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.597/ 2026-07 12291 12312 IntroLM: Introspective Language Models via Prefilling-Time Self-Evaluation Hossein Hosseini Kasnavieh author Gholamreza Haffari author Christopher Leckie author Adel N Toosi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kasnavieh-etal-2026-introlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.598/ 2026-07 12313 12326 A Herd of Language Models Makes a Better Zero-shot Annotator for Clinical Named Entity Recognition Seiji Shimizu author Shoko Wakamiya author Eiji Aramaki author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shimizu-etal-2026-herd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.599/ 2026-07 12327 12344 P2P: A Poison-to-Poison Remedy for Reliable Backdoor Defense in LLMs Shuai Zhao author Xinyi Wu author Shiqian Zhao author Xiaobao Wu author Zhongliang Guo author Yanhao Jia author Anh Tuan Luu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-p2p https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.600/ 2026-07 12345 12360 Learning Temporally-Aware Sample Weights for Preference Optimization Mengyang Li author Xudong Zhou author Pinlong Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-learning-temporally https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.601/ 2026-07 12361 12377 ToolPRMBench: Evaluating and Advancing Process Reward Models for Tool-using Agents Dawei Li author Yuguang Yao author Zhen Tan author Huan Liu author Ruocheng Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-toolprmbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.602/ 2026-07 12378 12391 Adapt to Thrive! Adaptive Power-Mean Policy Optimization for Improved LLM Reasoning Yiming Huang author Zhenbo Shi author Shuzheng Gao author Cuiyun Gao author Peiyi Han author Chuanyi Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-adapt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.603/ 2026-07 12392 12419 LEAF: Towards Lightweight Explainable Hateful Video Detection via Self-Grounding CoT Guided Stage-Wise Distillation Jian Lang author Rongpei Hong author Meihui Zhong author Kaiju Li author Ting Zhong author Qiang Gao author Fan Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational 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Learning-Based Sample Selection Improves Transfer Learning in Low-resource and Imbalanced Clinical Settings Wei Han author David Martinez Iraola author Anna Khanina author Lawrence Cavedon author Karin Verspoor author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-rads https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.608/ 2026-07 12501 12516 Watch Out Your Industrial Copilots: Stealthy Backdoor Attack Against LLM-Based PLC Code Generation Xinyuan An author Liu Xiaoxia author Dongxia Wang author Zhanhang Xiong author Wenhai Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 an-etal-2026-watch https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.609/ 2026-07 12517 12536 Balancing Classification and Calibration Performance in Decision-Making LLMs via Calibration Aware Reinforcement Learning Duygu Nur Yaldiz author Evangelia Spiliopoulou author Zheng Qi author Siddharth Varia author Srikanth Doss author Nikolaos Pappas author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yaldiz-etal-2026-balancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.610/ 2026-07 12537 12553 Redefining Machine Simultaneous Interpretation: From Incremental Translation to Human-Like Strategies Qianen Zhang author Zeyu Yang author Satoshi Nakamura author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-redefining https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.611/ 2026-07 12554 12577 ChunQiuTR: Time-Keyed Temporal Retrieval in Classical Chinese Annals Yihao Wang author Zijian He author Jie Ren author Keze Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-chunqiutr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.612/ 2026-07 12578 12601 OFFSIDE: Benchmarking Unlearning Misinformation in Multimodal Large Language Models Hao Zheng author Zirui Pang author Ling Li author Zhijie Deng author Yuhan Pu author Zhaowei Zhu author Xiaobo Xia author Jiaheng Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-offside https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.613/ 2026-07 12602 12620 PedagogyBench: A Cognitive-Driven Benchmark for Multimodal Instructional Video Understanding Xiaokang Jin author Jia Zhu author Jingjiang Liu author Yabing Shi author Jueqi Guan author Hao Chen author Pasquale De Meo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-etal-2026-pedagogybench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.614/ 2026-07 12621 12647 FeedEval: Pedagogically Aligned Evaluation of LLM-Generated Essay Feedback SeongYeub Chu author Jongwoo Kim author Mun Yong Yi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chu-etal-2026-feedeval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.615/ 2026-07 12648 12674 Probing Multimodal Large Language Models on Cognitive Biases in Chinese Short-Video Misinformation Jen-tse Huang author Chang Chen author Shiyang Lai author Wenxuan Wang author Michelle R Kaufman author Mark Dredze author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.616/ 2026-07 12675 12696 Emotion–Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations via Semantic Decoupling and Alignment Tianxiang Ma author Weijie Feng author Xinyu Wang author Zhiyong Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-etal-2026-emotion https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.617/ 2026-07 12697 12711 Failure makes the agent stronger: Enhancing Accuracy through Structured Reflection for Reliable Tool Interactions Junhao Su author Yuanliang Wan author Junwei Yang author Hengyu Shi author Tianyang Han author Yurui Qiu author Junfeng Luo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-failure https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.618/ 2026-07 12712 12734 Feedback to Reasoning: LLM-Assisted Molecular Optimization with Domain Feedback and Historical Reasoning Wenhan Gao author Xiran Fan author Chin-Chia Michael Yeh author Jiarui Sun author Yuzhong Chen author Menghai Pan author Mahashweta Das author Yi Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-feedback https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.619/ 2026-07 12735 12754 Iterative Formalization and Planning in Partially Observable Environments Liancheng Gong author Wang Bill Zhu author Jesse Thomason author Li Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gong-etal-2026-iterative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.620/ 2026-07 12755 12783 StructKV: Preserving the Structural Skeleton for Scalable Long-Context Inference Zhirui Chen author Peiyang Liu author Ling Shao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-structkv https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.621/ 2026-07 12784 12797 Correct, Concise and Complete: Multi-stage Training For Adaptive Reasoning Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina author Ren Pang author Neha Anna John author Michael Bohlke-Schneider author Momchil Hardalov author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rakotonirina-etal-2026-correct https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.622/ 2026-07 12798 12810 At Your Own PACE: A Causal Framework for Evaluating EQ in LLMs Lei Lyu author Shengling Wang author Ke Chao author Yichao Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lyu-etal-2026-pace https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.623/ 2026-07 12811 12826 Identifying Collective Intelligence Factor in LLM Agent Groups for Generalizable Multi-Agent System Design Zhilun Zhou author Zihan Liu author Jiahe Liu author Yihan Wang author Qingyu Shao author Fengli Xu author Depeng Jin author Yong Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-identifying https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.624/ 2026-07 12827 12842 Rethinking Parameter Sharing for LLM Fine-Tuning with Multiple LoRAs Hao Ban author Kaiyi Ji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ban-ji-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.625/ 2026-07 12843 12863 Shorten After You’re Right: Lazy Length Penalties for Reasoning RL Danlong Yuan author Tian Xie author Shaohan Huang author Huishuai Zhang author Zhuocheng Gong author Chong Luo author Furu Wei author Dongyan Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-shorten https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.626/ 2026-07 12864 12877 MedDCR: Learning to Design Agentic Workflows for Medical Coding Jiyang Zheng author Islam Nassar author Thanh Vu author Xu Zhong author Yang Lin author Tongliang Liu author Long Duong author Yuan-Fang Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-meddcr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.627/ 2026-07 12878 12893 TokenPenalty: Alleviating Attention Sinks and Positional Decay in LVLMs Xiaofeng Zhang author Yuanchao Zhu author Qiyan Zhao author Xiaosong Yuan author Jiawei Cao author Xuhang Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-tokenpenalty https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.628/ 2026-07 12894 12906 Beyond Screenshots: Evaluating VLMs’ Understanding of UI Animations Chen Liang author Xirui Jiang author Naihao Deng author Eytan Adar author Anhong Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liang-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.629/ 2026-07 12907 12927 MemWeaver: Weaving Hybrid Memories for Traceable Long-Horizon Agentic Reasoning Juexiang Ye author Xue Li author Yang Xinyu author Chengkai Huang author Lanshun Nie author Lina Yao author Dechen Zhan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ye-etal-2026-memweaver https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.630/ 2026-07 12928 12956 From Mimesis to Metamorphosis: Evolving VLM Judges via In-Context Comparing and Knowledge Internalization Juntuo Wang author Yuming Qiao author Yifan Yang author Lunxi Yuan author Liang Luo author Dan Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mimesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.631/ 2026-07 12957 12971 Generative Text-to-Image Retrieval via Hierarchical Identifiers and Semantic Internalization Jie Huang author Junjie Wang author Xin Liao author Ziyou Jiang author Wenshuo Wang author Shoubin Li author Qing Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-generative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.632/ 2026-07 12972 12986 Bridging Reasoning and Action: Hybrid LLM–RL Framework for Efficient Cross-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Yangyang Zhao author Linfan Dai author Li Cai author Bowen Xing author Libo Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-bridging https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.633/ 2026-07 12987 13003 JudgeAgent: Beyond Static Benchmarks for Knowledge-Driven and Dynamic LLM Evaluation Zhichao Shi author Xuhui Jiang author Chengjin Xu author Cangli Yao author Shengjie Ma author Yinghan Shen author Zixuan Li author Jian Guo author Yuanzhuo Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-judgeagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.634/ 2026-07 13004 13030 Retrieve Only Relevant Tables Whether Few or Many: Adaptive Table Retrieval Method Taehee Kim author Seungbin Yang author Jihwan Kim author Jaegul Choo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-retrieve https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.635/ 2026-07 13031 13054 Code-Switching Information Retrieval: Benchmarks, Analysis, and the Limits of Current Retrievers Qingcheng Zeng author Yuheng Lu author Zeqi Zhou author Heli Qi author Puxuan Yu author Fuheng Zhao author Hitomi Yanaka author Weihao Xuan author Naoto Yokoya author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zeng-etal-2026-code https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.636/ 2026-07 13055 13071 WebUncertainty: Dual-Level Uncertainty Driven Planning and Reasoning For Autonomous Web Agent Lingfeng Zhang author Yongan Sun author Jinpeng Hu author Hui Ma author Ying Yang author Kuien Liu author Zenglin Shi author Meng Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-webuncertainty https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.637/ 2026-07 13072 13082 Multi-Faceted Self-Consistent Preference Alignment for Query Rewriting in Conversational Search Zhiyu Cao author Peifeng Li author Qiaoming Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.638/ 2026-07 13083 13100 CogNet-KG: Empowering Tutoring Dialogues with a Cognitively-Structured Knowledge Graph for STEM Learning Ding Yu author Yu Lu author Tengju Li author Shasha Xiong author Shengquan Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-cognet https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.639/ 2026-07 13101 13121 From 128K to 4M: Efficient Training of Ultra-Long Context Large Language Models Chejian Xu author Wei Ping author Peng Xu author Zihan Liu author Boxin Wang author Mohammad Shoeybi author Bo Li author Bryan Catanzaro author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-128k https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.640/ 2026-07 13122 13133 A Few Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch: Preventing Global Entropy Collapse Driven by a Small Set of Tokens in LLM Reasoning Jaeeun Jang author Hansle Lee author Sangmin Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jang-etal-2026-bad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.641/ 2026-07 13134 13154 Efficient Training for Cross-lingual Speech Language Models Yan Zhou author Qingkai Fang author Yun Hong author Yang Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-efficient https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.642/ 2026-07 13155 13167 Empirical Analysis of Task Mixture Effects in Small-scale Instruction Tuning: A Statistical Approach Jeesu Jung author Sangkeun Jung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jung-jung-2026-empirical https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.643/ 2026-07 13168 13186 ResearchBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Scientific Discovery via Inspiration-Based Task Decomposition Yujie Liu author Zonglin Yang author Tong Xie author Jinjie Ni author Ben Gao author Yuqiang Li author Shixiang Tang author Wanli Ouyang author Erik Cambria author Dongzhan Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-researchbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.644/ 2026-07 13187 13207 GraphLoRA: Structure-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Model Recommendation Lin Mu author Guoji Wang author Li Ni author Lei Sang author Zhize Wu author Peiquan Jin author Yiwen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mu-etal-2026-graphlora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.645/ 2026-07 13208 13218 Spotlight and Shadow: Attention-Guided Dual-Anchor Introspective Decoding for MLLM Hallucination Mitigation Yebo Wu author Han Jin author Zhijiang Guo author Li Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-spotlight https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.646/ 2026-07 13219 13233 StreamMeCo: Long-Term Agent Memory Compression for Efficient Streaming Video Understanding Junxi Wang author Te Sun author Jiayi Zhu author Junxian Li author Haowen Xu author Zichen Wen author Xuming Hu author Zhiyu li author Linfeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-streammeco https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.647/ 2026-07 13234 13251 Reflective RAG: Self-Evaluation Driven Strategy Optimization in Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Haiyan Wu author Chenchen Wang author Chaoqun Sun author Chengxiong Lu author Yan-Hong Chen author Zhiqiang Zhang author Xiaoqing Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-reflective https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.648/ 2026-07 13252 13267 Meta-Reasoner: Dynamic Guidance for Optimized Inference-time Reasoning in Large Language Models Yuan Sui author Yufei He author Tri Cao author Sophia Simeng Han author Yulin Chen author Bryan Hooi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sui-etal-2026-meta https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.649/ 2026-07 13268 13286 Polynomial Expansion Rank Adaptation: Enhancing Low-Rank Fine-Tuning with High-Order Interactions Wenhao Zhang author Lin Mu author Li Ni author Peiquan Jin author Yiwen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-polynomial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.650/ 2026-07 13287 13303 Efficient Test-Time Scaling via Temporal Reasoning Aggregation Jiakun Li author Xingwei He author Kefan Li author Hongzheng Chai author Hongyue Yu author Yuan Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-efficient https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.651/ 2026-07 13304 13318 A Survey on MLLM-based Visually Rich Document Understanding: Methods, Challenges, and Emerging Trends Yihao Ding author Siwen Luo author Yue Dai author Yanbei Jiang author Zechuan Li author Qiang Sun author Geoffrey Martin author Wei Liu author Yifan Peng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 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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Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-agentic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.654/ 2026-07 13355 13370 TrajGuard: Streaming Hidden-state Trajectory Detection for Decoding-time Jailbreak Defense Cheng Liu author Xiaolei Liu author Xingyu Li author Bangzhou Xin author Kangyi Ding author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-trajguard https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.655/ 2026-07 13371 13388 DeepPrune: Parallel Scaling without Inter-trace Redundancy Shangqing Tu author Yaxuan Li author Yushi Bai author Lei Hou author Juanzi Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tu-etal-2026-deepprune https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.656/ 2026-07 13389 13403 Contrastive Decoding Mitigates Score Range Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge Yoshinari Fujinuma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fujinuma-2026-contrastive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.657/ 2026-07 13404 13418 ContextCheck: Sentence-Level Faithfulness Verification with Context-Aware Disambiguation Yueqin Yin author Yaxi Li author Xin Liu author Xun Wang author Kaiqiang Song author Simin Ma author Shujian Liu author Sathish Reddy Indurthi author Haoyun Deng author Pengcheng He author Mingyuan Zhou author Song Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yin-etal-2026-contextcheck https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.658/ 2026-07 13419 13468 Less Noise, More Voice: Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning via Instruction Purification Yiju Guo author Tianyi Hu author Zexu Sun author Yankai Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-less https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.659/ 2026-07 13469 13482 MAST: A Multi-View Alignment Strategy for Optimal Transport-Based Contrastive Clustering of Short Text Zijian Zheng author Yonghe Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-lu-2026-mast https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.660/ 2026-07 13483 13500 AICA-Bench: Holistically Examining the Capabilities of VLMs in Affective Image Content Analysis Dong She author Xianrong Yao author Liqun Chen author Jinghe Yu author Yang Gao author Zhanpeng Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 she-etal-2026-aica https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.661/ 2026-07 13501 13528 You Only Need One Single Token to Refine Safety Alignment Wenqian Yu author Shuo Chen author Zhijiang Li author Zhipeng Wang author Jindong Gu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-need https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.662/ 2026-07 13529 13545 CrisPrune: Combining Contextual Relevance and Intrinsic Saliency for Efficient Visual Token Pruning in MLLMs Ziniu Liu author Shuheng Zhou author Mingqing Liu author Hao Deng author Huijia Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-crisprune https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.663/ 2026-07 13546 13564 Beyond Topology: Generative Node Importance Estimation via Structure-Guided Semantic Reasoning Kuofei Fang author Siyan Wu author Yu Guo author Bin Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fang-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.664/ 2026-07 13565 13584 AGTAO: Robust and Stabilized LLM Unlearning via Adversarial Gating Training with Adaptive Orthogonality Pengyu Li author Lingling Zhang author Zhitao Gao author Yanrui Wu author Yuxuan Dong author Huan Liu author Bifan Wei author Jun Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-agtao https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.665/ 2026-07 13585 13600 LLMs Meet Isolation Kernel: Lightweight, Learning-free Binary Embeddings for Fast Retrieval Zhibo Zhang author Yang Xu author Kai Ming Ting author Cam-Tu Nguyen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.666/ 2026-07 13601 13623 BOLT: Benchmarking Open-World Learning for Text Classification Chuan Qin author Xi Chen author Jinpeng Li author Hengshu Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qin-etal-2026-bolt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.667/ 2026-07 13624 13658 MobileBench-OL: A Comprehensive Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Mobile GUI Agents in Real-World Environment Qinzhuo Wu author Zhizhuo Yang author Hanhao Li author Pengzhi Gao author Wei Liu author Jian Luan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-mobilebench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.668/ 2026-07 13659 13693 CondenseFlow: Scalable Latent Space Collaboration via Semantic Compression for Multi-Agent Systems Xiaoyu Chen author Fengge Wu author Zhao Junsuo author Yun Fan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-condenseflow https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.669/ 2026-07 13694 13712 MAXS: Meta-Adaptive Exploration with LLM Agents Jian Zhang author Zhiyuan Wang author Zhangqi Wang author Yu He author Haoran Luo author li Yuan author Lingling Zhang author Rui Mao author Qika Lin author Jun Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-maxs https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.670/ 2026-07 13713 13731 Leveraging Human and Machine Preferences for Zero-shot Detection of AI-Generated Text Lei Jiang author Desheng Wu author Xiaolong Zheng author Cuicui Luo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-leveraging https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.671/ 2026-07 13732 13750 MelTrim: Coarse-to-Fine Data Pruning for Speech Classification Shaobo Wang author Tianle Niu author Xuan Ouyang author Xintong Li author Zhengkun Ge author Yue Min author Xiaoqian Liu author Hankun Wang author Linfeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-meltrim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.672/ 2026-07 13751 13765 MINED: Probing and Updating with Multimodal Time-Sensitive Knowledge for Large Multimodal Models Kailin Jiang author Ning Jiang author Yuntao Du author Yuchen Ren author Yuchen Li author Yifan Gao author Jinhe Bi author Yunpu Ma author Bin Li author Lei Liu author Qing Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-mined https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.673/ 2026-07 13766 13795 Beyond Output Confidence: Epistemic-Aware Hallucination Detection with Answer-Level Signals Jieran Li author Xiuyuan Hu author Yang Zhao author Dongbiao Sun author Hao Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-beyond-output https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.674/ 2026-07 13796 13806 PerfCoder: Large Language Models for Interpretable Code Performance Optimization Jiuding Yang author Shengyao Lu author Hongxuan Liu author Shayan Shirahmad Gale Bagi author Zahra Fazel author Tomasz Czajkowski author Di Niu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-perfcoder https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.675/ 2026-07 13807 13823 MIPIC: Matryoshka Representation Learning via Self-Distilled Intra-Relational and Progressive Information Chaining Phung Gia Huy author Hai An Vu author Minh-Phuc Truong author Thang Duc Tran author Linh Ngo Van author Thanh Hong Nguyen author Trung Le author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huy-etal-2026-mipic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.676/ 2026-07 13824 13838 Discovering the Gems in Early Layers: Accelerating Long-Context LLMs with 1000x Input Token Reduction Zhenmei Shi author Yifei Ming author Xuan-Phi Nguyen author Yingyu Liang author Shafiq Joty author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-discovering https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.677/ 2026-07 13839 13857 Self-Reflection Improves Safety of Large Reasoning Models Qiang Huang author Wei Zhai author Feng Huang author Dejing Dou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.678/ 2026-07 13858 13874 WildGraphBench: Benchmarking GraphRAG with Wild-Source Corpora Pengyu Wang author Benfeng Xu author Licheng Zhang author Shaohan Wang author Mingxuan Du author Chiwei Zhu author Zhendong Mao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-wildgraphbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.679/ 2026-07 13875 13890 CRPS: Curriculum Replay via Progressive Suffixes from Successful Trajectories for Long-Horizon LLM Agents Zijing Zhang author Xiajie Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-yang-2026-crps https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.680/ 2026-07 13891 13904 D-Artemis: A Deliberative Cognitive Framework for Mobile GUI Multi-Agents Hongze Mi author Yibo Feng author WenJie Lu author Yuqi Wang author Jinyuan Li author Song Cao author He Cui author Tengfei Tian author Xuelin Zhang author Haotian Luo author Di Sun author Jun Fang author Hua Chai author Naiqiang Tan author Gang Pan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mi-etal-2026-artemis https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.681/ 2026-07 13905 13931 Temporal Flattening in LLM-Generated Text: Comparing Human and LLM Writing Trajectories Zhanwei Cao author YeoJin Go author Yifan Hu author Shanu Sushmita author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-temporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.682/ 2026-07 13932 13956 Beyond Superficial Tests: Adversarial Refinement for Reliable Property-Based Testing Xiao Li author Runlin Liu author Zhe Zhang author Xiang Gao author Hailong Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-beyond-superficial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.683/ 2026-07 13957 13974 FAITH: Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness Xiaoning Dong author Chengyan Wu author Yajie Wen author Yu Chen author Yun Xue author Zhang Jing author Wei Xu author Bolei Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dong-etal-2026-faith https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.684/ 2026-07 13975 13994 DRA-GRPO: Your GRPO Needs to Know Diverse Reasoning Paths for Mathematical Reasoning Xiwen Chen author Wenhui Zhu author Peijie Qiu author Xuanzhao Dong author Hao Wang author Haiyu Wu author Huayu Li author Aris Sotiras author Yalin Wang author Abolfazl Razi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-dra https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.685/ 2026-07 13995 14019 Web Fraud Attacks Against LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems Dezhang Kong author Hujin Peng author Yilun Zhang author Lele Zhao author Zhenhua Xu author Shi Lin author Changting Lin author Meng Han author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kong-etal-2026-web https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.686/ 2026-07 14020 14034 From Query to Logic: Ontology-Driven Multi-Hop Reasoning in LLMs Haonan Bian author Yutao Qi author Rui Yang author Yuanxi Che author Jiaqian Wang author Heming Xia author Ranran Zhen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bian-etal-2026-query https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.687/ 2026-07 14035 14051 AudioStealer: Extracting Audio Prompts via Shapley Value-Guided Query Search Yingbin Jin author Xingjian Du author Hanjun Luo author Zihao Wang author Haibo Hu author XiaoFeng Wang author Xinfeng Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-etal-2026-audiostealer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.688/ 2026-07 14052 14067 FaithLens: Detecting and Explaining Faithfulness Hallucination Shuzheng Si author Qingyi Wang author Haozhe Zhao author Yuzhuo Bai author Guanqiao Chen author Kangyang Luo author Gang Chen author Fanchao Qi author Minjia Zhang author Baobao Chang author Maosong Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 si-etal-2026-faithlens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.689/ 2026-07 14068 14099 Escaping the Sisyphus Dilemma: Experience Replay for Robust Text-to-Optimization Modeling Wantong Xie author Yinghao Chen author Yi-Xiang Hu author Feng Wu author Jieyang Xu author Sijia Zhang author Xiangyang Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-etal-2026-escaping https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.690/ 2026-07 14100 14116 Toward Automated Robustness Evaluation of Mathematical Reasoning Yutao Hou author Zeguan Xiao author Fei Yu author Yihan Jiang author Ma Shuguang author Zhaoqian Dai author Hailiang Huang author Yun Chen author Guanhua Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hou-etal-2026-toward https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.691/ 2026-07 14117 14139 Simulating Crisis Cognition: A Computational Framework for Hypothesis Generation in Crisis Communication Changsen Yuan author Yanghao Zhou author Chong Feng author Ge Shi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-simulating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.692/ 2026-07 14140 14148 MedScore: Generalizable Factuality Evaluation of Open-ended Long-form Medical Answers by Domain-adapted Claim Decomposition and Verification Heyuan Huang author Alexandra DeLucia author Vijay Murari Tiyyala author Mark Dredze author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-medscore https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.693/ 2026-07 14149 14180 FinSafetyBench: Evaluating LLM Safety in Real-World Financial Scenarios Yutao Hou author Yihan Jiang author Yuhan Xie author Jian Yang author Liwen Zhang author Hailiang Huang author Guanhua Chen author Yun Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hou-etal-2026-finsafetybench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.694/ 2026-07 14181 14208 Optimizing Native Sparse Attention with Latent Attention and Local Global Alternating Strategies Yuxuan Hu author Jianchao Tan author Jiaqi Zhang author Wen Zan author Pingwei Sun author Yifan Lu author Xunliang Cai author Jing Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-optimizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.695/ 2026-07 14209 14220 BRIEF-Pro: Universal Context Compression with Short-to-Long Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Multi-Hop Reasoning Jia-Chen Gu author Junyi Zhang author Di Wu author Yuankai Li author Kai-Wei Chang author Nanyun Peng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gu-etal-2026-brief https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.696/ 2026-07 14221 14241 O1-Pruner: Length-Harmonizing Fine-Tuning for O1-Like Reasoning Pruning Haotian Luo author Haiying He author Yibo Wang author Shiwei Liu author Wei Li author Xiaochun Cao author Dacheng Tao author Naiqiang Tan author Li Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-o1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.697/ 2026-07 14242 14257 One Agent to Serve All: a Lite-Adaptive Stylized AI Assistant for Millions of Multi-Style Official Accounts Xingyu Fan author Li Feifei author Que Wenhui author Hailong Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fan-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.698/ 2026-07 14258 14275 SAVOIR: Learning Social Savoir-Faire via Shapley-based Reward Attribution Xiachong Feng author Yi Jiang author Xiaocheng Feng author Deyi Yin author Libo Qin author Yangfan Ye author Lei Huang author Weitao Ma author Yuxuan Gu author Chonghan Qin author Bing Qin author Lingpeng Kong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-savoir https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.699/ 2026-07 14276 14290 Language-Coupled Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation Rui Qi author Fengran Mo author Yufeng Chen author Xue Zhang author Shuo Wang author Hongliang Li author Xu Jinan author Meng Jiang author Jian-Yun Nie author Kaiyu Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qi-etal-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.700/ 2026-07 14291 14310 Article and Comment Frames Shape the Quality of Online Comments Matteo Guida author Yulia Otmakhova author Eduard Hovy author Lea Frermann author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guida-etal-2026-article https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.701/ 2026-07 14311 14326 LAD: Learning Advantage Distribution for Reasoning Wendi Li author Sharon Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-li-2026-lad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.702/ 2026-07 14327 14348 RealMem: Benchmarking LLMs in Real-World Memory-Driven Interaction Haonan Bian author Zhiyuan Yao author Sen Hu author Zishan Xu author Shaolei Zhang author Yifu Guo author Ziliang Yang author Xueran Han author Huacan Wang author Ronghao Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bian-etal-2026-realmem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.703/ 2026-07 14349 14365 AFMRL: Attribute-Enhanced Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Representation Learning in E-commerce Biao Zhang author Lixin Chen author Bin Zhang author Wang Zongwei author Tong Liu author Bo Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-afmrl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.704/ 2026-07 14366 14379 SAFER: A Controllable Safeguard for LLMs against Backdoor Attacks Zirui Hu author Zheng Zhang author Yingjie Wang author Dacheng Tao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-safer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.705/ 2026-07 14380 14398 RIFT: Repurposing Negative Samples via Reward-Informed Fine-Tuning Zehua Liu author Shuqi Liu author Tao Zhong author Mingxuan Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-rift https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.706/ 2026-07 14399 14415 LEPO: Latent Reasoning Policy Optimization for Large Language Models Yuyan Zhou author Jiarui Yu author Hande Dong author Zhezheng Hao author Hong Wang author Jianqing Zhang author Qiang Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-lepo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.707/ 2026-07 14416 14427 You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations Hongbin Na author Zimu Wang author Zhaoming Chen author Peilin Zhou author Yining Hua author Grace Ziqi Zhou author Haiyang Zhang author Tao Shen author Wei Wang author John Torous author Shaoxiong Ji author Ling Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 na-etal-2026-never https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.708/ 2026-07 14428 14448 Beyond Length Scaling: Synergizing Breadth and Depth for Generative Reward Models Qiyuan Zhang author Yufei Wang author Tianhe Wu author Can Xu author Qingfeng Sun author Kai Zheng author Xue Liu author Chen Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-beyond-length https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.709/ 2026-07 14449 14469 Pushing the Limits of LLM Tool Calling via Experiential Knowledge Integration and Activation Yupu Hao author Zhuoran Jin author Huanxuan Liao author Kang Liu author Jun Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hao-etal-2026-pushing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.710/ 2026-07 14470 14497 Efficient Transformer Parameter Reuse via Zero-Token Mechanism Guanghao Li author Wenhao Jiang author Li Shen author Ming Tang author Chun Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-efficient-transformer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.711/ 2026-07 14498 14515 x1: Learning to Think Adaptively Across Languages and Cultures Yangfan Ye author Xiaocheng Feng author Xiachong Feng author Yichong Huang author Zekun Yuan author Lei Huang author Weitao Ma author Qichen Hong author Yunfei Lu author Dandan Tu author Bing Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ye-etal-2026-x1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.712/ 2026-07 14516 14533 Towards Bridging the Reward-Generation Gap in Direct Alignment Algorithms Zeguan Xiao author Yun Chen author Jian Yang author Guanhua Chen author Ke Tang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.713/ 2026-07 14534 14548 FABLE: Fine-grained Fact Anchoring for Unstructured Model Editing Peng Wang author Biyu Zhou author Xuehai Tang author Jizhong Han author Songlin Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-fable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.714/ 2026-07 14549 14567 SOP-Maze: Evaluating Large Language Models on Complicated Business Standard Operating Procedures Jiaming Wang author Zhe Tang author Zehao Jin author Hefei Chen author Yilin Jin author Peng Ding author Xiaoyu Li author Xuezhi Cao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-sop https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.715/ 2026-07 14568 14588 MalURLBench: A Benchmark Evaluating Agents’ Vulnerabilities When Processing Web URLs Dezhang Kong author Zhuxi Wu author Shiqi Liu author ZhiCheng Tan author Kuichen Lu author Minghao Li author Qichen Liu author Shengyu Chu author Zhenhua Xu author Xuan Liu author Meng Han author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kong-etal-2026-malurlbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.716/ 2026-07 14589 14601 Representation-Guided Parameter-Efficient LLM Unlearning Zeguan Xiao author Lang Mo author Yun Chen author Lei Yang author Jiehui Zhao author Lili Yang author Guanhua Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-representation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.717/ 2026-07 14602 14616 LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization Jiaqi Tang author Yu Xia author Yi-Feng Wu author Yuwei Hu author Chen Yuhui author Qing-Guo Chen author Xiaogang Xu author Xiangyu Wu author Hao LU author Yanqing Ma author Shiyin Lu author Qifeng Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-lpo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.718/ 2026-07 14617 14628 Mistake Notebook Learning: Batch-Clustered Failures for Training-Free Agent Adaptation Xuanbo Su author Yingfang Zhang author Hao Luo author Xiaoteng Liu author Leo Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-mistake https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.719/ 2026-07 14629 14645 Large-Scale Multimodal Knowledge Graph about Classical Chinese Poetry: Fine-grained Method and Comprehensive Evaluation Shuo Wang author Qing Zhu author Yang Xiao author Minglong Lei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.720/ 2026-07 14646 14669 MultiCodeAttack: Iterative Jailbreak Attacking on LLMs with Multi-Code Prompt Injection Weifeng Sun author Meng Yan author Zhou Yang author Yuchen Chen author Song Sun author David Lo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-multicodeattack https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.721/ 2026-07 14670 14690 SAMem: State-Aware Memory as a Fine-Grained Memory for LLM Agents in Decision-Making Tong Wang author Pei Xu author Shiyue Cao author Likun Yang author Daipeng Li author Jianbin Jiao author Kaiqi Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-samem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.722/ 2026-07 14691 14710 Learning to Translate by Translating: Stabilizing the