EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Entity-Centric Multimodal Preference Optimization

Jiulong Wu, Zhengliang Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang, Jizhou Huang, Dawei Yin

Artificial Impressions: Evaluating Large Language Model Behavior Through the Lens of Trait Impressions

Nicholas Deas, Kathleen McKeown

LLM-Driven Completeness and Consistency Evaluation for Cultural Heritage Data Augmentation in Cross-Modal Retrieval

Jian Zhang, Junyi Guo, Junyi Yuan, Huanda Lu, Yanlin Zhou

Embedding Domain Knowledge for Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning from Augmented Generation

Chaojun Nie, Jun Zhou, Guanxiang Wang, Shisong Wu, Zichen Wang

Shared Path: Unraveling Memorization in Multilingual LLMs through Language Similarities

Xiaoyu Luo, Yiyi Chen, Johannes Bjerva, Qiongxiu Li

MolErr2Fix: Benchmarking LLM Trustworthiness in Chemistry via Modular Error Detection, Localization, Explanation, and Correction

Yuyang Wu, Jinhui Ye, Shuhao Zhang, Lu Dai, Yonatan Bisk

Mitigating Hallucinations in LM-Based TTS Models via Distribution Alignment Using GFlowNets

Chenlin Liu, Minghui Fang, Patrick Zhang, Wei Zhou, Jie Gao

CIKT: A Collaborative and Iterative Knowledge Tracing Framework with Large Language Models

Runze Li, Siyu Wu, Jun Wang, Wei Zhang

Enhancing Speech Large Language Models with Prompt-Aware Mixture of Audio Encoders

Weiqiao Shan, Yuang Li, Yuhao Zhang, Yingfeng Luo, Chen Xu

MA-GTS: A Multi-Agent Framework for Solving Complex Graph Problems in Real-World Applications

Zike Yuan, Ming Liu, Hui Wang, Bing Qin

Multi-Document Event Extraction Using Large and Small Language Models

Qingkai Min, Zitian Qu, Qipeng Guo, Xiangkun Hu, Zheng Zhang

DivScore: Zero-Shot Detection of LLM-Generated Text in Specialized Domains

Zhihui Chen, Kai He, Yucheng Huang, Yunxiao Zhu, Mengling Feng

E2LLM: Encoder Elongated Large Language Models for Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning

Zihan Liao, Jun Wang, Hang Yu, Lingxiao Wei, Jianguo Li

Can LLMs Generate and Solve Linguistic Olympiad Puzzles?

Neh Majmudar, Elena Filatova

GCML: Gradient Coherence Guided Meta-Learning for Cross-Domain Emerging Topic Rumor Detection

Zejiang He, Jingyuan Huang, Menglong Lu, Zhen Huang, Shanshan Liu

Process-Supervised Reward Models for Verifying Clinical Note Generation: A Scalable Approach Guided by Domain Expertise

Hanyin Wang, Chufan Gao, Qiping Xu, Bolun Liu, Guleid Hussein

Women, Infamous, and Exotic Beings: A Comparative Study of Honorific Usages in Wikipedia and LLMs for Bengali and Hindi

Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atharva Mehta, Sougata Saha, Akhil Arora, Monojit Choudhury

ACING: Actor-Critic for Instruction Learning in Black-Box LLMs

Salma Kharrat, Fares Fourati, Marco Canini

Anecdoctoring: Automated Red-Teaming Across Language and Place

Alejandro Cuevas, Saloni Dash, Bharat Kumar Nayak, Dan Vann, Madeleine I. G. Daepp

ExpandR: Teaching Dense Retrievers Beyond Queries with LLM Guidance

Sijia Yao, Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu, Yu Gu, Yukun Yan

SAFE-SQL: Self-Augmented In-Context Learning with Fine-grained Example Selection for Text-to-SQL

Jimin Lee, Ingeol Baek, Byeongjeong Kim, Hyunkyung Bae, Hwanhee Lee

PhonoThink: Improving Large Language Models’ Reasoning on Chinese Phonological Ambiguities

Jianfei Ma, Zhaoxin Feng, Emmanuele Chersoni, Huacheng Song, Ziqi Zhang

Precise In-Parameter Concept Erasure in Large Language Models

Yoav Gur-Arieh, Clara Haya Suslik, Yihuai Hong, Fazl Barez, Mor Geva

ReSURE: Regularizing Supervision Unreliability for Multi-turn Dialogue Fine-tuning

