ACL 2026: all accepted papers

2,650 papers · page 26 of 27 · the most cited first · ← ACL 2026

Union-of-Experts: Neurons in Mixture-of-Experts are Secretly Routers ↗Songhao Wu, Ang Lv, Ruobing Xie et al. · Long Papers
Unlearners Can Lie: Evaluating and Improving Honesty in LLM Unlearning ↗Renjie Gu, Jiazhen Du, Yihua Zhang et al. · Long Papers
Unleashing Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Textual Representation Guided Reasoning ↗Jiacheng Hua, Yishu Yin, Yuhang Wu et al. · Long Papers
Unlocking Implicit Experience: Synthesizing Tool-Use Trajectories from Text ↗Zhihao Xu, Rumei Li, Jiahuan Li et al. · Long Papers
Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning Capability of LLMs and LVLMs through Representation Engineering ↗Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Yixuan Ma et al. · Long Papers
Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Language Models through Template Infilling ↗Junhoo Lee, Seungyeon Kim, Nojun Kwak · Long Papers
Unveiling the Limits of Large Language Models in Inferring Pragmatic Meaning from Non-Verbal Responses ↗Sugyeong Eo, Heuiseok Lim · Long Papers
Unveiling the Unknown: Open-Set Entity Typing via Two-Stage Generation ↗Hu Chen, Binhan Yang, Wei Shen · Long Papers
UrbanGeoEval: A City-Scale Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Geospatial Reasoning ↗Mutian Bao, Qiuyi Qi, Tian Liang et al. · Long Papers
User Perceptions vs. Proxy LLM Judges: Privacy and Helpfulness in LLM Responses to Privacy-Sensitive Scenarios ↗Xiaoyuan Wu, Roshni Kaushik, Wenkai Li et al. · Long Papers
Using Perspectival Words Is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans –-and Even More So for Multimodal Language Models ↗Dota Tianai Dong, Yifan Luo, Po-Ya Angela Wang et al. · Long Papers
VALU: A Benchmark for Video Anomaly Temporal Localization and Understanding at Multiple Semantic Levels ↗Yixiao He, Menghao Zhang, Haifeng Sun et al. · Long Papers
VAPO: End-to-end Slide-Enhanced Speech Recognition with Omni-modal Large Language Models ↗Rui Hu, Delai Qiu, Yining Wang et al. · Long Papers
VC-Inspector: Advancing Reference-free Evaluation of Video Captions with Factual Analysis ↗Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Tz-Ying Wu, Subarna Tripathi · Long Papers
VCORE: Variance-Controlled Optimization-based Reweighting for Chain-of-Thought Supervision ↗Xuan Gong, Senmiao Wang, Hanbo Huang et al. · Long Papers
VEG: Verbal $\epsilon$-greedy for Semantic Exploration in Multi-Turn RL Agents ↗Yongchang Hao, Jie Hao, Yongsheng Mei et al. · Industry Track
VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free Adaptation ↗Yixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan et al. · Long Papers
VIGNETTE: Socially Grounded Bias Evaluation for Vision-Language Models ↗Chahat Raj, Bowen Wei, Aylin Caliskan et al. · Long Papers
VISTA: Verification In Sequential Turn-based Assessment ↗Ashley Lewis, Andrew Perrault, Eric Fosler-Lussier et al. · Long Papers
VL-Calibration: Decoupled Confidence Calibration for Large Vision-Language Models Reasoning ↗Wenyi Xiao, Xinchi XU, Leilei Gan · Long Papers
VLN-MME: Diagnosing MLLMs as Language-guided Visual Navigation Agents ↗Xunyi Zhao, Gengze Zhou, Qi Wu · Long Papers
VLN-NF: Feasibility-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation with False-Premise Instructions ↗Hung-Ting Su, Ting-Jun Wang, Jia-Fong Yeh et al. · Long Papers
VOYAGER: A Training Free Approach for Generating Diverse Datasets using LLMs ↗Avinash Amballa, Yashas Malur Saidutta, Chi-Heng Lin et al. · Long Papers
VRPO: Rethinking Value Modeling for Robust RL under Noisy Supervision in LLM Post-Training ↗Dingwei Zhu, Shihan Dou, Zhiheng Xi et al. · Long Papers
Valid Survey Simulations with Limited Human Data: The Roles of Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Rectification ↗Stefan Krsteski, Giuseppe Russo, Serina Chang et al. · Long Papers