Dual Loop via Semantic-Aware Self-Evolution Kui Liu author Mingming Yin author Zuoli Tang author Zihao Li author Chilin Fu author Xiaolu Zhang author Jun Zhou author Lixin Zou author Chenliang Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.723/ 2026-07 14711 14726 How to Allocate, How to Learn? Dynamic Rollout Allocation and Advantage Modulation for Policy Optimization Yangyi Fang author Jiaye Lin author Xiaoliang Fu author Cong Qin author Haolin Shi author Chaowen Hu author Lu Pan author Ke Zeng author Xunliang Cai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fang-etal-2026-allocate https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.724/ 2026-07 14727 14744 Meeseeks: A Feedback-Driven, Iterative Self-Correction Benchmark evaluating LLMs’ Instruction Following Capability Jiaming Wang author Yunke Zhao author Peng Ding author Jun Kuang author Yibin Shen author Zhe Tang author Yilin Jin author ZongYu Wang author Xiaoyu Li author Xuezhi Cao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-meeseeks https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.725/ 2026-07 14745 14773 HSUGA: LLM-Enhanced Recommendation with Hierarchical Semantic Understanding and Group-Aware Alignment Guorui Li author Dugang Liu author Lei Li author Xing Tang author Zhong Ming author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-hsuga https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.726/ 2026-07 14774 14788 AgenticEval: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models Yixu Wang author Xin Wang author Yang Yao author Xinyuan Li author Xibang Yang author Yan Teng author Xingjun Ma author Yingchun Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-agenticeval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.727/ 2026-07 14789 14808 AlphaEdit+: Model Editing in the Presence of Conflicting and Inconsistent Knowledge Qing Liu author Jianhao Zhang author Ou Wu author Michael Ng author Yi Du author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-alphaedit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.728/ 2026-07 14809 14835 Spatiotemporal Sycophancy: Negation-Based Gaslighting in Video Large Language Models Ziyao Tang author Pengkun Jiao author Bin Zhu author Huiyan Qi author Jingjing Chen author Yu-Gang Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-spatiotemporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.729/ 2026-07 14836 14852 FreeChunker: A Cross-Granularity Chunking Framework Zhang Wenxuan author Yuan-Hao Jiang author Yang Cao author Yonghe Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wenxuan-etal-2026-freechunker https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.730/ 2026-07 14853 14865 Invocation Refiner: A Plug-and-Play Module for Rectifying LLM Tool Invocations Qirui Jiao author Dian Jiao author Nan Du author Ying Shen author Liang Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiao-etal-2026-invocation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.731/ 2026-07 14866 14898 GoViG: Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation Instruction Generation via Multimodal Reasoning Fengyi Wu author Yifei Dong author Yilong Dai author Guangyu Chen author Qifeng Wu author Huiting Huang author Hang Wang author Qi Dai author Alexander G Hauptmann author Zhi-Qi Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-govig https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.732/ 2026-07 14899 14920 Temporal Contrastive Decoding: A Training-Free Method for Large Audio-Language Models Yanda Li author Yuhan Liu author Zirui Song author Yunchao Wei author Martin Takáč author Salem Lahlou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-temporal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.733/ 2026-07 14921 14934 When Internalization Fails: Finding Better Targets for Reasoning Compression Mourad Heddaya author Manley Roberts author Rohan Wadhawan author Chenhao Tan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 heddaya-etal-2026-internalization https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.734/ 2026-07 14935 14946 PatentMind: A Multi-Aspect Reasoning Graph for Patent Similarity Evaluation Yongmin Yoo author Qiongkai Xu author Longbing Cao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yoo-etal-2026-patentmind https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.735/ 2026-07 14947 14964 MemSearcher: Iterative Memory Integration for Search Agent via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Qianhao Yuan author Jie Lou author Zichao Li author Jiawei Chen author Yaojie Lu author Hongyu Lin author Le Sun author Debing Zhang author Xianpei Han author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-memsearcher https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.736/ 2026-07 14965 14977 CoPA: Benchmarking Personalized Question Answering with Data-Informed Cognitive Factors Hang Su author Zequn Liu author Chen Hu author Xuesong Lu author Yingce Xia author Liu Zhen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational 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Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 long-etal-2026-safety https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.739/ 2026-07 15020 15037 Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS Yue Zhao author Hongyan Li author Yong Chen author Luo Ji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.740/ 2026-07 15038 15055 Scaling is Not All You Need: Clinical-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Makes Parameter-Efficient Clinical Reasoning Chi Liu author Yan Shu author Mengzhuo Chen 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Unveiling and Exploiting Redundancy in Large Speech Language Models Bajian Xiang author Tingwei Guo author Xuan Chen author Yang Han author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiang-etal-2026-need https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.742/ 2026-07 15069 15087 Table-as-Search: Agentic Information Seeking is Table Completion Tian Lan author Felix Henry author Bin Zhu author Qianghuai Jia author Junyang Ren author Qihang PU author Haijun Li author Longyue Wang author Zhao Xu author Weihua Luo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lan-etal-2026-table https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.743/ 2026-07 15088 15107 Minos: A Multimodal Evaluation Model for Bidirectional Generation Between Image and Text Junzhe Zhang author Huixuan Zhang author Xinyu Hu author Li Lin author Mingqi Gao author Shi Qiu author Xiaojun Wan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-minos https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.744/ 2026-07 15108 15132 Global Context or Local Detail? Adaptive Visual Grounding for Hallucination Mitigation Yubo Jiang author Xin Yang author Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi author Zheming Yuan author Xuxin Cheng author Cao Liu author Ke Zeng author Fengying Xie author Zhiguo Jiang author Haopeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-global https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.745/ 2026-07 15133 15152 FinToolSyn: A forward synthesis Framework for Financial Tool-Use Dialogue Data with Dynamic Tool Retrieval Caishuang Huang author Yang Qiao author Rongyu Zhang author Junjie Ye author Pu Lu author Wuwenxi author Meng Zhou author Xiku Du author Qi Zhang author Tao Gui author Xuanjing Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-fintoolsyn https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.746/ 2026-07 15153 15196 From Fake to Real: Mitigating Out-of-Distribution Bias in In-Context Learning via Feedback Supervision from Large Language Models Rui Song author Yingji Li author Jian Li author Fausto Giunchiglia author Hao Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-fake https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.747/ 2026-07 15197 15213 Revealing and Enhancing Core Visual Regions: Harnessing Internal Attention Dynamics for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs Guangtao Lyu author Qi Liu author Chenghao Xu author Jiexi Yan author Muli Yang author Xueting Li author Fen Fang author Cheng Deng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lyu-etal-2026-revealing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.748/ 2026-07 15214 15230 Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens Chengshuai Zhao author Zhen Tan author Pingchuan Ma author Dawei Li author Bohan Jiang author Yancheng Wang author Yingzhen Yang author Huan Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-chain https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.749/ 2026-07 15231 15261 WindowsWorld: A Process-Centric Benchmark of Autonomous GUI Agents in Professional Cross-Application Environments Jinchao Li author Yunxin li author Chenrui Zhao author Zhenran Xu author Baotian Hu author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-windowsworld https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.750/ 2026-07 15262 15280 EDU-CIRCUIT-HW: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Real-World University-Level STEM Student Handwritten Solutions Weiyu Sun author Liangliang Chen author Yongnuo Cai author Huiru Xie author Yi Zeng author Ying Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-edu https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.751/ 2026-07 15281 15314 What Factors Affect LLMs and RLLMs in Financial Question Answering? Peng Wang author Xuesi Hu author Jiageng Wu author Yuntao Zou author Qiancheng Zhang author Dagang Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-factors https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.752/ 2026-07 15315 15327 Superficial Success vs. Internal Breakdown: An Empirical Study of Generalization in Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems Namyeong So author Seokgyu Jang author Taeuk Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 so-etal-2026-superficial 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Zihan Chen author Yiming Zhang author Hengguang Zhou author Zenghui Ding author Yining Sun author Cho-Jui Hsieh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.769/ 2026-07 15692 15709 CaPEdit: Capability-Preserving Lifelong Knowledge Editing For Language Models Song-Li Wu author Zhaocheng Du author Xianquan Wang author Jingyi Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-capedit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.770/ 2026-07 15710 15752 Exploring Layer-wise Information Effectiveness for Post-Training Quantization in Small Language Models He Xiao author Qingyao Yang author Dirui Xie author Wendong XU author Zunhai Su author Runming Yang author Haobo Liu author Wenyong Zhou author Zhengwu Liu author Ngai Wong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-exploring https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.771/ 2026-07 15753 15764 ELTLM: Evaluation of Longitudinal Temporal Large Multimodal Models in Clinical Scenarios Gengyuan Hu author Haoxiang Liu author Chenhong Cao author Shilei Tan author Wei Gong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-eltlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.772/ 2026-07 15765 15779 Easy Samples Are All You Need: Self-Evolving LLMs via Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Zhiyin Yu author Bo Zhang author Qibin Hou author Zhonghai Wu author Xiao Luo author Lei Bai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-easy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.773/ 2026-07 15780 15795 Collaborative Multi-Agent Scripts Generation for Enhancing Imperfect-Information Reasoning in Murder Mystery Games Keyang Zhong author Junlin Xie author Hefeng Wu author Haofeng Li author Guanbin Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhong-etal-2026-collaborative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.774/ 2026-07 15796 15819 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words? An Empirical Study of Aggregation Strategies for Visual Financial Document Retrieval Ho Hung Lim author Yi Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lim-yang-2026-picture https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.775/ 2026-07 15820 15829 ToolCPT: Improving Tool Utilization in LLM Agents via Continuous Pre-training Yifan Yang author Jinghui Lu author Evadeng author Ao Yang author Peijie Yu author TingHao YU author Feng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-toolcpt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.776/ 2026-07 15830 15856 A Universal Avoidance Method for Diverse Multi-branch Generation Kyeongman Park author Minha Jhang author Kyomin Jung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-universal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.777/ 2026-07 15857 15870 CentaurTA: A Self-Improving Human-Agents Collaboration Framework for Thematic Analysis Lei Wang author Min Huang author Eduard Dragut author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-centaurta https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.778/ 2026-07 15871 15884 Balancing Fidelity and Plasticity: Aligning Mixed-Precision Fine-Tuning with Linguistic Hierarchies Changhai Zhou author Shiyang Zhang author Yuhua Zhou author Jun Gao author Qian Qiao author Shichao Weng author Weizhong Zhang author Cheng Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-balancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.779/ 2026-07 15885 15896 From Script to Stage: Automating Experimental Design for Social Simulations with LLMs Yuwei Guo author Zihan Zhao author Xiaowei Liu author Xiangning Yu author Qun Ma author Deyu Zhou author Xiao Xue author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-script https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.780/ 2026-07 15897 15916 Generative Giants, Retrieval Weaklings: Why do Multimodal Large Language Models Fail at Multimodal Retrieval? Hengyi Feng author Zeang Sheng author Meiyi Qiang author Yang Li author Wentao Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-generative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.781/ 2026-07 15917 15933 Learning to Extract Rational Evidence via Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Xinping Zhao author Shouzheng Huang author Yan Zhong author Xinshuo Hu author Meishan Zhang author Baotian Hu author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-learning-extract https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.782/ 2026-07 15934 15956 Tree-Notebook: A Context-Aware Agent with Tree Search and Entropy-Aware Data Shadow for Interactive Data Science Junkun Qiu author Min Huang author Qinghai Miao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qiu-etal-2026-tree https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.783/ 2026-07 15957 15970 Resource-Limited Joint Multimodal Sentiment Reasoning and Classification via Chain-of-Thought Enhancement and Distillation Haonan Shangguan author Xiaocui Yang author Shi Feng author Daling Wang author Yifei Zhang author Feiliang Ren author Ge Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shangguan-etal-2026-resource https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.784/ 2026-07 15971 15986 Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search Wenhan Liu author Xinyu Ma author Yutao Zhu author Yuchen Li author Daiting Shi author Dawei Yin author Zhicheng Dou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-agentic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.785/ 2026-07 15987 16005 JailMeter: An Evidence-Based Evaluation Framework for Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models Qingjia Huang author Jingyu Zhang author Jianguo Wu author Yakai Li author Weijuan Zhang author Yankai Rong author Junyi Yao author Shengzhi Zhang author Xiaoqi Jia author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-jailmeter https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.786/ 2026-07 16006 16029 DataSeer: A Manager-Centric Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework with Multi-Branch Reasoning for Automated Insight Discovery Suchen Liu author Yuanfeng Song author Jun Gao author Xing Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-dataseer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.787/ 2026-07 16030 16058 “Penny Wise, Pixel Foolish”: Bypassing Price Constraints in Multimodal Agents via Visual Adversarial Perturbations Jiachen Qian author Zhaolu Kang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qian-kang-2026-penny https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.788/ 2026-07 16059 16073 Beyond the Individual: Virtualizing Multi-Disciplinary Reasoning for Clinical Intake via Collaborative Agents Huangwei Chen author Wu Li author Junhao Jia author Yining Chen author Xiaotao Pang author Ya-Long Chen author Li Gonghui author Haishuai Wang author Jiajun Bu author Lei Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-beyond-individual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.789/ 2026-07 16074 16101 SWE-Swiss: A Multi-Task Fine-Tuning and RL Recipe for High-Performance Issue Resolution Zhenyu He author Qingping Yang author Wei Shen author Xiaojian Zhong author Kechi Zhang author Chenxin An author Wenlei Shi author Tianle Cai author Di He author Jiaze Chen author Jingjing Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-swe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.790/ 2026-07 16102 16114 BackdoorAgent: A Unified Framework for Backdoor Attacks on 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Chai author Zhengmao Ye author Shukai Liu author Yuyang Song author Jiajun Wu author Che Liu author Tianyu Zheng author Siwei Wu author Leo L author Xudong Ma author Chuan Hao author Ran Tao author Yan Xing author Jianzhou Wang author Mingjie Tang author Aishan Liu author Zhoujun Li author Xianglong Liu author Weifeng Lv author Bryan Dai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-loopcoder https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.796/ 2026-07 16209 16223 TempTool-R1: Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering Zicheng Huang author Yajuan Tong author Xinhui Tu author Tingting He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.807/ 2026-07 16392 16402 CausalityCheck: A Framework for Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models Jiang Li author Zehua Duo author Guanglai Gao author Xiangdong Su author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-causalitycheck https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.808/ 2026-07 16403 16429 OmniDiagram: Advancing Unified Diagram Code Generation via Visual Interrogation Reward Haoyue Yang author Xuanle Zhao author Xuexin Liu author Feibing Jiang author Yao Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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Liu author Wen Yin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-cam https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.813/ 2026-07 16501 16516 Large-Scale Diverse Synthesis for Mid-Training Xuemiao Zhang author Chengying Tu author Can Ren author Rongxiang Weng author Hongfei Yan author Jingang Wang author Xunliang Cai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.814/ 2026-07 16517 16539 DiSec: Mitigating Backdoors in 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Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-psychological https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.818/ 2026-07 16593 16609 Code over Words: Overcoming Semantic Inertia via Code-Grounded Reasoning Manjie Xu author Isabella Yin author Xinyi Tu author Chi Zhang author Yixin Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-code-words https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.819/ 2026-07 16610 16632 Bypassing Neural Evaluations for Fast Audio Editing via Adaptive Trajectory Extrapolation Xiaoqian Liu author Zhengkun Ge author Jianjin Wang author Haoran Zhang author Yuan Ge author Kaiyan Chang author Chen Xu author Tong Xiao 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JingBo Zhu author Tong Xiao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-serm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.823/ 2026-07 16687 16706 CLAG: Adaptive Memory Organization via Agent-Driven Clustering for Small Language Model Agents Taeyun Roh author WonJune Jang author Junha Jung author Jaewoo Kang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 roh-etal-2026-clag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.824/ 2026-07 16707 16726 ClinAlign: Scaling Healthcare Alignment from Clinician Preference Shiwei Lyu author Xidong Wang author Hao Zhu author Lei Liu author Chaohe Zhang author Jian Wang author Jinjie Gu author Benyou Wang author Yue Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lyu-etal-2026-clinalign https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.825/ 2026-07 16727 16747 SessionIntentBench: A Multi-task Inter-session Intention-shift Modeling Benchmark for E-commerce Customer Behavior Understanding Yuqi Yang author Weiqi Wang author Baixuan Xu author Wei Fan author Qing Zong author Chunkit Chan author Zheye Deng author Xin Liu author Yifan Gao author Changlong Yu author Chen Luo author Yang Li author Zheng Li author Qingyu Yin author Bing Yin author Yangqiu Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-sessionintentbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.826/ 2026-07 16748 16775 Adapting Where It Matters: Depth-Aware Adaptation for Efficient Multilingual Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages Yang Xiao author Eun-Jung Holden author Ting Dang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-adapting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.827/ 2026-07 16776 16788 Targeted Exploration via Unified Entropy Control for Reinforcement Learning Chen Wang author Lai Wei author Yanzhi Zhang author Chenyang Shao author Zedong Dan author Weiran Huang author Ge Lan author Yue Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-targeted https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.828/ 2026-07 16789 16802 Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution Zouying Cao author Jiaji Deng author Li Yu author Weikang Zhou author Zhaoyang Liu author Bolin Ding author Hai Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-remember https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.829/ 2026-07 16803 16822 Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning Xinyan Guan author Jiali Zeng author Chunlei Xin author Yaojie Lu author Hongyu Lin author Xianpei Han author Le Sun author Fandong Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guan-etal-2026-knowing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.830/ 2026-07 16823 16835 AutoL2S: Auto Long-Short Reasoning for Efficient Large Language Models Feng Luo author Yu-Neng Chuang author Guanchu Wang author Hoang Anh Duy Le author Shaochen Zhong author Hongyi Liu author Jiayi Yuan author Yang Sui author Vladimir Braverman author Vipin Chaudhary author Xia Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-autol2s https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.831/ 2026-07 16836 16858 Doc-PP: Document Policy Preservation Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models Haeun Jang author Hwan Chang author Hwanhee Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jang-etal-2026-doc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.832/ 2026-07 16859 16881 RIPRAG: Hack a Black-box Retrieval-Augmented Generation Question-Answering System with Reinforcement Learning Meng Xi author Sihan Lv author Yechen Jin author Guanjie Cheng author Naibo Wang author Ying Li author Jianwei Yin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xi-etal-2026-riprag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.833/ 2026-07 16882 16902 CodeMEM: AST-Guided Adaptive Memory for Repository-Level Iterative Code Generation Peiding Wang author Li Zhang author Fang Liu author Chongyang Tao author Yinghao Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-codemem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.834/ 2026-07 16903 16917 HalluGuard: Evidence-Grounded Small Reasoning Models to Mitigate Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Loris Bergeron author Ioana Buhnila author Jerome Francois author Radu State author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bergeron-etal-2026-halluguard https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.835/ 2026-07 16918 16932 Capabilities and Evaluation Biases of Large Language Models in Classical Chinese Poetry Generation: A Case Study on Tang Poetry Bolei Ma author Yina Yao author Anna-Carolina Haensch author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-etal-2026-capabilities https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.836/ 2026-07 16933 16957 SWE-QA-Pro: A Representative Benchmark and Scalable Training Recipe for Repository-Level Code Understanding Songcheng Cai author Zhiheng Lyu author Yuansheng Ni author Xiangchao Chen author Baichuan Zhou author Shenzhe Zhu author Yi Lu author Haozhe Wang author Chi Ruan author Benjamin Schneider author Weixu Zhang author Xiang Li author Andy Zheng author Yuyu Zhang author Ping Nie author Wenhu Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cai-etal-2026-swe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.837/ 2026-07 16958 16999 Do MLLMs Understand Pointing? Benchmarking and Enhancing Referential Reasoning in Egocentric Vision Chentao Li author Zirui Gao author Mingze Gao author Yinglian Ren author Jianjiang Feng author Jie Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-mllms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.838/ 2026-07 17000 17019 Can Post-Training Transform LLMs into Causal Reasoners? Junqi Chen author Sirui Chen author Chaochao Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-post https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.839/ 2026-07 17020 17038 MoE Adapter for Large Audio Language Models: Sparsity, Disentanglement, and Gradient-Conflict-Free Yishu Lei author Shuwei He author Hu Jing author Dan Zhang author Xianlong Luo author Danxiang Zhu author Shikun Feng author Rui Liu author Jingzhou HE author Yu Sun author Hua Wu author Haifeng Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lei-etal-2026-moe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.840/ 2026-07 17039 17050 QaRL: Rollout-Aligned Quantization-Aware RL for Fast and Stable Training under Training–Inference Mismatch Hao Gu author Hao Wang author Jiacheng Liu author Lujun Li author Qiyuan Zhu author Bei Liu author Binxing Xu author Lei Wang author Xintong Yang author Sida Lin author Sirui Han author Yike Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gu-etal-2026-qarl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.841/ 2026-07 17051 17064 Beyond Static Rules: Automated Discovery of Latent Vulnerabilities in Text-to-SQL Hanqing Wang author Yongdong Chi author Jian Yang author Lei Yang author Jiehui Zhao author Yun Chen author Guanhua Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.842/ 2026-07 17065 17082 Can We Entrust Justice to AI?: How Persona Traps Contaminate Reasoning in Criminal Investigation Jaewook Lee author Myeong-Cheol Kang author Jong-hun Shin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-entrust https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.843/ 2026-07 17083 17103 Beyond Semantic Similarity: Appraisal-Guided Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Retrieval for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversations Yuqi Chu author Lizi Liao author Jinggui Liang author Boyang Li author Richang Hong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chu-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.844/ 2026-07 17104 17119 When and What to Ask: AskBench and Rubric-Guided RLVR for LLM Clarification Jiale Zhao author Ke Fang author Lu Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-ask https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.845/ 2026-07 17120 17140 FreezeEmpath: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen LLMs Yun Hong author Yan Zhou author Yang Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hong-etal-2026-freezeempath https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.846/ 2026-07 17141 17157 To Intervene or Not: Guiding Inference-time Alignment with Probabilistic Model Blending Jin Gan author Xin Li author Jun Luo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gan-etal-2026-intervene https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.847/ 2026-07 17158 17169 FLEXITOKENS: Flexible Tokenization for Evolving Language Models Abraham Toluwase Owodunni author Orevaoghene Ahia author Sachin Kumar author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 owodunni-etal-2026-flexitokens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.848/ 2026-07 17170 17190 RAG in the Wild: On the (In)effectiveness of LLMs with Mixture-of-Knowledge Retrieval Augmentation Ran Xu author Yuchen Zhuang author Yue Yu author Haoyu Wang author Wenqi Shi author Carl Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-rag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.849/ 2026-07 17191 17206 Chain-of-Procedure: Hierarchical Visual-Language Reasoning for Procedural QA Guanhua Chen author Yutong Yao author Shenghe Sun author Ci-jun Gao author Shudong Liu author Lidia S Chao author Feng Wan author Derek F Wong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-chain https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.850/ 2026-07 17207 17224 PEGRL: Improving Machine Translation by Post-Editing Guided Reinforcement Learning Yunzhi Shen author Hao Zhou author Xin Huang author Xue Han author Junlan Feng author Shujian Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shen-etal-2026-pegrl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.851/ 2026-07 17225 17242 RanLoRA: Residual-aware Nonlinear Low-Rank Adaptation Xu Luo author Yongbin Liu author Chunping Ouyang author Ying Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-ranlora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.852/ 2026-07 17243 17258 Multi-Hop Knowledge Editing via Critic-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning Xudong Li author Yuhang Tian author Dandan Song author Zhijing Wu author Shuhao Zhang author Jun Yang author Yongyu Huo author Changzhi Zhou author Xinyu Zhang author Chenhao Li author Huipeng Ma author Luan Zhang author Yan Xu author Qian Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.853/ 2026-07 17259 17276 Rethinking Post-Unlearning Behavior of Large Vision-Language Models Minsung Kim author Nakyeong Yang author Kyomin Jung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.854/ 2026-07 17277 17287 Scattered Hypothesis Generation for Open-Ended Event Forecasting He Chang author Zhulin Tao author Lifang Yang author Xianglin Huang author Yunshan Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chang-etal-2026-scattered https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.855/ 2026-07 17288 17304 Context-attended Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Robust Multi-step Retrieval Augmented Generation Yingtao Ren author Xiao Luo author Yu-Cheng Chang author Chin-teng Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ren-etal-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.856/ 2026-07 17305 17319 From Pseudo-Balancing to True Specialization: Memory-Aware Routing for Mixture-of-Experts Peixuan Hou author Yunbo Hou author Bin Chen author L I He author Jian Xu author Weiping Li author Bo Zheng author Guojie Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hou-etal-2026-pseudo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.857/ 2026-07 17320 17337 Learning to Retrieve User History and Generate User Profiles for Personalized Persuasiveness Prediction Sejun Park author Yoonah Park author Jongwon Lim author Yohan Jo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.858/ 2026-07 17338 17359 Understanding LLM Reasoning for Abstractive Summarization Haohan Yuan author Haopeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-zhang-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.859/ 2026-07 17360 17386 Feasible is Not Enough: Cost-Aware Optimal Tool-Chain Planning on Multi-Solution Tool Graphs Liangliang Liu author Yanming Li author Yigang Liu author Jialong Han author Rujia Shen author Yi Guan author Yi Lin author Jingchi Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-feasible https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.860/ 2026-07 17387 17403 DOS: Dependency-Oriented Sampler for Masked Diffusion Language Models Xueyu Zhou author Yangrong Hu author Jian Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-dos https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.861/ 2026-07 17404 17419 BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories Yuxuan Ouyang author Yingfeng Luo author JingBo Zhu author Tong Xiao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ouyang-etal-2026-biasedtales https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.862/ 2026-07 17420 17436 Rethinking Reasoning: A Survey on Reasoning-based Backdoors in LLMs Man Hu author Xinyi Wu author Zhufeng Suo author Jinbo Feng author Linghui Meng author Yanhao Jia author Anh Tuan Luu author Shuai Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.863/ 2026-07 17437 17456 From Tokens to Steps: Verification-Aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Multi-Step Reasoning Kiran Purohit author Ramasuri Narayanam author Soumyabrata Pal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 purohit-etal-2026-tokens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.864/ 2026-07 17457 17471 SPS: Steering Probability Squeezing for Better Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models Yifu Huo author Chenglong Wang author Ziming Zhu author Shunjie Xing author Peinan Feng author Tongran Liu author Qiaozhi He author Tian Hua Zhou author Changxiaojia author JingBo Zhu author Zhengtao Yu author Tong Xiao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huo-etal-2026-sps https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.865/ 2026-07 17472 17489 Memp: Exploring Agent Procedural Memory Runnan Fang author Yuan Liang author Xiaobin Wang author Jialong Wu author Shuofei Qiao author Pengjun Xie author Fei Huang author Huajun Chen author Ningyu Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fang-etal-2026-memp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.866/ 2026-07 17490 17502 ATLAS: Orchestrating Heterogeneous Models and Tools for Multi-Domain Complex Reasoning Jinyang Wu author Guocheng Zhai author Ruihan Jin author Jiahao Yuan author Yuhao Shen author Shuai Zhang author Zhengqi Wen author Jianhua Tao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-atlas https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.867/ 2026-07 17503 17535 SWE-AGILE: A Software Agent Framework for Efficiently Managing Dynamic Reasoning Context Shuquan Lian author Juncheng Liu author Yazhe Chen author Yuhong Chen author Hui Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lian-etal-2026-swe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.868/ 2026-07 17536 17550 CAR: Empowering Agents with Dynamic Tool Synthesis and Global Trajectory Rectification Kai Wang author Xu Wang author Zhiyuan Fu author Yudong Zhang author Yang Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-car https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.869/ 2026-07 17551 17571 FastDiSS: Few-step Match Many-step Diffusion Language Model on Sequence-to-Sequence Generation Dat Nguyen Cong author Tung Kieu author Hoang Thanh-Tung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cong-etal-2026-fastdiss https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.870/ 2026-07 17572 17592 GCIG: GraphRAG-based Cross-document Instruction Generation for Boosting LLM Reasoning Xiaoliang Xu author Huang Yuan author Junmei Wang author Can Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-gcig https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.871/ 2026-07 17593 17609 Towards General Agentic Intelligence via Environment Scaling Runnan Fang author Shihao Cai author Baixuan Li author Jialong Wu author Guangyu Li author Wenbiao Yin author Xinyu Wang author Xiaobin Wang author Liangcai Su author Zhen Zhang author Shibin Wu author Zhengwei Tao author Yong Jiang author Pengjun Xie author Ningyu Zhang author Fei Huang author Wentao Zhang author Jingren Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fang-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.872/ 2026-07 17610 17621 EAIR: Entity-aware Inference-Time Knowledge Routing for Multi-Hop Knowledge Editing Jungyu Lee author Kunhui Lee author Gyun Lee author Seung-Hoon Na author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-eair https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.873/ 2026-07 17622 17645 Preventing Safety Drift in Large Language Models via Coupled Weight and Activation Constraints Songping Peng author Zhiheng Zhang author Daojian Zeng author Lincheng Jiang author Xieping Gao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 peng-etal-2026-preventing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.874/ 2026-07 17646 17662 GAPO: Robust Advantage Estimation for Real-World Code LLMs Jianqing Zhang author Zhezheng Hao author Wei Xia author Hande Dong author Hong Wang author Chenxing Wei author Yuyan Zhou author Yubin Qi author Qiang Lin author Jian Cao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-gapo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.875/ 2026-07 17663 17673 What’s Missing in Screen-to-Action? Towards a UI-in-the-Loop Paradigm for Multimodal GUI Reasoning Songze Li author Xiaoke Guo author Tianqi Liu author Biao Yi author Zhaoyan Gong author Zhiqiang Liu author Huajun Chen author Wen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-whats https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.876/ 2026-07 17674 17690 When to Trust Tools? Adaptive Tool Trust Calibration For Tool-Integrated Math Reasoning Ruotao Xu author Yixin Ji author Yu Luo author Jinpeng Li author Dong Li author Peifeng Li author Juntao Li author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-trust https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.877/ 2026-07 17691 17706 V-MAGE: A Game Evaluation Framework for Assessing Vision-Centric Capabilities in Multimodal Large Language Models Xiangxi Zheng author Linjie Li author Zhengyuan Yang author Ping Yu author Alex Jinpeng Wang author Rui Yan author Yuan Yao author Lijuan Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-v https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.878/ 2026-07 17707 17758 Understanding and Preventing Entropy Collapse in RLVR with On-Policy Entropy Flow Optimization Huimin Xu author Shuai Zhao author Xiaobao Wu author Anh Tuan Luu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-understanding-preventing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.879/ 2026-07 17759 17771 Reinforcement Learning with Semantic Rewards Enables Low-Resource Language Expansion without Alignment Tax Zeli Su author Ziyin Zhang author Zhou Liu author Xuexian Song author Zhankai Xu author Longfei Zheng author Xiaolu Zhang author Rong Fu author Guixian Xu author Wentao Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-reinforcement https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.880/ 2026-07 17772 17786 MEIC-DT: Memory-Efficient Incremental Clustering for Long-Text Coreference Resolution with Dual-Threshold Constraints Kangyang Luo author Shuzheng Si author Yuzhuo Bai author Cheng Gao author Zhitong Wang author Cheng Huang author Yingli Shen author Yufeng Han author Wenhao Li author Cunliang Kong author Maosong Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-meic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.881/ 2026-07 17787 17804 Lost in Diffusion: Uncovering Hallucination Patterns and Failure Modes in Diffusion Large Language Models Zhengnan Guo author Fei Tan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-tan-2026-lost https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.882/ 2026-07 17805 17818 FARSS: Fisher-Optimized Adaptive Low-Rank and Singular-Vector Selection for Knowledge-Preserving Fine-Tuning Renxing Chen author Ziwei Xiang author Peisong Wang author Hongjian