EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

“I’ve Decided to Leak”: Probing Internals Behind Prompt Leakage Intents

Jianshuo Dong, Yutong Zhang, Liu Yan, Zhenyu Zhong, Tao Wei

EnAnchored-X2X: English-Anchored Optimization for Many-to-Many Translation

Sen Yang, Yu Bao, Yu Lu, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang

MUSE: MCTS-Driven Red Teaming Framework for Enhanced Multi-Turn Dialogue Safety in Large Language Models

Siyu Yan, Long Zeng, Xuecheng Wu, Chengcheng Han, Kongcheng Zhang

TokenSelect: Efficient Long-Context Inference and Length Extrapolation for LLMs via Dynamic Token-Level KV Cache Selection

Wei Wu, Zhuoshi Pan, Kun Fu, Chao Wang, Liyi Chen

Reinforced Query Reasoners for Reasoning-intensive Retrieval Tasks

Xubo Qin, Jun Bai, Jiaqi Li, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng

Mixing Inference-time Experts for Enhancing LLM Reasoning

Soumya Sanyal, Tianyi Xiao, Xiang Ren

Koel-TTS: Enhancing LLM based Speech Generation with Preference Alignment and Classifier Free Guidance

Shehzeen Samarah Hussain, Paarth Neekhara, Xuesong Yang, Edresson Casanova, Subhankar Ghosh

Improving Context Fidelity via Native Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

Suyuchen Wang, Jinlin Wang, Xinyu Wang, Shiqi Li, Xiangru Tang

DCP: Dual-Cue Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models

Lei Jiang, Zixun Zhang, Yuting Zeng, Chunzhao Xie, Tongxuan Liu

BIRD: Bronze Inscription Restoration and Dating

Wenjie Hua, Hoang H Nguyen, Gangyan Ge

Leveraging Large Models to Evaluate Novel Content: A Case Study on Advertisement Creativity

Zhaoyi Joey Hou, Adriana Kovashka, Xiang Lorraine Li

A Sequential Multi-Stage Approach for Code Vulnerability Detection via Confidence- and Collaboration-based Decision Making

Chung-Nan Tsai, Xin Wang, Cheng-Hsiung Lee, Ching-Sheng Lin

STRICT: Stress-Test of Rendering Image Containing Text

Tianyu Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Lu Li, Zhenghan Tai, Jijun Chi

Flexibly Utilize Memory for Long-Term Conversation via a Fragment-then-Compose Framework

Cai Ke, Yiming Du, Bin Liang, Yifan Xiang, Lin Gui

Step Guided Reasoning: Improving Mathematical Reasoning using Guidance Generation and Step Reasoning

Lang Cao, Yingtian Zou, Chao Peng, Renhong Chen, Wu Ning

The Emperor’s New Reasoning: Format Imitation Overshadows Genuine Mathematical Understanding in SFT

Linyao Yang, Jian-Tao Huang, Yafei Lu, Zhenhui Jessie Li, Guirong Xue

MMAG: Multimodal Learning for Mucus Anomaly Grading in Nasal Endoscopy via Semantic Attribute Prompting

Xinpan Yuan, Mingzhu Huang, Liujie Hua, Jianuo Ju, Xu Zhang

Understanding and Mitigating Overrefusal in LLMs from an Unveiling Perspective of Safety Decision Boundary

Licheng Pan, Yongqi Tong, Xin Zhang, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou

‘Rich Dad, Poor Lad’: How do Large Language Models Contextualize Socioeconomic Factors in College Admission ?

Huy Nghiem, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, John Prindle, Rachel Rudinger, Hal Daume III

Attention-guided Self-reflection for Zero-shot Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

Qiang Liu, Xinlong Chen, Yue Ding, Bowen Song, Weiqiang Wang

MultiDocFusion : Hierarchical and Multimodal Chunking Pipeline for Enhanced RAG on Long Industrial Documents

Joongmin Shin, Chanjun Park, Jeongbae Park, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim

Enhancing Large Language Model for Knowledge Graph Completion via Structure-Aware Alignment-Tuning

Yu Liu, Yanan Cao, Xixun Lin, Yanmin Shang, Shi Wang

Tool Preferences in Agentic LLMs are Unreliable

Kazem Faghih, Wenxiao Wang, Yize Cheng, Siddhant Bharti, Gaurang Sriramanan

EIFBENCH: Extremely Complex Instruction Following Benchmark for Large Language Models

