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2026Generating long, coherent text remains a challenge for large language models (LLMs), as they lack hierarchical planning and structured organization in discourse generation. We introduce Structural Alignment, a novel method that aligns LLMs with human-like discourse structures to enhance long-form text generation. By integrating linguistically grounded discourse frameworks into reinforcement learning, our
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EACL 2026 Industry Track2026Conversational agents have become ubiquitous across application domains, such as, shopping assistants, medical diagnosis, autonomous task planning etc. Users interacting with these agents often fail to understand how to start a conversation or what to ask next to obtain the desired information. To enable seamless and hassle-free user-agent interactions, we introduce Next Question Suggestions (NQS), which
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ICASSP 20262026Recent advances in generative retrieval allow large language models (LLMs) to recommend items by generating their identifiers token by token. This requires each item to be represented by a compact, semantically meaningful sequence of tokens that an LLM can understand. We introduce a method to generate multimodal music token (3MToken) that transforms rich metadata from a music database—including audio, credits
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2026Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has significantly advanced reasoning with large language models (LLMs) in domains such as mathematics and logic. However, verifiable signals provide only coarse-grained or binary correctness feedback. This limitation results in inefficiencies like overly verbose or repetitive reasoning. Existing length-based solutions (e.g., length penalty) compromise accuracy
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2026Large Language Models (LLMs) can serve as world models to enhance agent decision-making in digital environments by simulating future states and predicting action outcomes, potentially eliminating costly trial-and-error exploration. However, this capability is fundamentally limited by LLM's tendency to hallucination and their reliance on static training knowledge, which could lead to compounding errors that
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