Best & Outstanding Papers

Best Paper

Beyond statistical significance: Quantifying uncertainty and statistical variability in multilingual and multitask NLP evaluation
Jonne Sälevä, Duygu Ataman, Constantine Lignos

Best Theme Paper

Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don’t
Revanth Rameshkumar, Jimson Huang, Yunxin Sun, Fei Xia, Abulhair Saparov

Social Impact Award

Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs
Yohan Mathew, Ollie Matthews, Robert McCarthy, Joan Velja, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots

Resource Paper Award

SEA‑LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Huang Yuli, Tai Ngee Chia, Leong Wai Yi, Wei Qi Leong, Xianbin Yong, Jian Gang Ngui, Yosephine Susanto, Nicholas Cheng, Hamsawardhini Rengarajan, Adithya Venkatadri Hulagadri, Kok Wai Teng, Yeo Yeow Tong, Bryan Siow, Wei Yi Teo, Tan Choon Meng, Brandon Ong, Zhi Hao Ong, Jann Railey Montalan, Adwin Chan, Sajeban Antonyrex, Ren Lee, Esther Choa, David Ong Tat‑Wee, Bing Jie Darius Liu, William Chandra Tjhi, Erik Cambria, Leslie Teo

Outstanding Papers

Do LLMs Need Inherent Reasoning Before Reinforcement Learning? A Case Study in Korean Self‑Correction
Hongjin Kim, Jaewook Lee, Kiyoung Lee, Jong‑hun Shin, Soojong Lim, Oh‑Woog Kwon

R²‑CoD: Understanding Text‑Graph Complementarity in Relational Reasoning via Knowledge Co‑Distillation
Zhen Wu, Ritam Dutt, Luke M. Breitfeller, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Siddharth Parekh, Carolyn Rose

Generating Text from Uniform Meaning Representation
Emma Markle, Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Shira Wein

Honorable Mentions

Breaking Language Barriers or Reinforcing Bias? A Study of Gender and Racial Disparities in Multilingual Contrastive Vision Language Models
Zahraa Al Sahili, Ioannis Patras, Matthew Purver

Noise May Drown Out Words but Foster Compositionality: The Advantage of the Erasure and Deletion Noisy Channels on Emergent Communication
Cezary Klamra, Francijn Keur, Raquel G. Alhama

Indic‑S2ST: A Multilingual and Multimodal Many‑to‑Many Indic Speech‑to‑Speech Translation Dataset
Nivedita Sethiya, Puneet Walia, Chandresh Kumar Maurya

GQSA: Group Quantization and Sparsity for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
Chao Zeng, Songwei Liu, Shu Yang, Fangmin Chen, Xing Mei, Lean Fu

Ability Transfer Through Language Mixing
Petr Hyner, Jan Mrógala, Jan Hula

Social Bias in Popular Question‑Answering Benchmarks
Angelie Kraft, Judith Simon, Sonja Schimmler