Important Dates

Final version upload due:January 20, 2026

Best Paper Award

Among the accepted papers, two will be selected for the Best Paper Award and will be recognized at the workshop.

Paper Revision Information

Please use the template provided by AAAI 2026: AAAI 2026 PAPER TYPES AND FORMATS.
Final version papers should be uploaded through OpenView: Submission2NeusymBridge@AAAI2026.

The List of Accepted Papers

ID Title Authors
2 Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Honesty Alignment in Language Models on Deductive Reasoning Jiarui Liu, Kaustubh Dhole, Yingheng Wang, Haoyang Wen, Sarah Zhang, Haitao Mao, Gaotang Li, Neeraj Varshney, Jingguo Liu, Xiaoman Pan
12 GeoSteer: Faithful Chain-of-Thought Steering via Latent Manifold Gradients Kentaro Kazama, Daiki Shirafuji, Tatsuhiko Saito
13 N2N-GQA: Noise-to-Narrative for Graph-based Table-Text Question Answering using LLMs Aravindh Annamalai
22 Neurosymbolic LoRA: Why and When to Tune Weights vs. Rewrite Prompts Kevin Wang, Neel P. Bhatt, Cong Liu, Junbo Li, Runjin Chen, Yihan Xi, Timothy Barclay, Alvaro Velasquez, ufuk topcu, Zhangyang Wang
23 Improving Symbolic Translation of Language Models for Logical Reasoning Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda, Jiuzhou Han, Wray Buntine, Ehsan Shareghi
26 The Inside of Reasoning: Uncovering Algebraic Structure in Bilinear MLPs Kaustubh Sharma, Aditya Chauhan
28 On the Limitations of Rank-One Model Editing for Multi-Hop Reasoning in Transformers Zhiyuan He, Binghan Chen, Tianxiang Xiong, Ziyang Sun, Mozhao Zhu, Xi Chen
30 Achieving Near-Specialist Performance with Vision-Language-Action Generalist Models Using a Novel Neuro-symbolic Task Configuration Framework Anindya Jana, Snehasis Banerjee, Arup Kumar Sadhu, Ranjan Dasgupta
31 Gist Meets Graph: A Dual-Trace Neuro-Symbolic Reasoner for Knowledge Graph Question Answering Md Muntaqim Meherab
37 GamiBench: Evaluating Spatial Reasoning and 2D-to-3D Planning Capabilities of MLLMs with Origami Folding Tasks Ryan Spencer, Roey Yaari, Ritvik Vemavarapu, Joyce Yang, Steven Ngo, Utkarsh Sharma
38 From Sentences to Proof Trees: Leveraging Language Models for Structured Reasoning Aayushee Gupta, G. Srinivasaraghavan
39 Do Reasoning Models Ask Better Questions? A Formal Information-Theoretic Analysis on Multi-Turn LLM Games Daniel Machado Pedrozo, Telma Woerle de Lima Soares, Bryan Lincoln Marques de Oliveira
40 Tri-CoT: Multi-Perspective Chain-of-Thought for Implicit Hate Speech Detection Yucheng Lin, Jiaojiao Jiang
41 ConceptGuard: Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guardrails via Sparse Interpretable Jailbreak Concepts Darpan Aswal, Celine Hudelot
43 Learning to Compose Symbolic Jazz Arthur Wayne, Jonathan Bachrach

Acceptance rate: 33.33%