EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Use Random Selection for Now: Investigation of Few-Shot Selection Strategies in LLM-based Text Augmentation

Jan Cegin, Branislav Pecher, Jakub Simko, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova

Why We Feel What We Feel: Joint Detection of Emotions and Their Opinion Triggers in E-commerce

Arnav Attri, Anuj Attri, Suman Banerjee, Amey Patil, Muthusamy Chelliah

Agent Trading Arena: A Study on Numerical Understanding in LLM-Based Agents

Tianmi Ma, JIAWEI DU, Wenxin Huang, Wenjie Wang, Liang Xie

Fact Verification on Knowledge Graph via Programmatic Graph Reasoning

Yuanzhen Hao, Desheng Wu

The “r” in “woman” stands for rights. Auditing LLMs in Uncovering Social Dynamics in Implicit Misogyny

Arianna Muti, Chris Emmery, Debora Nozza, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tommaso Caselli

GASE: Generatively Augmented Sentence Encoding

Manuel Frank, Haithem Afli

ReGraphRAG: Reorganizing Fragmented Knowledge Graphs for Multi-Perspective Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Soohyeong Kim, Seok Jun Hwang, JungHyoun Kim, Jeonghyeon Park, Yong Suk Choi

SCE: Semantic Consistency Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Yanwen Huang, Yao Liu, Qiao Liu, Rui Hou, Tingting Dai

TailorRPA: A Retrieval-Based Framework for Eliciting Personalized and Coherent Role-Playing Agents in General Domain

Zhenpeng Gao, Xiaofen Xing, Xiangmin Xu

Rethinking Personality Assessment from Human-Agent Dialogues: Fewer Rounds May Be Better Than More

Baiqiao Zhang, Zhifeng Liao, Xiangxian Li, Chao Zhou, Juan Liu

What Media Frames Reveal About Stance: A Dataset and Study about Memes in Climate Change Discourse

Shijia Zhou, Siyao Peng, Simon M. Luebke, Jörg Haßler, Mario Haim

Revealing the Inherent Instructability of Pre-Trained Language Models

Seokhyun An, Minji Kim, Hyounghun Kim

EcoLANG: Efficient and Effective Agent Communication Language Induction for Social Simulation

Xinyi Mou, Chen Qian, Wei Liu, Ling Yan, Yao Hu

Tag&Tab: Pretraining Data Detection in Large Language Models Using Keyword-Based Membership Inference Attack

Sagiv Antebi, Edan Habler, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Elovici

X-Boundary: Establishing Exact Safety Boundary to Shield LLMs from Jailbreak Attacks without Compromising Usability

Xiaoya Lu, Dongrui Liu, Yi Yu, Luxin Xu, Jing Shao

Beyond the Surface: A Solution-Aware Retrieval Model for Competition-level Code Generation

Shiwen Zhang, Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang, Ziwei Wang, Sijia Wen

LexTime: A Benchmark for Temporal Ordering of Legal Events

Claire Barale, Leslie Barrett, Vikram Sunil Bajaj, Michael Rovatsos

MaGiX: A Multi-Granular Adaptive Graph Intelligence Framework for Enhancing Cross-Lingual RAG

Nguyen Manh Hieu, Vu Lam Anh, Hung Pham Van, Nam Le Hai, Linh Ngo Van

ThinkSwitcher: When to Think Hard, When to Think Fast

Guosheng Liang, Longguang Zhong, Ziyi Yang, Xiaojun Quan

Interesting Culture: Social Relation Recognition from Videos via Culture De-confounding

Yuxuan Zhang, Yangfu Zhu, Haorui Wang, Bin Wu

WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback

Minda Hu, Tianqing Fang, Jianshu Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma, Zhisong Zhang

Towards Personalized Conversational Sales Agents: Contextual User Profiling for Strategic Action

Tongyoung Kim, Jeongeun Lee, SooJin Yoon, Sunghwan Kim, Dongha Lee

HIRAG: Hierarchical-Thought Instruction-Tuning Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yihan Jiao, Zhehao Tan, Dan Yang, Duolin Sun, Jie Feng

CoRanking: Collaborative Ranking with Small and Large Ranking Agents

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu, Lixin Su, Shuaiqiang Wang

GenPoE: Generative Passage-level Mixture of Experts for Knowledge Enhancement of LLMs

