Awards
Best Paper
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DiscoTrace: Representing and Comparing Answering Strategies of Humans and LLMs in Information-Seeking Question Answering
Neha Srikanth, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Rachel Rudinger -
Don’t Read Everything: A Curvature-Conditioned Query for Linear Attention
Dong Le, Thong Thanh Nguyen, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu
Outstanding Papers
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Accelerating Constrained Decoding with Token Space Compression
Michael Sullivan, Alexander Koller -
Rethinking the Evaluation of Efficiency Methods for Multi-Agent Systems
Jiamu Zhang, Lingxi Zhang, Pengjun Lu, Qiyue Zhang, Yu-Neng Chuang, Zhengchen Li, Shuai Xu, Vipin Chaudhary, Hanjie Chen -
SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction
Yuting Ning, Zhehao Zhang, Yash Kumar Lal, Boyu Gou, Junyi Li, Weitong Ruan, Chentao Ye, Rahul Gupta, Diyi Yang, Yu Su, Huan Sun -
Counterfactual Constraint-Conditioned On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Constraint Instruction Following
Yanzhao Zheng, Yuanqiang Yu, Tianze Xu, Chao Ma, Zhentao Zhang, Jihuai Zhu, Baohua Dong, Hangcheng Zhu, Ruohui Huang -
OptiMer: Optimal Distribution Vector Merging Is Better than Data Mixing for Continual Pre-Training
Haiyue Song, Huy Hien Vu, Masao Utiyama -
Can MLLMs Perceive and Describe Medical Image Quality Beyond Scores?
Jiyao Liu, Jinjie Wei, Wanying Qu, Chenglong Ma, Junzhi Ning, Yunheng Li, Ying Chen, Jiafan Zhang, Pengcheng Chen, Xin Gao, Ming Hu, Xin Wang, Shujian Gao, Dingkang Yang, Zhongying Deng, Jin Ye, Lihao Liu, Junjun He, Ningsheng Xu -
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages
Belen Alastruey, Niyati Bafna, Andrea Caciolai, Kevin Heffernan, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Christophe Ropers, Eduardo Sánchez, Charles-Éric Saint-James, Ioannis Tsiamas, Xiang Tony Cao, Chierh Cheng, Joe Chuang, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Mark Duppenthaler, Cynthia Gao, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, João Maria Janeiro, Jean Maillard, Gabriel Eduardo Mejia-Gonzalez, Holger Schwenk, Edan Toledo, Arina Turkatenko, Albert Ventayol-Boada, Ravi Arikapudi, Nathanial Paul Ekberg, Rashel Moritz, Alexandre Mourachko, Surya Parimi, Mary Williamson, Shireen Yates, David Dale, Marta R. Costa-jussà -
Do Benchmarks Measure the Same Thing? Evaluation-Free Benchmark Redundancy Analysis with SAE
Yaoning Wang, Jiahao Ying, Yubo Ma, Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Yixin Cao, Yu-Gang Jiang -
UReason: Benchmarking Reasoning-to-Generation Alignment in Unified Multimodal Models
Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui, Yaokang Wu, Muzi Tao, Huijuan Wang, Ivan Yee Lee, Yong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick -
In-Place Feedback: Reliable Refinement for Multi-Turn Expert-LLM Collaboration
Youngbin Choi, Minjong Lee, Saemi Moon, Seunghyuk Cho, Chaehyeon Chung, MoonJeong Park, Dongwoo Kim -
D3-Gym: Constructing Real-World Verifiable Environments for Data-Driven Discovery
Hanane Nour Moussa, Yifei Li, Zhuoyang Li, Yankai Yang, Cheng Tang, Tianshu Zhang, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ali Payani, Ziru Chen, Huan Sun -