Fang author Meng Li author Fanhu Zeng author Yanan Zhu author Peipei Yang author Xu-Yao Zhang author Jian Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-farss https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.883/ 2026-07 17819 17837 Align Documents to Questions: Question-Oriented Document Rewriting for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Jiaang Li author Zhendong Mao author Quan Wang author Yuning Wan author Yongdong Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-align https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.884/ 2026-07 17838 17849 GlimpRouter: Efficient Collaborative Inference by Glimpsing One Token of Thoughts Wenhao Zeng author Xuteng Zhang author Yuling Shi author Chao Hu author Yuting Chen author Beijun Shen author Xiaodong Gu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zeng-etal-2026-glimprouter https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.885/ 2026-07 17850 17864 Plug-and-Play Data Module for Code RL: Adaptive Ambiguity Replay Jianqing Zhang author Wei Xia author Zhezheng Hao author Hong Wang author Hande Dong author Qiang Lin author Yang Liu author Jian Cao author Qiang Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference 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An Empirical Study and Benchmark Zihan Luo author Hong Huang author Jianxun Lian author Yu Chang author Xing Xie author Hai Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-ai https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.887/ 2026-07 17876 17893 Dunhuang-Bench: How Well Do MLLMs Understand Cultural Heritage? Junyi Yuan author Jian Zhang author Tianxiu Yu author Yanlin Zhou author Xiaobo Jin author Qiufeng Wang author Fangyu Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yuan-etal-2026-dunhuang https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.888/ 2026-07 17894 17910 Multi-Docker-Eval: A ‘Shovel of the Gold Rush’ Benchmark on Automatic Environment Building for Software Engineering Kelin Fu author Tianyu Liu author Zeyu Shang author Yingwei MA author Jiaheng Liu author Jian Yang author Kaigui Bian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fu-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.889/ 2026-07 17911 17927 Not All Modalities at Once: Dynamic Dropout and Bidirectional Fusion for Robust Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion Jiashun Peng author Fu Zhang author Hongzhi Chen author Jingwei Cheng author Yingsong Ning author Xiaoke Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 peng-etal-2026-modalities https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.890/ 2026-07 17928 17940 If Only My CGM Could Speak: A Privacy-Preserving Agent for Question Answering over Continuous Glucose Data Yanjun Cui author Ali Emami author Temiloluwa Prioleau author Nikhil Singh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cui-etal-2026-cgm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.891/ 2026-07 17941 17958 E-ABSA20K: A Dataset and Propose-and-Verify for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Long E-commerce Reviews Tong Sun author Mingyang Ma author Cheng Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-e https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.892/ 2026-07 17959 17973 ECHA: Jailbreaking LVLMs via the Mismatch between Implicit Semantic Reconstruction and Explicit Safety Alignment Chenxing Xu author Junyong Jiang author Zehu Zhang author Lu Dong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-echa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.893/ 2026-07 17974 17990 Thinking with Map: Reinforced Parallel Map-Augmented Agent for Geolocalization Yuxiang Ji author Yong Wang author Ziyu Ma author Yiming Hu author Hailang Huang author Xuecai Hu author Guanhua Chen author Liaoni Wu author Xiangxiang Chu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ji-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.894/ 2026-07 17991 18004 Revisiting Entropy Regularization: Adaptive Coefficient Unlocks Its Potential for LLM Reinforcement Learning Xiaoyun Zhang author Xiaojian Yuan author Di Huang author Wang You author Chen Hu author Jingqing Ruan author Kejiang Chen author Xing Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-revisiting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.895/ 2026-07 18005 18020 SLIP: Soft Label Mechanism and Key-Extraction-Guided CoT-based Defense Against Instruction Backdoor in APIs Wu Zhengxian author Juan Wen author Wanli Peng author Haowei Chang author Yinghan Zhou author Xue Yiming author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhengxian-etal-2026-slip https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.896/ 2026-07 18021 18042 U-Fold: Dynamic Intent-Aware Context Folding for User-Centric Agents Jin Su author Runnan Fang author Yeqiu Li author Xiaobin Wang author Shihao Cai author Pengjun Xie author Ningyu Zhang author Fajie Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-u https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.897/ 2026-07 18043 18057 AdaTooler-V: Adaptive Tool-Use for Images and Videos Chaoyang Wang author Kaituo Feng author Dongyang Chen author Zhongyu Wang author Zhixun Li author Sicheng Gao author Meng Meng author Xu Zhou author Manyuan Zhang author Yuzhang Shang author Xiangyu Yue author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-adatooler https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.898/ 2026-07 18058 18072 Exposing Privacy Risks in Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation Jiale Liu author Jiahao Zhang author Suhang Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-exposing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.899/ 2026-07 18073 18093 BalanceSFT: Improving LLM Function Calling with Balanced Training Signals and Data Hardness Bingguang Hao author Zengzhuang Xu author Maolin Wang author Yuntao Wen author Yicheng Chen author Cunyin Peng author Long Chen author Xiangyu Zhao author Jinjie Gu author Chenyi Zhuang author Ji Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hao-etal-2026-balancesft https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.900/ 2026-07 18094 18112 How Robust Are Large Language Models for Clinical Numeracy? An Empirical Study on Numerical Reasoning Abilities in Clinical Contexts Minh-Vuong Nguyen author Fatemeh Shiri author Zhuang Li author Karin Verspoor author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nguyen-etal-2026-robust https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.901/ 2026-07 18113 18129 Safety-Aware Dialogue System for Postoperative Oral Cancer Care with Structured Clarification and a Clinically Curated Dataset Tzu-Chi Liu author Hui-Ying Yang author Shiow-Ching Shun author Yu-Chi Chen author Lu-Yen Anny Chen author Yong-Sheng Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-safety https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.902/ 2026-07 18130 18142 FTibSuite: A Comprehensive Resource Suite for Tibetan Vision–Language Modeling Guixian Xu author Yide Liang author Zeli Su author Xuexian Song author Ziyin Zhang author Yushuang Dong author Ting Zhang author Xu Han author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-ftibsuite https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.903/ 2026-07 18143 18159 DeepMed: Building a Medical DeepResearch Agent via Multi-hop Med-Search Data and Turn-Controlled Agentic Training & Inference Zihan Wang author Hao Wang author Shi Feng author Xiaocui Yang author Daling Wang author Yiqun Zhang author Jinghao Lin author Xiaozhong Ji author Haihua Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-deepmed https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.904/ 2026-07 18160 18178 Softpick: No Attention Sink, No Massive Activations with Rectified Softmax Zayd Muhammad Kawakibi Zuhri author Erland Hilman Fuadi author Alham Fikri Aji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zuhri-etal-2026-softpick https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.905/ 2026-07 18179 18213 UniCM: A Unified Consistency Model For Efficient Multimodal Generation and Understanding Chenkai Xu author Xu Wang author Zhenyi Liao author Yishun Li author TianQi Hou author Zhijie Deng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-unicm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.906/ 2026-07 18214 18233 Can Multi-agent Help Disambiguation in Multi-domain Translation? Zhibo Man author Shaoyang Xu author Yujie Zhang author Yi Feng author Yuanmeng Chen author Yufeng Chen author Xu Jinan author Wenxuan Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 man-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.907/ 2026-07 18234 18244 Agent-Dice: Disentangling Knowledge Updates via Geometric Consensus for Agent Continual Learning Zheng Wu author Xingyu Lou author Xinbei Ma author Yansi Li author Weiwen Liu author Weinan Zhang author Jun Wang author Zhuosheng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-agent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.908/ 2026-07 18245 18262 Automatic Slide Updating with User-Defined Dynamic Templates and Natural Language Instructions Kun Zhou author Jiakai He author Wenmian Yang author Zhensheng Wang author Yiquan Zhang author Weijia Jia author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-automatic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.909/ 2026-07 18263 18297 PretrainRL: Alleviating Factuality Hallucination of Large Language Models at the Beginning Langming Liu author Kangtao Lv author Haibin Chen author Weidong Zhang author Yejing Wang author Shilei Liu author Xin Tong author Yujin Yuan author Yongwei Wang author Wenbo Su author Bo Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-pretrainrl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.910/ 2026-07 18298 18310 OMHBench: Benchmarking Balanced and Grounded Omni-Modal Multi-Hop Reasoning Seunghee Kim author Ingyu Bang author Seokgyu Jang author Changhyeon Kim author Sanghwan Bae author Jihun Choi author Richeng Xuan author Taeuk Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-omhbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.911/ 2026-07 18311 18334 Beyond Uniform SVD: Dual-Level Optimization across Columns and Modules for LLM Compression Lin Xv author Xian Gao author Ting Liu author Yuzhuo fu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xv-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.912/ 2026-07 18335 18349 RSA-Bench: Benchmarking Audio Large Models in Real-World Acoustic Scenarios Yibo Zhang author Kaiwen Luo author Liang Lin author Shilinlu Yan author Jin Wang author Yaoqi Guo author Yitian Chen author Yalan Qin author Zhenhong Zhou author Kun Wang author Li Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-rsa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.913/ 2026-07 18350 18374 MedLayBench-V: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Expert-Lay Semantic Alignment in Medical Vision Language Models Han Jang author Junhyeok Lee author Heeseong Eum author Kyu Sung Choi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jang-etal-2026-medlaybench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.914/ 2026-07 18375 18394 Divergent Thinking: Escape the Homogeneity Trap in Generative Commonsense Reasoning Yiheng Tao author Kaiwen Cheng author Zhiwei Nie author Chang Liu author Jie Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tao-etal-2026-divergent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.915/ 2026-07 18395 18410 SafeSteer: A Decoding-level Defense Mechanism for Multimodal Large Language Models Xinyi Zeng author Xue Yang author Jingyuan Zhang author Huanqian Yan author Xiang Chen author Kaiwen Wei author Hankun Kang author Yu Tian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zeng-etal-2026-safesteer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.916/ 2026-07 18411 18422 SEMA-RAG: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Medical Reasoning Yongfeng Huang author Ruiying Chen author James Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-sema https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.917/ 2026-07 18423 18442 On the Step Length Confounding in LLM Reasoning Data Selection Bing Wang author Rui Miao author Chen Shen author Shaotian Yan author Kaiyuan Liu author Ximing Li author Xiaosong Yuan author Sinan Fan author Jun Zhang author Jieping Ye author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-step https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.918/ 2026-07 18443 18457 SLIM: Stealthy Low-Coverage Black-Box Watermarking via Latent-Space Confusion Zones Hengyu WU author Yang Cao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-cao-2026-slim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.919/ 2026-07 18458 18473 SQL-ASTRA: Alleviating Sparse Feedback in Agentic SQL via Column-Set Matching and Trajectory Aggregation Long Li author Zhijian Zhou author Jiangxuan Long author Peiyang Liu author Weidi Xu author Zhe Wang author Shirui Pan author Chao Qu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-sql https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.920/ 2026-07 18474 18491 Rotation Control Unlearning: Quantifying and Controlling Continuous Unlearning for LLM with The Cognitive Rotation Space Xiang Zhang author Kun Wei author Xu Yang author Jiahua Li author Su Yan author Cheng Deng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-rotation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.921/ 2026-07 18492 18510 SpecEdit: A Spectral Approach for Multi-Round Knowledge Editing Junxian Liu author Zikun Deng author Xin Wu author Dazhen Deng author Yi Cai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-specedit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.922/ 2026-07 18511 18524 SAGE: Sign-Adaptive Gradient for Memory-Efficient LLM Optimization Wooin Lee author Hyun-Tae Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-kim-2026-sage https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.923/ 2026-07 18525 18537 DP³: Differentially Private Prompt Perturbation for Multi-turn LLM Inference Lele Zheng author Chao Zhang author Feiyang Yuan author Ke Cheng author Tao Zhang author Anxiao Song author Yulong Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-dp3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.924/ 2026-07 18538 18552 RAMP: Risk-Aware Multi-Turn Planning for Jailbreak Red-Teaming Yize Liu author Yunyun Hou author Aina Sui author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-ramp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.925/ 2026-07 18553 18564 LexGenius: An Expert-Level Benchmark for Large Language Models in Legal General Intelligence Wenjin Liu author Haoran Luo author Xin Feng author Xiang Ji author Lijuan Zhou author Rui Mao author Jiapu Wang author Shirui Pan author Erik Cambria author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-lexgenius https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.926/ 2026-07 18565 18585 From Attenuation to Attention: Variational Information Flow Manipulation for Fine-Grained Visual Perception Jilong Zhu author Yang Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-feng-2026-attenuation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.927/ 2026-07 18586 18597 VulAgent: Hypothesis-Validation Driven Multi-Agent Architecture for Vulnerability Detection Ziliang Wang author Ge Li author Jia Li author Hao Zhu author Zhi Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-vulagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.928/ 2026-07 18598 18616 From Attack Surfaces to Actual Operations: A Survey of Modern LLM Jailbreaks Ruikang Zhou author Changsheng Sun author Mark Huasong Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-attack https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.929/ 2026-07 18617 18643 ARC: Active and Reflection-driven Context Management for Long-Horizon Information Seeking Agents Yilun Yao author Shan Huang author Elsie Dai author Zhewen Tan author Zhenyu Duan author Shousheng Jia author Yanbing Jiang author Tong Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yao-etal-2026-arc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.930/ 2026-07 18644 18659 ToolDNA: Autonomous Evolution of Tool Metadata for Robust Dialogue Agents Qiuyuan Ai author Cong Wang author Jiaqi Zhang author Zengxin Han author Jie Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ai-etal-2026-tooldna https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.931/ 2026-07 18660 18678 ExpertIVS: Sociological Expert Driven Individual Value Simulation in Large Language Models Zhen Wang author Yuqi Ren author Yuehan Cui author Hongxiang Wang author Jianxiang Peng author Zhaoxia Zhang author Bingkun Zhu author Tongxuan Zhang author Dezhi Tong author Deyi Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-expertivs https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.932/ 2026-07 18679 18699 Be Your Own Red Teamer: Safety Alignment via Self-Play and Reflective Experience Replay Hao Wang author Yanting Wang author Hao Li author Rui Li author Lei Sha author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-red https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.933/ 2026-07 18700 18716 RetentiveKV: State-Space Memory for Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal KV Cache Eviction Sihao Liu author YuFan Xiong author Zhonghua Jiang author Zhaode Wang author Chengfei lv author Shengyu Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-retentivekv https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.934/ 2026-07 18717 18727 RCBSF: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Contract Revision via Stackelberg Game Shijia Xu author Yu Wang author Xiaolong Jia author Zhou Wu author Kai Liu author April Xiaowen Dong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-rcbsf https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.935/ 2026-07 18728 18756 RAVR: Reference-Answer-guided Variational Reasoning for Large Language Models Tianqianjin Lin author Xi Zhao author Xingyao Zhang author Rujiao Long author Yi Xu author Zhuoren Jiang author Wenbo Su author Bo Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lin-etal-2026-ravr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.936/ 2026-07 18757 18775 Data-Centric Continual Pre-training for 500+ Languages: A New Bilingual Translation Corpus and Multilingual Models Shaoxiong Ji author Zihao Li author Jaakko Paavola author Hengyu Luo author Jörg Tiedemann author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ji-etal-2026-data https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.937/ 2026-07 18776 18807 Failures are Treasures: Constructing a Pedagogical Bridge for Agentic Strategy Distillation Jiaxin Guo author Hao Sun author Wenhao Zhang author Chunyu Yang author Yan Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-failures https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.938/ 2026-07 18808 18823 Privacy-Preserving Reasoning with Knowledge-Distilled Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation Jinwen Chen author Hainan Zhang author Liang Pang author Yongxin Tong author Haibo Zhou author Wei Lin author Zhiming Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-privacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.939/ 2026-07 18824 18838 Beyond Sentence-level Labels: Integrating Conversational Context and Personal Experience for Natural Emotional Expression Haiyang Sun author Chenyang Le author Wei Wang author Leying Zhang author Chuang Li author Bing Han author Chenda Li author Mengxiao Bi author Yanmin Qian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.940/ 2026-07 18839 18854 Structure-Aware Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Knowledge Graphs without External Knowledge Kuan Xu author Baoxin Zhang author Shuyue Fan author Ming Chen author Zhipeng Ke author Jian Yu author Xuezhong Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-structure https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.941/ 2026-07 18855 18869 Continual Safety Alignment via Gradient-Based Sample Selection Thong Bach author Dung Nguyen author Thao Minh Le author Truyen Tran author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bach-etal-2026-continual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.942/ 2026-07 18870 18887 ClinicalMC: A Benchmark for Multi-Course Clinical Decision-Making with Large Language Models Ruihui Hou author Siyi Zhu author Ziyue Huai author Guangya Yu author Yongqi Fan author ChunMing Wang author Tong Ruan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hou-etal-2026-clinicalmc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.943/ 2026-07 18888 18915 Safe-SAIL: Towards a Fine-grained Safety Landscape of Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoder Interpretation Framework Jiaqi Weng author Han Zheng author Hanyu Zhang author Ej Zhou author Qinqin He author Jialing Tao author Hui Xue author Zhixuan Chu author Xiting Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 weng-etal-2026-safe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.944/ 2026-07 18916 18935 Graph-Assisted Large Language Models: A Perspective on Mitigating Intrinsic Limitations Haitong Luo author Fali Wang author Weiyao Zhang author Xianren Zhang author Zhiwei Zhang author Tianxiang Zhao author Minhua Lin author Jiahao Zhang author Hui Liu author Xianfeng Tang author Qi He author Suhang Wang author Xuying Meng author Yujun Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-graph https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.945/ 2026-07 18936 18955 GUITester: Enabling GUI Agents for Exploratory Defect Discovery Yifei Gao author Jiang Wu author Xiaoyi Chen author Yifan Yang author Zhe Cui author Tianyi Ma author Jiaming Zhang author Jitao Sang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-guitester https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.946/ 2026-07 18956 18978 BiCSRouter: Bi-Level Cross-System Routing for Utility-Aware LLM Inference Mao Keyu author Eiki Murata author Ukyo Honda author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 keyu-etal-2026-bicsrouter https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.947/ 2026-07 18979 18993 FAER: Benchmarking VLMs for Failure-Aware Embodied Reasoning Hao Song author Kaifeng Liu author Yuanxing Liu author Xiang Tian author Xuesong Wang author Chen Yifan author Weinan Zhang author Ting Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-faer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.948/ 2026-07 18994 19016 Reverse Constitutional AI: A Framework for Controllable Toxic Data Generation via Probability-Clamped RLAIF Yuan Fang author Yiming Luo author Aimin Zhou author Fei Tan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fang-etal-2026-reverse https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.949/ 2026-07 19017 19039 ToolGrad: Efficient Tool-use Dataset Generation with Textual “Gradients” Zhongyi Zhou author Kohei Uehara author Haoyu Zhang author Jingtao Zhou author Lin Gu author Ruofei Du author Zheng Xu author Tatsuya Harada author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-toolgrad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.950/ 2026-07 19040 19056 Unlocking Exploration in RLVR: Uncertainty-aware Advantage Shaping for Deeper Reasoning Can Xie author Ruotong Pan author Xiangyu Wu author Zhang Yunfei author Jiayi Fu author Tingting Gao author Guorui Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-etal-2026-unlocking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.951/ 2026-07 19057 19076 GlossaGen: Making Academic Translation Smarter with Glossing Zixiao Wang author Duzhen Zhang author Juntian Zhang author Yuhan Liu author Guoming Li author Haolun Wu author Le Song author Xiuying Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-glossagen https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.952/ 2026-07 19077 19095 DeCoVec: Building Decoding Space based Task Vector for Large Language Models via In-Context Learning Feiyang Li author Yile Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-wang-2026-decovec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.953/ 2026-07 19096 19111 Hebbian-Guided Bi-Directional Rank Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Xing Zhao author Liu Yang author Xi-Le Zhao author Yueqi Yang author Tianqi Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-hebbian https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.954/ 2026-07 19112 19128 StruNRAG: Evaluation of OCR-Induced Structural Noise on RAG Robustness Mengna Gao author Dapeng Yin author Shuyue Zhu author Bingxuan Hou author Zhanpeng Ni author Junli Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-strunrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.955/ 2026-07 19129 19148 Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks Yuxiang Zhang author Jiangming Shu author Ye Ma author Xueyuan Lin author Shangxi Wu author Jitao Sang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-memory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.956/ 2026-07 19149 19164 Experience is the Teacher: Reusing Atomic Thoughts from LLMs to Improve Medical Dialogue Guangya Yu author Hui Luo author Qi Ye author Ruihui Hou author Weiyan Zhang author Mingxi Shang author Xuanwu Li author ChunMing Wang author Tong Ruan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-experience https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.957/ 2026-07 19165 19184 Beyond Static Personas: Situational Personality Steering for Large Language Models Zesheng Wei author Mengxiang Li author Zilei Wang author Yang Deng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wei-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.958/ 2026-07 19185 19210 Born Pragmatic, Trained to Hallucinate? Quantifying the Origins of Contextual Bias in LLMs via the PaCE Benchmark Ziming Li author Yu Tian author Tian Lan author Jiang Li author Zehua Duo author Guanglai Gao author Xiangdong Su author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-born https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.959/ 2026-07 19211 19235 Domain-Specific Data Generation Framework for RAG Adaptation Chris Xing Tian author Weihao Xie author Zhen Chen author Hui Liu author Zhengyuan Yi author Haoliang Li author Shiqi Wang author Siwei Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tian-etal-2026-domain https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.960/ 2026-07 19236 19250 Tracing Mathematical Proficiency Through Problem-Solving Processes Jungyang Park author Suho Kang author Jaewoo Park author Jae Hong Kim author Jaewoo Shin author Seonjoon Park author Youngjae Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-tracing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.961/ 2026-07 19251 19269 Decision Biases and Intent-Irony Decoupling in Large Language Models Kewei Guo author Lingyun Sun author Manhao Guan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-decision https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.962/ 2026-07 19270 19287 Anonpsy: A Graph-Based Framework for Structure-Preserving De-identification of Psychiatric Narratives Kyungho Lim author Byung-Hoon Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lim-kim-2026-anonpsy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.963/ 2026-07 19288 19311 HearSay Benchmark: Do Audio LLMs Leak What They Hear? Jin Wang author Kaiwen Luo author Liang Lin author Weiliu Wang author Yitian Chen author Moayad Aloqaily author Xuehai Tang author Zhenhong Zhou author Kun Wang author Li Sun author Qingsong Wen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-hearsay https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.964/ 2026-07 19312 19331 LongInsightBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Omni-Modal Models on Human-Centric Long-Video Understanding. 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Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-remedi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1011/ 2026-07 20232 20241 JX4MEI: Multimodal Semantically-Enhanced LLM for Joint Multimodal Emotion-Intent Explanation and Classification YiJie Huang author Xiaocui Yang author Shi Feng author Daling Wang author Yifei Zhang author Ning Yuan author Zhuoyue Jia author Wen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-jx4mei https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1012/ 2026-07 20242 20261 Breaking the “Provable Security”: Detecting Finite-Precision Artifacts in LLM-based Steganography via Low-Probability Vanishing Wenzhao Cao author Yaofei Wang author Donghui Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-breaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1013/ 2026-07 20262 20274 FACT-E: Causality-Inspired Evaluation for Trustworthy Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Yuxi Sun author Aoqi Zuo author Haotian Xie author Wei Gao author Mingming Gong author Jing Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-fact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1014/ 2026-07 20275 20293 DRIFT: Transferring Reasoning Priors for Efficient MLLM Fine-Tuning Chao Huang author Zeliang Zhang author Jiang Liu author Ximeng Sun author Jialian Wu author Xiaodong Yu author Ze Wang author Chenliang Xu author Emad Barsoum author Zicheng Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-drift https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1015/ 2026-07 20294 20309 Mitigating Hallucinations in VLMs: Enhancing Visual Attention via Head-Wise Perturbation Zhenghua Wang author Yixin Wu author Feiran Zhang author Qi Qian author Changze Lv author Xuanjing Huang author Xiaoqing Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mitigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1016/ 2026-07 20310 20321 Modeling Multi-Dimensional Cognitive States in Large Language Models under Cognitive Crowding Lin Zhong author Siyu Zhu author Zizhen Yuan author Jinhao Cui author Xinyang Zhao author Lingzhi Wang author Hao Chen author Qing Liao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhong-etal-2026-modeling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1017/ 2026-07 20322 20350 EmoMM: Benchmarking and Steering MLLM for Multimodal Emotion Recognition under Conflict and Missingness Yueru Sun author Yimeng Zhang author Haoyu Gu author Nuo Chen author Dong She author Xianrong Yao author Yang Gao author Zhanpeng Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-emomm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1018/ 2026-07 20351 20371 Veri-R1: Toward Precise and Faithful Claim Verification via Online Reinforcement Learning Qi He author Cheng Qian author Xiusi Chen author Bingxiang He author Yi R Fung author Heng Ji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-veri https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1019/ 2026-07 20372 20391 MimicLM: Zero-Shot Voice Imitation through Autoregressive Modeling of Pseudo-Parallel Speech Corpora Tao Feng author Yuxiang Wang author Yuancheng Wang author Xueyao Zhang author Dekun Chen author Chaoren Wang author Xun Guan author Zhizheng Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-mimiclm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1020/ 2026-07 20392 20405 Fine-Grained Data Ordering Improves Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models Xiaomeng Hu author Yixuan Tang author Haoze Li author Hao Chen author Qi Zhang author Zhanming Shen author Yiming Zhang author Haobo Wang author Junbo Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-fine https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1021/ 2026-07 20406 20418 LifeSim: Long-Horizon User Life Simulator for Personalized Assistant Evaluation Feiyu Duan author Xuanjing Huang author Zhongyu Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 duan-etal-2026-lifesim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1022/ 2026-07 20419 20463 Interactive Semantic Parsing with Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Reasoning Yurun Song author Xiangqing Shen author Jianfei Yu author Rui Xia author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-interactive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1023/ 2026-07 20464 20484 CLewR: Curriculum Learning with Restarts for Machine Translation Preference Learning Alexandra Dragomir author Florin Brad author Radu Tudor Ionescu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dragomir-etal-2026-clewr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1024/ 2026-07 20485 20496 Targeting the Needle, Ignoring the Haystack: Anchoring Crucial Cues for Evolving Scam Call Detection via an LLM-Assisted Classifier Tong Wu author Qinliang Su author Jianxing Yu author Bo Liang author Minhua Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-targeting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1025/ 2026-07 20497 20513 Distributional Alignment for Large Language Models under Domain Shift Viet Thanh Pham author Lizhen Qu author Zhuang Li author Gholamreza Haffari author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pham-etal-2026-distributional https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1026/ 2026-07 20514 20528 Traces in the Brain: Neural Evidence for Syntactic Movement in English and Chinese Yuhan Huang author Zhengwu Ma author Yuqi Jin author Beth Chan author Zheng Shen author Jackie Yan-Ki Lai author John T Hale author Jixing Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-traces https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1027/ 2026-07 20529 20543 LinguaGame: A Linguistically Grounded Game-Theoretic Paradigm for Multi-Agent Dialogue Generation Yuxiao Ye author Yiming Zhang author Yiran Rex Ma author Huiyuan Xie author Huining Zhu author Zhiyuan Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ye-etal-2026-linguagame https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1028/ 2026-07 20544 20558 A Dual-View Analysis of Multiple Languages in Colonial Newspapers Zhan Su author Xiaoya Chen author Fengran Mo author Ida L Vos author Prayag Tiwari author Yazhou Zhang author Qian Zheng author Natália da Silva Perez author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-dual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1029/ 2026-07 20559 20573 CARE-CR: Context-Aware Routing and Expert Fusion for Multi-Preference Cognitive Restructuring Hongzhi Qi author Liangcheng Wang author Yijing YU author Jianqiang Li author Bing Xiang Yang author Qing Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qi-etal-2026-care https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1030/ 2026-07 20574 20588 EvoCoT: Overcoming the Exploration Bottleneck in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs Huanyu Liu author Jia Li author Yihong Dong author Chang Yu author Taozhi Chen author Lecheng Wang author Yongding Tao author Bin Gu author Ge Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-evocot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1031/ 2026-07 20589 20603 Context as a Tool: Context Management for Long-Horizon SWE-Agents Shukai Liu author Bo Jiang author Jian Yang author Yizhi LI author Jinyang Guo author Xianglong Liu author Bryan Dai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1032/ 2026-07 20604 20617 Beyond Static Profiles: Capturing the Fluidity of User Preferences in Diverse Scenarios Chunyang Gao author Yi Huang author Jingyu Yao author Xiaoting Wu author Junlan Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1033/ 2026-07 20618 20634 Mitigating Coordinate Prediction Bias from Positional Encoding Failures Xingjian Tao author Yiwei Wang author Yujun Cai author Yihong Luo author Kai Han author Jing Tang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tao-etal-2026-mitigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1034/ 2026-07 20635 20650 PerDucer: Keyphrase-Driven Personalization Inducer for Summarization from User Histories Parthiv Chatterjee author Asish Joel Batha author Sourish Dasgupta author Tanmoy Chakraborty author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chatterjee-etal-2026-perducer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1035/ 2026-07 20651 20677 Beyond A Fixed Seal: Adaptive Stealing Watermark in Large Language Models Shuhao Zhang author Yuli Chen author Jiale Han author Bo Cheng author Jiabao Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-beyond-fixed https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1036/ 2026-07 20678 20695 UniGeM: Unifying Data Selection and Mixing via Geometric Exploration and Mining Changhao Wang author Yunfeiyu author Xinhao Yao author Jiaolong Yang author Lu Yu author Junpeng Fang author Chaobo Li author Riccardo Cantoro author Qing Cui author Jun Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-unigem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1037/ 2026-07 20696 20714 Don’t Just Listen, Try Planning: Graph-based Retrieval-Generation Agent for Long-form Audio Meeting Understanding Quanwei Tang author Dong Zhang author Shoushan Li author Guodong Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-dont https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1038/ 2026-07 20715 20742 FLASH: Focused Layer Attention Sink Hijacking Siyuan Deng author Yerong Li author Fanhua Shang author Hongying Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 deng-etal-2026-flash https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1039/ 2026-07 20743 20761 SPIDE: Serial and Parallel Intertwined Speculative Decoding Wenru Xu author Peixuan Xu author Ziqi Yang author Ming Hu author Zihui Wang author Jianzhong Qi author Rongshan Yu author Xiaoliang Fan author Cheng Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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Jiang author Ran Song author Siqi Zhang author Yuxin Huang author Shengxiang Gao author Zhengtao Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-breaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1042/ 2026-07 20798 20812 Reasoning-Aware AIGC Detection via Alignment and Reinforcement Zhao Wang author Max Xiong author Jianxun Lian author Zhicheng Dou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-reasoning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1043/ 2026-07 20813 20829 Beyond Modality Collapse: Taming Guided Modality Entropy for Omni-modal Emotion Reasoning Xian Zhao author Rui Hu author Yuxiang Zhang author Delai Qiu author Yining Wang author Shengping Liu author Jian Yu author Jitao Sang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1044/ 2026-07 20830 20845 ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging Context Kai Golan Hashiloni author Lior Livyatan author Ofri Hefetz author Alon Mannor author Bar Cohen author Kfir Bar author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hashiloni-etal-2026-id10m https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1045/ 2026-07 20846 20864 MENTOR: Mitigating Identity Drift in Dynamic Role-Playing via Dual-Chain Structured Memory Zhu Zhuoning author Xingyu Gao author Hailong Shi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhuoning-etal-2026-mentor https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1046/ 2026-07 20865 20882 Beyond Benchmarks: A Capability-Based Maturity Model for Systematic AI Integration in Hospitals Rui Li author Xiaofen WU author Mingqian Liu author Xiaoxia Song author Xu Xiangjun author Jiacheng Qiao author Zhuang Boqin author Xu Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-beyond-benchmarks https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1047/ 2026-07 20883 20895 DiffuSpec: Unlocking Diffusion Language Models for Speculative Decoding Guanghao Li author Zhihui Fu author Min Fang author Qibin Zhao author Ming Tang author Chun Yuan author Jun Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-diffuspec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1048/ 2026-07 20896 20910 TENP: Trapezoidal Expert Neuron Pruning For Mixture-of-Experts Jiangyang He author Shaolin Zhu author Deyi Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-tenp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1049/ 2026-07 20911 20925 FlowRAG: Synergizing Explicit Reasoning via Frequency-Aware Multi-Granularity Graph Flow Bihao Zhan author Zongsheng Cao author Jie Zhou author Bo Zhang author Liang