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Selective Span-Level Unlearning for Large Language Models

Chaewon Yoon, Dongjun Kim Chonnam National University, Hyun-Je Song Chonbuk National University

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) trained on massive text corpora may inadvertently memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, motivating the need for more targeted unlearning. Selective LLM unlearning focuses on identifying token-level or span-level unlearning targets within a text, rather than treating entire sequences as unlearning targets. However, many existing selective approaches depend on external supervision to identify unlearning targets, which may misalign unlearning objectives with the model’s internal behavior. In this paper, we propose a selective span-level unlearning method that is grounded entirely in model-intrinsic information. Our method first estimates token-level importance scores by contrasting gradient information induced by forget and retain datasets, identifying tokens that disproportionately contribute to information targeted for unlearning. These token-level importance scores are then used as anchors to identify coherent span-level unlearning targets via a self-consistency–based generation process, allowing the model to determine stable spans based on its own predictions. Experiments on two LLM unlearning benchmarks show that our approach achieves comparable unlearning performance while substantially better preserving retained knowledge.

cs.CL

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Calibrated? Not for Everyone: How Sexual Orientation and Religious Markers Distort LLM Accuracy and Confidence in Medical QA

Alberto Testoni Amsterdam UMC, Iacer Calixto Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam

原文摘要

Safe clinical deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires not only high accuracy but also robust uncertainty calibration to ensure models defer to clinicians when appropriate. Our paper investigates how social descriptors of a patient (specifically sexual orientation and religious affiliation) distort these uncertainty signals and model accuracy. Evaluating nine general-purpose and biomedical LLMs on 2,364 medical questions and their counterfactual variants, we demonstrate that identity markers cause a “calibration crisis”. Homosexual markers consistently trigger performance drops, and intersectional identities produce idiosyncratic, non-additive harms to calibration. Moreover, a clinician-validated case study in an open-ended generation setting confirms that these failures are not an artifact of the multiple-choice format. Our results demonstrate that the presence of social identity cues does not merely shift predictions; it affects the reliability of confidence signals, posing a significant risk to equitable care and safe deployment in confidence-based clinical workflows.

cs.CL

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DIXITWORLD: Evaluating Multimodal Abductive Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Multi-Agent Dixit Gameplay

Yunxiang MO, Tianshi Zheng The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Baixuan Xu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Jiaxin Bai Hong Kong Baptist University 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

Multimodal abductive reasoning — the generation and selection of explanatory hypotheses from partial observations — is a cornerstone of intelligence. Current evaluations of such ability in vision–language models (VLMs) are largely confined to static, single-agent tasks. Inspired by Dixit, we introduce DixitWorld, a comprehensive evaluation suite designed to deconstruct this challenge. DixitWorld features two core components: DixitArena, a dynamic, multi-agent environment that evaluates both hypothesis generation (a “storyteller” crafting cryptic clues) and hypothesis selection (“listeners” choosing the target image from decoys) under imperfect information; and DixitBench, a static QA benchmark that isolates the listener’s task for efficient, controlled evaluation. Results from DixitArena reveal distinct, role-dependent behaviors: smaller open-source models often excel as creative storytellers, producing imaginative yet less discriminative clues, whereas larger proprietary models demonstrate superior overall performance, particularly as listeners. Performance on DixitBench strongly correlates with listener results in DixitArena, validating it as a reliable proxy for hypothesis selection. Our findings reveal a key trade-off between generative creativity and discriminative understanding in multimodal abductive reasoning, a central challenge for developing more balanced and capable vision-language agents.

cs.CL · cs.MA · cs.CV

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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UERLens: Understanding Event Relations in Large Language Models

Yong Guan NCEPU, Zhiyuan Li, Shaoru Guo Shanxi University

原文摘要

Events exhibit rich semantic relations that are essential for understanding the unfolding of real-world processes. Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on event relation extraction, how event relations are internally represented and utilized remains unclear. In this paper, we present UERLens, an interpretability framework for understanding event relations in LLMs. Specifically, we first construct UERBench, a counterfactual dataset for event relation analysis that covers causal, temporal, and sub-event relations. Based on counterfactual pairs, we identify relation-sensitive internal features by comparing model activations. We then examine the functional role of these features through model manipulation, including model intervention and model training. Experimental results show that event relations are encoded through structured and layer-specific internal features. Disabling relation-sensitive features leads to performance drops of over 22%, while enhancing them yields improvements of up to 7%. Furthermore, leveraging these interpretable features to train a lightweight classifier significantly improves event relation extraction, achieving F1 gains of up to 24% for causal relations.