Tao Zou, Xinghua Zhang, Haiyang Yu, Minzheng Wang, Fei Huang

LGA: LLM-GNN Aggregation for Temporal Evolution Attribute Graph Prediction

Feng Zhao, Ruoyu Chai, Kangzheng Liu, Xianggan Liu

Distribution Prompting: Understanding the Expressivity of Language Models Through the Next-Token Distributions They Can Produce

Haojin Wang, Zining Zhu, Freda Shi

GAP: a Global Adaptive Pruning Method for Large Language Models

Zhihua Ban, Haotian Ma, Siheng Zhang, Shengyu Liu, Xichen Chen

Unmasking Fake Careers: Detecting Machine-Generated Career Trajectories via Multi-layer Heterogeneous Graphs

Michiharu Yamashita, Thanh Tran, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon Lee

LogicTree: Structured Proof Exploration for Coherent and Rigorous Logical Reasoning with Large Language Models

Kang He, Kaushik Roy

SOLAR: Towards Characterizing Subjectivity of Individuals through Modeling Value Conflicts and Trade-offs

Younghun Lee, Dan Goldwasser

Generative Annotation for ASR Named Entity Correction

Yuanchang Luo, Daimeng Wei, Shaojun Li, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo

Metric Calculating Benchmark: Code-Verifiable Complicate Instruction Following Benchmark for Large Language Models

Hyeonseok Moon, SeongTae Hong, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim

DSVD: Dynamic Self-Verify Decoding for Faithful Generation in Large Language Models

YiQiu Guo, Yuchen Yang, Zhe Chen, Pingjie Wang, Yusheng Liao

Can Prompts Rewind Time for LLMs? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Prompted Knowledge Cutoffs

Xin Gao, Ruiyi Zhang, Daniel Du, Saurabh Mahindre, Sai Ashish Somayajula

Priority on High-Quality: Selecting Instruction Data via Consistency Verification of Noise Injection

Hong Zhang, Feng Zhao, Ruilin Zhao, Cheng Yan, Kangzheng Liu

Memorization ≠ Understanding: Do Large Language Models Have the Ability of Scenario Cognition?

Boxiang Ma, Ru Li, Wang Yuanlong, Hongye Tan, Xiaoli Li

EcoLoRA: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Han Liu, Ruoyao Wen, Srijith Nair, Jia Liu, Wenjing Lou

LogiDynamics: Unraveling the Dynamics of Inductive, Abductive and Deductive Logical Inferences in LLM Reasoning

Tianshi Zheng, Cheng Jiayang, Chunyang Li, Haochen Shi, Zihao Wang

What are Foundation Models Cooking in the Post-Soviet World?

Anton Lavrouk, Tarek Naous, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

An Empirical Study on Strong-Weak Model Collaboration for Repo-level Code Generation

Shubham Gandhi, Atharva Naik, Yiqing Xie, Carolyn Rose

PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving

Mihir Parmar, Xin Liu, Palash Goyal, Yanfei Chen, Long Le

LimRank: Less is More for Reasoning-Intensive Information Reranking

Tingyu Song, Yilun Zhao, Siyue Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan

Table-R1: Inference-Time Scaling for Table Reasoning Tasks

Zheyuan Yang, Lyuhao Chen, Arman Cohan, Yilun Zhao

SNaRe: Domain-aware Data Generation for Low-Resource Event Detection

Tanmay Parekh, Yuxuan Dong, Lucas Bandarkar, Artin Kim, I-Hung Hsu

DiCoRe: Enhancing Zero-shot Event Detection via Divergent-Convergent LLM Reasoning

Tanmay Parekh, Kartik Mehta, Ninareh Mehrabi, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng

LILaC: Late Interacting in Layered Component Graph for Open-domain Multimodal Multihop Retrieval

Joohyung Yun, Doyup Lee, Wook-Shin Han

Assessing French Readability for Adults with Low Literacy: A Global and Local Perspective

Wafa Aissa, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens

AcT2I: Evaluating and Improving Action Depiction in Text-to-Image Models

Vatsal Malaviya, Agneet Chatterjee, Maitreya Patel, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral

Decoding the Rule Book: Extracting Hidden Moderation Criteria from Reddit Communities

Youngwoo Kim, Himanshu Beniwal, Steven L. Johnson, Thomas Hartvigsen

Explainability and Interpretability of Multilingual Large Language Models: A Survey

Lucas Resck, Isabelle Augenstein, Anna Korhonen

How Do Large Vision-Language Models See Text in Image? Unveiling the Distinctive Role of OCR Heads

Ingeol Baek, Hwan Chang, Sunghyun Ryu, Hwanhee Lee

Please Translate Again: Two Simple Experiments on Whether Human-Like Reasoning Helps Translation

Di Wu, Seth Aycock, Christof Monz

Paired by the Teacher: Turning Unpaired Data into High-Fidelity Pairs for Low-Resource Text Generation

Yen-Ju Lu, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Najim Dehak, Jesus Villalba

Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM’s Implicit Personalization

Vera Neplenbroek, Arianna Bisazza, Raquel Fernández

ML-Promise: A Multilingual Dataset for Corporate Promise Verification

Yohei Seki, Hakusen Shu, Anaïs Lhuissier, Hanwool Lee, Juyeon Kang

COM-BOM: Bayesian Exemplar Search for Efficiently Exploring the Accuracy-Calibration Pareto Frontier

Gaoxiang Luo, Aryan Deshwal

Learning Subjective Label Distributions via Sociocultural Descriptors

Mohammed Fayiz Parappan, Ricardo Henao

s1: Simple test-time scaling

Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi, Xiang Lisa Li, Li Fei-fei

CoMAT: Chain of Mathematically Annotated Thought Improves Mathematical Reasoning

Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Aryo Pradipta Gema, Shay B Cohen

Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs

Wafa Al Ghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura, Ketan Pravin More, Omkar Thawakar

MobiZO: Enabling Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning at the Edge via Inference Engines

Lei Gao, Amir Ziashahabi, Yue Niu, Salman Avestimehr, Murali Annavaram

MR. Judge: Multimodal Reasoner as a Judge

Renjie Pi, Haoping Bai, Qibin Chen, Xiaoming Simon Wang, Jiulong Shan

Pointing to a Llama and Call it a Camel: On the Sycophancy of Multimodal Large Language Models

Renjie Pi, Kehao Miao, Li Peihang, Runtao Liu, Jiahui Gao

Think Globally, Group Locally: Evaluating LLMs Using Multi-Lingual Word Grouping Games

César Guerra-Solano, Zhuochun Li, Xiang Lorraine Li

Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark

Chihiro Taguchi, Seng Mai, Keita Kurabe, Yusuke Sakai, Georgina Agyei

Efficient Context Selection for Long-Context QA: No Tuning, No Iteration, Just Adaptive‐k

Chihiro Taguchi, Seiji Maekawa, Nikita Bhutani

Balanced Multi-Factor In-Context Learning for Multilingual Large Language Models

Masahiro Kaneko, Alham Fikri Aji, Timothy Baldwin

Membership and Memorization in LLM Knowledge Distillation

Ziqi Zhang, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Hanxiao Lu, Yifeng Cai, Hamed Haddadi

A Graph-Theoretical Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Causal Language Models

Rashin Rahnamoun, Mehrnoush Shamsfard

DRES: Fake news detection by dynamic representation and ensemble selection

Faramarz Farhangian, Leandro Augusto Ensina, George D C Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz

A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model

Bhuiyan Sanjid Shafique, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Maaz, Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, Dinura Dissanayake

RaDeR: Reasoning-aware Dense Retrieval Models

Debrup Das, Sam O’Nuallain, Razieh Rahimi

SAFENUDGE: Safeguarding Large Language Models in Real-time with Tunable Safety-Performance Trade-offs

Joao Fonseca, Andrew Bell, Julia Stoyanovich

MuseScorer: Idea Originality Scoring At Scale

Ali Sarosh Bangash, Krish Veera, Ishfat Abrar Islam, Raiyan Abdul Baten

On the Same Wavelength? Evaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models across Broad Concepts

Linlu Qiu, Cedegao E. Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Yoon Kim, Roger P. Levy

Topic Coverage-based Demonstration Retrieval for In-Context Learning

Wonbin Kweon, SeongKu Kang, Runchu Tian, Pengcheng Jiang, Jiawei Han

Flaw or Artifact? Rethinking Prompt Sensitivity in Evaluating LLMs

Andong Hua, Kenan Tang, Chenhe Gu, Jindong Gu, Eric Wong

Hope vs. Hate: Understanding User Interactions with LGBTQ+ News Content in Mainstream US News Media through the Lens of Hope Speech

Jonathan Pofcher, Christopher M Homan, Randall Sell, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

Exploring Artificial Image Generation for Stance Detection

Zhengkang Zhang, Zhongqing Wang, Guodong Zhou

Rescorla-Wagner Steering of LLMs for Undesired Behaviors over Disproportionate Inappropriate Context

Rushi Wang, Jiateng Liu, Cheng Qian, Yifan Shen, Yanzhou Pan

VERITAS: Leveraging Vision Priors and Expert Fusion to Improve Multimodal Data

Tingqiao Xu, Ziru Zeng, Jiayu Chen

(Almost) Free Modality Stitching of Foundation Models

Jaisidh Singh, Diganta Misra, Boris Knyazev, Antonio Orvieto

Benchmarking Debiasing Methods for LLM-based Parameter Estimates

Nicolas Audinet de Pieuchon, Adel Daoud, Connor Thomas Jerzak, Moa Johansson, Richard Johansson

Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models

Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych, Arianna Bisazza

Search Wisely: Mitigating Sub-optimal Agentic Searches By Reducing Uncertainty

Peilin Wu, Mian Zhang, Xinlu Zhang, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Chen

DSMoE: Matrix-Partitioned Experts with Dynamic Routing for Computation-Efficient Dense LLMs

Minxuan Lv, Zhenpeng Su, Leiyu Pan, Yizhe Xiong, Zijia Lin

Who Holds the Pen? Caricature and Perspective in LLM Retellings of History

Lubna Zahan Lamia, Mabsur Fatin Bin Hossain, Md Mosaddek Khan

Looking Beyond Text: Reducing Language Bias in Large Vision-Language Models via Multimodal Dual-Attention and Soft-Image Guidance

Haozhe Zhao, Shuzheng Si, Liang Chen, Yichi Zhang, Maosong Sun

Do It Yourself (DIY): Modifying Images for Poems in a Zero-Shot Setting Using Weighted Prompt Manipulation

Sofia Jamil, Kotla Sai Charan, Sriparna Saha, Koustava Goswami, Joseph K J

Humans Hallucinate Too: Language Models Identify and Correct Subjective Annotation Errors With Label-in-a-Haystack Prompts

Georgios Chochlakis, Peter Wu, Tikka Arjun Singh Bedi, Marcus Ma, Kristina Lerman

Beyond the Score: Uncertainty-Calibrated LLMs for Automated Essay Assessment

Ahmed Karim, Qiao Wang, Zheng Yuan

CBP-Tuning: Efficient Local Customization for Black-box Large Language Models

Jiaxuan Zhao, Naibin Gu, Yuchen Feng, Xiyu Liu, Peng Fu

Path Drift in Large Reasoning Models: How First-Person Commitments Override Safety

Yuyi Huang, Runzhe Zhan, Lidia S. Chao, Ailin Tao, Derek F. Wong

VocalNet: Speech LLMs with Multi-Token Prediction for Faster and High-Quality Generation

Yuhao Wang, Heyang Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Ronghua Wu, Qunshan Gu

Mind the Gap: A Closer Look at Tokenization for Multiple-Choice Question Answering with LLMs

Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Minh Duc Bui, Katharina von der Wense

Evaluating Cognitive-Behavioral Fixation via Multimodal User Viewing Patterns on Social Media

Yujie Wang, Yunwei Zhao, Jing Yang, Han Han, Shiguang Shan

Speculative Streaming: Efficient and Scalable Speculative Decoding with Multi-Stream Attention

Nikhil Bhendawade, Irina Belousova, Qichen Fu, Henry Mason, Antonie Lin

Intrinsic Test of Unlearning Using Parametric Knowledge Traces

Yihuai Hong, Lei Yu, Haiqin Yang, Shauli Ravfogel, Mor Geva

InfiniBench: A Benchmark for Large Multi-Modal Models in Long-Form Movies and TV Shows

Kirolos Ataallah, Eslam Mohamed Bakr, Mahmoud Ahmed, Chenhui Gou, Khushbu Pahwa

3DS: Medical Domain Adaptation of LLMs via Decomposed Difficulty-based Data Selection

Hongxin Ding, Yue Fang, Runchuan Zhu, Xinke Jiang, Jinyang Zhang