ACL 2025

4,141 papers

GaRAGe: A Benchmark with Grounding Annotations for RAG Evaluation

Ionut Teodor Sorodoc, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Rexhina Blloshmi, Christopher Davis, Adrià de Gispert

Low-Rank Interconnected Adaptation across Layers

Yibo Zhong, Jinman Zhao, Yao Zhou

Automatic Transmission for LLM Tiers: Optimizing Cost and Accuracy in Large Language Models

Injae Na, Keonwoong Noh, Woohwan Jung

MAGIC-VQA: Multimodal And Grounded Inference with Commonsense Knowledge for Visual Question Answering

Shuo Yang, Caren Han, Siwen Luo, Eduard Hovy

ReflectEvo: Improving Meta Introspection of Small LLMs by Learning Self-Reflection

Jiaqi Li, Xinyi Dong, Yang Liu, Zhizhuo Yang, Quansen Wang

SeqMMR: Sequential Model Merging and LLM Routing for Enhanced Batched Sequential Knowledge Editing

Shanbao Qiao, Xuebing Liu, Akshat Gupta, Seung-Hoon Na

mStyleDistance: Multilingual Style Embeddings and their Evaluation

Justin Qiu, Jiacheng Zhu, Ajay Patel, Marianna Apidianaki, Chris Callison-Burch

Vulnerability of Text-to-Image Models to Prompt Template Stealing: A Differential Evolution Approach

Yurong Wu, Fangwen Mu, Qiuhong Zhang, Jinjing Zhao, Xinrun Xu

LLM-based Translation Inference with Iterative Bilingual Understanding

Andong Chen, Kehai Chen, Yang Xiang, Xuefeng Bai, Muyun Yang

Word Form Matters: LLMs’ Semantic Reconstruction under Typoglycemia

Chenxi Wang, Tianle Gu, zhongyu wei, Lang Gao, Zirui Song

AVG-LLaVA: An Efficient Large Multimodal Model with Adaptive Visual Granularity

Zhibin Lan, Liqiang Niu, Fandong Meng, Wenbo Li, Jie Zhou

The Anatomy of Evidence: An Investigation Into Explainable ICD Coding

Katharina Beckh, Elisa Studeny, Sujan Sai Gannamaneni, Dario Antweiler, Stefan Rueping

Disambiguate First, Parse Later: Generating Interpretations for Ambiguity Resolution in Semantic Parsing

Irina Saparina, Mirella Lapata

Debate4MATH: Multi-Agent Debate for Fine-Grained Reasoning in Math

Shaowei Zhang, Deyi Xiong

Ask in Any Modality: A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Amirhosein Zobeiri, Mahdi Dehghani, Mohammadali Mohammadkhani, Bardia Mohammadi

CHARPEVAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models’ Contextual Reasoning in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue

Abbas Ghaddar, David Alfonso-hermelo, Philippe Langlais, Boxing Chen, Prasanna Parthasarathi

RAPID: Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Long Text Generation with Writing Planning and Information Discovery

Hongchao Gu, Dexun Li, Kuicai Dong, Hao Zhang, Hang Lv

On Entity Identification in Language Models

Masaki Sakata, Benjamin Heinzerling, Sho Yokoi, Takumi Ito, Kentaro Inui

ASTRID - An Automated and Scalable TRIaD for the Evaluation of RAG-based Clinical Question Answering Systems

Yajie Vera He, Mohita Chowdhury, Jared Joselowitz, Aisling Higham, Ernest Lim

GNN-RAG: Graph Neural Retrieval for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs

Costas Mavromatis, George Karypis

Hierarchical Retrieval with Evidence Curation for Open-Domain Financial Question Answering on Standardized Documents

Jaeyoung Choe, Jihoon Kim, Woohwan Jung

LoFTI: Localization and Factuality Transfer to Indian Locales

Sona Elza Simon, Soumen Kumar Mondal, Abhishek Singhania, Sayambhu Sen, Preethi Jyothi

EuroVerdict: A Multilingual Dataset for Verdict Generation Against Misinformation

Daniel Russo, Fariba Sadeghi, Stefano Menini, Marco Guerini

Why Uncertainty Estimation Methods Fall Short in RAG: An Axiomatic Analysis

Heydar Soudani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Faegheh Hasibi

