EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

MiCRo: Mixture Modeling and Context-aware Routing for Personalized Preference Learning

Jingyan Shen, Jiarui Yao, Rui Yang, Yifan Sun, Feng Luo

LORAXBENCH: A Multitask, Multilingual Benchmark Suite for 20 Indonesian Languages

Alham Fikri Aji, Trevor Cohn

V-SEAM: Visual Semantic Editing and Attention Modulating for Causal Interpretability of Vision-Language Models

Qidong Wang, Junjie Hu, Ming Jiang

Dovetail: A CPU/GPU Heterogeneous Speculative Decoding for LLM inference

Libo Zhang, Zhaoning Zhang, Xubaizhou, Rui Li, Zhiliang Tian

Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors

Zhiyu Yang, Shuo Wang, Yukun Yan, Yang Deng

SynC-LLM: Generation of Large-Scale Synthetic Circuit Code with Hierarchical Language Models

Shang Liu, Yao Lu, Wenji Fang, Jing Wang, Zhiyao Xie

GuessingGame: Measuring the Informativeness of Open-Ended Questions in Large Language Models

Dylan Hutson, Daniel Vennemeyer, Aneesh Deshmukh, Justin Zhan, Tianyu Jiang

Chameleon LLMs: User Personas Influence Chatbot Personality Shifts

Jane Xing, Tianyi Niu, Shashank Srivastava

Bias Mitigation or Cultural Commonsense? Evaluating LLMs with a Japanese Dataset

Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala, Hitomi Yanaka

RJE: A Retrieval-Judgment-Exploration Framework for Efficient Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLMs

Can Lin, Zhengwang Jiang, Ling Zheng, Qi Zhao, Yuhang Zhang

Media Source Matters More Than Content: Unveiling Political Bias in LLM-Generated Citations

Sunhao Dai, Zhanshuo Cao, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu

SciEvent: Benchmarking Multi-domain Scientific Event Extraction

Bofu Dong, Pritesh Shah, Sumedh Sonawane, Tiyasha Banerjee, Erin Brady

Web Intellectual Property at Risk: Preventing Unauthorized Real-Time Retrieval by Large Language Models

Yisheng Zhong, Yizhu Wen, Junfeng Guo, Mehran Kafai, Heng Huang

Governance in Motion: Co-evolution of Constitutions and AI models for Scalable Safety

Chenhao Huang, Ziyu Shen, Yicong Ren, Huiyuan Zheng, Jiazheng Zhang

Igniting Creative Writing in Small Language Models: LLM-as-a-Judge versus Multi-Agent Refined Rewards

Xiaolong Wei, Bo Lu, Xingyu Zhang, Zhejun Zhao, Dongdong Shen

Inter-sentence Context Modeling and Structure-aware Representation Enhancement for Conversational Sentiment Quadruple Extraction

Yu Zhang, Zhaoman Zhong, Huihui Lv

Stepwise Reasoning Checkpoint Analysis: A Test Time Scaling Method to Enhance LLMs’ Reasoning

Zezhong Wang, Xingshan Zeng, Weiwen Liu, Yufei Wang, Liangyou Li

PychoAgent: Psychology-driven LLM Agents for Explainable Panic Prediction on Social Media during Sudden Disaster Events

Mengzhu Liu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Chuan Ai, Chen Gao, Xinghong Li

RoDEval: A Robust Word Sense Disambiguation Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models

Luyang Zhang, Shuaimin Li, Yishuo Li, Kunpeng Kang, Kaiyuan Zhang

Are Large Language Models Chronically Online Surfers? A Dataset for Chinese Internet Meme Explanation

Yubo Xie, Chenkai Wang, Zongyang Ma, Fahui Miao

Incorporating Diverse Perspectives in Cultural Alignment: Survey of Evaluation Benchmarks Through A Three-Dimensional Framework

Meng-Chen Wu, Si-Chi Chin, Tess Wood, Ayush Goyal, Narayanan Sadagopan

ThinkEdit: Interpretable Weight Editing to Mitigate Overly Short Thinking in Reasoning Models

Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

REACT: Representation Extraction And Controllable Tuning to Overcome Overfitting in LLM Knowledge Editing