The Cost of Sounding Different: Accent Bias in Audio Language Models
Aruna Srivastava, Orevaoghene Ahia, Li Lucy, Ashley Christendat, Sameep Chattopadhyay, Farhan Samir, Tejumade Afonja, Valentin Hofmann, Sachin Kumar, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov -
From Token Probabilities to Semantic Constraints: Towards Declarative Probabilistic Evaluation of Language Models
Kyle Richardson, Cullen Anderson, Pranav Balakrishnan, Takuto Ban, Daksha Ladia, Ankita Gupta, Marisa Hudspeth -
Conformal Certification of Reasoning Trace Prefixes
Matt Y. Cheung, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Hanjie Chen, Guha Balakrishnan -
When Must Faithful Chain-of-Thought Fail? An Information-Theoretic Bound and Its Empirical Limits
Jikun Wu, Dongxin Guo, SM Yiu -
Diffusion Large Language Models for Visual Speech Recognition
Jeong Hun Yeo, Chae Won Kim, Hyeongseop Rha, Yong Man Ro -
Race in the Record: Measuring Racial Signal and Model Inference in Police Arrest Narratives
Arka Dutta, Ted Forsyth, O. Nicholas Robertson, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh -
Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts
Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Asli Ozyurek, Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Esam Ghaleb -
Format as Nuisance: Intervention-Inspired Cross-Format Distillation for Knowledge Conflicts
Yue Yu, Wang Luo, Shenghao Ye, Zepeng Bao, Jiacheng Liu, Yongqi Li, Wenxin Tang, Tieyun Qian -
Double Trouble: Bilingual Pretraining Leaves Language-Conditioned Effects in Shared-Language Representations
Anjishnu Mukherjee, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios Anastasopoulos -
Language Identification for Non-Standard Varieties: Language Varieties as Geolects on a Geodesic Grid
Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich -
Accountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT
Zikai Zhou, Yufei Jin, Yilin Xu, Yu-Chiang Wang, Chieh-Ju Chao, Monica Lam
Best Special Theme Paper
- Beyond “To whom it may concern”: Tailoring Machine Translation to Audience and Intent
Raphaël Merx, Ekaterina Vylomova, Trevor Cohn
Best Resource Paper
- XYBench: Can LLMs Respond Pragmatically to Queries with Misconceptions?
Akhila Yerukola, Jena D. Hwang, Mingqian Zheng, Jenna Godsey, Hyunwoo Kim, Valentina Pyatkin, Jennifer Hu, Maarten Sap
Social Impact Award
- Clinically Grounded Privacy Evaluation of Medical LMs
Sasha Ronaghi, Sana Tonekaboni, Lena Stempfle, Vivian Utti, Jordan Li Cahoon, Nathaniel Hendrix, Ayin Vala, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Emily Alsentzer
Best Demo Papers
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CoDA: A Human-LM Collaborative Codebook Development Assistant for Domain-Specific Text Annotation (Runner-Up)
Jaspreet Ranjit, Swaminathan Chellappa, Augusto Rivas Costante, Chandan Manjunath, Laura Onasch-Vera, Hailey Winetrobe Nadel, Eric Rice, Swabha Swayamptipa -
WonderEcon: An Interactive LLM-Agent System for Simulating Economies
Jing Qian, Boyu Liu, Wenyuan Gu, Hang Ruan, Cheng Huo, Junjie Yang, Mingyu Deng, Jiale Han, Benyou Wang
SAC Highlights
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Gold vs. Translation: Are We Measuring Language, Knowledge, or Locality in Translated Benchmarks?
