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- A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents — 2026 · arXiv:2601.12538
- A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling — 2026 · arXiv:2605.13301
- AgentFactory: A Self-Evolving Framework Through Executable Subagent Accumulation and Reuse — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
- AlignUSER: Human-Aligned LLM Agents via World Models for Recommender System Evaluation — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models — 2026 · arXiv:2607.14552
- Answering the Wrong Question: Reasoning Trace Inversion for Abstention in LLMs — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- BIRD: Distilling Decision Boundaries into Rationales for MLLM Adaptation — 2026 · arXiv:2609.33713
- Beyond GRPO and On-Policy Distillation: An Empirical Sparse-to-Dense Reward Principle for Language-Model Post-Training — 2026 · arXiv:2605.12483
- Beyond MCQ: An Open-Ended Arabic Cultural QA Benchmark with Dialect Variants — 2026 · Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Beyond Outcome Verification: Verifiable Process Reward Models for Structured Reasoning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Beyond Rejection Sampling: Trajectory Fusion for Scaling Mathematical Reasoning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- CLARO: Controlled Attribute-Driven Reasoning Optimization for Efficient Chain-of-Thought — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- CROP: Token-Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Regularized Prompt Optimization — 2026 · arXiv:2604.14214
- Children's English Reading Story Generation via Supervised Fine-Tuning of Compact LLMs with Controllable Difficulty and Safety — our card · 2026 · Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026)
- Claim Verification in the Age of Large Language Models: A Survey — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
- Counteracting the Matthew Effect in Self-Improvement of LVLMs through Head-Tail Re-balancing — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models — 2026 · arXiv:2608.06243
- DGPO: Beyond Pairwise Preferences with Directional Consistent Groupwise Optimization — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Data-Centric Perspectives on Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Disagreement-Driven Joint Refinement of Retrieval and Decision Rules for Imbalanced Counseling Risk Classification — 2026 · Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC 2026
- Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Dynamic Cheatsheet: Test-Time Learning with Adaptive Memory — 2026 · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Efficient Reasoning Distillation: Small Video-Language Models via Synthetic CoT and Difficulty-Aware Fine-Tuning — 2026 · arXiv:2609.16255 · MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2026), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16412, pp. 567-580, Springer, Singapore, 2026
- Embodied-Reasoner: Synergizing Visual Search, Reasoning, and Action for Embodied Interactive Tasks — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Empowering Multi-Turn Tool-Integrated Agentic Reasoning with Group Turn Policy Optimization — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Enhancing Auto-regressive Chain-of-Thought through Loop-Aligned Reasoning — 2026 · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Entropy-Aware Reshaping of Reinforcement Signals for Multi-Answer Reasoning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- EpiCaR: Knowing What You Don''t Know Matters for Better Reasoning in LLMs — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Chemistry-Centric Benchmark — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
- EvoCoT: Overcoming the Exploration Bottleneck in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery — 2026 · arXiv:2603.08127
- FactCorrector: A Graph-Inspired Approach to Long-Form Factuality Correction of Large Language Models — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Formalize Once, Edit the Rest: Efficient Lean-Based Answer Selection for Math Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2606.15972
- From Belief Entrenchment to Robust Reasoning in LLM Agents — 2026 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- From Scoring to Acting: Outcome-Verified Comparative Self-Distillation for LLM Agents — 2026 · arXiv:2607.27937
- From Solvers to Research: Large Language Model-Driven Formal Mathematics at the Research Frontier — 2026 · arXiv:2607.07779
- GRITHopper: Decomposition-Free Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval — 2026 · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- GoT-R1: Internalizing Graph-of-Thought via Structural Reinforcement for High-Density Reasoning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation for Financial Reasoning over Hybrid Tables and Text — 2026 · arXiv:2607.14709
- Group Distributionally Robust Optimization-Driven Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2601.19280
- How Long Reasoning Chains Influence LLMs' Judgment of Answer Factuality — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- How Much Thinking is Enough? Quantifying and Understanding Redundancy in LLM Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2605.23926
- ISM:Self-Improving Strategy Memory for Continual Mathematical Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2606.31191
- Immediate Inference: The Missing Foundation in Large Language Model Logical Reasoning — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- K-OPSD: Verifiable On-Policy Self-Distillation for Post-Training Vision-Language Models on AEC Drawings — 2026 · arXiv:2609.34082
- KACE: Knowledge-Adaptive Context Engineering for Mathematical Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2606.00532
