ACL 2026: all accepted papers

2,650 papers · page 23 of 27 · the most cited first · ← ACL 2026

Semantic XPath: Structured Agentic Memory Access for Conversational AI ↗Yifan Simon Liu, Ruifan Wu, Liam Gallagher et al. · System Demonstrations
Semantic-Aware Logical Reasoning via a Semiotic Framework ↗Yunyao Zhang, Xinglang Zhang, Junxi Sheng et al. · Long Papers
Semantically Comprehensive Token Pruning in LVLMs via Maximizing Concept Coverage ↗Xueting Li, Qi Liu, Chenghao Xu et al. · Long Papers
Sense and Sensitivity: Examining the Influence of Semantic Recall on Long Context Code Understanding ↗Adam Štorek, Mukur Gupta, Samira Hajizadeh et al. · Long Papers
SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations ↗Pierluigi Cassotti, Naomi Baes, Stefano De Pascale et al. · Long Papers
ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services ↗Fengxian Ji, Jingpu Yang, Zirui Song et al. · Long Papers
Shanks: Simultaneous Hearing and Thinking for Spoken Language Models ↗Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Linjie Li et al. · Long Papers
SharedRequest: Privacy-Preserving Model-Agnostic Inference for Large Language Models ↗Peihua Mai, Xuanrong Gao, Youlong Ding et al. · Long Papers
Sherry: Hardware-Efficient 1.25-Bit Ternary Quantization via Fine-grained Sparsification ↗Hong Huang, Decheng Wu, Qiangqiang Hu et al. · Long Papers
ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants ↗Pei Wang, Yanan Wu, Xiaoshuai Song et al. · Long Papers
Shuttle Between Symbolic Instructions and Neural Parameters of Large Language Models ↗Wangtao Sun, Haotian Xu, Huanxuan Liao et al. · Long Papers
SiLP: Enhancing Non-Dominant Language Capabilities with a Selective Bidirectional Language Projection Framework ↗Junpeng Liu, Jiuyi Li, Kaiyu Huang et al. · Long Papers
Sigmoid Head for Quality Estimation under Language Ambiguity ↗Tu Anh Dinh, Jan Niehues · Long Papers
Sign-Language Datasets at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey on Resources, Benchmarks, and Annotation Standards ↗Yiming Ni, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jiayu Li et al. · Long Papers
SimPBL: A Multi-Agent Framework for Project-Based Learning ↗Daniel Zhang-Li, Joy Jia Yin Lim, Binglin Liu et al. · Long Papers
SimRPD: Optimizing Recruitment Proactive Dialogue Agents through Simulator-Based Data Evaluation and Selection ↗Zhiyong Cao, Dunqiang Liu, Qi Dai et al. · Industry Track
Simple Agents, Biased Judges: Efficient Multi-Party Dialogue Generation & The Evaluation Gap ↗Kunal Samanta, Faisal Tareque Shohan, Amine Trabelsi et al. · Long Papers
Simple-VGC: Enhancing Visual Grounding in Multimodal Reasoning via Adaptive Tool Composition ↗Ye Wang, Qianglong Chen, Siyuan Wang et al. · Long Papers
Single-Pass, Depth-Selective Reading for Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis ↗Yan Xia, Zhuangzhuang Pan, Amirrudin Kamsin et al. · Long Papers
Situated Embedding Models for Context-Aware Dense Retrieval ↗Junjie Wu, Jiangnan Li, Yuqing Li et al. · Short Papers
SkMTEB: Slovak Massive Text Embedding Benchmark and Model Adaptation ↗Marek Suppa, Andrej Ridzik, Daniel Hládek et al. · Long Papers
Skill-Aware Data Selection and Fine-Tuning for Data-Efficient Reasoning Distillation ↗Lechen Zhang, Yunxiang Zhang, Wei Hu et al. · Short Papers
SlideAgent: Hierarchical Agentic Framework for Multi-Page Visual Document Understanding ↗Yiqiao Jin, Rachneet Kaur, Zhen Zeng et al. · Long Papers
SlideGuard: AI-Driven Evaluation of Graduate Student Presentation Materials ↗Nikolay Alekseevich Butakov, Maria Khodorchenko, Mazein Nikita et al. · System Demonstrations
Small Agents, Big Gains: Journey-Aware and Critic-Guided Simulation for Long-Horizon Shopping Dialogues ↗Qing Ping, Changyou Chen, Binxuan Huang · Industry Track
