ACL 2025

4,141 papers

The Threat of PROMPTS in Large Language Models: A System and User Prompt Perspective

Zixuan Xia, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Huazheng Wang

Improving Causal Interventions in Amnesic Probing with Mean Projection or LEACE

Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Antske Fokkens, Pia Sommerauer

Exploiting Instruction-Following Retrievers for Malicious Information Retrieval

Parishad BehnamGhader, Nicholas Meade, Siva Reddy

Probing Subphonemes in Morphology Models

Gal Astrach, Yuval Pinter

Rank, Chunk and Expand: Lineage-Oriented Reasoning for Taxonomy Expansion

Sahil Mishra, Kumar Arjun, Tanmoy Chakraborty

LAM SIMULATOR: Advancing Data Generation for Large Action Model Training via Online Exploration and Trajectory Feedback

Thai Hoang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Shirley Kokane, Jianguo Zhang, ZUXIN LIU

PipeSpec: Breaking Stage Dependencies in Hierarchical LLM Decoding

Bradley McDanel, Sai Qian Zhang, Yunhai Hu, Zining Liu

BioHopR: A Benchmark for Multi-Hop, Multi-Answer Reasoning in Biomedical Domain

Yunsoo Kim, Yusuf Abdulle, Honghan Wu

Towards Explainable Hate Speech Detection

Happy Khairunnisa Sariyanto, Diclehan Ulucan, Oguzhan Ulucan, Marc Ebner

DRS: Deep Question Reformulation With Structured Output

Zhecheng Li, Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi, Yujun Cai, Nanyun Peng

Dual Debiasing for Noisy In-Context Learning for Text Generation

SIQI LIANG, Sumyeong Ahn, Paramveer Dhillon, Jiayu Zhou

Awes, Laws, and Flaws From Today’s LLM Research

Adrian de Wynter

Grounding Task Assistance with Multimodal Cues from a Single Demonstration

Gabriel Herbert Sarch, Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel, Sahithya Ravi, Vibhav Vineet, Andrew D Wilson

Knowing Before Saying: LLM Representations Encode Information About Chain-of-Thought Success Before Completion

Anum Afzal, Florian Matthes, Gal Chechik, Yftah Ziser

ConFit v2: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Hypothetical Resume Embedding and Runner-Up Hard-Negative Mining

Xiao Yu, Ruize Xu, Chengyuan Xue, Jinzhong Zhang, Xu Ma

Express What You See: Can Multimodal LLMs Decode Visual Ciphers with Intuitive Semiosis Comprehension?

Jiayi Kuang, Yinghui Li, Chen Wang, Haohao Luo, Ying Shen

GRAF: Graph Retrieval Augmented by Facts for Romanian Legal Multi-Choice Question Answering

Cristian-George Craciun, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel

Disentangled Multi-span Evolutionary Network against Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Hao Dong, Ziyue Qiao, Zhiyuan Ning, Qi Hao, Yi Du

Human-LLM Coevolution: Evidence from Academic Writing

Mingmeng Geng, Roberto Trotta

Disentangling Text and Math in Word Problems: Evidence for the Bidimensional Structure of Large Language Models’ Reasoning

Pedro Calais, Gabriel Franco, Zilu Tang, Themistoklis Nikas, Wagner Meira Jr.

Well Begun is Half Done: Low-resource Preference Alignment by Weak-to-Strong Decoding

Feifan Song, Shaohang Wei, Wen Luo, Yuxuan Fan, Tianyu Liu

Time Course MechInterp: Analyzing the Evolution of Components and Knowledge in Large Language Models

Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Ali Modarressi, Philipp Wicke, Hinrich Schuetze

Maximum Score Routing For Mixture-of-Experts

Bowen Dong, Yilong Fan, Yutao Sun, Zhenyu Li, Tengyu Pan

CtrlA: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Inherent Control

Liu Huanshuo, Hao Zhang, Zhijiang Guo, Jing Wang, Kuicai Dong

CoVE: Compressed Vocabulary Expansion Makes Better LLM-based Recommender Systems

Haochen Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Junze Yin, Oren Gal, Anshumali Shrivastava

