ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Wizard of Shopping: Target-Oriented E-commerce Dialogue Generation with Decision Tree Branching

Xiangci Li, Zhiyu Chen, Jason Ingyu Choi, Nikhita Vedula, Besnik Fetahu

CLAIM: Mitigating Multilingual Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models with Cross-Lingual Attention Intervention

Zekai Ye, Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Libo Qin, Yichong Huang

Exploring Compositional Generalization of Multimodal LLMs for Medical Imaging

Zhenyang Cai, Junying Chen, Rongsheng Wang, Weihong Wang, Yonglin Deng

MapNav: A Novel Memory Representation via Annotated Semantic Maps for VLM-based Vision-and-Language Navigation

Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Qinwen Xu, Qiang Zhang, Xinyao Zhang

Upcycling Instruction Tuning from Dense to Mixture-of-Experts via Parameter Merging

Tingfeng Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang, Yu Sun, Hua Wu

Improving Medical Large Vision-Language Models with Abnormal-Aware Feedback

Yucheng Zhou, Lingran Song, Jianbing Shen

Interactive Evolution: A Neural-Symbolic Self-Training Framework For Large Language Models

Fangzhi Xu, Qiushi Sun, Kanzhi Cheng, Jun Liu, Yu Qiao

Activation Steering Decoding: Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models through Bidirectional Hidden State Intervention

Jingran Su, Jingfan Chen, Hongxin Li, Yuntao Chen, Li Qing

EAC-MoE: Expert-Selection Aware Compressor for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models

Yuanteng Chen, Yuantian Shao, Peisong Wang, Jian Cheng

Can Large Language Models Understand Internet Buzzwords Through User-Generated Content

Chen Huang, Junkai Luo, Xinzuo Wang, Wenqiang Lei, Jiancheng Lv

Accurate KV Cache Quantization with Outlier Tokens Tracing

Yi Su, Yuechi Zhou, Quantong Qiu, Juntao Li, Qingrong Xia

Lost in Literalism: How Supervised Training Shapes Translationese in LLMs

Yafu Li, Ronghao Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Huajian Zhang, Leyang Cui

RankCoT: Refining Knowledge for Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Ranking Chain-of-Thoughts

Mingyan Wu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Xinze Li, Shi Yu

From Objectives to Questions: A Planning-based Framework for Educational Mathematical Question Generation

cheng cheng, Zhenya Huang, Guanhao Zhao, Yuxiang Guo, Xin lin

Beyond Surface Simplicity: Revealing Hidden Reasoning Attributes for Precise Commonsense Diagnosis

Huijun Lian, Zekai Sun, Keqi Chen, Yingming Gao, Ya Li

HFT: Half Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Tingfeng Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang, Weiran Xu, Yu Sun

SCAR: Data Selection via Style Consistency-Aware Response Ranking for Efficient Instruction-Tuning of Large Language Models

Zhuang Li, Yuncheng Hua, Thuy-Trang Vu, Haolan Zhan, Lizhen Qu

Unveiling Attractor Cycles in Large Language Models: A Dynamical Systems View of Successive Paraphrasing

Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Jianhao Yan, Yu Cheng, Yue Zhang

Nudging: Inference-time Alignment of LLMs via Guided Decoding

Yu Fei, Yasaman Razeghi, Sameer Singh

Can Knowledge Graphs Make Large Language Models More Trustworthy? An Empirical Study Over Open-ended Question Answering

Yuan Sui, Yufei He, Zifeng Ding, Bryan Hooi

Planning-Driven Programming: A Large Language Model Programming Workflow

Chao Lei, Yanchuan Chang, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger

A Unified Agentic Framework for Evaluating Conditional Image Generation

Jifang Wang, Xue Yang, Longyue Wang, Zhenran Xu, Yiyu Wang

Agentic Knowledgeable Self-awareness

Shuofei Qiao, Zhisong Qiu, Baochang Ren, Xiaobin Wang, Xiangyuan Ru

Outlier-Safe Pre-Training for Robust 4-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models

Jungwoo Park, Taewhoo Lee, Chanwoong Yoon, Hyeon Hwang, Jaewoo Kang

SINCon: Mitigate LLM-Generated Malicious Message Injection Attack for Rumor Detection

Mingqing Zhang, Qiang Liu, Xiang Tao, Shu Wu, Liang Wang

Enhancing Safe and Controllable Protein Generation via Knowledge Preference Optimization

