We have 12 papers accepted by ACL 2026

We have 12 papers accepted by ACL 2026: The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

San Diego, California, United States

July 2-7, 2026

Main Conference

LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases

Yida Cai, Ranjuexiao Hu, Huiyuan Xie, Chenyang Li, Yun Liu, Yuxiao Ye, Zhenghao Liu, Weixing Shen, Zhiyuan Liu

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation via Adaptive Prefix Alignment

Zhenghao Liu, Zhuoyang Wu, Xinze Li, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Zulong Chen, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

Towards Efficient and Effective Diffusion Language Model Inference via Semantic-Aware Adaptive Denoising

Fan Li, Yu Gu, Zhigang Wang, Fangling Leng, Zhenghao Liu, Ge Yu

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

Empirical Analysis of Decoding Biases in Masked Diffusion Models

Pengcheng Huang, Tianming Liu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Tong Xiao, Zulong Chen, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

UNIKIE-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Key Information Extraction in Visual Documents

Yifan Ji, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Zulong Chen, Qian Zhang, Zhibo Yang, Junyang Lin, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

Chunks as Arms: Multi-Armed Bandit-Guided Sampling for Long-Context LLM Preference Optimization

Shaohua Duan, Pengcheng Huang, Xinze Li, Zhenghao Liu, Xiaoyuan Yi, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL  ·  2026CCF-A

Findings

Lang2Act: Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning through Self-Emergent Linguistic Toolchains

Yuqi Xiong, Chunyi Peng, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Zulong Chen, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A

Revealing the Attention Floating Mechanism in Masked Diffusion Models

Xin Dai, Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu, Shuo Wang, Yukun Yan, Chaojun Xiao, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A

MetaMem: Evolving Meta-Memory for Knowledge Utilization through Self-Reflective Symbolic Optimization

Haidong Xin, Xinze Li, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shuo Wang, Cheng Yang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A

HqeKV: Towards Hybrid Quantization and Eviction for KV Cache in Long-Context LLM Inference

He Wang, Yu Gu, Fangfang Li, Zhigang Wang, Zhenghao Liu, Ning Wang, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A

Enhancing Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation through Error-Aware Self-Reflection

Zhuoyang Wu, Xinze Li, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Zhiyuan Liu, Minghe Yu, Cheng Yang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A

Mitigating Judgment Preference Bias in Large Language Models through Group-Based Polling

Shuliang Liu, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Minghe Yu, Yu Gu, Chong Chen, Huiyuan Xie, Ge Yu

Proceedings of ACL (Findings)  ·  2026CCF-A