ACL 2025

4,141 papers

DICE-BENCH: Evaluating the Tool-Use Capabilities of Large Language Models in Multi-Round, Multi-Party Dialogues

Kyochul Jang, Donghyeon Lee, Kyusik Kim, Dongseok Heo, Taewhoo Lee

Dynamic Task Vector Grouping for Efficient Multi-Task Prompt Tuning

Peiyi Zhang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Ziqiao Wang

Training Language Model to Critique for Better Refinement

Tianshu Yu, Chao Xiang, Mingchuan Yang, Pei Ke, Bosi Wen

Can Vision Language Models Understand Mimed Actions?

Hyundong Justin Cho, Spencer Lin, Tejas Srinivasan, Michael Saxon, Deuksin Kwon

skLEP: A Slovak General Language Understanding Benchmark

Marek Suppa, Andrej Ridzik, Daniel Hládek, Tomáš Javůrek, Viktória Ondrejová

Standard Quality Criteria Derived from Current NLP Evaluations for Guiding Evaluation Design and Grounding Comparability and AI Compliance Assessments

Anya Belz, Simon Mille, Craig Thomson

LLMs are Biased Evaluators But Not Biased for Fact-Centric Retrieval Augmented Generation

Yen-Shan Chen, Jing Jin, Peng-Ting Kuo, Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning

Eitan Wagner, Nitay Alon, Joseph M Barnby, Omri Abend

EXPERT: An Explainable Image Captioning Evaluation Metric with Structured Explanations

Hyunjong Kim, Sangyeop Kim, Jongheon Jeong, Yeongjae Cho, Sungzoon Cho

From Complexity to Clarity: AI/NLP’s Role in Regulatory Compliance

Jivitesh Jain, Nivedhitha Dhanasekaran, Mona T. Diab

ECoRAG: Evidentiality-guided Compression for Long Context RAG

Yeonseok Jeong, Jinsu Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang

NBDESCRIB: A Dataset for Text Description Generation from Tables and Code in Jupyter Notebooks with Guidelines

Xuye Liu, Tengfei Ma, Yimu Wang, Fengjie Wang, Jian Zhao

Knowledge Base Construction for Knowledge-Augmented Text-to-SQL

Jinheon Baek, Horst Samulowitz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Sola Shirai

Exploring In-context Example Generation for Machine Translation

Dohyun Lee, Seungil Chad Lee, Chanwoo Yang, Yujin Baek, Jaegul Choo

Rethinking Prompt-based Debiasing in Large Language Model

Xinyi Yang, Runzhe Zhan, Shu Yang, Junchao Wu, Lidia S. Chao

CSTRL: Context-Driven Sequential Transfer Learning for Abstractive Radiology Report Summarization

Mst. Fahmida Sultana Naznin, Adnan Ibney Faruq, Mostafa Rifat Tazwar, Md Jobayer, Md. Mehedi Hasan Shawon

Beyond Context to Cognitive Appraisal: Emotion Reasoning as a Theory of Mind Benchmark for Large Language Models

Gerard Christopher Yeo, Kokil Jaidka

IntentionESC: An Intention-Centered Framework for Enhancing Emotional Support in Dialogue Systems

Xinjie Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Qin Jin

LLM-as-an-Interviewer: Beyond Static Testing Through Dynamic LLM Evaluation

Eunsu Kim, Juyoung Suk, Seungone Kim, Niklas Muennighoff, Dongkwan Kim

Search-in-Context: Efficient Multi-Hop QA over Long Contexts via Monte Carlo Tree Search with Dynamic KV Retrieval

Jiabei Chen, Guang Liu, Shizhu He, Kun Luo, Yao Xu

7 Points to Tsinghua but 10 Points to ? Assessing Large Language Models in Agentic Multilingual National Bias

Qianying Liu, Katrina Qiyao Wang, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi

RomanLens: The Role Of Latent Romanization In Multilinguality In LLMs

Alan Saji, Jaavid Aktar Husain, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan

GEMS: Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction via Multi-perspective Prompts and Ontology Steering

Run Lin, Yao Liu, Yanglei Gan, Yuxiang Cai, Tian Lan

Uncertainty-Aware Contrastive Decoding

Hakyung Lee, Subeen Park, Joowang Kim, Sungjun Lim, Kyungwoo Song

T5Score: A Methodology for Automatically Assessing the Quality of LLM Generated Multi-Document Topic Sets

Itamar Trainin, Omri Abend

What Language Do Non-English-Centric Large Language Models Think in?

