EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Complex Numerical Reasoning with Numerical Semantic Pre-training Framework

Jun Zhang, Haihong E, Tianyi Hu, Yifan Zhu, Meina Song

Pierce the Mists, Greet the Sky: Decipher Knowledge Overshadowing via Knowledge Circuit Analysis

Haoming Huang, Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo, Xin Zou, Xinfeng Li

Jailbreak LLMs through Internal Stance Manipulation

Shuangjie Fu, Du Su, Beining Huang, Fei Sun, Jingang Wang

Less Is MuRE: Revisiting Shallow Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Victor Charpenay, Steven Schockaert

Journalism-Guided Agentic In-context Learning for News Stance Detection

Dahyun Lee, Jonghyeon Choi, Jiyoung Han, Kunwoo Park

Minimal, Local, and Robust: Embedding-Only Edits for Implicit Bias in T2I Models

Feng He, Chao Zhang, Zhixue Zhao

DyePack: Provably Flagging Test Set Contamination in LLMs Using Backdoors

Yize Cheng, Wenxiao Wang, Mazda Moayeri, Soheil Feizi

SeMob: Semantic Synthesis for Dynamic Urban Mobility Prediction

Runfei Chen, Shuyang Jiang, Wei Huang

KLAAD: Refining Attention Mechanisms to Reduce Societal Bias in Generative Language Models

Seorin Kim, Dongyoung Lee, Jaejin Lee

Friend or Foe? A Computational Investigation of Semantic False Friends across Romance Languages

Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Simona Georgescu, Claudia Vlad

The Hidden Strength of Disagreement: Unraveling the Consensus-Diversity Tradeoff in Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems

Zengqing Wu, Takayuki Ito

M3Retrieve: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval for Medicine

Arkadeep Acharya, Akash Ghosh, Pradeepika Verma, Kitsuchart Pasupa, Sriparna Saha

Multilingual Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Collaborative Content Anomaly Detection across Multilingual Social Media Participants

Jiaxin Li, Geng Zhao, Xiaoci Zhang

Let’s Play Across Cultures: A Large Multilingual, Multicultural Benchmark for Assessing Language Models’ Understanding of Sports

Punit Kumar Singh, Nishant Kumar, Akash Ghosh, Kunal Pasad, Khushi Soni

Who is in the Spotlight: The Hidden Bias Undermining Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiayu Yao, Shenghua Liu, Yiwei Wang, Lingrui Mei, Baolong Bi

DCIS: Efficient Length Extrapolation of LLMs via Divide-and-Conquer Scaling Factor Search

Lei Yang, Shaoyang Xu, Jianxiang Peng, Shaolin Zhu, Deyi Xiong

Tracing L1 Interference in English Learner Writing: A Longitudinal Corpus with Error Annotations

Poorvi Acharya, J. Elizabeth Liebl, Dhiman Goswami, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri

Controllable Memorization in LLMs via Weight Pruning

Chenjie Ni, Zhepeng Wang, Runxue Bao, Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang

Debate-to-Detect: Reformulating Misinformation Detection as a Real-World Debate with Large Language Models

Chen Han, Wenzhen Zheng, Xijin Tang

BTC-SAM: Leveraging LLMs for Generation of Bias Test Cases for Sentiment Analysis Models

Zsolt T. Kardkovács, Lynda Djennane, Anna Field, Boualem Benatallah, Yacine Gaci

Paths Not Taken: Understanding and Mending the Multilingual Factual Recall Pipeline

Meng Lu, Ruochen Zhang, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick

Mind the Gap: How BabyLMs Learn Filler-Gap Dependencies

Chi-Yun Chang, Xueyang Huang, Humaira Nasir, Shane Storks, Olawale Akingbade

MUCAR: Benchmarking Multilingual Cross-Modal Ambiguity Resolution for Multimodal Large Language Models

Xiaolong Wang, Zhaolu Kang, Wangyuxuan Zhai, Xinyue Lou, Yunghwei Lai

Vision-and-Language Navigation with Analogical Textual Descriptions in LLMs

Yue Zhang, Tianyi Ma, Zun Wang, Yanyuan Qiao, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Conan-Embedding-v2: Training an LLM from Scratch for Text Embeddings