Review-Instruct: A Review-Driven Multi-Turn Conversations Generation Method for Large Language Models

Jiangxu Wu, Cong Wang, Tianhuang Su, Jun Yang, Haozhi Lin

Mitigating Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Model via Hallucination-targeted Direct Preference Optimization

Yuhan Fu, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Zhanhui Kang, Xirong Li

Eliciting Textual Descriptions from Representations of Continuous Prompts

Dana Ramati, Daniela Gottesman, Mor Geva

TUBA: Cross-Lingual Transferability of Backdoor Attacks in LLMs with Instruction Tuning

Xuanli He, Jun Wang, Qiongkai Xu, Pasquale Minervini, Pontus Stenetorp

Evaluating LLMs’ Assessment of Mixed-Context Hallucination Through the Lens of Summarization

Siya Qi, Rui Cao, Yulan He, Zheng Yuan

Resource-Friendly Dynamic Enhancement Chain for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Binquan Ji, Haibo Luo, Yifei Lu, Lei Hei, Jiaqi Wang

Argus: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for 3D Radiology Report Generation

Che Liu, Zhongwei Wan, Yuqi Wang, Hui Shen, Haozhe Wang

See the World, Discover Knowledge: A Chinese Factuality Evaluation for Large Vision Language Models

Jihao Gu, Yingyao Wang, Pi Bu, Chen Wang, Ziming Wang

Can Medical Vision-Language Pre-training Succeed with Purely Synthetic Data?

Che Liu, Zhongwei Wan, Haozhe Wang, Yinda Chen, Talha Qaiser

A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment

Khalid N. Elmadani, Nizar Habash, Hanada Taha-Thomure

Enhancing Tool Learning in Large Language Models with Hierarchical Error Checklists

Yue Cui, Liuyi Yao, Shuchang Tao, Weijie Shi, Yaliang Li

SynGraph: A Dynamic Graph-LLM Synthesis Framework for Sparse Streaming User Sentiment Modeling

Xin Zhang, Qiyu Wei, Yingjie Zhu, Linhai Zhang, Deyu Zhou

The Rise of Darkness: Safety-Utility Trade-Offs in Role-Playing Dialogue Agents

Yihong Tang, Kehai Chen, Xuefeng Bai, Zheng-Yu Niu, Bo Wang

MVL-SIB: A Massively Multilingual Vision-Language Benchmark for Cross-Modal Topical Matching

Fabian David Schmidt, Florian Schneider, Chris Biemann, Goran Glavaš

Training Multi-Modal LLMs through Dialogue Planning for HRI

Claudiu Daniel Hromei, Federico Borazio, Andrea Sensi, Elisa Passone, Danilo Croce

Evaluating Large Language Models for Confidence-based Check Set Selection

Jane Arleth dela Cruz, Iris Hendrickx, Martha Larson

Statement-Tuning Enables Efficient Cross-lingual Generalization in Encoder-only Models

Ahmed Elshabrawy, Thanh-Nhi Nguyen, Yeeun Kang, Lihan Feng, Annant Jain

On the Consistency of Commonsense in Large Language Models

Guozheng Li, Peng Wang, Wenjun Ke, Zijie Xu, Jiajun Liu

Boost, Disentangle, and Customize: A Robust System2-to-System1 Pipeline for Code Generation

Kounianhua Du, Hanjing Wang, Jianxing Liu, Jizheng Chen, Xinyi Dai

Semantic Aware Linear Transfer by Recycling Pre-trained Language Models for Cross-lingual Transfer

Seungyoon Lee, SeongTae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim

DPGA-TextSyn: Differentially Private Genetic Algorithm for Synthetic Text Generation

Zhonghao Sun, Zhiliang Tian, Yiping Song, Yuyi Si, Juhua Zhang

BOSE: A Systematic Evaluation Method Optimized for Base Models

Hongzhi Luan, Changxin Tian, Zhaoxin Huan, Xiaolu Zhang, Kunlong Chen

Do Large Language Models Know Folktales? A Case Study of Yokai in Japanese Folktales

Ayuto Tsutsumi, Yuu Jinnai

SeqPO-SiMT: Sequential Policy Optimization for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Ting Xu, Zhichao Huang, Jiankai Sun, Shanbo Cheng, Wai Lam

How Do Multilingual Language Models Remember Facts?

