Top NLP Papers 2026

• OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning
• Harness²: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World
• CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models
• Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study
• What and Whose Knowledge? Measuring Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models
• Whose Norms? Disentangling Cultural and Personal Alignment in Large Language Models
• MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution
• OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory
• Benchmarking Empirical Privacy Protection for Adaptations of Large Language Models
• MedAgentGym: A Scalable Agentic Training Environment for Code-Centric Reasoning in Biomedical Data Science
• The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models
• The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception Probes
• Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit
• The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models
• Punctuation-Steered Representation Fine-Tuning (PuReFT)