MDIT-Bench: Evaluating the Dual-Implicit Toxicity in Large Multimodal Models

Bohan Jin, Shuhan Qi, Kehai Chen, Xinyi Guo, Xuan Wang

Evaluating Pretrained Causal Language Models for Synonymy

Ioana Ivan, Carlos Ramisch, Alexis Nasr

A Tale of Evaluating Factual Consistency: Case Study on Long Document Summarization Evaluation

Yang Zhong, Diane Litman

CoT-VTM: Visual-to-Music Generation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xikang Guan, Zheng Gu, Jing Huo, Tianyu Ding, Yang Gao

Order Matters: Investigate the Position Bias in Multi-constraint Instruction Following

Jie Zeng, Qianyu He, Qingyu Ren, Jiaqing Liang, Weikang Zhou

TransBench: Breaking Barriers for Transferable Graphical User Interface Agents in Dynamic Digital Environments

Yuheng Lu, Qian Yu, Hongru Wang, Zeming Liu, Wei Su

A2ATS: Retrieval-Based KV Cache Reduction via Windowed Rotary Position Embedding and Query-Aware Vector Quantization

Junhui He, Junna Xing, Nan Wang, Rui Xu, Shangyu Wu

AIGuard: A Benchmark and Lightweight Detection for E-commerce AIGC Risks

Wenhua Zhang, Weicheng Li, Xuanrong Rao, Lixin Zou, Xiangyang Luo

Training Turn-by-Turn Verifiers for Dialogue Tutoring Agents: The Curious Case of LLMs as Your Coding Tutors

Jian Wang, Yinpei Dai, Yichi Zhang, Ziqiao Ma, Wenjie Li

Quantile Regression with Large Language Models for Price Prediction

Nikhita Vedula, Dushyanta Dhyani, Laleh Jalali, Boris N. Oreshkin, Mohsen Bayati

Socratic Style Chain-of-Thoughts Help LLMs to be a Better Reasoner

Jiangbo Pei, Peiyu Liu, Wayne Xin Zhao, Aidong Men, Yang Liu

SGDPO: Self-Guided Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Wenqiao Zhu, Ji Liu, Lulu Wang, Jun Wu, Yulun Zhang

A Conformal Risk Control Framework for Granular Word Assessment and Uncertainty Calibration of CLIPScore Quality Estimates

Goncalo Emanuel Cavaco Gomes, Bruno Martins, Chrysoula Zerva

TRANS-ZERO: Self-Play Incentivizes Large Language Models for Multilingual Translation Without Parallel Data

Wei Zou, Sen Yang, Yu Bao, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

SEA-HELM: Southeast Asian Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

Yosephine Susanto, Adithya Venkatadri Hulagadri, Jann Railey Montalan, Jian Gang Ngui, Xianbin Yong

Exploring Graph Representations of Logical Forms for Language Modeling

Michael Sullivan

WMT24++: Expanding the Language Coverage of WMT24 to 55 Languages & Dialects

Daniel Deutsch, Eleftheria Briakou, Isaac Rayburn Caswell, Mara Finkelstein, Rebecca Galor

Clarifying Underspecified Discourse Relations in Instructional Texts

Berfin Aktas, Michael Roth

Boosting LLM Translation Skills without General Ability Loss via Rationale Distillation

Junhong Wu, Yang Zhao, Yangyifan Xu, Bing Liu, Chengqing Zong

Slamming: Training a Speech Language Model on One GPU in a Day

Gallil Maimon, Avishai Elmakies, Yossi Adi

Forget the Token and Pixel: Rethinking Gradient Ascent for Concept Unlearning in Multimodal Generative Models

Jiaqi Li, Chuanyi Zhang, Miaozeng Du, Hui Zhang, Yongrui Chen

Revealing and Mitigating the Local Pattern Shortcuts of Mamba

WangJie You, Zecheng Tang, Juntao Li, Lili Yao, Min Zhang

Neuro-Symbolic Query Compiler

Yuyao Zhang, Zhicheng Dou, Xiaoxi Li, Jiajie Jin, Yongkang Wu

Bridging Robustness and Generalization Against Word Substitution Attacks in NLP via the Growth Bound Matrix Approach

Mohammed Bouri, Adnane Saoud

Towards Adapting Open-Source Large Language Models for Expert-Level Clinical Note Generation

Hanyin Wang, Chufan Gao, Bolun Liu, Qiping Xu, Guleid Hussein

WebNLG-IT: Construction of an aligned RDF-Italian corpus through Machine Translation techniques

Michael Oliverio, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Alessandro Mazzei, Valerio Basile

GeAR: Graph-enhanced Agent for Retrieval-augmented Generation

Zhili Shen, Chenxin Diao, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Pascual Merita, Shriram Piramanayagam

On the Role of Semantic Proto-roles in Semantic Analysis: What do LLMs know about agency?