He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhan-etal-2026-flowrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1050/ 2026-07 20926 20936 OntoGuard: Enforcing Action Admissibility for LLM Agents in Complex Interactive Environments Pengxiang Liu author Tao Ren author Wei Xiong author Tingrui Yang author Junjie Wang author Jun HU author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-ontoguard https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1051/ 2026-07 20937 20952 Self-Correcting RAG: Enhancing Faithfulness via MMKP Context Selection and NLI-Guided MCTS Shijia Xu author Zhou Wu author Xiaolong Jia author Yu Wang author Kai Liu author April Xiaowen Dong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1052/ 2026-07 20953 20976 DiffER: Diffusion Entity-Relation Modeling for Reversal Curse in Diffusion Large Language Models Shaokai He author Kaiwen Wei author Xinyi Zeng author Xiang Chen author Xue Yang author Zhenyang Li author Jiang Zhong author Yu Tian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-differ https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1053/ 2026-07 20977 20987 Layer-aware Dual-directional Modulation for Low-resource Machine Translation Siqi Zhang author Ran Song author Shuting Jiang author Yuxin Huang author Zhengtao Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-layer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1054/ 2026-07 20988 21000 MATCHA: Matching Text via Contrastive Semantic Alignment Siran Li author Ece Sena Etoglu author Carsten Eickhoff author Seyed Ali Bahrainian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-matcha https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1055/ 2026-07 21001 21018 PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs Zijing Wang author YongKang Liu author Mingyang Wang author Ercong Nie author Deyuan Chen author Zhengjie Zhao author Shi Feng author Daling Wang author Xiaocui Yang author Yifei Zhang author Hinrich Schuetze author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-plam https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1056/ 2026-07 21019 21035 Efficient Inference for Large Vision-Language Models: Bottlenecks, Techniques, and Prospects Jun Zhang author Yicheng Ji author Feiyang Ren author Yihang Li author Bowen Zeng author Zonghao Chen author Ke Chen author Lidan Shou author Gang Chen author Huan Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-efficient https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1057/ 2026-07 21036 21066 Adaptive Zooming via Relevance-Informed Positional Resource Allocation for Training-free LLM Context Extension Hongbo Zhao author Huibin Wang author Bin Tang author Xianming Hu author Yihong Huang author Yijun Shen author Nuoyi Chen author Ping Li author Kai Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-adaptive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1058/ 2026-07 21067 21083 Mitigating Position Bias in Transformers via Layer-Specific Positional Embedding Scaling Zhenghua Wang author Yiran Ding author Changze Lv author Yixin Wu author Tianlong Li author Zhibo Xu author Muling Wu author Tianyuan Shi author Shizheng Li author Qi Qian author Xuanjing Huang author Xiaoqing Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mitigating-position https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1059/ 2026-07 21084 21098 Semantic-pragmatic Annotations in the Prague Dependency Treebank Marie Mikulová author Eva Hajicova author Jiří Mírovský author Anna Nedoluzhko author Michal Novák author Pavlína Synková author Jan Štěpánek author Barbora Štěpánková author Jan Hajič author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San 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Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kishino-etal-2026-establishing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1163/ 2026-07 23223 23248 Simple Role Assignment is Extraordinarily Effective for Safety Alignment Zhou Ziheng author Jiakun Ding author Zhaowei Zhang author Ruosen Gao author Ying Nian Wu author Demetri Terzopoulos author Yipeng Kang author Fangwei Zhong author Junqi Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ziheng-etal-2026-simple https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1164/ 2026-07 23249 23267 Task-Stratified Knowledge Scaling Laws for Post-Training Quantized Large Language Models Chenxi Zhou author Pengfei Cao author Jiang Li author Bohan Yu author Jinyu Ye author Jun Zhao author Kang Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-task https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1165/ 2026-07 23268 23285 MemPO: Self-Memory Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agents Ruoran Li author Xinghua Zhang author Haiyang Yu author Shitong Duan author Xiang Li author Wenxin Xiang author Chonghua Liao author Xudong Guo author Yongbin Li author Jinli Suo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-mempo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1166/ 2026-07 23286 23301 Reason Only When Needed: Efficient Generative Reward Modeling via Model-Internal Uncertainty Chao Xue author Yao Wang author Mengqiao Liu author Di Liang author Xingsheng Han author Peiyang Liu author Xianjie Wu author Chenyao Lu author Lei Jiang author Yu Lu author Haibo Shi author Shuang Liang author Minlong Peng author Flora D Salim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xue-etal-2026-reason https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1167/ 2026-07 23302 23319 Metacognitive Self-Correction for Multi-Agent System via Prototype-Guided Next-Execution Reconstruction Xu Shen author Qi Zhang author Song Wang author Zhen Tan author Xinyu Zhao author Laura Yao author Vaishnav Tadiparthi author Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub author Ehsan Moradi Pari author Kwonjoon Lee author Tianlong Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shen-etal-2026-metacognitive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1168/ 2026-07 23320 23337 DualGuard: Dual-stream Large Language Model Watermarking Defense against Paraphrase and Spoofing Attack Hao Li author Yubing Ren author Yanan Cao author Yingjie Li author Fang Fang author Shi Wang author Li Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira 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Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sha-zhu-2026-verifying https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1174/ 2026-07 23442 23474 Memory-Driven Role-Playing: Evaluation and Enhancement of Persona Knowledge Utilization in LLMs Kai Wang author Haoyang You author Yang Zhang author Zhongjie Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-memory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1175/ 2026-07 23475 23510 Scripts Through Time: A Survey of the Evolving Role of Transliteration in NLP Thanmay Jayakumar author Deepon Halder author Raj Dabre author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for 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ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lei-etal-2026-live https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1193/ 2026-07 23813 23850 Semi-Supervised Diseased Detection from Speech Dialogues with Multi-Level Data Modeling Xingyuan Li author Mengyue Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-wu-2026-semi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1194/ 2026-07 23851 23862 From Isolated Scoring to Collaborative Ranking: A Comparison-Native Framework for LLM-Based Paper Evaluation Pujun Zheng author Jiacheng Yao author Jinquan Zheng author Chenyang Gu author Guoxiu He author Jiawei Liu author Yong Huang author Tianrui Guo author Wei Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-isolated https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1195/ 2026-07 23863 23883 UnAC: Adaptive Visual Prompting with Abstraction and Stepwise Checking for Complex Multimodal Reasoning Yifan Wang author Yun Fu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-fu-2026-unac https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1196/ 2026-07 23884 23893 AnalystBench: Benchmarking 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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 979-8-89176-395-1 hao-etal-2026-bizcompass https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1198/ 2026-07 23927 23966 When More Thinking Hurts: Overthinking in LLM Test-Time Compute Scaling Shu Zhou author Rui Ling author Junan Chen author Xin Wang author Tao Fan author Hao Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1199/ 2026-07 23967 23977 Learning from Failures: Error Notebook-guided Secure Code Generation Xinyu Zhong author Peng Lan author Zhifang Liao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhong-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1200/ 2026-07 23978 23990 Evaluating Reasoning Models for Queries with Presuppositions Rose Sathyanathan author Kinshuk Vasisht author Danish Pruthi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sathyanathan-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1201/ 2026-07 23991 24006 GRE Score: Generative Risk Evaluation for Large Language Models Zaitang LI author Pin-Yu Chen author Tsung-Yi Ho author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-gre https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1202/ 2026-07 24007 24033 MSVBench: Towards Human-Level Evaluation of Multi-Shot Video Generation Haoyuan Shi author Yunxin li author Nanhao Deng author Zhenran Xu author Xinyu Chen author Longyue Wang author Baotian Hu author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-msvbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1203/ 2026-07 24034 24058 M-TRACE: Detecting and Mitigating Time-Anchor Drift via Step-wise Conflict Checking in Temporal Reasoning Danyu Huang author Jiayuan Jiang author Yao Zhang author Jun Wang author Huijia Li author Zhenglu Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-trace https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1204/ 2026-07 24059 24077 Faithful Persona Steering under Incongruity via Dual-Stream Refinement Yu-An Chu author Jen-Ren Pong author Chia-Yao Yeh author Meng-Fen Chiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chu-etal-2026-faithful https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1205/ 2026-07 24078 24095 ChemVLR: Prioritizing Reasoning in Perception for Chemical Vision-Language Understanding Xuanle Zhao author Xinyuan Cai author Xiang Cheng author Xiuyi Chen author Bo XU author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-chemvlr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1206/ 2026-07 24096 24115 SDC-LoRA: Singular-Subspace Drift Controlled LoRA to Mitigate Knowledge Forgetting Geyuan Zhang author Xiaofei Zhou author Shihao Liu author Jingyuan Tian author Jizheng Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-sdc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1207/ 2026-07 24116 24132 Regret-Now: A Physics-Inspired Regret Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLMs Danyu Huang author Yao Zhang author Jun Wang author Zhenglu Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-regret https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1208/ 2026-07 24133 24157 Low-probability Tokens Sustain Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward Guanhua Huang author Tingqiang Xu author Mingze Wang author Qi Yi author Xue Gong author Siheng Li author Ruibin Xiong author Kejiao Li author Yuhao Jiang author Bo Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-low https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1209/ 2026-07 24158 24188 Preserving Language Capabilities in Vision-Language Models via Representation Regulation ZiXuan Chen author Juncheng Tao author Ziqian Zeng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-preserving https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1210/ 2026-07 24189 24205 Me-Agent: A Personalized Mobile Agent with Two-Level User Habit Learning for Enhanced Interaction Shuoxin Wang author Chang Liu author Gowen Loo author Lifan Zheng author Kaiwen Wei author Huanqian Yan author Xinyi Zeng author Jingyuan Zhang author Yu Tian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-agent-personalized https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1211/ 2026-07 24206 24222 Dynamic PMI-Guided Contrastive Decoding Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models: A Unified Framework of Fine-Grained Input Transformations Dongsheng Chen author Yingqi Zhu author Xingyue Zhang author Wenqing Zhou author Lei Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-dynamic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1212/ 2026-07 24223 24235 LSEG: A Fine-tuning Free Method for NL2FOL via Logic-Structure and Entropy Guided Inference Controlling Yuwei Huang author Shi Wang author Kangli Zi author Tianyu Luo author Jiang Zhixiao author Ruiheng Wang author Yufei Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-lseg https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1213/ 2026-07 24236 24245 Compact Example-Based Explanations for Language Models Loris Schoenegger author Benjamin Roth author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 schoenegger-roth-2026-compact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1214/ 2026-07 24246 24265 MedCPI: A Construct–Personalize–Integrate Framework for KG-enhanced Clinical Prediction Hang Wang author Hang Dong author Lu Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-medcpi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1215/ 2026-07 24266 24282 Across Programming Language Silos: A Study on Cross-Lingual Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation Qiming Zhu author Jialun Cao author Xuanang Chen author Weili Zhang author Yaojie Lu author Hongyu Lin author Xianpei Han author Le Sun author Shing-Chi Cheung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-across https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1216/ 2026-07 24283 24296 ErrorRadar: Benchmarking Complex Mathematical Reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models Via Error Detection Yibo Yan author Shen Wang author Jiahao Huo author Hang Li author Boyan Li author Jiamin Su author Xiong Gao author YiFan Zhang author Tianlong Xu author Zhendong Chu author Aoxiao Zhong author Kun Wang author Hui Xiong author Philip S Yu author Xuming Hu author Qingsong Wen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yan-etal-2026-errorradar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1217/ 2026-07 24297 24334 Disentangling Continued Pre-Training: Attention-Driven Routing and Semantic Hub Preservation in Language Adaptation Khanh-Tung Tran author Vinh-Khanh Tran author Barry O’Sullivan author Hoang D Nguyen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tran-etal-2026-disentangling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1218/ 2026-07 24335 24357 Do You Get the Hint? Benchmarking LLMs on the Board Game Concept Ine Gevers author Walter Daelemans author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gevers-daelemans-2026-get https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1219/ 2026-07 24358 24371 Topic-Based Watermarks for Large Language Models Alexander Nemecek author Yuzhou Jiang author Erman Ayday author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nemecek-etal-2026-topic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1220/ 2026-07 24372 24402 SParK-Eval: Evaluating Structure-Aware Knowledge Acquisition in LLMs for Domain Adaptation to Industrial Records Ekant Muljibhai Amin author Yuta Koreeda author Yasuhiro Sogawa author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 amin-etal-2026-spark https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1221/ 2026-07 24403 24418 SOLAR-RL: Semi-Online Long-horizon Assignment Reinforcement Learning Jichao Wang author Liuyang Bian author Yufeng Zhou author Han Xiao author Yue Pan author Guozhi Wang author Hao Wang author Zhaoxiong Wang author Yafei Wen author Xiaoxin Chen author Shuai Ren author Lingfang Zeng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-solar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1222/ 2026-07 24419 24432 Kumatigi: Quality-Driven Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Machine Translation Cheick Tidiani Cissé author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cisse-2026-kumatigi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1223/ 2026-07 24433 24446 CAMO: An Agentic Framework for Automated Causal Discovery from Micro Behaviors to Macro Emergence in LLM Agent Simulations Xiangning Yu author Yuwei Guo author Yuqi Hou author Xiao Xue author Qun Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-camo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1224/ 2026-07 24447 24479 MoLAN: A Unified Modality-Aware Noise Dynamic Editing Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Xingle Xu author YongKang Liu author Dexian Cai author Shi Feng author Xiaocui Yang author Daling Wang author Yifei Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-molan https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1225/ 2026-07 24480 24495 C2PO: Diagnosing and Disentangling Bias Shortcuts in LLMs Xuan Feng author Bo An author Tianlong Gu author Liang Chang author Fengrui Hao author Peipeng Yu author Shuai Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-c2po https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1226/ 2026-07 24496 24515 Deconstruct, Diagnose, and Deliberate: A Protocol-Adaptive Role-Specific Multi-Agent Framework for Fake News Detection Zhigan Zhang author Jie Sui author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-sui-2026-deconstruct https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1227/ 2026-07 24516 24534 Position: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Significantly Advance Scientific Reasoning Yibo Yan author Shen Wang author Jiahao Huo author Jingheng Ye author Zhendong Chu author Xuming Hu author Philip S Yu author Carla P Gomes author Bart Selman author Qingsong Wen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yan-etal-2026-position https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1228/ 2026-07 24535 24574 E³-TIR: Enhanced Experience Exploitation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning Weiyang Guo author Zesheng Shi author Liye Zhao author Jiayuan Ma author Zeen Zhu author Junxian He author Min Zhang author Jing Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-e3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1229/ 2026-07 24575 24596 EVA: Evolving Semantic Adversaries for Red-Teaming GUI Agents Against Environmental Injection Attacks Yijie Lu author Manman Zhao author Tianjie Ju author Zihe Yan author Xinbei Ma author Yuan Guo author Daizong Ding author Gongshen Liu author Zhuosheng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lu-etal-2026-eva https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1230/ 2026-07 24597 24615 NEAT: Neuron-Based Early Exit for Large Reasoning Models Kang Liu author YongKang Liu author Xiaocui Yang author Peidong Wang author Wen Zhang author Shi Feng author Yifei Zhang author Daling Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-neat https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1231/ 2026-07 24616 24627 From “Thinking” to “Justifying”: Aligning High-Stakes Explainability with Professional Communication Standards Chen Qian author Yimeng Wang author Yu Chen author Lingfei Wu author Andreas Stathopoulos author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qian-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1232/ 2026-07 24628 24637 EHRAG: Bridging Semantic Gaps in Lightweight GraphRAG via Hybrid Hypergraph Construction and Retrieval Yifan Song author Xingjian Tao author Zhicheng Yang author Yihong Luo author Jing Tang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-ehrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1233/ 2026-07 24638 24652 PURE: Post-hoc Unlocking and REfinement for Discrete Diffusion Decoding Yangryeol Park author Kunhui Lee author Hanback Choi author Cheoneum Park author Donghyeon Jeon author Inho Kang author Seung-Hoon Na author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-pure https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1234/ 2026-07 24653 24667 OSCR-Attack: One-Shot Character Level Attacks through Self-Optimizing Continuous Relaxation Lingyi Kong author Zhuo Liu author Zhanghao Hu author Qilong Qiu author Yutao Yang author Jingjing Xue author Zheng Wang author Lin Gui author Feiping Nie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kong-etal-2026-oscr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1235/ 2026-07 24668 24683 MTEB-NL and E5-NL: Embedding Benchmark and Models for Dutch Nikolay Banar author Ehsan Lotfi author Jens Van Nooten author Cristina Arhiliuc author Marija Kliocaite author Walter Daelemans author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 banar-etal-2026-mteb https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1236/ 2026-07 24684 24709 Perceptual Hallucination in Vision–Language Models: Definition, Analysis and Verification Taewook Hwang author Inbum Heo author Sung Jun Lee author Sangkeun Jung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hwang-etal-2026-perceptual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1237/ 2026-07 24710 24725 RATION: Entropy-Driven Task-Adaptive Visual Attention Allocation Framework for Multimodal Reasoning Xingle Xu author Fanheng Kong author Dexian Cai author Shi Feng author Xiaocui Yang author Daling Wang author Yifei Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-ration https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1238/ 2026-07 24726 24744 Multimodal In-context Learning for ASR of Low-resource Languages Zhaolin Li author Jan Niehues author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-niehues-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1239/ 2026-07 24745 24760 a1: Steep Test-time Scaling Law via Environment Augmented Generation Lingrui Mei author Shenghua Liu author Yiwei Wang author Baolong Bi author Yuyao Ge author Jun Wan author Yurong Wu author Xueqi Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mei-etal-2026-a1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1240/ 2026-07 24761 24786 Look and Think: Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Modality-Decoupled Compression Xidi Cai author Junhao Zheng author Jingye Li author Boyuan Li author Shaowei Zhang author Qianli Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cai-etal-2026-look https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1241/ 2026-07 24787 24806 Topology-Enhanced Alignment for Large Language Models: Trajectory Topology Loss and Topological Preference Optimization Yurui Pan author Ke Xu author Bo Peng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pan-etal-2026-topology https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1242/ 2026-07 24807 24821 Inference-Time Scaling of Verification: Self-Evolving Deep Research Agents via Test-Time Rubric-Guided Verification Yuxuan Wan author Tianqing Fang author Zaitang LI author Yintong Huo author Wenxuan Wang author Haitao Mi author Dong Yu author Michael R Lyu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wan-etal-2026-inference https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1243/ 2026-07 24822 24835 FinCARDS: Card-Based Analyst Reranking for Financial Document Question Answering Yixi Zhou author Fan Zhang author Y U Chen author Haipeng Zhang author Preslav Nakov author Zhuohan Xie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-fincards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1244/ 2026-07 24836 24852 A Unified Feature Mixture Framework for Joint Speech and Singing Deepfake Detection Aastha Sharma author Guangjing Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sharma-wang-2026-unified https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1245/ 2026-07 24853 24863 From Atomic to Complex tasks: Cross-Tasking Improves Zero-Shot Argument Generation and Retrieval Lynda Tamine author Ahmed Rayane Kebir author Merveille Dona Codjo author Enzo Pasquies author Jose G Moreno author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tamine-etal-2026-atomic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1246/ 2026-07 24864 24882 Sculpting the Vector Space: Towards Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Prune-then-Merge Framework Yibo Yan author Mingdong Ou author Yi Cao author Xin Zou author Jiahao Huo author Shuliang Liu author James Kwok author Xuming Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yan-etal-2026-sculpting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1247/ 2026-07 24883 24925 ThinkLinker: From Low-Rank Interaction to Knowledge-Aware Verification for Multimodal Entity Linking Yingyao Ma author Yuanyuan Zhou author Congyu Zhang author Yi Yuan author Jiasong Wu author Lotfi Senhadji author Huazhong Shu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-etal-2026-thinklinker https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1248/ 2026-07 24926 24942 Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training Yunxiang Zhang author Muhammad Khalifa author Lechen Zhang author Xin Liu author Ayoung Lee author Xinliang Frederick Zhang author Farima Fatahi Bayat author Lu Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-logit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1249/ 2026-07 24943 24959 Evolving Agentic Workflow Driven by Human-Agent Collaboration Yuxin Liu author Jinxuan Zhang author Yuezhang Peng author Hefeng Zhou author Xiangfeng Wang author Jiong Lou author Chentao Wu author Jie LI author Jingjing Qu author Chaochao Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-evolving https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1250/ 2026-07 24960 24969 HintPilot: LLM-based Compiler Hint Synthesis for Code Optimization Hanyun Jiang author Peisen Yao author Kaiyue Li author Tingting Lin author Chengpeng Wang author Kui Ren author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-hintpilot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1251/ 2026-07 24970 24986 What Makes an LLM a Good Optimizer? A Trajectory Analysis of LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search Xinhao Zhang author Xi Chen author François Portet author Maxime Peyrard author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-makes https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1252/ 2026-07 24987 25011 Token-level Inference-Time Alignment for Vision-Language Models Kejia Chen author Junjun Zheng author Jiawen Zhang author Manxi Lin author Xiao Pan author Jiacong Hu author Jian Lou author Zunlei Feng author Mingli Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-token https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1253/ 2026-07 25012 25029 STELLA: A Multimodal LLM for Protein Functional Annotation via Unified Sequence-Structure Encoding Hongwang Xiao author Wenjun Lin author Xi Chen author Hui Wang author Kai Chen author Jiashan Li author Yuancheng Sun author Sicheng Dai author Boya Wu author Qiwei Ye author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiao-etal-2026-stella https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1254/ 2026-07 25030 25049 RealFin: How Well Do LLMs Reason About Finance When Users Leave Things Unsaid? Yuyang Dai author Yan Lin author Zhuohan Xie author Yuxia Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dai-etal-2026-realfin https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1255/ 2026-07 25050 25080 Preference Optimization for Review Question Generation Improves Writing Quality Karun Sharma author Vidushee Vats author Shengzhi LI author Yuxiang Wang author Zhongtian Sun author Prayag Tiwari author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sharma-etal-2026-preference https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1256/ 2026-07 25081 25104 Your LLM Agent Can Leak Your Data: Data Exfiltration via Backdoored Tool Use Wuyang Zhang author Shichao Pei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-pei-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1257/ 2026-07 25105 25129 EvoHyper: Evolving Hypergraph Topologies for Unified Collaboration in Multi-Agent Communication Heng Zhang author Yihao Zhong author Lubin Gan author Zhihe Chen author Jiajun Wu author Yuling Shi author Xiaodong Gu author Hao Zhang author Haochen You author Jin Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-evohyper https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1258/ 2026-07 25130 25143 Think Before you Write: QA-Guided Reasoning for Character Descriptions in Books Argyrios Papoudakis author Mirella Lapata author Frank Keller author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 papoudakis-etal-2026-think https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1259/ 2026-07 25144 25164 GroupRank: A Groupwise Paradigm for Effective and Efficient Passage Reranking with LLMs Meixiu Long author Duolin Sun author Dan Yang author Yihan Jiao author Lei Liu author Jiahai Wang author Binbin Hu author Yue Shen author Jie Feng author Zhehao Tan author Junjie Wang author Lianzhen Zhong author Jian Wang author Peng Wei author Jinjie Gu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 long-etal-2026-grouprank https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1260/ 2026-07 25165 25186 Mirage: A Diagnostic Framework for Evaluating the Realism of Synthetic Contact Center Dialogue Generation Rishikesh Devanathan author Varun Nathan author Ayush Kumar author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 devanathan-etal-2026-mirage https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1261/ 2026-07 25187 25227 BloomEval: A Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LRMs via Cognitive Hierarchy Trace Zhiyi Duan author Lei Gao author Jiangshan Guan author Qi Wang author Rui Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 duan-etal-2026-bloomeval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1262/ 2026-07 25228 25248 CAIR: Causal Adaptive Information-based Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning Fengyu Zhang author Bin Liu author Jianhua Tao author Zhuofan Wen author Shun Chen author Hailiang Yao author Zhengqi Wen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-cair https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1263/ 2026-07 25249 25264 A Multi-View Media Profiling Suite: Resources, Evaluation, and Analysis Muhammad Arslan Manzoor author Dilshod Azizov author Daniil Orel author Umer Siddique author Zain Muhammad Mujahid author Yufang Hou author Preslav Nakov author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 manzoor-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1264/ 2026-07 25265 25286 Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Attention Interventions Maisha Maliha author Dean F Hougen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 maliha-hougen-2026-mechanistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1265/ 2026-07 25287 25299 Revisiting Entropy in Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models Renren Jin author Pengzhi Gao author Yuqi Ren author Zhuowen Han author Tongxuan Zhang author Wuwei Huang author Wei Liu author Jian Luan author Deyi Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-etal-2026-revisiting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1266/ 2026-07 25300 25322 How Large Language Models Balance Internal Knowledge with User and Document Assertions Shuowei Li author Haoxin Li author Wenda Chu author Yi Fang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1267/ 2026-07 25323 25346 ComicVQA: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs Esther Gan author Hannah Brown author David Herel author Kenji Kawaguchi author Min-Yen Kan author Michael Qizhe Shieh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gan-etal-2026-comicvqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1268/ 2026-07 25347 25370 AJ-Bench: Benchmarking Agent-as-a-Judge for Environment-Aware Evaluation Wentao Shi author Yu Wang author Yuyang Zhao author Yuxin Chen author Fuli Feng author Xueyuan Hao author Xi Su author Qi GU author Hui Su author Xunliang Cai author Xiangnan He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-aj https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1269/ 2026-07 25371 25413 Can LLMs Estimate Student Struggles? Human-AI Difficulty Alignment with Proficiency Simulation for Item Difficulty Prediction Ming Li author Han Chen author Yunze Xiao author Jian Chen author Hong Jiao author Tianyi Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1270/ 2026-07 25414 25441 Transition-Matrix Regularization for Next Dialogue Act Prediction in Counselling Conversations Eric Rudolph author Philipp Steigerwald author Jens Albrecht author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rudolph-etal-2026-transition https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1271/ 2026-07 25442 25457 ClimateCause: Complex and Implicit Causal Structures in Climate Reports Liesbeth Allein author Nataly Pineda-Castañeda author Andrea Rocci author Marie-Francine Moens author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 allein-etal-2026-climatecause https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1272/ 2026-07 25458 25488 Reference-Free Evaluation of Taxonomies Pascal Wullschleger author Majid Zarharan author Donnacha Daly author Marc Pouly author Jennifer Foster author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wullschleger-etal-2026-reference https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1273/ 2026-07 25489 25507 CSI: An Investigative Multi-Agent Framework for Explainable Short Video Fake News Detection Yuxin Wang author Yang Yang author Huaiwen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-csi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1274/ 2026-07 25508 25528 Dial HEALTHDIAL for Advice: A Multilingual and Multi-Parallel Spoken Dialogue Dataset for Knowledge-Grounded Information Seeking Songbo Hu author Yinhong Liu author Ej Zhou author Evgeniia Razumovskaia author Xiaobin Wang author Alexander Fraser author Ivan Vulić author Anna Korhonen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-dial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1275/ 2026-07 25529 25552 Fast and Effective On-Policy Distillation from Reasoning Prefixes Dongxu Zhang author Zhichao Yang author Sepehr Janghorbani author Jun Han author Andrew Ressler II author Qian Qian author Gregory D Lyng author Sanjit Singh Batra author Robert E Tillman author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-fast https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1276/ 2026-07 25553 25569 MaRF: Leveraging Representation-Level Fusion of Formula Semantics for Mathematical Information Retrieval Suyuan Wang author Hongbo Zheng author Nickvash Kani author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-marf https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1277/ 2026-07 25570 25585 From Documents to Segments: A Contextual Reformulation for Topic Assignment Hoonsang Yoon author Takyoung Kim author Wonkee Lee author Ilmin Cho author Dilek Hakkani-Tür author Stanley Jungkyu Choi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for 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Evaluating Code Understanding and Execution via Invertibility Nickil Maveli author Antonio Vergari author Shay B Cohen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 maveli-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1279/ 2026-07 25625 25660 Confidence Estimation for LLMs in Multi-turn Interactions Caiqi Zhang author Ruihan Yang author Xiaochen Zhu author Chengzu Li author Tiancheng Hu author Yijiang River Dong author Deqing Yang author Nigel Collier author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-confidence-estimation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1280/ 2026-07 25661 25676 Beyond Black-Box Labels: Interpretable Criteria for Diagnosing Subjective NLP Tasks Nisrine Rair author Alban Goupil author Valeriu Vrabie author Emmanuel Chochoy author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rair-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1281/ 2026-07 25677 25706 AutoRubric: Rubric-Based Generative Rewards for Faithful Multimodal Reasoning Mengzhao Jia author Zhihan Zhang author Ignacio Cases author Zheyuan Liu author Meng Jiang author Peng Qi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jia-etal-2026-autorubric https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1282/ 2026-07 25707 25724 HER: Human-like Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning for LLM Role-playing Chengyu Du author Xintao Wang author Aili Chen author Weiyuan Li author Rui Xu author Junteng Liu author Zishan Huang author Rong Tian author Zijun Sun author Yuhao Li author Liheng Feng author Deming Ding author Pengyu Zhao author Yanghua Xiao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 du-etal-2026-human https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1283/ 2026-07 25725 25762 Do Generalisation Results Generalise? Matteo Boglioni author Andrea Sgobbi author Gabriel Tavernini author Francesco Rita author Marius Mosbach author Tiago Pimentel author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 boglioni-etal-2026-generalisation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1284/ 2026-07 25763 25783 Do LLMs Overthink Basic Math Reasoning? Benchmarking the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoff in Language Models Gaurav Srivastava author Aafiya Shamshad Hussain author Sriram Srinivasan author Xuan Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 srivastava-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1285/ 2026-07 25784 25826 PV-SQL: Synergizing Database Probing and Rule-based Verification for Text-to-SQL Agents Yuan Tian author Tianyi Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tian-zhang-2026-pv https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1286/ 2026-07 25827 25845 Anatomy of Unlearning: The Dual Impact of Fact Salience and Model Fine-Tuning Anna Borisiuk author Andrey Savchenko author Alexander Panchenko author Elena Tutubalina author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 borisiuk-etal-2026-anatomy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1287/ 2026-07 25846 25859 What Do Neural Speech Models Know About Phonology? Evidence from Structured Phoneme Confusions Eli Stafford author Aimée Lahaussois author Guillaume Wisniewski author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 stafford-etal-2026-neural https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1288/ 2026-07 25860 25873 Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents Sahel Sharifymoghaddam author Jimmy Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sharifymoghaddam-lin-2026-rerank https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1289/ 2026-07 25874 25886 Position: LLM Watermarking Should Align Stakeholders’ Incentives for Practical Adoption Yepeng Liu author Xuandong Zhao author Dawn Song author Gregory W Wornell author Yuheng Bu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-position https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1290/ 2026-07 25887 25903 Learning to Refine: Self-Refinement of Parallel Reasoning in LLMs Qibin Wang author Pu Zhao author Shaohan Huang author Fangkai Yang author Lu Wang author Furu Wei author Qingwei Lin author Saravan Rajmohan author Dongmei Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1291/ 2026-07 25904 25921 AUDITA: A New Dataset to Audit Humans vs. AI Skill at Audio QA Tasnim Kabir author Dmytro Kurdydyk author Aadi Palnitkar author Liam Dorn author Ahmed Haj Ahmed author Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kabir-etal-2026-audita https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1292/ 2026-07 25922 25951 NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking Chadi Abou Chakra author Hadi Khaled Hamoud 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1294/ 2026-07 25969 25979 Mina: A Multilingual LLM-Powered Legal Assistant Agent for Empowering Access to Justice in Bangladesh Azmine Toushik Wasi author Wahid Faisal author Mst Rafia Islam author Md Rizwan Parvez