ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Ontology-Guided Reverse Thinking Makes Large Language Models Stronger on Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Runxuan Liu, Bei Luo, Jiaqi Li, Baoxin Wang, Ming Liu

Efficient Long Context Language Model Retrieval with Compression

Minju Seo, Jinheon Baek, Seongyun Lee, Sung Ju Hwang

LLaVA Steering: Visual Instruction Tuning with 500x Fewer Parameters through Modality Linear Representation-Steering

Jinhe Bi, Yujun Wang, Haokun Chen, Xun Xiao, Artur Hecker

Why Safeguarded Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models’ Safety Mechanisms Tend to Be Anchored in The Template Region

Chak Tou Leong, Qingyu Yin, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li

Cheems: A Practical Guidance for Building and Evaluating Chinese Reward Models from Scratch

Xueru Wen, Jie Lou, Zichao Li, Yaojie Lu, Xing Yu

MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark

Xiang Yue, Tianyu Zheng, Yuansheng Ni, Yubo Wang, Kai Zhang

CART: A Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval Framework With Coarse-To-Fine Semantic Modeling

Minghui Fang, Shengpeng Ji, Jialong Zuo, Hai Huang, Yan Xia

Cross-Lingual Optimization for Language Transfer in Large Language Models

Jungseob Lee, SeongTae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim

TRIDENT: Enhancing Large Language Model Safety with Tri-Dimensional Diversified Red-Teaming Data Synthesis

Xiaorui Wu, Xiaofeng Mao, Fei Li, Xin Zhang, Xuanhong Li

Chinese SafetyQA: A Safety Short-form Factuality Benchmark for Large Language Models

Yingshui Tan, Boren Zheng, Baihui Zheng, Kerui Cao, Huiyun Jing

Crab: A Novel Configurable Role-Playing LLM with Assessing Benchmark

Kai He, Yucheng Huang, Wenqing Wang, Delong Ran, Dongming Sheng

SCULPT: Systematic Tuning of Long Prompts

Shanu Kumar, Akhila Yesantarao Venkata, Shubhanshu Khandelwal, Bishal Santra, Parag Agrawal

GraphCheck: Breaking Long-Term Text Barriers with Extracted Knowledge Graph-Powered Fact-Checking

Yingjian Chen, Haoran Liu, Yinhong Liu, Jinxiang Xie, Rui Yang

Can LLMs Ground when they (Don’t) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions

Clara Lachenmaier, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß

Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models

Philipp Mondorf, Sondre Wold, Barbara Plank

Two Intermediate Translations Are Better Than One: Fine-tuning LLMs for Document-level Translation Refinement

Yichen Dong, Xinglin Lyu, Junhui Li, Daimeng Wei, Min Zhang

SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark

Joel Niklaus, Jakob Merane, Luka Nenadic, Sina Ahmadi, Yingqiang Gao

HiddenDetect: Detecting Jailbreak Attacks against Multimodal Large Language Models via Monitoring Hidden States

Yilei Jiang, Xinyan Gao, Tianshuo Peng, Yingshui Tan, Xiaoyong Zhu

Towards Robust ESG Analysis Against Greenwashing Risks: Aspect-Action Analysis with Cross-Category Generalization

Keane Ong, Rui Mao, Deeksha Varshney, Erik Cambria, Gianmarco Mengaldo

Towards Objective Fine-tuning: How LLMs’ Prior Knowledge Causes Potential Poor Calibration?

Ziming Wang, Zeyu Shi, Haoyi Zhou, Shiqi Gao, Qingyun Sun

Continual Gradient Low-Rank Projection Fine-Tuning for LLMs

Chenxu Wang, Yilin Lyu, Zicheng Sun, Liping Jing

Can Vision-Language Models Evaluate Handwritten Math?