cs.CL

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GOLEMcoref: A Multilingual Coreference Dataset of Fiction

Andreas van Cranenburgh University of Groningen, Xiaoyan Yang, Alvanita Coventry University and Universitas Gadjah Mada, Cecilia Nicole Di Domenico University of Groningen, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Università di Trento, Maria Ferragud, Arianna Graciotti, Andreea Gabriela Ion, Byungjun Kim The Academy of Korean Studies 等 12 位作者

原文摘要

We present a multilingual coreference dataset of 827k tokens of fiction in 7 languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Dutch, English, Italian, Korean, and Spanish. The dataset includes full stories of diverse lengths, ranging from 500 to 17k words. We discuss our annotation scheme focusing on characters and language-specific challenges we encountered. Finally we present evaluation results of a neural coreference system trained on our dataset. We show that jointly training a system across all languages provides a strong improvement over monolingually trained models. The dataset is available under a creative commons license in CoNLL-2012 and CorefUD format at https://github.com/GOLEM-lab/GOLEMcoref/

cs.CL

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Full-Duplex-Bench-v2: A Multi-Turn Evaluation Framework for Duplex Dialogue Systems with an Automated Examiner

Guan-Ting Lin ByteDance Inc., Shih-Yun Shan Kuan National Taiwan University, Jiatong Shi, Kai-Wei Chang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Siddhant Arora Facebook, Shinji Watanabe Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tohoku University and Carnegie Mellon University, Hung-yi Lee National Taiwan University

原文摘要

While full-duplex speech agents enable natural, low-latency interaction by speaking and listening simultaneously, their consistency and task performance in multi-turn settings remain underexplored. We introduce Full-Duplex-Bench-v2 (FDB-v2), a streaming framework that integrates with an automated examiner that enforces staged goals under two pacing setups (Fast vs. Slow). FDB-v2 covers four task families—Daily, Correction, Entity Tracking, and Safety—and reports turn-taking fluency, multi-turn instruction following, and task-specific competence. The framework is extensible, supporting both commercial APIs and open-source models. When we test full-duplex systems with FDB-v2, they often get confused when people talk at the same time, struggle to handle corrections smoothly, and sometimes lose track of who or what is being talked about. Through an open-source, standardized streaming protocol and a task set, FDB-v2 makes it easy to extend to new task families, allowing the community to tailor and accelerate evaluation of multi-turn full-duplex systems.

cs.CL

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Language-Aware Token Boosting: LLM Language Confusion Reduction Without Tuning

Trapoom Ukarapol, Pakhapoom Sarapat SCB DataX, Nut Chukamphaeng SCBX

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes exhibit language confusion when generating non-English text. Existing approaches typically rely on fine-tuning to mitigate this issue. In contrast, we propose a tuning-free paradigm for reducing language confusion. Within this paradigm, we introduce two methods: Language-Aware Token Boosting (LATB), which applies targeted perturbations to tokens associated with the desired language, and Adaptive Language-Aware Token Boosting (Adaptive-LATB), which dynamically adjusts these perturbations based on the model’s confidence in the intended language. Experiments demonstrate that our methods effectively improve multilingual alignment by reducing language confusion, while maintain the summarization quality without requiring any additional fine-tuning. Our code is publicly available.[https://github.com/scbdatax/genai-datax-language-aware-token-boosting].

cs.CL

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Pref-CTRL: Preference Driven LLM Alignment using Representation Editing

Imranul Ashrafi, Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Massimo Piccardi University of Technology Sydney

原文摘要

Test-time alignment methods offer a promising alternative to fine-tuning by steering the outputs of large language models (LLMs) at inference time with lightweight interventions on their internal representations. Recently, a prominent and effective approach, RE-Control (Kong et al., 2024), has proposed leveraging an external value function trained over the LLM’s hidden states to guide generation via gradient-based editing. While effective, this method overlooks a key characteristic of alignment tasks, i.e. that they are typically formulated as learning from human preferences between candidate responses. To address this, in this paper we propose a novel preference-based training framework, Pref-CTRL, that uses a multi-objective value function to better reflect the structure of preference data. Our approach has outperformed RE-Control on two benchmark datasets and showed greater generalization on out-of-domain datasets. Our source code is available at https://github.com/UTS-nlPUG/pref-ctrl.