Elizabeth Spaulding, Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, James Martin

FIHA: Automated Fine-grained Hallucinations Evaluations in Large Vision Language Models with Davidson Scene Graphs

Bowen Yan, Zhengsong Zhang, Liqiang Jing, Eftekhar Hossain, Xinya Du

MindBridge: Scalable and Cross-Model Knowledge Editing via Memory-Augmented Modality

Shuaike Li, Kai Zhang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen

Forgotten Polygons: Multimodal Large Language Models are Shape-Blind

William Rudman, Michal Golovanevsky, Amir Bar, Vedant Palit, Yann LeCun

VAQUUM: Are Vague Quantifiers Grounded in Visual Data?

Hugh Mee Wong, Rick Nouwen, Albert Gatt

P3: Prompts Promote Prompting

Xinyu Zhang, Yuanquan Hu, Fangchao Liu, Zhicheng Dou

ChatMap: Mining Human Thought Processes for Customer Service Chatbots via Multi-Agent Collaboration

Xinyi Jiang, Tianyi Hu, Yuheng Qin, Guoming Wang, Zhou Huan

NeoQA: Evidence-based Question Answering with Generated News Events

Max Glockner, Xiang Jiang, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Iryna Gurevych, Markus Dreyer

Fast-and-Frugal Text-Graph Transformers are Effective Link Predictors

Andrei C. Coman, Christos Theodoropoulos, Marie-Francine Moens, James Henderson

A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challenges

Yibo Yan, Jiamin Su, Jianxiang He, Fangteng Fu, Xu Zheng

DeTAM: Defending LLMs Against Jailbreak Attacks via Targeted Attention Modification

Yu Li, Han Jiang, Zhihua Wei

ALPS: Attention Localization and Pruning Strategy for Efficient Adaptation of Large Language Models

Hao Chen, Haoze Li, Zhiqing Xiao, Lirong Gao, Qi Zhang

DOVE: A Large-Scale Multi-Dimensional Predictions Dataset Towards Meaningful LLM Evaluation

Eliya Habba, Ofir Arviv, Itay Itzhak, Yotam Perlitz, Elron Bandel

Physics: Benchmarking Foundation Models on University-Level Physics Problem Solving

Kaiyue Feng, Yilun Zhao, Yixin Liu, Tianyu Yang, Chen Zhao

Cheap Character Noise for OCR-Robust Multilingual Embeddings

Andrianos Michail, Juri Opitz, Yining Wang, Robin Meister, Rico Sennrich

Selecting Demonstrations for Many-Shot In-Context Learning via Gradient Matching

Jianfei Zhang, Bei Li, Jun Bai, Rumei Li, Yanmeng Wang

Rhetorical Device-Aware Sarcasm Detection with Counterfactual Data Augmentation

Qingqing Hong, Dongyu Zhang, Jiayi Lin, Dapeng Yin, Shuyue Zhu

Voting or Consensus? Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Debate

Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jonas Becker, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

LEMMA: Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement in LLMs

Zhuoshi Pan, Yu Li, Honglin Lin, Qizhi Pei, Zinan Tang

STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent Learning

Hanlin Wang, Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Li

Large Language Models are Miscalibrated In-Context Learners

Chengzu Li, Han Zhou, Goran Glavaš, Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić

Generating Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs from Large Language Models

Marinela Parovic, Ze Li, Jinhua Du

Optima: Optimizing Effectiveness and Efficiency for LLM-Based Multi-Agent System

Weize Chen, Jiarui Yuan, Chen Qian, Cheng Yang, Zhiyuan Liu

Code-Switching and Syntax: A Large-Scale Experiment

Igor Sterner, Simone Teufel

You need to MIMIC to get FAME: Solving Meeting Transcript Scarcity with Multi-Agent Conversations

