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AskToAct: Enhancing LLMs Tool Use via Self-Correcting Clarification

Xuan Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Zhe Zheng, Linjuan Wu, Wenqi Zhang

Do Large Language Models Truly Grasp Addition? A Rule-Focused Diagnostic Using Two-Integer Arithmetic

Yang Yan, Yu Lu, Renjun Xu, Zhenzhong Lan

RLAE: Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Ensemble for LLMs

Yuqian Fu, Yuanheng Zhu, Jiajun Chai, Guojun Yin, Wei LIN

R-PRM: Reasoning-Driven Process Reward Modeling

Shuaijie She, Junxiao Liu, Yifeng Liu, Jiajun Chen, Xin Huang

AIMMerging: Adaptive Iterative Model Merging Using Training Trajectories for Language Model Continual Learning

Yujie Feng, Jian Li, Xiaoyu Dong, Pengfei Xu, Xiaohui Zhou

A Generative Pre-Trained Language Model for Channel Prediction in Wireless Communications Systems

Bo Lin, Huanming Zhang, Yuhua Jiang, Yucong Wang, Tengyu Zhang

GeoEdit: Geometric Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models

Yujie Feng, Li-Ming Zhan, Zexin Lu, Yongxin Xu, Xu Chu

Investigating Pedagogical Teacher and Student LLM Agents: Genetic Adaptation Meets Retrieval-Augmented Generation Across Learning Styles

Debdeep Sanyal, Agniva Maiti, Umakanta Maharana, Dhruv Kumar, Ankur Mali

How Is LLM Reasoning Distracted by Irrelevant Context? An Analysis Using a Controlled Benchmark

Minglai Yang, Ethan Huang, Liang Zhang, Mihai Surdeanu, William Yang Wang

LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression

Jintian Zhang, YUQI ZHU, Mengshu Sun, Yujie Luo, Shuofei Qiao

Beyond Task-Oriented and Chitchat Dialogues: Proactive and Transition-Aware Conversational Agents

Yejin Yoon, Yuri Son, Namyoung So, Minseo Kim, Minsoo Cho

CARE: A Disagreement Detection Framework with Concept Alignment and Reasoning Enhancement

Jiyuan Liu, Jielin Song, Yunhe Pang, Zhiyu Shen, Yanghui Rao

Neural Topic Modeling via Contextual and Graph Information Fusion

Jiyuan Liu, Jiaxing Yan, Chunjiang Zhu, Xingyu Liu, Li Qing

Jailbreak-Tuning: Models Efficiently Learn Jailbreak Susceptibility

Brendan Murphy, Dillon Bowen, Shahrad Mohammadzadeh, Tom Tseng, Julius Broomfield

Direct Value Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs with Refined Values

Hongbo Zhang, Han Cui, Guangsheng Bao, Linyi Yang, Jun Wang

Answering Narrative-Driven Recommendation Queries via a Retrieve–Rank Paradigm and the OCG-Agent

Yunxiao Shi, Haoning Shang, Xing Zi, Wujiang Xu, Yue Feng

Graceful Forgetting in Generative Language Models

Chunyang Jiang, Chi-Min Chan, Yiyang Cai, Yulong Liu, Wei Xue

Merge then Realign: Simple and Effective Modality-Incremental Continual Learning for Multimodal LLMs

Dingkun Zhang, Shuhan Qi, Xinyu Xiao, Kehai Chen, Xuan Wang

Syntax-Aware Retrieval Augmentation for Neural Symbolic Regression

Canmiao Zhou, Han Huang

EvolveSearch: An Iterative Self-Evolving Search Agent

Ding-Chu Zhang, Yida Zhao, Jialong Wu, Liwen Zhang, Baixuan Li

SimVBG: Simulating Individual Values by Backstory Generation

Bangde Du, Ziyi Ye, Zhijing Wu, Monika A. Jankowska, Shuqi Zhu

Sycophancy Mitigation Through Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Reasoning Trajectories

Mohammad Beigi, Ying Shen, Parshin Shojaee, Qifan Wang, Zichao Wang

From A and B to A+B: Can Large Language Models Solve Compositional Math Problems?

