@proceedings{insights-2026-1,
    title = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.0/",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{arun-etal-2026-geometric,
    title = "Geometric Separation Without Functional Specialization: Auditing Subspace Disentanglement in Dual-Encoder {LLM} Paraphrase Detection",
    author = "Arun, Govind  and
      Abraham, Ashish  and
      P, Gadha Lekshmi",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.1/",
    pages = "1--6",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{huber-opitz-2026-exploring,
    title = "Exploring Dowker Homology for Sentence Similarity",
    author = "Huber, Marius  and
      Opitz, Juri",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.2/",
    pages = "7--18",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{poh-etal-2026-pragmatic,
    title = "Does Pragmatic Transfer Help Euphemism Detection? Evidence from Target-Span Marking",
    author = "Poh, Whitney  and
      Takahashi, Noriko  and
      Lee, Patrick  and
      Sammartino, Julia  and
      Barak, Libby  and
      Peng, Jing  and
      Feldman, Anna",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.3/",
    pages = "19--32",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{loftus-etal-2026-risk,
    title = "Risk-Averse Failure Modes of {J}ensen-{S}hannon Distance in {RLVR} Distributional Alignment",
    author = "Loftus, Sebastian  and
      Wang, Xinpeng  and
      De Marneffe, Marie-Catherine  and
      Plank, Barbara",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.4/",
    pages = "33--42",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{dershowitz-bouneffouf-2026-controlled,
    title = "Controlled Fine-Tuning for Two-Tower Recommenders: Why Gradual Unfreezing Can Fail and Cosine Regularization Suffices",
    author = "Dershowitz, Gabriel  and
      Bouneffouf, Djallel",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.5/",
    pages = "43--47",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{dey-etal-2026-soft,
    title = "Do Soft Prompts Have Useful Wavelet Structure? Negative Evidence In A Controlled Setup",
    author = "Dey, Soumyadeep  and
      Tenneti, Srikanth  and
      Mishra, Bamdev  and
      Niranjan, Shobhit  and
      Datar, Mayur",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.6/",
    pages = "48--59",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{kumar-2026-decomposing,
    title = "Decomposing {LLM}-Judge{--}Human Agreement: How Much Is Inherited Surface Preference?",
    author = "Kumar, Gaurav",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.7/",
    pages = "60--69",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-flip,
    title = "The Flip-Test: A Behavioral Diagnostic for Multi-Agent Debate Failures",
    author = "Hu, Julia  and
      Shen, Alfred  and
      Lakshmipathi, Kumar",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.8/",
    pages = "70--75",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{osman-etal-2026-activation,
    title = "Activation-Based Active Learning for In-Context Learning: Challenges and Insights",
    author = "Osman, Yaseen  and
      Merrett, Geoff  and
      Middleton, Stuart",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.9/",
    pages = "76--83",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{singh-2026-architecture,
    title = "The Architecture Was Doing the Work: Why {NLI} Debiasing Results Do Not Generalise",
    author = "Singh, Prabhjot",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.10/",
    pages = "84--89",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{li-chen-2026-learned,
    title = "When Learned Context Planning Fails to Beat Strong Retrieval: A Controlled Study of Planning, Routing, and Reranking for Long-Context {QA}",
    author = "Li, Yingrui  and
      Chen, Han",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.11/",
    pages = "90--94",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{soykan-sahin-2026-optimal,
    title = "No Optimal Language Set Exists for Multilingual Instruction Tuning: Insights from a Linguistically-Informed Study",
    author = {Soykan, G{\"u}rkan  and
      {\c{S}}ahin, G{\"o}zde},
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.12/",
    pages = "95--101",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{kazakov-2026-short,
    title = "Short-Context Gains, Long-Context Drift: Negative Results for Token-Conditioned {R}o{PE}",
    author = "Kazakov, Allan",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.13/",
    pages = "102--109",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{sawant-2026-gradient,
    title = "When Gradient Importance Lies: Adaptive {L}o{RA} Rank Allocation Fails Under {GRPO}",
    author = "Sawant, Yash",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.14/",
    pages = "110--114",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{delgado-2026-score,
    title = "Do Not Score the Edited Answer: A Negative Result on Loose Evaluation for Verifiable Instruction Following",
    author = "Delgado, Jos{\'e} Luis",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.15/",
    pages = "115--119",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{pletenev-2026-perturbation,
    title = "Perturbation, Not Provenance: Why Activation Steering Does Not Make a Robust Text Watermark",
    author = "Pletenev, Sergey",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.16/",
    pages = "120--126",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{wu-2026-peft,
    title = "{PEFT} Gains Need Hidden Baselines: Rank and Optimizer Sweeps Change {L}o{RA} Conclusions",
    author = "Wu, Ding",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.17/",
    pages = "127--132",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}
@inproceedings{wu-2026-relation,
    title = "When Relation-Free Retrieval Is Not Relation-Aware: A Directionality Stress Test for Linear Graph {RAG}",
    author = "Wu, Ding",
    editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o  and
      Shu, Raphael  and
      Drozd, Aleksandr  and
      Akula, Arjun  and
      Rogers, Anna  and
      Giorgi, Salvatore  and
      Benton, Adrian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.18/",
    pages = "133--136",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4"
}