author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wasi-etal-2026-mina https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1295/ 2026-07 25980 26028 Zero-Shot Context-Aware ASR for Diverse Arabic Varieties Bashar Talafha author Amin Abu Alhassan author Muhammad Abdul-Mageed author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 talafha-etal-2026-zero https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1296/ 2026-07 26029 26044 The Sonar Moment: An Audio Geo-Localization Benchmark for Audio-Language Models Ruixing Zhang author Zihan Liu author Leilei Sun author Tongyu Zhu author Weifeng Lv author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-sonar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1297/ 2026-07 26045 26065 Towards Understanding the Robustness of Sparse Autoencoders Ahson Saiyed author Sabrina Sadiekh author Chirag Agarwal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 saiyed-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1298/ 2026-07 26066 26086 Beyond Local vs. External: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Trustworthy Knowledge Acquisition Rujing Yao author Yufei Shi author Yang Wu author Ang Li author Zhuoren Jiang author XiaoFeng Wang author Haixu Tang author Xiaozhong Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yao-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1299/ 2026-07 26087 26099 False Sense of Security: Why Probing-based Malicious Input Detection Fails to Generalize Cheng Wang author Zeming Wei author Qin Liu author Wenxuan Zhou author Muhao Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-false https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1300/ 2026-07 26100 26113 Do Transformers Grok Succinct Algorithms? Mechanistic Evidence for Counting Circuits Yizheng Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-2026-transformers https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1301/ 2026-07 26114 26130 How Value Induction Reshapes LLM Behavior Arnav Arora author Natalie Schluter author Katherine Metcalf author Maartje Ter Hoeve author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 arora-etal-2026-value https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1302/ 2026-07 26131 26152 Stable Evidence, Unstable Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Model Decision Stability in Vision–Language Models Ali Khoramfar author Mohammad Javad Dousti author Alireza Mohamadian author Heshaam Faili author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 khoramfar-etal-2026-stable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1303/ 2026-07 26153 26166 PlanRAG-Audio: Planning and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Long-form Audio Understanding Masao Someki author Chien-yu Huang author Siddhant Arora author Samuele Cornell author Markus Müller author Nathan Susanj author Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan author Grant Strimel author Jing Liu author Shinji Watanabe author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 someki-etal-2026-planrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1304/ 2026-07 26167 26183 VecCISC: Improving Confidence-Informed Self-Consistency with Reasoning Trace Clustering and Candidate Answer Selection James Petullo author Sonny George author Dylan Cashman author Nianwen Xue author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 petullo-etal-2026-veccisc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1305/ 2026-07 26184 26200 Incentivizing In-depth Reasoning over Long Contexts with Process Advantage Shaping Miao Peng author Weizhou Shen author Nuo Chen author Chenliang Li author Ming Yan author Jia Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 peng-etal-2026-incentivizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1306/ 2026-07 26201 26228 Dissecting Clinical Reasoning in Natural Language Inference for Large Language Models Mael Jullien author Andre Freitas author Marco Valentino author Leonardo Ranaldi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jullien-etal-2026-dissecting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1307/ 2026-07 26229 26250 LLM-Codec: Neural Audio Codec Meets Language Model Objectives Ho-Lam Chung author Yiming Chen author Hung-yi Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chung-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1308/ 2026-07 26251 26265 Who is the richest club in the championship? Detecting and Rewriting Underspecified Questions Improve QA Performance Yunchong Huang author Gianni Barlacchi author Sandro Pezzelle author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-richest https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1309/ 2026-07 26266 26281 Beyond Chunks and Graphs: Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Triplet-Driven Thinking Shengbo Gong author Xianfeng Tang author Qi He author Carl Yang author Wei Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gong-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1310/ 2026-07 26282 26308 Where Reasoning Breaks: Logic-Aware Path Selection by Controlling Logical Connectives in LLMs Reasoning Chains Seunghyun Park author Yuanyuan Lei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-lei-2026-reasoning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1311/ 2026-07 26309 26324 Reheat Nachos for Dinner? Evaluating AI Support for Cross-Cultural Communication of Neologisms Dayeon Ki author Yu Hou author Rachel Rudinger author Hal Daumé Iii author Marine Carpuat author Fumeng Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ki-etal-2026-reheat https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1312/ 2026-07 26325 26362 Learning Dynamic Representations and Policies from Multimodal Clinical Time-Series with Informative Missingness Zihan Liang author Ziwen Pan author Ruoxuan Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liang-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1313/ 2026-07 26363 26392 Quantize What Counts: More for Keys, Less for Values Mohsen Hariri author Alan Luo author Weicong Chen author Tianyi Zhang author Qifan Wang author Xiaotian Han author Vipin Chaudhary author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hariri-etal-2026-quantize https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1314/ 2026-07 26393 26420 PersonaAgent: Bridging Memory and Action for Personalized LLM Agents Weizhi Zhang author Xinyang Zhang author Chenwei Zhang author Liangwei Yang author Jingbo Shang author Zhepei Wei author Henry Peng Zou author Zijie Huang author Zhengyang Wang author Yifan Gao author Xiaoman Pan author Lian Xiong author Jingguo Liu author Philip S Yu author Xian Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-personaagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1315/ 2026-07 26421 26439 Beyond Fixed Psychological Personas: State Beats Trait, but Language Models are State-Blind Tamunotonye Harry author Ivoline C Ngong author Chima Nweke author Yuanyuan Feng author Joseph Near author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 harry-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1316/ 2026-07 26440 26468 From RAG to Agentic RAG for Faithful Islamic Question Answering Gagan Bhatia author Hamdy Mubarak author Mustafa Jarrar author George Mikros author Fadi Zaraket author Mahmoud Alhirthani author Mutaz al-Khatib author Logan Cochrane author Kareem Mohamed Darwish author Rashid Yahiaoui author Firoj Alam author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bhatia-etal-2026-rag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1317/ 2026-07 26469 26488 Losses that Cook: Topological Optimal Transport for Structured Recipe Generation Mattia Ottoborgo author Daniele Rege Cambrin author Paolo Garza author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ottoborgo-etal-2026-losses https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1318/ 2026-07 26489 26500 Concept Tokens: Learning Behavioral Embeddings Through Concept Definitions Ignacio Sastre author Aiala Rosá author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sastre-rosa-2026-concept https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1319/ 2026-07 26501 26518 Beyond Monolithic Rewards: Hybrid Multi-Aspect Reward Optimization Radha Gulhane author Sathish Reddy Indurthi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gulhane-indurthi-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1320/ 2026-07 26519 26533 VAUQ: Vision-Aware Uncertainty Quantification for LVLM Self-Evaluation Seongheon Park author Changdae Oh author Hyeong Kyu Choi author Sean Du author Sharon Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-vauq https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1321/ 2026-07 26534 26550 Will it Merge? On The Causes of Model Mergeability Adir Rahamim author Asaf Yehudai author Boaz Carmeli author Leshem Choshen author Yosi Mass author Yonatan Belinkov author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rahamim-etal-2026-will https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1322/ 2026-07 26551 26570 Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory Krishna Pothugunta author John P Lalor author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pothugunta-lalor-2026-carefully https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1323/ 2026-07 26571 26582 Parallel-SFT: Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Programming-Language Transfer for Code RL Zhaofeng Wu author Shiqi Wang author Boya Peng author Anuj Kumar Goyal author Melanie Kambadur author Sebastian Ruder author Yoon Kim author Chloe Bi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-parallel https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1324/ 2026-07 26583 26598 Distorted or Fabricated? A Survey on Hallucination in Video LLMs Yiyang Huang author Yitian Zhang author Yizhou Wang author Mingyuan Zhang author Liang Shi author Huimin Zeng author Yun Fu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-distorted https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1325/ 2026-07 26599 26611 Generative Floor Plan Design with LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Luis Lara author Aristides Milios author ZhiHao Luo author Aditya Sharma author Ge Ya Luo author Christopher Beckham author Florian Golemo author Christopher Pal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lara-etal-2026-generative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1326/ 2026-07 26612 26627 Creating Grammar Teaching Material for Endangered Languages with Hybrid Grammar Induction Sebastien Christian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 christian-2026-creating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1327/ 2026-07 26628 26643 OpenExempt: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Legal Reasoning and a Framework for Creating Custom Benchmarks on Demand Sergio Servantez author Sarah B Lawsky author Rajiv Jain author Daniel W Linna Jr. author Kristian J Hammond author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 servantez-etal-2026-openexempt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1328/ 2026-07 26644 26669 Context-Conditioned Masked LoRA: Dynamic Rank Routing for Compute-Efficient Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Rifat Rafiuddin author Rafae Abdullah author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rafiuddin-abdullah-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1329/ 2026-07 26670 26689 A Survey on Evaluation of LLM-based Agents Asaf Yehudai author Lilach Eden author Alan Li author Guy Uziel author Yilun Zhao author Roy Bar-Haim author Arman Cohan author Michal Shmueli-Scheuer author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yehudai-etal-2026-survey https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1330/ 2026-07 26690 26714 ProToM: Promoting Prosocial Behaviour via Theory of Mind-Informed Feedback Matteo Bortoletto author Yichao Zhou author Lance Ying author Tianmin Shu author Andreas Bulling author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bortoletto-etal-2026-protom https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1331/ 2026-07 26715 26734 JudgeMeNot: Personalizing Large Language Models to Emulate Judicial Reasoning in Hebrew Itay Razumenko author Arnon Sturm author Nir Grinberg author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 razumenko-etal-2026-judgemenot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1332/ 2026-07 26735 26753 Stabilizing Efficient Reasoning with Step-Level Advantage Selection Han Wang author Xiaodong Yu author Jialian Wu author Jiang Liu author Ximeng Sun author Mohit Bansal author Zicheng Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-stabilizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1333/ 2026-07 26754 26765 RePrompT: Recurrent Prompt Tuning for Integrating Structured EHR Encoders with Large Language Models Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam author Drew Ross author Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi author Dongjie Wang author Zijun Yao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 moghaddam-etal-2026-reprompt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1334/ 2026-07 26766 26778 CLARO: Controlled Attribute-Driven Reasoning Optimization for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Oded Schlesinger author Young Kyung Kim author J Matias Di Martino author Guillermo Sapiro author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 schlesinger-etal-2026-claro https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1335/ 2026-07 26779 26799 Hidden States as Early Signals: Step-level Trace Evaluation and Pruning for Efficient Test-Time Scaling Zhixiang Liang author Beichen Huang author Zheng Wang author Minjia Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liang-etal-2026-hidden https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1336/ 2026-07 26800 26813 From Recall to Forgetting: Benchmarking Long-Term Memory for Personalized Agents Md Nayem Uddin author Kumar Shubham author Eduardo Blanco author Chitta Baral author Gengyu Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 uddin-etal-2026-recall https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1337/ 2026-07 26814 26841 Towards Inference-time Scaling for Continuous Space Reasoning Minghan Wang author Thuy-Trang Vu author Ehsan Shareghi author Gholamreza Haffari author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-towards-inference https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1338/ 2026-07 26842 26856 SynthFix: Adaptive Neuro-Symbolic Code Vulnerability Repair Yifan Zhang author Jieyu Li author Kexin Pei author Yu Huang author Kevin Leach author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-synthfix https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1339/ 2026-07 26857 26870 Imperfectly Cooperative Human-AI Interactions: Comparing the Impacts of Human and AI Attributes in Simulated and User Studies Myke C Cohen author Mingqian Zheng author Neel Bhandari author Hsien-Te Kao author Xuhui Zhou author Daniel Nguyen author Laura Cassani author Maarten Sap author Svitlana Volkova author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cohen-etal-2026-imperfectly https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1340/ 2026-07 26871 26901 CheMM-R1: Enhancing Chemical Structure Recognition and Elucidation with Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Models Liting Huang author Zhihao Zhang author Shoujin Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-chemm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1341/ 2026-07 26902 26921 Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations Pingjun Hong author Beiduo Chen author Siyao Peng author Marie-Catherine de Marneffe author Benjamin Roth author Barbara Plank author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hong-etal-2026-agree https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1342/ 2026-07 26922 26934 DeepSpecs: Expert-Level Question Answering in 5G Aman Ganapathy Manvattira author Yifei Xu author Ziyue Dang author Songwu Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 manvattira-etal-2026-deepspecs https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1343/ 2026-07 26935 26953 On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Early-Stage Calibration Huaisheng Zhu author MingYu Liu author Junze Liu author Zhen Ge author Tian Wang author Jiri Gesi author Dakuo Wang author Weiqi Zhang author Houyu Zhang author Yufan Guo author Xian Li author Bing Yin author Sujay Sanghavi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-policy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1344/ 2026-07 26954 26965 Arctic-Text2SQL-R1: Simple Rewards, Strong Reasoning in Text-to-SQL Zhewei Yao author Guoheng Sun author Łukasz Borchmann author Zheyu Shen author Minghang Deng author Bohan Zhai author Hao Zhang author Ang Li author Yuxiong He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yao-etal-2026-arctic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1345/ 2026-07 26966 26995 Do Emotions Influence Moral Judgment in Large Language Models? Mohammad Saim author Tianyu Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 saim-jiang-2026-emotions https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1346/ 2026-07 26996 27013 RShield: A User-level Traceable Backdoor Watermark for LLMs in Embedding-as-a-Service Lingyun Xiang author Yufan Zhong author Chengfu Ou author Zhihua Xia author Chunfang Yang author Daojian Zeng author Zhangjie Fu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiang-etal-2026-rshield https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1347/ 2026-07 27014 27028 The Adaptive Interrogator: Detecting Trojan LLMs in Multi-Agent Systems via Evolved Conversational Strategies Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan author Ruichen Zhang author Zhen Tan author Charles Fleming author Tianlong Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 khan-etal-2026-adaptive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1348/ 2026-07 27029 27044 SmartAD: Capacity-Aligned Agent Distillation for Small Language Models Guokai Tang author Feng Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-zhao-2026-smartad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1349/ 2026-07 27045 27057 TRM-Planner: Offline Target Planning and Distillation for Tiny Recursive Models Euijin Baek author Housam Babiker author Mi-Young Kim author Randy Goebel author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 baek-etal-2026-trm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1350/ 2026-07 27058 27070 MAPLE: Multi-Aspect Panels of LLM Evaluators for Open-Ended Questions Michinori Jinji author Kyohei Atarashi author Koh Takeuchi author Hisashi Kashima author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jinji-etal-2026-maple https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1351/ 2026-07 27071 27088 MARCH: Evaluating the Intersection of Ambiguity Interpretation and Multi-hop Inference Jeonghyun Park author Ingeol Baek author Seunghyun Yoon author Haeun Jang author Aparna Garimella author Akriti Jain author Nedim Lipka author Hwanhee Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-march https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1352/ 2026-07 27089 27115 Enhancing Multilingual RAG Systems with Debiased Language Preference-Guided Query Fusion Jeonghyun Park author Byeongjeong Kim 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1354/ 2026-07 27137 27160 Soft Head Selection for Injecting ICL-Derived Task Embeddings Jungwon Park author Jimyeong Kim author Changin Choi author Wonjong Rhee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-soft https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1355/ 2026-07 27161 27214 CORAL: Adaptive Retrieval Loop for Culturally-Aligned Multilingual RAG Nayeon Lee author Jiwoo Song author Byeongcheol Kang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-coral https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1356/ 2026-07 27215 27237 Safety Guardrails of Large Language Models Are Vulnerable to Value-Driven Adversarial Prompting Xiaohao Luo author Ying Wei author Zhijun Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-safety https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1357/ 2026-07 27238 27255 Fair RAG: End-to-End Fairness Across Retrieval and Generation Farsheed Haque author Zhe Fu author Ramit Aditya author Depeng Xu author Xi Niu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 haque-etal-2026-fair https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1358/ 2026-07 27256 27270 ManCC: A Task-Anchored Benchmark for Manchu–Classical Chinese Cross-Lingual Modeling Meiqi Wang author Xiaoxin Sun author Dongjie Wang author Ruixin Yu author Xiantao Heng author Shuo Wang author Zhen Huang author Peng Zhao author Suhua Wang author Minghao Yin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mancc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1359/ 2026-07 27271 27292 Dynamic Graph Navigation via Triplet Chains for Structure-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation Feng Zhao author Yufei Wu author Xianggan Liu author Ruilin Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings 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editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-etal-2026-arm2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1365/ 2026-07 27392 27405 A Framework of Reflective Agents with Adaptive Collaboration for Attributed Summary Generation Yu Chen author Peng Chen author Ziwei Zheng author Bang Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-framework https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1366/ 2026-07 27406 27425 VLURes: Benchmarking Long-Text Grounding and Cross-Lingual Robustness in Vision Language Models Jesse Atuhurra author Iqra Ali author Tomoya Iwakura author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Tatsuya Hiraoka 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long-wei-2026-strong https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1372/ 2026-07 27559 27575 IF-GEO: Conflict-Aware Instruction Fusion for Multi-Query Generative Engine Optimization Heyang Zhou author Jiajia Chen author Xiaolu Chen author Jie Bao author Zhen Chen author Yong Liao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-geo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1373/ 2026-07 27576 27590 Investigating Human and LLMs’ Decisions in Unverifiable Environments: A Case Study with GitHub Activity Overview Zheng Jiang author Wei Wang author Gaowei Zhang author Yang Feng author Yi Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang 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California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sarwar-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1379/ 2026-07 27702 27730 From Interpretability to Performance: Optimizing Retrieval Heads for Long-Context Language Models Youmi Ma author Naoaki Okazaki author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-okazaki-2026-interpretability https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1380/ 2026-07 27731 27747 Bridging the Temporal Gap in Multimodal LLMs: Deeply Stacking Temporal Tokens for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Liyong Wang author Junliang Xing author Tianyu Hu author Jianfei Jiang author Jihuai Zhao author Huimin Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 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he-etal-2026-codepromptzip https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1384/ 2026-07 27811 27825 Detecting Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Semantic-level Internal Reasoning Graph Jianpeng Hu author Yanzeng Li author Jialun Zhong author Lei Zou author Wenfa Qi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-detecting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1385/ 2026-07 27826 27841 MeasHalu: Mitigation of Scientific Measurement Hallucinations for Large Language Models with Enhanced Reasoning Ruijun Huang author Zhiqiao Kang author Yuxuan Zhu author Junxiong Li author Jiahao Zhao author Minghuan Tan author Feng Jiang author Min Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 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author Jiafeng Liang author Yang Wu author Ming Liu author Bing Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-emtir https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1388/ 2026-07 27877 27894 Multi-Persona Thinking for Bias Mitigation in Large Language Models Yuxing Chen author Guoqing Luo author Zijun Wu author Lili Mou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1389/ 2026-07 27895 27909 LCO: LLM-based Constraint 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Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cui-etal-2026-reageo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1396/ 2026-07 28012 28023 EviReport: From Reasoned Outlines to Evidence Tracked Long-Form Reports Zihan Liu author Jianhui li author Zexin Wang author Fei Sun author Jingjing LI author Zheyuan Li author Ke Xiang author Hang Cui author Houhua Gong author Changhua Pei author Gaogang Xie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-evireport https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1397/ 2026-07 28024 28048 Preference Estimation via Opponent Modeling in Multi-Agent Negotiation Yuta Konishi author Kento Yamamoto 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Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-autosearch https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1399/ 2026-07 28059 28079 Beneficial Reasoning Behaviors in Agentic Search and Effective Training Methods to Obtain Them Jiahe Jin author Abhijay Sai Paladugu author Chenyan Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-etal-2026-beneficial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1400/ 2026-07 28080 28097 Beyond Prompt: Fine-grained Simulation of Cognitively Impaired Standardized Patients via Stochastic Steering Weikang Zhang author Zimo Zhu author Zhichuan Yang author Chen Huang author Wenqiang Lei author See-Kiong Ng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-beyond-prompt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1401/ 2026-07 28098 28131 Where Did It Go Wrong? Capability-Oriented Failure Attribution for Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents Jianming Chen author Yawen Wang author Junjie Wang author Xiaofei Xie author Shoubin Li author Qing Wang author Fanjiang Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-go https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1402/ 2026-07 28132 28150 MultiFileTest: A Multi-File-Level LLM Unit Test Generation Benchmark and Impact of Error Fixing Mechanisms Yibo Wang author Congying Xia author Wenting Zhao author Jiangshu Du author Chunyu Miao author Zhongfen Deng author Philip S Yu author Chen Xing author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-multifiletest https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1403/ 2026-07 28151 28172 SAMoRA: Semantic-Aware Mixture of LoRA Experts for Task-Adaptive Learning Boyan Shi author Wei Chen author Shuyuan Zhao author Junfeng Shen author Shengnan Guo author Shaojiang Wang author Huaiyu Wan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-samora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1404/ 2026-07 28173 28188 DualAlign: Generating Clinically Grounded Synthetic Data Rumeng Li author XWang author Hong yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-dualalign https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1405/ 2026-07 28189 28208 Breaking the Evaluation Paradox: Evaluating High-Entropy Search with Computationally Irreducible Constraints Juntao Wu author Wei Wen author Xianting Huang author Shuai Pang author Ruizhi Qiao author Xing Sun author Ke Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-breaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1406/ 2026-07 28209 28218 CoT-Edit: Reinforcement Learning of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Code Edit Suggestion Wuya Chen author Yihao Yang author Yue Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-cot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1407/ 2026-07 28219 28234 MemORAI: Memory Organization and Retrieval via Adaptive Graph Intelligence for LLM Conversational Agents Hung Pham Van author Nguyen Manh Hieu author Khang Pham Tran Tuan author Nam Le Hai author Linh Ngo Van author Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep author Trung Le author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 van-etal-2026-memorai https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1408/ 2026-07 28235 28253 MDC-Bench: A Multidisciplinary Causal Benchmark Based on Causal Structures for Evaluating Large Language Models Peng Wang author Yuxiong Yan author Xiao Ding author Kai Xiong author Bibo Cai author Chao Peng author Yutai Hou author Dandan Tu author Bing Qin author Ting Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mdc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1409/ 2026-07 28254 28297 MathAgent: Adversarial Evolution of Constraint Graphs for Mathematical Reasoning Data Synthesis Zixiong Yu author Jun Rao author Guhan Chen author Songtao Tian author Bohan Li author Jiansheng Wei author Min Zhang author Xiaojun Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-mathagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1410/ 2026-07 28298 28321 Neural Induction of Finite-State Transducers Michael Ginn author Alexis Palmer author Mans Hulden author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ginn-etal-2026-neural https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1411/ 2026-07 28322 28336 Dynamic Sampling that Adapts: Self-Aware Iterative Data Persistent Optimization for Mathematical Reasoning Jun Rao author Xuebo Liu author Hexuan Deng author Zepeng Lin author Zixiong Yu author Jiansheng Wei author Xiaojun Meng author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rao-etal-2026-dynamic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1412/ 2026-07 28337 28350 Forge: Quality-Aware Reinforcement Learning for NP-Hard Optimization in LLMs Xiaozhe Li author Xinyu Fang author Shengyuan Ding author Yang Li author Linyang Li author Haodong Duan author Qingwen Liu author Kai Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-forge https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1413/ 2026-07 28351 28368 Datasets for Scientific Literature Understanding: A Survey Yuanzhe Zhang author Xun Zhao author Maodi Hu author Xi Sun author Donghuan Song author Zhixiong Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-datasets https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1414/ 2026-07 28369 28389 ODASim: Ordered, Distinctive and Absolute Semantic Similarity for Code Explanation Evaluation Prince Kumar author Vitobha Munigala author Jaydeep Sen author Ashish Mittal author Vishwajeet Kumar author Srikanth G Tamilselvam author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kumar-etal-2026-odasim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1415/ 2026-07 28390 28403 Almieyar-Oryx-BloomBench: A Bilingual Multimodal Benchmark for Cognitively Informed Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi author Omid Ghahroodi author Anas Madkoor author Marzia Nouri author Doratossadat Dastgheib author Ehsaneddin Asgari author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 abootorabi-etal-2026-almieyar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1416/ 2026-07 28404 28436 OPT-BENCH: Evaluating the Iterative Self-Optimization of LLM Agents in Large-Scale Search Spaces Xiaozhe Li 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Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-bae-2026-reducing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1422/ 2026-07 28518 28526 MAKI: Multi-layer Aligned Knowledge Injection for Structure-aware Knowledge Graph Completion with Large Language Models Zhiwen Xie author Xin Wang author Guangyou Zhou author Derek F Wong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-etal-2026-maki https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1423/ 2026-07 28527 28539 From Domains to Instances: Dual-Granularity Data Synthesis for LLM Unlearning Xiaoyu Xu author Minxin Du author Zitong LI author Zi Liang author Zhibiao Guo author Zhang Shiyu author Peizhao Hu author Qingqing Ye 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Qi Zhang author Fangping Lan author Cornelia Caragea author Longin Jan Latecki author Eduard Dragut author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-scaling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1431/ 2026-07 28653 28673 PhageBench: Can LLMs Understand Raw Bacteriophage Genomes? 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1438/ 2026-07 28793 28812 DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents Kai Shi author Jun Yang author Ni Yang author Binqiang Pan author Qingsong Xie author Zhangchao author Zhenyu Yang author Tianhuang Su author Haonan Lu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-damo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1439/ 2026-07 28813 28830 From Outcome to Process: Optimizing MoE Load Balancing with MCTS Wenjun Ke author Hengyuan Xu author Ziyu Shang author Yao He author Jiahao Wang author Zijie Xu author Peng Wang author Yuhang Lou author Jiajun Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ke-etal-2026-outcome https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1440/ 2026-07 28831 28848 Learning Optimal Message Representations for Agentic Communication Shashwat Gupta author Anson Bastos author Mayukh Das author Supriyo Ghosh author Nagarajan Natarajan author Chetan Bansal author Saravan Rajmohan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gupta-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1441/ 2026-07 28849 28879 CARO: Chain-of-Analogy Reasoning Optimization for Robust Content Moderation Bingzhe Wu author Haotian Lu author Yuchen Mou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-caro https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1442/ 2026-07 28880 28892 N-GRPO: Embedding-Level Neighbor Mixing for Enhanced Policy Optimization Xukun Zhu author Hang Yu author Peng Di author Linchao Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-n https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1443/ 2026-07 28893 28908 GFT: From Imitation to Reward Fine-Tuning with Unbiased Group Advantages and Dynamic 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1445/ 2026-07 28923 28936 When Helpers Become Hazards: A Benchmark for Analyzing Multimodal LLM-Powered Safety in Daily Life Xinyue Lou author Xu Jinan author Jingyi Yin author Xiaolong Wang author Zhaolu Kang author Liaoyouwei author Yixuan Wang author Xiangyu Shi author Fengran Mo author S U Yao author Kaiyu Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lou-etal-2026-helpers https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1446/ 2026-07 28937 28963 MM-ShiftKV: Decode-Aware Prefill-Stage KV Selection for Multimodal Large Language Models Jinsong Shu author Chenyang Wu author Zhongle Xie author Baokun Wang author Lidan Shou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shu-etal-2026-mm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1447/ 2026-07 28964 28982 Measuring What Matters Beyond Text: Evaluating Multimodal Summaries by Quality, Alignment, and Diversity Abid Ali author Diego Molla author Usman Naseem author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ali-etal-2026-measuring https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1448/ 2026-07 28983 28996 MonCulture-Eval: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Evaluating Mongolian Cultural Capabilities of Large Language Models across Scripts and Regions Quulgan Minggad author Xiao Zinan author Yuan Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 minggad-etal-2026-monculture https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1449/ 2026-07 28997 29014 Less is More: Knowledge-Aware Compression for Long Legal Judgment Prediction Fanghao Lou author Qiqi Wang author Guanyu Chen author Senbo Zhang author Kaiqi Zhao author Qian Liu author Huijia Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lou-etal-2026-less https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1450/ 2026-07 29015 29031 Towards Visually Grounded Multimodal Summarization via Cross-Modal Transformer and Gated Attention Abid Ali author Diego Molla author Usman Naseem author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ali-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1451/ 2026-07 29032 29047 Fairness Evaluation and Inference Level Mitigation in LLMs Afrozah Nadeem author Mark Dras author Usman Naseem author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nadeem-etal-2026-fairness https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1452/ 2026-07 29048 29065 SCOPE: Preserving Modality-Specific Cues to Mitigate Modality Laziness in Multimodal Learning Jingfan Yang author Rui Zhang author Liang Hong author Ke Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-scope https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1453/ 2026-07 29066 29078 Embedding-based In-Context Prompt Training for Enhancing LLMs as Text Encoders Ailiang Lin author Zhuoyun Li author Keyu Mao author Kotaro Funakoshi author Manabu Okumura author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lin-etal-2026-embedding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1454/ 2026-07 29079 29095 Creating ConLangs to Probe the Metalinguistic Grammatical Knowledge of LLMs Chihiro Taguchi author Richard Sproat author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 taguchi-sproat-2026-creating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1455/ 2026-07 29096 29148 ReasonIF: Large Reasoning Models Fail to Follow Instructions During Reasoning Yongchan Kwon author Shang Zhu author Federico Bianchi author Kaitlyn Zhou author James Zou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kwon-etal-2026-reasonif https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1456/ 2026-07 29149 29164 An LLM-Embedding Semantic Adaptation Network for Post-level Semantic Drift Evaluation Ning Chen author Mingyu Kang author Jie Li author Linyuan Lü author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1457/ 2026-07 29165 29176 CEAID: Benchmark of Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection Methods for Central European Languages Dominik Macko author Jakub Kopál author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 macko-kopal-2026-ceaid https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1458/ 2026-07 29177 29190 Distilling the Essence, Discarding the Dross: Improving Fairness in Multimodal Large Language Models via Historical Reflection-Guided Prompt Optimization Juncheng Hu author Jiming Yu author Rui Song author Kedi Lyu author Yingji Li author Zheli Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-distilling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1459/ 2026-07 29191 29211 Tree-of-Evidence: Efficient “System 2” Search for Faithful Multimodal Grounding Micky C Nnamdi author Benoit Louis Marteau author Yishan Zhong author J Ben Tamo author May Dongmei Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nnamdi-etal-2026-tree https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1460/ 2026-07 29212 29227 Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Morality Attacks Ying Su author Zheng Mingen author Weili Diao author Haoran Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-jailbreaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1461/ 2026-07 29228 29254 ExpSeek: Self-Triggered Experience Seeking for Web Agents Wenyuan Zhang author Xinghua Zhang author Haiyang Yu author Shuaiyi Nie author Bingli Wu author Juwei Yue author Tingwen Liu author Yongbin Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-expseek https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1462/ 2026-07 29255 29283 Do Personality Traits Interfere? Geometric Limitations of Steering in Large Language Models Pranav Bhandari author Usman Naseem author Mehwish Nasim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bhandari-etal-2026-personality