Yuhao Wang, Keyan Ding, Kehua Feng, Zeyuan Wang, Ming Qin

Finding the Sweet Spot: Preference Data Construction for Scaling Preference Optimization

Yao Xiao, Hai Ye, Linyao Chen, Hwee Tou Ng, Lidong Bing

ChildMandarin: A Comprehensive Mandarin Speech Dataset for Young Children Aged 3-5

Jiaming Zhou, Shiyao Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Jiabei He, Haoqin Sun

WavRAG: Audio-Integrated Retrieval Augmented Generation for Spoken Dialogue Models

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Haoxiao Wang, Ziqing Wang, Siyu Chen

Redundancy Principles for MLLMs Benchmarks

Zicheng Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Xinyu Fang, Chunyi Li, Xiaohong Liu

AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research

Yilun Zhao, Weiyuan Chen, Zhijian Xu, Manasi Patwardhan, Chengye Wang

Making LLMs Better Many-to-Many Speech-to-Text Translators with Curriculum Learning

Yexing Du, Youcheng Pan, Ziyang Ma, Bo Yang, Yifan Yang

SURVEYFORGE : On the Outline Heuristics, Memory-Driven Generation, and Multi-dimensional Evaluation for Automated Survey Writing

Xiangchao Yan, Shiyang Feng, Jiakang Yuan, Renqiu Xia, Bin Wang

KokoroChat: A Japanese Psychological Counseling Dialogue Dataset Collected via Role-Playing by Trained Counselors

Zhiyang Qi, Takumasa Kaneko, Keiko Takamizo, Mariko Ukiyo, Michimasa Inaba

SDPO: Segment-Level Direct Preference Optimization for Social Agents

Aobo Kong, Wentao Ma, Shiwan Zhao, Yongbin Li, Yuchuan Wu

Single-to-mix Modality Alignment with Multimodal Large Language Model for Document Image Machine Translation

Yupu Liang, Yaping Zhang, Zhiyang Zhang, Yang Zhao, Lu Xiang

Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model

Emre Can Acikgoz, Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, Ze Yang, William Zeng

TreeRL: LLM Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Tree Search

Zhenyu Hou, Ziniu Hu, Yujiang Li, Rui Lu, Jie Tang

RolePlot: A Systematic Framework for Evaluating and Enhancing the Plot-Progression Capabilities of Role-Playing Agents

Pinyi Zhang, Siyu An, Lingfeng Qiao, Yifei Yu, Jingyang Chen

RSCF: Relation-Semantics Consistent Filter for Entity Embedding of Knowledge Graph

Junsik Kim, Jinwook Park, kangil kim

Reliably Bounding False Positives: A Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection Framework via Multiscaled Conformal Prediction

Xiaowei Zhu, Yubing Ren, Yanan Cao, Xixun Lin, Fang Fang

Enhancing Interpretable Image Classification Through LLM Agents and Conditional Concept Bottleneck Models

Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Wei Feng, Zongyuan Ge

GiFT: Gibbs Fine-Tuning for Code Generation

Haochen Li, Wanjin Feng, Xin Zhou, Zhiqi Shen

Advancing Zero-shot Text-to-Speech Intelligibility across Diverse Domains via Preference Alignment

Xueyao Zhang, Yuancheng Wang, Chaoren Wang, Ziniu Li, Zhuo Chen

HomeBench: Evaluating LLMs in Smart Homes with Valid and Invalid Instructions Across Single and Multiple Devices

Silin Li, Yuhang Guo, Jiashu Yao, Zeming Liu, Haifeng Wang

PsyAdvisor: A Plug-and-Play Strategy Advice Planner with Proactive Questioning in Psychological Conversations

Yuxin Hu, Danni Liu, Bo Liu, Yida Chen, Jiuxin Cao

SAM Decoding: Speculative Decoding via Suffix Automaton

Yuxuan Hu, Ke Wang, Xiaokang Zhang, Fanjin Zhang, Cuiping Li

Safe: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models via Retrospective Step-aware Formal Verification

Chengwu Liu, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin, Yan Xu, Xin Xu

A Multi-persona Framework for Argument Quality Assessment

Bojun Jin, Jianzhu Bao, Yufang Hou, Yang Sun, Yice Zhang

Phonotomizer: A Compact, Unsupervised, Online Training Approach to Real-Time, Multilingual Phonetic Segmentation

Michael S. Yantosca, Albert M. K. Cheng

GraphInsight: Unlocking Insights in Large Language Models for Graph Structure Understanding