Constanza Fierro, Negar Foroutan, Desmond Elliott, Anders Søgaard

Generalizable Cross-Lingual Cognitive Distortion Detection with Standardized Annotations and Multi-Task Learning

Hongzhi Qi, Nan Bai, Jianqiang Li, Wei Zhai, Qing Zhao

Local Look-Ahead Guidance via Verifier-in-the-Loop for Automated Theorem Proving

Sara Rajaee, Kumar Pratik, Gabriele Cesa, Arash Behboodi

HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation

Naquee Rizwan, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva, Dr. Florian Skupin, Tim Fischer

Token-level Preference Self-Alignment Optimization for Multi-style Outline Controllable Generation

Zihao Li, Xuekong Xu, Ziyao Chen, Lixin Zou, Haijun Wu

Capturing Nuanced Preferences: Preference-Aligned Distillation for Small Language Models

Yanggan Gu, Junzhuo Li, Sirui Huang, Xin Zou, Zhenghua Li

Enhanced Data Synthesis for LLM through Reasoning Structures Generated by Hierarchical GFlowNet

Tianpeng Bu, Minying Zhang, Hongtao Duan, Shurui Li, Lulu Hu

Reward Generalization in RLHF: A Topological Perspective

Tianyi Alex Qiu, Fanzhi Zeng, Jiaming Ji, Dong Yan, Kaile Wang

Can Language Models Serve as Analogy Annotators?

Xiaojing Zhang, Bochen Lyu

A Fully Automated Pipeline for Conversational Discourse Annotation: Tree Scheme Generation and Labeling with Large Language Models

Kseniia Petukhova, Ekaterina Kochmar

Towards Better Understanding of Program-of-Thought Reasoning in Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Environments

Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Pume Tuchinda, Jinheon Baek, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Can Udomcharoenchaikit

Optimizing Multi-Hop Document Retrieval Through Intermediate Representations

Jiaen Lin, Jingyu Liu, Yingbo Liu

WebUIBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in WebUI-to-Code

Zhiyu Lin, Zhengda Zhou, Zhiyuan Zhao, Tianrui Wan, Yilun Ma

GRI-QA: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Table Question Answering over Environmental Data

Michele Luca Contalbo, Sara Pederzoli, Francesco Del Buono, Venturelli Valeria, Francesco Guerra

How Far are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior Chain Simulation

Rui Li, Heming Xia, Xinfeng Yuan, Qingxiu Dong, Lei Sha

SPILL: Domain-Adaptive Intent Clustering based on Selection and Pooling with Large Language Models

I-Fan Lin, Faegheh Hasibi, Suzan Verberne

ToolExpNet: Optimizing Multi-Tool Selection in LLMs with Similarity and Dependency-Aware Experience Networks

Zijing Zhang, Zhanpeng Chen, He Zhu, Ziyang Chen, Nan Du

A Study into Investigating Temporal Robustness of LLMs

Jonas Wallat, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt, Avishek Anand

UI-E2I-Synth: Advancing GUI Grounding with Large-Scale Instruction Synthesis

Xinyi Liu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Ziyun Zhang, Yan Lu

Investigating Inference-time Scaling for Chain of Multi-modal Thought: A Preliminary Study

Yujie Lin, Ante Wang, Moye Chen, Jingyao Liu, Hao Liu

Grammar-Based Code Representation: Is It a Worthy Pursuit for LLMs?

Qingyuan Liang, Zhao Zhang, Zeyu Sun, Zheng Lin, Qi Luo

Do Large Language Models Have “Emotion Neurons”? Investigating the Existence and Role

Jaewook Lee, Woojin Lee, Oh-Woog Kwon, Harksoo Kim

ZeroNER: Fueling Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Entity Type Descriptions

Alessio Cocchieri, Marcos Martinez Galindo, Giacomo Frisoni, Gianluca Moro, Claudio Sartori

They want to pretend not to understand: The Limits of Current LLMs in Interpreting Implicit Content of Political Discourse

Walter Paci, Alessandro Panunzi, Sandro Pezzelle

Federated Data-Efficient Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

Zhen Qin, Zhaomin Wu, Bingsheng He, Shuiguang Deng

Token Pruning in Multimodal Large Language Models: Are We Solving the Right Problem?