Validator-Guided Hard Negative Mining for Masked Language Modeling in Low-Resource Ancient Languages ↗Andrei Voinea · Student Research Workshop
Value of Information: A Framework for Human–Agent Communication ↗Yijiang River Dong, Tiancheng Hu, Zheng Hui et al. · Long Papers
VecInfer: Efficient LLM Inference with Low-Bit KV Cache via Outlier-Suppressed Vector Quantization ↗Dingyu Yao, Chenxu Yang, Zhengyang Tong et al. · Long Papers
Vector Calligrapher: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics via Structured Linguistic Supervision ↗Bo Zhou, Xikang Chen, Yan Gong et al. · Long Papers
Verbal-R3: Verbal Reranker as the Missing Bridge between Retrieval and Reasoning ↗Sangkwon Park, Donghun Kang, Jisoo Mok et al. · Long Papers
Verifiable LLM-Generated Text Detection via Projected Semantic-Structural Distributions ↗Ruochong Xiong, Qien Li, Wangwang Lian et al. · Long Papers
Verify Before You Commit: Towards Faithful Reasoning in LLM Agents via Self-Auditing ↗Wenhao Yuan, Chenchen Lin, Jian Chen et al. · Long Papers
VerilogLAVD: LLM-Aided Pattern Generation for Verilog CWE Detection ↗Xiang Long, Yingjie Xia, Li Kuang et al. · Long Papers
ViLL-E: Video LLM Embeddings for Retrieval ↗Rohit Gupta, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Fan Fei et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
VideoCuRL: Video Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Orthogonal Difficulty Decomposition ↗Hongbo Jin, Kuanwei Lin, Wenhao Zhang et al. · Long Papers
VideoPro: Adaptive Program Reasoning for Long Video Understanding ↗Chenglin Li, Feng Han, Yikun Wang et al. · Long Papers
VideoStir: Understanding Long Videos via Spatio-Temporally Structured and Intent-Aware RAG ↗Honghao Fu, Miao Xu, Yiwei Wang et al. · Long Papers
VisAidMath: Benchmarking Visual-Aided Mathematical Reasoning ↗Jingkun Ma, Runzhe Zhan, Yang Li et al. · Long Papers
VisPCO: Visual Token Pruning Configuration Optimization via Budget-Aware Pareto-Frontier Learning for Vision-Language Models ↗Huawei Ji, Yuanhao Sun, Yuan Jin et al. · Long Papers
VisRet: Visualization Improves Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-Image Retrieval ↗Di Wu, Yixin Wan, Kai-Wei Chang · Long Papers
VishBox v2: A Multi-Agent System for Adaptive Voice Phishing Simulation ↗Sungmi Park, Daon Choi, Yoonmo Yang et al. · Industry Track
Vision-Language Introspection: Mitigating Overconfident Hallucinations in MLLMs via Interpretable Bi-Causal Steering ↗Shuliang Liu, Songbo Yang, Dong Fang et al. · Long Papers
Vista-LLM: Decoupled Query-Guided Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Long-Video Large Language Models ↗Zhenyu Li, Zuchao Li, Ping Wang et al. · Long Papers
Visual Attention Reasoning via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification ↗Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan et al. · Long Papers
Visual Self-Fulfilling Alignment: Shaping Safety-Oriented Personas via Threat-Related Images ↗Qishun Yang, Shu Yang, Lijie Hu et al. · Long Papers
Visual and Memory–Augmented Soccer Commentary Generation ↗Haoran Sun, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn, Kiyoaki Shirai · Long Papers
Visually-Guided Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning ↗Zengbin Wang, Feng Xiong, Liang Lin et al. · Long Papers
Vocabulary Hijacking in LVLMs: Unveiling Critical Attention Heads by Excluding Inert Tokens to Mitigate Hallucination ↗Yangneng Chen, Junlin Li, Weijun Yao et al. · Long Papers
Vocabulary Shapes Cross-Lingual Variation of Word-Order Learnability in Language Models ↗Jonas Mayer Martins, Jaap Jumelet, Viola Priesemann et al. · Long Papers
VoxMind: An End-to-End Agentic Spoken Dialogue System ↗Tianle Liang, Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji et al. · Long Papers
WIGVO: Real-Time Bidirectional Speech Translation over Legacy PSTN Calls via Dual-Session Echo Gating ↗Hyeong-seob Kim, Sang-Woo Son, Hyun-woo Cho et al. · System Demonstrations
