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The ACL Anthology lists 17 papers of it; our library holds 8 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. πŸ“ San Diego, California, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) Β· πŸ—“ July 2026 [**17** papers in the proceedings](#all) Β· [**8** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/2026/#works) Β· [**9** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/2026/#works) ## Most cited papers By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original. 1. **[BAID: A Benchmark for Bias Assessment of AI Detectors β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.1/)**Priyam Basu, Yunfeng Zhang, Vipul Raheja*1 citation* 2. **[Efficiency vs. Verifiability in Evidence-Aware RAG: Does Prompt Compression Preserve Citation Grounding? β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.19/)**Aiyu Li, Qian Peng, Bin Chen*1 citation* 3. **[When Gradients Collide: Failure Modes of Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for LLM Judges β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.21/)**Parth Darshan, Abhishek Divekar*1 citation* ## All accepted papers (17) The most cited first; 8 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[BAID: A Benchmark for Bias Assessment of AI Detectors β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.1/)**Priyam Basu, Yunfeng Zhang, Vipul Raheja*1 citation* 2. **[Efficiency vs. Verifiability in Evidence-Aware RAG: Does Prompt Compression Preserve Citation Grounding? β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.19/)**Aiyu Li, Qian Peng, Bin Chen*1 citation* 3. **[When Gradients Collide: Failure Modes of Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for LLM Judges β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.21/)**Parth Darshan, Abhishek Divekar*1 citation* 4. **[Asking the Right Questions: Can expert-prompted LLMs reformulate legal queries from non-experts? β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.15/)**Katherine Atwell, Morgan A. Gray, Jaromir Savelka et al. 5. **[Building Multi-turn Intent Classification with LLM-based Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-building-multi-turn-intent-classification/)**Biancen Xie, Kaiqi Bian, Jai Ranjan Singh Gusain et al.*our summary* 6. **[Building a Custom Taxonomy of AI Skills and Tasks from the Ground Up with Job Postings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meisenbacher-2026-building-custom-taxonomy-ai-skills/)**Stephen Meisenbacher, Peter Norlander*our summary* 7. **[Cross-Tokenizer LLM Distillation through a Byte-Level Interface](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-cross-tokenizer-llm-distillation-through/)**Avyav Kumar Singh, Yen-Chen Wu, Alexandru Cioba et al.*our summary* 8. **[Customizing ASR for Language Documentation and Resource Prioritization β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.13/)**Alexandra Fort, Shobhana Lakshmi Chelliah 9. **[Evaluating Customized vs. Generalist Transformer-based Models for Legal Contract Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-evaluating-customized-vs-generalist-transformer/)**Amrita Singh, H. Suhan Karaca, Aditya Joshi et al.*our summary* 10. **[Fine-grained Readability Controlled Summarization of Scientific Documents via Control Vectors β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.10/)**Isabel Cachola, Kuleen Sasse, Mark Dredze 11. **[From Understanding to Engagement: Personalized pharmacy Video Clips via Vision Language Models (VLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-understanding-engagement-personalized-pharmacy-video/)**Suyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Anubhav Girdhar et al.*our summary* 12. **[Improving Medical Hallucination Detection with System Combination and Rule-based Customization β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.14/)**Jonathan Lasko, Damianos Karakos, Francis Keith 13. **[Personalizing News Headlines with Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2026-personalizing-news-headlines-retrieval-augmented/)**Jiajing Wan, Samia Touileb, Lubos Steskal et al.*our summary* 14. **[Small Language Models for the Democratization of Financial Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.2/)**Tagore Rao Kosireddy, Jeffrey David Wall, Evan Lucas 15. **[Unintended Effects of Geographic Conditioning in Large Language Models β†—](https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.18/)**Naz Col, David M. Chan 16. **[Using Topological Data Analysis to Characterize the Layers of Language Models Before and After Word Substitution Attacks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2026-topological-data-analysis-characterize-layers/)**Adam Tang, Catherine Liu, Kimberly Lopez et al.*our summary* 17. **[When Valid Signals Fail: Regime Boundaries Between LLM Features and RL Trading Policies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-when-valid-signals-fail-regime/)**Zhengzhe Yang*our summary* ## Papers with our summary in our library (8) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Cross-Tokenizer LLM Distillation through a Byte-Level Interface](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-cross-tokenizer-llm-distillation-through/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Avyav Kumar Singh, Yen-Chen Wu, Alexandru Cioba, et al.*2026 Β· 5 citations* 2. **[Evaluating Customized vs. Generalist Transformer-based Models for Legal Contract Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-evaluating-customized-vs-generalist-transformer/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Amrita Singh, H. Suhan Karaca, Aditya Joshi, et al.