Haitian Zhong, Yuhuan Liu, Ziyang Xu, Guofan Liu, Qiang Liu

Calibrating LLMs for Text-to-SQL Parsing by Leveraging Sub-clause Frequencies

Terrance Liu, Shuyi Wang, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Yash Chandarana, Chirag Gupta

Grammar Pruning: Enabling Low-Latency Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Language Models for Edge AI

Octavian Alexandru Trifan, Jason Lee Weber, Marc Titus Trifan, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander Veidenbaum

ReviewRL: Towards Automated Scientific Review with RL

Sihang Zeng, Kai Tian, Kaiyan Zhang, Yuru Wang, Junqi Gao

Fair or Framed? Political Bias in News Articles Generated by LLMs

Junho Yoo, Youhyun Shin

Do Large Language Models excel in Complex Logical Reasoning with Formal Language?

Jin Jiang, Jianing Wang, Yuchen Yan, Yang Liu, Jianhua Zhu

TRIAL: Token Relations and Importance Aware Late-interaction for Accurate Text Retrieval

Hyukkyu Kang, Injung Kim, Wook-Shin Han

WildScore: Benchmarking MLLMs in-the-Wild Symbolic Music Reasoning

Gagan Mundada, Yash Vishe, Amit Namburi, Xin Xu, Zachary Novack

Prototypical Human-AI Collaboration Behaviors from LLM-Assisted Writing in the Wild

Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh

TORSO: Template-Oriented Reasoning Towards General Tasks

Minhyuk Kim, Seungyoon Lee, Heuiseok Lim

Let’s Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM’s Math Capability

Ruida WANG, Yuxin Li, Yi R. Fung, Tong Zhang

LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication

Zhengxiang Wang, Weiling Li, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Owen Rambow, Susan Brennan

Dynamic Retriever for In-Context Knowledge Editing via Policy Optimization

Mahmud Wasif Nafee, Maiqi Jiang, Haipeng Chen, Yanfu Zhang

Implicit Values Embedded in How Humans and LLMs Complete Subjective Everyday Tasks

Arjun Arunasalam, Madison Pickering, Z. Berkay Celik, Blase Ur

Advancing Arabic Diacritization: Improved Datasets, Benchmarking, and State-of-the-Art Models

Abubakr Mohamed, Hamdy Mubarak

Visual-Aware Speech Recognition for Noisy Scenarios

Balaji Darur, Karan Singla

Draft Model Knows When to Stop: Self-Verification Speculative Decoding for Long-Form Generation

Ziyin Zhang, Jiahao Xu, Tian Liang, Xingyu Chen, Zhiwei He

Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey

Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yi Xu, Yizhou Wang, Kuo Yang

Attention Eclipse: Manipulating Attention to Bypass LLM Safety-Alignment

Pedram Zaree, Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Quazi Mishkatul Alam, Yue Dong, Ihsen Alouani

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech

Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan

Database-Augmented Query Representation for Information Retrieval

Soyeong Jeong, Jinheon Baek, Sukmin Cho, Sung Ju Hwang, Jong C. Park

SAMULE: Self-Learning Agents Enhanced by Multi-level Reflection

Yubin Ge, Salvatore Romeo, Jason Cai, Monica Sunkara, Yi Zhang

Graders Should Cheat: Privileged Information Enables Expert-Level Automated Evaluations

Jin Peng Zhou, Séb Arnold, Nan Ding, Kilian Q Weinberger, Nan Hua

Med-PRM: Medical Reasoning Models with Stepwise, Guideline-verified Process Rewards

Jaehoon Yun, Jiwoong Sohn, Jungwoo Park, Hyunjae Kim, Xiangru Tang

Reliable and Cost-Effective Exploratory Data Analysis via Graph-Guided RAG

Mossad Helali, Yutai Luo, Tae Jun Ham, Jim Plotts, Ashwin Chaugule

DynamicNER: A Dynamic, Multilingual, and Fine-Grained Dataset for LLM-based Named Entity Recognition

Hanjun Luo, Yingbin Jin, Yiran Wang, Xinfeng Li, Tong Shang

TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs

Ezgi Başar, Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Arianna Bisazza

Speech Vecalign: an Embedding-based Method for Aligning Parallel Speech Documents

Chutong Meng, Philipp Koehn

Linear-Time Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning via Gradient Estimation