Smarter, not Bigger: Fine-Tuned RAG-Enhanced LLMs for Automotive Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing ↗Chao Feng, Zihan Liu, Siddhant Gupta et al. · Industry Track
Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception ↗Joel Mire, Maria Antoniak, Steven R Wilson et al. · Long Papers
Soft Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation for Knowledge Sharing in Large Language Model Continual Learning ↗Yitong Wang, Xue Han, WenChun Gao et al. · Long Papers
Sommelier: Scalable Open Multi-turn Audio Pre-processing for Full-duplex Speech Language Models ↗Kyudan Jung, Jihwan Kim, Soyoon Kim et al. · Industry Track
SoundBreak: A Systematic Study of Audio-Only Adversarial Attacks on Trimodal Models ↗Aafiya Shamshad Hussain, Gaurav Srivastava, Alvi Md Ishmam et al. · Long Papers
Sparrow: Text-Anchored Window Attention with Visual-Semantic Glimpsing for Speculative Decoding in Video LLMs ↗Libo Zhang, Zhaoning Zhang, Hongwanyang et al. · Long Papers
Sparse Feature Coactivation Reveals Causal Semantic Modules in Large Language Models ↗Ruixuan Deng, Xiaoyang Hu, Miles Gilberti et al. · Long Papers
Sparse-RL: Breaking the Memory Wall in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Stable Sparse Rollouts ↗Sijia Luo, Xiaokang Zhang, Yuxuan Hu et al. · Long Papers
SpeakerSleuth: Can Large Audio-Language Models Judge Speaker Consistency across Multi-turn Dialogues? ↗Jonggeun Lee, Junseong Pyo, Gyuhyeon Seo et al. · Long Papers
Spec-o3: A Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agent for Rare Celestial Object Candidate Vetting via Automated Spectral Inspection ↗Minghui Jia, Qichao Zhang, Ali Luo et al. · Long Papers
SpecAgent: A Speculative Retrieval and Forecasting Agent for Code Completion ↗George Ma, Anurag Koul, Qi Chen et al. · Long Papers
SpecCache: Speculative KV Cache Reuse for Efficient RAG Serving ↗Zijian Wen, Tao Zhang, Shuangwu Chen et al. · Long Papers
Specializing Large Models for Oracle Bone Script Interpretation via Component-Grounded Multimodal Knowledge Augmentation ↗Jianing Zhang, Runan Li, Honglin Pang et al. · Long Papers
Spectra: A Mechanistic Interpretability Library for Vision-Language Models ↗Clement Neo, Yongsen Zheng, Kwok-Yan Lam et al. · System Demonstrations
Spectral Characterization and Mitigation of Sequential Knowledge Editing Collapse ↗Chi Zhang, Mengqi Zhang, Xiaotian Ye et al. · Long Papers
Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMs ↗Huanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao et al. · Long Papers
Speculative End-Turn Detector for Efficient Speech Chatbot Assistant ↗Hyunjong Ok, Suho Yoo, Jaeho Lee · Long Papers
Speech-Hands: A Self-Reflection Voice Agentic Approach to Speech Recognition and Audio Reasoning with Omni Perception ↗Zhen Wan, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jinchuan Tian et al. · Long Papers
SpeechLLM-as-Judges: Towards General and Interpretable Speech Quality Evaluation ↗Hui Wang, Jinghua Zhao, Yifan Yang et al. · Long Papers
SpidR-Adapt: A Universal Speech Representation Model for Few-Shot Adaptation ↗Mahi Luthra, Jiayi Shen, Maxime Poli et al. · Long Papers
SpiderFlow: Efficient Topology-Aware Scheduling for LLM Training Across Decentralized GPU Clusters ↗Zihan Chang, Shuibing He, Bo Zhou et al. · Long Papers
Splits! Flexible Sociocultural Linguistic Investigation at Scale ↗Eylon Caplan, Tania Chakraborty, Dan Goldwasser · Long Papers
Squrve: A Unified and Modular Framework for Complex Real-World Text-to-SQL Tasks ↗Yihan Wang, Peiyu Liu, Runyu Chen et al. · System Demonstrations
Stability Implies Redundancy: Delta Attention Selective Halting for Efficient Long-Context Prefilling ↗Yujie Chen, Tailai Chen, Yifeng Gao et al. · Long Papers
Stable Language Guidance for Vision–Language–Action Models ↗Zhihao Zhan, Yuhao Chen, Jiaying Zhou et al. · Long Papers