Xisheng Xiao, Hanlin Zhao

Coarse-to-Fine Grounded Memory for LLM Agent Planning

Wei Yang, Jinwei Xiao, Hongming Zhang, Qingyang Zhang, Yanna Wang

Calibrating Pseudo-Labeling with Class Distribution for Semi-supervised Text Classification

Weiyi Yang, Richong Zhang, Junfan Chen, Jiawei Sheng

FaithUn: Toward Faithful Forgetting in Language Models by Investigating the Interconnectedness of Knowledge

Nakyeong Yang, Minsung Kim, Seunghyun Yoon, Joongbo Shin, Kyomin Jung

SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?

Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Colin Cherry, Daniel Deutsch

CAFE: Retrieval Head-based Coarse-to-Fine Information Seeking to Enhance Multi-Document QA Capability

Han Peng, Jinhao Jiang, Zican Dong, Wayne Xin Zhao, Lei Fang

Advancing Oversight Reasoning across Languages for Audit Sycophantic Behaviour via X-Agent

Giulia Pucci, Leonardo Ranaldi

DeepResonance: Enhancing Multimodal Music Understanding via Music-centric Multi-way Instruction Tuning

Zhuoyuan Mao, Mengjie Zhao, Qiyu Wu, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji

AI Chatbots as Professional Service Agents: Developing a Professional Identity

Wenwen Li, Kangwei Shi, Yidong Chai

Dynamic Collaboration of Multi-Language Models based on Minimal Complete Semantic Units

Chao Hao, Zezheng Wang, Yanhua Huang, Ruiwen Xu, Wenzhe Niu

CoPL: Collaborative Preference Learning for Personalizing LLMs

Youngbin Choi, Seunghyuk Cho, Minjong Lee, MoonJeong Park, Yesong Ko

PanicToCalm: A Proactive Counseling Agent for Panic Attacks

Jihyun Lee, Yejin Min, San Kim, Yejin Jeon, Sung Jun Yang

Speculative Safety-Aware Decoding

Xuekang Wang, Shengyu Zhu, Xueqi Cheng

Data to Defense: The Role of Curation in Aligning Large Language Models Against Safety Compromise

Xiaoqun Liu, Jiacheng Liang, Luoxi Tang, Muchao Ye, Weicheng Ma

DeepWell-Adol: A Scalable Expert-Based Dialogue Corpus for Adolescent Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing Promotion

Wenyu Qiu, Yuxiong Wang, Jiajun Tan, Hanchao Hou, Qinda Liu

Expanding before Inferring: Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models through Premature Layers Interpolation

Dingwei Chen, Ziqiang Liu, Feiteng Fang, Chak Tou Leong, Shiwen Ni

MAIN: Mutual Alignment Is Necessary for instruction tuning

Fanyi Yang, Jianfeng Liu, Xin Zhang, Haoyu Liu, Xixin Cao

How do autoregressive transformers solve full addition?

Wang Peixu, Chen Yu, Yu Ming, Cheng Xiang

VCSearch: Bridging the Gap Between Well-Defined and Ill-Defined Problems in Mathematical Reasoning

Shi-Yu Tian, Zhi Zhou, Kun-Yang Yu, Ming Yang, Lin-Han Jia

Breaking Bad Tokens: Detoxification of LLMs Using Sparse Autoencoders

Agam Goyal, Vedant Rathi, William Yeh, Yian Wang, Yuen Chen

Evaluating LLM-Generated Diagrams as Graphs

Chumeng Liang, Jiaxuan You

Following the Autoregressive Nature of LLM Embeddings via Compression and Alignment

Jingcheng Deng, Zhongtao Jiang, Liang Pang, Zihao Wei, Liwei Chen

MoMoE: Mixture of Moderation Experts Framework for AI-Assisted Online Governance

Agam Goyal, Xianyang Zhan, Yilun Chen, Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan

Can GRPO Boost Complex Multimodal Table Understanding?