Yiming Du, Yifan Xiang, Bin Liang, Dahua Lin, Kam-Fai Wong

CAIR: Counterfactual-based Agent Influence Ranker for Agentic AI Workflows

Amit Giloni, Chiara Picardi, Roy Betser, Shamik Bose, Aishvariya Priya Rathina Sabapathy

SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection

Qin Chen, Yuanyi Ren, Xiaojun Ma, Mugeng Liu, Shi Han

Beyond Static Testbeds: An Interaction-Centric Agent Simulation Platform for Dynamic Recommender Systems

Song Jin, Juntian Zhang, Yuhan Liu, Xun Zhang, Yufei Zhang

VisiPruner: Decoding Discontinuous Cross-Modal Dynamics for Efficient Multimodal LLMs

Yingqi Fan, Anhao Zhao, Jinlan Fu, Junlong Tong, Hui Su

METok: Multi-Stage Event-based Token Compression for Efficient Long Video Understanding

Mengyue Wang, Shuo Chen, Kristian Kersting, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma

Debatable Intelligence: Benchmarking LLM Judges via Debate Speech Evaluation

Noy Sternlicht, Ariel Gera, Roy Bar-Haim, Tom Hope, Noam Slonim

BSFA: Leveraging the Subspace Dichotomy to Accelerate Neural Network Training

Wenjie Zhou, Bohan Wang, Wei Chen, Xueqi Cheng

An Orthogonal High-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models

Xin Zhang, Guang-Ze Chen, Shuzhen Li, Zhulin Liu, C.L.Philip Chen

On Pruning State-Space LLMs

Tamer Ghattas, Michael Hassid, Roy Schwartz

Small Models, Big Results: Achieving Superior Intent Extraction through Decomposition

Danielle Cohen, Yoni Halpern, Noam Kahlon, Joel Oren, Omri Berkovitch

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting

Jan Fillies, Michael Peter Hoffmann, Rebecca Reichel, Roman Salzwedel, Sven Bodemer

TreeRare: Syntax Tree-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering

Boyi Zhang, Zhuo Liu, Hangfeng He

Identifying Pre-training Data in LLMs: A Neuron Activation-Based Detection Framework

Hongyi Tang, Zhihao Zhu, Yi Yang

UltraIF: Advancing Instruction Following from the Wild

Kaikai An, Li Sheng, Ganqu Cui, Shuzheng Si, Ning Ding

PunMemeCN: A Benchmark to Explore Vision-Language Models’ Understanding of Chinese Pun Memes

Zhijun Xu, Siyu Yuan, Yiqiao Zhang, Jingyu Sun, Tong Zheng

Retrieval over Classification: Integrating Relation Semantics for Multimodal Relation Extraction

Lei Hei, Tingjing Liao, Peiyingxin, Yiyang Qi, Jiaqi Wang

Group-SAE: Efficient Training of Sparse Autoencoders for Large Language Models via Layer Groups

Davide Ghilardi, Federico Belotti, Marco Molinari, Tao Ma, Matteo Palmonari

Can LLMs be Literary Companions?: Analysing LLMs on Bengali Figures of Speech Identification

Sourav Das, Kripabandhu Ghosh

TrojanWave: Exploiting Prompt Learning for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Large Audio-Language Models

Asif Hanif, Maha Tufail Agro, Fahad Shamshad, Karthik Nandakumar

Med-VRAgent: A Framework for Medical Visual Reasoning-Enhanced Agents

Guangfu Guo, Xiaoqian Lu, Yue Feng

OMS: On-the-fly, Multi-Objective, Self-Reflective Ad Keyword Generation via LLM Agent

Bowen Chen, Zhao Wang, Shingo Takamatsu

FacLens: Transferable Probe for Foreseeing Non-Factuality in Fact-Seeking Question Answering of Large Language Models

Yanling Wang, Haoyang Li, Hao Zou, Jing Zhang, Xinlei He

Procedural Environment Generation for Tool-Use Agents

Michael Sullivan, Mareike Hartmann, Alexander Koller

MaZO: Masked Zeroth-Order Optimization for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Zhen Zhang, Yifan Yang, Kai Zhen, Nathan Susanj, Athanasios Mouchtaris

Evaluating Spatiotemporal Consistency in Automatically Generated Sewing Instructions

Luisa Geiger, Mareike Hartmann, Michael Sullivan, Alexander Koller

RRInf: Efficient Influence Function Estimation via Ridge Regression for Large Language Models and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Zhuozhuo Tu, Cheng Chen, Yuxuan Du