cs.CL

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Dark & Stormy: Modeling Humor in Sentences from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Venkata S Govindarajan, Laura Biester Middlebury College

原文摘要

Textual humor is enormously diverse and computational studies need to account for this range, including intentionally bad humor. In this paper, we curate and analyze a novel corpus of sentences from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to better understand “bad” humor in English. Standard humor detection models perform poorly on our corpus, and an analysis of literary devices finds that these sentences combine features common in existing humor datasets (e.g., puns, irony) with metaphor, metafiction and simile. LLMs prompted to synthesize contest-style sentences imitate the form but exaggerate the effect by over-using certain literary devices, and including far more novel adjective-noun bigrams than human writers.

cs.CL

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首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-short.43ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

The Personalization Trap: How User Memory Alters Emotional Reasoning in LLMs

Xi Fang Amazon, Weijie Xu Amazon, Yuchong Zhang Amazon, Scott Nickleach, Stephanie Eckman Amazon, Chandan K. Reddy Virginia Tech and Amazon

原文摘要

When an AI assistant remembers that Sarah is a single mother working two jobs, does it interpret her stress differently than if she were a wealthy executive? As personalized AI systems increasingly incorporate long-term user memory, understanding how this memory shapes emotional reasoning is critical. We investigate how user memory affects emotional intelligence in large language models (LLMs) by evaluating 15 models on human validated emotional intelligence tests. We find that identical scenarios paired with different user profiles produce systematically divergent emotional interpretations. Across validated user-independent emotional scenarios and diverse user profiles, systematic biases emerged in several high-performing LLMs where advantaged profiles received more accurate emotional interpretations. Moreover, LLMs demonstrate significant disparities across demographic factors in emotion understanding and supportive recommendations tasks, indicating that personalization mechanisms can embed social hierarchies into models’ emotional reasoning. These results highlight a key challenge for memory-enhanced AI: systems designed for personalization may inadvertently reinforce social inequalities.

cs.CL

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首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-short.44ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Term Original Character Companionship and Interaction

Zhenhan Huang

原文摘要

As human-agent interaction (HAI) evolves toward long-term social companionship, users expect Original Character (OC) agents to maintain a consistent persona, manage shared memories, and adapt to ever-changing preferences. However, LLM-based agents optimized by prompting or SFT exhibit a generalization gap: they behave as myopic instruction followers, leading to cascading errors in multi-turn interactions. For the agents to learn trajectory-level value functions that enable farsighted decision-making, we propose the NSARL framework, which formalizes OC companion agents’ interactions as a POMDP and decomposes the agent into three sub-policies (Router, Memory, and Persona), optimized via closed-loop RL from AI feedback (RLAIF) with verifiable rewards in a graph-constrained action space. Our preliminary experiments indicate a trade-off: SFT yields stronger persona generation, while NSARL improves structural logic, through conservative strategies (e.g., over-routing) that increase workflow completeness, advocating for a hybrid deployment strategy.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-short.45ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting

Cheng Wang, Qin Liu University of California, Davis, Wenxuan Zhou Google Deepmind, Muhao Chen University of California, Davis

原文摘要

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a promising approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, it struggles to effectively balance the trade-off between exploration and exploitation during training, often resulting in suboptimal performance. Motivated by the theoretical insight that changes in entropy are governed by the covariance between token probabilities and their corresponding advantages, we propose a hyperparameter-free, covariance-weighted optimization method that dynamically down-weights extreme token-level updates via a Gaussian kernel. This approach automatically reduces the instability caused by the exploration-exploitation trade-off while preserving informative learning signals. Extensive empirical evaluations show that our approach improves downstream performance across reasoning benchmarks compared with GRPO, and effectively stabilizes entropy as training progresses.

cs.CL

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首次观测 · 记录 #1ACL Anthology · ACL 2026:acl:2026.acl-short.46ACL Anthology · ACL 2026