Shiyu Li, Yang Tang, Ruijie Liu, Shi-Zhe Chen, Xi Chen

CoEvo: Coevolution of LLM and Retrieval Model for Domain-Specific Information Retrieval

Ang Li, Yiquan Wu, Yinghao Hu, Lizhi Qing, Shihang Wang

Do You Know About My Nation? Investigating Multilingual Language Models’ Cultural Literacy Through Factual Knowledge

Eshaan Tanwar, Anwoy Chatterjee, Michael Saxon, Alon Albalak, William Yang Wang

FLRC: Fine-grained Low-Rank Compressor for Efficient LLM Inference

Yu-Chen Lu, Chong-Yan Chen, Chi-Chih Chang, Yu-Fang Hu, Kai-Chiang Wu

Reward Model Perspectives: Whose Opinions Do Reward Models Reward?

Elle

Unraveling Interwoven Roles of Large Language Models in Authorship Privacy: Obfuscation, Mimicking, and Verification

Tuc Nguyen, Yifan Hu, Thai Le

RETAIL: Towards Real-world Travel Planning for Large Language Models

Bin Deng, Yizhe Feng, Zeming Liu, Qing Wei, Xiangrong Zhu

MIRROR: Multimodal Cognitive Reframing Therapy for Rolling with Resistance

Subin Kim, Hoonrae Kim, Jihyun Lee, Yejin Jeon, Gary Lee

Evaluating Taxonomy Free Character Role Labeling (TF-CRL) in News Stories using Large Language Models

David G Hobson, Derek Ruths, Andrew Piper

Power doesn’t reside in size: A Low Parameter Hybrid Language Model (HLM) for Sentiment Analysis in Code-mixed data

Pavan Sai Balaga, Nagasamudram Karthik, Challa Vishwanath, Raksha Sharma, Rudra Murthy

Efficient Beam Search for Large Language Models Using Trie-Based Decoding

Brian J Chan, Mao-xun Huang, Jui-Hung Cheng, Chao-Ting Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang

PPC-GPT: Federated Task-Specific Compression of Large Language Models via Pruning and Chain-of-Thought Distillation

Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yuanfeng Song, Lixin Fan, Qiang Yang

STARE at the Structure: Steering ICL Exemplar Selection with Structural Alignment

Jiaqian Li, Qisheng Hu, Jing Li, Wenya Wang

Logits-Based Finetuning

Jingyao Li, Senqiao Yang, Sitong Wu, Han Shi, Chuanyang Zheng

SSA: Semantic Contamination of LLM-Driven Fake News Detection

Cheng Xu, Nan Yan, Shuhao Guan, Yuke Mei, Tahar Kechadi

The discordance between embedded ethics and cultural inference in large language models

Aida Ramezani, Yang Xu

Calibration Across Layers: Understanding Calibration Evolution in LLMs

Abhinav Joshi, Areeb Ahmad, Ashutosh Modi

WISE: Weak-Supervision-Guided Step-by-Step Explanations for Multimodal LLMs in Image Classification

Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Siyuan Yan, Yaling Shen, Zimu Wang

How Sememic Components Can Benefit Link Prediction for Lexico-Semantic Knowledge Graphs?

Hansi Wang, Yue Wang, Qiliang Liang, Yang Liu

ESGenius: Benchmarking LLMs on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Knowledge

Chaoyue He, Xin Zhou, Yi Wu, Xinjia Yu, Yan Zhang

IL-PCSR: Legal Corpus for Prior Case and Statute Retrieval

Shounak Paul, Dhananjay Ghumare, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh, Ashutosh Modi

Tuning Less, Prompting More: In-Context Preference Learning Pipeline for Natural Language Transformation

Shuyun Yang, Yan Zhang, Zhengmao Ye, Lei Duan, Mingjie Tang

Multi-Domain Explainability of Preferences

Nitay Calderon, Liat Ein-Dor, Roi Reichart

FIRE: Flexible Integration of Data Quality Ratings for Effective Pretraining

Xu Liangyu, Xuemiao Zhang, Feiyu Duan, Sirui Wang, Rongxiang Weng

SPIRIT: Patching Speech Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks

Amirbek Djanibekov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Kentaro Inui, Hanan Aldarmaki, Nils Lukas