Dynamic Expert Specialization: Towards Catastrophic Forgetting-Free Multi-Domain MoE Adaptation

Junzhuo Li, Bo Wang, Xiuze Zhou, Xuming Hu

Step-level Verifier-guided Hybrid Test-Time Scaling for Large Language Models

Kaiyan Chang, Yonghao Shi, Chenglong Wang, Hang Zhou, Chi Hu

Towards a Unified Paradigm of Concept Editing in Large Language Models

Zhuowen Han, Xinwei Wu, Dan Shi, Renren Jin, Deyi Xiong

CrystalICL: Enabling In-Context Learning for Crystal Generation

Ruobing Wang, Qiaoyu Tan, Yili Wang, Ying Wang, Xin Wang

Beyond Demographics: Enhancing Cultural Value Survey Simulation with Multi-Stage Personality-Driven Cognitive Reasoning

Haijiang Liu, Qiyuan Li, Chao Gao, Yong Cao, Xiangyu Xu

MultiLogicNMR(er): A Benchmark and Neural-Symbolic Framework for Non-monotonic Reasoning with Multiple Extensions

Yeliang Xiu, Yongmei Liu

Combining Constrained and Unconstrained Decoding via Boosting: BoostCD and Its Application to Information Extraction

Marija Sakota, Robert West

STEER-BENCH: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Steerability of Large Language Models

Kai Chen, Zihao He, Taiwei Shi, Kristina Lerman

Unsupervised Word-level Quality Estimation for Machine Translation Through the Lens of Annotators (Dis)agreement

Gabriele Sarti, Vilém Zouhar, Malvina Nissim, Arianna Bisazza

Thread: A Logic-Based Data Organization Paradigm for How-To Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Generation

Kaikai An, Fangkai Yang, Liqun Li, Junting Lu, Sitao Cheng

Understanding the Thinking Process of Reasoning Models: A Perspective from Schoenfeld’s Episode Theory

Ming Li, Nan Zhang, Chenrui Fan, Hong Jiao, Yanbin Fu

UniDebugger: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Software Debugging

Cheryl Lee, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Longji Yang, Jen-tse Huang, Zhouruixing Zhu

UI-Hawk: Unleashing the Screen Stream Understanding for Mobile GUI Agents

Jiwen Zhang, Ya-Qi Yu, Minghui Liao, Wentao Li, Jihao Wu

Improbable Bigrams Expose Vulnerabilities of Incomplete Tokens in Byte-Level Tokenizers

Eugene Jang, Kimin Lee, Jin-Woo Chung, Keuntae Park, Seungwon Shin

Ensembling Prompting Strategies for Zero-Shot Hierarchical Text Classification with Large Language Models

Mingxuan Xia, Zhijie Jiang, Haobo Wang, Junbo Zhao, Tianlei Hu

Evaluating and Aligning Human Economic Risk Preferences in LLMs

Jiaxin Liu, Yixuan Tang, Yi Yang, Kar Yan Tam

Exploring Response Uncertainty in MLLMs: An Empirical Evaluation under Misleading Scenarios

Yunkai Dang, Mengxi Gao, Yibo Yan, Xin Zou, Yanggan Gu

Unilaw-R1: A Large Language Model for Legal Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Iterative Inference

Hua Cai, Shuang Zhao, Liang Zhang, Xuli Shen, Qing Xu

Language Models as Continuous Self-Evolving Data Engineers

Peidong Wang, Ming Wang, Zhiming Ma, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng

Iterative Prompt Refinement for Safer Text-to-Image Generation

Jinwoo Jeon, JunHyeok Oh, Hayeong Lee, Byung-Jun Lee

From Surveys to Narratives: Rethinking Cultural Value Adaptation in LLMs

Farid Adilazuarda, Chen Cecilia Liu, Iryna Gurevych, Alham Fikri Aji

Faster In-Context Learning for LLMs via N-Gram Trie Speculative Decoding

Jinglin Chen, Qiwei Li, Zuchao Li, Baoyuan Qi, Liu Guoming

AI Sees Your Location—But With A Bias Toward The Wealthy World

Jingyuan Huang, Jen-tse Huang, Ziyi Liu, Xiaoyuan Liu, Wenxuan Wang

Less Is More? Examining Fairness in Pruned Large Language Models for Summarising Opinions

Nannan Huang, Haytham M. Fayek, Xiuzhen Zhang

VisBias: Measuring Explicit and Implicit Social Biases in Vision Language Models

Jen-tse Huang, Jiantong Qin, Jianping Zhang, Youliang Yuan, Wenxuan Wang

Reliable Evaluation and Benchmarks for Statement Autoformalization

Auguste Poiroux, Gail Weiss, Viktor Kunčak, Antoine Bosselut

SQUAB: Evaluating LLM robustness to Ambiguous and Unanswerable Questions in Semantic Parsing

Simone Papicchio, Luca Cagliero, Paolo Papotti

VeriFact: Enhancing Long-Form Factuality Evaluation with Refined Fact Extraction and Reference Facts

Xin Liu, Lechen Zhang, Sheza Munir, Yiyang Gu, Lu Wang

Answer Convergence as a Signal for Early Stopping in Reasoning

Xin Liu, Lu Wang

COAS2W: A Chinese Older-Adults Spoken-to-Written Transformation Corpus with Context Awareness

Chun Kang, Zhigu Qian, Zhen Fu, Jiaojiao Fu, Yangfan Zhou

Retrieval-augmented GUI Agents with Generative Guidelines

Ran Xu, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Joyce C. Ho

Phi: Preference Hijacking in Multi-modal Large Language Models at Inference Time

Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Weitong ZHANG, Lu Lin, Jinghui Chen

BANMIME : Misogyny Detection with Metaphor Explanation on Bangla Memes

Md Ayon Mia, Akm Moshiur Rahman Mazumder, Khadiza Sultana Sayma, Md Fahim, Md Tahmid Hasan Fuad

ToM: Leveraging Tree-oriented MapReduce for Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

Jiani Guo, Zuchao Li, Jie Wu, Qianren Wang, Yun Li

Alignment for Efficient Tool Calling of Large Language Models

Hongshen Xu, Zihan Wang, Zichen Zhu, Lei Pan, Xingyu Chen

ViPE: Visual Perception in Parameter Space for Efficient Video-Language Understanding

Shichen Lu, Tongtian Yue, Longteng Guo, Handong Li, Xingjian He

Mapping the Minds of LLMs: A Graph-Based Analysis of Reasoning LLMs

Zhen Xiong, Yujun Cai, Zhecheng Li, Yiwei Wang

From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

Tianshi Zheng, Zheye Deng, Hong Ting Tsang, Weiqi Wang, Jiaxin Bai

EasyRec: Simple yet Effective Language Models for Recommendation

Xubin Ren, Chao Huang

DocAgent: An Agentic Framework for Multi-Modal Long-Context Document Understanding

Li Sun, Liu He, Shuyue Jia, Yangfan He, Chenyu You

Generator-Assistant Stepwise Rollback Framework for Large Language Model Agent

Xingzuo Li, Kehai Chen, Yunfei Long, Xuefeng Bai, Yong Xu

Multi-perspective Analysis of Large Language Model Domain Specialization: An Experiment in Accounting Audit Procedures Generation

Yusuke Noro

MemeArena: Automating Context-Aware Unbiased Evaluation of Harmfulness Understanding for Multimodal Large Language Models

Zixin Chen, Hongzhan Lin, Kaixin Li, Ziyang Luo, Yayue Deng

Temporal Referential Consistency: Do LLMs Favor Sequences Over Absolute Time References?

Ashutosh Bajpai, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Evaluating the Effectiveness and Scalability of LLM-Based Data Augmentation for Retrieval

Pranjal A Chitale, Bishal Santra, Yashoteja Prabhu, Amit Sharma

Extracting and Combining Abilities For Building Multi-lingual Ability-enhanced Large Language Models

Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Liang Song, Wayne Xin Zhao, Bingning Wang

CLLMate: A Multimodal Benchmark for Weather and Climate Events Forecasting

Haobo Li, Zhaowei Wang, Jiachen Wang, Yueya Wang, Alexis Kai Hon Lau

Position: LLMs Can be Good Tutors in English Education

Jingheng Ye, Shen Wang, Deqing Zou, Yibo Yan, Kun Wang

Structured Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Long-Horizon Task Planning

Xiwen Liang, Min Lin, Weiqi Ruan, Rongtao Xu, Yuecheng Liu

SAFE: Schema-Driven Approximate Distance Join for Efficient Knowledge Graph Querying

Sangoh Lee, Sungho Park, Wook-Shin Han