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Social Events in San Diego For ACL26

Jul 21, 2026
A blogpost highlighting my travel to San Diego for ACL26 and the myriad social events I took part of there.
A photo of Christopher from the UF Data Studio standing next to a poster for his paper about parsing for the Mixtec Codices of Precolonial and Early Colonial Mesoamerica.

Academic Highlights From ACL26, San Diego

Jul 21, 2026
A blogpost highlighting workshops, keynotes, addresses, and papers on RAG and LLM QA from ACL26.
Figure 1 from Ranjan et al., showing Enactor's transformer architecture for multi-actor interaction modeling and closed-loop trajectory generation.

Enactor — Surrogate World Models for Traffic Intersections

Jul 15, 2026
A blogpost on Enactor, a transformer-based surrogate world model that learns realistic vehicle dynamics at signalized intersections from SUMO microsimulation data.
Figure 1 from Rudman et al. (ACL 2026), showing a VLM hallucinating extra waterlilies when the prompt overstates the count.

When VLMs Trust the Prompt Over the Image

Jul 9, 2026
A short blogpost about an ACL 2026 paper on prompt-induced hallucination in vision–language models, and how ablating a few attention heads can restore visual grounding.
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InsightBoard at FLAIRS-39 in Marco Island

Jul 2, 2026
Presenting an interactive TensorBoard plugin for multi-metric visualization and fairness analysis at the 39th International FLAIRS Conference.
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The UF Data Studio at ACL 2026 in San Diego

Jul 1, 2026
The work we are proud to show at ACL 2026, with session times so you can find us. A Findings paper on audio-semantic reasoning across accents, a vision-and-language paper that reads the Mixtec codices, and an overall-winning AmericasNLP shared-task submission.
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