Oikantik Nath, Hanani Bathina, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Mitesh M Khapra

Adapt Once, Thrive with Updates: Transferable Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on Evolving Base Models

Naibin Gu, Peng Fu, Xiyu Liu, Ke Ma, Zheng Lin

Demystifying Small Language Models for Edge Deployment

Zhenyan Lu, Xiang Li, Dongqi Cai, Rongjie Yi, Fangming Liu

Debiasing the Fine-Grained Classification Task in LLMs with Bias-Aware PEFT

Daiying Zhao, Xinyu Yang, Hang Chen

QAEval: Mixture of Evaluators for Question-Answering Task Evaluation

Tan Yue, Rui Mao, Xuzhao Shi, SHUO ZHAN, Zuhao Yang

RSVP: Reasoning Segmentation via Visual Prompting and Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought

Yi Lu, Jiawang Cao, Yongliang Wu, Bozheng Li, Licheng Tang

QDTSynth: Quality-Driven Formal Theorem Synthesis for Enhancing Proving Performance of LLMs

Lei Wang, Ruobing Zuo, Gaolei He, Jianlin Wang, Zhengfeng Yang

Flexora: Flexible Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models

Chenxing Wei, YAO SHU, Ying Tiffany He, Fei Yu

CoT-ICL Lab: A Synthetic Framework for Studying Chain-of-Thought Learning from In-Context Demonstrations

Vignesh Kothapalli, Hamed Firooz, Maziar Sanjabi

EAGLE: Expert-Guided Self-Enhancement for Preference Alignment in Pathology Large Vision-Language Model

Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Haiqin Zhong, Xiaoqin Wang

DoMIX: An Efficient Framework for Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Fine-Tuning

Dohoon Kim, Donghun Kang, Taesup Moon

OmniFlatten: An End-to-end GPT Model for Seamless Voice Conversation

Qinglin Zhang, Luyao Cheng, Chong Deng, Qian Chen, Wen Wang

From Selection to Generation: A Survey of LLM-based Active Learning

Yu Xia, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Zhouhang Xie, Junda Wu, Xintong Li

Stealing Training Data from Large Language Models in Decentralized Training through Activation Inversion Attack

Chenxi Dai, Lin Lu, Pan Zhou

Instruction Tuning on Public Government and Cultural Data for Low-Resource Language: a Case Study in Kazakh

Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Rituraj Joshi, Maiya Goloburda, Yuxia Wang

Incongruity-aware Tension Field Network for Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection

Jiecheng Zhang, C.L.Philip Chen, Shuzhen Li, Tong Zhang

SHARE: Shared Memory-Aware Open-Domain Long-Term Dialogue Dataset Constructed from Movie Script

Eunwon Kim, Chanho Park, Buru Chang

ClusterAttn: KV Cache Compression under Intrinsic Attention Clustering

Minwei Zhang, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Shaolong Li, Wanyi Ning

Towards Multi-dimensional Evaluation of LLM Summarization across Domains and Languages

Hyangsuk Min, Yuho Lee, Minjeong Ban, Jiaqi Deng, Nicole Hee-Yeon Kim

KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan

Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan, Jonibek Mansurov, Maiya Goloburda

Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images?

Chenhao Zhang, Xi Feng, Yuelin Bai, Xeron Du, Jinchang Hou

Linguistic Generalizability of Test-Time Scaling in Mathematical Reasoning

Guijin Son, Jiwoo Hong, Hyunwoo Ko, James Thorne

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation

Yile Liu, Ziwei Ma, Xiu Jiang, Jinglu Hu, ChangJing ChangJing

Browsing Like Human: A Multimodal Web Agent with Experiential Fast-and-Slow Thinking

Haohao Luo, Jiayi Kuang, Wei Liu, Ying Shen, Jian Luan

Towards Comprehensive Argument Analysis in Education: Dataset, Tasks, and Method

Yupei Ren, Xinyi Zhou, Ning Zhang, Shangqing Zhao, Man Lan

Emma-X: An Embodied Multimodal Action Model with Grounded Chain of Thought and Look-ahead Spatial Reasoning

Qi Sun, Pengfei Hong, Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh, U-Xuan Tan

Contextual Experience Replay for Self-Improvement of Language Agents

Yitao Liu, Chenglei Si, Karthik R Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

UniRAG: Unified Query Understanding Method for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Rui Li, Liyang He, Qi Liu, Zheng Zhang, Heng Yu

Investigating and Enhancing the Robustness of Large Multimodal Models Against Temporal Inconsistency

Jiafeng Liang, Shixin Jiang, Xuan Dong, Ning Wang, Zheng Chu

Learning First-Order Logic Rules for Argumentation Mining

Yang Sun, Guanrong Chen, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Jianzhu Bao, Yuqi Huang