Yukun Cao, Shuo Han, Zengyi Gao, Zezhong Ding, Xike Xie

The Tug of War Within: Mitigating the Fairness-Privacy Conflicts in Large Language Models

Chen Qian, Dongrui Liu, Jie Zhang, Yong Liu, Jing Shao

DebateCoder: Towards Collective Intelligence of LLMs via Test Case Driven LLM Debate for Code Generation

Jizheng Chen, Kounianhua Du, Xinyi Dai, Weiming Zhang, Xihuai Wang

Quantifying Semantic Emergence in Language Models

Hang Chen, Xinyu Yang, Jiaying Zhu, Wenya Wang

ACECODER: Acing Coder RL via Automated Test-Case Synthesis

Huaye Zeng, Dongfu Jiang, Haozhe Wang, Ping Nie, Xiaotong Chen

Beyond Dialogue: A Profile-Dialogue Alignment Framework Towards General Role-Playing Language Model

Yeyong Yu, Runsheng Yu, Haojie Wei, Zhanqiu Zhang, Quan Qian

Generative Psycho-Lexical Approach for Constructing Value Systems in Large Language Models

Haoran Ye, TianZe Zhang, Yuhang Xie, Liyuan Zhang, Yuanyi Ren

UniLR: Unleashing the Power of LLMs on Multiple Legal Tasks with a Unified Legal Retriever

Ang Li, Yiquan Wu, Yifei Liu, Ming Cai, Lizhi Qing

GODBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Video Comment Art

Yiming Lei, Chenkai Zhang, Zeming Liu, Haitao Leng, ShaoGuo Liu

BeamLoRA: Beam-Constraint Low-Rank Adaptation

Naibin Gu, Zhenyu Zhang, Xiyu Liu, Peng Fu, Zheng Lin

LongRecipe: Recipe for Efficient Long Context Generalization in Large Language Models

Zhiyuan Hu, Yuliang Liu, Jinman Zhao, Suyuchen Wang, Yan Wang

HyKGE: A Hypothesis Knowledge Graph Enhanced RAG Framework for Accurate and Reliable Medical LLMs Responses

Xinke Jiang, Ruizhe Zhang, Yongxin Xu, Rihong Qiu, Yue Fang

Croppable Knowledge Graph Embedding

Yushan Zhu, Wen Zhang, Zhiqiang Liu, Mingyang Chen, Lei Liang

CaLMQA: Exploring culturally specific long-form question answering across 23 languages

Shane Arora, Marzena Karpinska, Hung-Ting Chen, Ipsita Bhattacharjee, Mohit Iyyer

TROVE: A Challenge for Fine-Grained Text Provenance via Source Sentence Tracing and Relationship Classification

Junnan Zhu, Min Xiao, Yining Wang, Feifei Zhai, Yu Zhou

Agri-CM3: A Chinese Massive Multi-modal, Multi-level Benchmark for Agricultural Understanding and Reasoning

Haotian Wang, Yi Guan, Fanshu Meng, Chao Zhao, Lian Yan

UORA: Uniform Orthogonal Reinitialization Adaptation in Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Models

Xueyan Zhang, Jinman Zhao, Zhifei Yang, Yibo Zhong, Shuhao Guan

EpMAN: Episodic Memory AttentioN for Generalizing to Longer Contexts

Subhajit Chaudhury, Payel Das, Sarathkrishna Swaminathan, Georgios Kollias, Elliot Nelson

Less Mature is More Adaptable for Sentence-level Language Modeling

Abhilasha Sancheti, David Dale, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Maha Elbayad

PaSa: An LLM Agent for Comprehensive Academic Paper Search

Yichen He, Guanhua Huang, Peiyuan Feng, Yuan Lin, Yuchen Zhang

Parenting: Optimizing Knowledge Selection of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Parameter Decoupling and Tailored Tuning

Yongxin Xu, Ruizhe Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Yujie Feng, Yuzhen Xiao

Jailbreaking? One Step Is Enough!

