Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026)

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 knowfm-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.0/ Annotation Frameworks Shape Model Knowledge: Safety Alignment in Large Language Models Wajdi Zaghouani author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 zaghouani-2026-annotation-frameworks https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.1/ 2026-07 1 12 What Does Alignment Cost? The Structural Brittleness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Joanna Hao author Shanduojiao Jiang author Sai Asish Nakka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 hao-etal-2026-alignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.3/ 2026-07 25 33 bLLeQA: Benchmarking LLMs for Grounded Legal Question-Answering in French and Dutch Nikolay Banar author Ehsan Lotfi author Jens Van Nooten author Marija Kliocaite author Walter Daelemans author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 banar-etal-2026-blleqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.4/ 2026-07 34 59 VLA-Forget: Vision-Language-Action Unlearning for Embodied Foundation Models Ravi Ranjan author Agoritsa Polyzou author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 ranjan-polyzou-2026-vla https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.5/ 2026-07 60 77 Overcoming the Impedance Mismatch: A Theoretical Roadmap for Fusing Foundation Models and Knowledge Graphs Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 dhayalkar-2026-overcoming https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.6/ 2026-07 78 89 LLM-MemCluster: Empowering Large Language Models with Dynamic Memory for Text Clustering Yuanjie Zhu author Liangwei Yang author Ke Xu author Weizhi Zhang author Zihe Song author Jindong Wang author Philip S Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 zhu-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.7/ 2026-07 90 104 Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking Shiyan Liu author Yichen Li author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 liu-li-2026-test https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.8/ 2026-07 105 114 Multimodal Generative Engine Optimization: Rank Manipulation for Vision–Language Model Rankers Yixuan Du author Chenxiao Yu author Haoyan Xu author Ziyi Wang author Yue Zhao author Xiyang Hu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 du-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.9/ 2026-07 115 128 Beyond Retrieval: Bi-Temporal State Arbitration for Longitudinal Healthcare Agents Jianing Zhao author Xiaoquan Zhi author Xinqiang Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 zhao-etal-2026-beyond-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.10/ 2026-07 129 137 RSCE: Training-Free Residual Stream Encoding for Persistent Context Amortization Adam Kamel author Eric Xu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 kamel-xu-2026-rsce https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.11/ 2026-07 138 146 Tricking Open-World Object Recognition Models: Uncertainty in Out-of-Distribution Detection Wout Teillers author Matias Valdenegro-Toro author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 teillers-valdenegro-toro-2026-tricking https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.12/ 2026-07 147 164 Knowledge Localization and Editability in Small Language Models: A Multi-Stage Experimental Study Pranamya Nilesh Deshpande author Aiswarya Konavoor author Sreedath Panat author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 deshpande-etal-2026-knowledge https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.13/ 2026-07 165 172 One Retrieval to Cover Them All: Co-occurrence-Aware Knowledge Base Reorganization for Session-Level RAG Shivam Ratnakar author Yixuan Zhu author Cecilia Cheng author Chaya Vijayakumar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM 2026) Canyu Chen editor Yuji Zhang editor Zoey Sha Li editor Zihan Wang editor Qineng Wang editor Jinyan Su editor Priyanka Kargupta editor Sara Vera Marjanović editor Jeff Z Pan editor Mohit Bansal editor Isabelle Augenstein editor Jiawei Han editor Heng Ji editor Manling Li editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-403-3 ratnakar-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.14/ 2026-07 173 182