EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Not Every Token Needs Forgetting: Selective Unlearning Balancing Forgetting and Utility in Large Language Models

Yixin Wan, Anil Ramakrishna, Kai-Wei Chang, Volkan Cevher, Rahul Gupta

Beyond Guilt: Legal Judgment Prediction with Trichotomous Reasoning

Kepu Zhang, Haoyue Yang, Xu Tang, Weijie Yu, Jun Xu

Evaluating Step-by-step Reasoning Traces: A Survey

Jinu Lee, Julia Hockenmaier

CCL-XCoT: An Efficient Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Method for Mitigating Hallucination Generation

Zheng Weihua, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Zhengyuan Liu, Wu Kui, AiTi Aw

Confusion is the Final Barrier: Rethinking Jailbreak Evaluation and Investigating the Real Misuse Threat of LLMs

Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zhe Wang, Yijun Lin, Zenghao Duan

Attention Consistency for LLMs Explanation

Tian Lan, Jinyuan Xu, Xue He, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Lei Li

Large Vision-Language Model Alignment and Misalignment: A Survey Through the Lens of Explainability

Dong Shu, Haiyan Zhao, Jingyu Hu, Weiru Liu, Ali Payani

A Survey on Sparse Autoencoders: Interpreting the Internal Mechanisms of Large Language Models

Dong Shu, Xuansheng Wu, Haiyan Zhao, Daking Rai, Ziyu Yao

EvolKV: Evolutionary KV Cache Compression for LLM Inference

Bohan Yu, Yekun Chai

FinHEAR: Human Expertise and Adaptive Risk-Aware Temporal Reasoning for Financial Decision-Making

Jiaxiang Chen, Mingxi Zou, Zhuo Wang, Qifan Wang, Danny Dongning Sun

Beyond Coarse Labels: Fine-Grained Problem Augmentation and Multi-Dimensional Feedback for Emotional Support Conversation

Yuanchen Shi, Jiawang Hao, Fang Kong

ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges

Cheng Qian, Hongyi Du, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang

Legal Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs: Procedural Alignment through Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning

Kepu Zhang, Guofu Xie, Weijie Yu, Mingyue Xu, Xu Tang

DP-GTR: Differentially Private Prompt Protection via Group Text Rewriting

Mingchen Li, Heng Fan, Song Fu, Junhua Ding, Yunhe Feng

One More Modality: Does Abstract Meaning Representation Benefit Visual Question Answering?

Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Emma Markle, Shira Wein

SQLSpace: A Representation Space for Text-to-SQL to Discover and Mitigate Robustness Gaps

Neha Srikanth, Victor Bursztyn, Puneet Mathur, Ani Nenkova

Invoke Interfaces Only When Needed: Adaptive Invocation for Large Language Models in Question Answering

Jihao Zhao, Chunlai Zhou, Daixuan Li, Shuaishuai Zu, Biao Qin

RELIC: Enhancing Reward Model Generalization for Low-Resource Indic Languages with Few-Shot Examples

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Vaibhav Singh, Akash Ghosh, Soumyabrata Pal, Subhadip Baidya

Training Language Models to Critique With Multi-agent Feedback

Tian Lan, Wenwei Zhang, Chengqi Lyu, Shuaibin Li, Chen Xu

Identifying Rare Languages in Common Crawl Data is a Needles-in-a-Haystack Problem

Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clerice, Benoît Sagot

What’s Not Said Still Hurts: A Description-Based Evaluation Framework for Measuring Social Bias in LLMs

Jinhao Pan, Chahat Raj, Ziyu Yao, Ziwei Zhu

What Makes for Good Image Captions?