Graph-Structured Trajectory Extraction from Travelogues

Aitaro Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Otomo, Hiroki Ouchi, Shohei Higashiyama, Hiroki Teranishi

MM-Verify: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Chain-of-Thought Verification

Linzhuang Sun, Hao Liang, Jingxuan Wei, Bihui Yu, Tianpeng Li

Cooperative or Competitive? Understanding the Interaction between Attention Heads From A Game Theory Perspective

Xiaoye Qu, Zengqi Yu, Dongrui Liu, Wei Wei, Daizong Liu

Innovative Image Fraud Detection with Cross-Sample Anomaly Analysis: The Power of LLMs

QiWen Wang, Junqi Yang, Zhenghao Lin, Zhenzhe Ying, Weiqiang Wang

Multi-level Association Refinement Network for Dialogue Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Analysis

Zeliang Tong, Wei Wei, Xiaoye Qu, Rikui Huang, Zhixin Chen

SPECTRA: Faster Large Language Model Inference with Optimized Internal and External Speculation

Nguyen-Khang Le, Truong Dinh Do, Le-Minh Nguyen

Multi-task Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Model with Few-shot Queries

wenqiang wang, Yan Xiao, Hao Lin, Yangshijie Zhang, Xiaochun Cao

LexCLiPR: Cross-Lingual Paragraph Retrieval from Legal Judgments

Rohit Upadhya, Santosh T.y.s.s

Recent Advances in Speech Language Models: A Survey

Wenqian Cui, Dianzhi Yu, Xiaoqi Jiao, Ziqiao Meng, Guangyan Zhang

SIFT-50M: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Instruction Fine-Tuning

Prabhat Pandey, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan, K V Vijay Girish, Arunasish Sen, Jian. Xie

MAmmoTH-VL: Eliciting Multimodal Reasoning with Instruction Tuning at Scale

Jiawei Guo, Tianyu Zheng, Yizhi Li, Yuelin Bai, Bo Li

HSCR: Hierarchical Self-Contrastive Rewarding for Aligning Medical Vision Language Models

Songtao Jiang, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Zhihang Tang, Yangyang Wu

A Training-free LLM-based Approach to General Chinese Character Error Correction

Houquan Zhou, Bo Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Ming Yan, Min Zhang

MEDDxAgent: A Unified Modular Agent Framework for Explainable Automatic Differential Diagnosis

Daniel Philip Rose, Chia-Chien Hung, Marco Lepri, Israa Alqassem, Kiril Gashteovski

GALLa: Graph Aligned Large Language Models for Improved Source Code Understanding

Ziyin Zhang, Hang Yu, Sage Lee, Peng Di, Jianguo Li

YESciEval: Robust LLM-as-a-Judge for Scientific Question Answering

Jennifer D’Souza, Hamed Babaei Giglou, Quentin Münch

How does Misinformation Affect Large Language Model Behaviors and Preferences?

Miao Peng, Nuo Chen, Jianheng Tang, Jia Li

FlashAudio: Rectified Flow for Fast and High-Fidelity Text-to-Audio Generation

Huadai Liu, Jialei Wang, Rongjie Huang, Yang Liu, Heng Lu

Mimicking the Familiar: Dynamic Command Generation for Information Theft Attacks in LLM Tool-Learning System

Ziyou Jiang, Mingyang Li, Guowei Yang, Junjie Wang, Yuekai Huang

STUN: Structured-Then-Unstructured Pruning for Scalable MoE Pruning

Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Daniel F Campos, Zhewei Yao

CRiskEval: A Chinese Multi-Level Risk Evaluation Benchmark Dataset for Large Language Models

Ling Shi, Deyi Xiong

TeamLoRA: Boosting Low-Rank Adaptation with Expert Collaboration and Competition

Tianwei Lin, Jiang Liu, Wenqiao Zhang, Yang Dai, Haoyuan Li

Finite State Automata Inside Transformers with Chain-of-Thought: A Mechanistic Study on State Tracking

Yifan Zhang, Wenyu Du, Dongming Jin, Jie Fu, Zhi Jin

Self-supervised Quantized Representation for Seamlessly Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models

