📰 Workshop on Trustworthy NLP 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Trustworthy NLP 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Trustworthy NLP, held in San Diego, California, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 41 papers of it; our library holds 16 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California · 🗓 July 2026

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating The Impact of Quantization on Factual Knowledge RecallQianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus et al.2 citations · our summary
2. A Systematic Comparison between Extractive Self-Explanations and Human Rationales in Text Classification ↗Stephanie Brandl, Oliver Eberle1 citation
3. KoLegalQA: A Korean Legal QA Dataset for Trustworthy and Explanation-Grounded Legal AI ↗Yongtae Lee, Surin Lee, Sumin Kim et al.1 citation
4. Purdah and Patriarchy: Evaluating and Mitigating South Asian Biases in Open-Ended Multilingual LLM GenerationsMamnuya Rinki, Chahat Raj, Anjishnu Mukherjee et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (41)

The most cited first; 16 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating The Impact of Quantization on Factual Knowledge RecallQianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus et al.2 citations · our summary
2. A Systematic Comparison between Extractive Self-Explanations and Human Rationales in Text Classification ↗Stephanie Brandl, Oliver Eberle1 citation
3. KoLegalQA: A Korean Legal QA Dataset for Trustworthy and Explanation-Grounded Legal AI ↗Yongtae Lee, Surin Lee, Sumin Kim et al.1 citation
4. Purdah and Patriarchy: Evaluating and Mitigating South Asian Biases in Open-Ended Multilingual LLM GenerationsMamnuya Rinki, Chahat Raj, Anjishnu Mukherjee et al.1 citation · our summary
5. A Systematic Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems ↗Anupama Garani
6. Authorization-First Retrieval: Enforcing Least Privilege in Multi-Agent RAG SystemsRohith Namboothiriour summary
7. ChatbotManip: a Dataset to Facilitate Evaluation and Oversight of Manipulative Chatbot Behaviour ↗Jack Luigi Henry Contro, Simrat Deol, Martim Brandao et al.
8. ClaimCLAIRE: A Trust-Aware Multi-Component Fact-Checking Agent for Open-World Claims ↗Xinman Liu, Mayank Sharma
9. Coercion Suppression Increases Preference Hallucinations via a Deceptive Bypass in $K$-Level Negotiation Agents ↗Jihye Kim
10. Context Misleads LLMs: The Role of Context Filtering in Maintaining Safe Alignment of LLMs ↗Jinhwa Kim, Ian Harris
11. Controllable Pareto Trade-off between Fairness and Accuracy ↗Yongkang Du, Jieyu Zhao, Yijun Yang et al.
12. Deactivating Refusal Triggers: Understanding and Mitigating Overrefusal in Safety Alignment ↗Zhiyu Xue, Zimo Qi, Guangliang Liu et al.
13. Did You Forget What I Asked? Prospective Memory Failures in Large Language ModelsAvni Mittalour summary
14. Domain-Dependent Safety Behavior in Open-Weight LLMs: An Empirical Study Across Seven Ethical Domains ↗Zacharie Bugaud
15. Don't Want Your LLM to Recommend Nuclear Strike? Try Asking It in JapaneseRian Touchentour summary
16. Evaluating Cross-Lingual Behavior and Consistency of Multimodal Large Language ModelsHao Wang, Pinzhi Huang, Daisuke Kawaharaour summary
17. GateKD: Confidence-Gated Closed-Loop Distillation for Robust ReasoningKasidit Sermsri, Teerapong Panboonyuenour summary
18. Geometric Deviation as an Unsupervised Pre-Generation Reliability Signal: Probing LLM Representations for Answerability ↗Yucheng Du
19. Ghost Context: Measuring Cross-Context Interference in Long-Context Language ModelsRohith Namboothiriour summary
20. Guiding Giants: Lightweight Controllers for Weighted Activation Steering in LLMs ↗Amr Hegazy, Mostafa Elhoushi, Amr Alanwar
21. Hair-Trigger Alignment: Black-Box Evaluation Cannot Guarantee Post-Update Alignment ↗Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Salman Avestimehr et al.
22. Improving the Faithfulness of LLM-based Abstractive Summarization with Span-level Unlikelihood Training ↗Sicong Huang, Qianqi Yan, Shengze Wang et al.
23. Lexical Familiarity Predicts Processing Depth for Nonliteral Language in Large Language Models ↗Lang-Ching Yeh, Yu-Chieh Wang, Shu-Kai Hsieh
24. Linear Probes Detect Task Format, Not Reasoning Mode in Language Model Hidden StatesSubramanyam Sahoo, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha et al.our summary
25. Multilingual Steering by Design: Multilingual Sparse Autoencoders and Principled Layer Selection ↗Yusser Al Ghussin, Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Baeumel et al.

