The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction

The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 lm-playschool-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.0/ Beyond Sally-Anne: Evaluating Theory of Mind in Large Language Models using Epistemic Schelling Points Roberta Rocca author Sami Boukortt author Geoff Keeling author Winnie Street author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 rocca-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.1/ 2026-10 1 18 Can Faithful CoT Improve Multi-turn LLM Agents? Effectiveness, Boundaries, and Paradoxes Tianle Gu author Xinqi Yang author Yan Teng author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 gu-etal-2026-faithful https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.2/ 2026-10 19 29 ProcessPrefBench: Evaluating Cross-Task Transfer of Individual Process Preferences from Naturalistic Human–AI Interaction Yiwen Yang author Guanming Liu author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 yang-liu-2026-processprefbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.3/ 2026-10 30 40 Role-Specific Strengths and Alignment in LLM Cross-Play and Self-Play Kata Naszadi author Christof Monz author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 naszadi-monz-2026-role https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.4/ 2026-10 41 48 InterviewArena: Estimating Uninformative Participants through Interactive Dialogue under Incomplete Information Raika Koki author Karina Karasawa author Ryoki Kanayama author Yuki Suzumura author Haruto Fujita author Ryoma Obara author Yusuke Sakai author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Katsuhiko Hayashi author Shogo Matsuno author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 koki-etal-2026-interviewarena https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.5/ 2026-10 49 56 Protocol Competence of Small Language Models in Interactive Language Game Environments Suchir Salhan author Paula Buttery author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 salhan-buttery-2026-protocol https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.6/ 2026-10 57 79 Pareto-Dominant Clarification: Post-Training Coding LLMs via PPO-Lagrangian Budget Constraints Abhinav Rajput author Acey Vogelstein author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 rajput-vogelstein-2026-pareto https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.7/ 2026-10 80 96 An Empirical Study on Improving an LLMs based Interviewer Against Human Interviewees Rikuto Tsuchida author Ryo Hasegawa author Tetsuya Sonoda author Takehito Utsuro author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 tsuchida-etal-2026-empirical https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.8/ 2026-10 97 109 The LM Playschool Challenge 2026 Sherzod Hakimov author Dimitrije Ristic author Philipp Sadler author Davide Mazzaccara author Sabrina McCallum author Filippo Momentè author Maria Manina author Karl Osswald author Dieu-Thu Le author Oliver Lemon author Alexander Koller author Raffaella Bernardi author Raquel Fernández author Mario Giulianelli author Alessandro Suglia author David Schlangen author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 hakimov-etal-2026-lm https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.9/ 2026-10 110 126 Enhancing LLM Performance via LoRA SFT and DPO for the LM Playschool Challenge Vasamsetti Nihal Tej author Velineni Harshavaishnav author Shreya Ghosh author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 tej-etal-2026-enhancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.10/ 2026-10 127 131 Adapting SCoRe to Single-Player Dialogue Games: Initial Experiments on PLAYPEN Neda Foroutan author Valhari Meshram author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 foroutan-meshram-2026-adapting https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.11/ 2026-10 132 139 First Make It Playable, Then Make It Good: Staged Interaction Learning for Small Dialogue-Game Agents Syed Mahbubul Huq author Pranava Madhyastha author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 huq-madhyastha-2026-first https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.12/ 2026-10 140 147 Raising a Small Language Model: From Imitation to Curiosity-Driven Learning in Dialogue Games Varad Srivastava author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 srivastava-2026-raising https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.13/ 2026-10 148 159 Teaching or Sharpening? An Exploration of the Potential of DPO Post-Training for Dialogue Games Marika Sarzotti author Simone Baratella author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 sarzotti-baratella-2026-teaching https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.14/ 2026-10 160 169 Acquire, Repair, Preserve: A Diagnosis-Guided Post-Training Recipe for Small-Model Dialogue Game Agents Nan Li author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction Alessandro Suglia editor Mario Giulianelli editor David Schlangen editor Raffaella Bernardi editor Raquel Fernández editor Sherzod Hakimov editor Sabrina McCallum editor Davide Mazzaccara editor Dieu-Thu Le editor Oliver Lemon editor Alexander Koller editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-467-5 li-2026-acquire https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.15/ 2026-10 170 183