WIST: Web-Grounded Iterative Self-Play Tree for Domain-Targeted Reasoning Improvement ↗Fangyuan Li, Pengfei Li, Shijie Wang et al. · Long Papers
WSDPO: A Generative Word Sense Disambiguation Framework with Chain-of-Thought and Preference Optimization ↗Kunpeng Kang, Shuaimin Li, Kaiyuan Zhang et al. · Long Papers
Wait! There's a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment ↗Laerdon Kim, Vivian Nguyen, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil · Long Papers
WebAggregator: Enhancing Compositional Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Research Agent Foundation Models ↗Rui Wang, Ce Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma et al. · Long Papers
WebClipper: Efficient Evolution of Web Agents with Graph-based Trajectory Pruning ↗Junjie Wang, Zequn Xie, Dan Yang et al. · Long Papers
WebCoderBench: Benchmarking Web Application Generation with Comprehensive and Interpretable Evaluation Metrics ↗Chenxu Liu, Yingjie Fu, Wei Yang et al. · Long Papers
WebSTAR: Scalable Data Synthesis for Computer Use Agents with Step-Level Filtering ↗Yifei He, Pranit Chawla, Yaser Souri et al. · Long Papers
WebSynthesis: World Model-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Efficient WebAgent Trajectory Synthesis ↗Yifei Gao, Junhong Ye, Yifan Yang et al. · Long Papers
WeightLoRA: Keep Only Necessary Adapters ↗Andrey Veprikov, Vladimir Solodkin, Zyl Alexander et al. · Long Papers
What About the Scene With the Hitler Reference? HAUNT: A Framework to Probe LLMs' Self-consistency in Closed Domains Via Adversarial Nudge ↗Arka Dutta, Sujan Dutta, Rijul Magu et al. · Long Papers
What Deserves Memory: Adaptive Memory Distillation for LLM Agents ↗Wenquan Ma, Jiayan Nan, WenLong Wu · Long Papers
What Do LLMs Learn First? Asymmetric Learning Dynamics of Input Complexity and Output Ambiguity in Preference Alignment ↗Mengyang Li, Jingwen Wang, Pinlong Zhao · Long Papers
What Do Prosody and Text Convey? Characterizing How Meaningful Information is Distributed Across Multiple Channels ↗Aditya Yadavalli, Tiago Pimentel, Tamar I Regev et al. · Long Papers
What Does LLM Refinement Actually Improve? A Systematic Study on Document-Level Literary Translation ↗Shaomu Tan, Dawei Zhu, Ke Tran et al. · Long Papers
What If Consensus Lies? Selective-Complementary Reinforcement Learning at Test Time ↗Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Yanbo Wang et al. · Long Papers
What Makes AI Research Replicable? Executable Knowledge Graphs as Scientific Knowledge Representations ↗Yujie Luo, Zhuoyun Yu, Xuehai Wang et al. · Short Papers
What Makes Good Instruction-Tuning Data? An In-Context Learning Perspective ↗Guangzeng Han, Xiaolei Huang · Long Papers
What Makes LLMs Effective Sequential Recommenders? A Study on Preference Intensity and Temporal Context ↗Zhongyu Ouyang, Qianlong Wen, Chunhui Zhang et al. · Long Papers
What Makes a Good Curriculum? Disentangling the Effects of Data Ordering on LLM Mathematical Reasoning ↗Yaning Jia, Chunhui Zhang, Xingjian Diao et al. · Long Papers
What Makes an Ideal Quote? Recommending “Unexpected yet Rational” Quotations via Novelty ↗Powei Chang, Jin Xiao, Guanglei Yue et al. · Long Papers
What Moves the Pareto Frontier in Tool-Using Agents? A Compute-Aware Study of ReAct Variants ↗Rishi N. Simhadri · Student Research Workshop
What Question Did You Answer? Refining Contact Center Evaluation Plans via Backward Questions ↗Prajwal Sood, Rushikesh Pawar, Digvijay Anil Ingle et al. · Industry Track
What is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classification ↗Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith · Long Papers
What's Left Unsaid? Detecting and Correcting Misleading Omissions in Multimodal News Previews ↗Fanxiao Li, Jiaying Wu, Tingchao Fu et al. · Long Papers
When Agents Look the Same: Quantifying Distillation-Induced Similarity in Tool-Use Behaviors ↗Chenghao Yang, Yuning Zhang, Zhoufutu Wen et al. · Long Papers