Qika Lin, Tianzhe Zhao, Kai He, Zhen Peng, Fangzhi Xu

HiDe-LLaVA: Hierarchical Decoupling for Continual Instruction Tuning of Multimodal Large Language Model

Haiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Ziwei Xiang, Fei Zhu, Da-Han Wang

ChainEdit: Propagating Ripple Effects in LLM Knowledge Editing through Logical Rule-Guided Chains

Zilu Dong, Xiangqing Shen, Zinong Yang, Rui Xia

Lexical Recall or Logical Reasoning: Probing the Limits of Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models

Henrike Beyer, Chris Reed

ReflecTool: Towards Reflection-Aware Tool-Augmented Clinical Agents

Yusheng Liao, Shuyang Jiang, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Wang

SDBench: A Survey-based Domain-specific LLM Benchmarking and Optimization Framework

Cheng Guo, Hu Kai, Shuxian Liang, Yiyang Jiang, Yi Gao

Cross-Lingual Generalization and Compression: From Language-Specific to Shared Neurons

Frederick Riemenschneider, Anette Frank

PQR: Improving Dense Retrieval via Potential Query Modeling

Junfeng Kang, Rui Li, Qi Liu, Yanjiang Chen, Zheng Zhang

DREsS: Dataset for Rubric-based Essay Scoring on EFL Writing

Haneul Yoo, Jieun Han, So-Yeon Ahn, Alice Oh

Unleashing LLM Reasoning Capability via Scalable Question Synthesis from Scratch

Yuyang Ding, Xinyu Shi, xiaobo liang, Juntao Li, Zhaopeng Tu

Code-Switching Red-Teaming: LLM Evaluation for Safety and Multilingual Understanding

Haneul Yoo, YongJin Yang, Hwaran Lee

MMLU-CF: A Contamination-free Multi-task Language Understanding Benchmark

Qihao Zhao, Yangyu Huang, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Qinzheng Sun

Adaptive Tool Use in Large Language Models with Meta-Cognition Trigger

Wenjun Li, Dexun Li, Kuicai Dong, Cong Zhang, Hao Zhang

Language-Codec: Bridging Discrete Codec Representations and Speech Language Models

Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang, Jialong Zuo, Ziyue Jiang, Dingdong Wang

Efficient OpAmp Adaptation for Zoom Attention to Golden Contexts

Haoyuan Wu, Rui Ming, Haisheng Zheng, Zhuolun He, Bei Yu

MadaKV: Adaptive Modality-Perception KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Multimodal Long-Context Inference

Kunxi Li, Zhonghua Jiang, Zhouzhou Shen, Zhaode Wang, Chengfei Lv

LLaSE-G1: Incentivizing Generalization Capability for LLaMA-based Speech Enhancement

Boyi Kang, Xinfa Zhu, Zihan Zhang, Zhen Ye, Mingshuai Liu

Inducing lexicons of in-group language with socio-temporal context

Christine De Kock

Rethinking Reward Model Evaluation Through the Lens of Reward Overoptimization

Sunghwan Kim, Dongjin Kang, Taeyoon Kwon, Hyungjoo Chae, Dongha Lee

Can LLM Watermarks Robustly Prevent Unauthorized Knowledge Distillation?

Leyi Pan, Aiwei Liu, Shiyu Huang, Yijian Lu, Xuming Hu

𝜙-Decoding: Adaptive Foresight Sampling for Balanced Inference-Time Exploration and Exploitation

Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Jun Liu

Knowledge Decoupling via Orthogonal Projection for Lifelong Editing of Large Language Models

Haoyu Xu, Pengxiang Lan, Enneng Yang, Guibing Guo, Jianzhe Zhao

Extending Complex Logical Queries on Uncertain Knowledge Graphs

Weizhi Fei, Zihao Wang, Hang Yin, Yang Duan, Yangqiu Song

Genius: A Generalizable and Purely Unsupervised Self-Training Framework For Advanced Reasoning

Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Qiushi Sun

Cultivating Gaming Sense for Yourself: Making VLMs Gaming Experts

Wenxuan Lu, Jiangyang He, Zhanqiu Zhang, Steven Y. Guo, Tianning Zang

Qwen2.5-xCoder: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning

Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, yibo miao, Shanghaoran Quan, Zhenhe Wu