Indonesian researchers at ACL 2026

Congratulations to the Indonesian researchers whose work was accepted at ACL 2026. Researchers listed on this site are marked; papers they led as first or last author come first.

• CodeJudgeBench: Benchmarking LLM-as-a-Judge for Coding Tasks

  Hongchao Jiang, Yiming Chen, Yushi Cao, Hung-Yi Lee, Robby T. Tan

• Controlling Distributional Bias in Multi-Round LLM Generation via KL-Optimized Fine-Tuning

  Yanbei Jiang, Amr Keleg, Ryandito Diandaru, Jey Han Lau, Lea Frermann, Biaoyan Fang, Fajri Koto

• Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues

  Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan, Bilal Elbouardi, Younes Samih, Fajri Koto, and 10 others

• Expert Calibration Lens for Pruning Mixture of Experts

  Luis Frentzen Salim, Chia-Chun Wu, Tran Van Nhiem, Lun-Wei Ku, Yung-Hui Li

• Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling

  Alaa Elsetohy, Sama Hadhoud, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Chenxi Whitehouse, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Alham Fikri Aji

• Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages

  Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida, Irina Nikishina, Ashwath Rao, Fajri Koto, and 13 others

• Revisiting Metric Reliability for Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine Translation and Summarization in Indian Languages

  Amir Hossein Yari, Kalmit Kulkarni, Ahmad Raza Khan, Fajri Koto

• SOCIA-EVO: Automated Simulator Construction via Dual-Anchored Bi-Level Optimization

  Yuncheng Hua, Sion Weatherhead, Mehdi Jafari, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim

• Stereotype Bias in a Bilingual Setting: A Culturally Grounded Evaluation in Kazakhstan

  Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Ayana Mussabayeva, Maiya Goloburda, Kamila Kuishibekova, Liya Goloburda, Diana Turmakhan, Preslav Nakov, Yuxia Wang, Fajri Koto

• Why Supervised Fine-Tuning Fails to Learn: A Systematic Study of Incomplete Learning in Large Language Models

  Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu, Di Liang, Xingsheng Han, Flora D. Salim, and 8 others

• ZARA: Training-Free Motion Time-Series Reasoning via Evidence-Grounded LLM Agents

  Zechen Li, Baiyu Chen, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim

• Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages

  Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Alham Fikri Aji, Thamar Solorio, and 12 others

• CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data

  Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett, Rafael Mosquera, Sara Hincapié Monsalve, Luis Frentzen Salim, Genta Indra Winata, Sarah K. K. Luger, and 89 others

• FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning

  Zhuohan Xie, Daniil Orel, Rushil Thareja, Dhruv Sahnan, Hachem Madmoun, Fajri Koto, Preslav Nakov, and 18 others

• Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI

  Yuxia Wang, Rui Xing, Jonibek Mansurov, Giovanni Puccetti, Zhuohan Xie, Alham Fikri Aji, Preslav Nakov, and 19 others

• Long Context Modeling with Ranked Memory-Augmented Retrieval

  Ghadir Alselwi, Hao Xue, Shoaib Jameel, Basem Suleiman, Flora D. Salim, Imran Razzak

• Lost in Simulation: LLM-Simulated Users are Unreliable Proxies for Human Users in Agentic Evaluations

  Preethi Seshadri, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Ayomide Odumakinde, Sameer Singh, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

• NaturalSloth: Revisiting Denial-of-Service Attacks on Large Language Models

  Yiming Chen, Zexin Li, Xianghu Yue, Robby T. Tan, Haizhou Li

• Routing with Generated Data: Annotation-Free LLM Skill Estimation and Expert Selection

  Tianyi Niu, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Genta Indra Winata, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Supriyo Chakraborty, Sambit Sahu, Yue Zhang, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal

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