https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1463/ 2026-07 29284 29293 AHA: Aligning Large Audio-Language Models for Reasoning Hallucinations via Counterfactual Hard Negatives Yanxi Chen author Wenhui Zhu author Xiwen Chen author Zhipeng Wang author Xin Li author Peijie Qiu author Hao Wang author Xuanzhao Dong author Yujian Xiong author Anderson Schneider author Yuriy Nevmyvaka author Yalin Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-aha https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1464/ 2026-07 29294 29306 Web Sitemap Knowledge Can Enhance Autonomous Browsing Yuyao Zhang author Hongyu Lu author Jiajie Jin author Hongjin Qian author Shiyu Li author Zhao Yang author Yutao Zhu author Ji-Rong Wen author Zhicheng Dou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-web https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1465/ 2026-07 29307 29321 Coarse-to-Fine Multimodal Information Selection for Video Speaking Style Recognition with Large Language Models Beibei Zhang author Yanan Lu author Lin Fen author Tongwei Ren author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-coarse https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1466/ 2026-07 29322 29337 Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking—Even with Reasoning and Web Search Matthew R DeVerna author Kai-Cheng Yang author Harry Yaojun Yan author Filippo Menczer author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 deverna-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1467/ 2026-07 29338 29360 IREASONER: Trajectory-Aware Intrinsic Reasoning Supervision for Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models Meghana Sunil author Manikandarajan Venmathimaran author Muthu Subash Kavitha author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sunil-etal-2026-ireasoner https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1468/ 2026-07 29361 29372 CLaRE-ty Amid Chaos: Quantifying Representational Entanglement to Predict Ripple Effects in LLM Editing Manit Baser author Alperen Yildiz author Dinil Mon Divakaran author Mohan Gurusamy author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 baser-etal-2026-clare https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1469/ 2026-07 29373 29405 STAR-Teaming: A Strategy-Response Multiplex Network Approach to Automated LLM Red Teaming Min Jae Jung author YongTaek Lim author Chaeyun Kim author Junghwan Kim author Kihyun Kim author Minwoo Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jung-etal-2026-star https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1470/ 2026-07 29406 29435 Critic Rule Induction: Improving Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting with Generator-Critic Language Models Yingsong Ning author Fu Zhang author Jingwei Cheng author Jiashun Peng author Xiaoke Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ning-etal-2026-critic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1471/ 2026-07 29436 29448 Context-Agent: Dynamic Discourse Trees for Non-Linear Dialogue Junan Hu author Shudan Guo author Wenqi Liu author Jianhua Yin author Yinwei Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1472/ 2026-07 29449 29462 Can LLMs Really Judge? A Progressive Argumentation-Mining Framework for Distinguishing Understanding from Aggregation Fuyu Wang author Jiangtong Li author Kun Zhu author Changjun Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1473/ 2026-07 29463 29482 SMART: Semantic Header Flattening and Pseudo-Code-Style Reasoning for LLM-based Complex Table Question Answering Yongshuo Zhang author Jixiong Chen author Kaihe xu author Wei Wei author Shihao Zou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-smart https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1474/ 2026-07 29483 29499 ConMA : Confidence-Guided Kernel Sampling with Multi-Stage Aggregation for LLM Reasoning Yinuo Wang author Qingjie Li author Wenyao Cui author Qiuchi Li author Zhang Huaping author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-conma https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1475/ 2026-07 29500 29518 Human-Centered Supervision for Sentiment Analysis in Telugu: A Systematic Inquiry Beyond Accuracy Vallabhaneni Raj Kumar author Ashwin S author Supriya Manna author Niladri Sett author Cheedella V S N M S Hema Harshitha author Kurakula Harshitha author Basina Deepakraj author Anand Kumar Sharma author Tanuj Sarkar author Samanthapudi Shakeer author Bondada Navaneeth Krishna author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kumar-etal-2026-human https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1476/ 2026-07 29519 29537 Evidence-Aligned Entity Verification for Hallucination Detection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Runsong Jia author Zhen Fang author Mengjia Wu author Jie Lu author Yi Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jia-etal-2026-evidence https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1477/ 2026-07 29538 29554 From Personal to Collective: On the Role of Local and Global Knowledge in LLM Personalization Zehong Wang author Junlin Wu author Zhaoxuan Tan author Bolian Li author Xianrui Zhong author Zheli Liu author Qingkai Zeng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-personal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1478/ 2026-07 29555 29569 ProMediate: A Simulation Testbed for Evaluating Proactive Mediation in Multi-Party Negotiation Ziyi Liu author Bahareh Sarrafzadeh author Pei Zhou author Longqi Yang author Jieyu Zhao author Ashish Sharma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-promediate https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1479/ 2026-07 29570 29598 InteracSPARQL : An Interactive System for SPARQL Query Refinement Using Natural Language Explanations Xiangru Jian author Zhengyuan Dong author M Tamer Özsu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jian-etal-2026-interacsparql https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1480/ 2026-07 29599 29624 Are Large Language Models Reliable Reviewers? A Benchmark for Error Detection in Financial Documents Ying He author Zhouhong Gu author Zhecheng Hu author Yubo Zhou author Hao Shen author Jiaqing Liang author Zhaoqian Dai author Ma Shuguang author Fei Yu author Yanghua Xiao author Zhixu Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1481/ 2026-07 29625 29643 Training-Free Test-Time Contrastive Learning for Large Language Models Kaiwen Zheng author Kai Zhou author Jinwu Hu author Te Gu author Mingkai Peng author Fei Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zheng-etal-2026-training https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1482/ 2026-07 29644 29676 To Diff or Not to Diff? Structure-Aware and Adaptive Output Formats for Efficient LLM-based Code Editing Wei Cheng author Yongchang Cao author Chen Shen author Binhua Li author Jue Chen author Yongbin Li author Wei Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cheng-etal-2026-diff https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1483/ 2026-07 29677 29694 CogEmp:A Cognitive Empathy-Oriented Dialogue System for Structured Psychological Counseling Yiguo Deng author Xia Lei author Yuan Zhang author Long Ye author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 deng-etal-2026-cogemp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1484/ 2026-07 29695 29712 LiveLongBench: Tackling Long-Context Understanding for Spoken Texts from Live Streams Yongxuan Wu author Runyu Chen author Peiyu Liu author Hongjin Qian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-livelongbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1485/ 2026-07 29713 29732 CPC-GRPO: Answer-Free Reinforcement Learning with Cross-Prompt Consensus Rewards Gyunyeop Kim author Sangwoo Kang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-kang-2026-cpc https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1486/ 2026-07 29733 29748 MASH: Evading Black-Box AI-Generated Text Detectors via Style Humanization Yongtong Gu author Songze Li author Xia Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gu-etal-2026-mash https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1487/ 2026-07 29749 29769 MM-Doc-R1: Training Agents for Long Document Visual Question Answering through Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning Jiahang Lin author Kai Hu author Binghai Wang author Yuhao Zhou author Zhiheng Xi author Honglin Guo author Shichun Liu author Junzhe Wang author Shihan Dou author Enyu Zhou author Hang Yan author Zhenhua Han author Tao Gui author Qi Zhang author Xuanjing Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lin-etal-2026-mm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1488/ 2026-07 29770 29783 Multimodal Chemical Structure-Text Coreference in Intellectual Property via Rule-guided Reinforcement Learning Hanmeng Zhong author Wentao Wu author Linqing Chen author Peng Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhong-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1489/ 2026-07 29784 29796 TheraAgent: Self-Improving Therapeutic Agent for Precise and Comprehensive Treatment Planning Junkai Li author Yunghwei Lai author Tianyi Zhu author Zheng Long Lee author Weizhi Ma author Yang Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-theraagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1490/ 2026-07 29797 29819 LearnAct: Few-Shot Mobile GUI Agent with a Unified Demonstration Benchmark Guangyi Liu author Pengxiang Zhao author Liang Liu author Zhiming Chen author Yuxiang Chai author Yaozhen Liang author WenHao Wang author Siheng Chen author Zhengxi Lu author Shuai Ren author Hao Wang author Shibo He author Yong Liu author Wenchao Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-learnact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1491/ 2026-07 29820 29843 From Local Perspective to Global Reasoning: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction Kailun Lyu author Fu Zhang author Zehan Li author Jingwei Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lyu-etal-2026-local https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1492/ 2026-07 29844 29856 DiFRa: A Unified Framework for Harmonizing Semantic Diversity and Factual Consistency in Question-Answer Generation Zhenqin Li author ShengYong Ding 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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 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1496/ 2026-07 29935 29951 LongCLI-Bench: A Preliminary Benchmark and Study for Long-horizon Agentic Programming in Command-Line Interfaces Yukang Feng author Jianwen Sun author Zelai Yang author Jiaxin Ai author Chuanhao Li author Zizhen Li author Fanrui Zhang author Kang He author Rui Ma author Jifan Lin author Jie Sun author Yang Xiao author Sizhuo Zhou author Wenxiao Wu author Yiming Liu author Pengfei Liu author Shenglin Zhang author Kaipeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference 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guo-etal-2026-routerag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1502/ 2026-07 30042 30059 HORIZON: A Benchmark for In-the-wild User Behaviour Modeling Arnav Goel author Pranjal A Chitale author Bhawna Paliwal author Bishal Santra author Amit Sharma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 goel-etal-2026-horizon https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1503/ 2026-07 30060 30078 Two-Stage Parameter Alignment for Multi-LoRA Merging in Large Language Models Zijian Li author Xiachong Feng author Weitao Ma author Yichong Huang author Xiaocheng Feng author Bing Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-two https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1504/ 2026-07 30079 30093 The Agent’s First Day: Benchmarking Learning, Exploration, and Scheduling in the Workplace Scenarios Daocheng Fu author Jianbiao Mei author Rong Wu author Xuemeng Yang author Jia Xu author Ding Wang author Pinlong Cai author Yong Liu author Licheng Wen author Botian Shi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fu-etal-2026-agents https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1505/ 2026-07 30094 30109 PrefIx: Understand and Adapt to User Preference in Human-Agent Interaction Jialin Li author Zhenhao Chen author Hanjun Luo author Hanan 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California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-mentor https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1508/ 2026-07 30167 30193 Better and Worse with Scale: How Contextual Entrainment Diverges with Model Size Dikshant Kukreja author Kshitij Sah author Gautam Gupta author Avinash Anand author Rajiv Ratn Shah author Zhengkui Wang author Aik Beng Ng author Erik Cambria author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kukreja-etal-2026-better https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1509/ 2026-07 30194 30209 LLM-Guided Semantic Bootstrapping for Interpretable Text Classification with Tsetlin Machines Jiechao Gao author Rohan Kumar Yadav author Yuangang Li author Yuandong Pan author Jie Wang author Ying Liu author Michael Lepech author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1510/ 2026-07 30210 30222 Evaluating the Impact of Reviewer Guideline Design on LLM-Based Automated Peer Review Haowen Li author Yoichi Ishibashi author Masafumi Oyamada author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-evaluating-impact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1511/ 2026-07 30223 30240 MI-CXR: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Reasoning over 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30293 On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models Mukul Ranjan author Prince Jha author Khushboo Kumari author Zhiqiang Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ranjan-etal-2026-cultural https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1514/ 2026-07 30294 30310 GLA: Grounding Large Language Models in Molecular Hierarchy for Chemical Understanding Yingxu Li author Jingjie Zeng author Zekun Wang author Hongfei Lin author Liang Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 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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ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1534/ 2026-07 30719 30732 Learning How to Remember: A Meta-Cognitive Management Method for Structured and Transferable Agent Memory Sirui Liang author Pengfei Cao author Jian Zhao author Wenhao Teng author Xiangwen Liao author Jun Zhao author Kang Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liang-etal-2026-learning-remember https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1535/ 2026-07 30733 30753 LoRE: Enhancing Search Relevance with Progressive Chain-of-Thought 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of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ding-etal-2026-llatisa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1636/ 2026-07 32677 32717 NeedleChain: Measuring Intact Context Comprehension Capability of Large Language Models Hyeonseok Moon author Heuiseok Lim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 moon-lim-2026-needlechain https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1637/ 2026-07 32718 32730 From Scores to Preferences: Redefining Evaluation Paradigm for Speech Quality Reward Modeling Yifei Cao author Changhao Jiang 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Evaluation in Social Prediction and Inspection Games Kaleen Shrestha author Abhinav Gupta author Harish Dukkipati author Zhonghao Shi author Maja Mataric author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shrestha-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1641/ 2026-07 32791 32803 Self-Consistency from Only Two Samples: CoT–PoT Ensembling for Efficient LLM Reasoning Raman Saparkhan author Majd Hawasly author Md Rizwan Parvez author Mohammad Raza author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 saparkhan-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1642/ 2026-07 32804 32839 ZoomRAG: Hierarchical Random-walk Zooming across Multi-scale Information Graphs for Fast and Accurate RAG Xianming Hu author Jingyang Chen author Bin Tang author Yihe Liu author Yihong Huang author Hongbo Zhao author Nuoyi Chen author Jie Zhang author Ping Li author Kai Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-zoomrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1643/ 2026-07 32840 32859 Training Language Models to Use Prolog as a Tool Niklas Mellgren author Peter Schneider-Kamp author Lukas Galke Poech author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mellgren-etal-2026-training https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1644/ 2026-07 32860 32880 Frame of Reference: Addressing the Challenges of Common Ground Representation in Situational Dialogs Biswesh Mohapatra author Théo Charlot author Giovanni Duca author Mayank Palan author Laurent Romary author Justine Cassell author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mohapatra-etal-2026-frame https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1645/ 2026-07 32881 32903 MultiDx: A Multi-Source Knowledge Integration Framework towards Diagnostic Reasoning Yimin Deng author Zhenxi Lin author Yejing Wang author Guoshuai Zhao author Pengyue Jia author Zichuan Fu author Derong Xu author Yefeng Zheng author Xiangyu Zhao author Li Zhu author Xian Wu author Xueming Qian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 deng-etal-2026-multidx https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1646/ 2026-07 32904 32921 Training Verifier to Assessing Complex Real-World Tool-Use Trajectories Linzhuang Sun author Mingyang Chen author Hao Liang author Tianpeng Li author Zhou Yijie author Chenzheng Zhu author Tianyu Guo author Huanyao Zhang author Jingxuan Wei author Bihui Yu author Fan Yang author Wentao Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-training https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1647/ 2026-07 32922 32936 HyperAdaLoRA: Accelerating LoRA Rank Allocation During Training via Hypernetworks without Sacrificing Performance Hao Zhang author Zhenjia Li author Yifan Gao author Xi Xiao author Heng Zhang author Shuyang Zhang author Xiaoxincc author Bo Huang author Yuhang Wu author Tianyang Wang author Hao Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-hyperadalora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1648/ 2026-07 32937 32949 ConSensus: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimodal Sensing Hyungjun Yoon author Mohammad Malekzadeh author Sung-Ju Lee author Fahim Kawsar author Lorena Qendro author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yoon-etal-2026-consensus https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1649/ 2026-07 32950 32969 Beyond High-Entropy Exploration: Correctness-Aware Low-Entropy Segment-Based Advantage Shaping for Reasoning LLMs Xinzhu Chen author Xuesheng Li author Zhongxiang Sun author Weijie Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-beyond-high https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1650/ 2026-07 32970 32984 GraphMind: LLMs as Dynamic Knowledge Builders for Sequential Decision-Making Sunguk Shin author Hayeong Lee author Jun Ho Seo author Jinho Lee author Myunsoo Kim author Minsuk Chang author Byung-Jun Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shin-etal-2026-graphmind https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1651/ 2026-07 32985 33007 EET: Experience-Driven Early Termination for Cost-Efficient Software Engineering Agents Yaoqi Guo author Ying Xiao author Jie M Zhang author Mark Harman author Yiling Lou author Yang Liu author Zhenpeng Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-eet https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1652/ 2026-07 33008 33024 Fundamental Reasoning Paradigms Induce Out-of-Domain Generalization in Language Models Mingzi Cao author Xingwei Tan author Mahmud Elahi Akhter author Marco Valentino author Maria Liakata author Xi Wang author Nikolaos Aletras author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-fundamental https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1653/ 2026-07 33025 33046 Rethinking Text-to-SQL: Dynamic Multi-turn SQL Interaction for Real-world Database Exploration Linzhuang Sun author Tianyu Guo author Hao Liang author Ruitong Liu author Yuying Li author Qifeng Cai author Jingxuan Wei author Yuchen Wu author Bihui Yu author Xiangxiang Zhang author Wentao Zhang author Bin Cui author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1654/ 2026-07 33047 33069 LogitSpec: Accelerating Retrieval-based Speculative Decoding via Next Next Token Speculation Tianyu Liu author Qitan Lv author Hao Li author Xing Gao author Xiao Sun author Xiaoyan Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-logitspec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1655/ 2026-07 33070 33092 Answering Cross-Dimensional Geometric Visual Questions by Multi-constraint Spatial Reasoning Dongling Li author Qi Chen author Jianxing Yu author Hanjiang Lai author Yanghui Rao author Wenqing Chen author Jian Yin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-answering https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1656/ 2026-07 33093 33111 SudokuFill: A Multi-Agent Progressive Filling Framework for Document-Level Scientific Information Extraction Yang Li author Yajiao Wang author Yu Zhang author Yuanzhe Zhang author Maodi Hu author Mengting Zhang author Xi Sun author Hua Yue author Zhixiong Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-sudokufill https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1657/ 2026-07 33112 33138 Emergent Relational Order in LLM Agent Societies: From Collective Affect to Authority Stratification Zhiyuan Ji author Xinyu Chen author Ziqi Dai author Shiyun Tang author Chunyu Wei author Yueguo Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ji-etal-2026-emergent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1658/ 2026-07 33139 33175 VCB Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Grounded Large Language Model Conversational Agents Jiliang Hu author Wenfu Wang author Zuchao Li author Chenxing Li author Yiyang Zhao author Hanzhao Li author Liqiang Zhang author Meng Yu author Dong Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-vcb https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1659/ 2026-07 33176 33200 LLM-FK: Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning for Foreign Key Detection in Large-Scale Complex Databases Zijian Tang author Ying Zhang author Sibo Cai author Ruoxuan Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1660/ 2026-07 33201 33228 When Meaning Travels: A Granular Lens on Hybrid-MoE’s Role in Idiomatic Understanding for Language Models Sarmistha Das author Vaibhav Vishal author Shreyas Guha author Amaan Ali author Kitsuchart Pasupa author Sriparna Saha author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 das-etal-2026-meaning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1661/ 2026-07 33229 33245 IntentCoding: Amplifying User Intent in Code Generation Zheng Fang author Yihong Dong author Lili Mou author Dongming Jin author Zhi Jin author Ge 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States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 silva-etal-2026-microclip https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1664/ 2026-07 33277 33294 Prompting Across Time: Evaluating LLMs on Historical and Contemporary Offensive Language Sanne Hoeken author Sophie Jasmin Spliethoff author Silke Schwandt author Özge Alacam author Sina Zarrieß author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hoeken-etal-2026-prompting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1665/ 2026-07 33295 33314 LDEDE: LRP-Driven Efficient Detection and Editing Framework for LLM Privacy Neurons Zhao Zhengyuan author Cao Lifeng author Sunhaodong author Shi Haotian author Du Xuehui author Liu Aodi author Niu Lanjie author Yang Xiaocheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhengyuan-etal-2026-ldede https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1666/ 2026-07 33315 33329 Chimera: Compositional Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs via Judgment-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Strategies Leo Hyun Park author Juwon Cho author Gyuhwan Kim author YoonDong Yeo author Taekyoung Kwon author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-chimera https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1667/ 2026-07 33330 33355 Bias Dynamics in BabyLMs: Towards a Compute-Efficient Sandbox for Democratising Pre-Training Debiasing Filip Trhlík author Andrew Caines author Paula Buttery author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 trhlik-etal-2026-bias https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1668/ 2026-07 33356 33377 PuzzleClone: A DSL-Powered Framework for Synthesizing Verifiable Data Kai Xiong author Yanwei Huang author Rongjunchen Zhang author Kun Chen author Haipang WU author Yingcai Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xiong-etal-2026-puzzleclone https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1669/ 2026-07 33378 33404 Automated Knowledge Component Generation and Interpretable Knowledge Tracing in Coding Problems Zhangqi Duan author Nigel Fernandez author Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan author Mohammad Hassany author Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar author Peter Brusilovsky author Bita Akram author Andrew Lan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 duan-etal-2026-automated https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1670/ 2026-07 33405 33423 Evaluation Pitfalls and Sparsity Limitations in LLM-based Confidence Estimates for Classification Elena Merdjanovska author Omar Zaidan author Andreas Rücklé author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 merdjanovska-etal-2026-evaluation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1671/ 2026-07 33424 33435 MATA: Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable and Flexible Table Question Answering Sieun Hyeon author Jusang Oh author Sunghwan Steve Cho author Jaeyoung Do author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hyeon-etal-2026-mata https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1672/ 2026-07 33436 33476 Hallucination Detection in Long-Form Text Generated by LLMs: A Benchmark and a Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph Approach Zituo Li author Guangzhou Chen author Jianbin Sun author Qi Song author Yang Kewei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-hallucination https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1673/ 2026-07 33477 33494 Can Intelligent Agents Revolutionize Scale Generation? Chenghao Jia author Zhitao Yuan author Zhaokang Zong author YiFei Yin author Zhe Chen author Man Lan author Shengjun Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jia-etal-2026-intelligent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1674/ 2026-07 33495 33522 On Finding Inconsistencies in Documents Charles Lovering author Seth Ebner author Brandon Smock author Michael Krumdick author Muhammad Saad Rabbani author Ahmed Muhammad author Varshini Reddy author Chris Tanner author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lovering-etal-2026-finding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1675/ 2026-07 33523 33564 Towards Preference Following in Tool Calling Language Agents Zhi-Yuan Chen author Siyu Lu author Qianlong Xie author Xingxing Wang author Yankai Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1676/ 2026-07 33565 33581 ReSQL: Self-Improving Framework for Reasoning-Aware Text-to-SQL Dataset Generation Minjun Park author Yongju Seong author Myoseop Sim author Kyungkoo Min author Stanley Jungkyu Choi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-resql https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1677/ 2026-07 33582 33602 Identifying and typifying demographic unfairness in phoneme-level embeddings of self-supervised speech recognition models Felix Herron author Solange Rossato author Alexandre Allauzen author François Portet author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 herron-etal-2026-identifying https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1678/ 2026-07 33603 33620 MolSafeEval: A Benchmark for Uncovering Safety Risks in AI-Generated Molecules Tong Xu author Xinzhe Cao author Zhihui Zhu author Keyan Ding author Huajun Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-molsafeeval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1679/ 2026-07 33621 33648 Dynamic Tool Dependency Retrieval for Lightweight Function Calling Bhrij Patel author Davide Belli author Amir Jalalirad author Maximilian Arnold author Aleksandr Ermolov author Bence Major author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 patel-etal-2026-dynamic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1680/ 2026-07 33649 33672 Audit Me If You Can: Query-Efficient Active Fairness Auditing of Black-Box LLMs David Hartmann author Lena Pohlmann author Lelia Hanslik author Noah Gießing author Bettina Berendt author Pieter Delobelle author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hartmann-etal-2026-audit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1681/ 2026-07 33673 33698 Mending the Holes: Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Translation Yifeng Liu author Siqi Ouyang author Yatish H R author Lei Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-mending https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1682/ 2026-07 33699 33723 MedCoach: Enhancing Medical Reasoning in LLMs via Knowledge Graph-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Distillation Chuan Li author Ye Lyu author Chengyu Wang author Mingyuan Fan author Cen Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-medcoach https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1683/ 2026-07 33724 33743 Pru-CoT: Towards Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Pruning Chain-of-Thought Han Liu author Shuotian Ma author Hui Li author Xiaotong Zhang author Fenglong Ma author Hong Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-pru https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1684/ 2026-07 33744 33756 Curriculum-RLAIF: Curriculum Alignment with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Jiaye Lin author Mengdi Li author Xufeng Zhao author Wenhao Lu author Peilin Zhao author Stefan Wermter author Di Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lin-etal-2026-curriculum https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1685/ 2026-07 33757 33777 Query-Focused Individual Simulation with Progressive Persona Completion Weiwen SU author Naoki Yoshinaga author Masashi Toyoda author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 su-etal-2026-query https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1686/ 2026-07 33778 33792 VIDA: A Visual Intent-driven Design Assistant for Proactive Multimodal Clarification Yanshan Liu author Hongbo Zhang author Zhen Sun author Jiaheng Wei author Kaishun Wu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-vida https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1687/ 2026-07 33793 33804 DeepSynth-Eval: Objectively Evaluating Information Consolidation in Deep Survey Writing Hongzhi Zhang author Yuanze Hu author Tinghai Zhang author Jia Fu author Tao Wang author Junwei Jing author Zhaoxin Fan author Wei Bi author Ruiming Tang author Han Li author Guorui Zhou author Kun Gai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-deepsynth https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1688/ 2026-07 33805 33822 A Scalable Entity-Based Framework for Auditing Bias in Large Language Models Akram Elbouanani author Aboubacar Tuo author Adrian Popescu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 elbouanani-etal-2026-scalable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1689/ 2026-07 33823 33852 HiGMem: A Hierarchical and LLM-Guided Memory System for Long-Term Conversational Agents Shuqi Cao author Jingyi He author Fei Tan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cao-etal-2026-higmem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1690/ 2026-07 33853 33862 Self-Guided Plan Extraction for Instruction-Following Tasks with Goal-Conditional Reinforcement Learning Zoya Volovikova author Nikita Sorokin author Dmitriy Lukashevskiy author Aleksandr Panov author Alexey Skrynnik author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 volovikova-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1691/ 2026-07 33863 33882 Adaptive Prompt Optimization for Open-Ended Tasks: Uncertainty Preference as a Secondary Signal Shuyang Zhang author Zhixuan Liu author Zhichen Dong author Hao Zhang author Chaochao Lu author Chao Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-adaptive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1692/ 2026-07 33883 33891 DPLoRA: A Dual-Pruning Framework based on ILP Optimization and Progressive Pruning for Parameter-Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning Changjun Park author Sejong Yoon author Jaekwang Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 park-etal-2026-dplora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1693/ 2026-07 33892 33908 Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity Xiaochen Zhu author Caiqi Zhang author Yizhou Chi author Tom Stafford author Nigel Collier author Andreas Vlachos author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-demystifying https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1694/ 2026-07 33909 33930 RoleConflictBench: A Benchmark of Role Conflict Scenarios for Evaluating LLMs’ Contextual Sensitivity Jisu Shin author Hoyun Song author Juhyun Oh author Changgeon Ko author Eunsu Kim author Chani Jung author Alice Oh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shin-etal-2026-roleconflictbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1695/ 2026-07 33931 33964 RbtAct: Rebuttal as Supervision for Actionable Review Feedback Generation Sihong Wu author Yiling Ma author Yilun Zhao author Tiansheng Hu author Owen Jiang author Manasi Patwardhan author Arman Cohan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-rbtact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1696/ 2026-07 33965 33992 Is Grokking Worthwhile? Functional Analysis and Transferability of Generalization Circuits in Transformers Kaiyu He author Mian Zhang author Peilin Wu author Xinya Du author Zhiyu Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 he-etal-2026-grokking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1697/ 2026-07 33993 34001 When 20 Agents Fail to Sort: The Distributed Sorting Benchmark for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Xin Yang author Junhao Wang author Bintao Tang author Xuxin Cheng author Cao Liu author Ke Zeng author Wenyuan Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-20 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1698/ 2026-07 34002 34021 RIGOURATE: Quantifying Scientific Exaggeration with Evidence-Aligned Claim Evaluation Joseph James author Chenghao Xiao author Yucheng Li author Nafise Sadat Moosavi author Chenghua Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 james-etal-2026-rigourate https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1699/ 2026-07 34022 34043 Glance-or-Gaze: Incentivizing LMMs to Adaptively Focus Search via Reinforcement Learning Hongbo Bai author Yujin Zhou author Yile Wu author Chi-Min Chan author Pengcheng Wen author Kunhao Pan author Sirui Han author Yike Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bai-etal-2026-glance https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1700/ 2026-07 34044 34062 Before Forgetting, Learn to Remember: Revisiting Foundational Learning Failures in LVLM Unlearning Benchmarks Junehyoung Kwon author MiHyeon Kim author Eunju Lee author JungMin Yun author Byeonggeuk Lim author YoungBin Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kwon-etal-2026-forgetting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1701/ 2026-07 34063 34079 Investigating Links between Illicit Massage Businesses 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1703/ 2026-07 34097 34108 Self-Explaining Hate Speech Detection with Moral Rationales Francielle Vargas author Jackson Trager author Diego Alves author Matteo Guida author Surendrabikram Thapa author Berk Atıl author Daryna Dementieva author Andrew J Smart author Ameeta Agrawal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 vargas-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1704/ 2026-07 34109 34131 Principled Detection of Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Multiple Testing Jiawei Li author Akshayaa Magesh author Venugopal Veeravalli author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-principled https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1705/ 2026-07 34132 34145 What Do Vision–Language Models Encode for Personalized Image Aesthetics Assessment? Koki Ryu author Hitomi Yanaka author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ryu-yanaka-2026-vision https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1706/ 2026-07 34146 34167 A Diversity Diet for a Healthier Model: A Case Study of French ModernBERT Louis Estève author Christophe Servan author Thomas Lavergne author Agata Savary author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 esteve-etal-2026-diversity https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1707/ 2026-07 34168 34181 Is Your Language Model Ready for Monetization Decisions? Jialu Gao author Hua Li author Tracy Ortman author Yeyun Gong author Jian Jiao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1708/ 2026-07 34182 34200 Activation Reward Models for Few-Shot Model Alignment Tianning Chai author Chancharik Mitra author Brandon Huang author Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare author Zhiqiu Lin author Assaf Arbelle author Leonid Karlinsky author Rogerio Feris author Trevor Darrell author Deva Ramanan author Roei Herzig author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chai-etal-2026-activation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1709/ 2026-07 34201 34217 Cross-lingual Matryoshka Representation Learning across Speech and Text Yaya SY author Dioula Doucouré author Christophe Cerisara author Irina Illina author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sy-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1710/ 2026-07 34218 34228 TRACE: Two-Phase RL for Causal Graph Exploration and Deeper Psychological Intervention in Dynamic Counseling Scenarios Shilin Tang author Zunyi Yin author Xuefeng Liang author Guanghui Shi author Song Tong author Chen Guangyu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-trace https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1711/ 2026-07 34229 34260 LLM Multi-Agent Systems for Long Triple Set Data-to-Text Generation Chinonso Cynthia Osuji author Simon Mille author Mark Andrade author Jane Adkins author Ornait O’Connell author Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha author Bláithín Heffernan author Fírinne Nic an tSaoir author Anya Belz author Thiago Castro Ferreira author Brian Davis author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 osuji-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1712/ 2026-07 34261 34275 Biomed-Enriched: Data-Efficient Biomedical Pretraining via Paragraph-Level Annotation Rian Touchent author Nathan Godey author Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 touchent-etal-2026-biomed https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1713/ 2026-07 34276 34287 Identifying the Achilles’ Heel: An Iterative Method for Uncovering Factual Errors in Large Language Models Wenxuan Wang author Yuk-Kit Chan author Zixuan Ling author Shi Juluan author Youliang Yuan author Jen-tse Huang author Yifei Zhang author Wenxiang Jiao author Zhaopeng Tu author Michael R Lyu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-identifying https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1714/ 2026-07 34288 34309 Probing the Plasticity and Correlation of LLM Value Systems: LLM Value Rankings are Not Stable Zhenheng Tang author Qihua Pan author Jingya Shen author Xiang Liu author Qian Wang author Bo Li author