EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Emphasising Structured Information: Integrating Abstract Meaning Representation into LLMs for Enhanced Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation

Bohao Yang, Kun Zhao, Dong Liu, Chen Tang, Liang Zhan

Attack as Defense: Safeguarding Large Vision-Language Models from Jailbreaking by Adversarial Attacks

Chongxin Li, Hanzhang Wang, Yuchun Fang

Re-FRAME the Meeting Summarization SCOPE: Fact-Based Summarization and Personalization via Questions

Frederic Kirstein, Sonu Kumar, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Entity Profile Generation and Reasoning with LLMs for Entity Alignment

Rumana Ferdous Munne, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Yuji Matsumoto

Triangulating LLM Progress through Benchmarks, Games, and Cognitive Tests

Filippo Momentè, Alessandro Suglia, Mario Giulianelli, Ambra Ferrari, Alexander Koller

All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark

Davide Testa, Giovanni Bonetta, Raffaella Bernardi, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci

Beyond Single-User Dialogue: Assessing Multi-User Dialogue State Tracking Capabilities of Large Language Models

Sangmin Song, Juhwan Choi, JungMin Yun, YoungBin Kim

Feel the Difference? A Comparative Analysis of Emotional Arcs in Real and LLM-Generated CBT Sessions

Xiaoyi Wang, Jiwei Zhang, Guangtao Zhang, Honglei Guo

Intelligent Document Parsing: Towards End-to-end Document Parsing via Decoupled Content Parsing and Layout Grounding

Hangdi Xing, Feiyu Gao, Qi Zheng, Zhaoqing Zhu, Zirui Shao

CoTD-PO: Chain-of-Thought Distillation with Preference Optimization

Lujie Niu, Haochen Sun, Fangkun Zhao, Sheng Chen, Zimeng Bai

Stratified Selective Sampling for Instruction Tuning with Dedicated Scoring Strategy

Paramita Mirza, Lucas Weber, Fabian Küch

Assessing LLM Reasoning Steps via Principal Knowledge Grounding

Hyeon Hwang, Yewon Cho, Chanwoong Yoon, Yein Park, Minju Song

TurnBench-MS: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Turn, Multi-Step Reasoning in Large Language Models

Yiran Zhang, Mo Wang, Xiaoyang Li, Kaixuan Ren, Chencheng Zhu

MTabVQA: Evaluating Multi-Tabular Reasoning of Language Models in Visual Space

Anshul Singh, Chris Biemann, Jan Strich

Benchmarking Large Language Models for Cryptanalysis and Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

Utsav Maskey, Chencheng Zhu, Usman Naseem

Do LVLMs Know What They Know? A Systematic Study of Knowledge Boundary Perception in LVLMs

Zhikai Ding, Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi

Simulating Identity, Propagating Bias: Abstraction and Stereotypes in LLM-Generated Text

Pia Sommerauer, Giulia Rambelli, Tommaso Caselli

MultiLingPoT: Boosting Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs through Multilingual Program Integration

Nianqi Li, Zujie Liang, Siyu Yuan, Jiaqing Liang, Feng Wei

Length Representations in Large Language Models

Sangjun Moon, Dasom Choi, Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Manabu Okumura

EZ-VC: Easy Zero-shot Any-to-Any Voice Conversion

Advait Joglekar, Divyanshu Singh, Rooshil Rohit Bhatia, Srinivasan Umesh

Token Preference Optimization with Self-Calibrated Visual-Anchored Rewards for Hallucination Mitigation

Jihao Gu, Yingyao Wang, Meng Cao, Pi Bu, Jun Song

Inclusive Leadership in the Age of AI: A Dataset and Comparative Study of LLMs vs. Real-Life Leaders in Workplace Action Planning

Vindhya Singh, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Ksenia Keplinger

NormAL LoRA: What is the perfect size?