Delong Chen, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Etsuko Ishii, Ho Shu Chan, Yejin Bang

DISCO Balances the Scales: Adaptive Domain- and Difficulty-Aware Reinforcement Learning on Imbalanced Data

Yuhang Zhou, Jing Zhu, Shengyi Qian, Zhuokai Zhao, Xiyao Wang

Bhaasha, Bhāṣā, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia – Current Stage and Challenges

Sampoorna Poria, Xiaolei Huang

NLoRA: Nyström-Initiated Low-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models

Chenlu Guo, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu

ORAL: Prompting Your Large-Scale LoRAs via Conditional Recurrent Diffusion

Rana Shahroz, Dongwen Tang, Pingzhi Li, Kai Wang, Tianlong Chen

Flexible Thinking for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation via Reinforcement Learning

Fanfan Wang, Xiangqing Shen, Jianfei Yu, Rui Xia

From Grounding to Manipulation: Case Studies of Foundation Model Integration in Embodied Robotic Systems

Xiuchao Sui, Daiying Tian, Qi Sun, Ruirui Chen, Dongkyu Choi

Large Language Model Evaluation via Matrix Nuclear-Norm

Yahan Li, Tingyu Xia, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Obscures Hallucination Cues in Large Language Models: An Empirical Evaluation

Jiahao Cheng, Tiancheng Su, Jia Yuan, Guoxiu He, Jiawei Liu

Minimal Ranks, Maximum Confidence: Parameter-efficient Uncertainty Quantification for LoRA

Patryk Marszałek, Klaudia Bałazy, Jacek Tabor, Tomasz Kuśmierczyk

Natural Context Drift Undermines the Natural Language Understanding of Large Language Models

Yulong Wu, Viktor Schlegel, Riza Batista-Navarro

Mitigating Object Hallucinations in MLLMs via Multi-Frequency Perturbations

Shuo Li, Jiajun Sun, Guodong Zheng, Xiaoran Fan, Yujiong Shen

Dagger Behind Smile: Fool LLMs with a Happy Ending Story

Xurui Song, Zhixin Xie, Shuo Huai, Jiayi Kong, Jun Luo

English as Defense Proxy: Mitigating Multilingual Jailbreak via Eliciting English Safety Knowledge

Zekai Zhang, Yiduo Guo, Jiuheng Lin, Shanghaoran Quan, Huishuai Zhang

LAGCL4Rec: When LLMs Activate Interactions Potential in Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation

Leqi Zheng, Chaokun Wang, Canzhi Chen, Jiajun Zhang, Cheng Wu

Multilingual Verbalisation of Knowledge Graphs

Yifei Song, William Soto Martinez, Anna Nikiforovskaya, Evan Parker Kelly Chapple, Claire Gardent

SPFT-SQL: Enhancing Large Language Model for Text-to-SQL Parsing by Self-Play Fine-Tuning

Yuhao Zhang, Shaoming Duan, Jinhang Su, Chuanyi Liu, Peiyi Han

LEAF: Large Language Diffusion Model for Time Series Forecasting

Yuhang Pei, Tao Ren, Yifan Wang, Zhipeng Sun, Wei Ju

Unearthing Gems from Stones: Policy Optimization with Negative Sample Augmentation for LLM Reasoning

Zhaohui Yang, Yuxiao Ye, Shilei Jiang, Shihong Deng, Chen Hu

GTA: Supervised-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Text Classification with Large Language Models

Min Zeng, Jingfei Sun, Xueyou Luo, Shiqi Zhang, Li Xie

Two Steps from Hell: Compositionality on Chemical LMs

Veronika Ganeeva, Kuzma Khrabrov, Artur Kadurin, Elena Tutubalina

Multifaceted Evaluation of Audio-Visual Capability for MLLMs: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Generalizability and Robustness

Yusheng Zhao, Xiao Luo, Junyu Luo, Weizhi Zhang, Zhiping Xiao

Aligning Black-Box LLMs for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

Shichen Li, Jiawei Zhang, Zhongqing Wang, Peifeng Li

Optimizing Cross-Client Domain Coverage for Federated Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models

Zezhou Wang, Yaxin Du, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang, Zhuzhong Qian

DongbaMIE: A Multimodal Information Extraction Dataset for Evaluating Semantic Understanding of Dongba Pictograms

Xiaojun Bi, Shuo Li, Junyao Xing, Ziyue Wang, Fuwen Luo

Grounded-VideoLLM: Sharpening Fine-grained Temporal Grounding in Video Large Language Models

Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu, Yu Cheng, SHIZHE DIAO, Yufan Zhou

GenPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Test-Time Prompt Optimization in Image Generation

Wen Ye, Zhaocheng Liu, Gui Yuwei, Tingyu Yuan, Yunyue Su

THCM-CAL: Temporal-Hierarchical Causal Modelling with Conformal Calibration for Clinical Risk Prediction