On the Rejection Criterion for Proxy-based Test-time Alignment

Ayoub Hammal, Pierre Zweigenbaum LISN, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Caio Corro Sorbonne Université

原文摘要

Recent works proposed test-time alignment methods that rely on a small aligned model as a proxy that guides the generation of a larger base (unaligned) model. The implicit reward approach skews the large model distribution, whereas the nudging approach defers the generation of the next token to the small aligned model when the large base one is unconfident about its outcome. In this work, we first show that both approaches can be reduced to sampling from similar graphical models, where they differ only in the definition of a rejection criterion (or distribution). Moreover, we argue that the confidence criterion is ill-motivated due to linguistic phenomena like ambiguous phrasing. We propose a novel rejection criterion based on a conservative confidence bet. Experimentally, our novel approach outperforms previous work on several datasets.

cs.CL

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Defense Against Knowledge Poisoning Attack on GraphRAG

Havva Alizadeh Noughabi university of guelph, Fattane Zarrinkalam University of Guelph, Ali Dehghantanha University of Guelph

原文摘要

GraphRAG augments large language models with structured knowledge graphs, enabling graph-based context selection and a more integrated view of the knowledge space. However, recent work shows that GraphRAG exposes a new attack surface: corpus-level knowledge poisoning can inject spurious entities and relationships during graph construction, corrupting query-specific subgraphs and steering the generator toward incorrect answers. We propose Hop-wise Guard for GraphRAG (HoG-GRAG), a defense layer between retriever and generator that decomposes multi-hop questions into ordered subqueries, monitors hop-wise execution for poisoning-induced inconsistencies, and locally repairs the retrieved subgraph by pruning compromised entities and relationships and adding only minimal missing evidence. Experiments on multi-hop datasets and multiple GraphRAG configurations show that HoG-GRAG recovers a large fraction of the lost performance. The code is available at https://github.com/CyberScienceLab/HoG-GRAG.

cs.CL

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PExA: Parallel Exploration Agent for Complex Text-to-SQL

Tanmay Parekh, Ella Hofmann-Coyle, Shuyi Wang, Sachith Sri Ram Kothur Bloomberg, Srivas Prasad, Yunmo Chen Microsoft

原文摘要

LLM-based agents for text-to-SQL often struggle with latency-performance trade-off, where performance improvements come at the cost of latency or vice versa. We reformulate text-to-SQL generation within the lens of software test coverage where the original query is prepared with a suite of test cases with simpler, atomic SQLs that are executed in parallel and together ensure semantic coverage of the original query. After iterating on test case coverage, the final SQL is generated only when enough information is gathered, leveraging the explored test case SQLs to ground the final generation. We validated our framework on a state-of-the-art benchmark for text-to-SQL, Spider 2.0, achieving a new state-of-the-art with 70.2% execution accuracy.

cs.CL

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Skill-Aware Data Selection and Fine-Tuning for Data-Efficient Reasoning Distillation

Lechen Zhang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yunxiang Zhang, Wei Hu OpenAI and University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Lu Wang University of Michigan

原文摘要

Large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 and their distilled variants achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks. Yet, distilling these models often demands large-scale data for supervised fine-tuning (SFT), motivating the pursuit of data-efficient training methods. To address this, we propose a skill-centric distillation framework that efficiently transfers reasoning ability to weaker models with two components: (1) Skill-based data selection, which prioritizes examples targeting the student model’s weaker skills, and (2) Skill-aware fine-tuning, which encourages explicit skill decomposition during problem solving. With only 1,000 training examples selected from a 100K teacher-generated corpus, our method surpasses random SFT baselines by +1.6% on Qwen3-4B and +1.4% on Qwen3-8B across five mathematical reasoning benchmarks. Further analysis confirms that these gains concentrate on skills emphasized during training, highlighting the effectiveness of skill-centric training for efficient reasoning distillation.

cs.CL

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Situated Embedding Models for Context-Aware Dense Retrieval