Ziniu Zhang, Zhenshuo Zhang, Dongyue Li, Lu Wang, Jennifer Dy

Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics

Jiarui Liu, Yueqi Song, Yunze Xiao, Mingqian Zheng, Lindia Tjuatja

Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions

Emmy Liu, Amanda Bertsch, Lintang Sutawika, Lindia Tjuatja, Patrick Fernandes

RECALL: REpresentation-aligned Catastrophic-forgetting ALLeviation via Hierarchical Model Merging

Bowen Wang, Haiyuan Wan, Liwen Shi, chen yang, Peng He

Evaluating Behavioral Alignment in Conflict Dialogue: A Multi-Dimensional Comparison of LLM Agents and Humans

Deuksin Kwon, Kaleen Shrestha, Bin Han, Elena Hayoung Lee, Gale Lucas

Can LLMs simulate the same correct solutions to free-response math problems as real students?

Yuya Asano, Diane Litman, Erin Walker

When Truthful Representations Flip Under Deceptive Instructions?

Xianxuan Long, Yao Fu, Runchao Li, Mu Sheng, Haotian Yu

SABER: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Safety Alignment via Cross-Layer Residual Connection

Maithili Joshi, Palash Nandi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

KG-CQR: Leveraging Structured Relation Representations in Knowledge Graphs for Contextual Query Retrieval

Chi Minh Bui, Ngoc Mai Thieu, Vinh Van Nguyen, Jason J. Jung, Khac-Hoai Nam Bui

MEPT: Mixture of Expert Prompt Tuning as a Manifold Mapper

Runjia Zeng, Guangyan Sun, Qifan Wang, Tong Geng, Sohail Dianat

CARMA: Enhanced Compositionality in LLMs via Advanced Regularisation and Mutual Information Alignment

Nura Aljaafari, Danilo Carvalho, Andre Freitas

ASTRA: A Negotiation Agent with Adaptive and Strategic Reasoning via Tool-integrated Action for Dynamic Offer Optimization

Deuksin Kwon, Jiwon Hae, Emma Clift, Daniel Shamsoddini, Jonathan Gratch

Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production

Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins

MULTIGUARD: An Efficient Approach for AI Safety Moderation Across Languages and Modalities

Sahil Verma, Keegan Hines, Jeff Bilmes, Charlotte Siska, Luke Zettlemoyer

PakBBQ: A Culturally Adapted Bias Benchmark for QA

Abdullah Hashmat, Muhammad Arham Mirza, Agha Ali Raza

Enhancing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Neuron Activation Differential Analysis

Yiru Tang, Kun Zhou, Yingqian Min, Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Sha

Out of Sight, Not Out of Context? Egocentric Spatial Reasoning in VLMs Across Disjoint Frames

Sahithya Ravi, Gabriel Herbert Sarch, Vibhav Vineet, Andrew D Wilson, Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Promote, Suppress, Iterate: How Language Models Answer One-to-Many Factual Queries

Tianyi Lorena Yan, Robin Jia

Do Slides Help? Multi-modal Context for Automatic Transcription of Conference Talks

Supriti Sinhamahapatra, Jan Niehues

Sparse Neurons Carry Strong Signals of Question Ambiguity in LLMs

Zhuoxuan Zhang, Jinhao Duan, Edward Kim, Kaidi Xu

Neuron-Level Differentiation of Memorization and Generalization in Large Language Models

Ko-Wei Huang, Yi-Fu Fu, Ching-Yu Tsai, Yu-Chieh Tu, Tzu-ling Cheng

ESC-Judge: A Framework for Comparing Emotional Support Conversational Agents

Navid Madani, Rohini Srihari

VisEscape: A Benchmark for Evaluating Exploration-driven Decision-making in Virtual Escape Rooms

Seungwon Lim, Sungwoong Kim, Jihwan Yu, Sungjae Lee, Jiwan Chung

ConstraintLLM: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Industrial-Level Constraint Programming

Weichun Shi, Minghao Liu, Wanting Zhang, Langchen Shi, Fuqi Jia

ReSo: A Reward-driven Self-organizing LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Reasoning Tasks

Heng Zhou, Hejia Geng, Xiangyuan Xue, Li Kang, Yiran Qin

SliceMoE: Routing Embedding Slices Instead of Tokens for Fine-Grained and Balanced Transformer Scaling

Harshil Vejendla

The Staircase of Ethics: Probing LLM Value Priorities through Multi-Step Induction to Complex Moral Dilemmas

