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  1. Gacha Decoding: Eliciting Diverse Generations Through Instruction Following

    Oct 1, 2026Scott Geng, Yufei Zhang, Joseph Lee +3Large Language Model GenerationDiversity

    University of Washington · Meta Superintelligence Labs

  2. Coverage Before Control: Route-Instruction Grounding and Steering for Controllable Retrosynthesis

    Sep 30, 2026Xuemin Chen, Xiaozhuang Song, Xinjian Zhao +2InstructionInstruction-Tuned Models

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  3. Ready2Blend: From Natural-Language Instructions to Composable Alignment Prompts

    Sep 30, 2026Jeesu Jung, Hwan Chang, Juseon Do +5Value AlignmentLarge Language Model Adaptation

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Samsung SDS

  4. SCIC: Scope- and Codebook-Aware Instruction Conditioning for Speaker-Adapted Expressive TTS

    Sep 30, 2026Longyu Lu, Zongwei Du, Mengtao Xing +4ProsodyInstruction

    TaoLive-AIGC Team Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba

  5. Talk2Agent: Benchmarking Voice Interfaces for Text Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Terumi Chiba, Guangzhi Sun, Zheqi Yuan +1TalkAutomatic Speech Recognition Evaluation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University · University of Cambridge

  6. Prompt2Skill: Unsupervised Skill Optimization From Natural Language Instructions

    Sep 29, 2026Bo Ni, Li Li, Ryan A. Rossi +2Unsupervised Skill DiscoveryAutomatic Prompt Optimization

    Vanderbilt University · University of Southern California · Adobe Systems

  7. ReCAP: Retrieval-Guided Capability Reuse for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

    Sep 29, 2026Tao Hu, Zhinuo Zhou, Xialiang Tong +2Multimodal Continual Instruction TuningReuse

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies

  8. It's Not What the Image Shows: Irrelevant Context Destabilises VLM Judges Without Informing Them

    Sep 29, 2026Nagham Omar, Mahmoud Jabarin, Kinan Ibraheem +1Large Language Model JudgesJudges

    Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion

  9. PolyOCR-Venus: Unified OCR Foundation Models for Text-Centric Visual Intelligence

    Sep 29, 2026GuangJian Team, Kaili Huang, Yongshuo Zhang +22Optical Character RecognitionArbitration

    Ant Group

  10. The Safety Operator: Modulating the Expression of Safety Instructions via Spectral Optimization

    Sep 29, 2026Benoit Dherin, Michael Munn, Xavier Gonzalvo +14Safety ClaimsInstruction Tuning

    Google Research · Cambridge University · Google DeepMind +2

  11. InstCharVoice: Grounding Natural-Language Instructions for Character-Level Control in Text-to-Speech

    Sep 28, 2026Sihang Nie, Xueru Li, Xiaofen Xing +4InstructionNatural Language Processing

    South China University of Technology · Huya Inc. · The Hongkong Polytechnic University

  12. On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multi-Turn Image Editing

    Sep 28, 2026Liangbing Zhao, Le Zhuo, Mohamed ElhoseinyImage EditingPrecise Editing

    KAUST · Krea AI

  13. Attention-Scoped Guidance: Training-Free Spatial Control for Image Editing

    Sep 28, 2026Zeyan Li, Wei Zhou, Hadi Amirpour +3Image EditingClassifier-Free Guidance

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Cardiff University · University of Klagenfurt +1

  14. Instruct, Not Answer: Using Instruction Privileges in On-Policy Context Distillation

    Sep 26, 2026Hantao Yu, Xiaoxue Han, Udaya Ghai +4Online-Policy DistillationInstruction

    Columbia University · Amazon Web Services

  15. Fine-Tuning LLMs for Translation: General Forgetting Mitigation Does Not Preserve MT-Specific Instruction Following

    Sep 23, 2026Niklas Scholz, David Thulke, Abdallah Nasir +3Large Language Model Fine-TuningMachine Translation

