Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

Seven papers from the AIP Center have been accepted at The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), a leading international conference in the field of natural language processing, to be held March 24–29 in Rabat, Morocco.

[EACL 2026] https://2026.eacl.org/

[Main Conference]

• Better Generalizing to Unseen Concepts: An Evaluation Framework and An LLM-Based Auto-Labeled Pipeline for Biomedical Concept Recognition
  Shanshan Liu (RIKEN AIP / University of Tsukuba)
  Noriki Nishida (RIKEN AIP)
  Fei Cheng (Kyoto University)
  Narumi Tokunaga (RIKEN AIP)
  Rumana Ferdous Munne (RIKEN AIP)
  Yuki Yamagata (RIKEN R-IH / RIKEN BRC)
  Kouji Kozaki (RIKEN AIP / Osaka Electro-Communication University)
  Takehito Utsuro (University of Tsukuba)
  Yuji Matsumoto (RIKEN AIP)
• CoReTab: Improving Multimodal Table Understanding with Code-driven Reasoning
  Van-Quang Nguyen(RIKEN AIP)
  Takayuki Okatani(Tohoku University/RIKEN AIP)
• NeuronMoE: Efficient Cross-Lingual Extension via Neuron-Guided Mixture-of-Experts
  Rongzhi Li （The University of Tokyo / RIKEN AIP)
  Hitomi Yanaka (The University of Tokyo / RIKEN AIP)
• Sycophancy Hides Linearly in the Attention Heads
  Rifo Ahmad Genadi (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP)
  Munachiso Samuel Nwadike (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP)
  Nurdaulet Mukhituly (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP)
  Tatsuya Hiraoka (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP)
  Hilal AlQuabeh (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP)
  Kentaro Inui (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP / Tohoku University)
• TimeMachine-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Capabilities in Repository-Level Migration Tasks
  Ryo Fujii (Tohoku University / Future Corporation)
  Makoto Morishita (Future Corporation / Tohoku University)
  Kazuki Yano (Tohoku University)
  Jun Suzuki (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP / NII LLMC)

[Findings]

• LLMs Faithfully and Iteratively Compute Answers During CoT: A Systematic Analysis With Multi-step Arithmetics
  Keito Kudo (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP)
  Yoichi Aoki (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP)
  Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI / Tohoku University)
  Shusaku Sone (Tohoku University)
  Masaya Taniguchi (RIKEN AIP / Tohoku University)
  Ana Brassard (RIKEN AIP)
  Keisuke Sakaguchi (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP)
  Kentaro Inui (MBZUAI / RIKEN AIP / Tohoku University)
• Suppressing Final Layer Hidden State Jumps in Transformer Pretraining
  Keigo Shibata (Tohoku University)
  Kazuki Yano (Tohoku University)
  Ryosuke Takahashi (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP)
  Jaesung Lee (Tohoku University)
  Wataru Ikeda (Tohoku University)
  Jun Suzuki (Tohoku University / RIKEN AIP / NII LLMC)

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