@inproceedings{he-etal-2026-advancedif,
    title = "{A}dvanced{IF}: Rubric-Based Benchmarking and Reinforcement Learning for Advancing {LLM} Instruction Following",
    author = "He, Yun  and
      Li, Wenzhe  and
      Zhang, Hejia  and
      Li, Songlin  and
      Mandyam, Karishma  and
      Khosla, Sopan  and
      Xiong, Yuanhao  and
      Wang, Nanshu  and
      Peng, Xiaoliang  and
      Li, Beibin  and
      Bi, Shengjie  and
      Patil, Shishir G  and
      Qi, Qi  and
      Feng, Shengyu  and
      Katz-Samuels, Julian  and
      Pang, Richard Yuanzhe  and
      Gonugondla, Sujan Kumar  and
      Lang, Hunter  and
      Yu, Yue  and
      Qian, Yundi  and
      Fazel-Zarandi, Maryam  and
      Yu, Licheng  and
      Benhalloum, Amine  and
      Awadalla, Hany Hassan  and
      Faruqui, Manaal",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.820/",
    pages = "18003--18022",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}