| 2026 | Stable Language Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models. | Zhihao Zhan, Yuhao Chen, Jiaying Zhou, Qinhan Lyu, Hao Liu, Keze Wang, Liang Lin, Guangrun Wang |
| 2026 | Maximizing Local Entropy Where It Matters: Prefix-Aware Localized LLM Unlearning. | Naixin Zhai, Pengyang Shao, Binbin Zheng, Yonghui Yang, Fei Shen, Long Bai, Xun Yang |
| 2026 | Abstain-R1: Calibrated Abstention and Post-Refusal Clarification via Verifiable RL. | Haotian Zhai, Jingcheng Liang, Dongyeop Kang |
| 2026 | RACC: Regret-Aware Confidence Calibration for Consistent Masked Discrete Diffusion Decoding. | Qinglin Zeng, Jusheng Zhang, Jing Yang, Ningyuan Liu, Keze Wang |
| 2026 | Attn-GS: Attention-Guided Context Compression for Efficient Personalized LLMs. | Shenglai Zeng, Tianqi Zheng, Chuan Tian, Dante Everaert, Yau-Shian Wang, Yupin Huang, Michael J. Morais, Rohit Patki, Jinjin Tian, Xinnan Dai, Kai Guo, Monica Xiao Cheng, Hui Liu |
| 2026 | GlimpRouter: Efficient Collaborative Inference by Glimpsing One Token of Thoughts. | Wenhao Zeng, Xuteng Zhang, Yuling Shi, Chao Hu, Yuting Chen, Beijun Shen, Xiaodong Gu |
| 2026 | MirageBackdoor: A Stealthy Attack that Induces Think-Well-Answer-Wrong Reasoning. | Yizhe Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yunpeng Li, Juxin Xiao, Xiao Wang, Yuling Liu |
| 2026 | SafeSteer: A Decoding-level Defense Mechanism for Multimodal Large Language Models. | Xinyi Zeng, Xue Yang, Jingyuan Zhang, Huanqian Yan, Xiang Chen, Kaiwen Wei, Hankun Kang, Yu Tian |
| 2026 | From Detection to Understanding: Multi-Turn Reasoning for Video Misinformation Analysis. | Zhi Zeng, Jiaying Wu, Minnan Luo, Di Zhang, Yifei Yang, Xiangzheng Kong, Herun Wan, Zihan Ma |
| 2026 | Frozen LLMs are Native Decoders for High-Norm Semantic Vectors. | Yunsheng Zeng, Yongmei Tan |
| 2026 | HybridKV: Hybrid KV Cache Compression for Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model Inference. | Bowen Zeng, Feiyang Ren, Jun Zhang, Xiaoling Gu, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Huan Li |
| 2026 | Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems. | Jie Zeng, Yukiko I. Nakano |
| 2026 | Code-Switching Information Retrieval: Benchmarks, Analysis, and the Limits of Current Retrievers. | Qingcheng Zeng, Yuheng Lu, Zeqi Zhou, Heli Qi, Puxuan Yu, Fuheng Zhao, Hitomi Yanaka, Weihao Xuan, Naoto Yokoya |
| 2026 | Mechanistic Insights into Deferred Semantic Drift in LLMs. | Jingjie Zeng, Huayang Li, Liang Yang, Shaowu Zhang, Yuanyuan Sun, Hongfei Lin |
| 2026 | CogEvolve: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Relational Reasoning in Semantic Extension. | Jingjie Zeng, Huayang Li, Liang Yang, Yuanyuan Sun, Shaowu Zhang, Hongfei Lin |
| 2026 | CoGR-MoE: Concept-Guided Expert Routing with Consistent Selection and Flexible Reasoning for Visual Question Answering. | Xiyin Zeng, Yi Lu, Hao Wang |
| 2026 | LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication. | Peter Zeng, Weiling Li, Amie J. Paige, Zhengxiang Wang, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Dimitris Samaras, Gregory J. Zelinsky, Susan Brennan, Owen Rambow |
| 2026 | TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles. | Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Haonan Song, Dandan Tu, Qixun Zhang, Yuxiang He, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu |
| 2026 | HyperEdit: Unlocking Instruction-based Text Editing in LLMs via Hypernetworks. | Yiming Zeng, Jinghan Cao, Zexin Li, Wanhao Yu, Zhankai Ye, Dawei Xiang, Ting Hua, Xin Liu, Shangqian Gao, Tingting Yu |
| 2026 | Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards. | Xia Zeng, Yihan Chen, Luhui Liu, Chao Luo, Ye Chen, Zhuoran Zhuang |
| 2026 | From Graph to Text and Back: Semantic Fidelity in Automated Industrial Knowledge Graphs. | Kamyar Zeinalipour, Silvia Severini, Alessia Borghini, Sara Cardarelli, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori |
| 2026 | DELTA: Dynamic Layer-Aware Token Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning. | Hossein Entezari Zarch, Lei Gao, Chaoyi Jiang, Murali Annavaram |
| 2026 | Colorful Talks with Graphs: Human-Interpretable Graph Encodings for Large Language Models. | Angelo Zangari, Peyman Baghershahi, Sourav Medya |
| 2026 | Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability? Chain-of-Thought Can Be Faithful without Hint Verbalization. | Kerem Zaman, Shashank Srivastava |
| 2026 | Peek2: Regex-free Byte-level Byte-Pair Encoding Pretokenizer for LLM Inference on Edge Devices. | Liu Zai, Iraklis A Klampanos |