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ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Refining Salience-Aware Sparse Fine-Tuning Strategies for Language Models

Xinxin Liu, Aaron Thomas, Cheng Zhang, Jianyi Cheng, Yiren Zhao

Deliberate Reasoning in Language Models as Structure-Aware Planning with an Accurate World Model

Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Yuan Yang, Faramarz Fekri

DualRAG: A Dual-Process Approach to Integrate Reasoning and Retrieval for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Rong Cheng, Jinyi Liu, YAN ZHENG, Fei Ni, Jiazhen Du

Dynamic Chunking and Selection for Reading Comprehension of Ultra-Long Context in Large Language Models

Boheng Sheng, Jiacheng Yao, Meicong Zhang, Guoxiu He

Behavioural vs. Representational Systematicity in End-to-End Models: An Opinionated Survey

Ivan Vegner, Sydelle de Souza, Valentin Forch, Martha Lewis, Leonidas A. A. Doumas

Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers

Clément Dumas, Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, Robert West

MAPLE: Enhancing Review Generation with Multi-Aspect Prompt LEarning in Explainable Recommendation

Ching-Wen Yang, Zhi-Quan Feng, Ying-Jia Lin, Che Wei Chen, Kun-Da Wu

The Noisy Path from Source to Citation: Measuring How Scholars Engage with Past Research

Hong Chen, Misha Teplitskiy, David Jurgens

Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval

Hani Alomari, Anushka Sivakumar, Andrew Zhang, Chris Thomas

Unintended Harms of Value-Aligned LLMs: Psychological and Empirical Insights

Sooyung Choi, Jaehyeok Lee, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jing Yao, Xing Xie

Exploiting Contextual Knowledge in LLMs through 𝒱-usable Information based Layer Enhancement

Xiaowei Yuan, Zhao Yang, Ziyang Huang, Yequan Wang, Siqi Fan

LongSafety: Evaluating Long-Context Safety of Large Language Models

Yida Lu, Jiale Cheng, Zhexin Zhang, Shiyao Cui, Cunxiang Wang

Only a Little to the Left: A Theory-grounded Measure of Political Bias in Large Language Models

Mats Faulborn, Indira Sen, Max Pellert, Andreas Spitz, David Garcia

REAL-MM-RAG: A Real-World Multi-Modal Retrieval Benchmark

Navve Wasserman, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek, Adi Raz Goldfarb, Eli Schwartz

The Harmonic Structure of Information Contours

Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Franz Nowak, Tianyang Xu, Ethan Wilcox

Teaching Text Agents to Learn Sequential Decision Making from Failure

Canasai Kruengkrai, Koichiro Yoshino

CLaSp: In-Context Layer Skip for Self-Speculative Decoding

Longze Chen, Renke Shan, Huiming Wang, Lu Wang, Ziqiang Liu

CMHKF: Cross-Modality Heterogeneous Knowledge Fusion for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

Guohua Wang, Shengping Song, Wuchun He, Yongsen Zheng

Completing A Systematic Review in Hours instead of Months with Interactive AI Agents

Rui Qiu, Shijie Chen, Yu Su, Po-Yin Yen, Han Wei Shen

Theory of Mind in Large Language Models: Assessment and Enhancement

Ruirui Chen, Weifeng Jiang, Chengwei Qin, Cheston Tan

TACLR: A Scalable and Efficient Retrieval-based Method for Industrial Product Attribute Value Identification

Yindu Su, Huike Zou, Lin Sun, Ting Zhang, Haiyang Yang

Multimodal Coreference Resolution for Chinese Social Media Dialogues: Dataset and Benchmark Approach

Xingyu Li, Chen Gong, Guohong Fu

Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions

Jihyoung Jang, Minwook Bae, Minji Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Hyounghun Kim

Re3Syn: A Dependency-Based Data Synthesis Framework for Long-Context Post-training

Zhiyang Zhang, Ziqiang Liu, Huiming Wang, Renke Shan, Li Kuang

𝛿-Stance: A Large-Scale Real World Dataset of Stances in Legal Argumentation

Ankita Gupta, Douglas Rice, Brendan O’Connor

SeedBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Seed Science

Jie Ying, Zihong Chen, Zhefan Wang, Wanli Jiang, Chenyang Wang

Persona Dynamics: Unveiling the Impact of Persona Traits on Agents in Text-Based Games