Junjie Wu HKUST, Jiangnan Li WeChat, Tencent Inc., Yuqing Li, Lemao Liu, Liyan Xu WeChat AI, Tencent, Jiwei Li Stanford University, Dit-Yan Yeung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jie Zhou 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over long documents typically involves splitting the text into smaller chunks, which serve as the basic units for retrieval. However, due to dependencies across the original document, contextual information is often essential for accurately interpreting each chunk. To address this, prior work has explored encoding longer context windows to produce embeddings for longer chunks, yet their gains in retrieval and downstream tasks remain limited. This is because (1) longer chunks strain the capacity of embedding models due to the increased amount of information they must encode, and (2) many real-world applications still require returning localized evidence due to constraints on model or human bandwidth. To this end, we propose an alternative approach to this challenge by representing short chunks in a way that is conditioned on a broader context window to enhance retrieval performance – i.e., situating a chunk’s meaning within its context. We further show that existing embedding models are not well-equipped to encode such situated context effectively, and thus introduce a new training paradigm and develop the first situated embedding model. To evaluate our method, we curate a book-plot retrieval dataset specifically designed to assess situated retrieval capabilities. On this benchmark, our 1B-parameter model substantially outperforms state-of-the-art embedding models, including several with up to 7B parameters.

cs.CL

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Experiments or Outcomes? Probing Scientific Feasibility in Large Language Models

Seyedali Mohammadi, Manas Gaur University of Maryland Baltimore County, Francis Ferraro University of Maryland, Baltimore County

原文摘要

Scientific feasibility assessment asks whether a claim is consistent with established knowledge and whether experimental evidence could support or refute it. We frame feasibility assessment as a diagnostic reasoning task in which, given a hypothesis, a model predicts feasible or infeasible and justifies its decision. We evaluate large language models (LLMs) under controlled knowledge conditions (hypothesis-only, with experiments, with outcomes, or both) and probe robustness by progressively removing portions of the experimental and/or outcome context. Across multiple LLMs and two datasets, providing outcome evidence is generally more reliable than providing experiment descriptions. Outcomes tend to improve accuracy beyond what internal knowledge alone provides, whereas experimental text can be brittle and may degrade performance when the context is incomplete. These findings clarify when experimental evidence benefits LLM-based feasibility assessment and when it introduces fragility.

cs.CL

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CaBSALLM: Efficient Context-Aware Batch Annotation of Conversational Streams with Large Language Models

Mohammadsadegh Abolhasani, Reza Mousavi University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu University of Utah

原文摘要

Analyses of parasocial cues in live-stream chats require accurate, efficient, and scalable annotation. However, manual annotation is tedious, and large language models (LLMs) often make mistakes when applying subjective, discourse-dependent labels. This study proposes Context-aware Batching for Stream Annotation with LLMs (CaBSALLM), an efficient pipeline that incorporates lightweight conversational context and a novel dynamic batching method to improve throughput and scalability. Compared with state-of-the-art pipelines, this generalizable approach is significantly more time- and cost-efficient while achieving comparable or better predictive performance and agreement.

cs.CL

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Challenging the Explanation Based on Preceding Tokens: Discovering Transferable Non-Literal Biasing

Yuchen Huang Shanghai Jiaotong University, Junpeng Zhang, Quanshi Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

原文摘要

In this paper, we find that the generated preceding tokens, which are not directly related to the answer, may still significantly push the large language model (LLM) towards the target answer. More crucially, the biased connotations of target answer in the preceding tokens can also transfer to other prompts. This finding suggests that the LLM may intentionally use the semantically unrelated tokens to help the generation of the target answer. Our finding offers a new perspective on understanding the long-range dependency phenomena in LLMs.

cs.CL

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One-step Nonautoregressive Natural Language Generation with Shortcut Flow Matching Models

Jędrzej Warczyński Amazon, Ondrej Dusek Charles University, Prague, Mateusz Lango Charles University

原文摘要

While having a significant potential for parallel processing in theory, diffusion-based non-autoregressive text generation remains inefficient due to the need for multiple denoising steps. Performance degrades sharply if a low number of steps is used, such as in flow matching. To enable accurate one-step generation, we propose a novel shortcut flow-matching model that learns to directly predict multi-step denoising outcomes in a single step. Experiments conducted on three datasets demonstrate consistent improvements over classic flow-matching, with BLEU scores more than doubling on two datasets. We also tested five different ways of extending shortcut models with commonly used techniques.

cs.CL

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SED-SFT: Selectively Encouraging Diversity in Supervised Fine-Tuning

Yijie Chen Tencent, Yijin Liu Wechat AI, Fandong Meng WeChat AI, Tencent Inc.