    AppTek GmbH, Aachen, Germany · Machine Learning and Human Language Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany · Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

  16. RoboFollow: Unveiling the Instruction Following Mirage in Embodied Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Chang Guo, Yukun Xie, Bohan Tan +6Embodied AgentsRobocasa

    AutoLab, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Research Lab, Anyverse Dynamics

  17. From Wizard-of-Oz Human-Robot Dialogue Collection to a Taxonomy of Robot Response Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Assistive Pilot Interactions

    Sep 16, 2026Guangping Liu, Nicholas Hawkins, Tipu Sultan +2Human-Robot InteractionDialogue

    Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States. · Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, United States.

  18. Learning from Reliable Negatives: Confidence-Anchored Test-Time Adaptation for GUI Grounding

    Sep 14, 2026Yizhou Liu, Fei Tang, Yuchen Yan +8Graphical User InterfaceVision-Language Model Grounding

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  19. C2^2Nav: Compare Before You Commit for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Runtian Zheng, Congpeng Zhang, Ying LiuVision-Language NavigationNavigation

    North China University of Technology, Beijing, China

  20. IBBench-Light: A Paired Evaluation of Task-Conditioned Responses to External Directives

    Sep 12, 2026Kainan Zhou, Zhaoyi Li, Janet Sung +2ResponsesInstruction

    Google LLC Mountain View, CA, USA

  21. ContractEval: Query-Conditioned Execution Matching for Procedural Instruction Conformance

    Sep 10, 2026Praphul Singh, Shanu Kumar, Akshat Agarwal +1ContractsLarge Language Model Judges

    Oracle Health AI · MBZUAI

  22. Stabilizing Instruction Supervision for Instruct-TTS via Controllable Diversification and Drift Filtering

    Sep 8, 2026Yizhong Geng, Kecan Mao, Qifei Li +6Instruction TuningInstruction

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · Li Auto, China

  23. In-Place Instruction Following in Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Zheng Nie, Zherui Li, Jiaming Zhang +3Diffusion Language ModelsInstruction-Tuned Models

    National University of Singapore · Nanyang Technological University · Peking University

  24. Instruction Duplication as an Inference-Time Control Primitive

    Sep 3, 2026Victor LavrenkoInstructionRepetition

    PeaceTech VC, Israel

  25. DuplexSpeechBench-IFEval: Evaluating Implicit Instruction Following in Full-Duplex Voice Agents

    Sep 3, 2026Puneet Mathur, Dinesh ManochaFull-Duplex Speech ModelsFull-Duplex Voice Agents

    University of Maryland College Park, USA

  26. GUIDE: Guiding Internal Evidence with Language Instructions

    Aug 31, 2026Soyeon Caren Han, Hyunsuk Chung, Jinwoo Kim +2Multimodal ModelGuidance

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea +1

  27. DICS: Exploring Data Intrinsic Consistency for Visual Instruction Selection

    Aug 31, 2026Yuyang Hong, Jinhui Guo, Jiaqi Gu +6Vision-Language AlignmentInstruction

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 2MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group

  28. VIBE: Video Instruction-aligned Background music gEneration

    Aug 31, 2026Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Vaibhavi Lokegaonkar, Vishnu Raj +5Vibe CodingInstruction

    University of Maryland, College Park, USA · Dolby Laboratories, USA

  29. Beyond Attention Masks: Instruction Anchoring for Efficient In-Context Diffusion Generation

    Aug 21, 2026Yangshuai Liu, Zheming Li, Jiaao Li +4Diffusion TransformersMultimodal Generation

    Harbin Institute of Technology · KlingAI Research

  30. Are You Sure You're Sure? On the Impact of Instruction Tuning on Confidence and Lexical Diversity

    Aug 13, 2026Irina Proskurina, Mayank Kumar, Oyindolapo O. KomolafeInstruction TuningInstruction-Tuned Models