Xiaoqiang Kang, Shengen Wu, Zimu Wang, Yilin Liu, Xiaobo Jin

R2I-Bench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation

Kaijie Chen, Zihao Lin, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen, Yuguang Yao

ProcWorld: Benchmarking Large Model Planning in Reachability-Constrained Environments

Dong Wang, Xinghang Li, Zhengshen Zhang, Jirong Liu, Xiao Ma

Exploring the Limitations of Mamba in COPY and CoT Reasoning

Ruifeng Ren, Zhicong Li, Yong Liu

Translationese-index: Using Likelihood Ratios for Graded and Generalizable Measurement of Translationese

Yikang Liu, Wanyang Zhang, Yiming Wang, Jialong Tang, Pei Zhang

Examining False Positives under Inference Scaling for Mathematical Reasoning

Yu Wang, Nan Yang, Liang Wang, Furu Wei, Fuli Feng

Mitigating Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models through Image-Guided Head Suppression

Sreetama Sarkar, Yue Che, Alex Gavin, Peter Anthony Beerel, Souvik Kundu

CityEQA: A Hierarchical LLM Agent on Embodied Question Answering Benchmark in City Space

Yong Zhao, Kai Xu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Yue Hu, Zhiheng Zheng

From Tens of Hours to Tens of Thousands: Scaling Back-Translation for Speech Recognition

Tianduo Wang, Lu Xu, Wei Lu, Shanbo Cheng

Towards Advanced Mathematical Reasoning for LLMs via First-Order Logic Theorem Proving

Chuxue Cao, Mengze Li, Juntao Dai, Jinluan Yang, Zijian Zhao

Recontextualizing Revitalization: A Mixed Media Approach to Reviving the Nüshu Language

Ivory Yang, Xiaobo Guo, Yuxin Wang, Hefan Zhang, Yaning Jia

TP-RAG: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Model Agents for Spatiotemporal-Aware Travel Planning

Hang Ni, Fan LIU, Xinyu Ma, Lixin Su, Shuaiqiang Wang

Self-Augmented Preference Alignment for Sycophancy Reduction in LLMs

Chien Hung Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Boosting Data Utilization for Multilingual Dense Retrieval

Chao Huang, Fengran Mo, Yufeng Chen, Changhao Guan, Zhenrui Yue

Understanding the Information Propagation Effects of Communication Topologies in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Xu Shen, Yixin Liu, Yiwei Dai, Yili Wang, Rui Miao

CMHG: A Dataset and Benchmark for Headline Generation of Minority Languages in China

Guixian Xu, Zeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Jianing Liu, Xu Han

Sticker-TTS: Learn to Utilize Historical Experience with a Sticker-driven Test-Time Scaling Framework

Jie Chen, Jinhao Jiang, Yingqian Min, Zican Dong, Shijie Wang

RareSyn: Health Record Synthesis for Rare Disease Diagnosis

Huimin Wang, Yutian Zhao, Yefeng Zheng, Xian Wu

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection

Chong Tian, Qirong Ho, Xiuying Chen

From Long to Lean: Performance-aware and Adaptive Chain-of-Thought Compression via Multi-round Refinement

JianZhi Yan, Le Liu, Youcheng Pan, Shiwei Chen, Zike Yuan

ICG: Improving Cover Image Generation via MLLM-based Prompting and Personalized Preference Alignment

Zhipeng Bian, jieming zhu, Qijiong Liu, Wang Lin, Guohao Cai

Dynamic Energy-Based Contrastive Learning with Multi-Stage Knowledge Verification for Event Causality Identification

Ya Su, Hu Zhang, Yue Fan, Guangjun Zhang, Yujie Wang

Facilitating Long Context Understanding via Supervised Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Jingyang Lin, Andy Wong, Tian Xia, Shenghua He, Hui Wei

Gamma-Guard: Lightweight Residual Adapters for Robust Guardrails in Large Language Models

Lijia Lv, Yuanshu Zhao, Guan Wang, Xuehai Tang, Wen Jie

Improving Clustering with Positive Pairs Generated from LLM-Driven Labels

Xiaotong Zhang, Ying Li

Toxicity Red-Teaming: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Singapore’s Low-Resource Languages

Yujia Hu, Ming Shan Hee, Preslav Nakov, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Can an Individual Manipulate the Collective Decisions of Multi-Agents?