Xuebing Liu, Shanbao Qiao, Seung-Hoon Na

An Empirical Study of Position Bias in Modern Information Retrieval

Ziyang Zeng, Dun Zhang, Jiacheng Li, Zoupanxiang, Yudong Zhou

Detecting Continuously Evolving Scam Calls under Limited Annotation: A LLM-Augmented Expert Rule Framework

Haoyu Ma, Qinliang Su, Minhua Huang, Wu Kai

Beyond the Scientific Document: A Citation-Aware Multi-Granular Summarization Approach with Heterogeneous Graphs

Quoc-An Nguyen, Xuan-Hung Le, Thi-Minh-Thu Vu, Hoang-Quynh Le

Krikri: Advancing Open Large Language Models for Greek

Dimitris Roussis, Leon Voukoutis, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis

Are Knowledge and Reference in Multilingual Language Models Cross-Lingually Consistent?

Xi Ai, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Min-Yen Kan

Forewarned is Forearmed: Pre-Synthesizing Jailbreak-like Instructions to Enhance LLM Safety Guardrail to Potential Attacks

Sheng Liu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang, Yang Li, Guang Yang

PICD-Instruct: A Generative Instruction Learning Framework for Few-Shot Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding

Wenbin Hua, Rui Fan, Tingting He, Ming Dong

Watermark Smoothing Attacks against Language Models

Hongyan Chang, Hamed Hassani, Reza Shokri

LLMEval-Med: A Real-world Clinical Benchmark for Medical LLMs with Physician Validation

Ming Zhang, Yujiong Shen, Zelin Li, Huayu Sha, Binze Hu

DTDES-KGE: Dual-Teacher Knowledge Distillation with Distinct Embedding Spaces for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Bofan Wei, Hongyuan Xu, Yuhang Niu, Jiarui Ren, Yanlong Wen

Knowledge Graph-Driven Memory Editing with Directional Interventions

Jinhu Fu, Kun Wang, Chongye Guo, Junfeng Fang, Wentao Zhang

Watermarking with Low-Entropy POS-Guided Token Partitioning and Z-Score-Driven Dynamic Bias for Large Language Models

He Li, Xiaojun Chen, Zhendong Zhao, Yunfei Yang, Xin Zhao

Breaking the Reviewer: Assessing the Vulnerability of Large Language Models in Automated Peer Review Under Textual Adversarial Attacks

Tzu-Ling Lin, Wei-Chih Chen, Teng-Fang Hsiao, Hou-I Liu, Ya-Hsin Yeh

Beyond Inherent Cognition Biases in LLM-Based Event Forecasting: A Multi-Cognition Agentic Framework

Zhen Wang, Xi Zhou, Yating Yang, Bo Ma, Lei Wang

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter

JunXi Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Lechao Cheng, Zhun Zhong

Dream to Chat: Model-based Reinforcement Learning on Dialogues with User Belief Modeling

Yue Zhao, Xiaoyu Wang, Dan Wang, Zhonglin Jiang, Qingqing Gu

Personalized Question Answering with User Profile Generation and Compression

Hang Su, Yun Yang, Tianyang Liu, Xin Liu, Peng Pu

PrAd: Prompt Adaptive Tuning for Decoder-only Language Models

Youneng Ma, Junyi He, Haojun Fei

Beyond the First Error: Process Reward Models for Reflective Mathematical Reasoning

Zhaohui Yang, Chenghua He, Xiaowen Shi, Shihong Deng, Linjing Li

Dynamic Simulation Framework for Disinformation Dissemination and Correction With Social Bots

Boyu Qiao, Kun Li, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu

FroM: Frobenius Norm-Based Data-Free Adaptive Model Merging

Zijian Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Huixin Liu, Yichong Huang, Ting Liu

Prejudge-Before-Think: Enhancing Large Language Models at Test-Time by Process Prejudge Reasoning

Jianing Wang, Jin Jiang, Yang Liu, Mengdi Zhang, Xunliang Cai

Multi-level Diagnosis and Evaluation for Robust Tabular Feature Engineering with Large Language Models

Yebin Lim, Susik Yoon

Enhancing Partially Relevant Video Retrieval with Robust Alignment Learning

Long Zhang, Peipei Song, Jianfeng Dong, Kun Li, Xun Yang

Cross-Cultural Transfer of Commonsense Reasoning in LLMs: Evidence from the Arab World

