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Figure 1 from Zhang et al. (ACL 2026), showing the LoopTool closed-loop pipeline for iterative tool-use enhancement.

LoopTool — When Tool-Use Training Needs a Closed Loop

A blogpost on an ACL 2026 paper that couples GRPO training with greedy probing, judge-guided label repair, and error-driven data expansion for robust LLM function calling.

Figure 1 from Feng and Yang, comparing FFT and LoRA training curves on Quora paraphrase detection.

When DPO and LoRA Stop Helping — Lessons from GPT-2 Scale

A blogpost on an empirical study of SFT, DPO, FFT, and LoRA on a 124M-parameter GPT-2 backbone for paraphrase detection and Shakespeare sonnet continuation.

System for Future Reference Patterns

Detecting expressions which refer to future events, predicting the future....

Figure 1 from Elbouanani et al. (ACL 2026 Findings), showing entity-level audit scores for countries aggregated across tasks, languages, models, and prompts.

Auditing LLM Bias at Billion-Point Scale

A blogpost on an ACL 2026 Findings paper that uses named entities as probes to measure structural bias in large language models across politics, geopolitics, and finance.

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Manga109-v2026's Modern Update for a Classic Comic Understanding Dataset

Blogpost about updates to the popular Comic Understanding dataset Manga109

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Social Events in San Diego For ACL26

A blogpost highlighting my travel to San Diego for ACL26 and the myriad of social events I took part of there.

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