原文摘要

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as the standard post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs). However, the conventional SFT process, driven by Cross-Entropy (CE) loss, often induces mode collapse, where models over-concentrate on specific response patterns. This lack of distributional diversity severely restricts the exploration efficiency required for subsequent RL. While recent studies have attempted to improve SFT by replacing CE loss, aiming to preserve diversity or refine the update policy, they fail to adequately balance diversity and accuracy, thereby achieving sub-optimal performance after RL. To address the mode collapse problem, we propose SED-SFT, which adaptively encourages diversity based on the token exploration space. This framework introduces a selective entropy regularization term with a selective masking mechanism into the optimization objective. Extensive experiments across eight mathematical benchmarks demonstrate that SED-SFT significantly enhances generation diversity with a negligible computational overhead increase compared with CE loss, yielding average improvements of 2.06 and 1.20 points in subsequent RL performance over standard CE-based baselines on Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-Math-7B-Instruct, respectively.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Frame-Semantic Knowledge Injection for Event-Level Inference in LLMs

Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roberto Basili University of Roma, Tor Vergata

原文摘要

Large language models (LLMs) are fluent but often brittle when interpretation depends on external information (e.g., events or participant roles), as next-token prediction does not explicitly encode situation-level semantic constraints. FrameNet provides a structured account of semantics through its inventory of frames, roles, and relations. We present a scalable framework that injects frame-semantic knowledge into LLMs via LoRA, moving from fact-oriented prompting to principle-oriented supervision over the full FrameNet inventory. The supervision encodes semantic constraints through semantic types, sense-aware definitions, frame relations, and role-annotated examples. To test whether this knowledge generalizes beyond surface cues, we use Natural Language Inference (NLI) as a diagnostic task for event-level reasoning. Experiments on CONFER and SNLI show consistent gains over Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct in zero-shot and few-shot settings, especially for entailment and contradiction. Complementary semantic role labeling analyses further indicate improved sensitivity to frame, role, and span structure.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Exploring Cross-Client Memorization of Training Data in Large Language Models for Federated Learning

Tinnakit Udsa, Can Udomcharoenchaikit Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Sarana Nutanong, Norrathep Rattanavipanon Prince of Songkla University

原文摘要

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training without raw data sharing, but still risks training data memorization. Existing FL memorization detection techniques focus on one sample at a time, underestimating more subtle risks of cross-sample memorization. In contrast, recent work on centralized learning (CL) has introduced fine-grained methods to assess memorization across all samples in training data, but these assume centralized access to data and cannot be applied directly to FL. We bridge this gap by proposing a framework that quantifies both intra- and inter-client memorization in FL using fine-grained cross-sample memorization measurement across all clients. Based on this framework, we conduct two studies: (1) measuring subtle memorization across clients and (2) examining key factors that influence memorization, including decoding strategies, prefix length, and FL algorithms. Our findings reveal that FL models do memorize client data, particularly intra-client data, more than inter-client data, with memorization influenced by training and inferencing factors.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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FL-MSCL: A Unified Figurative Language Detection Model Driven by Multi-Type Signals and Contrastive Learning

Lu Shijia, Fumiyo Fukumoto Meiji University, Huang Xiaoxi Hangzhou Dianzi University, Yoshimi Suzuki Yamanashi University

原文摘要

Figurative language recognition poses significant challenges in NLP, particularly when distinguishing between fine-grained rhetorical categories such as metaphor, metonymy, and simile. This paper formulates the problem as a four-way sentence-level classification task and proposes FL-MSCL, a unified framework integrating prompt-based knowledge injection with supervised contrastive learning. Experiments across both unified and single-class benchmarks demonstrate that FL-MSCL achieves competitive performance compared to State-of-the-Art (SOTA) methods, indicating consistent advantages in cross-category generalization and category-specific detection.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Revisiting Evaluation of Question Answering Systems in Low-Resource Indic Languages: Bridging Human and Metric Alignment

Anuj Kumar, Satyadev Ahlawat Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Yamuna Prasad Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Virendra Singh Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