Zichen Wen, Yifeng Gao, Weijia Li, Conghui He, Linfeng Zhang

AnchorCoT: Anchors Pave the Way for Multi-hop Reasoning

Tianshi Ming, Xian Wu, Yingying Zhang, Zichuan Fu, Dawei Cheng

PISCO: Pretty Simple Compression for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Maxime Louis, Hervé Déjean, Stéphane Clinchant

Analyzing Political Bias in LLMs via Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification

Akram Elbouanani, Evan Dufraisse, Adrian Popescu

IntelliCockpitBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate VLMs for Intelligent Cockpit

Liang Lin, Siyuan Chai, Jiahao Wu, Hongbing Hu, Xiaotao Gu

Consultant Decoding: Yet Another Synergistic Mechanism

Chuanghao Ding, Jiaping Wang, Ziqing Yang, Xiaoliang Wang, Dahua Lin

daDPO: Distribution-Aware DPO for Distilling Conversational Abilities

Zhengze Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Yiqun Shen, Simin Guo, Dahua Lin

Let’s Be Self-generated via Step by Step: A Curriculum Learning Approach to Automated Reasoning with Large Language Models

kangyang Luo, Zichen Ding, Zhenmin Weng, Lingfeng Qiao, Meng Zhao

Nunchi-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Cultural Reasoning with a Focus on Korean Superstition

Kyuhee Kim, Sangah Lee

“I understand your perspective”: LLM Persuasion through the Lens of Communicative Action Theory

Esra Dönmez, Agnieszka Faleńska

Weed Out, Then Harvest: Dual Low-Rank Adaptation is an Effective Noisy Label Detector for Noise-Robust Learning

Bo Yuan, Yulin Chen, Yin Zhang

FedDQC: Data Quality Control in Federated Instruction-tuning of Large Language Models

Yaxin Du, Rui Ye, Fengting Yuchi, Wanru Zhao, Jingjing Qu

PredictaBoard: Benchmarking LLM Score Predictability

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Konstantinos Voudouris, Ben Slater, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, José Hernández-Orallo

Beyond the Average Reader: the Reader Embedding Approach

Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Delsanto, Daniele P. Radicioni

AdParaphrase v2.0: Generating Attractive Ad Texts Using a Preference-Annotated Paraphrase Dataset

Soichiro Murakami, Peinan Zhang, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Rehearse With User: Personalized Opinion Summarization via Role-Playing based on Large Language Models

Yanyue Zhang, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou

DeRAGEC: Denoising Named Entity Candidates with Synthetic Rationale for ASR Error Correction

Solee Im, WonJun Lee, JinMyeong An, Yunsu Kim, Jungseul Ok

Position Paper: MeMo: Towards Language Models with Associative Memory Mechanisms

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Giancarlo A. Xompero, Leonardo Ranaldi, Davide Venditti

Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Causal Influence Prompting

Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, June Suk Choi, Sungsoo Ahn, Kimin Lee

INT: Establishing Information Transfer for Multilingual Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Di Wu, Liting Jiang, Bohui Mao, Hongyan Xie, Haoxiang Su

Unveiling the Key Factors for Distilling Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xinghao Chen, Zhijing Sun, Guo Wenjin, Miaoran Zhang, Yanjun Chen

STARS: A Unified Framework for Singing Transcription, Alignment, and Refined Style Annotation

Wenxiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan, Zhiyuan Zhu, Ruiqi Li

Task Knowledge Injection via Interpolations and Reinstatement for Large Language Model Generalization

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Zhenyang Li, Shuaiqiang Wang, Zhumin Chen

DAPI: Domain Adaptive Toxicity Probe Vector Intervention, for Fine-Grained Detoxification

Cho Hyeonsu, Dooyoung Kim, Youngjoong Ko

The Impact of Name Age Perception on Job Recommendations in LLMs

Mahammed Kamruzzaman, Gene Louis Kim

Improving Continual Pre-training Through Seamless Data Packing

Ruicheng Yin, Xuan Gao, Changze Lv, Xiaohua Wang, Xiaoqing Zheng

AMXFP4: Taming Activation Outliers with Asymmetric Microscaling Floating-Point for 4-bit LLM Inference

Janghwan Lee, Jiwoong Park, Jinseok Kim, Yongjik Kim, Jungju Oh