StealthGraph: Exposing Domain-Specific Risks in LLMs through Knowledge-Graph-Guided Harmful Prompt Generation ↗Huawei Zheng, Xinqi Jiang, Sen Yang et al. · Long Papers
Steganography Beyond Pixels: Reimagining Image Steganography as Cross-Modal Linguistic Communication ↗Ren Lijing, Denghui Zhang · Long Papers
Step-GRPO: Internalizing Dynamic Early Exit for Efficient Reasoning ↗Benteng Chen, Weida Wang, Shufei Zhang et al. · Long Papers
StepHint: Multi-level Stepwise Hints Enhance Reinforcement Learning to Reason ↗Kaiyi Zhang, Ang Lv, Jinpeng Li et al. · Long Papers
Stereotype Bias in a Bilingual Setting: A Culturally Grounded Evaluation in Kazakhstan ↗Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Ayana Mussabayeva et al. · Long Papers
Still Between Us? Evaluating and Improving Voice Assistant Robustness to Third-Party Interruptions ↗Dongwook Lee, Eunwoo Song, Che Hyun Lee et al. · Long Papers
Stop Fixating on Prompts: Reasoning Hijacking and Constraint Tightening for Red-Teaming LLM Agents ↗Yanxu Mao, Peipei Liu, Tiehan Cui et al. · Long Papers
Stop Hardening Everything: A Training-Free Neuron-Level Defense for Neural Ranking Models ↗Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Hongru Song et al. · Long Papers
Stop When Enough: Adaptive Early-Stopping for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning ↗Renliang Sun, Wei Cheng, Dawei Li et al. · Long Papers
StoryCoder: Narrative Reformulation for Structured Reasoning in LLM Code Generation ↗Geonhui Jang, Dongyoon Han, YoungJoon Yoo · Long Papers
StratMem-Bench: Evaluating Strategic Memory Use in Virtual Character Conversation Beyond Factual Recall ↗Yerong Wu, Tianxing Wu, Minghao Zhu et al. · Long Papers
Stratagem: Learning Transferable Reasoning via Trajectory-Modulated Game Self-Play ↗Xiachong Feng, Deyi Yin, Xiaocheng Feng et al. · Long Papers
Stress Testing Factual Consistency Metrics for Long-Document Summarization ↗Zain Muhammad Mujahid, Dustin Wright, Isabelle Augenstein · Long Papers
StructMem: Structured Memory for Long-Horizon Behavior in LLMs ↗Buqiang Xu, Yijun Chen, Jizhan Fang et al. · Short Papers
Structure Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Factual Queries ↗Miao Xie, Xiao Zhang, Yi Li et al. · Long Papers
Structure-Guided Entity Resolution: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Robust Name Matching in Complex Linguistic Contexts ↗Shivam Chourasia, Hitesh Kapoor, Nilesh Patil · Industry Track
Structured Episodic Event Memory ↗Zhengxuan Lu, Dongfang Li, Yukun Shi et al. · Long Papers
Student Guides Teacher: Weak-to-Strong Inference via Spectral Orthogonal Exploration ↗Dayu Wang, Jiaye Yang, Weikang Li et al. · Long Papers
SubTokenTest: A Practical Benchmark for Real-World Sub-token Understanding ↗Shuyang Hou, Yi Hu, Muhan Zhang · Long Papers
Subject-level Inference for Realistic Text Anonymization Evaluation ↗Myeong Seok Oh, Dong-Yun Kim, Hanseok Oh et al. · Long Papers
Success and Cost Elicit Convention Formation for Efficient Communication ↗Saujas Vaduguru, Yilun Hua, Yoav Artzi et al. · Long Papers
Suggest-Verify-Revise: A Three-Stage Document-Level Event Causality Identification with Narrative Consistency ↗Ya Su, Hu Zhang, Dan Qiao et al. · Long Papers
Supervision versus Demonstration-Based In-Context Learning for Multiword Expression Classification ↗Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek · Student Research Workshop
Surprisal Minimisation over Goal-directed Alternatives Predicts Production Choice in Dialogue ↗Thomas P. Utting, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair · Long Papers
Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models ↗Georg Ahnert, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Barbara Plank et al. · Long Papers
SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents ↗Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich · Long Papers
Sycophantic Anchors: Localizing and Quantifying User Agreement in Reasoning Models ↗Jacek Duszenko, Przemyslaw Kazienko, Jan Kocon · Student Research Workshop
SymbolicThought: Integrating Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Consistent and Interpretable Human Relationship Understanding ↗Runcong Zhao, Qinglin Zhu, Hainiu Xu et al. · System Demonstrations
SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision ↗Zhaoyang Wang, Yiming Liang, Xuchao Zhang et al. · Long Papers
Synthetic Data Generation for Training Diversified Commonsense Reasoning Models ↗Tianhui Zhang, Bei Peng, Danushka Bollegala · Long Papers
Synthetic Text Detection in the Age of Large Language Models: Watermark vs. Automatic Detection ↗Adaku Uchendu · Industry Track
Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication ↗Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
T$^\star$: Progressive Block Scaling for Masked Diffusion Language Models Through Trajectory Aware Reinforcement Learning ↗Hanchen Xia, Baoyou Chen, Yutang Ge et al. · Short Papers
TA-GRPO-d: Trajectory-Aware GRPO for Optimizing Denoising Trajectories in Diffusion LLMs ↗Gyunyeop Kim, Sangwoo Kang · Long Papers
TAIGR: Towards Modeling Influencer Content on Social Media via Structured, Pragmatic Inference ↗Nishanth Sridhar Nakshatri, Eylon Caplan, Rajkumar Pujari et al. · Long Papers
TALAS: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation ↗Quoc Phong Dao, Hoang Son Nguyen, Pham Khanh Chi et al. · Long Papers
TAMA: Target-Aware Multilingual Abuse Detection by Cascaded Conditional Multi-Task Learning ↗JiYan Liu, Youzheng Liu, Taihang Wang et al. · Long Papers
TARE: Lightweight Token-Aware Representation Editing for Fine-tuning Transformer-like Models ↗Yulong Wang, Siyu Zhao · Long Papers
TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent ↗Xingyu Sui, Yanyan Zhao, Yulin Hu et al. · Long Papers
TED-TTS: Training-Free Intra-Utterance Emotion and Duration Control for Text-to-Speech Synthesis ↗Qifan Liang, Yuansen Liu, Ruixin Wei et al. · Long Papers
TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically ↗Nikita Mehrotra, Aayush Kumar, Sumit Gulwani et al. · Industry Track
TH-RAG : Topic-Based Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs for Robust Multi-hop Reasoning in Graph-based RAG Systems ↗JungHyoun Kim, Soohyeong Kim, Seok Jun Hwang et al. · Long Papers
THOR: A Theta-Gamma Hierarchical Oscillatory Reasoning Framework for Multi-hop QA ↗Ziyang Ling, Ronald X. Xu, Mingzhai Sun · Long Papers
TIGER: Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval ↗Yuhang Zhang, Keyan Ding, Peilin Chen et al. · Long Papers
TInR: Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models ↗Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Fan Liu et al. · Long Papers
TLPO: Token-Level Policy Optimization for Mitigating Language Confusion in Large Language Models ↗Jinho Choo, JunSeung Lee, Jimyeong Kim et al. · Long Papers
TONY: an open-source TOolkit for Nlp in psYchology ↗Federico Ravenda, Sofia Irene Ravenda, Volodymyr Karpenko et al. · System Demonstrations
TPA: Next Token Probability Attribution for Detecting Hallucinations in RAG ↗Pengqian Lu, Jie Lu, Anjin Liu et al. · Long Papers
TPS-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents' Tool Planning & Scheduling Abilities in Compounding Tasks ↗Hanwen Xu, Xuyao Huang, Yuzhe Liu et al. · Long Papers
TRAC: Teacher-Guided Token Reward with Adaptive Calibration for Robust Policy Optimization ↗Sitong Wu, Haoru Tan, Xichen Zhang et al. · Long Papers

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📰 ACL 2026: all accepted papers

ACL 2026: all accepted papers