Think and Recall: Layer-Level Prompting for Lifelong Model Editing

Jinke Wang, Zenan Ying, Qi Liu, Wei Chen, Tong Xu

SciNLP: A Domain-Specific Benchmark for Full-Text Scientific Entity and Relation Extraction in NLP

Decheng Duan, Jitong Peng, Yingyi Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang

VRoPE: Rotary Position Embedding for Video Large Language Models

Zikang Liu, Longteng Guo, Yepeng Tang, Tongtian Yue, Junxian Cai

HydraRAG: Structured Cross-Source Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning

Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Xin Yuan

SWAM: Adaptive Sliding Window and Memory-Augmented Attention Model for Rumor Detection

Mei Guo, Chen Chen, Chunyan Hou, Yike Wu, Xiaojie Yuan

PPTAgent: Generating and Evaluating Presentations Beyond Text-to-Slides

Hao Zheng, Xinyan Guan, Hao Kong, Wenkai Zhang, Jia Zheng

Warm Up Before You Train: Unlocking General Reasoning in Resource-Constrained Settings

Safal Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Aadim Nepal, Anubhav Shrestha, Keith W. Ross

Think, Verbalize, then Speak: Bridging Complex Thoughts and Comprehensible Speech

Tony Woo, Sehun Lee, Kang-wook Kim, Gunhee Kim

SHARP: Steering Hallucination in LVLMs via Representation Engineering

Junfei Wu, Yue Ding, Guofan Liu, Tianze Xia, Ziyue Huang

QCRD: Quality-guided Contrastive Rationale Distillation for Large Language Models

Wei Wang, Zhaowei Li, Qi Xu, Yiqing Cai, Hang Song

Can LLMs Reason Abstractly Over Math Word Problems Without CoT? Disentangling Abstract Formulation From Arithmetic Computation

Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Leila Pishdad, Yanshuai Cao, Jackie CK Cheung

Thought calibration: Efficient and confident test-time scaling

Menghua Wu, Cai Zhou, Stephen Bates, Tommi Jaakkola

Advancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding with Multi-Scale Alignment in Multi-Modal Models

Wei Wang, Zhaowei Li, Qi Xu, Linfeng Li, Yiqing Cai

MuCAL: Contrastive Alignment for Preference-Driven KG-to-Text Generation

Yifei Song, Claire Gardent

Process-Supervised Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

Yufan Ye, Ting Zhang, Wenbin Jiang, Hua Huang

Mixture-of-Clustered-Experts: Advancing Expert Specialization and Generalization in Instruction Tuning

Sugyeong Eo, Jung Jun Lee, Chanjun Park, Heuiseok Lim

MMAPG: A Training-Free Framework for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering via Adaptive Planning Graphs

Yiheng Hu, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Qian Fu

Towards Optimal Evaluation Efficiency for Large Language Models

Guohong Li, Deyi Xiong

Learning to See through Sound: From VggCaps to Multi2Cap for Richer Automated Audio Captioning

Sangyeon Cho, Mingi Kim, Jinkwon Hwang, Jaehoon Go, Minuk Ma

ToolSafety: A Comprehensive Dataset for Enhancing Safety in LLM-Based Agent Tool Invocations

Yuejin Xie, Youliang Yuan, Wenxuan Wang, Fan Mo, Jianmin Guo

G2: Guided Generation for Enhanced Output Diversity in LLMs

Zhiwen Ruan, Yixia Li, Yefeng Liu, Yun Chen, Weihua Luo

Improve LLM-as-a-Judge Ability as a General Ability

Jiachen Yu, Shaoning Sun, Xiaohui Hu, Jiaxu Yan, Kaidong Yu

Retrieval Enhanced Feedback via In-context Neural Error-book

Jongyeop Hyun, Bumsoo Kim

TableRAG: A Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework for Heterogeneous Document Reasoning

Xiaohan Yu, Pu Jian, Chong Chen

Vision-Free Retrieval: Rethinking Multimodal Search with Textual Scene Descriptions