Seungwon Lim, Seungbeen Lee, Dongjun Min, Youngjae Yu

A Parameter-Efficient and Fine-Grained Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models

Yongbin Guo, Shuzhen Li, Zhulin Liu, Tong Zhang, C.L.Philip Chen

PolyNarrative: A Multilingual, Multilabel, Multi-domain Dataset for Narrative Extraction from News Articles

Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Iliyanov Dimitrov, Roman Yangarber

It’s Not a Walk in the Park! Challenges of Idiom Translation in Speech-to-text Systems

Iuliia Zaitova, Badr M. Abdullah, Wei Xue, Dietrich Klakow, Bernd Möbius

CityNavAgent: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Semantic Planning and Global Memory

Weichen Zhang, Chen Gao, Shiquan Yu, Ruiying Peng, Baining Zhao

HintsOfTruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims

Michiel Van Der Meer, Pavel Korshunov, Sébastien Marcel, Lonneke van der Plas

Batayan: A Filipino NLP benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models

Jann Railey Montalan, Jimson Paulo Layacan, David Demitri Africa, Richell Isaiah S. Flores, Michael T. Lopez Ii

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability

Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe

Truth Knows No Language: Evaluating Truthfulness Beyond English

Blanca Calvo Figueras, Eneko Sagarzazu, Julen Etxaniz, Jeremy Barnes, Pablo Gamallo

Subtle Errors in Reasoning: Preference Learning via Error-injected Self-editing

Kaishuai Xu, Tiezheng Yu, Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Chak Tou Leong

English-based acoustic models perform well in the forced alignment of two English-based Pacific Creoles

Sam Passmore, Lila San Roque, Kirsty Gillespie, Saurabh Kumar Nath, Kira Davey

Efficient Safety Alignment of Large Language Models via Preference Re-ranking and Representation-based Reward Modeling

Deng Qiyuan, Xuefeng Bai, Kehai Chen, Yaowei Wang, Liqiang Nie

Diffusion Models Through a Global Lens: Are They Culturally Inclusive?

Zahra Bayramli, Ayhan Suleymanzade, Na Min An, Huzama Ahmad, Eunsu Kim

GPT-4 as a Homework Tutor Can Improve Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes

Alessandro Vanzo, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Mrinmaya Sachan

Negative Matters: Multi-Granularity Hard-Negative Synthesis and Anchor-Token-Aware Pooling for Enhanced Text Embeddings

Tengyu Pan, Zhichao Duan, Zhenyu Li, Bowen Dong, Ning Liu

FocusLLM: Precise Understanding of Long Context by Dynamic Condensing

Zhenyu Li, Yike Zhang, Tengyu Pan, Yutao Sun, Zhichao Duan

PlanningArena: A Modular Benchmark for Multidimensional Evaluation of Planning and Tool Learning

Zihan Zheng, Tianle Cui, Chuwen Xie, Jiahui Pan, Qianglong Chen

Analyzing and Mitigating Inconsistency in Discrete Speech Tokens for Neural Codec Language Models

Wenrui Liu, Zhifang Guo, Jin Xu, Yuanjun Lv, Yunfei Chu

Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluation of the Deception Detection Capabilities of LLMs in Multimodal Settings

Md Messal Monem Miah, Adrita Anika, Xi Shi, Ruihong Huang

SocialEval: Evaluating Social Intelligence of Large Language Models

Jinfeng Zhou, Yuxuan Chen, Yihan Shi, Xuanming Zhang, Leqi Lei

DDxTutor: Clinical Reasoning Tutoring System with Differential Diagnosis-Based Structured Reasoning

Qian Wu, Zheyao Gao, Longfei Gou, Qi Dou

IMOL: Incomplete-Modality-Tolerant Learning for Multi-Domain Fake News Video Detection

Zhi Zeng, Jiaying Wu, Minnan Luo, Herun Wan, Xiangzheng Kong

A Survey on Efficient Large Language Model Training: From Data-centric Perspectives

Junyu Luo, Bohan Wu, Xiao Luo, Zhiping Xiao, Yiqiao Jin

Serial Lifelong Editing via Mixture of Knowledge Experts

YuJu Cheng, Yu-Chu Yu, Kai-Po Chang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Multi-Modality Expansion and Retention for LLMs through Parameter Merging and Decoupling