Aastik, Meghana Topu, Chinmay Kulkarni, Pragya Paramita Sahu

DeepNote: Note-Centric Deep Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ruobing Wang, Qingfei Zhao, Yukun Yan, Daren Zha, Yuxuan Chen

LLM Agents at the Roundtable: A Multi-Perspective and Dialectical Reasoning Framework for Essay Scoring

Jinhee Jang, Ayoung Moon, Minkyoung Jung, YoungBin Kim, Seung Jin Lee

From Tower to Spire: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-Specialist LLM

Kshitij Ambilduke, Ben Peters, Sonal Sannigrahi, Anil Keshwani, Tsz Kin Lam

Weak2Wise: An Automated, Lightweight Framework for Weak-LLM-Friendly Reasoning Synthesis

Jianing Lin, Yuanfang Guo, Shunning Liu, Zeming Liu, Yunhong Wang

CodeComplex: Dataset for Worst-Case Time Complexity Prediction

SeungYeop Baik, Joonghyuk Hahn, Jungin Kim, Aditi, Mingi Jeon

Out-of-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

Jonathan Shaki, Emanuele La Malfa, Michael J. Wooldridge, Sarit Kraus

Stop Playing the Guessing Game! Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via Target-free User Simulation

Sunghwan Kim, Kwangwook Seo, Tongyoung Kim, Jinyoung Yeo, Dongha Lee

ALRPHFS: Adversarially Learned Risk Patterns with Hierarchical Fast & Slow Reasoning for Robust Agent Defense

Shiyu Xiang, Tong Zhang, Ronghao Chen

CLEAR: A Comprehensive Linguistic Evaluation of Argument Rewriting by Large Language Models

Thomas Huber, Christina Niklaus

More Documents, Same Length: Isolating the Challenge of Multiple Documents in RAG

Shahar Levy, Nir Mazor, Lihi Shalmon, Michael Hassid, Gabriel Stanovsky

On the Versatility of Sparse Autoencoders for In-Context Learning

Ikhyun Cho, Gaeul Kwon, Julia Hockenmaier

CAC-CoT: Connector-Aware Compact Chain-of-Thought for Efficient Reasoning Data Synthesis Across Dual-System Cognitive Tasks

Sunguk Choi, Yonghoon Kwon, Heondeuk Lee

MUG-Eval: A Proxy Evaluation Framework for Multilingual Generation Capabilities in Any Language

Seyoung Song, Seogyeong Jeong, Eunsu Kim, Jiho Jin, Dongkwan Kim

Defending against Indirect Prompt Injection by Instruction Detection

Tongyu Wen, Chenglong Wang, Xiyuan Yang, Haoyu Tang, Yueqi Xie

GRPO-Guided Modality Selection Enhanced LoRA-Tuned LLMs for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Yang Chen, Shuwan Yang, Yan Xiang, Ran Song, Yuxin Huang

OVFact: Measuring and Improving Open-Vocabulary Factuality for Long Caption Models

Monika Wysoczanska, Shyamal Buch, Anurag Arnab, Cordelia Schmid

LC-Eval: A Bilingual Multi-Task Evaluation Benchmark for Long-Context Understanding

Sheikh Jubair, Arwa Omayrah, Amal Alshammari, Alhanoof Althnian, Abdulhamed Alothaimen

ReCoVeR the Target Language: Language Steering without Sacrificing Task Performance

Hannah Sterz, Fabian David Schmidt, Goran Glavaš, Ivan Vulić

Attributes as Textual Genes: Leveraging LLMs as Genetic Algorithm Simulators for Conditional Synthetic Data Generation

Guangzeng Han, Weisi Liu, Xiaolei Huang

Beyond Fixed-Length Calibration for Post-Training Compression of LLMs

Jaehoon Oh, Dokwan Oh

TransBERT: A Framework for Synthetic Translation in Domain-Specific Language Modeling

Julien Knafou, Luc Mottin, Anaïs Mottaz, Alexandre Flament, Patrick Ruch

Over-Generation and Compaction: A Prompting Strategy for Procedural Text Adaptation with Large Language Models

HyeongSik Kim, Yanheng Xu, Chaoqun Dong, Fei Du

Dense Retrievers Can Fail on Simple Queries: Revealing The Granularity Dilemma of Embeddings

Liyan Xu, Zhenlin Su, Mo Yu, Jiangnan Li, Fandong Meng

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text

Ibrahim Al Azher, Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Zhishuai Guo, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori

ClueAnchor: Clue-Anchored Knowledge Reasoning Exploration and Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Hao Chen, Yukun Yan, Sen Mei, Wanxiang Che, Zhenghao Liu

IoTMigrator: LLM-driven Embedded IoT Code Migration across Different OSes for Cloud-device Integration

Yq, Kaijie Gong, Yi Gao, Hao Wang, Wei Dong

GRAD: Generative Retrieval-Aligned Demonstration Sampler for Efficient Few-Shot Reasoning

Oussama Gabouj, Kamel Charaf, Ivan Zakazov, Nicolas Baldwin, Robert West

Adaptive Preference Optimization with Uncertainty-aware Utility Anchor

Xiaobo Wang, Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Qi Liu, Zilong Zheng

Uncovering Factor-Level Preference to Improve Human-Model Alignment

Juhyun Oh, Eunsu Kim, Jiseon Kim, Wenda Xu, Inha Cha

Fairness in Automatic Speech Recognition Isn’t a One-Size-Fits-All

Hend ElGhazaly, Bahman Mirheidari, Heidi Christensen, Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation

Juhyun Oh, Inha Cha, Michael Saxon, Hyunseung Lim, Shaily Bhatt

Knowing More, Acting Better: Hierarchical Representation for Embodied Decision-Making

Chunhui Zhang, Zhongyu Ouyang, Xingjian Diao, Zheyuan Liu, Soroush Vosoughi

Localizing Malicious Outputs from CodeLLM

Mayukh Borana, Junyi Liang, Sai Sathiesh Rajan, Sudipta Chattopadhyay

The More, The Better? A Critical Study of Multimodal Context in Radiology Report Summarization

Mong Yuan Sim, Wei Emma Zhang, Xiang Dai, Biaoyan Fang, Sarbin Ranjitkar

RealBench: A Chinese Multi-image Understanding Benchmark Close to Real-world Scenarios

Fei Zhao, Chengqiang Lu, Yufan Shen, Qimeng Wang, Yicheng Qian

From KMMLU-Redux to Pro: A Professional Korean Benchmark Suite for LLM Evaluation

Seokhee Hong, Sunkyoung Kim, Guijin Son, Soyeon Kim, Yeonjung Hong

MidPO: Dual Preference Optimization for Safety and Helpfulness in Large Language Models via a Mixture of Experts Framework

Yupeng Qi, Ziyu Lyu, Min Yang, Yanlin Wang, Lu Bai

The Progress Illusion: Revisiting meta-evaluation standards of LLM evaluators

Tianruo Rose Xu, Vedant Gaur, Liu Leqi, Tanya Goyal

Evaluating Evaluation Metrics – The Mirage of Hallucination Detection

Atharva Kulkarni, yuan zhang, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Xiou Ge, Bo-Hsiang Tseng

Divide, Optimize, Merge: Scalable Fine-Grained Generative Optimization for LLM Agents

Jiale Liu, Yifan Zeng, Shaokun Zhang, Chi Zhang, Malte Højmark-Bertelsen

Do BERT-Like Bidirectional Models Still Perform Better on Text Classification in the Era of LLMs?

Junyan Zhang, Yiming Huang, Shuliang Liu, Yubo Gao, Xuming Hu

DB-Explore: Automated Database Exploration and Instruction Synthesis for Text-to-SQL

HaoYuan Ma, Yongliang Shen, Hengwei Liu, Wenqi Zhang, Haolei Xu

Evaluating NL2SQL via SQL2NL

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Afshin Oroojlooy, Dan Roth

AirRAG: Autonomous Strategic Planning and Reasoning Steer Retrieval Augmented Generation

Wenfeng Feng, Chuzhan Hao, Yuewei Zhang, Guochao Jiang, Jingyi Song

Tales of Morality: Comparing Human- and LLM-Generated Moral Stories from Visual Cues

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Sullam Jeoung, Zhiwen You, Jana Diesner

AraReasoner: Evaluating Reasoning-Based LLMs for Arabic NLP

Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Aisha Alansari, Ahmed Ashraf, Salmane Chafik, Hamzah Luqman

TrapDoc: Deceiving LLM Users by Injecting Imperceptible Phantom Tokens into Documents

Hyundong Jin, Sicheol Sung, Shinwoo Park, SeungYeop Baik, Yo-Sub Han

ClusterUCB: Efficient Gradient-Based Data Selection for Targeted Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Zige Wang, Qi Zhu, Fei Mi, Minghui Xu, Ruochun Jin

MaskCD: Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations by Image Head Masked Contrastive Decoding

Jingyuan Deng, Yujiu Yang

From Generic Empathy to Personalized Emotional Support: A Self-Evolution Framework for User Preference Alignment

Jing Ye, Lu Xiang, Yaping Zhang, Chengqing Zong

One Shot Dominance: Knowledge Poisoning Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Zhiyuan Chang, Mingyang Li, Xiaojun Jia, Junjie Wang, Yuekai Huang

UniRAG: A Unified RAG Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Queries with Decomposition, Break-Down Reasoning, and Iterative Rewriting

Gun Il Kim, Jong Wook Kim, Beakcheol Jang

Lock on Target! Precision Unlearning via Directional Control

Yuntao Wen, Ruixiang Feng, Feng Guo, Yifan Wang, Ran Le

Fast Quiet-STaR: Thinking Without Thought Tokens

Wei Huang, Yizhe Xiong, Xin Ye, Zhijie Deng, Hui Chen

MANTA: A Scalable Pipeline for Transmuting Massive Web Corpora into Instruction Datasets

Heuiyeen Yeen, Seokhee Hong, Hyeongu Yun, Jinsik Lee

EMO-RL: Emotion-Rule-Based Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Audio-Language Model for Generalized Speech Emotion Recognition

Pengcheng Li, Botao Zhao, Zuheng Kang, Junqing Peng, Xiaoyang Qu

DLTKG: Denoising Logic-based Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Xiaoke Wang, Fu Zhang, Jingwei Cheng, Yiwen Chi, Jiashun Peng

Discrete Minds in a Continuous World: Do Language Models Know Time Passes?

Minghan Wang, Ye Bai, Thuy-Trang Vu, Ehsan Shareghi, Gholamreza Haffari

MT-R1-Zero: Advancing LLM-based Machine Translation via R1-Zero-like Reinforcement Learning

Zhaopeng Feng, Shaosheng Cao, Jiahan Ren, Jiayuan Su, Ruizhe Chen

Learning to Align: Addressing Character Frequency Distribution Shifts in Handwritten Text Recognition

Panagiotis Kaliosis, John Pavlopoulos

Sparsity May Be All You Need: Sparse Random Parameter Adaptation

Jesus Rios, Pierre Dognin, Ronny Luss, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

Internal states before wait modulate reasoning patterns

Dmitrii Troitskii, Koyena Pal, Chris Wendler, Callum Stuart McDougall

MMPlanner: Zero-Shot Multimodal Procedural Planning with Chain-of-Thought Object State Reasoning

Afrina Tabassum, Bin Guo, Xiyao Ma, Hoda Eldardiry, Ismini Lourentzou

Consistent Discourse-level Temporal Relation Extraction Using Large Language Models

Yi Fan, Michael Strube

CARVQ: Corrective Adaptor with Group Residual Vector Quantization for LLM Embedding Compression

Dayin Gou, Sanghyun Byun, Nilesh Malpeddi, Gabrielle De Micheli, Prathamesh Vaste

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models

Nivedha Sivakumar, Natalie Mackraz, Samira Khorshidi, Krishna Patel, Barry-John Theobald

MT-RewardTree: A Comprehensive Framework for Advancing LLM-Based Machine Translation via Reward Modeling

Zhaopeng Feng, Jiahan Ren, Jiayuan Su, Jiamei Zheng, Hongwei Wang

Does Reasoning Introduce Bias? A Study of Social Bias Evaluation and Mitigation in LLM Reasoning

Xuyang Wu, Jinming Nian, Ting-Ruen Wei, Zhiqiang Tao, Hsin-Tai Wu

Automate Strategy Finding with LLM in Quant Investment

Zhizhuo Kou, Holam Yu, Junyu Luo, Jingshu Peng, Xujia Li

SENTRA: Selected-Next-Token Transformer for LLM Text Detection

Mitchell Plyler, Yilun Zhang, Alexander Tuzhilin, Saoud Khalifah, Sen Tian

From n-gram to Attention: How Model Architectures Learn and Propagate Bias in Language Modeling

Mohsinul Kabir, Tasfia Tahsin, Sophia Ananiadou

Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference Benchmark for Gender-Fair German Machine Translation

A Pranav, Janiça Hackenbuchner, Giuseppe Attanasio, Manuel Lardelli, Anne Lauscher

Video-Skill-CoT: Skill-based Chain-of-Thoughts for Domain-Adaptive Video Reasoning

Daeun Lee, Jaehong Yoon, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal

Treble Counterfactual VLMs: A Causal Approach to Hallucination

Li Li, Jiashu Qu, Linxin Song, Yuxiao Zhou, Yuehan Qin

Adaptive Platt Scaling with Causal Interpretations for Self-Reflective Language Model Uncertainty Estimates

Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani

Can Large Language Models Identify Implicit Suicidal Ideation? An Empirical Evaluation

Tong Li, Shu Yang, Junchao Wu, Jiyao Wei, Lijie Hu

Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation

Keren Artiaga, Sabyasachi Kamila, Haithem Afli, Conor Lynch, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman