🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Audio MultiChallenge: A Multi-Turn Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems on Natural Human InteractionAdvait Gosai, Tyler Vuong, Utkarsh Tyagi, Steven Li, Wenjia You, Miheer Bavare, Arda Ucar, Zhongwang Fang, Brian Jang, Bing Liu, Yunzhong He
Best Resource PaperSpoken DialogueBenchmark
🏆 2026Best Paper Award
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African LanguagesAtnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Muhidin A Mohamed, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Negasi Haile Abadi, Abigail Oppong, Nnaemeka Casmir Obiefuna, Idris Abdulmumin, Naome A Etori, Eric Peter Wairagala, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Imanigirimbabazi Emmanuel, Gabofetswe Malema, Alham Fikri Aji, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Thamar Solorio
Best Social Impact PaperMultilingual NLPMultimodal QA
🏆 2026Outstanding Paper Award
Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMsZhenyu Liu, Xuanyu Zhang, Yunxin Li, Qixun Teng, Shenyuan Jiang, Haolan Chen, Minjun Zhao, Fanbo Meng, Yu Xu, Yancheng He, Baotian Hu, Haizhou Li, Min Zhang
Speech Language ModelsMultimodal
🏆 2025Best Paper Award
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse AttentionYuan, Gao, Dai, Luo, Zhao, Zhang, Xie, Wei, Wang, Xiao, Wang, Ruan, Zhang, Liang, Zeng
AttentionEfficiency