Klaudia-Doris Thellmann, Bernhard Stadler, Dan Saattrup Smart, Michael Färber, Jens Lehmann -
When Hate Meets Facts: LLMs-in-the-Loop for Check-worthiness Detection in Hate Speech
Nicolás Benjamín Ocampo, Tommaso Caselli, Davide Ceolin -
HyLaT: Efficient Multi-Agent Communication via Hybrid Latent–Text Protocol
Xinyi Mou, Siyuan Wang, Zejun Li, Yulan He, Zhongyu Wei -
From Profiles to Steering Vectors: Global Sparse Priors and Local Semantic Calibration for Personalized Text Generation
Liuji Chen, Zeyu Zhang, Xinyuan Zhang, Shuai Nie, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang -
Beyond Next-Observation Prediction: Agent-Authored World Modeling for Sequential Decision Making
Guangfeng Cai, Kaibing Yang, Shuo He, Yu Li, Shengtian Yang, Jiaqi Lv, Lei Feng -
Self-Supervised On-Policy Distillation for Omni-Modal Video Captioning
Zinuo Li, Yongxin Guo, Xin Li, Hao Tan, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Mohammed Bennamoun, Farid Boussaid, Qiuhong Ke -
Text as a Universal Interface for Transferable Personalization
Yuting Liu, Jian Guan, Jia-Nan Li, Wei Wu, Jiang-Ming Yang, Jianzhe Zhao, Guibing Guo -
The Dialect Tax: Dialectal Biases Persist throughout the Language Modeling Pipeline
Elle -
Who Counts as “the People”? Measuring Contested Political Concepts from Political Speech using Masked Language Models
Hyeongjae Lee, Seonwoo Ahn, Sunwoo Kwak, June Jeon, Jisung Yoon, Taegyoon Kim -
Cognitively Decoupled Meta-Induction for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Yuqian Wang, Yuanzheng Wang, Chaojun Xiao, Ke Xu, Bingxiang He, Jinghan Tan, Zijun Chen, Lu Chen, Yi-Xin Huo, Maosong Sun -
InterPol: De-anonymizing LM Arena via Interpolated Preference Learning
Minsung Cho, Jaehyung Kim -
Whether LLMs Can Navigate Beliefs and Facts Depends on How You Phrase It
Quang Minh Nguyen, Luis Frentzen Salim -
SWE-MEM: Learning Adaptive Memory Management for Long-Horizon Coding Agents
Shuzheng Gao, Wenhao Zeng, Zhaojian Yu, Jianqiao Wangni, Chaozheng Wang, Kai Cai, Shilin He, Michael R. Lyu -
How Reliable are AMR Parser Outputs? Uncertainty Estimation for AMR Parsing
Anuj Kumar, Shintaro Ozaki, Yamuna Prasad, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe -
Modular Representation Steering for Multi-Attribute LLM Alignment
Chaojian Shi, Renhong Huang, Xulan Qiu, Jiawei Zhou, Yunsong Zhou -
Repetition over Diversity: High-Signal Data Filtering for Sample-Efficient German Language Modeling
Ansar Aynetdinov, Patrick Haller, Alan Akbik -
Why and When to Use Statistical Significance in Explanation Evaluation: A Systematic Survey and Guidelines for Explainable NLP
Fariz Ikhwantri, Dusica Marijan -
From Debate to Decision: Conformal Social Choice for Safe Multi-Agent Deliberation
Mengdie Flora Wang, Haochen Xie, Guanghui Wang, Aijing Gao, Guang Yang, Ziyuan Li, Qucy Wei Qiu, Fangwei Han, Hengzhi Qiu, Yajing Huang, Bing Zhu, Jae Oh Woo -
