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# Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models, held in San Diego, California, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 14 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 July 2026

[**14** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/2026/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/2026/#works)

## All accepted papers (14)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Annotation Frameworks Shape Model Knowledge: Safety Alignment in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.1/)**Wajdi Zaghouani
2. **[Beyond Retrieval: Bi-Temporal State Arbitration for Longitudinal Healthcare Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.10/)**Jianing Zhao, Xiaoquan Zhi, Xinqiang Yu
3. **[Blind Single-Layer Activation Edits Show a Break/Fix Asymmetry in Factual Recall ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.2/)**Zacharie Bugaud
4. **[Knowledge Localization and Editability in Small Language Models: A Multi-Stage Experimental Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.13/)**Pranamya Nilesh Deshpande, Aiswarya Konavoor, Sreedath Panat
5. **[LLM-MemCluster: Empowering Large Language Models with Dynamic Memory for Text Clustering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.7/)**Yuanjie Zhu, Liangwei Yang, Ke Xu et al.
6. **[Multimodal Generative Engine Optimization: Rank Manipulation for Vision–Language Model Rankers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.9/)**Yixuan Du, Chenxiao Yu, Haoyan Xu et al.
7. **[One Retrieval to Cover Them All: Co-occurrence-Aware Knowledge Base Reorganization for Session-Level RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ratnakar-2026-one-retrieval-cover-them-all/)**Shivam Ratnakar, Yixuan Zhu, Cecilia Cheng et al.*our summary*
8. **[Overcoming the Impedance Mismatch: A Theoretical Roadmap for Fusing Foundation Models and Knowledge Graphs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.6/)**Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar
9. **[RSCE: Training-Free Residual Stream Encoding for Persistent Context Amortization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.11/)**Adam Kamel, Eric Xu
10. **[Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-test-time-training-zero-resource/)**Shiyan Liu, Yichen Li*our summary*
11. **[Tricking Open-World Object Recognition Models: Uncertainty in Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teillers-2026-tricking-open-world-object-recognition/)**Wout Teillers, Matias Valdenegro-Toro*our summary*
12. **[VLA-Forget: Vision-Language-Action Unlearning for Embodied Foundation Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.5/)**Ravi Ranjan, Agoritsa Polyzou
13. **[What Does Alignment Cost? The Structural Brittleness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.knowfm-1.3/)**Joanna Hao, Shanduojiao Jiang, Sai Asish Nakka
14. **[bLLeQA: Benchmarking LLMs for Grounded Legal Question-Answering in French and Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banar-2026-blleqa-benchmarking-llms-grounded-legal/)**Nikolay Banar, Ehsan Lotfi, Jens Van Nooten et al.*our summary*

## Papers with our summary in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[bLLeQA: Benchmarking LLMs for Grounded Legal Question-Answering in French and Dutch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banar-2026-blleqa-benchmarking-llms-grounded-legal/) [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/)**Nikolay Banar, Ehsan Lotfi, Jens Van Nooten, et al.*2026*
2. **[Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-test-time-training-zero-resource/) [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/)**Shiyan Liu, Yichen Li*2026*
3. **[One Retrieval to Cover Them All: Co-occurrence-Aware Knowledge Base Reorganization for Session-Level RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ratnakar-2026-one-retrieval-cover-them-all/) [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/)**Shivam Ratnakar, Yixuan Zhu, Cecilia Cheng, et al.*2026*
4. **[Tricking Open-World Object Recognition Models: Uncertainty in Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teillers-2026-tricking-open-world-object-recognition/) [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/)**Wout Teillers, Matias Valdenegro-Toro*2026*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Information retrieval & search (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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.

[🧑‍🔬**Ehsan Lotfi**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-lotfi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jens Van Nooten**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-van-nooten/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marija Kliocaite**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marija-kliocaite/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matias Valdenegro-Toro**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matias-valdenegro-toro/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nikolay Banar**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-banar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shivam Ratnakar**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivam-ratnakar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shiyan Liu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyan-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Walter Daelemans**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-daelemans/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Antwerp** Antwerp · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-antwerp/) · [🏢**ByteDance** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/bytedance/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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