EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Spoken Conversational Agents with Large Language Models

Huck Yang, Andreas Stolcke, Larry P. Heck

Advancing Language Models through Instruction Tuning: Recent Progress and Challenges

Zhihan Zhang, Renze Lou, Fangkai Jiao, Wenpeng Yin, Meng Jiang

Efficient Inference for Large Language Models –Algorithm, Model, and System

Xuefei Ning, Guohao Dai, Haoli Bai, Lu Hou, Yu Wang

A Proactive Reliability Metric for Detecting Failures in Language Model Training

Maryam Fatima

AutoDSPy: Automating Modular Prompt Design with Reinforcement Learning for Small and Large Language Models

Nafew Azim, Abrar Ur Alam, Hasan Bin Omar, Abdullah Mohammad Muntasir Adnan Jami, Jawad Ibn Ahad

Building Resource-Constrained Language Agents: A Korean Case Study on Chemical Toxicity Information

Hojun Cho, Donghu Kim, Soyoung Yang, Chan Lee, Hunjoo Lee

CAPSTONE: Composable Attribute‐Prompted Scene Translation for Zero‐Shot Vision–Language Reasoning

Md. Ismail Hossain, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Moshiur Farazi, Nabeel Mohammed, Shafin Rahman

Evaluating AI for Finance: Is AI Credible at Assessing Investment Risk Appetite?

Divij Chawla, Ashita Bhutada, Duc Anh Do, Abhinav Raghunathan, Vinod Sp

FQ-Eval: Building Evaluation Dataset for User-centered Follow-up Question Generation

Sanghyun Seo, Bumsoo Kang, Dahm Lee, Jaeheon Kim, Joongbo Shin

GEAR: A Scalable and Interpretable Evaluation Framework for RAG-Based Car Assistant Systems

Niloufar Beyranvand, Hamidreza Dastmalchi, Aijun An, Heidar Davoudi, Winston Chan

Efficiency-Effectiveness Reranking FLOPs for LLM-based Rerankers

Zhiyuan Peng, Ting-Ruen Wei, Tingyu Song, Yilun Zhao

From Long Videos to Engaging Clips: A Human-Inspired Video Editing Framework with Multimodal Narrative Understanding

Xiangfeng Wang, Xiao Li, Yadong Wei, Songxueyu, Yang Song

PARSE: LLM Driven Schema Optimization for Reliable Entity Extraction

Anubhav Shrimal, Aryan Jain, Soumyajit Chowdhury, Promod Yenigalla

Quality Assessment of Tabular Data using Large Language Models and Code Generation

Ashlesha Akella, Akshar Kaul, Krishnasuri Narayanam, Sameep Mehta

Z1: Efficient Test-time Scaling with Code

Zhaojian Yu, Yinghao Wu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan, Xiao-Ping Zhang

High-Quality Medical Dialogue Synthesis for Improving EMR Generation

Chengze Ge, Yu Xu, Qi Shao, Shengping Liu

RedOne: Revealing Domain-specific LLM Post-Training in Social Networking Services

Fei Zhao, Chonggang Lu, Wangyue, Zheyong Xie, Ziyan Liu

LATTE: Learning Aligned Transactions and Textual Embeddings for Bank Clients

Egor Fadeev, Dzhambulat Mollaev, Aleksei Shestov, Dima Korolev, Omar Zoloev

CTR-Guided Generative Query Suggestion in Conversational Search

Erxue Min, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Xihong Yang, Min Yang, Xin Jia

JaCorpTrack: Corporate History Event Extraction for Tracking Organizational Changes

Yuya Sawada, Hiroki Ouchi, Yuichiro Yasui, Hiroki Teranishi, Yuji Matsumoto

STACKFEED: Structured Textual Actor-Critic Knowledge base editing with FEEDback

Shashank Kirtania, Naman Gupta, Priyanshu Gupta, Sumit Gulwani, Arun Iyer

Beyond Dynamic Quantization: An Efficient Static Hierarchical Mix-precision Framework for Near-Lossless LLM Compression

Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, zheyang li, Wenming Tan, Ye Ren

Don’t Forget the Base Retriever! A Low-Resource Graph-based Retriever for Multi-hop Question Answering

Andre Melo, Enting Chen, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Chenxin Diao, Shriram Piramanayagam

Distilling Cross-Modal Knowledge into Domain-Specific Retrievers for Enhanced Industrial Document Understanding

Jinhyeong Lim, Jeongwan Shin, Seeun Lee, Seongdeok Kim, Joungsu Choi

Lost in Pronunciation: Detecting Chinese Offensive Language Disguised by Phonetic Cloaking Replacement

Haotan Guo, Jianfei He, Jiayuan Ma, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang

Semantic Agreement Enables Efficient Open-Ended LLM Cascades

Duncan Soiffer, Steven Kolawole, Virginia Smith

IPR: Intelligent Prompt Routing with User-Controlled Quality-Cost Trade-offs

Aosong Feng, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Yun Zhou, Zhichao Xu, Kang Zhou

PlanGPT-VL: Enhancing Urban Planning with Domain-Specific Vision-Language Models

He Zhu, Junyou Su, Minxin Chen, Wen Wang, Yijie Deng

T-VEC: A Telecom-Specific Vectorization Model with Enhanced Semantic Understanding via Deep Triplet Loss Fine-Tuning

Vignesh Ethiraj, Ashwath D, Sidhanth Menon, Divya Vijay, Vidhyakshaya Kannan

Recon, Answer, Verify: Agents in Search of Truth

Satyam Shukla, Himanshu Dutta, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

GRAFT: A Graph-based Flow-aware Agentic Framework for Document-level Machine Translation

Himanshu Dutta, Sunny Manchanda, Prakhar Bapat, Meva Ram Gurjar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

ixi-GEN: Efficient Industrial sLLMs through Domain Adaptive Continual Pretraining

Seonwu Kim, Yohan Na, Kihun Kim, Hanhee Cho, Geun Lim

Recover-LoRA: Data-Free Accuracy Recovery of Degraded Language Models via Low-Rank Adaptation

Devleena Das, Rajeev Patwari, Ashish Sirasao

<SYNTACT>: Structuring Your Natural Language SOPs into Tailored Ambiguity-Resolved Code Templates

Sachin Kumar Giroh, Pushpendu Ghosh, Aryan Jain, Harshal Giridhari Paunikar, Aditi Rastogi

Finding Diamonds in Conversation Haystacks: A Benchmark for Conversational Data Retrieval

Yohan Lee, Yongwoo Song, Sangyeop Kim

pEBR: A Probabilistic Approach to Embedding Based Retrieval

Han Zhang, Yunjiang Jiang, Mingming Li, Haowei Yuan, Yiming Qiu

DAST: Difficulty-Adaptive Slow-Thinking for Large Reasoning Models

Yi Shen, Jian Zhang, Jieyun Huang, Shuming Shi, Wenjing Zhang

BIOPSY - Biomarkers In Oncology: Pipeline for Structured Yielding

Sanya A. Chetwani, Jaseem Mahmmdla

Enhancing Persuasive Dialogue Agents by Synthesizing Cross‐Disciplinary Communication Strategies

Shinnosuke Nozue, Yuto Nakano, Yotaro Watanabe, Meguru Takasaki, Shoji Moriya

Generating Spatial Knowledge Graphs from Automotive Diagrams for Question Answering

Steve Bakos, Chen Xing, Heidar Davoudi, Aijun An, Ron DiCarlantonio

ECHO-LLaMA: Efficient Caching for High-Performance LLaMA Training

Maryam Dialameh, Rezaul Karim, Hossein Rajabzadeh, Omar Mohamed Awad, Boxing Chen

Generalized Embedding Models for Industry 4.0 Applications

Christodoulos Constantinides, Shuxin Lin, Dhaval C Patel

DispatchQA: A Benchmark for Small Function Calling Language Models in E-Commerce Applications

Joachim Daiber, Victor Maricato, Ayan Sinha, Andrew Rabinovich

Tagging-Augmented Generation: Assisting Language Models in Finding Intricate Knowledge In Long Contexts

Anwesan Pal, Karen Hovsepian, Tinghao Guo, Mengnan Zhao, Somendra Tripathi

BullyBench: Youth & Experts-in-the-loop Framework for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cyberbullying NLP Benchmarking

Kanishk Verma, Sri Balaaji Natarajan Kalaivendan, Arefeh Kazemi, Joachim Wagner, Darragh McCashin

Depression Detection on Social Media with Large Language Models

Xiaochong Lan, Zhiguang Han, Yiming Cheng, Li Sheng, Jie Feng

Advancing E-commerce Merchants Telemarketing with Synthetic Data-Driven LLMs

Qi Gou, Zehua Xia, Li Juan, Qingyang Zhao, Wenjing Yang

VestaBench: An Embodied Benchmark for Safe Long-Horizon Planning Under Multi-Constraint and Adversarial Settings

Tanmana Sadhu, Yanan Chen, Ali Pesaranghader

AttributeForge: An Agentic LLM Framework for Automated Product Schema Modeling

Yunhan Huang, Klevis Ramo, Andrea Iovine, Melvin Monteiro, Sedat Gokalp

Multi-Value-Product Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Industrial Product Attribute Value Identification

