ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Language Models Resist Alignment: Evidence From Data Compression

Jiaming Ji, Kaile Wang, Tianyi Alex Qiu, Boyuan Chen, Jiayi Zhou

MobiLoRA: Accelerating LoRA-based LLM Inference on Mobile Devices via Context-aware KV Cache Optimization

Borui Li, Yitao Wang, Haoran Ma, Ligeng Chen, Jun Xiao

Beyond Prompt Engineering: Robust Behavior Control in LLMs via Steering Target Atoms

Mengru Wang, Ziwen Xu, Shengyu Mao, Shumin Deng, Zhaopeng Tu

FCMR: Robust Evaluation of Financial Cross-Modal Multi-Hop Reasoning

Seunghee Kim, Changhyeon Kim, Taeuk Kim

SoftCoT: Soft Chain-of-Thought for Efficient Reasoning with LLMs

Yige Xu, Xu Guo, Zhiwei Zeng, Chunyan Miao

Synthesizing Post-Training Data for LLMs through Multi-Agent Simulation

Shuo Tang, Xianghe Pang, Zexi Liu, Bohan Tang, Rui Ye

Data Whisperer: Efficient Data Selection for Task-Specific LLM Fine-Tuning via Few-Shot In-Context Learning

Shaobo Wang, Xiangqi Jin, Ziming Wang, Jize Wang, Jiajun Zhang

Employing Discourse Coherence Enhancement to Improve Cross-Document Event and Entity Coreference Resolution

Xinyu Chen, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

Tracing and Dissecting How LLMs Recall Factual Knowledge for Real World Questions

Yiqun Wang, Chaoqun Wan, Sile Hu, Yonggang Zhang, Xiang Tian

Learning to Look at the Other Side: A Semantic Probing Study of Word Embeddings in LLMs with Enabled Bidirectional Attention

Zhaoxin Feng, Jianfei Ma, Emmanuele Chersoni, Xiaojing Zhao, Xiaoyi Bao

S2WTM: Spherical Sliced-Wasserstein Autoencoder for Topic Modeling

Suman Adhya, Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Does the Emotional Understanding of LVLMs Vary Under High-Stress Environments and Across Different Demographic Attributes?

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

Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Critical Representation Fine-tuning

Chenxi Huang, Shaotian Yan, Liang Xie, Binbin Lin, Sinan Fan

MT-RAIG: Novel Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Insight Generation over Multiple Tables

Kwangwook Seo, Donguk Kwon, Dongha Lee

DRAE: Dynamic Retrieval-Augmented Expert Networks for Lifelong Learning and Task Adaptation in Robotics

Yayu Long, Kewei Chen, Long Jin, Mingsheng Shang

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention

Jingyang Yuan, Huazuo Gao, Damai Dai, Junyu Luo, Liang Zhao

Beyond Logits: Aligning Feature Dynamics for Effective Knowledge Distillation

Guoqiang Gong, Jiaxing Wang, Jin Xu, Deping Xiang, Zicheng Zhang

One QuantLLM for ALL: Fine-tuning Quantized LLMs Once for Efficient Deployments

Ke Yi, Yuhui Xu, Heng Chang, Yuan Meng, Tong Zhang

HoPE: A Novel Positional Encoding Without Long-Term Decay for Enhanced Context Awareness and Extrapolation

Yuhan Chen, Ang Lv, Jian Luan, Bin Wang, Wei Liu

WET: Overcoming Paraphrasing Vulnerabilities in Embeddings-as-a-Service with Linear Transformation Watermarks

Anudeex Shetty, Qiongkai Xu, Jey Han Lau

From English to Second Language Mastery: Enhancing LLMs with Cross-Lingual Continued Instruction Tuning

Linjuan Wu, Hao-Ran Wei, Baosong Yang, Weiming Lu

Are We in the AI-Generated Text World Already? Quantifying and Monitoring AIGT on Social Media

Zhen Sun, Zongmin Zhang, Xinyue Shen, Ziyi Zhang, Yule Liu

VITAL: A New Dataset for Benchmarking Pluralistic Alignment in Healthcare

Anudeex Shetty, Amin Beheshti, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem

Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models

Rui Li, Jing Long, Muge Qi, Heming Xia, Lei Sha

“What do you call a dog that is incontrovertibly true? Dogma”: Testing LLM Generalization through Humor

Alessio Cocchieri, Luca Ragazzi, Paolo Italiani, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Gianluca Moro