Xin Zhang, Qiyu Wei, Yingjie Zhu, Fanyi Wu, Sophia Ananiadou

DivLogicEval: A Framework for Benchmarking Logical Reasoning Evaluation in Large Language Models

Tsz Ting Chung, Lemao Liu, Mo Yu, Dit-Yan Yeung

The Power of Framing: How News Headlines Guide Search Behavior

Amrit Poudel, Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger

Mitigating Geospatial Knowledge Hallucination in Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Dynamic Factuality Aligning

Shengyuan Wang, Jie Feng, Tianhui Liu, Dan Pei, Yong Li

Don’t Take the Premise for Granted: Evaluating the Premise Critique Ability of Large Language Models

Jinzhe Li, Gengxu Li, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu

Bag of Tricks for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts: A Benchmark Across Reasoning, Efficiency, and Safety

Mufan Qiu, Zheyu Shen, Pingzhi Li, Ang Li, Tianlong Chen

FairCoT: Enhancing Fairness in Text-to-Image Generation via Chain of Thought Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models

Zahraa Al Sahili, Ioannis Patras, Matthew Purver

MedEBench: Diagnosing Reliability in Text-Guided Medical Image Editing

Minghao Liu, Zhitao He, Zhiyuan Fan, Qingyun Wang, Yi R. Fung

R2A-TLS: Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Timeline Summarization with Causal-Semantic Integration

Chenlong Bao, Shijie Li, Minghao Hu, Ming Qiao, Bin Zhang

Improving LLM Reasoning through Interpretable Role-Playing Steering

Anyi Wang, Dong Shu, Yifan Wang, Yunpu Ma, Mengnan Du

Assessing and Mitigating Medical Knowledge Drift and Conflicts in Large Language Models

Weiyi Wu, Xinwen Xu, Chongyang Gao, Xingjian Diao, Siting Li

Mechanistic Understanding and Mitigation of Language Confusion in English-Centric Large Language Models

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schuetze

RACQC: Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Chinese Query Correction

Jinbo Su, Lingzhe Gao, Wei Li, Shihao Liu, Haojie Lei

R-LoRA: Randomized Multi-Head LoRA for Efficient Multi-task Learning

Jinda Liu, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu

LoRA-MGPO: Mitigating Double Descent in Low-Rank Adaptation via Momentum-Guided Perturbation Optimization

Yupeng Chang, Chenlu Guo, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu

MULTITAT: Benchmarking Multilingual Table-and-Text Question Answering

Xuanliang Zhang, Dingzirui Wang, Keyan Xu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che

Exploring Model Kinship for Merging Large Language Models

Yedi Hu, Yunzhi Yao, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen, Shumin Deng

LaMP-Val: Large Language Models Empower Personalized Valuation in Auction

Jie Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Houcheng Jiang, Kexin Huang, Xiang Shu

Toolscaler: Scalable Generative Tool Calling via Structure-Aware Semantic Tokenization

Yunyue Su, Zhang Jinshuai, Bowen Fang, Wen Ye, Jinghao Zhang

Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Fedor Splitt

ProPy: Building Interactive Prompt Pyramids upon CLIP for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

Yi Pan, Yujia Zhang, Michael Kampffmeyer, Xiaoguang Zhao

Perovskite-LLM: Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models for Perovskite Solar Cell Research

Xiang Liu, Penglei Sun, Shuyan Chen, Longhan Zhang, Peijie Dong

Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation from a Creativity Perspective

Xinhao Wang, Xinyu Ma, ShengYong Ding, Derek F. Wong

Audio-Aware Large Language Models as Judges for Speaking Styles

Cheng-Han Chiang, Xiaofei Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li

End-to-End Optimization for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reward Backpropagation

Zhiyuan Fan, Longfei Yun, Ming Yan, Yumeng Wang, Dadi Guo

VehicleWorld: A Highly Integrated Multi-Device Environment for Intelligent Vehicle Interaction

jie Yang, Jiajun Chen, Zhangyue Yin, Shuo Chen, Yuxin Wang

DAC: Decomposed Automation Correction for Text-to-SQL

Dingzirui Wang, Longxu Dou, Xuanliang Zhang, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che

sudoLLM: On Multi-role Alignment of Language Models

Soumadeep Saha, Akshay Chaturvedi, Joy Mahapatra, Utpal Garain

Error Classification of Large Language Models on Math Word Problems: A Dynamically Adaptive Framework