Huike Zou, Haiyang Yang, Yindu Su, Chen Li Yu, Qinye Xie

Confidence-Aware Reasoning: Optimizing Self-Guided Thinking Trajectories in Large Reasoning Models

Jiaxin Zhang

ColMate: Contrastive Late Interaction and Masked Text for Multimodal Document Retrieval

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Bechard, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Rabiul Awal

AMAS: Adaptively Determining Communication Topology for LLM-based Multi-agent System

Hui Yi Leong, Yuheng Li, Yuqing Wu, Wenwen Ouyang, Wei Zhu

Leveraging LLMs to Streamline the Review of Public Funding Applications

João DS Marques, Andre Vicente Duarte, André Mendes Marques de Carvalho, Gil Rocha, Bruno Martins

LLM Agents Implement an NLG System from Scratch: Building Interpretable Rule-Based RDF-to-Text Generators

Mateusz Lango, Ondřej Dušek

LLMInit: A Free Lunch from Large Language Models for Selective Initialization of Recommendation

Weizhi Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Wooseong Yang, Henry Peng Zou, Yuqing Liu

Incremental Summarization for Customer Support via Progressive Note-Taking and Agent Feedback

Yisha Wu, Cen Zhao, Yuanpei Cao, Xiaoqing Xu, Yashar Mehdad

Zero-knowledge LLM hallucination detection and mitigation through fine-grained cross-model consistency

Aman Goel, Daniel Schwartz, Yanjun Qi

How to Fine-Tune Safely on a Budget: Model Adaptation Using Minimal Resources

Anh C. Pham, Mihir Thalanki, Michael Sun, Aditya Chaloo, Ankita Gupta

Scalable and Cost Effective High-Cardinality Classification with LLMs via Multi-View Label Representations and Retrieval Augmentation

Anup Pattnaik, Sasanka Vutla, Hamvir Dev, Jeevesh Nandan, Cijo George

Beyond Pointwise Scores: Decomposed Criteria-Based Evaluation of LLM Responses

Fangyi Yu, Nabeel Seedat, Drahomira Herrmannova, Frank Schilder, Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Agent-in-the-Loop: A Data Flywheel for Continuous Improvement in LLM-based Customer Support

Cen Zhao, Tiantian Zhang, Hanchen Su, Yufeng Zhang, Shaowei Su

Deploying Tiny LVLM Judges for Real-World Evaluation of Chart Models: Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan

Mind the Query: A Benchmark Dataset towards Text2Cypher Task

Vashu Chauhan, Shobhit Raj, Shashank Mujumdar, Avirup Saha, Anannay Jain

Analysis of Automated Document Relevance Annotation for Information Retrieval in Oil and Gas Industry

João Vitor Mariano Correia, Murilo Missano Bell, João Vitor Robiatti Amorim, Jonas Queiroz, Daniel Pedronette

DACIP-RC: Domain Adaptive Continual Instruction Pre-Training via Reading Comprehension on Business Conversations

Elena Khasanova, Harsh Saini, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-yong Fu, Cheng Chen

AI Knowledge Assist: An Automated Approach for the Creation of Knowledge Bases for Conversational AI Agents

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Julien Bouvier Tremblay, Xue-yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Shashi Bhushan Tn

How Accurate Are LLMs at Multi-Question Answering on Conversational Transcripts?

Xiliang Zhu, Shi Zong, David Rossouw

HalluDetect: Detecting, Mitigating, and Benchmarking Hallucinations in Conversational Systems in the Legal Domain

Spandan Anaokar, Shrey Ganatra, Harshvivek Kashid, Swapnil Bhattacharyya, Shruthi Nair

CLARITY: Clinical Assistant for Routing, Inference, and Triage

Vladimir Shaposhnikov, Alexandr Nesterov, Ilia Kopanichuk, Ivan Bakulin, Zhelvakov Egor

Data-Efficient Automatic Prompt Optimization for Memory-Enhanced Conversational Agents

Ervine Zheng, Yikuan Li, Geoffrey Jay Tso, Jilong Kuang

Dr. Copilot: A Multi-Agent Prompt Optimized Assistant for Improving Patient-Doctor Communication in Romanian

Andrei Niculae, Adrian Cosma, Cosmin Dumitrache, Emilian Radoi

Taxonomy of Comprehensive Safety for Clinical Agents

Jean Seo, Hyunkyung Lee, GiBaeg Kim, Wooseok Han, Jaehyo Yoo

Declarative Techniques for NL Queries over Heterogeneous Data

Elham Khabiri, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Fenno F. Heath Iii, Srideepika Jayaraman, Yingjie Li

Divide, Link, and Conquer: Recall-oriented Schema Linking for NL-to-SQL via Question Decomposition

Kiran Pradeep, Kirushikesh DB, Nishtha Madaan, Sameep Mehta, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

STREAQ: Selective Tiered Routing for Effective and Affordable Contact Center Quality Assurance

Prajwal Sood, Rajdeep Agrawal, Mayank Sati, Digvijay Anil Ingle, Cijo George

Group, Embed and Reason: A Hybrid LLM and Embedding Framework for Semantic Attribute Alignment

Shramona Chakraborty, Shashank Mujumdar, Nitin Gupta, Sameep Mehta, Ronen Kat

Scaling Down, Serving Fast: Compressing and Deploying Efficient LLMs for Recommendation Systems

Kayhan Behdin, Ata Fatahibaarzi, Qingquan Song, Yun Dai, Aman Gupta

Multi-Task Pre-Finetuning of Lightweight Transformer Encoders for Text Classification and NER

Junyi Zhu, Savas Ozkan, Andrea Maracani, Sinan Mutlu, Cho Jung Min

Experience Report: Implementing Machine Translation in a Regulated Industry

Marco Zocca, Per Fallgren, David Buffoni

Encouraging Good Processes Without the Need for Good Answers: Reinforcement Learning for LLM Agent Planning

Zhiwei Li, Yong Hu, Wenqing Wang

Enabling Self-Improving Agents to Learn at Test Time With Human-In-The-Loop Guidance

Yufei He, Ruoyu Li, Alex Chen, Yue Liu, Yulin Chen

AutoPenBench: A Vulnerability Testing Benchmark for Generative Agents

Luca Gioacchini, Alexander Delsanto, Idilio Drago, Marco Mellia, Giuseppe Siracusano

Building Data-Driven Occupation Taxonomies: A Bottom-Up Multi-Stage Approach via Semantic Clustering and Multi-Agent Collaboration

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

Automotive Document Labeling Using Large Language Models

Dang Van Thin, Cuong Xuan Chu, Christian Graf, Tobias Kaminski, Trung-Kien Tran

Bidirectional Reasoning Supervision for Multilingual Financial Decision Making

Muhammad Rafsan Kabir, Jawad Ibn Ahad, Robin Krambroeckers, Silvia Ahmed, M M Lutfe Elahi

ASR-EC Benchmark: Evaluating Large Language Models on Chinese ASR Error Correction

Victor Junqiu Wei, Weicheng Wang, Di Jiang, Yuanfeng Song, Lu Wang

Think-Search-Patch: A Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Framework for Repository-Level Code Repair

Bojian Xiong, Yikun Lei, Xikai Liu, Shaowei Zhang, pengyun zhu

SMART: Scalable Multilingual Approach for a Robust TOD System

Karan Malhotra, Arihant Jain, Purav Aggarwal, Anoop Saladi

Knowledge-Augmented Question Error Correction for Chinese Question Answer System with QuestionRAG

Longpeng Qiu, ting li, Shuai Mao, Nan Yang, Xiaohui Yan

GEMMAS: Graph-based Evaluation Metrics for Multi Agent Systems

Jisoo Lee, Raeyoung Chang, Dongwook Kwon, Harmanpreet Singh, Nikhil Verma

FlexDoc: Parameterized Sampling for Diverse Multilingual Synthetic Documents for Training Document Understanding Models

Karan Dua, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Puneet Mittal, Ranjeet Gupta, Amit Agarwal

From Feedback to Checklists: Grounded Evaluation of AI-Generated Clinical Notes

Karen Zhou, John Michael Giorgi, Pranav Mani, Peng Xu, Davis Liang

Contrastive Learning Using Graph Embeddings for Domain Adaptation of Language Models in the Process Industry

Anastasia Zhukova, Jonas Lührs, Christian E. Lobmüller, Bela Gipp

Extraction of Information Provision Activity Requirements from EU Acquis

Jakub Piskorski, Dominik Skotarczak

Format Inertia: A Failure Mechanism of LLMs in Medical Pre-Consultation

Seungseop Lim, GiBaeg Kim, Wooseok Han, Jean Seo, Hyunkyung Lee

FLOW-BENCH: Towards Conversational Generation of Enterprise Workflows

Evelyn Duesterwald, Siyu Huo, Vatche Isahagian, K. R. Jayaram, Ritesh Kumar

DecEx-RAG: Boosting Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Decision and Execution Optimization via Process Supervision

Yongqi Leng, Yikun Lei, Xikai Liu, Meizhi Zhong, Bojian Xiong

Fin-ExBERT: User Intent based Text Extraction in Financial Context using Graph-Augmented BERT and trainable Plugin

Soumick Sarker, Abhijit Kumar Rai

Computational Blueprints: Generating Isomorphic Mathematics Problems with Large Language Models

Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jinwoo Nam, Geunsik Jo