Xiaowen Chu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1715/ 2026-07 34310 34345 FAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments Amir Saeidi author Venkatesh Mishra author Souradeep Mukhopadhyay author Gaowen Liu author Ali Payani author Jayanth Srinivasa author Chitta Baral author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 saeidi-etal-2026-fama https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1716/ 2026-07 34346 34367 Beyond Reasoning Gains: Mitigating General-Capability Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models Hoang Phan author Xianjun Yang author Yuanshun Yao author Jingyu Zhang author Shengjie Bi author Xiaocheng Tang author Madian Khabsa author Lijuan Liu author Deren Lei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 phan-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1717/ 2026-07 34368 34398 ActorMind: Emulating Human Actor Reasoning for Speech Role-Playing Xi Chen author Wei Xue author Yike Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-actormind https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1718/ 2026-07 34399 34413 Neuronal Insights into LLM Attacks: Targeted Neuron Tuning for Precise and Robust Vulnerability Patching Dan Shi author Renren Jin author Zhuowen Han author Yuqi Ren author Xinwei Wu author Zhigen Li author Deyi Xiong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-neuronal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1719/ 2026-07 34414 34435 Ro-SLM: Onboard Small Language Models for Robot Task Planning and Operation Code Generation Wenhao Wang author Yanyan Li author Long Jiao author Jiawei Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-ro https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1720/ 2026-07 34436 34460 Just Use XML: Revisiting Joint Translation and Label Projection Thennal D K author Chris Biemann author Hans Ole Hatzel author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 k-etal-2026-just https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1721/ 2026-07 34461 34478 CaTS-Bench: Can Language Models Describe Time Series? Luca Zhou author Pratham Yashwante author Marshall Fisher author Alessio Sampieri author Zihao Zhou author Fabio Galasso author Rose Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-cats https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1722/ 2026-07 34479 34519 How do Visual Attributes Influence Web Agents? A Comprehensive Evaluation of User Interface Design Factors Kuai Yu author Naicheng Yu author Han Wang author Rui Yang author Huan Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-visual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1723/ 2026-07 34520 34536 Scaling Unverifiable Rewards: A Case Study on Visual Insights Shuyu Gan author James Mooney author Pan Hao author Renxiang Wang author Mingyi Hong author Qianwen Wang author Dongyeop Kang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gan-etal-2026-scaling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1724/ 2026-07 34537 34569 SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models Bingxin Xu author Yuzhang Shang author Binghui Wang author Emilio Ferrara author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-silentdrift https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1725/ 2026-07 34570 34582 X-ray Made Simple: Lay Radiology Report Generation and Robust Evaluation Kun Zhao author Chenghao Xiao author Sixing Yan author Haoteng Tang author William K Cheung author Noura Al Moubayed author Liang Zhan author Chenghua Lin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-x https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1726/ 2026-07 34583 34598 Not All Citations Are Equal:Entropy-Guided Citation Selection for Noise-Resistant Medical LLM Minyu Gao author Hanlin Xiao author Ruoyu Wang author Shuai Yang author YeXuan Zhang author Xin Wu author Xingyu Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-citations https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1727/ 2026-07 34599 34615 Decomposing Unitization and Typing for Efficient and Consistent Span-Bound Concept Annotation Nupoor Gandhi author Michael Bada author Emma Strubell author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gandhi-etal-2026-decomposing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1728/ 2026-07 34616 34631 InsightEval: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Assessing Insight Discovery in LLM-Driven Data Agents Zhenghao Zhu author Yuanfeng Song author Xing Chen author Chengzhong Liu author Cui Yakun author Caleb Chen Cao author Sirui Han author Yike Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-insighteval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1729/ 2026-07 34632 34656 ArrowGEV: Grounding Events in Video via Learning the Arrow of Time Fangxu Yu author Ziyao Lu author Liqiang Niu author Fandong Meng author Jie Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-arrowgev https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1730/ 2026-07 34657 34671 Multi-lingual Functional Evaluation for Large Language Models Victor Ojewale author Inioluwa Deborah Raji author Suresh Venkatasubramanian author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ojewale-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1731/ 2026-07 34672 34691 Why LoRA Fails to Forget: Regularized Low-Rank Adaptation Against Backdoors in Language Models Hoang-Chau Luong author Lingwei Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luong-chen-2026-lora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1732/ 2026-07 34692 34705 BoundRL: Efficient Token-level Structured Text Segmentation through Reinforced Boundary Generation Haoyuan Li author Zhengyuan Shen author Sullam Jeoung author Yueyan Chen author Jiayu Li author Qi Zhu author Shuai Wang author Vassilis N Ioannidis author Huzefa Rangwala author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-boundrl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1733/ 2026-07 34706 34726 AOT*: Efficient Synthesis Planning via LLM-Empowered AND-OR Tree Search Xiaozhuang Song author Xuanhao Pan author Xinjian Zhao author Hangting Ye author Shufei Zhang author Jian Tang author Tianshu Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-aot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1734/ 2026-07 34727 34758 AutoSUIT Bench - Automated Security UnIt Test Benchmark for LLM Coding Samuel Osebe author Fan Yang author Junyi Li author Yue Gu author Yongxin Wang author Satyapriya Krishna author Kai-Wei Chang author Aram Galstyan author Rahul Gupta author Weitong Ruan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 osebe-etal-2026-autosuit https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1735/ 2026-07 34759 34783 AnchorMem: Anchored Facts with Associative Contexts for Building Memory in Large Language Models Zhanyu Shen author Sijie Cheng author Zhicheng Guo author Weiqin Wang author Yile Wang author Hui Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shen-etal-2026-anchormem https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1736/ 2026-07 34784 34798 Filling in the Mechanisms: How do LMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies under Developmental Constraints? Atrey Desai author Sathvik Nair author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 desai-nair-2026-filling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1737/ 2026-07 34799 34815 PictoEduca: Building a Dataset for Spanish Text-to-Pictogram Generation Alfonso Manuel Paredes Umeres author Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 umeres-cabezudo-2026-pictoeduca https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1738/ 2026-07 34816 34828 HCFD: A Benchmark for Audio Deepfake Detection in Healthcare Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar author Girish author Muskaan Singh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 akhtar-etal-2026-hcfd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1739/ 2026-07 34829 34843 Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects Kirill Chirkunov author Younes Samih author Abed Alhakim Freihat author Hanan Aldarmaki author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chirkunov-etal-2026-linear https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1740/ 2026-07 34844 34861 Thinking Like a Botanist: Challenging Multimodal Language Models with Intent Driven Chain-of-Inquiry Syed Nazmus Sakib author Nafiul Haque author Shahrear Bin Amin author Hasan Muhammad Abdullah author Md Mehedi Hasan author Mohammad Zabed Hossain author Shifat E Arman author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sakib-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1741/ 2026-07 34862 34892 Analysing Differences in Persuasive Language in LLM-Generated Text: Uncovering Stereotypical Gender Patterns Amalie Brogaard Pauli author Maria Barrett author Max Müller-Eberstein author Isabelle Augenstein author Ira Assent author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pauli-etal-2026-analysing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1742/ 2026-07 34893 34918 Robust In-Context Selection via Online Learned Position-Corrected Attention Deeksha Koul author Gaurav Kumar author Yash Sabale author Sunita Sarawagi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 koul-etal-2026-robust https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1743/ 2026-07 34919 34930 Comprehensiveness Metrics for Automatic Evaluation of Factual Recall in Text Generation Adam Dejl author James Barry author Alessandra Pascale author Javier Carnerero-Cano author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dejl-etal-2026-comprehensiveness https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1744/ 2026-07 34931 34966 TableVista: Benchmarking Multimodal Table Reasoning under Visual and Structural Complexity Zheyuan Yang author Liqiang Shang author Junjie Chen author Xun Yang author Chenglong Xu author Bo Yuan author Chenyuan Jiao author Yaoru Sun author Yilun Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-tablevista https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1745/ 2026-07 34967 34985 Lost in Translation: Do LVLM Judges Generalize Across Languages? Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar author Mohammed Saidul Islam author Mir Tafseer Nayeem author Amran Bhuiyan author Mizanur Rahman author Shafiq Joty author Enamul Hoque author Jimmy Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 laskar-etal-2026-lost https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1746/ 2026-07 34986 35002 Making Revisions Understandable: A Survey of Edit Intentions, Methods, and Applications Fangping Lan author Qi Zhang author Eduard Dragut author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lan-etal-2026-making https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1747/ 2026-07 35003 35019 GSM-Noise: Exploring and Enhancing Large Language Models’ Reasoning under Noisy Inputs Zhengxin Zhang author Chengyu Huang author Xufu Liu author Dan Zhao author Jinyan Su author Claire Cardie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-gsm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1748/ 2026-07 35020 35045 VALUE ALIGNMENT TAX: Measuring Value Trade-offs in LLM Alignment Jiajun Chen author Hua Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-shen-2026-value https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1749/ 2026-07 35046 35069 Confidence-Aware Ranker Ensembles for Robust In-Context Knowledge Editing Tejal Nair author Mahmud Wasif Nafee author Maiqi Jiang author Ashley Gao author Haipeng Chen author Yanfu Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nair-etal-2026-confidence https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1750/ 2026-07 35070 35080 EMSDialog: Synthetic Multi-person Emergency Medical Service Dialogue Generation from Electronic Patient Care Reports via Multi-LLM Agents Xueren Ge author Sahil Murtaza author Anthony Cortez author Homa Alemzadeh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ge-etal-2026-emsdialog https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1751/ 2026-07 35081 35110 Better LLM Reasoning via Dual-Play Zhengxin Zhang author Chengyu Huang author Aochong Oliver Li author Claire Cardie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-better https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1752/ 2026-07 35111 35139 CobwebTM: Probabilistic Concept Formation for Lifelong and Hierarchical Topic Modeling Karthik Singaravadivelan author Anant Gupta author Zekun Wang author Christopher J MacLellan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 singaravadivelan-etal-2026-cobwebtm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1753/ 2026-07 35140 35155 Adaptive Test-Time Compute Allocation with Evolving In-Context Demonstrations Bowen Zuo author Dongruo Zhou author Yinglun Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zuo-etal-2026-adaptive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1754/ 2026-07 35156 35173 CCD: Mitigating Hallucinations in Radiology MLLMs via Clinical Contrastive Decoding Xi Zhang author Zaiqiao Meng author Jake Lever author Edmond S L Ho author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-ccd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1755/ 2026-07 35174 35200 Can Large Language Models Adequately Perform Symbolic Reasoning Over Time Series? Zewen Liu author Juntong Ni author Xianfeng Tang author Max SY Lau author Qi He author Wenpeng Yin author Wei Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-large-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1756/ 2026-07 35201 35226 Reading Between the Lines: The One-Sided Conversation Problem Victoria Ebert author Rishabh Singh author Tuochao Chen author Noah A Smith author Shyamnath Gollakota author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ebert-etal-2026-reading https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1757/ 2026-07 35227 35260 Fico: Evaluating Vision-Language Models under Visual Fidelity and Compression at Scale Jianhong Tu author Nicholas Crispino author Kyle Montgomery author Chenguang Wang author Dawn Song author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tu-etal-2026-fico https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1758/ 2026-07 35261 35277 SycoBench-600: Measuring Sycophancy and Correction Selectivity in LLM Assistants Debu Sinha author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sinha-2026-sycobench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1759/ 2026-07 35278 35284 Calibrating Model-Based Evaluation Metrics for Summarization Hongye Liu author Dhanajit Brahma author Ricardo Henao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-calibrating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1760/ 2026-07 35285 35315 SafeMERGE: Preserving Safety Alignment in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models via Selective Layer-Wise Model Merging Aladin Djuhera author Swanand Ravindra Kadhe author Farhan Ahmed author Syed Zawad author Holger Boche author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 djuhera-etal-2026-safemerge https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1761/ 2026-07 35316 35335 Learning to Control Summaries with Score Ranking Hongye Liu author Liang Ding author Ricardo Henao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-learning-control https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1762/ 2026-07 35336 35359 Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust Yifei Gao author Chengpeng Wang author Pengxiang Huang author Xuwei Liu author Mingwei Zheng author Xiangyu Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gao-etal-2026-raw https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1763/ 2026-07 35360 35373 Beyond Single Plots: A Benchmark for Question Answering on Multi-Charts Azher Ahmed Efat author Seok Hwan Song author Wallapak Tavanapong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 efat-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1764/ 2026-07 35374 35411 Assessing Y-Axis Influence: Bias in Multimodal Language Models on Chart-to-Table Translation Seok Hwan Song author Azher Ahmed Efat author Wallapak Tavanapong author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 song-etal-2026-assessing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1765/ 2026-07 35412 35430 FLOP-Efficient Training: Early Stopping Based on Test-Time Compute Awareness Hossam Amer author Maryam Dialameh author Hossein Rajabzadeh author Walid Ahmed author Weiwei Zhang author Yang Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 amer-etal-2026-flop https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1766/ 2026-07 35431 35449 Save the Good Prefix: Precise Error Penalization via Process-Supervised RL to Enhance LLM Reasoning Haolin Liu author Dian Yu author Sidi Lu author Yujun Zhou author Rui Liu author Zhenwen Liang author Haitao Mi author Chen-Yu Wei author Dong Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-save https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1767/ 2026-07 35450 35477 POSTCONDBENCH: Benchmarking Correctness and Completeness in Formal Postcondition Inference Gehao Zhang author Juan Zhai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-zhai-2026-postcondbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1768/ 2026-07 35478 35507 Who’s Asking? Simulating Role-Based Questions for Conversational AI Evaluation Navreet Kaur author Hoda Ayad author Hayoung Jung author Shravika Mittal author Munmun De Choudhury author Tanu Mitra author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kaur-etal-2026-whos https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1769/ 2026-07 35508 35541 CircuitSynth: Reliable Synthetic Data Generation Zehua Cheng author Wei Dai author Jiahao Sun author Thomas Lukasiewicz author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cheng-etal-2026-circuitsynth https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1770/ 2026-07 35542 35552 MedRedFlag: Investigating how LLMs Redirect Misconceptions in Real-World Health Communication Sraavya Sambara author Yuan Pu author Ayman Ali author Vishala Mishra author Lionel Wong author Monica Agrawal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sambara-etal-2026-medredflag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1771/ 2026-07 35553 35578 Can VLMs Predict Future States? Bootstrapping World Models from Inverse Dynamics Yifu Qiu author Yftah Ziser author Anna Korhonen author Shay B Cohen author Edoardo Ponti author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 qiu-etal-2026-vlms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1772/ 2026-07 35579 35600 PL-MTEB: Polish Massive Text Embedding Benchmark Rafał Poświata author Sławomir Dadas author Michał Wiktor Perełkiewicz author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 poswiata-etal-2026-pl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1773/ 2026-07 35601 35619 RubRIX: Rubric-Driven Risk Mitigation in Caregiver-AI Interactions Drishti Goel author Jeongah Lee author Qiuyue Zhong author Violeta J Rodriguez author Daniel S Brown author Ravi Karkar author Dong Whi Yoo author Koustuv Saha author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 goel-etal-2026-rubrix https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1774/ 2026-07 35620 35638 Spectral Gravity Formant Estimation for Phonetic Segmentation Michael S Yantosca author Albert M K Cheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yantosca-cheng-2026-spectral https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1775/ 2026-07 35639 35652 Listen, Pause, and Reason: Toward Perception-Grounded Hybrid Reasoning for Audio Understanding Jieyi Wang author Yazhe Niu author Dexuan Xu author Zhongyu Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-listen https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1776/ 2026-07 35653 35671 DeFrame: Debiasing Large Language Models Against Framing Effects Kahee Lim author Soyeon Kim author Steven Euijong Whang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lim-etal-2026-deframe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1777/ 2026-07 35672 35707 Idea First, Code Later: Disentangling Problem Solving from Code Generation in Evaluating LLMs for Competitive Programming Sama Hadhoud author Alaa Elsetohy author Frederikus Hudi author Jan Christian Blaise Cruz author Steven Halim author Alham Fikri Aji author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hadhoud-etal-2026-idea https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1778/ 2026-07 35708 35747 LLMs in the Real World: Evaluating “AI” in Emergency Contexts Sara Court author Lara Downing author Micha Elsner author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 court-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1779/ 2026-07 35748 35760 A Survey of Toxicity Mitigation Strategies for Multilingual Language Models Soham Dan author Himanshu Beniwal author Thomas Hartvigsen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dan-etal-2026-survey https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1780/ 2026-07 35761 35774 LLM-KT: Enhancing Large Language Models with Knowledge Tracing via Multi-Level Plug-and-Play Alignment Ziwei Wang author Jie Zhou author Qin Chen author Bo Jiang author Qingchun Bai author Liang Dou author Liang He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1781/ 2026-07 35775 35792 Fast-Decoding Diffusion Language Models via Progress-Aware Confidence Schedules Amr Mohamed author Yang Zhang author Michalis Vazirgiannis author Guokan Shang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mohamed-etal-2026-fast https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1782/ 2026-07 35793 35807 When Cultures Meet: Multicultural Text-to-Image Generation Parth Bhalerao author Oana Ignat author Brian Trinh author Mounika Yalamarty author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bhalerao-etal-2026-cultures https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1783/ 2026-07 35808 35828 Aligning with Your Own Voice: Self-Corrected Preference Learning for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs Byeonggeuk Lim author JungMin Yun author Junehyoung Kwon author Kyeonghyun Kim author YoungBin Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lim-etal-2026-aligning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1784/ 2026-07 35829 35849 VocalRep: Structure-Aware Vocal Representations for Multimodal Generation Da Shen author Zhenqiang Weng author Tianyu Liu author Gongyu Chen author Runhua Shi author Jiahui Chen author Chaofan Ding author Wei-Qiang Zhang author Zihao Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shen-etal-2026-vocalrep https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1785/ 2026-07 35850 35865 RealSec-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Secure Code Generation in Real-World Repositories Yanlin Wang author Ziyao Zhang author Chong Wang author Xinyi Xu author Mingwei Liu author Yong Wang author Jiachi Chen author Zibin Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-realsec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1786/ 2026-07 35866 35883 InfiAgent: An Infinite-Horizon Framework for General-Purpose Autonomous Agents Chenglin Yu author Yuchen Wang author Songmiao Wang author Hongxia Yang author Li Ming author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-infiagent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1787/ 2026-07 35884 35894 Efficient and Effective Internal Memory Retrieval for LLM-Based Healthcare Prediction Mingchen Li author Jiatan Huang author Zonghai Yao author Hong yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-efficient-effective https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1788/ 2026-07 35895 35906 GAVEL: Evidence-Contract Debate with Mechanized Scrutiny for Provenance-Grounded Fact-Checking Ruoyu Xu author Gaoxiang Li author Victor S Sheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-gavel https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1789/ 2026-07 35907 35920 EMPATH: An Ensemble Method for Automatic Fine-Grained Turn-Level Dialogue Empathy Evaluation with a Novel Emotional Distance Metric Dongning Rao author Zhihua Liang author Zhihua Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 rao-etal-2026-empath https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1790/ 2026-07 35921 35942 Q2EI: Query-to-Entity Inference for Semantic Condensation in Domain-Specific Retrieval Yixuan Sun author Zhenqin Xu author HanFeng Zhai author Zishu Yu author Xiaohui Peng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-q2ei https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1791/ 2026-07 35943 35958 TVWorld: Foundations for Remote-Control TV Agents Zhantao Ma author Quanfeng Lu author Shuai Zhong author Dahai Yu author Ping Luo author Michael Ng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-etal-2026-tvworld https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1792/ 2026-07 35959 35984 RiTeK: A Dataset for Large Language Models Complex Reasoning over Textual Knowledge Graphs in Medicine Jiatan Huang author Mingchen Li author Zonghai Yao author Dawei Li author Yuxin Zhang author Zhichao Yang author Yongkang Xiao author Feiyun Ouyang author Xiaohan Li author Shuo Han author Hong yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-ritek https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1793/ 2026-07 35985 36001 PRA-RAG: Provably Robust Aggregation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation against Retrieval Corruption Xue Tan author Yi Zheng author Chang Huo author Yunruo Zhang author Yu Liu author Hao Luan author Zhuyang Yu author Jun Dai author Xiaoyan Sun author Ping Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tan-etal-2026-pra https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1794/ 2026-07 36002 36017 Evaluating Perspectival Biases in Cross-Modal Retrieval Teerapol Saengsukhiran author Peerawat Chomphooyod author Narabodee Rodjananant author Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot author Patawee Prakrankamanant author Witthawin Sripheanpol author Pak Lovichit author Sarana Nutanong author Ekapol Chuangsuwanich author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 saengsukhiran-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1795/ 2026-07 36018 36049 Beyond Static Synthetic Noise: Assessing the Robustness of Large Language Models to Natural Context Variation in the Real World Yulong Wu author Viktor Schlegel author Riza Batista-Navarro author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-beyond-static-synthetic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1796/ 2026-07 36050 36070 Measuring Watermarking under Jailbreaking: ASR Inflation and Goal-Compliance Mismatch Sungwoo Han author Sangjun Moon author Jingun Kwon author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Manabu Okumura author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-measuring https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1797/ 2026-07 36071 36083 Inventive Problem Solving with LLMs: A 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Diagnosing and Aligning Microeconomic Behaviors in Macro-ABMs Guangya Liu author Cheng Wang author Jiangtong Li author Huafei Wu author Changjun Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1799/ 2026-07 36102 36122 Explanation Quality Assessment as Ranking with Listwise Rewards Thomas Bailleux author Tanmoy Mukherjee author Emmanuel Lonca author Pierre Marquis author Zied Bouraoui author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 bailleux-etal-2026-explanation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1800/ 2026-07 36123 36135 ViLegalLM: Language Models for Vietnamese Legal Text Truong-Phuc Nguyen author Quy-Nhan Nguyen author Minh-Tien Nguyen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 nguyen-etal-2026-vilegallm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1801/ 2026-07 36136 36150 From Heads to Neurons: Causal Attribution and Steering in Multi-Task Vision–Language Models Qidong Wang author Junjie Hu author Ming Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-heads https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1802/ 2026-07 36151 36175 Syntax as a Rosetta Stone: Universal Dependencies for In-Context Coptic Translation Abhishek Purushothama author Emma Thronson author Alexia Guo author Amir Zeldes author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 purushothama-etal-2026-syntax https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1803/ 2026-07 36176 36195 AI Agents for the Science of Science: A Survey of Tasks, Architectures, Evaluations, and Challenges Yixuan Liu author Yicheng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-zhang-2026-ai https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1804/ 2026-07 36196 36211 A2O: LLM-based Agentic Learning of Action-to-Object Features for Video Action Recognition Taiki Sekii author Fumiaki Sato author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sekii-sato-2026-a2o https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1805/ 2026-07 36212 36228 PrinciplismQA: A Philosophy-Grounded Approach to Assessing LLM-Human Clinical Medical Ethics Alignment Chang Hong author Minghao Wu author Qingying Xiao author Yuchi Wang author Xiang Wan author Guangjun Yu author Benyou Wang author Yan Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hong-etal-2026-principlismqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1806/ 2026-07 36229 36245 Take Out Your Calculators: Estimating the Real Difficulty of Question Items with LLM Student Simulations Christabel Acquaye author Yi Ting Huang author Marine Carpuat author Rachel Rudinger author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 acquaye-etal-2026-take https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1807/ 2026-07 36246 36267 SAFER: Advancing Safety Alignment via Efficient Ex-Ante Reasoning Kehua Feng author Keyan Ding author Yuhao Wang author Menghan Li author Fanjunduo Wei author Xinda Wang author Huajun Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 feng-etal-2026-safer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1808/ 2026-07 36268 36289 Speculative Verification: Exploiting Information Gain for Speculative Decoding Sungkyun Kim author Jaemin Kim author Dogyeong Yun author Jiho Shin author Junyeol Lee author Jiwon Seo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-speculative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1809/ 2026-07 36290 36307 EngiBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Engineering Problem Solving Xiyuan Zhou author Xinlei Wang author Yirui He author Ruixi Zou author Yang Wu author Yuheng Cheng author Yulu Xie author Wenxuan Liu author Huan Zhao author Yan Xu author Jinjin Gu author Junhua Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-engibench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1810/ 2026-07 36308 36334 LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey Henry Peng Zou author Wei-Chieh Huang author Yaozu Wu author Jizhou Guo author Yankai Chen author Chunyu Miao author Hoang H Nguyen author Yue Zhou author Weizhi Zhang author Liancheng Fang author Hanrong Zhang author Fangxin Wang author Pengfei Zhang author Langzhou He author Yangning Li author Dongyuan Li author Renhe Jiang author Philip S Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zou-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1811/ 2026-07 36335 36364 Thinking Twice Makes Large Language Models Safer and More Helpful Yutao Mou author Yuxiao Luo author Shikun Zhang author Wei Ye author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mou-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1812/ 2026-07 36365 36389 AEQ-Bench: Measuring Empathy of Omni-Modal Large Models Xuan Luo author Lewei Yao author Lanqing Hong author Kai Chen author Dehua Tao author Daxin Tan author Yukun Deng author Ruifeng Xu author Jing Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-aeq https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1813/ 2026-07 36390 36407 BAPO: Boundary-Aware Policy Optimization for Reliable Agentic Search Shiyu Liu author Yongjing Yin author Jianhao Yan author Yunbo Tang author Qinggang Zhang author Bei Li author Xin Chen author Jingang Wang author Xunliang Cai author Jinsong Su author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-bapo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1814/ 2026-07 36408 36426 GRASP: Graph-Reasoning Aided Survey Planning for High-Fidelity Related Work Generation Haoming Li author Jessica Ouyang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-ouyang-2026-grasp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1815/ 2026-07 36427 36449 Benchmarking Agentic Newswriting via Journalistic Workflows Yen-Che Chien author Kuang-Da Wang author Wei-Yao Wang author Wen-Chih Peng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chien-etal-2026-benchmarking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1816/ 2026-07 36450 36463 Self-Correcting Text-to-Video Generation with Misalignment Detection and Localized Refinement Daeun Lee author Jaehong Yoon author Jaemin Cho author Mohit Bansal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1817/ 2026-07 36464 36489 Switching Heads and Softening Tokens: Turnkey Solutions to Visually Grounded Document QA Ximing Wen author Wenbo Li author Sudipta Paul author Yashas Malur Saidutta author Kalpa Gunaratna author Srinivas Chappidi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wen-etal-2026-switching https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1818/ 2026-07 36490 36503 HTMuon: Improving Muon via Heavy-Tailed Spectral Correction Tianyu Pang author Yujie Fang author Zihang Liu author Shenyang Deng author Lei Hsiung author Shuhua Yu author Yaoqing Yang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 pang-etal-2026-htmuon https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1819/ 2026-07 36504 36535 Can Large Language Models Effectively Support Decision-Making in Sudden Emergencies? Mengna Zhu author Jibing Wu author Lihua Liu author Yuran Gong author Yang Hao author Fu Yachao author Mao Wang author Lei Hou author Juanzi Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhu-etal-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1820/ 2026-07 36536 36558 J-Shuwa: A Large-Scale Web-Collected Japanese Sign Language-Japanese Parallel Corpus Junwen Mo author MinhDuc Vo author Noriki Nishida author Shin’ichi Satoh author Hideki Nakayama author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mo-etal-2026-j https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1821/ 2026-07 36559 36574 Hallucinations as Orthogonal Noise: Inference-Time Manifold Alignment via Dynamic Contextual Orthogonalization Mingkuan Zhao author Wentao Hu author Tianchen Huang author Yuheng Min author Suquan Chen author Yide Gao author Yanbo Zhai author Shuangyong Song author Xuelong Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-hallucinations https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1822/ 2026-07 36575 36586 ConvX: A Lightweight Converter to Bridge Indexed Dense Representations and Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Bonggeun Choi author Keunha Kim author Junho Han author Youngjoong Ko author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 choi-etal-2026-convx https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1823/ 2026-07 36587 36599 Resonant Context Anchoring: Decoupling Attention Routing and Signal Gain at Inference Time Mingkuan Zhao author Yide Gao author Wentao Hu author Suquan Chen author Tianchen Huang author Zhenhua An author Zetao Chang author Xiayu Sun author Yuheng Min author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-resonant https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1824/ 2026-07 36600 36611 S2H-DPO: Hardness-Aware Preference Optimization for Vision–Language Models Nitish Shukla author Surgan Jandial author Arun Ross author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shukla-etal-2026-s2h https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1825/ 2026-07 36612 36623 Dr. Assistant: Enhancing Clinical Diagnostic Inquiry via Structured Diagnostic Reasoning Data and Reinforcement Learning Yue Guo author Fanfu Wang author Jianwei Lv author Xincheng Shi author Yuchen Li author Youya Wang author Yunsheng Zeng author Yujing Liu author Yunhao Qiao author Gen Li author Junfeng Wang author Bo Yuan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 guo-etal-2026-dr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1826/ 2026-07 36624 36658 FigSIM: A Dataset for Fine-grained Suicide Severity and Figurative Language in Suicide Memes Liuliu Chen author Elise Carrotte author Brian E Chapman author Jo Robinson author Mike Conway author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-figsim https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1827/ 2026-07 36659 36675 Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Seyedarmin Azizi author Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo author Souvik Kundu author Massoud Pedram author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 azizi-etal-2026-activation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1828/ 2026-07 36676 36687 Decomposed Prompting Does Not Fix Knowledge Gaps, But Helps Models Say “I Don’t Know” Dhruv Madhwal author Lyuxin David Zhang author Dan Roth author Tomer Wolfson author Vivek Gupta author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 madhwal-etal-2026-decomposed https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1829/ 2026-07 36688 36710 VisTW: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Taiwanese Mandarin in Taiwan Zhi Rui Tam author Yung-Yu Shih author Yen-Wei Lee author Ya-Ting Pai author Wen Yu Chang author Yun-Nung Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tam-etal-2026-vistw https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1830/ 2026-07 36711 36756 PsyChain: A Collaborative Chain-of-Agents Framework for Generating Personalized and Professional Counseling Dialogues Yi Feng author Zijie Yang author Chen Zhang author Wenxuan Zhang author Dongming Zhang author Liping Jing author Jian Yu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference 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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 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-editability https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1833/ 2026-07 36809 36824 Reasoning with Memory: Adaptive Information Management for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Hieu Man author Ro-ee Tal author Abhishek Kumar author Jaejin Cho author Benjamin Hsu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 man-etal-2026-reasoning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1834/ 2026-07 36825 36841 LiCoMemory: Lightweight and Cognitive Agentic Memory for Efficient Long-Term Reasoning Zhengjun Huang author Zhoujin Tian author Qintian Guo author Fangyuan Zhang author Yingli Zhou author Di Jiang author Zeying Xie author Xiaofang Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-licomemory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1835/ 2026-07 36842 36858 Multimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments Yifan Simon Liu author Qianfeng Wen author Jiazhou Liang author Mark Zhao author Justin Cui author Anton Korikov author Armin Toroghi author Junyoung Kim author Scott Sanner author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational 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Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 dong-etal-2026-epir https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1838/ 2026-07 36895 36910 EULoInf: Efficient Hessian-Free Entropy Based Uncertainty-Aware Data Influence Approximation Runxin Cai author Jingtan Wang author Bryan Kian Hsiang Low author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cai-etal-2026-euloinf https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1839/ 2026-07 36911 36928 CodeRise: Bootstrapping LLMs for Ultra Low-Resource Programming Languages via Progressive Self-Refinement Curriculum Tengfei Wen author Xuanang Chen author Ben He author Xiaoliang Cong author