Weixiong Zheng, Peijian Zeng, Yiwei Li, Hongyan Wu, Nankai Lin

User-side Model Consistency Monitoring for Open Source Large Language Models Inference Services

Qijun Miao, Zhixuan Fang

SPHERE: Unveiling Spatial Blind Spots in Vision-Language Models Through Hierarchical Evaluation

Wenyu Zhang, Wei En Ng, Lixin Ma, Yuwen Wang, Junqi Zhao

Defining and Evaluating Visual Language Models’ Basic Spatial Abilities: A Perspective from Psychometrics

Wenrui Xu, Dalin Lyu, Weihang Wang, Jie Feng, Chen Gao

A Strategic Coordination Framework of Small LMs Matches Large LMs in Data Synthesis

Xin Gao, Qizhi Pei, Zinan Tang, Yu Li, Honglin Lin

Unifying Continuous and Discrete Text Diffusion with Non-simultaneous Diffusion Processes

Bocheng Li, Zhujin Gao, Linli Xu

Scaling up the State Size of RNN LLMs for Long-Context Scenarios

Kai Liu, Jianfei Gao, Kai Chen

VMLU Benchmarks: A comprehensive benchmark toolkit for Vietnamese LLMs

Cuc Thi Bui, Nguyen Truong Son, Truong Van Trang, Lam Viet Phung, Pham Nhut Huy

PwnGPT: Automatic Exploit Generation Based on Large Language Models

Wanzong Peng, Lin Ye, Xuetao Du, Hongli Zhang, Dongyang Zhan

Divide-Then-Align: Honest Alignment based on the Knowledge Boundary of RAG

Xin Sun, Jianan Xie, Zhongqi Chen, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu

MiniLongBench: The Low-cost Long Context Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Shanshan Zhong, Hefeng Wu, Liang Lin

SoRFT: Issue Resolving with Subtask-oriented Reinforced Fine-Tuning

Zexiong Ma, Chao Peng, Pengfei Gao, Xiangxin Meng, Yanzhen Zou

TC–RAG: Turing–Complete RAG’s Case study on Medical LLM Systems

Xinke Jiang, Yue Fang, Rihong Qiu, Haoyu Zhang, Yongxin Xu

GuideBench: Benchmarking Domain-Oriented Guideline Following for LLM Agents

Lingxiao Diao, Xinyue Xu, Wanxuan Sun, Cheng Yang, Zhuosheng Zhang

Locate-and-Focus: Enhancing Terminology Translation in Speech Language Models

Suhang Wu, Jialong Tang, Chengyi Yang, Pei Zhang, Baosong Yang

An Empirical Study of Many-to-Many Summarization with Large Language Models

Jiaan Wang, Fandong Meng, Zengkui Sun, Yunlong Liang, Yuxuan Cao

Large Language and Protein Assistant for Protein-Protein Interactions Prediction

Peng Zhou, Pengsen Ma, Jianmin Wang, Xibao Cai, Haitao Huang

GenderAlign: An Alignment Dataset for Mitigating Gender Bias in Large Language Models

Tao Zhang, Ziqian Zeng, YuxiangXiao YuxiangXiao, HUIPING ZHUANG, Cen Chen

SHARE: An SLM-based Hierarchical Action CorREction Assistant for Text-to-SQL

Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Xiaolong Li, Nan Huo

Pre3: Enabling Deterministic Pushdown Automata for Faster Structured LLM Generation

Junyi Chen, Shihao Bai, Zaijun Wang, Siyu Wu, Chuheng Du

Dynamic Parallel Tree Search for Efficient LLM Reasoning

Yifu Ding, Wentao Jiang, Shunyu Liu, Yongcheng Jing, Jinyang Guo

Gradient-Adaptive Policy Optimization: Towards Multi-Objective Alignment of Large Language Models

Chengao Li, Hanyu Zhang, Yunkun Xu, Hongyan Xue, Xiang Ao

Improving Factuality with Explicit Working Memory

Mingda Chen, Yang Li, Karthik Padthe, Rulin Shao, Alicia Yi Sun

Disambiguating Reference in Visually Grounded Dialogues through Joint Modeling of Textual and Multimodal Semantic Structures

Shun Inadumi, Nobuhiro Ueda, Koichiro Yoshino

Towards Enhanced Immersion and Agency for LLM-based Interactive Drama

Hongqiu Wu, Weiqi Wu, Tianyang Xu, Jiameng Zhang, Hai Zhao

Can Graph Neural Networks Learn Language with Extremely Weak Text Supervision?

Zihao Li, Lecheng Zheng, Bowen Jin, Dongqi Fu, Baoyu Jing

Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Jiahe Guo, Xingyu Sui

Powerformer: Efficient and High-Accuracy Privacy-Preserving Language Model with Homomorphic Encryption

Dongjin Park, Eunsang Lee, Joon-Woo Lee

Frictional Agent Alignment Framework: Slow Down and Don’t Break Things

Abhijnan Nath, Carine Graff, Andrei Bachinin, Nikhil Krishnaswamy