Tampered ML: Evaluating LLM Judgment of Machine Learning Research
Soroush Ebadian, Parand A. Alamdari, Joe Benton, Hailey Joren -
HarnessForge: Joint Harness and Policy Evolution for Adaptive Agent Systems
Mingju Chen, Can Lv, Guibin Zhang, Heng Chang, Shiji Zhou -
Rethinking Clustering as a Conversational Supervision Problem
Theo Rode, Aimee Co, Qingyang Zeng, Sanaya Gandhi, Ananya Purwar, Jonathan P. Chang, Masoud Hashemi, Khyati Mahajan, Filip Deryckere, Fabio Casati -
Investigating Length Bias and Robustness in LVLMs for Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Md. Atabuzzaman, Hani Alomari, Chris Thomas
Outstanding Senior Area Chairs
- Yiming Cui
- Nedjma Ousidhoum
- Tiago Pimentel
- Elias Stengel-Eskin
- Pasquale Minervini
- Wei Emma Zhang
- Fuli Feng
- Carolin Lawrence
- Jing Li
- Sophia Ananiadou
- Emily Prud’hommeaux
- Zhuang Li
- Lucy Lu Wang
- Michael Elhadad
- Chrysoula Zerva
- Sebastian Schuster
- Nafise Sadat Moosavi
- Yufang Hou
- Alex Warstadt
- Jelke Bloem
- Kanishka Misra
- Rui Wang
- Kallirroi Georgila
- Peng Qi
- Micha Elsner
- Emily Allaway
- Henning Wachsmuth
- Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
- Kewei Tu
- Aaron Muller
- Debora Nozza
- Monojit Choudhury
- Leonardo Ranaldi
- Amir Zeldes
- Marzena Karpinska
- Kuan-Hao Huang
- Emma Strubell
- Alice Oh
- Tanu Mitra
- Joel Tetreault
- Suzanne Verbena
- Yuval Marton
- Vivek Gupta
- Luciana Benotti
- Weinan Zhang
- Yi Zhou
- Hadi Amiri
- Mengnan Du
- Yulong Chen
Outstanding Area Chairs
- Nayu Liu
- Mayank Singh
- Abdellah EL MEKKI
- Abhilasha Ravichander
- Alexandros Potamianos
- Andrey Kutuzov
- David Vilares
- Dietrich Klakow
- John Pavlopoulos
- Junyi Li
- Lijun Wu
- Marco Antonio Stranisci
- Piyawat L Kumjorn
- Raj Sanjay Shah
- Terry Ruas
- Timothy Baldwin
- Tomasz Limisiewicz
- Vihari Piratla
- Wei Wang
- Wenxuan Zhang
- Wolfgang Nejdl
- Xie Chen
- Yongkang Liu
- Yuxia Wang
- Zied Bouraoui
Outstanding Reviewers
- Li Zeng
- Sergio Burdisso
- Yining Wang
- Yipeng Kang
- Bowei Zou
- Dongqi Liu
- François Portet
- Go Kamoda
- Mei Wang
- Michal Štefánik
- Nguyen H. Tran
- Sara Stymne
- Vera Schmitt
- Xiaoyang Chen
- Alexandre Mourachko
- Daniel Russo
- David Dale
- Félix Gaschi
- Gianmarco De-
- Francisci Morales
- Lars Henning Klein
- Nathaniel Romney Robinson
- Peiyang Liu
- Amit Seker
- Nicholas Meade
- Simerjot Kaur
- Vincent Segonne
- Yixin Liu
- Alexander Erdmann
- Devang Kulshreshtha
- Emmanuele Chersoni
- Tianyi Men
- Yuka Ko
- Yusuke Sakai
- Abhinav Arora
- Emre Can Acikgoz
- Gautam Siddharth Kashyap
- Hung-Shin Lee
- Kelly Marchisio
- Maria Mitrofan
- Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le
- Qiannan Zhu
- Rahul Nagurtha
- AbdelRahim A. Elmadany
- Amir Hossein Kargaran
- Bonnie J Dorr
- Brandon Roy
- Gabrial Zencha Ashungafac
- Gaël Dias
- Gianluca Moro
- Guy Laban
- Xijun Wang
- Xufeng Duan
- YONGJIAN CHEN
- Yanjun Wu