- Knowing When to Abstain: Medical LLMs Under Clinical Uncertainty — 2026 · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Learning from Mistakes: Negative Reasoning Samples Enhance Out-of-Domain Generalization — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Llamion Technical Report — 2026 · arXiv:2605.25676
- Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation via Adaptive Prefix Alignment — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- MIRAGE: Multi-Perspective Creative Language Model Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning Guidance — 2026 · arXiv:2609.21554
- MOOSE-Star: Unlocking Tractable Training for Scientific Discovery by Breaking the Complexity Barrier — 2026 · arXiv:2603.03756
- NeuReasoner: Towards Explainable, Controllable, and Unified Reasoning via Mixture-of-Neurons — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- OPSRD: On-Policy Self-Role Distillation — 2026 · arXiv:2609.39884
- On-Policy Context Distillation for Language Models — 2026 · arXiv:2602.12275
- On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision — 2026 · arXiv:2608.06296
- Overcoming Scaling Limits in On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2609.37915
- PHF: Privileged Hidden Flow for On-Policy Self-Distillation — 2026 · arXiv:2606.29340
- Powering Verifiable Learning via Automated Evolutionary Data Synthesis — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness — 2026 · arXiv:2608.23552
- Psyche-R1: Towards Reliable Psychological LLMs through Unified Empathy, Expertise, and Reasoning — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- RAVR: Reference-Answer-guided Variational Reasoning for Large Language Models — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- ReMedi: Reasoner for Medical Clinical Prediction — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- ReasMark: A Robust Watermark for Attributing LLM Reasoning Under Knowledge Distillation Attacks — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Reason in Chains, Learn in Trees: Self-Rectification and Grafting for Multi-turn Agent Policy Optimization — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Recursive Self-Improvement via On-Policy Distillation for Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2609.30652
- Reinforcement Learning via Self-Distillation — 2026 · arXiv:2601.20802
- Rethinking RL Evaluation: Can Benchmarks Truly Reveal Failures of RL Methods? — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It''s Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning — 2026 · arXiv:2605.06241
- Routing with Generated Data: Annotation-Free LLM Skill Estimation and Expert Selection — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates — 2026 · arXiv:2605.27276
- SWE-Swiss: A Multi-Task Fine-Tuning and RL Recipe for High-Performance Issue Resolution — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Scaling LLM Reasoning from Minimal Labels: A Semi-Supervised Framework with a Lightweight Verifier — 2026 · Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Scaling Novel Graph Generation via Lightweight Structure-Guided Autoregressive Models — 2026 · arXiv:2606.04287
- Self-Consistency from Only Two Samples: CoT–PoT Ensembling for Efficient LLM Reasoning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Self-Correcting RAG: Enhancing Faithfulness via MMKP Context Selection and NLI-Guided MCTS — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models — 2026 · arXiv:2601.18734
- Self-Review Reinforcement Learning (SRRL) with Cross-Episode Memory and Policy Distillation — 2026 · arXiv:2607.05541
- Self-Verified Distillation: Your Language Model Is Secretly Its Own Synthetic Data Pipeline — 2026 · arXiv:2605.26132
- SignalReasoner: Assessing the Upper Bound of 3B Models for Signal Mathematical Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2608.17301
- Skill-Conditioned Gated Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2605.28791
- Solve-Detect-Verify: Inference-Time Scaling with Flexible Generative Verifier — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Solver-Independent Automated Problem Formulation via LLMs for High-Cost Simulation-Driven Design — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- SpeakRL: Synergizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting in Language Models with Reinforcement Learning — 2026 · Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology
- Strategy Executability in Mathematical Reasoning: Leveraging Human-Model Differences for Effective Guidance — 2026 · arXiv:2602.22583
- Structural Rationale Distillation via Reasoning Space Compression — 2026 · arXiv:2605.07139
- SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- TRAC: Teacher-Guided Token Reward with Adaptive Calibration for Robust Policy Optimization — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- TREK: Distill to Explore, Reinforce to Refine — 2026 · arXiv:2607.05339
- TT-SI: Self-Improving LLM Agents with Test-Time Training — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- TURTLEAI: Benchmarking Multimodal Models for Visual Programming in Turtle Graphics — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- Tailoring Teaching to Aptitude: Direction-Adaptive Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning — 2026 · arXiv:2605.22263
- Teacher-Free Self-Training Amplifies but Does Not Compound: A Pass@$K$ Crossover on a Free-Verifier Domain — 2026 · arXiv:2606.07856
- Test-Time Reasoners Are Strategic Multiple-Choice Test-Takers — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
- The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Parallel and Sequential Inference Scaling via Aggregation Fine-Tuning — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
- The Hitchhiker''s Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to Systems — 2026 · arXiv:2606.24937
- The Retrieval Bottleneck: Scaling Laws for Reinforcement Learning in RAG — 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Thinking Beyond the Local: Multi-View Instructed Adaptive Reasoning in KG-Enhanced LLMs — 2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026