Mining the uncertainty patterns of humans and models in the annotation of moral foundations and human values

Neele Falk, Gabriella Lapesa

Around the World in 24 Hours: Probing LLM Knowledge of Time and Place

Carolin Holtermann, Paul Röttger, Anne Lauscher

A Statistical and Multi-Perspective Revisiting of the Membership Inference Attack in Large Language Models

Bowen Chen, Namgi Han, Yusuke Miyao

Look Both Ways and No Sink: Converting LLMs into Text Encoders without Training

Ziyong Lin, Haoyi Wu, Shu Wang, Kewei Tu, Zilong Zheng

TUMLU: A Unified and Native Language Understanding Benchmark for Turkic Languages

Jafar Isbarov, Arofat Akhundjanova, Mammad Hajili, Kavsar Huseynova, Dmitry Gaynullin

EdiText: Controllable Coarse-to-Fine Text Editing with Diffusion Language Models

Che Hyun Lee, Heeseung Kim, Jiheum Yeom, Sungroh Yoon

Silencing Empowerment, Allowing Bigotry: Auditing the Moderation of Hate Speech on Twitch

Prarabdh Shukla, Wei Yin Chong, Yash Patel, Brennan Schaffner, Danish Pruthi

CENTAUR: Bridging the Impossible Trinity of Privacy, Efficiency, and Performance in Privacy-Preserving Transformer Inference

Jinglong Luo, Guanzhong Chen, Yehong Zhang, SHIYU LIU, Hui Wang

XDAC: XAI-Driven Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated News Comments in Korean

Wooyoung Go, Hyoungshick Kim, Alice Oh, Yongdae Kim

STRICTA: Structured Reasoning in Critical Text Assessment for Peer Review and Beyond

Nils Dycke, Matej Zečević, Ilia Kuznetsov, Beatrix Suess, Kristian Kersting

Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning With Preference Optimization For Visual Program Generation

Deokhyung Kang, Jeonghun Cho, Yejin Jeon, Sunbin Jang, Minsub Lee

Advancing Collaborative Debates with Role Differentiation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Haoran Li, Ziyi Su, Yun Xue, Zhiliang Tian, Yiping Song

S2R: Teaching LLMs to Self-verify and Self-correct via Reinforcement Learning

Ruotian Ma, Peisong Wang, Cheng Liu, Xingyan Liu, Jiaqi Chen

The Essence of Contextual Understanding in Theory of Mind: A Study on Question Answering with Story Characters

Chulun Zhou, Qiujing Wang, Mo Yu, Xiaoqian Yue, Rui Lu

The Role of Visual Modality in Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning: Challenges and Insights

Yufang Liu, Yao DU, Tao Ji, Jianing Wang, Yang Liu

MEMERAG: A Multilingual End-to-End Meta-Evaluation Benchmark for Retrieval Augmented Generation

María Andrea Cruz Blandón, Jayasimha Talur, Bruno Charron, Dong Liu, Saab Mansour

Boosting LLM’s Molecular Structure Elucidation with Knowledge Enhanced Tree Search Reasoning

Xiang Zhuang, Bin Wu, Jiyu Cui, Kehua Feng, Xiaotong Li

Keys to Robust Edits: From Theoretical Insights to Practical Advances

Jianhao Yan, Futing Wang, Yun Luo, Yafu Li, Yue Zhang

WhiSPA: Semantically and Psychologically Aligned Whisper with Self-Supervised Contrastive and Student-Teacher Learning

Rajath Rao, Adithya V Ganesan, Oscar Kjell, Jonah Luby, Akshay Raghavan

Towards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models

Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Zheyu Ye, Yan Gao

MMRC: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Understanding Multimodal Large Language Model in Real-World Conversation

Haochen Xue, Feilong Tang, Ming Hu, Yexin Liu, Qidong Huang

LESA: Learnable LLM Layer Scaling-Up

Yifei Yang, Zouying Cao, Xinbei Ma, Yao Yao, Zhi Chen

ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts

Manan Suri, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, Franck Dernoncourt, Ryan A. Rossi

Decoding Knowledge Attribution in Mixture-of-Experts: A Framework of Basic-Refinement Collaboration and Efficiency Analysis

Junzhuo Li, Bo Wang, Xiuze Zhou, Peijie Jiang, Jia Liu

CulFiT: A Fine-grained Cultural-aware LLM Training Paradigm via Multilingual Critique Data Synthesis