Saeed Almheiri, Rania Elbadry, Mena Attia, Chenxi Wang, Preslav Nakov

Tree of Agents: Improving Long-Context Capabilities of Large Language Models through Multi-Perspective Reasoning

Song Yu, Xiaofei Xu, Ke Deng, Li Li, Lin Tian

Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Domain-Contextualized Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Chuming Shen, Wei Wei, Dong Wang, Zhong-Hao Wang

Zero-shot Cross-lingual NER via Mitigating Language Difference: An Entity-aligned Translation Perspective

Zhihao Zhang, Sophia Yat Mei Lee, Dong Zhang, Shoushan Li, Guodong Zhou

Path-enhanced Pre-trained Language Model for Knowledge Graph Completion

Hao Wang, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu, Yuhang Tian, Pan Yang

Backdoor-Powered Prompt Injection Attacks Nullify Defense Methods

Yulin Chen, Haoran Li, Yuan Sui, Yangqiu Song, Bryan Hooi

Enhancing Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Modeling with End-to-End Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Pengchao Feng, Ziyang Ma, Wenxi Chen, Yao Li, Sheng wang

How Does Cognitive Bias Affect Large Language Models? A Case Study on the Anchoring Effect in Price Negotiation Simulations

Yoshiki Takenami, Yin Jou Huang, Yugo Murawaki, Chenhui Chu

CIVET: Systematic Evaluation of Understanding in VLMs

Massimo Rizzoli, Simone Alghisi, Olha Khomyn, Gabriel Roccabruna, Seyed Mahed Mousavi

A Survey on Training-free Alignment of Large Language Models

Birong Pan, Yongqi Li, Weiyu Zhang, Wenpeng Lu, Mayi Xu

FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction

Zhaohan Meng, Zaiqiao Meng, Ke Yuan, Iadh Ounis

GRADE: Generating multi-hop QA and fine-gRAined Difficulty matrix for RAG Evaluation

Jeongsoo Lee, Daeyong Kwon, Kyohoon Jin

Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization

Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jingpu Yang

Reward Mixology: Crafting Hybrid Signals for Reinforcement Learning Driven In-Context Learning

Changshuo Zhang, Ang Gao, Xiao Zhang, Yong Liu, Deyang Li

GLProtein: Global-and-Local Structure Aware Protein Representation Learning

Yunqing Liu, Wenqi Fan, Xiaoyong Wei, Li Qing

MetaLadder: Ascending Mathematical Solution Quality via Analogical-Problem Reasoning Transfer

Honglin Lin, Zhuoshi Pan, Qizhi Pei, Xin Gao, Yu Li

AELC: Adaptive Entity Linking with LLM-Driven Contextualization

Fang Wang, Zhengwei Tao, Ming Wang, Minghao Hu, Xiaoying Bai

Unlocking the Effectiveness of LoRA-FP for Seamless Transfer Implantation of Fingerprints in Downstream Models

Zhenhua Xu, Zhaokun Yan, Binhan Xu, Xin Tong, Haitao Xu

Recipe2Plan: Evaluating Planning Abilities of LLMs for Efficient and Feasible Multitasking with Time Constraints Between Actions

Zirui Wu, Xiao Liu, Jiayi Li, Lingpeng Kong, Yansong Feng

FG-PRM: Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Language Model Mathematical Reasoning

Ruosen Li, Ziming Luo, Xinya Du

ZOGRASCOPE: A New Benchmark for Semantic Parsing over Property Graphs

Francesco Cazzaro, Justin Kleindienst, Sofia Márquez Gomez, Ariadna Quattoni

Benchmarking Uncertainty Metrics for LLM Target-Aware Search

Pei-Fu Guo, Yun-Da Tsai, Shou-De Lin

David vs. Goliath: Cost-Efficient Financial QA via Cascaded Multi-Agent Reasoning

Chenghao Liu, Qian Liu, Ziqin Zhu, Hao Fei, Aniket Mahanti

The Effect of Language Diversity When Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Translation

David Stap, Christof Monz

Sequence Structure Aware Retriever for Procedural Document Retrieval: A New Dataset and Baseline

Zhenqi Ye, Haopeng Ren, Yi Cai, Qingbao Huang, Jing Qin

ReLoop: “Seeing Twice and Thinking Backwards” via Closed-loop Training to Mitigate Hallucinations in Multimodal understanding

Jianjiang Yang, Yanshu Li, Ziyan Huang

FlexQuant: A Flexible and Efficient Dynamic Precision Switching Framework for LLM Quantization

Fangxin Liu, Zongwu Wang, Jinhong Xia, Junping Zhao, Shouren Zhao

ParetoRAG: Leveraging Sentence-Context Attention for Robust and Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ruobing Yao, Yifei Zhang, Shuang Song, Yuhan Liu, Neng Gao

UPLex: Fine-Grained Personality Control in Large Language Models via Unsupervised Lexical Modulation

Tianlong Li, Wenhao Liu, Muling Wu, Shihan Dou, Zhenghua Wang

How Does Knowledge Selection Help Retrieval Augmented Generation?