原文摘要

Evaluating Question Answering (QA) systems in low-resource Indic languages remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated data, high linguistic diversity, and the absence of reliable evaluation metrics. Many Indian languages are severely underrepresented, making it difficult to accurately assess the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on QA tasks. Commonly used metrics like BLEU, ROUGE-L, and BERTScore, while successful in machine translation and resource-rich scenarios, tend to perform poorly in low-resource QA settings. These metrics often exhibit issues such as compressed scoring ranges, excessive zero scores, and weak alignment with human judgments. To overcome these limitations, this work introduces the LRM^{2}QAS (Language Robust Multi-aspect Metrics for Question Answering Systems). This composite evaluation framework integrates semantic similarity, factual completeness, numerical accuracy, and contextual relevance. The proposed metric is evaluated across eight Indic-language QA tasks using multiple LLMs, as well as on open-domain benchmarks NaturalQuestions (NQ) and TriviaQA (TQ). Across all settings, LRM^2QAS demonstrates stronger agreement with human evaluation, as measured by Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall correlation coefficients. Experimental findings highlight that LRM^2QAS provides more precise distinctions between model outputs and aligns more closely with human judgment, offering a reliable framework for evaluating multilingual QA in low-resource Indic languages.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Data-efficient Targeted Token-level Preference Optimization for LLM-based Text-to-Speech

Rikuto Kotoge Osaka University, Yuichi Sasaki

原文摘要

Aligning text-to-speech (TTS) system outputs with human feedback through preference optimization has been shown to effectively improve the robustness and naturalness of LLM-based TTS models. Current approaches primarily require paired desirable and undesirable samples at the utterance level. However, such pairs are often limited in TTS output data, and utterance-level formulation prevents fine-grained token-level optimization needed for accurate pronunciation alignment. In this study, we propose TKTO that eliminates the need for paired data, enabling a more data-efficient training paradigm, and directly targets token-level units, automatically providing fine-grained alignment signals without token-level annotations. TKTO improves the challenging Japanese TTS accuracy by 39% and reduces CER by 54%, leveraging 6× more training data and assigning 12.8× stronger reward to targeted tokens.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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Big AI is Accelerating the Metacrisis: What Can We Do?

Steven Bird Charles Darwin University

原文摘要

The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises that are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. LLM engineering sits at the core. Despite the public good motives of language engineers and the promise of LLMs, this work is being leveraged to create unprecedented wealth and power for a handful of individuals and corporations while causing existential harm to life on earth. As a profession, we urgently need to come together to explore alternatives and to design a life-affirming future for our field of natural language processing that is centered on human flourishing on a living planet.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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How Do Inpainting Artifacts Propagate to Language?

Pratham Yashwante, Davit Abrahamyan University of California, San Diego, Shresth Grover, Sukruth Rao

原文摘要

We study how visual artifacts introduced by diffusion-based inpainting affect language generation in vision-language models. We use a two-stage diagnostic setup in which masked image regions are reconstructed and then provided to captioning models, enabling controlled comparisons between captions generated from original and reconstructed inputs. Across multiple datasets, we analyze the relationship between reconstruction fidelity and downstream caption quality. We observe consistent associations between pixel-level and perceptual reconstruction metrics and both lexical and semantic captioning performance. Additional analysis of intermediate visual representations and attention patterns shows that inpainting artifacts lead to systematic, layer-dependent changes in model behavior. Together, these results provide a practical diagnostic framework for examining how visual reconstruction quality influences language generation in multimodal systems.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表

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LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA: A Benchmark for Logical Commonsense Reasoning

Obed Junias, Maria Leonor Pacheco University of Colorado at Boulder

原文摘要

Commonsense reasoning often involves evaluating multiple plausible interpretations rather than selecting a single atomic answer, yet most benchmarks rely on single-label evaluation, obscuring whether statements are jointly plausible, mutually exclusive, or jointly implausible. We introduce LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA, a benchmark that reframes commonsense reasoning as logical composition over pairs of atomic statements using plausibility-level operators (AND, OR and NEITHER/NOR). Evaluating instruction-tuned, reasoning-specialized, and fine-tuned models under zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting, we find that while models perform reasonably on conjunctive and moderately on disjunctive reasoning, performance degrades sharply on negation-based questions. LOGICAL-COMMONSENSEQA exposes fundamental reasoning limitations and provides a controlled framework for advancing compositional commonsense reasoning.

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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表