Fengyuan Liu, Rui Zhao, Shuo Chen, Guohao Li, Philip Torr

Skip-Thinking: Chunk-wise Chain-of-Thought Distillation Enable Smaller Language Models to Reason Better and Faster

Xiaoshu Chen, sihang zhou, Ke Liang, Xiaoyu Sun, Xinwang Liu

ModalPrompt: Towards Efficient Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dual-Modality Guided Prompt

Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu, Haiyang Guo, Xu-yao Zhang, Cheng-lin Liu

LogiCoL: Logically-Informed Contrastive Learning for Set-based Dense Retrieval

Yanzhen Shen, Sihao Chen, Xueqiang Xu, Yunyi Zhang, Chaitanya Malaviya

ChartGaze: Enhancing Chart Understanding in LVLMs with Eye-Tracking Guided Attention Refinement

Ali Salamatian, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Wan-Cyuan Fan, Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain, Leonid Sigal

Should I Share this Translation? Evaluating Quality Feedback for User Reliance on Machine Translation

Dayeon Ki, Kevin Duh, Marine Carpuat

Proactive Assistant Dialogue Generation from Streaming Egocentric Videos

Yichi Zhang, Xin Luna Dong, Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Anuj Kumar

Agentic-R1: Distilled Dual-Strategy Reasoning

Weihua Du, Pranjal Aggarwal, Sean Welleck, Yiming Yang

LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent

Reza Averly, Frazier N. Baker, Ian A Watson, Xia Ning

Learning Contextual Retrieval for Robust Conversational Search

Seunghan Yang, Juntae Lee, Jihwan Bang, Kyuhong Shim, Minsoo Kim

MoR: Better Handling Diverse Queries with a Mixture of Sparse, Dense, and Human Retrievers

Jushaan Singh Kalra, Xinran Zhao, To Eun Kim, Fengyu Cai, Fernando Diaz

Beyond Checkmate: Exploring the Creative Choke Points for AI Generated Texts

Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Saranya Venkatraman, Mahjabin Nahar, Dongwon Lee

MultiMed-ST: Large-scale Many-to-many Multilingual Medical Speech Translation

Khai Le-Duc, Tuyen Tran, Bach Phan Tat, Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Quan Dang Anh

ReEvalMed: Rethinking Medical Report Evaluation by Aligning Metrics with Real-World Clinical Judgment

Ruochen Li, Jun Li, Bailiang Jian, Kun Yuan, Youxiang Zhu

D-CoDe: Scaling Image-Pretrained VLMs to Video via Dynamic Compression and Question Decomposition

Yiyang Huang, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation

François Ledoyen, Gaël Dias, Jeremie Pantin, Alexis Lechervy, Fabrice Maurel

Polysemantic Dropout: Conformal OOD Detection for Specialized LLMs

Ayush Gupta, Ramneet Kaur, Anirban Roy, Adam D. Cobb, Rama Chellappa

EmoAgent: Assessing and Safeguarding Human-AI Interaction for Mental Health Safety

Jiahao Qiu, Yinghui He, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang, Yuhan Liu

Data Drives Unstable Hierarchical Generalization in LMs

Tian Qin, Naomi Saphra, David Alvarez-Melis

Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing

Cui Ding, Yanning Yin, Lena Ann Jäger, Ethan Wilcox

RedHerring Attack: Testing the Reliability of Attack Detection

Jonathan Rusert

CEMTM: Contextual Embedding-based Multimodal Topic Modeling

Amirhossein Abaskohi, Raymond Li, Chuyuan Li, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini

SilVar: Speech-Driven Multimodal Model for Reasoning Visual Question Answering and Object Localization

Tan-Hanh Pham, Le Hoang Nam, Phu-Vinh Nguyen, Chris Ngo, Truong-Son Hy

Cognitive Linguistic Identity Fusion Score (CLIFS): A Scalable Cognition‐Informed Approach to Quantifying Identity Fusion from Text

Devin R. Wright, Jisun An, Yong-Yeol Ahn

Separate the Wheat from the Chaff: Winnowing Down Divergent Views in Retrieval Augmented Generation

Song Wang, Zihan Chen, Peng Wang, Zhepei Wei, Zhen Tan

Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication

Jocelyn J Shen, Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou, Cynthia Breazeal, Maarten Sap

A Good Plan is Hard to Find: Aligning Models with Preferences is Misaligned with What Helps Users

Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Yoo Yeon Sung, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Shi Feng

AnyMAC: Cascading Flexible Multi-Agent Collaboration via Next-Agent Prediction

Song Wang, Zhen Tan, Zihan Chen, Shuang Zhou, Tianlong Chen

Meta-Rewarding Language Models: Self-Improving Alignment with LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge

Tianhao Wu, Weizhe Yuan, Olga Golovneva, Jing Xu, Yuandong Tian