Le Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wen-etal-2026-coderise https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1840/ 2026-07 36929 36942 What Tokens Truly Matter? The Logit Conflation Problem in LLM Sampling Pinlong Zhao author Huijun Tang author Pengfei Jiao author Mengyang Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-tokens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1841/ 2026-07 36943 36961 Bears, all bears, and some bears. Language Constraints on Language Models’ Inductive Inferences Sriram Padmanabhan author Siyuan Song author Kanishka Misra author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 padmanabhan-etal-2026-bears https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1842/ 2026-07 36962 36978 B-APO: Bias-Targeted Adversarial Preference Optimization for Debiasing Multimodal Large Language Models Pinlong Zhao author Zike Ding author Zengshu Ye author Zhou Zhaoting author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-b https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1843/ 2026-07 36979 36999 On the Fallacy of Global Token Perplexity in Spoken Language Model Evaluation Chan-Jan Hsu author Liang-Hsuan Tseng author Yi-Cheng Lin author Yen-Chun Kuo author Ju-Chieh Chou author Kai-Wei Chang author Hung-yi Lee author Carlos Busso author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hsu-etal-2026-fallacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1844/ 2026-07 37000 37020 Modeling and Solving Stable Matching under Probabilistic Preferences with Large Language Models Yuqi Kong author Shiyu Liu author Jiaxu Li author Hongtao Liu author Qi Qi author Weiran Shen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kong-etal-2026-modeling https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1845/ 2026-07 37021 37033 XQ-MEval: A Dataset with Cross-lingual Parallel Quality for Benchmarking Translation Metrics Jingxuan Liu author Zhi Qu author Jin Tei author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Lemao Liu author Taro Watanabe author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-xq https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1846/ 2026-07 37034 37052 Faithfulness vs. Safety: Evaluating LLM Behavior Under Counterfactual Medical Evidence Kaijie Mo author Siddhartha Venkatayogi author Chantal Shaib author Ramez Kouzy author Wei Xu author Byron C Wallace author Junyi Jessy Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mo-etal-2026-faithfulness https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1847/ 2026-07 37053 37081 Your LLM Agents are Temporally Blind: The Misalignment Between Tool Use Decisions and Human Time Perception Yize Cheng author Arshia Soltani Moakhar author Chenrui Fan author Parsa Hosseini author Kazem Faghih author Zahra Sodagar author Wenxiao Wang author Soheil Feizi author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cheng-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1848/ 2026-07 37082 37104 How Do LLMs “Trust” Unknown Knowledge? An Unknown Knowledge Based Jailbreak Attack Yixiao Huang author Lan Zhang author Chaoran Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1849/ 2026-07 37105 37124 ToolSafe: Enhancing Tool Invocation Safety of LLM-based agents via Proactive Step-level Guardrail and Feedback Yutao Mou author Zhangchi Xue author Lijun Li author Peiyang Liu author Shikun Zhang author Wei Ye author Jing Shao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mou-etal-2026-toolsafe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1850/ 2026-07 37125 37153 A Survey of Large Models in Sports Yichen Xu author Jianzhe Ma author Chuhan Wang author Zhonghao Cao author Liangyu Chen author Wenxuan Wang author Qin Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-survey https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1851/ 2026-07 37154 37189 SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Vision Language Models Josue Torres-Fonseca author Naihao Deng author Yinpei Dai author Shane Storks author Yichi Zhang author Rada Mihalcea author Casey Kennington author Joyce Chai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 torres-fonseca-etal-2026-safetyalfred https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1852/ 2026-07 37190 37211 Towards Unified Multimodal Large Language Models: A survey Xu Ma author Yitian Zhang author Yun Fu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ma-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1853/ 2026-07 37212 37230 µsicalnote Something Just Like TRuST µsicalnote *: Toxicity Recognition of Span and Target Berk Atıl author Namrata Sureddy author Rebecca J Passonneau author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 atil-etal-2026-something https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1854/ 2026-07 37231 37251 Synergizing Stylometrics with Semantics: Dual-Path Framework for LLM Detection and Attribution Xingyu Lu author Yumeng Ma author Xiang Zhou author Shengli Gan author Guiying Deng author Yang Wen author Yanbing Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lu-etal-2026-synergizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1855/ 2026-07 37252 37265 Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning via Steerable Model Merging Zhuoran Li author Rui Xu author Jian Yang author Junnan Liu author Zhijun Chen author Qianren Mao author Hongcheng Guo author Jiaheng Liu author Likang Xiao author Ming LI author Xiaojie Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-enhancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1856/ 2026-07 37266 37277 Adaptive Backtracking for Privacy Protection in Large Language Models Zhihao Yao author Yuxuan Gu author Xiachong Feng author Weitao Ma author Bo Li author Xiaocheng Feng author Bing Qin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yao-etal-2026-adaptive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1857/ 2026-07 37278 37298 SemPA: Improving Sentence Embeddings of Large Language Models through Semantic Preference Alignment Ziyang Chen author Zhenxuan Huang author Yile Wang author Weiqin Wang author Lu Yin author Hui Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-sempa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1858/ 2026-07 37299 37312 Interpretability from the Ground Up: Stakeholder-Centric Design of Automated Scoring in Educational Assessments Yunsung Kim author Michael Hardy author Joseph Tey author Candace Thille author Christopher J Piech author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-etal-2026-interpretability https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1859/ 2026-07 37313 37328 DANCE: Diversity-attended Dynamic Caching with Asymmetric Quantization for Test-time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models Shunge Zou author Changhu Wang author Wei Ju author Ziyue Qiao author Xiao Luo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zou-etal-2026-dance https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1860/ 2026-07 37329 37343 How to Set the Learning Rate for Large-Scale Pre-training? Yunhua Zhou author Shuhao Xing author Junhao Huang author Xipeng Qiu author Qipeng Guo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhou-etal-2026-set https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1861/ 2026-07 37344 37361 Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question Answering Rafid Ahmed author Intesar Tahmid author Mir Sazzat Hossain author Tasnimul Hossain Tomal author Md Mahir Jawad author Anam Borhan Uddin author Md Fahim author Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ahmed-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1862/ 2026-07 37362 37378 SIV-Bench: A Video Benchmark for Social Interaction Understanding and Reasoning Fanqi Kong author Weiqin Zu author Xinyu Chen author Yaodong Yang author Song-Chun Zhu author Xue Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kong-etal-2026-siv https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1863/ 2026-07 37379 37403 No One Fits All: From Fixed Prompting to Learned Routing in Multilingual LLMs Wei-Chi Wu author Sheng-Lun Wei author Hen-Hsen Huang author Hsin-Hsi Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wu-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1864/ 2026-07 37404 37423 Understanding and Mitigating Spurious Signal Amplification in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Math Reasoning Yongcan Yu author Lingxiao He author Jian Liang author Kuangpu Guo author Meng Wang author Qianlong Xie author Xingxing Wang author Ran He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1865/ 2026-07 37424 37436 Steering LLM Thinking with Budget Guidance Junyan Li author Wenshuo Zhao author Yang Zhang author Chuang Gan author 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States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ouyang-etal-2026-pyramathbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1869/ 2026-07 37481 37511 D2PCM:A Multi-Turn Dialogue Dataset with Personalized Contextual Memory Zhe Yang author Yi Huang author Yaqin Chen author Chunyang Gao author Jingyu Yao author Junlan Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-d2pcm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1870/ 2026-07 37512 37529 MTP-RL: Acceleration of Reinforcement Learning Rollouts with Policy-Aligned Multi-Token Prediction Ke Wang author Aohan Zeng author Zhengxiao Du author Yuxuan Hu author Bohan Zhang author Xinyi Wang author Jie Tang author Jing Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-mtp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1871/ 2026-07 37530 37542 ReflexiCoder: Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Reflect on Generated Code and Self-Correct It via Reinforcement Learning Juyong Jiang author Jiasi Shen author Sunghun Kim author Kang Min Yoo author Jeonghoon Kim author Sungju Kim author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jiang-etal-2026-reflexicoder https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1872/ 2026-07 37543 37562 TRAC: Token-level Reward Assignment for Coherent Abstractive Summarization 陈宣齐 author 容梓莹 author Xinfeng Liao author Lianxi Wang author Ying Gao author Shengyi Jiang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-xuan-qi-etal-2026-trac https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1873/ 2026-07 37563 37578 Planning Beyond Text: Graph-based Reasoning for Complex Narrative Generation Hanwen Gu author Chao Guo author Junle Wang author Wenda Xie author Yisheng Lv author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gu-etal-2026-planning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1874/ 2026-07 37579 37610 Enrich, Aggregate, and Generate: Three-stage Biomedical Data-to-Text Generation Using Large Language Models in Low-resource Scenarios Yupian Lin author Guangya Yu author Yuang Bian author Cheng Yuan author Hui Luo author Tong Ruan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lin-etal-2026-enrich https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1875/ 2026-07 37611 37622 HiCoLoRA: Addressing Context-Prompt Misalignment via Hierarchical Collaborative LoRA for Zero-Shot DST Shuyu Zhang author Yifan Wei author Xinru Wang author Yanmin Zhu author Yangfan He author Yixuan Weng author Yujie Liu author Bin Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-hicolora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1876/ 2026-07 37623 37648 From Conversation to Evaluation: Benchmarking LLMs on Development Knowledge via SimpleDevQA Jing Zhang author Lianghong Guo author Yanlin Wang author Terry Yue Zhuo author Yong Wang author Mingwei Liu author Jiachi Chen author Ensheng Shi author Yuchi Ma author Hongyu Zhang author Zibin Zheng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-conversation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1877/ 2026-07 37649 37663 LLEOT: A Privacy-Enhancing Offsite Tuning Framework via Loss Landscape Elevation Jin Zhong author Jinglin Liang author Tongtong Yang author Zijian Xie author Shuangping Huang author Hanlin Gu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhong-etal-2026-lleot https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1878/ 2026-07 37664 37683 Beyond Compromise: Pareto-Lenient Consensus for Efficient Multi-Preference LLM Alignment Renxuan Tan author Rongpeng Li author Zhifeng Zhao author Honggang Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tan-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1879/ 2026-07 37684 37705 HSS-Synth: Humanities and Social Sciences Data Synthesis for LLMs Ru Peng author Tianyu Zhao author Xijun Gu author Zhiting Fan author Haokai Xu author Jinyang Zhang author Yawen Zeng author Yihong Zhuang author Kexin Yang author Junyang Lin author Dayiheng Liu author Junbo Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 peng-etal-2026-hss https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1880/ 2026-07 37706 37732 LLMRouterBench: A Massive Benchmark and Unified Framework for LLM Routing Hao Li author Yiqun Zhang author Zhaoyan Guo author Chenxu Wang author Shengji Tang author Qiaosheng Zhang author Yang Chen author Biqing Qi author Peng Ye author Lei Bai author Zhen Wang author Shuyue Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-llmrouterbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1881/ 2026-07 37733 37754 CEMT:Controllable Element-Oriented Machine Translation via Structured Linguistic Reasoning Lingling Shi author Haoyu Jin author Ruiyu Fang author Shuangyong Song author Jinsong Su author Yongxiang Li author Xuelong Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-etal-2026-cemt https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1882/ 2026-07 37755 37781 Orchestrating Tokens and Sequences: Dynamic Hybrid Policy Optimization for RLVR Zijun Min author Bingshuai Liu author Ante Wang author Long Zhang author Anxiang Zeng author Haibo Zhang author Jinsong Su author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 min-etal-2026-orchestrating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1883/ 2026-07 37782 37795 Seeing Isn’t Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents Hanlin Wang author Chak Tou Leong author Jian Wang author Wenjie Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-seeing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1884/ 2026-07 37796 37815 AlgBench: To What Extent Do Large Reasoning Models Understand Algorithms? Henan Sun author Kaichi Yu author Yuyao Wang author Bowen Liu author Xunkai Li author Rong-Hua Li author Nuo Chen author Jia Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sun-etal-2026-algbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1885/ 2026-07 37816 37838 A Learnable Skill Combination Strategy for Multi-task Learning in Natural Language Understanding Zhe Yang author Yi Huang author Yaqin Chen author Mengfei Guo author Xiaoting Wu author Junlan Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-learnable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1886/ 2026-07 37839 37845 CoopValue: Revealing LLM Value Preferences Through Multi-Agent Cooperation Zee Hen Tang author Mi-Yen Yeh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-yeh-2026-coopvalue https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1887/ 2026-07 37846 37885 QUARTZ: Quantile-Aware Routing and Queueing for TTFT SLOs in LLM Serving Zhipeng Liu author Yifan Zheng author Fanqi Kong author Ziming Zhao author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 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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Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mayilvaghanan-etal-2026-counterfactual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1890/ 2026-07 37914 37952 Masked Text-to-Audio Flow-Matching and Reward Feedback Optimization Rongjie Huang author Dongchao Yang author Wenxiang Guo author Huadai Liu author Xize Cheng author Zehan Wang author Zhou Zhao author Xixin Wu author Helen M Meng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-masked https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1891/ 2026-07 37953 37966 Orthogonal Representation Editing: Decoupling Semantic Entanglement in Batch Knowledge Editing of LLMs Wenhao Yu author Zhicong Lu author Bo Lv author Fangyin Ma author Kaiwen Wei author Shihao Yang author Nayu Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yu-etal-2026-orthogonal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1892/ 2026-07 37967 37979 Debiasing LLMs by Masking Unfairness-Driving Attention Heads Tingxu Han author Wei Song author Ziqi Ding author Ziming Li author Chunrong Fang author Yuekang Li author Dongfang Liu author Zhenyu Chen author Zhenting Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-debiasing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1893/ 2026-07 37980 37992 Single-Agent Generation Surpasses Multi-Agent Systems in Semantic Diversity Cui Encheng author Shaowen Peng author Kazuhiro Ito author X U Jinsha author Hisada Shohei author Shoko Wakamiya author Eiji Aramaki author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 encheng-etal-2026-single https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1894/ 2026-07 37993 38008 Med-SRAF: A Multi-Agent Framework for Medical Reasoning via Semantic Routing and Agentic Fusion Xiao Li author Zhuo Chen author Jun Xia author Hongxin Xiang author Chao Wang author Wenjie Du author Yang Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-med https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1895/ 2026-07 38009 38029 R-Search: Empowering LLM Reasoning with Search via Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning Qingfei Zhao author Ruobing Wang author Dingling Xu author Daren Zha author Ma Bowen author Zhichun Wang author Shijie Jia author Limin Liu author Xin Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-r https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1896/ 2026-07 38030 38046 Decoupled Reasoning with Implicit Fact Tokens (DRIFT): A Dual-Model Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference Wenxuan Xie author Xuhong Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xie-wang-2026-decoupled https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1897/ 2026-07 38047 38067 AnchorAlign: A Novel Anchor Alignment-enhanced Generative Method for Joint Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction Xiaolong Weng author Yuanyun Zhou author Boyu Qiu author Zehua Wang author Ying Xiong author Buzhou Tang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 weng-etal-2026-anchoralign https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1898/ 2026-07 38068 38081 Why Can Distillation Work with Limited Resources? A Systematic Study Xiao Hu author Xingyu Lu author Liyuan Mao author YiFan Zhang author Tianke Zhang author Bin Wen author Fan Yang author Tingting Gao author Guorui Zhou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hu-etal-2026-distillation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1899/ 2026-07 38082 38100 Autoregressive Semantic Visual Reconstruction Helps VLMs Understand Better Dianyi Wang author Wei Song author Yikun Wang author Siyuan Wang author Kaicheng Yu author Zhongyu Wei author Jiaqi Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-autoregressive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1900/ 2026-07 38101 38115 MSCode: Advancing Human Motion-Language Understanding via Modality-Shared Codebook Haoyu Shi author Huaiwen Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shi-zhang-2026-mscode https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1901/ 2026-07 38116 38132 RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking Jiaru Zou author Dongqi Fu author Sirui Chen author Xinrui He author Zihao Li author Yada Zhu author Jiawei Han author Jingrui He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zou-etal-2026-rag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1902/ 2026-07 38133 38152 CoTEvol: Self-Evolving Chain-of-Thoughts for Data Synthesis in Mathematical Reasoning Zhuo Wang author Zhuo Zhang author Yafu Li author Yu Cheng author Lizhen Qu author Zenglin Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-cotevol https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1903/ 2026-07 38153 38173 Feedback Is The Key for Automated Survey Generation Tianyi Xu author Zhe Zhao author Tianshuo Wei author Yiqun Kou author Liuliu Han author Ye Wei author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 xu-etal-2026-feedback https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1904/ 2026-07 38174 38195 Sentient Agent as a Judge: Evaluating Higher-Order Social Cognition in Large Language Models Bang Zhang author Ruotian Ma author Qingxuan Jiang author Peisong Wang author Jiaqi Chen author Zheng Xie author Xingyu Chen author Yue Wang author Fanghua Ye author Jian Li author Yifan Yang author Zhaopeng Tu author Xiaolong Li author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-sentient https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1905/ 2026-07 38196 38224 Alignment Data Map for Efficient Preference Data Selection and Diagnosis Seohyeong Lee author Eunwon Kim author Hwaran Lee author Buru Chang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-alignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1906/ 2026-07 38225 38241 Fine-Grained Detection of Context-Grounded Hallucinations Using LLMs Yehonatan Peisakhovsky author Zorik Gekhman author Yosi Mass author Liat Ein-Dor author Roi Reichart author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 peisakhovsky-etal-2026-fine https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1907/ 2026-07 38242 38266 When Reviews Disagree: Fine-Grained Contradiction Analysis in Scientific Peer Reviews Sandeep Kumar author Yash Kamdar author Abid Hossain author Bharti Kumari author Tanik Saikh author Asif Ekbal author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kumar-etal-2026-reviews https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1908/ 2026-07 38267 38290 One Script Instead of Hundreds? 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Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-relaxing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1910/ 2026-07 38308 38333 Not all ANIMALs are equal: metaphorical framing through source domains and semantic frames Yulia Otmakhova author Matteo Guida author Lea Frermann author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 otmakhova-etal-2026-animals https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1911/ 2026-07 38334 38355 DualFact+: A Multimodal Fact Verification Framework for Procedural Video Captioning Cennet Oguz author Yasser Hamidullah author Josef Van Genabith author Simon Ostermann author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 oguz-etal-2026-dualfact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1912/ 2026-07 38356 38371 From Scaffolding to Assimilation: Progressive Structural Internalization for Format-Constrained Creative Text Generation Wenhao Li author Yuwei Yang author Xiaoqing Wu author Yufeng Han author Cunliang Kong author Yuzhuo Bai author Xin Cong author Maosong Sun author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-scaffolding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1913/ 2026-07 38372 38389 Hierarchical Visual Agent: Managing Contexts in Joint Image-Text Space for 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Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chandna-sen-2026-counterfactual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1917/ 2026-07 38477 38490 Teaching Language Models to Forecast Research Success Through Comparative Idea Evaluation Srujan P Mule author Aniketh Garikaparthi author Manasi Patwardhan author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 mule-etal-2026-teaching https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1918/ 2026-07 38491 38529 Social Welfare Function Leaderboard: On the Emergence of LLM Agents as the Welfare Dictator Zhengliang Shi author Ruotian Ma author Jen-tse Huang author Xinbei Ma author Xingyu Chen author Mengru Wang author Qu Yang author Yue Wang 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Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-individual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1920/ 2026-07 38552 38565 Lost in the Prompt Order: Revealing the Limitations of Causal Attention in Language Models Hyunjong Ok author Jaeho Lee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 ok-lee-2026-lost https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1921/ 2026-07 38566 38587 SR-RAG: Verifiable Multi-Hop Reasoning via On-the-fly Symbolic Graph Construction Zehua Wang author Zhaojin Zhang author Boyu Qiu author Xiaolong Weng author Ying Xiong author Buzhou Tang author Min Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 wang-etal-2026-sr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1922/ 2026-07 38588 38606 KnowDR-REC: Auditing Knowledge-Conditioned Visual Grounding in Referring Expression Comprehension Guanghao Jin author Jingpei Wu author Tianpei Guo author Yiyi Niu author Weidong Zhou author Linyi Yang author Guoyang Liu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 jin-etal-2026-knowdr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1923/ 2026-07 38607 38629 Agent for Numerical Data Retrieval and Understanding by Code Generation and Multimodal Reasoning Florian Baud author Feda Almuhisen author Dorian Midou author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 baud-etal-2026-agent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1924/ 2026-07 38630 38653 Cause-CSD: A Challenge Multimodal Conversational Stance Cause Detection Dataset and Effective Method Fuqiang Niu author Bowen Zhang author Junting Zhu author Qing Liao author Genan Dai author Hu Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 niu-etal-2026-cause https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1925/ 2026-07 38654 38666 The Sparse 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conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chenkang-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1930/ 2026-07 38746 38760 Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects Abdelrahman Sadallah author Kareem Elozeiri author Mervat Abassy author Rania Elbadry author Mohamed Anwar author Abed Alhakim Freihat author Preslav Nakov author Fajri Koto author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sadallah-etal-2026-instruction https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1931/ 2026-07 38761 38780 Agentic Verification for Ambiguous Query Disambiguation Youngwon Lee author Seung-won Hwang author Ruofan Wu author Feng Yan author Danmei Xu author Moutasem Akkad author Zhewei Yao author Yuxiong He author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-agentic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1932/ 2026-07 38781 38796 DICA: Dual-Indicator Guided Contrastive Alignment in Multimodal Large Language Models Hao Yang author Jin Wang author Xuejie Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-dica https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1933/ 2026-07 38797 38818 From Tasks to Teams: A Risk-First Evaluation Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems in Finance Zichen Chen author Jianda Chen 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California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liu-etal-2026-h https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1946/ 2026-07 39051 39071 EvoMD-LLM: Learning the Language of Species Evolution in Reactive Molecular Dynamics Zhichen Tang author Zhengzheng Dang author Yulin Chen author Jixin Wu author Haiwen Li author Yanming Wang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 tang-etal-2026-evomd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1947/ 2026-07 39072 39088 Do Image–Text Metrics Respect Semantic Invariances? 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979-8-89176-395-1 chakraborty-etal-2026-characterizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1966/ 2026-07 39445 39475 ProMCP: Profiling Token Flows and Latency Costs in Model Context Protocol–Based LLM Agents Sumera Anjum author Weijian Zheng author Rajkumar Kettimuthu author Heng Fan author Yunhe Feng author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 anjum-etal-2026-promcp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1967/ 2026-07 39476 39487 Reducing Hallucinations in LLMs via Factuality-Aware Preference Learning Sindhuja Chaduvula author Ahmed Y Radwan author Azib Farooq author Yani Ioannou author Shaina Raza author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira 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Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 liang-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2033/ 2026-07 40932 40953 StanceAttack: Adversarial Attack for Stance Detection Chenye Zhao author Cornelia Caragea author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-caragea-2026-stanceattack https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2034/ 2026-07 40954 40971 MEAV: Model Editing with Alignment Vectors for inference time LLM alignment in single and multidomain preference spectrum Sadat Shahriar author Zheng Qi author Nikolaos Pappas author Srikanth Doss author Kishaloy Halder author Monica Sunkara author Manuel Mager author Yassine Benajiba author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 shahriar-etal-2026-meav https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2035/ 2026-07 40972 40985 BioVLM: Routing Prompts, Not Parameters, for Cross-Modality Generalization in Biomedical VLMs Mainak Singha author Tanisha Gupta author Ankit Jha author Muhammad Haris Khan author Sayantani Ghosh author Biplab Banerjee author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 singha-etal-2026-biovlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2036/ 2026-07 40986 41005 SCALE: Upscaled Continual Learning of Large Language Models Jin-woo Lee author Junhwa Choi author Bongkyu Hwang author Jinho Choo author Bogun Kim author Jeongseon Yi author Joonseok Lee author DongYoung Jung author Jaeseon Park author Kyoungwon Park author Suk-hoon Jung author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 lee-etal-2026-scale https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2037/ 2026-07 41006 41020 Words that make SENSE: Sensorimotor Norms in Learned Lexical Token Representations Abhinav Gupta author Toben Mintz author Jesse Thomason author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 gupta-etal-2026-words https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2038/ 2026-07 41021 41029 Interpreting Style Representations via Style-Eliciting Prompts Junghwan Kim author David Jurgens author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 kim-jurgens-2026-interpreting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2039/ 2026-07 41030 41048 Optimizing Conversational Quality in Spoken Dialogue Systems with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback Siddhant Arora author Jinchuan Tian author Jiatong Shi author Hayato Futami author Yosuke Kashiwagi author Emiru Tsunoo author Shinji Watanabe author 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for Book-Length Chinese Story Evaluation Dingyi Yang author Mingshuo Wang author Qin Jin author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yang-etal-2026-changjuan https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2044/ 2026-07 41116 41134 Progressive Re-ranking for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Curriculum Learning Zhu Min author Yanchao Hao author Jian Liu author Shizhu He author Xi Chen author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 min-etal-2026-progressive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2045/ 2026-07 41135 41147 Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency Md Arafat Sultan author Ramón Fernandez Astudillo author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 sultan-astudillo-2026-confidence https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2046/ 2026-07 41148 41155 MMTabReal: Real-World Benchmark for Multimodal Table Understanding Prasham Yatinkumar Titiya author Jainil Trivedi author Chitta Baral author Vivek Gupta author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 titiya-etal-2026-mmtabreal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2047/ 2026-07 41156 41176 Inject to Heal: Alleviating hallucination in LVLMs via Context Embedding Injection Mehrdad Fazli author Bowen Wei author Ziwei Zhu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 fazli-etal-2026-inject https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2048/ 2026-07 41177 41193 Colorful Talks with Graphs: Human-Interpretable Graph Encodings for Large Language Models Angelo Zangari author Peyman Baghershahi author Sourav Medya author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zangari-etal-2026-colorful https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2049/ 2026-07 41194 41215 SAM-NER: Semantic Archetype Mediation for Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition Ruichu Cai author Juntao Gan author Miao Mai author Zhifeng Hao author Boyan Xu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cai-etal-2026-sam https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2050/ 2026-07 41216 41231 DRPG (Decompose, Retrieve, Plan, Generate): An Agentic Framework for Academic Rebuttal Peixuan Han author YingJie Yu author Jingjun Xu author Jiaxuan You author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-drpg https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2051/ 2026-07 41232 41249 BiasGRPO: Stabilizing Bias Mitigation in High-Variance Reward Landscapes via Group-Relative Policy Optimization Saket Reddy author Ke Yang author ChengXiang Zhai author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 reddy-etal-2026-biasgrpo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2052/ 2026-07 41250 41267 MaskTab: Scalable Masked Tabular Pretraining with Scaling Laws and Distillation for Industrial Classification Bo Zheng author Yudong Chen author Zihua 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41281 41308 Text Embedding as Treatment: A Meta Causal Approach for Robust Sentiment Classification Fengxiang Cheng author Chuan Zhou author Xiang Li author Haoxuan Li author Wen-li Wang author Jinkun Chen author Mingming Gong author Kun Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 cheng-etal-2026-text https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2055/ 2026-07 41309 41320 CliniCAST: Benchmarking Acoustic Grounding and Text Dominance in Medical Triage Kyusik Kim author Hyunwoo Yoo author Jaehoon Choi author Kitae Kim author Gail Rosen author Bongwon Suh author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association 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Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhang-etal-2026-passive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2064/ 2026-07 41525 41544 Value–Action Alignment in Large Language Models under Privacy–Prosocial Conflict Guanyu Chen author Chenxiao Yu author Xiyang Hu author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-value https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2065/ 2026-07 41545 41564 See or Say Graphs: Agent-Driven Scalable Graph Understanding with Vision-Language Models Shuo Han author Yukun Cao author Zezhong Ding author Zengyi Gao author S Kevin Zhou author Xike Xie author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 han-etal-2026-see https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2066/ 2026-07 41565 41589 Recovered in Translation: Efficient Pipeline for Automated Translation of Benchmarks and Datasets Hanna Yukhymenko author Anton Alexandrov author Martin Vechev author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 yukhymenko-etal-2026-recovered https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2067/ 2026-07 41590 41609 MorphBPE: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for Efficient LLM Training Ehsaneddin Asgari author Yassine El Kheir author MohammadAli SadraeiJavaheri author Ali Nazari author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 asgari-etal-2026-morphbpe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2068/ 2026-07 41610 41621 From Storage to Experience: A Survey on the Evolution of LLM Agent Memory Mechanisms Jinghao Luo author Yuchen Tian author Chuxue Cao author Ziyang Luo author Hongzhan Lin author Kaixin Li author Chuyi Kong author Ruichao Yang author Jing Ma author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 luo-etal-2026-storage https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2069/ 2026-07 41622 41652 LLMs are Brittle to Simple Code Transformations: Introducing CETBench – A Benchmark for Code-Equivalence Checking Neeva Oza author Ishaan Govil author Parul Gupta author Dinesh Khandelwal author Dinesh Garg author Parag Singla author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 oza-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2070/ 2026-07 41653 41685 Enhancing Factuality through Consensus and Consistency in Summarization Using Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding Riza Setiawan Soetedjo author Yusuke Sakai author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Jingun Kwon author Manabu Okumura author Taro Watanabe author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 soetedjo-etal-2026-enhancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2071/ 2026-07 41686 41713 Moneyball with LLMs: Analyzing Tabular Summarization in Sports Narratives Ritam Upadhyay author Naman Ahuja author Rishabh Baral author Aparna Garimella author Vivek Gupta author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 upadhyay-etal-2026-moneyball https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2072/ 2026-07 41714 41739 A Computational Method for Measuring Open Codes in Qualitative Analysis John Chen author Alexandros Nikolaos Lotsos author Sihan Cheng author Lexie Zhao author Yanjia Zhang author Jessica Hullman author Bruce Sherin author Uri Wilensky author Michael Horn author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 chen-etal-2026-computational https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2073/ 2026-07 41740 41758 Vulnerability of LLMs’ Stated Belief? LLMs Belief Resistance Check Through Strategic Persuasive Conversation Interventions Fan Huang author Haewoon Kwak author Jisun An author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 huang-etal-2026-vulnerability https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2074/ 2026-07 41759 41794 Choose Your Lens: Multi-Perspective Value Alignment of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Gejian Zhao author Hanzhou Wu author Xinpeng Zhang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 zhao-etal-2026-choose https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2075/ 2026-07 41795 41808 Beyond Evidence: Belief-Chain Conditioning for Persuasive Misinformation Debunking Explanation Yi-Li Hsu author Li-Wun Chang author Chun-Yu Hsu author Wei-Kuan Shih author Aiping Xiong author Lun-Wei Ku author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 hsu-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2076/ 2026-07 41809 41836 CoTJudger: A Graph-Driven Framework for Automatic Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Efficiency and Redundancy in LRMs Siyi Li author Jiajun Shi author Shiwen Ni author Ge Zhang author Shuaimin Li author Shijian Wang author Zhoufutu Wen author Yizhi LI author Hamid Alinejad-Rokny author Jiaheng Liu author Min Yang author Wenhao Huang author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 li-etal-2026-cotjudger https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2077/ 2026-07 41837 41863 The Inner Monologue of Language Models: When Reasoning Traces Reveal More Than They Hide Pratham Singla author Shivank Garg author Ayush Singh author Ishan Garg author Ketan Suhaas Saichandran author 2026-07 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-395-1 singla-etal-2026-inner https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2078/ 2026-07 41864 41889 Do VLMs Have a Moral Backbone? 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