Frederic Kirstein, Muneeb Khan, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

DELMAN: Dynamic Defense Against Large Language Model Jailbreaking with Model Editing

Yi Wang, Fenghua Weng, Sibei Yang, Zhan Qin, Minlie Huang

Large Language Models Are Natural Video Popularity Predictors

Pratik Kayal, Pascal Mettes, Nima Dehmamy, Minsu Park

M3HG: Multimodal, Multi-scale, and Multi-type Node Heterogeneous Graph for Emotion Cause Triplet Extraction in Conversations

Qiao Liang, Ying Shen, Tiantian Chen, Lin Zhang

InfiniteICL: Breaking the Limit of Context Window Size via Long Short-term Memory Transformation

Bowen Cao, Deng Cai, Wai Lam

DEMO: Reframing Dialogue Interaction with Fine-grained Element Modeling

Minzheng Wang, Xinghua Zhang, Kun Chen, Nan Xu, Haiyang Yu

Beyond the Spelling Miracle: Investigating Substring Awareness in Character-Blind Language Models

Cristiano Ciaccio, Marta Sartor, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta

Learning to Select In-Context Demonstration Preferred by Large Language Model

Zheng Zhang, Shaocheng Lan, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Yexin Li

GLTW: Joint Improved Graph Transformer and LLM via Three-Word Language for Knowledge Graph Completion

kangyang Luo, Yuzhuo Bai, Cheng Gao, Shuzheng Si, Zhu Liu

Listen, Watch, and Learn to Feel: Retrieval-Augmented Emotion Reasoning for Compound Emotion Generation

Zhuofan Wen, Zheng Lian, Shun Chen, Hailiang Yao, Longjiang Yang

FairSteer: Inference Time Debiasing for LLMs with Dynamic Activation Steering

Yichen Li, Zhiting Fan, Ruizhe Chen, Xiaotang Gai, Luqi Gong

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Improving Robust Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Fact-Centric Preference Alignment

Jia Hao, Chunhong Zhang, Jiarun Liu, Haiyu Zhao, Zhiqiang Zhan

RASPberry: Retrieval-Augmented Monte Carlo Tree Self-Play with Reasoning Consistency for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Baixuan Li, Yunlong Fan, Tianyi Ma, Miao Gao, Chuanqi Shi

Generating Pedagogically Meaningful Visuals for Math Word Problems: A New Benchmark and Analysis of Text-to-Image Models

Junling Wang, Anna Rutkiewicz, April Wang, Mrinmaya Sachan

Social Bias Benchmark for Generation: A Comparison of Generation and QA-Based Evaluations

Jiho Jin, Woosung Kang, Junho Myung, Alice Oh

MEGen: Generative Backdoor into Large Language Models via Model Editing

Jiyang Qiu, Xinbei Ma, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao, Yun Li

CitaLaw: Enhancing LLM with Citations in Legal Domain

Kepu Zhang, Weijie Yu, Sunhao Dai, Jun Xu

Unlocking Recursive Thinking of LLMs: Alignment via Refinement

Haoke Zhang, xiaobo liang, Cunxiang Wang, Juntao Li, Min Zhang

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci

Crabs: Consuming Resource via Auto-generation for LLM-DoS Attack under Black-box Settings

Yuanhe Zhang, Zhenhong Zhou, Wei Zhang, Xinyue Wang, Xiaojun Jia

ArgInstruct: Specialized Instruction Fine-Tuning for Computational Argumentation

Maja Stahl, Timon Ziegenbein, Joonsuk Park, Henning Wachsmuth

MiLiC-Eval: Benchmarking Multilingual LLMs for China’s Minority Languages

Chen Zhang, Mingxu Tao, Zhiyuan Liao, Yansong Feng

Beyond Browsing: API-Based Web Agents

Yueqi Song, Frank F. Xu, Shuyan Zhou, Graham Neubig

User Behavior Prediction as a Generic, Robust, Scalable, and Low-Cost Evaluation Strategy for Estimating Generalization in LLMs

Sougata Saha, Monojit Choudhury