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Li, R, Chen, C, Hu, Y, Gao, Y, Wang, X & Yilmaz, E 2026, Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. in The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations: ICLR 2026. International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23/04/26.
Ma, Y, Lu, X, Sang, J, Jiang, X & Li, R 2026, Behind the Scenes: Mechanistic Interpretability of Lora-Adapted Whisper for Speech Emotion Recognition. in ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 5286-5290, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 3/05/26. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464049
Yang, C, Xu, R, Li, R, Cao, B & Fan, J 2026, Business as Rulesual: A Benchmark and Framework for Business Rule Flow Modeling with LLMs. in M Liakata, VP Moreira, J Zhang & D Jurgens (eds), Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 35198-35220, The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States, 2/07/26. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1625
Yan, L, Zhang, Y, Xu, X, Lin, J, Pan, B, Zheng, X, Qian, J, Wu, A, Geng, J, Li, R, Cai, F, Niu, J, Li, R, Li, W & Lyu, C 2026, Crayotter: Traceable Multi-Agent Workflows for Long-Form Video Editing. in Y Zhang, R Xu, A Purwarianti, T Rong & J Suzuki (eds), Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 1-8, The 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hengqin, China, 6/11/26. <https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-demo.1/>
Wu, J, Wu, Z, Li, R, Chen, T, Hasan, A, Kim, Y, Cheung, JP-Y, Zhang, T & Wu, H 2026, Error Correction in Radiology Reports: A Knowledge Distillation-Based Multi-Stage Framework. in S Koenig, C Jenkins & ME Taylor (eds), Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, no. 46: AAAI-26 Special Track AI for Social Impact II, vol. 40, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 39451-39459, 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, Singapore, 20/01/26. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i46.41295
Cao, B, Lu, H, Ma, C, Wang, T, Li, R & Fan, J 2026, Orthogonal Hierarchical Decomposition for Structure-Aware Table Understanding with Large Language Models. in T Zhang, M Dudik, M Jaggi, A Agarwal, S Li, D Schuurmans, J Zhu, F Berkenkamp, H Dong & A Bietti (eds), Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 306, PMLR, 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 6/07/26. <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlresearch/v306/main/assets/cao26p/cao26p.pdf>
Pucci, G, Li, R & Sinclair, A 2026, Patterns of Priming in Production: Lexical, Semantic and Structural Alignment in Language Model Generation. in H-Y Lee, S Dev, J Li & D Elliott (eds), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 38374–38398, The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Budapest, Hungary, 24/10/26. <https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1795/>
Thomas, RS, Shiromani, S, Chaudhry, A, Li, R, Sharma, V & Zhu, K 2026, ProMoral-Bench: Comparing Prompting Strategies for Moral Judgment and Jailbreak Robustness in LLMs. in Y Zhang, R Xu, A Purwarianti, T Rong & J Suzuki (eds), Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 3210-3240, The 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hengqin, China, 6/11/26. <https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.146/>
Yan, L, Li, R, Chen, G, Li, Q, Geng, J, Li, W, Wang, L & Lyu, C 2026, Spurious Rewards Paradox: Mechanistically Understanding How RLVR Activates Memorization Shortcuts in LLMs. in T Zhang, M Dudik, M Jaggi, A Agarwal, S Li, D Schuurmans, J Zhu, F Berkenkamp, H Dong & A Bietti (eds), Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 306, PMLR, 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 6/07/26. <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlresearch/v306/main/assets/yan26f/yan26f.pdf>
Preprint
Hu, H, Hou, C, Cao, B & Li, R 2026 'Benchmarking Text-to-Python against Text-to-SQL: The Impact of Explicit Logic and Ambiguity' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.15728
Sun, C, Cao, B, Li, T, Hou, C, Li, R & Fan, J 2026 'FGTR: Fine-Grained Multi-Table Retrieval via Hierarchical LLM Reasoning' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.12702
Pucci, G, Hemendinger, E, Li, R, Abercrombie, G, Dinkar, T & Sinclair, A 2026 'Food Noise & False Safety: A Systematic Evaluation of How LLMs Fail to Adapt to Eating Disorder Queries with Clinician Feedback' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.02444
Ma, Y, Sang, J, Li, R, Yu, J & Li, A 2026 'From Semantics to Readout: Mechanistic Understanding of Audio Tokens after Fine-Tuning for Temporal Audio Grounding' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25355
Jackson, P, Li, R & Edelstein, E 2026 'Nationality encoding in language model hidden states: Probing culturally differentiated representations in persona-conditioned academic text' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.10151
Hu, S, Li, R & Gao, Y 2026 'Race, Ethnicity and Their Implication on Bias in Large Language Models' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.12868
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