Xiangci Li, Jessica Ouyang

Sparkle: Mastering Basic Spatial Capabilities in Vision Language Models Elicits Generalization to Spatial Reasoning

Yihong Tang, Ao Qu, Zhaokai Wang, Dingyi Zhuang, Zhaofeng Wu

StereoDetect: Detecting Stereotypes and Anti-stereotypes the Correct Way Using Social Psychological Underpinnings

Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

EcoSafeRAG: Efficient Security through Context Analysis in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ruobing Yao, Yifei Zhang, Shuang Song, Neng Gao, Chenyang Tu

RGAR: Recurrence Generation-augmented Retrieval for Factual-aware Medical Question Answering

Sichu Liang, Linhai Zhang, Hongyu Zhu, Wenwen Wang, Yulan He

Unlocking Smarter Device Control: Foresighted Planning with a World Model-Driven Code Execution Approach

Xiaoran Yin, Xu Luo, Hao Wu, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song

Learning What to Remember: Adaptive Probabilistic Memory Retention for Memory-Efficient Language Models

S M Rafiuddin, Muntaha Nujat Khan

Exploring the Generalizability of Factual Hallucination Mitigation via Enhancing Precise Knowledge Utilization

Siyuan Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong, Hang Su

MPO: Boosting LLM Agents with Meta Plan Optimization

Weimin Xiong, Yifan Song, Qingxiu Dong, Bingchan Zhao, Feifan Song

Can We Steer Reasoning Direction by Thinking Intervention?

Xingsheng Zhang, Luxi Xing, Chen Zhang, Yanbing Liu, Yifan Deng

RouterEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Routing LLMs to Explore Model-level Scaling Up in LLMs

Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Yupei Lin, Yandong Chen, Shanshan Zhong

HierPrompt: Zero-Shot Hierarchical Text Classification with LLM-Enhanced Prototypes

Qian Zhang, Qinliang Su, Wei Zhu, Pang Yachun

Text-centric Alignment for Bridging Test-time Unseen Modality

Yun-Da Tsai, Ting-Yu Yen, Pei-Fu Guo, Zhe-Yan Li, Shou-De Lin

Beyond Spurious Signals: Debiasing Multimodal Large Language Models via Counterfactual Inference and Adaptive Expert Routing

Zichen Wu, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Yunfang Wu

PREE: Towards Harmless and Adaptive Fingerprint Editing in Large Language Models via Knowledge Prefix Enhancement

Xubin Yue, Zhenhua Xu, Wenpeng Xing, Jiahui Yu, Mohan Li

RECAST: Retrieval-Augmented Contextual ASR via Decoder-State Keyword Spotting

Ashish Mittal, Sunita Sarawagi, Preethi Jyothi

MetaMixSpeech: Meta Task Augmentation for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Yaqi Chen, Hao Zhang, Wenlin Zhang, Xukui Yang, Dan Qu

Role-Guided Annotation and Prototype-Aligned Representation Learning for Historical Literature Sentiment Classification

Hongfei Du, Jiacheng Shi, Jacobo Myerston, Sidi Lu, Gang Zhou

Multilingual Collaborative Defense for Large Language Models

Hongliang Li, Jinan Xu, Gengping Cui, Changhao Guan, Fengran Mo

CDT: A Comprehensive Capability Framework for Large Language Models Across Cognition, Domain, and Task

Haosi Mo, Xinyu Ma, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Yu Li

Convolutional LoRA Aggregation for Unseen Tasks Adaptation

Xinhao Wu, Jialin Liu, Yutai Duan, Jie Liu

PIP: Perturbation-based Iterative Pruning for Large Language Models

Yi Cao, Wei-Jie Xu, Yucheng Shen, Weijie Shi, Chi-Min Chan