Zhangyue Yin, YuHong Sun, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu, Hui Zhao

SPPD: Self-training with Process Preference Learning Using Dynamic Value Margin

Hao Yi, Qingyang Li, Yulan Hu, Fuzheng Zhang, Di Zhang

CPO: Addressing Reward Ambiguity in Role-playing Dialogue via Comparative Policy Optimization

Jing Ye, Rui Wang, Yuchuan Wu, Victor Ma, Feiteng Fang

On Domain-Adaptive Post-Training for Multimodal Large Language Models

Daixuan Cheng, Shaohan Huang, Ziyu Zhu, Xintong Zhang, Wayne Xin Zhao

DCMKC: A Dual Consistency Matching Approach for Multi-hop Question Answering in LLMs

Xinyi Wang, Yiping Song, Chang Liu, Tingjin Luo, Bo Liu

TL-Training: A Task-Feature-Based Framework for Training Large Language Models in Tool Use

Junjie Ye, Yilong Wu, Sixian Li, Yuming Yang, Zhiheng Xi

InsBank: Evolving Instruction Subset for Ongoing Alignment

Jiayi Shi, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng, Peiwen Yuan, Xinglin Wang

Versatile Framework for Song Generation with Prompt-based Control

Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Zhiyuan Zhu, Ruiqi Li

LLMsPark: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Strategic Gaming Contexts

Junhao Chen, Jingbo Sun, Xiang Li, Haidong Xin, Yuhao Xue

ReAL: How Can LLMs Simulate the Real Teacher? Retrieval-enhanced Agent for Adaptive Learning

Rui Lv, Qi Liu, Weibo Gao, Jiatong Li, Kai Zhang

How Diversely Can Language Models Solve Problems? Exploring the Algorithmic Diversity of Model-Generated Code

Seonghyeon Lee, HeeJae Chon, Joonwon Jang, Dongha Lee, Hwanjo Yu

Multi-Surrogate-Objective Optimization for Neural Topic Models

Tue Le, Hoang Tran Vuong, Tung Nguyen, Linh Ngo Van, Dinh Viet Sang

Exploring Hyperbolic Hierarchical Structure for Multimodal Rumor Detection

Md Mahbubur Rahman, Shufeng Hao, Chongyang Shi, An Lao, Jinyan Liu

Structural Patent Classification Using Label Hierarchy Optimization

Mengting Gui, Shufeng Hao, Chongyang Shi, Qi Zhang

Toward Optimal LLM Alignments Using Two-Player Games

Rui Zheng, Hongyi Guo, Zhihan Liu, Xiaoying Zhang, Yuanshun Yao

Can Large Language Models Personalize Dialogues to Generational Styles?

Pier Felice Balestrucci, Ondřej Dušek, Luca Anselma, Alessandro Mazzei

Boundary Matters: Leveraging Structured Text Plots for Long Text Outline Generation

Yuanchi Ma, Jiamou Liu, Hui He, Libo Zhang, Haoyuan Li

Large Language Models Might Not Care What You Are Saying: Prompt Format Beats Descriptions

Chenming Tang, Zhixiang Wang, Hao Sun, Yunfang Wu

Bias Analysis and Mitigation through Protected Attribute Detection and Regard Classification

Takuma Udagawa, Yang Zhao, Hiroshi Kanayama, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

Automating Alternative Generation in Decision-Making

Yevhen Kostiuk, Clara Seyfried, Chris Reed

Continual Learning of Large Language Models

Tongtong Wu, Trang Vu, Linhao Luo, Gholamreza Haffari

Neuro-Symbolic Natural Language Processing

Andre Freitas, Marco Valentino, Danilo Silva de Carvalho

Data and Model Centric Approaches for Expansion of Large Language Models to New languages

Anoop Kunchukuttan, Raj Dabre, Rudra Murthy, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Thanmay Jayakumar

NLP+Code: Code Intelligence in Language Models

Terry Yue Zhuo, Qian Liu, Zijian Wang, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Binyuan Hui