Ruixiang Feng, Shen Gao, Xiuying Chen, Lisi Chen, Shuo Shang

Condor: Enhance LLM Alignment with Knowledge-Driven Data Synthesis and Refinement

Maosong Cao, Taolin Zhang, Mo Li, Chuyu Zhang, Yunxin Liu

TableLoRA: Low-rank Adaptation on Table Structure Understanding for Large Language Models

Xinyi He, Yihao Liu, Mengyu Zhou, Yeye He, Haoyu Dong

Mitigating Lost-in-Retrieval Problems in Retrieval Augmented Multi-Hop Question Answering

Rongzhi Zhu, Xiangyu Liu, Zequn Sun, Yiwei Wang, Wei Hu

Automatic Evaluation for Text-to-image Generation: Task-decomposed Framework, Distilled Training, and Meta-evaluation Benchmark

Rong-Cheng Tu, Zi-Ao Ma, Tian Lan, Yuehao Zhao, Heyan Huang

Caution for the Environment: Multimodal LLM Agents are Susceptible to Environmental Distractions

Xinbei Ma, Yiting Wang, Yao Yao, Tongxin Yuan, Aston Zhang

RiOT: Efficient Prompt Refinement with Residual Optimization Tree

Chenyi Zhou, Zhengyan Shi, Yuan Yao, Lei Liang, Huajun Chen

CoreEval: Automatically Building Contamination-Resilient Datasets with Real-World Knowledge toward Reliable LLM Evaluation

Jingqian Zhao, Bingbing Wang, Geng Tu, Yice Zhang, Qianlong Wang

Diversity-oriented Data Augmentation with Large Language Models

Zaitian Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Xinhao Zhang, Kunpeng Liu, pengfei wang

Detecting Sockpuppetry on Wikipedia Using Meta-Learning

Luc Raszewski, Christine De Kock

Disentangling Language and Culture for Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models

Jiahao Ying, Wei Tang, Yiran Zhao, Yixin Cao, Yu Rong

Flipping Knowledge Distillation: Leveraging Small Models’ Expertise to Enhance LLMs in Text Matching

Mingzhe Li, Jing Xiang, Qishen Zhang, Kaiyang Wan, Xiuying Chen

ProMALex: Progressive Modular Adapters for Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Language Modeling

Santosh T.y.s.s, Mohamed Hesham Elganayni

IOPO: Empowering LLMs with Complex Instruction Following via Input-Output Preference Optimization

Xinghua Zhang, Haiyang Yu, Cheng Fu, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li

Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race

Lihao Sun, Chengzhi Mao, Valentin Hofmann, Xuechunzi Bai

A Mutual Information Perspective on Knowledge Graph Embedding

Jiang Li, Xiangdong Su, Zehua Duo, Tian Lan, Xiaotao Guo

Not All Terms Matter: Recall-Oriented Adaptive Learning for PLM-aided Query Expansion in Open-Domain Question Answering

Xinran Chen, Ben He, Xuanang Chen, Le Sun

Proxy-Driven Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data

Aoqiang Zhu, Min Hu, Xiaohua Wang, Jiaoyun Yang, Yiming Tang

JoPA: Explaining Large Language Model’s Generation via Joint Prompt Attribution

Yurui Chang, Bochuan Cao, Yujia Wang, Jinghui Chen, Lu Lin

Enhancing Multimodal Retrieval via Complementary Information Extraction and Alignment

Delong Zeng, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li, Ying Shen

CoIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Information Retrieval Models

Xiangyang Li, Kuicai Dong, Yi Quan Lee, Wei Xia, Hao Zhang

Reinforced IR: A Self-Boosting Framework For Domain-Adapted Information Retrieval

Chaofan Li, Jianlyu Chen, Yingxia Shao, Chaozhuo Li, Quanqing Xu

IndicSynth: A Large-Scale Multilingual Synthetic Speech Dataset for Low-Resource Indian Languages

Divya V Sharma, Vijval Ekbote, Anubha Gupta

HACo-Det: A Study Towards Fine-Grained Machine-Generated Text Detection under Human-AI Coauthoring

Zhixiong Su, Yichen Wang, Herun Wan, Zhaohan Zhang, Minnan Luo

Can LLMs Reason About Program Semantics? A Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs on Formal Specification Inference

Thanh Le-Cong, Bach Le, Toby Murray

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Larger BERT Models for Compression

Wen-shu Fan, Su Lu, Shangyu Xing, Xin-Chun Li, De-Chuan Zhan

Evaluating Visual and Cultural Interpretation: The K-Viscuit Benchmark with Human-VLM Collaboration