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (16)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating The Impact of Quantization on Factual Knowledge RecallWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPQianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus, et al.2026 · 2 citations
2. Purdah and Patriarchy: Evaluating and Mitigating South Asian Biases in Open-Ended Multilingual LLM GenerationsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPMamnuya Rinki, Chahat Raj, Anjishnu Mukherjee, et al.2026 · 1 citation
3. Did You Forget What I Asked? Prospective Memory Failures in Large Language ModelsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPAvni Mittal2026
4. SURGELLM: Rethinking Multi-Task Evaluation through Task-Aware Feature Gating with Class-Balanced NormalizationWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPNoor Islam S. Mohammad, Ulug Bayazit2026
5. PII Jailbreaking in LLMs via Activation Steering Reveals Personal Information LeakageWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPKrishna Kanth Nakka, Xue Jiang, Dmitrii Usynin, et al.2026
6. Authorization-First Retrieval: Enforcing Least Privilege in Multi-Agent RAG SystemsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPRohith Namboothiri2026
7. Ghost Context: Measuring Cross-Context Interference in Long-Context Language ModelsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPRohith Namboothiri2026
8. Why is “Chicago” Predictive of Deceptive Reviews? Using LLMs to Discover Language Phenomena from Lexical CuesWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPJiaming Qu, Mengtian Guo, Yue Wang2026
9. The Geometry of Refusal: Linear Instability in Safety-Aligned LLMsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPShivam Ratnakar, Kartikeya Vats2026
10. Linear Probes Detect Task Format, Not Reasoning Mode in Language Model Hidden StatesWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPSubramanyam Sahoo, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, et al.2026
11. GateKD: Confidence-Gated Closed-Loop Distillation for Robust ReasoningWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPKasidit Sermsri, Teerapong Panboonyuen2026
12. Teaching People LLM's Errors and Getting it RightWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPNathan Stringham, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Xinyuan Yan, et al.2026
13. Truth or Dare: Analyzing LLM Susceptibility to External Evidence of Varying FactualityWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPHan-Yu Su, Kuan-Yu Chu, Yung-Hui Li, et al.2026
14. Quantifying LLM Safety Degradation Under Repeated Attacks Using Survival AnalysisWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPZvi Topol2026
15. Don't Want Your LLM to Recommend Nuclear Strike? Try Asking It in JapaneseWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPRian Touchent2026
16. Evaluating Cross-Lingual Behavior and Consistency of Multimodal Large Language ModelsWorkshop on Trustworthy NLPHao Wang, Pinzhi Huang, Daisuke Kawahara2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧠Language models & pretraining (11)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)🧮Reasoning (2)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (2)🪶Efficient models & compression (2)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)🔍Information retrieval & search (1)🔬Interpretability (1)🖼️Vision & language (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (16)🎭Arts and Humanities (12)🤝Social Sciences (8)💭Psychology (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill · United States1 work here🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States1 work here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1 work here🎓Northeastern UniversityBoston · United States1 work here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States1 work here🎓Waseda UniversityTokyo · Japan1 work here🎓Chulalongkorn UniversityBangkok · Thailand1 work here🎓National Taiwan UniversityTaipei · Taiwan1 work here🎓University of UtahSalt Lake City · United States1 work here🔬German Research Centre for Artificial IntelligenceKaiserslautern · Germany1 work here🏢Google DeepMindLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓Technische Universität BerlinBerlin · Germany1 work here

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