Chengzhi Zhong, Qianying Liu, Fei Cheng, Junfeng Jiang, Zhen Wan

Spotting Out-of-Character Behavior: Atomic-Level Evaluation of Persona Fidelity in Open-Ended Generation

Jisu Shin, Juhyun Oh, Eunsu Kim, Hoyun Song, Alice Oh

Towards the Pedagogical Steering of Large Language Models for Tutoring: A Case Study with Modeling Productive Failure

Romain Puech, Jakub Macina, Julia Chatain, Mrinmaya Sachan, Manu Kapur

PLAY2PROMPT: Zero-shot Tool Instruction Optimization for LLM Agents via Tool Play

Wei Fang, Yang Zhang, Kaizhi Qian, James R. Glass, Yada Zhu

Fuzzy Speculative Decoding for a Tunable Accuracy-Runtime Tradeoff

Maximilian Holsman, Yukun Huang, Bhuwan Dhingra

M2-TabFact: Multi-Document Multi-Modal Fact Verification with Visual and Textual Representations of Tabular Data

Mingyang Zhou, Lingyu Zhang, Sophia Horng, Maximillian Chen, Kung-Hsiang Huang

Enhancing Persona Consistency for LLMs’ Role-Playing using Persona-Aware Contrastive Learning

Ke Ji, Yixin Lian, Linxu Li, Jingsheng Gao, Weiyuan Li

Protecting Users From Themselves: Safeguarding Contextual Privacy in Interactions with Conversational Agents

Ivoline C. Ngong, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Hao Wang, Keerthiram Murugesan, Justin D. Weisz

Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation

Qiyue Gao, Xinyu Pi, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang

Large Language Models Still Exhibit Bias in Long Text

Wonje Jeung, Dongjae Jeon, Ashkan Yousefpour, Jonghyun Choi

ADO: Automatic Data Optimization for Inputs in LLM Prompts

Sam Lin, Wenyue Hua, Lingyao Li, Zhenting Wang, Yongfeng Zhang

CoT-UQ: Improving Response-wise Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs with Chain-of-Thought

Boxuan Zhang, Ruqi Zhang

Blinded by Context: Unveiling the Halo Effect of MLLM in AI Hiring

Kyusik Kim, Jeongwoo Ryu, Hyeonseok Jeon, Bongwon Suh

Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation

Mengkang Hu, Tianxing Chen, Yude Zou, Yuheng Lei, Qiguang Chen

BridG MT: Enhancing LLMs’ Machine Translation Capabilities with Sentence Bridging and Gradual MT

Seungwoo Choi, Gahyun Yoo, Jay-Yoon Lee

The Million Authors Corpus: A Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Wikipedia Dataset for Authorship Verification

Abraham Israeli, Shuai Liu, Jonathan May, David Jurgens

When Should Dense Retrievers Be Updated in Evolving Corpora? Detecting Out-of-Distribution Corpora Using GradNormIR

Dayoon Ko, JinYoung Kim, Sohyeon Kim, Jinhyuk Kim, Jaehoon Lee

Dictionaries to the Rescue: Cross-Lingual Vocabulary Transfer for Low-Resource Languages Using Bilingual Dictionaries

Haruki Sakajo, Yusuke Ide, Justin Vasselli, Yusuke Sakai, Yingtao Tian

Can You Share Your Story? Modeling Clients’ Metacognition and Openness for LLM Therapist Evaluation

Minju Kim, Dongje Yoo, Yeonjun Hwang, Minseok Kang, Namyoung Kim

Harnessing Whisper for Prosodic Stress Analysis

Samuel S. Sohn, Sten Knutsen, Karin Stromswold

Redundancy, Isotropy, and Intrinsic Dimensionality of Prompt-based Text Embeddings

Hayato Tsukagoshi, Ryohei Sasano

Human Bias in the Face of AI: Examining Human Judgment Against Text Labeled as AI Generated

Tiffany Zhu, Iain Weissburg, Kexun Zhang, William Yang Wang

Multilingual Definition Modeling

Edison Marrese-Taylor, Erica K. Shimomoto, Alfredo Solano, Enrique Reid

CourtEval: A Courtroom-Based Multi-Agent Evaluation Framework

Sandeep Kumar, Abhijit A Nargund, Vivek Sridhar

Memorization vs. Reasoning: Updating LLMs with New Knowledge

Aochong Oliver Li, Tanya Goyal

LEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World

Sina Semnani, Pingyue Zhang, Wanyue Zhai, Haozhuo Li, Ryan Beauchamp

Research Community Perspectives on “Intelligence” and Large Language Models

Bertram Højer, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Anna Rogers, Stefan Heinrich

Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks

Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara

Low-Resource Grammatical Error Correction: Selective Data Augmentation with Round-Trip Machine Translation

Frank Palma Gomez, Alla Rozovskaya

Feature-Level Insights into Artificial Text Detection with Sparse Autoencoders

Kristian Kuznetsov, Laida Kushnareva, Anton Razzhigaev, Polina Druzhinina, Anastasia Voznyuk

Enhancing Medical Dialogue Generation through Knowledge Refinement and Dynamic Prompt Adjustment

Hongda Sun, Jiaren Peng, Wenzhong Yang, Liang He, Bo Du

Reasoning with Graphs: Structuring Implicit Knowledge to Enhance LLMs Reasoning

Haoyu Han, Yaochen Xie, Hui LIU, Xianfeng Tang, Sreyashi Nag

Cautious Next Token Prediction

Yizhou Wang, Lingzhi Zhang, Yue Bai, Mang Tik Chiu, Zhengmian Hu

Why Multi-Interest Fairness Matters: Hypergraph Contrastive Multi-Interest Learning for Fair Conversational Recommender System

Yongsen Zheng, Zongxuan Xie, Guohua Wang, Ziyao Liu, Liang Lin

Do Language Models Mirror Human Confidence? Exploring Psychological Insights to Address Overconfidence in LLMs

Chenjun Xu, Bingbing Wen, Bin Han, Robert Wolfe, Lucy Lu Wang

IMPARA-GED: Grammatical Error Detection is Boosting Reference-free Grammatical Error Quality Estimator

Yusuke Sakai, Takumi Goto, Taro Watanabe

Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-Language Alignment?

Lingjun Zhao, Mingyang Xie, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Hal Daume III, Kwonjoon Lee

DiaLLMs: EHR-Enhanced Clinical Conversational System for Clinical Test Recommendation and Diagnosis Prediction

Weijieying Ren, Tianxiang Zhao, Lei Wang, Tianchun Wang, Vasant G Honavar

MDBench: A Synthetic Multi-Document Reasoning Benchmark Generated with Knowledge Guidance

Joseph J Peper, Wenzhao Qiu, Ali Payani, Lu Wang

Red Queen: Exposing Latent Multi-Turn Risks in Large Language Models

Yifan Jiang, Kriti Aggarwal, Tanmay Laud, Kashif Munir, Jay Pujara

COSMIC: Generalized Refusal Direction Identification in LLM Activations

Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, Zihao Yu, Sam Pan, Zhun Wang

PASTEL : Polarity-Aware Sentiment Triplet Extraction with LLM-as-a-Judge

Aaditya Bodke, Avinoor Singh Kohli, Hemant Subhash Pardeshi, Prathamesh Bhosale

CogSteer: Cognition-Inspired Selective Layer Intervention for Efficiently Steering Large Language Models

Xintong Wang, Jingheng Pan, Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Longqin Jiang

Beyond Generation: Leveraging LLM Creativity to Overcome Label Bias in Classification

Xiaoyue Wang, Xin Liu

ELI-Why: Evaluating the Pedagogical Utility of Language Model Explanations

Brihi Joshi, Keyu He, Sahana Ramnath, Sadra Sabouri, Kaitlyn Zhou

Summary Factual Inconsistency Detection Based on LLMs Enhanced by Universal Information Extraction

Anguo Li, Lei Yu

The Reader is the Metric: How Textual Features and Reader Profiles Explain Conflicting Evaluations of AI Creative Writing

Guillermo Marco, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor Fresno

Almost AI, Almost Human: The Challenge of Detecting AI-Polished Writing

Shoumik Saha, Soheil Feizi

Sparse Rewards Can Self-Train Dialogue Agents

Barrett Martin Lattimer, Varun Prashant Gangal, Ryan Mcdonald, Yi Yang

Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners

Yuetai Li, Xiang Yue, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu

Syntactic Control of Language Models by Posterior Inference

Vicky Xefteri, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell, Afra Amini

ATLAS: Agent Tuning via Learning Critical Steps

Zhixun Chen, Ming Li, Yuxuan Huang, Yali Du, Meng Fang

MAM: Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Modal Medical Diagnosis via Role-Specialized Collaboration

Yucheng Zhou, Lingran Song, Jianbing Shen

Mosaic-IT: Cost-Free Compositional Data Synthesis for Instruction Tuning

Ming Li, Pei Chen, Chenguang Wang, Hongyu Zhao, Yijun Liang

Lemmas Matter, But Not Like That: Predictors of Lemma-Based Generalization in Morphological Inflection

Sarah Payne, Jordan Kodner

From Perception to Reasoning: Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Mobile UI Understanding

Settaluri Lakshmi Sravanthi, Ankit Mishra, Debjyoti Mondal, Subhadarshi Panda, Rituraj Singh

Don’t Say No: Jailbreaking LLM by Suppressing Refusal

Yukai Zhou, Jian Lou, Zhijie Huang, Zhan Qin, Sibei Yang

Revisiting Self-Consistency from Dynamic Distributional Alignment Perspective on Answer Aggregation

Yiwei Li, Ji Zhang, Shaoxiong Feng, Peiwen Yuan, Xinglin Wang

From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging LLMs for Problem-Solving Therapy Analysis

Elham Aghakhani, Lu Wang, Karla T. Washington, George Demiris, Jina Huh-Yoo

LLMs as Planning Formalizers: A Survey for Leveraging Large Language Models to Construct Automated Planning Models

Marcus Tantakoun, Christian Muise, Xiaodan Zhu

Reason from Future: Reverse Thought Chain Enhances LLM Reasoning

Yinlong Xu, Yanzhao Zheng, Shuoshuo Sun, Shuaihan Huang, Baohua Dong

Self-Training Elicits Concise Reasoning in Large Language Models

Tergel Munkhbat, Namgyu Ho, Seo Hyun Kim, YongJin Yang, Yujin Kim

Multi-matrix Factorization Attention

Jingcheng Hu, Houyi Li, Yinmin Zhang, Zili Wang, Shuigeng Zhou

Should I Trust You? Detecting Deception in Negotiations using Counterfactual RL

Wichayaporn Wongkamjan, Yanze Wang, Feng Gu, Denis Peskoff, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

MemeDetoxNet: Balancing Toxicity Reduction and Context Preservation

Gitanjali Kumari, Jitendra Solanki, Asif Ekbal

Rectifying Belief Space via Unlearning to Harness LLMs’ Reasoning

Ayana Niwa, Masahiro Kaneko, Kentaro Inui

LegalCore: A Dataset for Event Coreference Resolution in Legal Documents

Kangda Wei, Xi Shi, Jonathan Tong, Sai Ramana Reddy, Anandhavelu Natarajan

A Fully Generative Motivational Interviewing Counsellor Chatbot for Moving Smokers Towards the Decision to Quit

Zafarullah Mahmood, Soliman Ali, Jiading Zhu, Mohamed Abdelwahab, Michelle Yu Collins

HPSS: Heuristic Prompting Strategy Search for LLM Evaluators

Bosi Wen, Pei Ke, Yufei Sun, Cunxiang Wang, Xiaotao Gu

Let’s Fuse Step by Step: A Generative Fusion Decoding Algorithm with LLMs for Robust and Instruction-Aware ASR and OCR

Chan-Jan Hsu, Yi-Chang Chen, Feng-Ting Liao, Pei-Chen Ho, Yu-Hsiang Wang

WikiMixQA: A Multimodal Benchmark for Question Answering over Tables and Charts

Negar Foroutan, Angelika Romanou, Matin Ansaripour, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Karl Aberer

TituLLMs: A Family of Bangla LLMs with Comprehensive Benchmarking

Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Sagor Sarker, Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem, Md Kowsher

MAGI: Multi-Agent Guided Interview for Psychiatric Assessment

Guanqun Bi, Zhuang Chen, Zhoufu Liu, Hongkai Wang, Xiyao Xiao

LIST: Linearly Incremental SQL Translator for Single-Hop Reasoning, Generation and Verification

Kaiyuan Guan, Ruoxin Li, Xudong Guo, Zhenning Huang, Xudong Weng

Answer When Needed, Forget When Not: Language Models Pretend to Forget via In-Context Knowledge Unlearning

Shota Takashiro, Takeshi Kojima, Andrew Gambardella, Qi Cao, Yusuke Iwasawa