Junlin Li, Guodong Du, Jing Li, Sim Kuan Goh, Wenya Wang

Benchmarking LLMs and LLM-based Agents in Practical Vulnerability Detection for Code Repositories

Alperen Yildiz, Sin G Teo, Yiling Lou, Yebo Feng, Chong Wang

Less is More: Explainable and Efficient ICD Code Prediction with Clinical Entities

James C. Douglas, Yidong Gan, Ben Hachey, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

Theoretical Analysis of Hierarchical Language Recognition and Generation by Transformers without Positional Encoding

Daichi Hayakawa, Issei Sato

The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages

Jenalea Rajab, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Dale Dunbar, Graham Morrissey

TestNUC: Enhancing Test-Time Computing Approaches and Scaling through Neighboring Unlabeled Data Consistency

Henry Peng Zou, Zhengyao Gu, Yue Zhou, yankai Chen, Weizhi Zhang

CCHall: A Novel Benchmark for Joint Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Hallucinations Detection in Large Language Models

Yongheng Zhang, Xu Liu, Ruoxi Zhou, Qiguang Chen, Hao Fei

Activating Distributed Visual Region within LLMs for Efficient and Effective Vision-Language Training and Inference

Siyuan Wang, Dianyi Wang, Chengxing Zhou, Zejun Li, Zhihao Fan

ISR: Self-Refining Referring Expressions for Entity Grounding

Zhuocheng Yu, Bingchan Zhao, Yifan Song, Sujian Li, Zhonghui He

Benchmarking and Improving Large Vision-Language Models for Fundamental Visual Graph Understanding and Reasoning

Yingjie Zhu, Xuefeng Bai, Kehai Chen, Yang Xiang, Jun Yu

Meta-Tool: Unleash Open-World Function Calling Capabilities of General-Purpose Large Language Models

Shengqian Qin, Yakun Zhu, Linjie Mu, Shaoting Zhang, Xiaofan Zhang

ETF: An Entity Tracing Framework for Hallucination Detection in Code Summaries

Kishan Maharaj, Vitobha Munigala, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam, Prince Kumar, Sayandeep Sen

LSSF: Safety Alignment for Large Language Models through Low-Rank Safety Subspace Fusion

Guanghao Zhou, Panjia Qiu, Cen Chen, Hongyu Li, Jason Chu

M³GQA: A Multi-Entity Multi-Hop Multi-Setting Graph Question Answering Benchmark

Boci Peng, Yongchao Liu, Xiaohe Bo, Jiaxin Guo, Yun Zhu

SubLIME: Subset Selection via Rank Correlation Prediction for Data-Efficient LLM Evaluation

Gayathri Saranathan, Cong Xu, Mahammad Parwez Alam, Tarun Kumar, Martin Foltin

Astute RAG: Overcoming Imperfect Retrieval Augmentation and Knowledge Conflicts for Large Language Models

Fei Wang, Xingchen Wan, Ruoxi Sun, Jiefeng Chen, Sercan O Arik

More is not always better? Enhancing Many-Shot In-Context Learning with Differentiated and Reweighting Objectives

Xiaoqing Zhang, Ang Lv, Yuhan Liu, Flood Sung, Wei Liu

A Spatio-Temporal Point Process for Fine-Grained Modeling of Reading Behavior

Francesco Ignazio Re, Andreas Opedal, Glib Manaiev, Mario Giulianelli, Ryan Cotterell

Quantized Can Still Be Calibrated: A Unified Framework to Calibration in Quantized Large Language Models

Mingyu Zhong, Guanchu Wang, Yu-Neng Chuang, Na Zou

Basic Reading Distillation

Zhi Zhou, Sirui Miao, Xiangyu Duan, Hao Yang, Min Zhang

The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context

Tamar I Regev, Chiebuka Ohams, Shaylee Xie, Lukas Wolf, Evelina Fedorenko

ViGiL3D: A Linguistically Diverse Dataset for 3D Visual Grounding

Austin Wang, ZeMing Gong, Angel X Chang

CLIPErase: Efficient Unlearning of Visual-Textual Associations in CLIP

Tianyu Yang, Lisen Dai, Xiangqi Wang, Minhao Cheng, Yapeng Tian

PIGuard: Prompt Injection Guardrail via Mitigating Overdefense for Free

Hao Li, Xiaogeng Liu, Ning Zhang, Chaowei Xiao

Predicting Implicit Arguments in Procedural Video Instructions

Anil Batra, Laura Sevilla-Lara, Marcus Rohrbach, Frank Keller

SpeechIQ: Speech-Agentic Intelligence Quotient Across Cognitive Levels in Voice Understanding by Large Language Models

