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  1. Louder, Longer, Livelier: Acoustic Shortcuts and Underspecified Rationales in Speech LLM Judges

    Sep 29, 2026Mingyue Huo, Shivam Mehta, Bhavin Jawade +2Large Language Model JudgesLlm-As-A-Judge

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Netflix

  2. R-DEIM Net: An Efficient Rationale-Augmented Dual-Expert Interaction Model for Paraphrase Detection

    Sep 24, 2026Pushp, Vaibhav Prajapati, Himangshu SarmaParaphrasingMixture-Of-Experts Large Language Models

    Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Sri City, India · University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Germany

  3. Scaling Articulated Rationales for MLLM-based Recommendation

    Sep 15, 2026Haoke Xiao, Yueyang Liu, Yuhui Zhang +17RecommendationFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Kuaishou Technology

  4. An Empirical Study of Counterfactual Self-Explanations in LLMs

    Sep 15, 2026Giannis Kalyvas, Giorgos Filandrianos, Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis +2Free-Form Textual RationalesCounterfactual Explanation

    National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece · Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal

  5. Scored vs. Generated Readouts in Behavioral Language Models: An Empirical Study of Elicitation Format

    Sep 9, 2026Touchapon Kraisingkorn, Krittin Pachtrachai, Wachiravit ModecruaFree-Form Textual RationalesReadout

    Amity Research and Application Center (ARAC), Amity Group

  6. Which Medical Questions Deserve Rationales? Perturbation-Sensitive Selection for Robust QA

    Sep 9, 2026Yuexin Wu, Dayou Yu, Vasile RusMedical Visual Question AnsweringClinical Reasoning Training

    Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis

  7. Accountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT

    Sep 3, 2026Zikai Zhou, Yufei Jin, Yilin Xu +3Free-Form Textual RationalesVerdict

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA · Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA +1

  8. Beyond Ranking Accuracy: Evaluating LLM-Cited Feature Rationales for Next Basket Repurchase Recommendation

    Aug 31, 2026Yanan Cao, Anay Dombe, Murali Mohana Krishna Dandu +5Recommendation QualityFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Walmart Global Tech, Sunnyvale, CA, United States

  9. 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

  10. Follow the Norm: Accounting for Fine-Tuning and Prompt Effects on Model Rationales

    Aug 13, 2026Long Hoang Nguyen, Brice Valentin Kok-Shun, Guangyu Du +1Artificial Intelligence AlignmentFree-Form Textual Rationales

    1Technical University of Munich · University of Auckland

  11. Solver-Guided Reasoning for Mixed-Equilibrium Strategies

    Aug 7, 2026Han Wang, Philippe Beardsell, Boning Li +4PokerNash Equilibrium

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · GTO Wizard · Tsinghua University +2

  12. Reason-Mediated Behavioral Models for Auditing LLM Social Simulators

    Jul 27, 2026Atharva Pandey, Gautam JajooUser SimulationSocial Reasoning

    Kairosity

  13. Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation for Financial Reasoning over Hybrid Tables and Text

    Jul 16, 2026Yun Dong, Erica Zhao, Elana ChenFinancial Question AnsweringFree-Form Textual Rationales

    College of Computing · Georgia Institute of Technology · Department of Management Science & Engineering +2

  14. From Judgments to Issues: Structured Extraction of Legal Reasoning with Citation-Hallucination Control

    Jul 3, 2026Giovanni Piccioli, Alessia Fidelangeli, Piera Santin +1Legal Reasoning TasksCitations

    Quantitative and Digital Law Laboratory · King’s College London · Strand, London WC2R 2LS +6

  15. When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning

    Jun 28, 2026Zhengqi Pei, Qingming Huang, Shuhui WangLLM Reasoning StrategiesMulti-Agent Reasoning

    State Key Lab of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

  16. Decodable but Not Faithful: Coupling Natural-Language Rationales to Programmatic Verifiers

    Jun 19, 2026Vatsal Ananthula, Adarsh KumarappanFree-Form Textual RationalesDecoding