*2026 Β· 2 citations* 3. **[From Understanding to Engagement: Personalized pharmacy Video Clips via Vision Language Models (VLMs)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-understanding-engagement-personalized-pharmacy-video/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Suyash Mishra, Qiang Li, Anubhav Girdhar, et al.*2026 Β· 1 citation* 4. **[Personalizing News Headlines with Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2026-personalizing-news-headlines-retrieval-augmented/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Jiajing Wan, Samia Touileb, Lubos Steskal, et al.*2026 Β· 1 citation* 5. **[Building a Custom Taxonomy of AI Skills and Tasks from the Ground Up with Job Postings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meisenbacher-2026-building-custom-taxonomy-ai-skills/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Stephen Meisenbacher, Peter Norlander*2026* 6. **[Using Topological Data Analysis to Characterize the Layers of Language Models Before and After Word Substitution Attacks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2026-topological-data-analysis-characterize-layers/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Adam Tang, Catherine Liu, Kimberly Lopez, et al.*2026* 7. **[Building Multi-turn Intent Classification with LLM-based Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-building-multi-turn-intent-classification/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Biancen Xie, Kaiqi Bian, Jai Ranjan Singh Gusain, et al.*2026* 8. **[When Valid Signals Fail: Regime Boundaries Between LLM Features and RL Trading Policies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-when-valid-signals-fail-regime/) [Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)**Zhengzhe Yang*2026* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Language models & pretraining (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) Β· [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) Β· [Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) Β· [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) Β· [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) Β· [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Fields [Computer Science (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) Β· [Arts and Humanities (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) Β· [Business, Management and Accounting (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/business-management-and-accounting/) Β· [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) Β· [Economics, Econometrics and Finance (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/economics-econometrics-and-finance/) Β· [Medicine (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) Β· [Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutics/) Β· [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Aditya Joshi**1 work here Β· 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-joshi/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Amrita Singh**1 work here Β· 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amrita-singh/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Lilja Øvrelid**1 work here Β· 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lilja-ovrelid/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Qiang Li**1 work here Β· 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiang-li/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Samia Touileb**1 work here Β· 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samia-touileb/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Srikanth Patil**1 work here Β· 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srikanth-patil/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Suyash Mishra**1 work here Β· 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suyash-mishra/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Adaku Uchendu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adaku-uchendu/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Alexia E. Schulz**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexia-e-schulz/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Catherine Liu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-liu/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Kimberly Lopez**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kimberly-lopez/) Β· [πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬**Leif Zinn-Brooks**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leif-zinn-brooks/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [πŸŽ“**Harvey Mudd College** Claremont Β· United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvey-mudd-college/) Β· [πŸŽ“**University of Oslo** Oslo Β· Norway 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oslo/) Β· [πŸŽ“**Loyola University Chicago** Chicago Β· United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/loyola-university-chicago/) Β· [πŸŽ“**UNSW Sydney** Sydney Β· Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/unsw-sydney/) Β· [πŸ”¬**MIT Lincoln Laboratory** Lexington Β· United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-lincoln-laboratory/) Β· [πŸŽ“**University of Bergen** Bergen Β· Norway 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bergen/) Β· [πŸŽ“**Technical University of Munich** Munich Β· Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/customnlp4u/)