Program
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
09:00–17:40 Beijing time (UTC+8) · Meeting Room 5, Tianmu Melody Convention Exhibition Center, Hengqin, China · Hybrid
Proceedings: ACL Anthology (2026.plurvallm-1)
Welcome Remarks
Keynote Talk 1: Pluralism and the Paradox of AI Alignment: Rethinking Human Intelligence in the Age of AI (Rostam J. Neuwirth, University of Macau)
Oral Session 1
- 09:40–09:52 EduValueBench: Benchmarking Situated Value Alignment of LLMs in Chinese Educational Decision-Making
- 09:52–10:06 Denser, Not Wider: Training-Data Structure Selects the Kind of Pluralism a Fine-Tuned Model Retains
- 10:06–10:18 Effects of Post-Training on Cultural Anchoring in LLMs
- 10:18–10:30 Guided Relational Analysis Improves Social Intelligence in LLMs
Coffee Break
Keynote Talk 2: Whose Values, Whose Safety? Building LLM Safety for a Pluralistic World (Roy Ka-Wei Lee, University of British Columbia)
Oral Session 2
- 11:35–11:47 StealthRL: Reinforcement Learning Paraphrase Attacks for Multi-Detector Evasion of AI-Text Detectors
- 11:47–11:59 Performative Alignment: Preference Learning under Deployment-Dependent Utility
- 11:59–12:11 Country Name or Cultural Evidence? A Causal Audit of Population-Grounded Steering in Large Language Models
- 12:11–12:23 NepPlural: A Human-Anchored Benchmark for Persona Annotation in Nepali Migration Discourse
Best Paper Award — Country Name or Cultural Evidence? A Causal Audit of Population-Grounded Steering in Large Language Models (Ziyan Yang)
Lunch
Keynote Talk 3: Grounding AI in Society (Nancy F. Chen, Center for Frontier AI Research, A*STAR)
Oral Session 3
- 14:35–14:47 Findings of the PlurVA-LLM 2026 Shared Task on Pluralistic Value Alignment Across China, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka
- 14:47–14:59 PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-1 and 2: Preference Learning for Pluralistic Value Alignment
- 14:59–15:11 PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-1: Pluralistic Value Alignment in LLMs via Multilingual Fine-Tuning and Threshold Calibration
- 15:11–15:23 MasalBench: A Benchmark for Contextual and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Persian Proverbs in LLMs
Best System Award — PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-1 and 2: Preference Learning for Pluralistic Value Alignment (Joydeb Mondal)
Coffee Break
Keynote Talk 4: Pluralistic Alignment Always, Sometimes, or Never? Taking Value Pluralism Seriously (Pak-Hang Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Poster Session
- IndRegBias: A Dataset for Studying Indian Regional Biases in English and Code-Mixed Social Media Comments
- Concepts at Work: Testing Rival Conceptions of Liberty in Large Language Models
- The Language You Ask In: Language-Conditioned Ideological Divergence in LLM Analysis of Contested Political Documents
- C-VoicesCompass: Evaluating Value Alignment of LLMs with Chinese Social Values
- CompOrca: Corpus-Scale Compliance Labelling of Instruction-Tuning Data
- PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-2: PluriGuide—Principle Distillation and Identifier-Bound Demonstrations for Pluralistic Value Alignment
- PlurVA-LLM-2026 Shared Task Track-1: Curriculum Fine-Tuning with Soft Labels and Positional Consistency for Cross-Cultural Value Alignment
- Pancasila-Dilemmas: Evaluating Large Language Models on Indonesian Human Value Dilemmas Grounded in Pancasila
- Aligning Large Language Models with Pluralistic Values: Case Study in Southeast Asian (SEA) Countries
- ABench: Adversarily Benchmarking Large Language Models across Taxonomized Values
- LKValues: Aligning Large Language Models with Sri Lankan Societal Values
- Beyond Value Benchmarks: Measuring Value-Structure Alignment in Large Language Models via Symmetric Q-Sorts
- VALCON: Benchmarking and Enhancing Value Consistency in Large Language Models via Dual-Role Variation
- The Alignment Problem Is an Identity Problem: Lessons from Four Billion Years of Major Evolutionary Transitions
- Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients
- One Prompt Does Not Fit All: Self-Meta-Evolve for Personalized Information Extraction
Closing Session