8 Papers from Stengel-Eskin's Group at EMNLP 2026 Span Pragmatics, Faithful CoT, Agents
EliasEskin · x · 2026-10-25
Elias Stengel-Eskin lists his group's 8 papers at EMNLP 2026 (Budapest), spanning main conference and Findings:
- Main: FrankenReport (early exiting in long-form generation via expected value of computation), localizing faithfulness/citation mistakes in agentic deep research, and how well vision-language models understand movies.
- Findings: PragReST (self-reinforcing counterfactual reasoning for pragmatics), multi-listener soft execution for faithful reasoning, test-guided debug-vs-regenerate selection for LLM code repair, and a history-aware visually grounded critic for computer-use agents.
Themes center on faithful reasoning, agent error localization, and code repair strategies.
More from Research
- State of AI Report 2026: the frontier is now a three-lab race between Anthropic, OpenAI and Google — nathanbenaich · 2026-10-25
- Benchmarks should penalize misalignment, not ambiguity — environment fidelity over prompt over-specification — nirmal_dist · 2026-10-25
- Math is the fastest-growing field on arXiv, at 2x the expected trend — IgorCarron · 2026-10-25
- Nine checkable math puzzles from human to ASI level; Grok passed solved ones but mistook a float estimate for a proof — jarekduda · 2026-10-25
- UIUC's FAS benchmark trains LLMs to predict future research directions, +10.6% FAS — shangbinfeng · 2026-10-25
- Git pushes quadruple to 320M per quarter as vulnerability counts lag — LLMs said to boost code security — max_paperclips · 2026-10-25