From 1a377966c6c845e24a15f1992b1d3d7fe12a5390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sarapapi <57095209+sarapapi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:30:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update citation and news for ICLR

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 README.md | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ A subset of MCIF has been used for the evaluation of the
 
 ## 📰 News
 
+2025.10.22: 🎉 [The MCIF paper has been accepted at ICLR!](https://openreview.net/forum?id=PtPYZYfa0h)</br>
 2025.10.22: 🤗 [MCIF test set is released on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/FBK-MT/MCIF)</br>
 2025.10.21: ⭐️ MCIF Evaluation first release
 
@@ -117,13 +118,11 @@ MCIF is released under the [Apache 2.0 License](LICENSE).
 If you use MCIF in your research, please cite:
 
 ```bibtex
-@misc{mcif,
-      title={MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks}, 
-      author={Sara Papi and Maike Züfle and Marco Gaido and Beatrice Savoldi and Danni Liu and Ioannis Douros and Luisa Bentivogli and Jan Niehues},
-      year={2025},
-      eprint={2507.19634},
-      archivePrefix={arXiv},
-      primaryClass={cs.CL},
-      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634}, 
+@inproceedings{papi2026mcif,
+title={{MCIF}: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks},
+author={Sara Papi and Maike Z{\"u}fle and Marco Gaido and Beatrice Savoldi and Danni Liu and Ioannis Douros and Luisa Bentivogli and Jan Niehues},
+booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
+year={2026},
+url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=PtPYZYfa0h}
 }
 ```
\ No newline at end of file

From 63f7c761c846b0d83378c0db327390cb1b28ed2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sarapapi <57095209+sarapapi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:31:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Correct ICLR acceptance date

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 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 28df47a..8543e35 100644
--- a/README.md
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ A subset of MCIF has been used for the evaluation of the
 
 ## 📰 News
 
-2025.10.22: 🎉 [The MCIF paper has been accepted at ICLR!](https://openreview.net/forum?id=PtPYZYfa0h)</br>
+2026.01.26: 🎉 [The MCIF paper has been accepted at ICLR!](https://openreview.net/forum?id=PtPYZYfa0h)</br>
 2025.10.22: 🤗 [MCIF test set is released on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/FBK-MT/MCIF)</br>
 2025.10.21: ⭐️ MCIF Evaluation first release