    University of California, Berkeley · 2California Institute of Technology

  17. Faithful Action-unit Causal Reasoning for Counterfactually Faithful Emotion Explanations

    Jun 14, 2026Van Thong Huynh, Hong Hai Nguyen, Thuy Pham +2Faithful ExplanationFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Faculty of CSE, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), VNUHCM, Vietnam · Dept. of AI, FPT University, Vietnam · Faculty of DSAI, College of Technology, National Economic University, Vietnam +1

  18. Decoding Multimodal Cues: Unveiling the Implicit Meaning Behind Hateful Videos

    Jun 10, 2026Junyu Lu, Deyi Ji, Liqun Liu +9Hate Speech DetectionHate Speech

    Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China · Tencent Beijing, China · Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore, Singapore

  19. A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales

    Jun 8, 2026Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1Speech Language ModelsProficiency

    Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  20. Beyond Topical Similarity: Contrastive Evidence Retrieval with Interpretable Attention Alignment in RAG

    May 31, 2026Francielle Vargas, João Robiatti, Diego Alves +6Free-Form Textual RationalesSimilarity and Metrics

    University of Chile · São Paulo State University · Saarland University +4

  21. Not All Explanations Simulate Equally: Comparing Verbalized Feature Attributions and Self-Generated Rationales

    May 31, 2026Pingjun Hong, Benjamin RothExplainable AI MethodsFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  22. Disagreeing Rationales: Rethinking Classification and Explainability Evaluation in Hate Speech Detection

    May 29, 2026Benedetta Muscato, Beiduo Chen, Gizem Gezici +2Hate Speech DetectionFree-Form Textual Rationales

    Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Germany · UMaiNLP, LMU Munich, Germany

  23. Xetrieval: Mechanistically Explaining Dense Retrieval

    May 28, 2026Zhixin Cai, Jun Bai, Yang Liu +7Retrieval LayerText Embeddings

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University · 2State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI

  24. From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability

    May 9, 2026Ward Gauderis, Thomas Dooms, Steven T. Homer +2Mechanistic InterpretabilityInterpretability

    Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium · Independent · UK AI Security Institute, London, United Kingdom.

  25. The Cost of Consensus: Isolated Self-Correction Prevails Over Unguided Homogeneous Multi-Agent Debate

    Apr 29, 2026Blaž Bertalanič, Carolina FortunaMulti-Agent DebateDebate

    Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia

  26. ValueBlindBench: Agreement-Gated Stress Testing of LLM-Judged Investment Rationales Before Returns Are Observable

    Apr 28, 2026Sidi Chang, Peiying Zhu, Yuxiao ChenLlm-As-A-JudgeStress Testing

    Blossom AI Labs, Tokyo, Japan · Blossom AI, San Francisco, USA

  27. K-MetBench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Expert Reasoning, Locality, and Multimodality in Meteorology

    Apr 27, 2026Soyeon Kim, Cheongwoong Kang, Myeongjin Lee +3Multi-Turn BenchmarkFree-Form Textual Rationales

    KAIST, INEEJI · Seongnam, Korea · KAIST +2

  28. Hard to See, Hard to Label: Generative and Symbolic Acquisition for Subtle Visual Phenomena

    Apr 24, 2026Renjith Prasad, Rishabh Sharma, Andrew E. Shao +8Pixel-Level AnnotationPool-Based Active Learning

    University of South Carolina · AI Research Lab, HPE Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Indian AI Research Organization +1

  29. From Scoring to Explanations: Evaluating SHAP and LLM Rationales for Rubric-based Teaching Quality Assessment

    Apr 18, 2026Ivo Bueno, Babette Bühler, Philipp Stark +5Rubric-Based ScoringFree-Form Textual Rationales

    1Technical University of Munich · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · 3Lund University +3

  30. Improving Reasoning Capabilities in Small Models through Mixture-of-Layers Distillation with Stepwise Attention on Key Information

    Apr 17, 2026Yao Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Wenyuan Zhang +1Dataset DistillationReasoning Skills

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences