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Auto-SLURP: A Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating Multi-Agent Frameworks in Smart Personal Assistant

Lei Shen, Xiaoyu Shen

From Characters to Tokens: Dynamic Grouping with Hierarchical BPE

Rares Dolga, Lucas Maystre, Tudor Berariu, David Barber

ReliableEval: A Recipe for Stochastic LLM Evaluation via Method of Moments

Gili Lior, Eliya Habba, Shahar Levy, Avi Caciularu, Gabriel Stanovsky

HiMATE: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Machine Translation Evaluation

Shijie Zhang, Renhao Li, Songsheng Wang, Philipp Koehn, Min Yang

Breaking the Attention Trap in Code LLMs: A Rejection Sampling Approach to Enhance Code Execution Prediction

Xingcheng Ruan, Haoxiang Geng, Yunhui Xia, Bingran Zhao

ARXSA: A General Negative Feedback Control Theory in Vision-Language Models

Zeyu Zhang, Tianqi Chen, Yuki Todo

INDOORWORLD : Integrating Physical Task Solving and Social Simulation in A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Environment

Dekun Wu, Frederik Brudy, Bang Liu, Yi Wang

Data Doping or True Intelligence? Evaluating the Transferability of Injected Knowledge in LLMs

Essa Jan, Moiz Ali, Muhammad Saram Hassan, Muhammad Fareed Zaffar, Yasir Zaki

Cognitive-Level Adaptive Generation via Capability-Aware Retrieval and Style Adaptation

Qingsong Wang, Tao Wu, Wang Lin, Yueying Feng, Gongsheng Yuan

How Reliable is Multilingual LLM-as-a-Judge?

Xiyan Fu, Wei Liu

SoT: Structured-of-Thought Prompting Guides Multilingual Reasoning in Large Language Models

Rui Qi, Zhibo Man, Yufeng Chen, Fengran Mo, Jinan Xu

STEAM: A Semantic-Level Knowledge Editing Framework for Large Language Models

Geunyeong Jeong, Juoh Sun, Seonghee Lee, Harksoo Kim

Equal Truth: Rumor Detection with Invariant Group Fairness

Junyi Chen, Mengjia Wu, Qian Liu, Jing Sun, Ying Ding

Where Fact Ends and Fairness Begins: Redefining AI Bias Evaluation through Cognitive Biases

Jen-tse Huang, Yuhang Yan, Linqi Liu, Yixin Wan, Wenxuan Wang

KaeDe: Progressive Generation of Logical Forms via Knowledge-Aware Question Decomposition for Improved KBQA

Ranran Bu, Jian Cao, Jianqi Gao, Shiyou Qian, Hongming Cai

RLMEval: Evaluating Research-Level Neural Theorem Proving

Auguste Poiroux, Antoine Bosselut, Viktor Kunčak

NeLLCom-Lex: A Neural-agent Framework to Study the Interplay between Lexical Systems and Language Use

Yuqing Zhang, Ecesu Ürker, Tessa Verhoef, Gemma Boleda, Arianna Bisazza

Imagination and Contemplation: A Balanced Framework for Semantic-Augmented Multimodal Machine Translation

Zhuang Yu, Shiliang Sun, Jing Zhao, Tengfei Song, Hao Yang

Mitigating Attention Localization in Small Scale: Self-Attention Refinement via One-step Belief Propagation

Nakyung Lee, Yeongoon Kim, Minhae Oh, Suhwan Kim, Jin Woo Koo

Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion via Efficient Multilingual Knowledge Sharing

Cunli Mao, Xiaofei Gao, Ran Song, Shizhu He, Shengxiang Gao

Towards Multi-Document Question Answering in Scientific Literature: Pipeline, Dataset, and Evaluation

Hui Huang, Julien Velcin, Yacine Kessaci

Multilingual Generative Retrieval via Cross-lingual Semantic Compression

Yuxin Huang, Simeng Wu, Ran Song, Yan Xiang, Yantuan Xian

Self-Guided Function Calling in Large Language Models via Stepwise Experience Recall

Sijia Cui, Aiyao He, Shuai Xu, Hongming Zhang, Yanna Wang

On the Perception Bottleneck of VLMs for Chart Understanding

Junteng Liu, Weihao Zeng, Xiwen Zhang, Yijun Wang, Zifei Shan

Steering LVLMs via Sparse Autoencoder for Hallucination Mitigation

Zhenglin Hua, Jinghan He, Zijun Yao, Tianxu Han, Haiyun Guo

ISACL: Internal State Analyzer for Copyrighted Training Data Leakage

Guangwei Zhang, Qisheng Su, Jiateng Liu, Cheng Qian, Yanzhou Pan

Sarcasm-R1: Enhancing Sarcasm Detection through Focused Reasoning

Qi Yang, Jingjie Zeng, Liang Yang, Kai Ma, Hongfei Lin

Beyond Distribution: Investigating Language Models’ Understanding of Sino-Korean Morphemes

Taehee Jeon

LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zirui Guo, Lianghao Xia, Yanhua Yu, Tu Ao, Chao Huang

“Where Does This Strange Smell Come from?”: Enabling Conversational Interfaces for Artificial Olfaction

Xueyi Zhou, Qi Lu, Dong-Kyu Chae

GenPTQ: Green Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale ASR Models with Mixed-Precision Bit Allocation

Beom Jin Kang, Hyun Kim

Select to Know: An Internal-External Knowledge Self-Selection Framework for Domain-Specific Question Answering

Bolei He, Xinran He, Run Shao, Shanfu Shu, Xianwei Xue

AgentThink: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Kangan Qian, Sicong Jiang, Yang Zhong, Ziang Luo, Zilin Huang

CAPE: Context-Aware Personality Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models

Jivnesh Sandhan, Fei Cheng, Tushar Sandhan, Yugo Murawaki

3D-Aware Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning with Geometric Distillation

Seonho Lee, Jiho Choi, Inha Kang, Jiwook Kim, Junsung Park

Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for Korean Meteorological Experts

ChaeHun Park, Hojun Cho, Jaegul Choo

Sample Efficient Alignment Learning With Episodic Control

Van Dai Do, Quan Hung Tran, Ahmed Kirmani, Lu Zhang, Hung Le

Assessing Socio-Cultural Alignment and Technical Safety of Sovereign LLMs

Kyubyung Chae, Gihoon Kim, Gyuseong Lee, Taesup Kim, Jaejin Lee

Text or Pixels? Evaluating Efficiency and Understanding of LLMs with Visual Text Inputs

Yanhong Li, Zixuan Lan, Jiawei Zhou

NLKI: A Lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA Tasks

Aritra Dutta, Swapnanil Mukherjee, Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya

Both Text and Images Leaked! A Systematic Analysis of Data Contamination in Multimodal LLM

Dingjie Song, Sicheng Lai, Mingxuan Wang, Shunian Chen, Lichao Sun

‘Hello, World!’: Making GNNs Talk with LLMs

Sunwoo Kim, Soo Yong Lee, Jaemin Yoo, Kijung Shin

R3-RAG: Learning Step-by-Step Reasoning and Retrieval for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Li, Qi Luo, Xiaonan Li, Bufan Li, Qinyuan Cheng

DesignCLIP: Multimodal Learning with CLIP for Design Patent Understanding

Zhu Wang, Homaira Huda Shomee, Sathya N. Ravi, Sourav Medya

CultureSynth: A Hierarchical Taxonomy-Guided and Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Cultural Question-Answer Synthesis

Xinyu Zhang, Pei Zhang, Shuang Luo, Jialong Tang, Yu Wan

Accelerating LLM Reasoning via Early Rejection with Partial Reward Modeling

Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Azal Ahmad Khan, Xinran Wang, Zirui Liu, Ali Anwar

XL-Suite: Cross-Lingual Synthetic Training and Evaluation Data for Open-Ended Generation

Vivek Iyer, Pinzhen Chen, Ricardo Rei, Alexandra Birch

LongWeave: A Long-Form Generation Benchmark Bridging Real-World Relevance and Verifiability

Zikai Xiao, Fei Huang, Jianhong Tu, Jianhui Wei, Wen Ma

Do Code Semantics Help? A Comprehensive Study on Execution Trace-Based Information for Code Large Language Models

Jian Jornbowrl Wang, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu, Shangqing Liu, Yi Li

ViFT: Towards Visual Instruction-Free Fine-tuning for Large Vision-Language Models

Zikang Liu, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao, Dawei Gao, Yaliang Li

NIM: Neuro-symbolic Ideographic Metalanguage for Inclusive Communication

Prawaal Sharma, Poonam Goyal, Navneet Goyal, Vidisha Sharma

AdDriftBench: A Benchmark for Detecting Data Drift and Label Drift in Short Video Advertising

Yinghao Song, Xiangji Zeng, Shuai Cui, Lu Sun, Zhaowei Liu

MediVLM: A Vision Language Model for Radiology Report Generation from Medical Images

Debanjan Goswami, Ronast Subedi, Shayok Chakraborty

CATCH: A Novel Data Synthesis Framework for High Therapy Fidelity and Memory-Driven Planning Chain of Thought in AI Counseling

Mingyu Chen, Jingkai Lin, Zhaojie Chu, Xiaofen Xing, Yirong Chen

HighMATH: Evaluating Math Reasoning of Large Language Models in Breadth and Depth

Yan Liu, Minghui Zhang, Bojian Xiong, Yifan Xiao, Yinong Sun

Fuzzy Reasoning Chain (FRC): An Innovative Reasoning Framework from Fuzziness to Clarity

Ping Chen, Xiang Liu, Zhaoxiang Liu, Zezhou Chen, Xingpeng Zhang

MisinfoBench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs’ Resilience to Misinformation

Ye Yang, Donghe Li, Zuchen Li, Fengyuan Li, Jingyi Liu

AIRepr: An Analyst-Inspector Framework for Evaluating Reproducibility of LLMs in Data Science

Qiuhai Zeng, Claire Jin, Xinyue Wang, Yuhan Zheng, Qunhua Li

SOLAR: Serendipity Optimized Language Model Aligned for Recommendation

Zichen Yuan, Lifan Sun, Yucen Zhuang, Yue Wang, Xinyuan Song

Learning to Describe Implicit Changes: Noise-robust Pre-training for Image Difference Captioning

Zixin Guo, Jiayang Sun, Tzu-Jui Julius Wang, Abduljalil Radman, Selen Pehlivan

VQA-Augmented Machine Translation with Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning

Zhihui Zhang, Shiliang Sun, Jing Zhao, Tengfei Song, Hao Yang

Recognizing Limits: Investigating Infeasibility in Large Language Models

Wenbo Zhang, Zihang Xu, Hengrui Cai

Conflicts in Texts: Data, Implications and Challenges

Siyi Liu, Dan Roth

Fine-Tuning Encoder-Decoder Models with Contrastive Learning for In-Context Distractor Generation

Elaf Alhazmi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Mohammed I. Thanoon, Haojie Zhuang

Catch Me If You Can? Not Yet: LLMs Still Struggle to Imitate the Implicit Writing Styles of Everyday Authors

Zhengxiang Wang, Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Solha Park, Zhenzhen Li, Jiawei Zhou

DeCoRe: Decoding by Contrasting Retrieval Heads to Mitigate Hallucinations

Aryo Pradipta Gema, Chen Jin, Ahmed Abdulaal, Tom Diethe, Philip Alexander Teare

Nested Named Entity Recognition as Single-Pass Sequence Labeling

Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, David Vilares, Caio Corro, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

AraSafe: Benchmarking Safety in Arabic LLMs

Hamdy Mubarak, Abubakr Mohamed, Majd Hawasly

Proxy Barrier: A Hidden Repeater Layer Defense Against System Prompt Leakage and Jailbreaking

Pedro Schindler Freire Brasil Ribeiro, Iago Alves Brito, Rafael Teixeira Sousa, Fernanda Bufon Färber, Julia Soares Dollis

Bold Claims or Self-Doubt? Factuality Hallucination Type Detection via Belief State

Dongyu Zhang, Qingqing Hong, Bingxuan Hou, Jiayi Lin, Chenyang Zhang

What Has Been Lost with Synthetic Evaluation?

Alexander Gill, Abhilasha Ravichander, Ana Marasović

FinGrAct: A Framework for FINe-GRrained Evaluation of ACTionability in Explainable Automatic Fact-Checking

Islam Eldifrawi, Shengrui Wang, Amine Trabelsi

Dub-S2ST: Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation for Seamless Dubbing

Jeongsoo Choi, Jaehun Kim, Joon Son Chung

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text

Guy Mor-Lan, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Yael R. Kaplan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav

Efficient Dynamic Clustering-Based Document Compression for Retrieval-Augmented-Generation

Weitao Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Kaiming Liu, Xuanyu Lei, Weizhi Ma

LaMP-Cap: Personalized Figure Caption Generation With Multimodal Figure Profiles

Ho Yin Sam Ng, Edward Hsu, Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan, Branislav Kveton, Nedim Lipka

BehaviorSFT: Behavioral Token Conditioning for Health Agents Across the Proactivity Spectrum

Yubin Kim, Zhiyuan Hu, Hyewon Jeong, Eugene W Park, Shuyue Stella Li

Demystifying Multilingual Reasoning in Process Reward Modeling

Weixuan Wang, Minghao Wu, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Bringing Pedagogy into Focus: Evaluating Virtual Teaching Assistants’ Question-Answering in Asynchronous Learning Environments

Li Siyan, Zhen Xu, Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram, Xuanming Zhang, Renzhe Yu

CAARMA: Class Augmentation with Adversarial Mixup Regularization

Massa Baali, Xiang Li, Hao Chen, Syed Abdul Hannan, Rita Singh

SVeritas: Benchmark for Robust Speaker Verification under Diverse Conditions

Massa Baali, Sarthak Bisht, Francisco Teixeira, Kateryna Shapovalenko, Rita Singh

FIER: Fine-Grained and Efficient KV Cache Retrieval for Long-context LLM Inference

Dongwei Wang, Zijie Liu, Song Wang, Yuxin Ren, Jianing Deng

Data-scarce Behavior Editing of Language Models

Joykirat Singh, Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

DivScene: Towards Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation with Large Vision Language Models in Diverse Scenes

Zhaowei Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Ye Tian, Yue Yang

Sugar-Coated Poison: Benign Generation Unlocks Jailbreaking

Yuhang Wu, Yu-Jie Xiong, Hao Zhang, Jia-Chen Zhang, Zheng Zhou

Uplift-RAG: Uplift-Driven Knowledge Preference Alignment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Hengyi Cai, Yiyang Cheng, Jun Xu

Assistant-Guided Mitigation of Teacher Preference Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge

Zhuo Liu, Moxin Li, Xun Deng, Qifan Wang, Fuli Feng

Creative Preference Optimization

Mete Ismayilzada, Antonio Laverghetta Jr., Simone A. Luchini, Reet Patel, Antoine Bosselut

Leveraging the Cross-Domain & Cross-Linguistic Corpus for Low Resource NMT: A Case Study On Bhili-Hindi-English Parallel Corpus

Pooja Singh, Shashwat Bhardwaj, Vaibhav Sharma, Sandeep Kumar

Benchmarking the Detection of LLMs-Generated Modern Chinese Poetry

Shanshan Wang, Junchao Wu, Fengying Ye, Derek F. Wong, Jingming Yao

Modeling, Evaluating, and Embodying Personality in LLMs: A Survey

Iago Alves Brito, Julia Soares Dollis, Fernanda Bufon Färber, Pedro Schindler Freire Brasil Ribeiro, Rafael Teixeira Sousa

Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes

Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin

Efficient Integration of External Knowledge to LLM-based World Models via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Reinforcement Learning

Chang Yang, Xinrun Wang, Qinggang Zhang, Qi Jiang, Xiao Huang

Think Twice, Generate Once: Safeguarding by Progressive Self-Reflection

Hoang Phan, Victor Li, Qi Lei

Likelihood Variance as Text Importance for Resampling Texts to Map Language Models

Momose Oyama, Ryo Kishino, Hiroaki Yamagiwa, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Understanding How Value Neurons Shape the Generation of Specified Values in LLMs

Yi Su, Jiayi Zhang, Shu Yang, Xinhai Wang, Lijie Hu

A Monte-Carlo Sampling Framework For Reliable Evaluation of Large Language Models Using Behavioral Analysis

Davood Wadi, Marc Fredette

MIND: Towards Immersive Psychological Healing with Multi-Agent Inner Dialogue

Yujia Chen, Changsong Li, Yiming Wang, Tianjie Ju, Qingqing Xiao

LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and distributed approaches to language

Gemma Boleda

Soteria: Language-Specific Functional Parameter Steering for Multilingual Safety Alignment

Somnath Banerjee, Sayan Layek, Pratyush Chatterjee, Animesh Mukherjee, Rima Hazra