Ya Wu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang, Guang Yang, Yifan Sun

Drift-Adapter: A Practical Approach to Near Zero-Downtime Embedding Model Upgrades in Vector Databases

Harshil Vejendla

Your RAG is Unfair: Exposing Fairness Vulnerabilities in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Backdoor Attacks

Gaurav Bagwe, Saket Sanjeev Chaturvedi, Xiaolong Ma, Xiaoyong Yuan, Kuang-Ching Wang

Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing

Nadir Durrani, Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi

From Capabilities to Performance: Evaluating Key Functional Properties of LLM Architectures in Penetration Testing

Lanxiao Huang, Daksh Dave, Tyler Cody, Peter A. Beling, Ming Jin

AIP: Subverting Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Adversarial Instructional Prompt

Saket Sanjeev Chaturvedi, Gaurav Bagwe, Lan Emily Zhang, Xiaoyong Yuan

The State of Multilingual LLM Safety Research: From Measuring The Language Gap To Mitigating It

Zheng Xin Yong, Beyza Ermis, Marzieh Fadaee, Stephen Bach, Julia Kreutzer

Chart2Code53: A Large-Scale Diverse and Complex Dataset for Enhancing Chart-to-Code Generation

Tianhao Niu, Yiming Cui, Baoxin Wang, Xiao Xu, Xin Yao

Boosting Multi-modal Keyphrase Prediction with Dynamic Chain-of-Thought in Vision-Language Models

Qihang Ma, Shengyu Li, Jie Tang, Dingkang Yang, Shaodong Chen

A Necessary Step toward Faithfulness: Measuring and Improving Consistency in Free-Text Explanations

Lingjun Zhao, Hal Daume III

CheckEval: A reliable LLM-as-a-Judge framework for evaluating text generation using checklists

Yukyung Lee, JoongHoon Kim, Jaehee Kim, Hyowon Cho, Jaewook Kang

Task-Aware Resolution Optimization for Visual Large Language Models

Weiqing Luo, Zhen Tan, Yifan Li, Xinyu Zhao, Kwonjoon Lee

What You Read Isn’t What You Hear: Linguistic Sensitivity in Deepfake Speech Detection

Binh Nguyen, Shuju Shi, Ryan Ofman, Thai Le

To See a World in a Spark of Neuron: Disentangling Multi-Task Interference for Training-Free Model Merging

Zitao Fang, Guodong Du, Shuyang Yu, Yifei Guo, Yiwei Zhang

Can Large Language Models Tackle Graph Partitioning?

Yiheng Wu, Ningchao Ge, Yanmin Li, Liwei Qian, Mengna Zhu

Improving Chemical Understanding of LLMs via SMILES Parsing

Yunhui Jang, Jaehyung Kim, Sungsoo Ahn

TreeReview: A Dynamic Tree of Questions Framework for Deep and Efficient LLM-based Scientific Peer Review

Yuan Chang, Ziyue Li, Hengyuan Zhang, Yuanbo Kong, Yanru Wu

Benchmark Profiling: Mechanistic Diagnosis of LLM Benchmarks

Dongjun Kim, Gyuho Shim, Yongchan Chun, Minhyuk Kim, Chanjun Park

Context-Aware Hierarchical Taxonomy Generation for Scientific Papers via LLM-Guided Multi-Aspect Clustering

Kun Zhu, Lizi Liao, Yuxuan Gu, Lei Huang, Xiaocheng Feng

Grouping Entities with Shared Properties using Multi-Facet Prompting and Property Embeddings

Amit Gajbhiye, Thomas Bailleux, Zied Bouraoui, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation

Sashuai Zhou, Weinan Gan, Qijiong Liu, Ke Lei, jieming zhu

The Practical Impacts of Theoretical Constructs on Empathy Modeling

Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, David Jurgens, Lucie Flek

OntologyRAG-Q: Resource Development and Benchmarking for Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering in Qur’anic Tafsir

Sadam Al-Azani, Maad Alowaifeer, Alhanoof Alhunief, Ahmed Abdelali

Automated Knowledge Graph Construction using Large Language Models and Sentence Complexity Modelling

Sydney Anuyah, Mehedi Mahmud Kaushik, Sri Rama Krishna Reddy Dwarampudi, Rakesh Shiradkar, Arjan Durresi