ChaeHun Park, Yujin Baek, Jaeseok Kim, Yu-Jung Heo, Du-Seong Chang

GUICourse: From General Vision Language Model to Versatile GUI Agent

Wentong Chen, Junbo Cui, Jinyi Hu, Yujia Qin, Junjie Fang

Evaluating Personalized Tool-Augmented LLMs from the Perspectives of Personalization and Proactivity

Yupu Hao, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran jin, Huanxuan Liao, Yubo Chen

Knowledge Image Matters: Improving Knowledge-Based Visual Reasoning with Multi-Image Large Language Models

Guanghui Ye, Huan Zhao, Zhixue Zhao, Xupeng Zha, Yang Liu

FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Qinggang Zhang, Zhishang Xiang, Yilin Xiao, Le Wang, Junhui Li

ECLM: Entity Level Language Model for Spoken Language Understanding with Chain of Intent

Shangjian Yin, Peijie Huang, JiaTian Chen, Haojing Huang, Yuhong Xu

Don’t Erase, Inform! Detecting and Contextualizing Harmful Language in Cultural Heritage Collections

Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis, Jason Liartis, Kristina Rose, Antoine Isaac, Giorgos Stamou

Typology-Guided Adaptation in Multilingual Models

Ndapa Nakashole

Prompt-Guided Internal States for Hallucination Detection of Large Language Models

Fujie Zhang, Peiqi Yu, Biao Yi, Baolei Zhang, Tong Li

PerSphere: A Comprehensive Framework for Multi-Faceted Perspective Retrieval and Summarization

Yun Luo, Yingjie Li, Xiangkun Hu, Qinglin Qi, Fang Guo

Dolphin: Moving Towards Closed-loop Auto-research through Thinking, Practice, and Feedback

Jiakang Yuan, Xiangchao Yan, Bo Zhang, Tao Chen, Botian Shi

LED-Merging: Mitigating Safety-Utility Conflicts in Model Merging with Location-Election-Disjoint

Qianli Ma, Dongrui Liu, Qian Chen, Linfeng Zhang, Jing Shao

Automated CAD Modeling Sequence Generation from Text Descriptions via Transformer-Based Large Language Models

Jianxing Liao, Junyan Xu, Yatao Sun, Maowen Tang, Sicheng He

VisuoThink: Empowering LVLM Reasoning with Multimodal Tree Search

Yikun Wang, Siyin Wang, Qinyuan Cheng, Zhaoye Fei, Liang Ding

Registering Source Tokens to Target Language Spaces in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Zhi Qu, Yiran Wang, Jiannan Mao, Chenchen Ding, Hideki Tanaka

Exclusion of Thought: Mitigating Cognitive Load in Large Language Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Multiple-Choice Tasks

Qihang Fu, Yongbin Qin, Ruizhang Huang, Yanping Chen, Yulin Zhou

Enhancing Goal-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems via Consistency Reflection and Correction

Didi Zhang, Yaxin Fan, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

PsyDial: A Large-scale Long-term Conversational Dataset for Mental Health Support

Huachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan

Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs by Stepwise Correction

Zhenyu Wu, Qingkai Zeng, Zhihan Zhang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Chao Shen

Neural Incompatibility: The Unbridgeable Gap of Cross-Scale Parametric Knowledge Transfer in Large Language Models

Yuqiao Tan, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

CogniBench: A Legal-inspired Framework and Dataset for Assessing Cognitive Faithfulness of Large Language Models

Xiaqiang Tang, Jian Li, Keyu Hu, Nan Du, Xiaolong Li

JailbreakRadar: Comprehensive Assessment of Jailbreak Attacks Against LLMs

Junjie Chu, Yugeng Liu, Ziqing Yang, Xinyue Shen, Michael Backes

World Modeling Makes a Better Planner: Dual Preference Optimization for Embodied Task Planning

Siyin Wang, Zhaoye Fei, Qinyuan Cheng, Shiduo Zhang, Panpan Cai

OZSpeech: One-step Zero-shot Speech Synthesis with Learned-Prior-Conditioned Flow Matching

Nghia Huynh Nguyen Hieu, Ngoc Son Nguyen, Huynh Nguyen Dang, Thieu Vo, Truong-Son Hy

Can Third Parties Read Our Emotions?

Jiayi Li, Yingfan Zhou, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Halima Binte Islam, Sneha Arya