Ioanna Ntinou, Alexandros Xenos, Yassine Ouali, Adrian Bulat, Georgios Tzimiropoulos

MoLoRAG: Bootstrapping Document Understanding via Multi-modal Logic-aware Retrieval

Xixi Wu, Yanchao Tan, Nan Hou, Ruiyang Zhang, Hong Cheng

Teaching Your Models to Understand Code via Focal Preference Alignment

Jie Wu, Haoling Li, Xin Zhang, Xiao Liu, Yangyu Huang

Transparent and Coherent Procedural Mistake Detection

Shane Storks, Itamar Bar-Yossef, Yayuan Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Jason J Corso

TVQACML: Benchmarking Text-Centric Visual Question Answering in Multilingual Chinese Minority Languages

Sha Jiu, Yu Weng, Mengxiao Zhu, Chong Feng, Zheng Liu

CCQA: Generating Question from Solution Can Improve Inference-Time Reasoning in SLMs

JinYoung Kim, Ji Won Yoon

Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection

Agostina Calabrese, Tom Sherborne, Bjorn Ross, Mirella Lapata

Transplant Then Regenerate: A New Paradigm for Text Data Augmentation

Guangzhan Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Beijun Shen, Xiaodong Gu

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yuxian Wang, Weiwen Liu, Yutai Hou

Translation in the Hands of Many: Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactions

Beatrice Savoldi, Alan Ramponi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli

Few-Shot Open-Set Classification via Reasoning-Aware Decomposition

Avyav Kumar Singh, Helen Yannakoudakis

PoseStitch-SLT: Linguistically Inspired Pose-Stitching for End-to-End Sign Language Translation

Abhinav Joshi, Vaibhav Sharma, Sanjeet Singh, Ashutosh Modi

Section-Level Simplification of Biomedical Abstracts

Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps

Textual Aesthetics in Large Language Models

Lingjie Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Xun Wu, Furu Wei

Unmasking Deceptive Visuals: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models on Misleading Chart Question Answering

Zixin Chen, Sicheng Song, Kashun Shum, Yanna Lin, Rui Sheng

DisLoRA: Task-specific Low-Rank Adaptation via Orthogonal Basis from Singular Value Decomposition

She Yifei, Xinhao Wei, Yulong Wang

DiplomacyAgent: Do LLMs Balance Interests and Ethical Principles in International Events?

Jianxiang Peng, Ling Shi, Xinwei Wu, Hanwen Zhang, Fujiang Liu

Mind the Inclusivity Gap: Multilingual Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation with mGeNTE

Beatrice Savoldi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Eleonora Cupin, Eleni Gkovedarou, Janiça Hackenbuchner

PRIM: Towards Practical In-Image Multilingual Machine Translation

Yanzhi Tian, Zeming Liu, Zhengyang Liu, Chong Feng, Xin Li

MuTIS: Enhancing Reasoning Efficiency through Multi Turn Intervention Sampling in Reinforcement Learning

Wenshuo Zhao, Haoxing Zhai, Xinyu Qiu, Zhenting Qi, Shuhe Li

MAVL: A Multilingual Audio-Video Lyrics Dataset for Animated Song Translation

Woohyun Cho, Youngmin Kim, Sunghyun Lee, Youngjae Yu

Astra: Efficient Transformer Architecture and Contrastive Dynamics Learning for Embodied Instruction Following

YueEn Ma, Dafeng Chi, Shiguang Wu, Yuecheng Liu, Yuzheng Zhuang

Knowledge-Aware Co-Reasoning for Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Xurui Li, Wanghaijiao, Kaisong Song, Rui Zhu, Haixu Tang

MentalGLM Series: Explainable Large Language Models for Mental Health Analysis on Chinese Social Media

Wei Zhai, Nan Bai, Qing Zhao, Jianqiang Li, Fan Wang

A Probabilistic Inference Scaling Theory for LLM Self-Correction

Zhe Yang, Yichang Zhang, Yudong Wang, Ziyao Xu, Junyang Lin

The Impact of Negated Text on Hallucination with Large Language Models

Jaehyung Seo, Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim

START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools

Chengpeng Li, Mingfeng Xue, Zhenru Zhang, Jiaxi Yang, Beichen Zhang