@proceedings{lm-playschool-2026-1,
    title = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.0/",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{rocca-etal-2026-beyond,
    title = "Beyond Sally-Anne: Evaluating Theory of Mind in Large Language Models using Epistemic Schelling Points",
    author = "Rocca, Roberta  and
      Boukortt, Sami  and
      Keeling, Geoff  and
      Street, Winnie",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.1/",
    pages = "1--18",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{gu-etal-2026-faithful,
    title = "Can Faithful {C}o{T} Improve Multi-turn {LLM} Agents? Effectiveness, Boundaries, and Paradoxes",
    author = "Gu, Tianle  and
      Yang, Xinqi  and
      Teng, Yan",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.2/",
    pages = "19--29",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{yang-liu-2026-processprefbench,
    title = "{P}rocess{P}ref{B}ench: Evaluating Cross-Task Transfer of Individual Process Preferences from Naturalistic Human{--}{AI} Interaction",
    author = "Yang, Yiwen  and
      Liu, Guanming",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.3/",
    pages = "30--40",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{naszadi-monz-2026-role,
    title = "Role-Specific Strengths and Alignment in {LLM} Cross-Play and Self-Play",
    author = "Naszadi, Kata  and
      Monz, Christof",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.4/",
    pages = "41--48",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{koki-etal-2026-interviewarena,
    title = "{I}nterview{A}rena: Estimating Uninformative Participants through Interactive Dialogue under Incomplete Information",
    author = "Koki, Raika  and
      Karasawa, Karina  and
      Kanayama, Ryoki  and
      Suzumura, Yuki  and
      Fujita, Haruto  and
      Obara, Ryoma  and
      Sakai, Yusuke  and
      Kamigaito, Hidetaka  and
      Hayashi, Katsuhiko  and
      Matsuno, Shogo",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.5/",
    pages = "49--56",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{salhan-buttery-2026-protocol,
    title = "Protocol Competence of Small Language Models in Interactive Language Game Environments",
    author = "Salhan, Suchir  and
      Buttery, Paula",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.6/",
    pages = "57--79",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{rajput-vogelstein-2026-pareto,
    title = "{P}areto-Dominant Clarification: Post-Training Coding {LLM}s via {PPO}-{L}agrangian Budget Constraints",
    author = "Rajput, Abhinav  and
      Vogelstein, Acey",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.7/",
    pages = "80--96",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{tsuchida-etal-2026-empirical,
    title = "An Empirical Study on Improving an {LLM}s based Interviewer Against Human Interviewees",
    author = "Tsuchida, Rikuto  and
      Hasegawa, Ryo  and
      Sonoda, Tetsuya  and
      Utsuro, Takehito",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.8/",
    pages = "97--109",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{hakimov-etal-2026-lm,
    title = "The {LM} Playschool Challenge 2026",
    author = "Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      Ristic, Dimitrije  and
      Sadler, Philipp  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Moment{\`e}, Filippo  and
      Manina, Maria  and
      Osswald, Karl  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Schlangen, David",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.9/",
    pages = "110--126",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{tej-etal-2026-enhancing,
    title = "Enhancing {LLM} Performance via {L}o{RA} {SFT} and {DPO} for the {LM} Playschool Challenge",
    author = "Tej, Vasamsetti Nihal  and
      Harshavaishnav, Velineni  and
      Ghosh, Shreya",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.10/",
    pages = "127--131",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{foroutan-meshram-2026-adapting,
    title = "Adapting {SC}o{R}e to Single-Player Dialogue Games: Initial Experiments on {PLAYPEN}",
    author = "Foroutan, Neda  and
      Meshram, Valhari",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.11/",
    pages = "132--139",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{huq-madhyastha-2026-first,
    title = "First Make It Playable, Then Make It Good: Staged Interaction Learning for Small Dialogue-Game Agents",
    author = "Huq, Syed Mahbubul  and
      Madhyastha, Pranava",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.12/",
    pages = "140--147",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{srivastava-2026-raising,
    title = "Raising a Small Language Model: From Imitation to Curiosity-Driven Learning in Dialogue Games",
    author = "Srivastava, Varad",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.13/",
    pages = "148--159",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{sarzotti-baratella-2026-teaching,
    title = "Teaching or Sharpening? An Exploration of the Potential of {DPO} Post-Training for Dialogue Games",
    author = "Sarzotti, Marika  and
      Baratella, Simone",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.14/",
    pages = "160--169",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}
@inproceedings{li-2026-acquire,
    title = "Acquire, Repair, Preserve: A Diagnosis-Guided Post-Training Recipe for Small-Model Dialogue Game Agents",
    author = "Li, Nan",
    editor = "Suglia, Alessandro  and
      Giulianelli, Mario  and
      Schlangen, David  and
      Bernardi, Raffaella  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel  and
      Hakimov, Sherzod  and
      McCallum, Sabrina  and
      Mazzaccara, Davide  and
      Le, Dieu-Thu  and
      Lemon, Oliver  and
      Koller, Alexander",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.15/",
    pages = "170--183",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5"
}