    Cohere Labs Community · Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR CNRS 5516, Saint-Étienne, France · School of Computer Science Engineering and Technology (SCSET), Bennett University, Greater Noida, India +1

  31. Prompts in the Wild: A Large Analyzed Collection of Transactional Prompts in Code

    Aug 13, 2026Victoria Basmov, Yoav Goldberg, Reut TsarfatyPrompt EngineeringFrozen Language Model

    Bar-Ilan University · Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  32. Large Language Models Can Follow Instructions, But Not Many at Once: Phase Transitions in Compositional Constraint Satisfaction

    Aug 12, 2026Mariya I. VasilevaLarge Language Models FailConstraint Satisfaction

    Work done while at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

  33. Do Text-to-Music Models Really Follow Instructions? A Counterfactual Evaluation of Key and Beat Grouping

    Aug 12, 2026Yining WangInstructionAgreement

    Bilibili Inc.

  34. Harness-IF: Evaluating Instruction Following Across Instruction Surfaces in Coding Agents

    Aug 12, 2026Zining Huang, Haoran Que, Hong Zeng +8Coding AgentsInstruction

    ByteDance Seed · Tsinghua University · Peking University

  35. Agentic Instruction Data Selection: Let DataMaster Interpret Your Intent

    Aug 11, 2026Fanqi Zhou, Qiaosheng Chen, Zixian Huang +1Alignment-Aware SelectionData Science Agents

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  36. UNSPECIFIC: General Constraint Synthesis for Breaking Copy-and-Paste Shortcut in LLM Instruction Following

    Aug 10, 2026Jeet Sharma, Balpreet Kaur, Jeremiah Hong +2Instruction-Tuned ModelsInstruction

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  37. InstructionCrafter: Generating Consistent and High-Fidelity Visual Instructions

    Aug 9, 2026Shun Okamoto, Satoshi Iizuka, Kazuhiro FukuiVisual GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Tsukuba

  38. When Experience Becomes Instruction: Trajectory Poisoning in Self-Evolving Agent Skill Systems

    Aug 6, 2026Jialuo Chen, Lingqi Jiang, Xinhao Deng +7Skill EvolutionPoisoning

    Ant Group · Zhejiang University · Tsinghua University +3

  39. AIDE: Automated Instruction via Distilled Expertise for Reference-Free Motor Skill Coaching

    Aug 4, 2026Yoshiki ItoCoaching SystemsHuman-To-Robot Transfer

    Research & Development Group Hitachi, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

  40. Instruction Stacking Collapse: A Benchmark and the Capability-Dependent Value of Prompt Compilation

    Jul 31, 2026Atul Anand, Sourav ChattarajInstruction-Tuned ModelsInstruction

  41. IFHierBench: Hierarchical Instruction Following for Large Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Yuetian Mao, Chunyang ChenInstruction-Tuned ModelsInstruction

    Technical University of Munich

  42. Steering Instruction Hierarchies at Inference Time

    Jul 28, 2026Siqi Zeng, Sewoong Lee, Han Zhao +1Instruction-Tuned ModelsSteering

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  43. Interactive Reward Agent: GUI Task Evaluation via Environment-State Verification

    Jul 28, 2026Chenrui Shi, Yuwei Wu, Yang Liu +5Graphical User Interface AgentsInstruction

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI, Beijing, China · Guangdong Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligent Computing, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China +1

  44. IKS-Instruct: A 24,000-Example Multilingual Dataset for Teaching Language Models Indian Knowledge Systems

    Jul 25, 2026Shwetha Singaravelu, Gayathri Muruganantham, Lakshmi Rajendran +1Natural Language DatasetsInstruction

    Intrinsic Lab, Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber-Physical System Engineering (Centre for SeNSE), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India · RSL Quantum, FITT, IIT Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India

  45. Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Mahdiyeh Farajidizaji, Vatsal RainaInstruction-Tuned ModelsInstruction

    Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology · Apta AI, Spark AI Research

  46. From Trajectories to Instructions: Language-Conditioned Meta-Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Garvit Singla, Uma Maheswari Natarajan, Raghuram Bharadwaj DiddigiMeta-LearningGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India

  47. Learning from Synthetic Data without Model Collapse in Iterative Instruction Tuning

    Jul 19, 2026Xiaonan Luo, Yue Huang, Kehan Guo +4Instruction TuningSynthetic Training Data

    University of Notre Dame · Vanderbilt University · University of Pennsylvania

  48. ReBind: Multi-Reference Video Editing via Structured Instructions with Explicit Reference Relationships

    Jul 16, 2026Xinyu Liu, Shihao Li, Weihong Lin +10Video EditingEdit

    HKUST · Kling Team · NJU +3

  49. VGIF-Score: Interpretable and Diagnostic Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Instruction Following in Video Generation

    Jul 15, 2026Songyu Xu, Xin Wang, Qiang Chen +6Video GenerationVisual Fidelity

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · China Telecommunications Group Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

  50. Improving Text-to-Audio Instruction Following via Fine-Grained Feedback from Audio-Aware Large Language Models

    Jul 15, 2026Chun-Yi Kuan, Siwon Kim, Byeonggeun Kim +7Large Audio Language ModelsInstruction

    National Taiwan University, Taiwan · Amazon, USA

  51. Instruction Set and Language for Hypergraphs

    Jul 11, 2026Mario Pascual-Gonzalez, Ezequiel Lopez-RubioHypergraphsAcyclic Graphs

    Department of Computer Languages and Computer Science University of Málaga Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 35 29071 Málaga, Spain · ITIS Software. Universidad de Málaga. C/ Arquitecto Francisco Peñalosa 18, 29010, Málaga, Spain

  52. Index SLM Technical Report

    Jul 10, 2026Lusheng Zhang, Shien He, Tianxing Yan +5Small Large Language ModelsInstruction

    Bilibili Index LLM Team

  53. Scoped Verification for Reliable Long-Horizon Agentic Context Evolution under Distribution Shift

    Jul 10, 2026Dan C. Hsu, Luke LuLarge Language Model AgentsSelf-Verification

    RedMind Research, San Francisco, CA, USA · National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  54. Grounding Spatial Relations in a Compact World Model: Instruction Leakage and a Goal-Free Dynamics Fix

    Jul 8, 2026Yufeng Wang, Lu Wei, Haibin LingContextual GroundingGoal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation

    1Stony Brook University · 2Westlake University

  55. HiFuzz: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Semantic-Aware and Adaptive CPU Fuzzing

    Jul 7, 2026Ya Wang, Hanwei Fan, Zhenguo Liu +4FuzzingRisc-V

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  56. NAVER LABS System Re-implementation for the IWSLT 2026 Instruction-Following Task

    Jul 6, 2026Anand Kamble, Aniket TatheInstructionSpeech Encoder

    Florida State University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  57. Path-level Hindsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim, Honglak LeeVision-Language NavigationHindsight

    Korea University, Seoul, South Korea · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

  58. Indi-RomCoM: Code-Mixed Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Romanized Indic-English Instructions

    Jun 29, 2026Avisha Das, Mihir Parmar, Mohana Ramnath +1Multilingual BenchmarkMultilingual

    Shiv Nadar University Chennai · Google Cloud AI Research · IIT Madras

  59. Neural Procedural Memory: Empowering LLM Agents with Implicit Activation Steering

    Jun 29, 2026Chengfeng Zhao, Yuqiao Tan, Shizhu He +3Large Language Model AgentsLinear Activation Steering

    Institute of Automation, CAS · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  60. Are Humans Evolved Instruction Followers? An Underlying Inductive Bias Enables Rapid Instructed Task Learning

    Jun 29, 2026Anjishnu KumarInstructionCognitive Science

    Amazon Alexa AI Seattle, USA