--- title: "Shafiq Joty — papers of 2026 — 4 papers, the most cited first" description: "Shafiq Joty — papers of 2026: 4 papers on Elamur Research, the most cited first — what each work is about in our own words." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/year/2026/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/year/2026/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/) / 2026 # Shafiq Joty — papers of 2026 — 4 papers, the most cited first 4 papers · [all years of Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/#years) **[Discovering the Gems in Early Layers: Accelerating Long-Context LLMs with 1000x Input Token Reduction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-discovering-gems-early-layers-accelerating/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhenmei Shi, Yifei Ming, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 13 citations* **[J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-j4r-learning-judge-equivalent-initial/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* **[Hard2Verify: A Step-Level Verification Benchmark for Open-Ended Frontier Math](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandit-2026-hard2verify-step-level-verification-benchmark/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shrey Pandit, Austin Xu, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* **[Aligning Text, Code, and Vision: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-to-Visualization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2026-aligning-text-code-vision-multi/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, et al.*2026*