When Background Matters: Breaking Medical Vision Language Models by Transferable Attack ↗Akash Ghosh, Subhadip Baidya, Sriparna Saha et al. · Long Papers
When Correct Beliefs Collapse: Epistemic Resilience of LLMs under Clinical Pressure ↗Boyu Xiao, Xiuqi Tian, Xuwen Song et al. · Long Papers
When Does Language Matter? Multilingual Instructions Reveal Step-wise Language Sensitivity in Vision-Language-Action Models ↗Xuan Dong, Zhe Han, Tianhao Niu et al. · Long Papers
When Does Mixing Help? Analyzing Query Embedding Interpolation in Multilingual Dense Retrieval ↗Tongyao Zhu, Huang Chao Ming, Min-Yen Kan · Long Papers
When Efficiency Becomes a Vulnerability: Computational Cost Attacks on WebAgents ↗Liang-Bo Ning, Yuchen Zhu, Heqing Huang et al. · Long Papers
When Efficiency Meets Safety: A Benchmark Security Analysis of KV Cache Compression in Large Language Models ↗Xiaoxiao Ma, Kuofeng Gao, Zeyi Lu et al. · Long Papers
When Good OCR Is Not Enough: Benchmarking OCR Robustness for Retrieval-Augmented Generation ↗Lin Sun, Wangdexian, Jingang Huang et al. · Industry Track
When High Accuracy Hides Poor Calibration: Rethinking Confidence Evaluation in Transformer-Based Text Classification with Balanced Brier Score ↗Guilherme Fonseca, Gabriel Prenassi, Washington Cunha et al. · Long Papers
When Is Thinking Enough? Early Exit via Sufficiency Assessment for Efficient Reasoning ↗Yang Xiang, Yixin Ji, Ruotao Xu et al. · Long Papers
When KV Cache Reuse Fails in Multi-Agent Systems: Cross-Candidate Interaction is Crucial for LLM Judges ↗Sichu Liang, Zhenglin Wang, Chujiajia et al. · Long Papers
When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors ↗Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han et al. · Long Papers
When Misinformation Speaks and Converses: Rethinking Fact-Checking in Audio Platforms ↗Chaewan Chun, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon Lee · Long Papers
When Models Hesitate: Answer Instability as a Label-Free Uncertainty Signal for LLMs ↗Jasper Meynard Arana, Kristine Ann M. Carandang, Ethan Robert Casin et al. · Student Research Workshop
When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation ↗Rhea Kapur, Robert D. Hawkins, Elisa Kreiss · Short Papers
When Morphology Hides in Plain Sight: Breaking the Isolation in Vietnamese and Beyond ↗Anh Trac Duc Dinh, Khang Hoang Nhat Vo, Tai Tien Ta et al. · Long Papers
When Personalization Legitimizes Risks: Uncovering Safety Vulnerabilities in Personalized Dialogue Agents ↗Jiahe Guo, Xiangran Guo, Yulin Hu et al. · Long Papers
When Personalization Tricks Detectors: The Feature-Inversion Trap in Machine-Generated Text Detection ↗Lang Gao, Xuhui Li, Chenxi Wang et al. · Long Papers
When Seeing Is not Enough: Revealing the Limits of Active Reasoning in MLLMs ↗Hongcheng Liu, Pingjie Wang, Yuhao Wang et al. · Long Papers
When Seeing Overrides Knowing: Disentangling Knowledge Conflicts in Vision-Language Models ↗Francesco Ortu, Zhijing Jin, Diego Doimo et al. · Long Papers
When TableQA Meets Noise: A Dual Denoising Framework for Complex Questions and Large-scale Tables ↗Shenghao Ye, Yu Guo, Dong Jin et al. · Long Papers
When “Correct” Is Not Safe: Can We Trust Functionally Correct Patches Generated by Code Agents? ↗Yibo Peng, James Song, Lei Li et al. · Long Papers
When in Doubt, Consult: Expert Debate for Sexism Detection via Confidence-Based Routing ↗Anwar Alajmi, Gabriele Pergola · Long Papers
Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models ↗Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Gjergji Kasneci · Long Papers
Where and What: Reasoning Dynamic and Implicit Preferences in Situated Conversational Recommendation ↗Dongding Lin, Jian Wang, Yongqi Li et al. · Long Papers

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📰 ACL 2026: all accepted papers

ACL 2026: all accepted papers