Zhen Wan, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Yahan Yu, Jinchuan Tian, Sheng Li

FairI Tales: Evaluation of Fairness in Indian Contexts with a Focus on Bias and Stereotypes

Janki Atul Nawale, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Janani D, Mansi Gupta, Danish Pruthi

R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory

Tenghao Huang, Kinjal Basu, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Pavan Kapanipathi, Jonathan May

Can we Retrieve Everything All at Once? ARM: An Alignment-Oriented LLM-based Retrieval Method

Peter Baile Chen, Yi Zhang, Mike Cafarella, Dan Roth

Symmetrical Visual Contrastive Optimization: Aligning Vision-Language Models with Minimal Contrastive Images

Shengguang Wu, Fan-Yun Sun, Kaiyue Wen, Nick Haber

IRIS: Interpretable Retrieval-Augmented Classification for Long Interspersed Document Sequences

Fengnan Li, Elliot D. Hill, Jiang Shu, Jiaxin Gao, Matthew M. Engelhard

Map&Make: Schema Guided Text to Table Generation

Naman Ahuja, Fenil Bardoliya, Chitta Baral, Vivek Gupta

MAPoRL: Multi-Agent Post-Co-Training for Collaborative Large Language Models with Reinforcement Learning

Chanwoo Park, Seungju Han, Xingzhi Guo, Asuman E. Ozdaglar, Kaiqing Zhang

Stochastic Chameleons: Irrelevant Context Hallucinations Reveal Class-Based (Mis)Generalization in LLMs

Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Marc-Antoine Rondeau, Jackie CK Cheung

DRAMA: Diverse Augmentation from Large Language Models to Smaller Dense Retrievers

Xueguang Ma, Xi Victoria Lin, Barlas Oguz, Jimmy Lin, Wen-tau Yih

VISA: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Visual Source Attribution

Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Wenhu Chen

MEraser: An Effective Fingerprint Erasure Approach for Large Language Models

Jingxuan Zhang, Zhenhua Xu, Rui Hu, Wenpeng Xing, Xuhong Zhang

A Theory of Response Sampling in LLMs: Part Descriptive and Part Prescriptive

Sarath Sivaprasad, Pramod Kaushik, Sahar Abdelnabi, Mario Fritz

ConLoan: A Contrastive Multilingual Dataset for Evaluating Loanwords

Sina Ahmadi, Micha David Hess, Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Alessia Battisti, Cui Ding

METAL: A Multi-Agent Framework for Chart Generation with Test-Time Scaling

Bingxuan Li, Yiwei Wang, Jiuxiang Gu, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng

PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages

Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Erfan Karami, Ako Marani, Parviz Fekrazad

Assessing Reliability and Political Bias In LLMs’ Judgements of Formal and Material Inferences With Partisan Conclusions

Reto Gubelmann, Ghassen Karray

Measuring the Effect of Transcription Noise on Downstream Language Understanding Tasks

Ori Shapira, Shlomo Chazan, Amir David Nissan Cohen

Theorem Prover as a Judge for Synthetic Data Generation

Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Giwon Hong, Wenda Li, Shay B Cohen

GrammaMT: Improving Machine Translation with Grammar-Informed In-Context Learning

Rita Ramos, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Maartje Ter Hoeve, Natalie Schluter

Bilingual Zero-Shot Stance Detection

Chenye Zhao, Cornelia Caragea

Principled Content Selection to Generate Diverse and Personalized Multi-Document Summaries

Vishakh Padmakumar, Zichao Wang, David Arbour, Jennifer Healey

Retrofitting Large Language Models with Dynamic Tokenization

Darius Feher, Ivan Vulić, Benjamin Minixhofer

An Empirical Study of Iterative Refinements for Non-autoregressive Translation

Yisheng Xiao, Pei Guo, Zechen Sun, Juntao Li, Kai Song

TaxoAdapt: Aligning LLM-Based Multidimensional Taxonomy Construction to Evolving Research Corpora

Priyanka Kargupta, Nan Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Rui Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra