ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Response Wide Shut? Surprising Observations in Basic Vision Language Model Capabilities

Shivam Chandhok, Wan-Cyuan Fan, Vered Shwartz, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian, Leonid Sigal

Safety Alignment via Constrained Knowledge Unlearning

Zesheng Shi, Yucheng Zhou, Jing Li, Yuxin Jin, Yu Li

Answering Complex Geographic Questions by Adaptive Reasoning with Visual Context and External Commonsense Knowledge

Fan Li, Jianxing Yu, Jielong Tang, Wenqing Chen, Hanjiang Lai

Improving Automatic Evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Biomedical Relation Extraction via LLMs-as-the-Judge

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Israt Jahan, Elham Dolatabadi, Chun Peng, Enamul Hoque

Embedding-Converter: A Unified Framework for Cross-Model Embedding Transformation

Jinsung Yoon, Sercan O Arik

SARA: Salience-Aware Reinforced Adaptive Decoding for Large Language Models in Abstractive Summarization

Nayu Liu, Junnan Zhu, Yiming Ma, Zhicong Lu, Wenlei Xu

ReflectDiffu: Reflect between Emotion-intent Contagion and Mimicry for Empathetic Response Generation via a RL-Diffusion Framework

Jiahao Yuan, Zixiang Di, Zhiqing Cui, Guisong Yang, Usman Naseem

ASPERA: A Simulated Environment to Evaluate Planning for Complex Action Execution

Alexandru Coca, Mark Gaynor, Zhenxing Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng, Bo-Hsiang Tseng

Shaping the Safety Boundaries: Understanding and Defending Against Jailbreaks in Large Language Models

Lang Gao, Jiahui Geng, Xiangliang Zhang, Preslav Nakov, Xiuying Chen

Library-Like Behavior In Language Models is Enhanced by Self-Referencing Causal Cycles

Munachiso S Nwadike, Zangir Iklassov, Toluwani Aremu, Tatsuya Hiraoka, Benjamin Heinzerling

Efficient Ensemble for Fine-tuning Language Models on Multiple Datasets

Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang, Hongyang R. Zhang

PRMBench: A Fine-grained and Challenging Benchmark for Process-Level Reward Models

Mingyang Song, Zhaochen Su, Xiaoye Qu, Jiawei Zhou, Yu Cheng

Language Constrained Multimodal Hyper Adapter For Many-to-Many Multimodal Summarization

Nayu Liu, Fanglong Yao, Haoran Luo, Yong Yang, Chen Tang

Watching the Watchers: Exposing Gender Disparities in Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Emmanouil Zaranis, Giuseppe Attanasio, Sweta Agrawal, Andre Martins

Unveiling Privacy Risks in LLM Agent Memory

Bo Wang, Weiyi He, Shenglai Zeng, Zhen Xiang, Yue Xing

Follow-up Question Generation For Enhanced Patient-Provider Conversations

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy E. Burdick, Inas S. Khayal, Sarah DeLozier

GeLLM³O: Generalizing Large Language Models for Multi-property Molecule Optimization

Vishal Dey, Xiao Hu, Xia Ning

The Nature of NLP: Analyzing Contributions in NLP Papers

Aniket Pramanick, Yufang Hou, Saif M. Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych

Unravelling the Logic: Investigating the Generalisation of Transformers in Numerical Satisfiability Problems

Tharindu Madusanka, Marco Valentino, Iqra Zahid, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Riza Batista-Navarro

Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus

Benjamin Roger Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card

Document-Level Event-Argument Data Augmentation for Challenging Role Types

Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller, Sarah M. Preum

Estimating Privacy Leakage of Augmented Contextual Knowledge in Language Models

James Flemings, Bo Jiang, Wanrong Zhang, Zafar Takhirov, Murali Annavaram

500xCompressor: Generalized Prompt Compression for Large Language Models

Zongqian Li, Yixuan Su, Nigel Collier

Mind the Gesture: Evaluating AI Sensitivity to Culturally Offensive Non-Verbal Gestures

Akhila Yerukola, Saadia Gabriel, Nanyun Peng, Maarten Sap

iNews: A Multimodal Dataset for Modeling Personalized Affective Responses to News

Tiancheng Hu, Nigel Collier

Coordinating Chaos: A Structured Review of Linguistic Coordination Methodologies

Benjamin Roger Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card

PCoT: Persuasion-Augmented Chain of Thought for Detecting Fake News and Social Media Disinformation

Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Witold Sosnowski, Tiziano Labruna, Adam Wierzbicki, Giovanni Da San Martino

Language Models Grow Less Humanlike beyond Phase Transition

Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Wilcox

Chain-of-Reasoning: Towards Unified Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models via a Multi-Paradigm Perspective

Yiyao Yu, Yuxiang Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Xiao Liang, Hengyuan Zhang

SEA: Low-Resource Safety Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models via Synthetic Embeddings

Weikai Lu, Hao Peng, HUIPING ZHUANG, Cen Chen, Ziqian Zeng

RefreshKV: Updating Small KV Cache During Long-form Generation

Fangyuan Xu, Tanya Goyal, Eunsol Choi

Multiple LLM Agents Debate for Equitable Cultural Alignment

Dayeon Ki, Rachel Rudinger, Tianyi Zhou, Marine Carpuat

Math Neurosurgery: Isolating Language Models’ Math Reasoning Abilities Using Only Forward Passes

Bryan R Christ, Zachary Gottesman, Jonathan Kropko, Thomas Hartvigsen

WAFFLE: Fine-tuning Multi-Modal Model for Automated Front-End Development

Shanchao Liang, Nan Jiang, Shangshu Qian, Lin Tan

LLMs know their vulnerabilities: Uncover Safety Gaps through Natural Distribution Shifts

Qibing Ren, Hao Li, Dongrui Liu, Zhanxu Xie, Xiaoya Lu

ACORD: An Expert-Annotated Retrieval Dataset for Legal Contract Drafting

Steven H Wang, Maksim Zubkov, Kexin Fan, Sarah Harrell, Yuyang Sun

Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs

Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich, Lena Ann Jäger

Can Language Models Replace Programmers for Coding? REPOCOD Says ‘Not Yet’

Shanchao Liang, Nan Jiang, Yiran Hu, Lin Tan

SOTOPIA-Ω: Dynamic Strategy Injection Learning and Social Instruction Following Evaluation for Social Agents

Wenyuan Zhang, Tianyun Liu, Mengxiao Song, Xiaodong Li, Tingwen Liu

Graph Counselor: Adaptive Graph Exploration via Multi-Agent Synergy to Enhance LLM Reasoning

Junqi Gao, Xiang Zou, Ying Ai, Dong Li, Yichen Niu

Personalized Generation In Large Model Era: A Survey

Yiyan Xu, Jinghao Zhang, Alireza Salemi, Xinting Hu, Wenjie Wang

Retrospective Learning from Interactions

Zizhao Chen, Mustafa Omer Gul, Yiwei Chen, Gloria Geng, Anne Wu

Alleviating Hallucinations from Knowledge Misalignment in Large Language Models via Selective Abstention Learning

Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng, Weitao Ma, Yuchun Fan, Xiachong Feng

OMGM: Orchestrate Multiple Granularities and Modalities for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval

Wei Yang, Jingjing Fu, Rui Wang, Jinyu Wang, Lei Song

BOOKCOREF: Coreference Resolution at Book Scale

Giuliano Martinelli, Tommaso Bonomo, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Roberto Navigli

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Efficient Instruction-Following Text Embedding based on Guided Space Transformation

Yingchaojie Feng, Yiqun Sun, Yandong Sun, Minfeng Zhu, Qiang Huang

Improving Low-Resource Morphological Inflection via Self-Supervised Objectives

Adam Wiemerslage, Katharina von der Wense

LaTIM: Measuring Latent Token-to-Token Interactions in Mamba Models

Hugo Pitorro, Marcos Vinicius Treviso

Evaluating LLMs for Portuguese Sentence Simplification with Linguistic Insights

Arthur Mariano Rocha De Azevedo Scalercio, Elvis A. De Souza, Maria José Bocorny Finatto, Aline Paes

Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent

Ethan Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt

Dialogue-RAG: Enhancing Retrieval for LLMs via Node-Linking Utterance Rewriting

Qiwei Li, Teng Xiao, Zuchao Li, Ping Wang, Mengjia Shen

FastMCTS: A Simple Sampling Strategy for Data Synthesis

Peiji Li, Kai Lv, Yunfan Shao, Yichuan Ma, Linyang Li

Yang Zhao, Li Du, Xiao Ding, Yangou Ouyang, Hepeng Wang

Fairness Beyond Performance: Revealing Reliability Disparities Across Groups in Legal NLP

Santosh T.y.s.s, Irtiza Chowdhury

STaR-SQL: Self-Taught Reasoner for Text-to-SQL

Mingqian He, Yongliang Shen, Wenqi Zhang, Qiuying Peng, Jun Wang

Decoding on Graphs: Faithful and Sound Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs through Generation of Well-Formed Chains

Kun Li, Tianhua Zhang, Xixin Wu, Hongyin Luo, James R. Glass

ALGEN: Few-shot Inversion Attacks on Textual Embeddings via Cross-Model Alignment and Generation

Yiyi Chen, Qiongkai Xu, Johannes Bjerva

Towards Fully Exploiting LLM Internal States to Enhance Knowledge Boundary Perception

Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Lulu Yu, Baolong Bi

ChemActor: Enhancing Automated Extraction of Chemical Synthesis Actions with LLM-Generated Data

Yu Zhang, Ruijie Yu, Jidong Tian, Feng Zhu, Jiapeng Liu

Generate First, Then Sample: Enhancing Fake News Detection with LLM-Augmented Reinforced Sampling

Zhao Tong, Yimeng Gu, Huidong Liu, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu

Evaluating the Evaluation of Diversity in Commonsense Generation

Tianhui Zhang, Bei Peng, Danushka Bollegala

GRaMPa: Subword Regularisation by Skewing Uniform Segmentation Distributions with an Efficient Path-counting Markov Model

Thomas Bauwens, David Kaczér, Miryam de Lhoneux

InstructPart: Task-Oriented Part Segmentation with Instruction Reasoning

Zifu Wan, Yaqi Xie, Ce Zhang, Zhiqiu Lin, Zihan Wang

Asclepius: A Spectrum Evaluation Benchmark for Medical Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Jie Liu, Wenxuan Wang, Su Yihang, Jingyuan Huang, Yudi Zhang

DEEPER Insight into Your User: Directed Persona Refinement for Dynamic Persona Modeling

Aili Chen, Chengyu Du, Jiangjie Chen, Jinghan Xu, Yikai Zhang

HalluLens: LLM Hallucination Benchmark

Yejin Bang, Ziwei Ji, Alan Schelten, Anthony Hartshorn, Tara Fowler

Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Evidence Tree Search

Hao Sun, Hengyi Cai, Yuchen Li, Xuanbo Fan, Xiaochi Wei

Analyzing LLMs’ Knowledge Boundary Cognition Across Languages Through the Lens of Internal Representations

Chenghao Xiao, Hou Pong Chan, Hao Zhang, Mahani Aljunied, Lidong Bing

Representation Bending for Large Language Model Safety

Ashkan Yousefpour, Taeheon Kim, Ryan Sungmo Kwon, Seungbeen Lee, Wonje Jeung

Marco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language

Bo Zeng, Chenyang Lyu, Sinuo Liu, Mingyan Zeng, Minghao Wu

Towards Dynamic Theory of Mind: Evaluating LLM Adaptation to Temporal Evolution of Human States

Yang Xiao, Jiashuo WANG, Qiancheng Xu, Changhe Song, Chunpu Xu

AgentDropout: Dynamic Agent Elimination for Token-Efficient and High-Performance LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration

Zhexuan Wang, Yutong Wang, Xuebo Liu, Liang Ding, Miao Zhang

Uncertainty-Aware Iterative Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning

Lei Li, Hehuan Liu, Yaxin Zhou, ZhaoYang Gui, Xudong Weng

MEXMA: Token-level objectives improve sentence representations

João Maria Janeiro, Benjamin Piwowarski, Patrick Gallinari, Loic Barrault

Don’t Get Lost in the Trees: Streamlining LLM Reasoning by Overcoming Tree Search Exploration Pitfalls

Ante Wang, Linfeng Song, Ye Tian, Dian Yu, Haitao Mi

Unveil: Unified Visual-Textual Integration and Distillation for Multi-modal Document Retrieval

Hao Sun, Yingyan Hou, Jiayan Guo, Bo Wang, Chunyu Yang

Enhancing Machine Translation with Self-Supervised Preference Data

Haoxiang Sun, Ruize Gao, Pei Zhang, Baosong Yang, Rui Wang

Limited Generalizability in Argument Mining: State-Of-The-Art Models Learn Datasets, Not Arguments

Marc Feger, Katarina Boland, Stefan Dietze

Revisiting Scaling Laws for Language Models: The Role of Data Quality and Training Strategies

Zhengyu Chen, Siqi Wang, Teng Xiao, Yudong Wang, shiqi chen

Ref-Long: Benchmarking the Long-context Referencing Capability of Long-context Language Models

Junjie Wu, Gefei Gu, Yanan Zheng, Dit-Yan Yeung, Arman Cohan

A Dual-Mind Framework for Strategic and Expressive Negotiation Agent

Yutong Liu, Lida Shi, Rui Song, Hao Xu

Rubrik’s Cube: Testing a New Rubric for Evaluating Explanations on the CUBE dataset

Diana Galván-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Pride Kavumba, Yunmeng Li, Hongyi Gu

Graph of Records: Boosting Retrieval Augmented Generation for Long-context Summarization with Graphs

Haozhen Zhang, Tao Feng, Jiaxuan You

CRUXEVAL-X: A Benchmark for Multilingual Code Reasoning, Understanding and Execution

Ruiyang Xu, Jialun Cao, Yaojie Lu, Ming Wen, Hongyu Lin

Capability Salience Vector: Fine-grained Alignment of Loss and Capabilities for Downstream Task Scaling Law

Qiming Ge, Shuhao Xing, Songyang Gao, Yunhua Zhou, Yicheng Zou

Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs

Beatrix Miranda Ginn Nielsen, Iuri Macocco, Marco Baroni

Exploring Explanations Improves the Robustness of In-Context Learning

Ukyo Honda, Tatsushi Oka

Generating Plausible Distractors for Multiple-Choice Questions via Student Choice Prediction

Yooseop Lee, Suin Kim, Yohan Jo

Don’t Half-listen: Capturing Key-part Information in Continual Instruction Tuning

Yongquan He, Wenyuan Zhang, Xuancheng Huang, Peng Zhang, Lingxun Meng

Finding Needles in Images: Can Multi-modal LLMs Locate Fine Details?

Parth Thakkar, Ankush Agarwal, Prasad Kasu, Pulkit Bansal, Chaitanya Devaguptapu

On the Relation Between Fine-Tuning, Topological Properties, and Task Performance in Sense-Enhanced Embeddings

Deniz Ekin Yavas, Timothée Bernard, Benoit Crabbé, Laura Kallmeyer

QualiSpeech: A Speech Quality Assessment Dataset with Natural Language Reasoning and Descriptions

Siyin Wang, Wenyi Yu, Xianzhao Chen, Xiaohai Tian, Jun Zhang

MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Tongtong Wu, Wenxuan Zhang

CoE: A Clue of Emotion Framework for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Zhiyu Shen, Yunhe Pang, Yanghui Rao, Jianxing Yu

T2A-Feedback: Improving Basic Capabilities of Text-to-Audio Generation via Fine-grained AI Feedback

Zehan Wang, Ke Lei, Chen Zhu, Jiawei Huang, Sashuai Zhou

Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Haoran Sun, Yekun Chai, Shuohuan Wang, Yu Sun, Hua Wu

Marco-o1 v2: Towards Widening The Distillation Bottleneck for Reasoning Models

Huifeng Yin, Yu Zhao, Minghao Wu, Xuanfan Ni, Bo Zeng

Small Changes, Big Impact: How Manipulating a Few Neurons Can Drastically Alter LLM Aggression

Jaewook Lee, Junseo Jang, Oh-Woog Kwon, Harksoo Kim

Mamba Knockout for Unraveling Factual Information Flow

Nir Endy, Idan Daniel Grosbard, Yuval Ran-Milo, Yonatan Slutzky, Itay Tshuva

Beyond the Answer: Advancing Multi-Hop QA with Fine-Grained Graph Reasoning and Evaluation

Qichuan Liu, Chentao Zhang, Chenfeng Zheng, Guosheng Hu, Xiaodong Li