- Youngchul Sung
- Zhengyi Yang
- Anjishnu Kumar
- Atoosa Chegini
- Benjamin Newman
- Changjun Fan
- Claudia Borg
- David Thulke
- Divya Kothandaraman
- Fernando Benites
- Furkan Şahinuç
- Gustav Eje Henter
- Hexin Liu
- Huy-Tien Nguyen
- Jisun An
- Yoshinobu Kano
- Ke Sun
- Krithika Ramesh
- Lei Xie
- Lior Wolf
- Mario Sanz-Guerrero
- Mark-Jan Nederhof
- Mingxuan Yuan
- Nicholas Konz
- Palakorn Achananuparp
- Purificação Silvano
- Puxuan Yu
- Qingyu Lu
- Raymond Li
- Robert Moro
- Ruotian Ma
- Sarah Masud
- Subhankar Mishra
- Sören Auer
- Tomas Pfister
- Tong Yang
- Xiangmin Xu
- Xiaocheng Feng
- Yevgen Matusevych
- Ze Wang
- Zhiqi Huang
- Amir Abdullah
- Andreas Hotho
- Antonio Uva
- Antske Fokkens
- Avisha Das
- Carlos Toxtli Hernandez
- Catherine Arnett
- Chang Min Park
- Christopher D Manning
- Coleman Haley
- Danish Contractor
- Daqing He
- Dong-Jin Kim
- Dongjun Kim
- Elisei Rykov
- Emily Öhman
- Gyuseong Lee
- Hakaze Cho
- Handing Wang
- Hengchao Shang
- Idan Szpektor
- Jaromir Savelka
- Rasul Tutunov
- Renxi Wang
- Sebastian Vincent
- Seonghyeon Lee
- Shion Guha
- Soohwan Song
- Sophie Wu
- Stefano Perrella
- Susanna Rücker
- Syeda Jannatus Saba
- Tomoyuki Obuchi
- Toshihiko Yamasaki
- Wang Xu
- Weijia Jia
- Wietse de Vries
- Xijin Tang
- Jesse Roberts
- Jessica Ojo
- Jiahao Ying
- Jinsik Lee
- Jonathan Chevelu
- Junsuk Choe
- Kaicheng Yu
- Katsuki Chousa
- Koel Dutta Chowdhury
- Kristoffer Nielbo
- Kun Zhao
- Lorenzo Baraldi
- Marco Guerini
- Martin Takáč
- Ming Zhang
- Mingli Song
- Muhammed Saeed
- Pierre Zweigenbaum
- Qianru Wang
- Raúl Vázquez
- Sarp Aykent
- Seungeon Lee
- Shirin Nilizadeh
- Shreya Ghosh
- Siwei Liu
- Tunga Gungor
- Wenwei Zhang
- Xinyi Mou
- Yi Liu
- Yifeng Wang
- Yingcai Wu
- Yongsen Zheng
- YoungJoon Yoo
- Yuhang Tian
- Zhi Qu
- Adam Nohejl
- Ahmadreza Moradipari
- Artem Lensky
- Benjamin Säfken
- Chris W Cunningham
- Chunyu Kit
- Dennis Ulmer
- Douwe Kiela
- Dushyant Singh Chauhan
- Elisa Sartori
- Francisco Valentini
- Girishkumar Ponkiya
- Hoyun Song
- Jiedong Jiang
- Jinghong Chen
- Jonghyun Lee
- Joshua Rozner
- Jungseob Lee
- Leandros Tassiulas
- Lei Huang
- Lorenzo Vaquero
- Lynda Tamine
- Marie-Jeanne Lesot
- Mikel Artetxe
- Minsang Kim
- Navid Nobani
- Neeraj Kumar
- Nicholas Asher
- Nuno Guimarães
- Nurul Lubis
- Oleg Somov
- Petr Sojka
- Haolong Xiang
- Haruki Sakajo
- Hyun Soo Kang
- Jaehong Kim
- Jiayi Wang
- Jibing Gong
- Jirui Qi
- Kairit Sirts
- Yunze Xiao
- Mariya I. Vasileva
- Mark Steyvers
- Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid
- Michael Heck
- Minsu Kim
- Mohammed Bennamoun
- Prasanta Bhattacharya
- Haolong Xiang
- Haruki Sakajo
- Hyun Soo Kang
- Jaehong Kim
- Jiayi Wang
- Jibing Gong
- Jirui Qi
- Kairit Sirts
- Yunze Xiao
- Mariya I. Vasileva
- Mark Steyvers
- Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid
- Michael Heck
- Minsu Kim
- Mohammed Bennamoun
- Prasanta Bhattacharya