EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

CoMMIT: Coordinated Multimodal Instruction Tuning

Xintong Li, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Rui Wang, Yu Wang

Improving Instruct Models for Free: A Study on Partial Adaptation

Ozan Irsoy, Pengxiang Cheng, Jennifer L Chen, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Shiyue Zhang

Toward Multi-Session Personalized Conversation: A Large-Scale Dataset and Hierarchical Tree Framework for Implicit Reasoning

Xintong Li, Jalend Bantupalli, Ria Dharmani, Yuwei Zhang, Jingbo Shang

Stimulate the Critical Thinking of LLMs via Debiasing Discussion

Ruiyu Xiao, Lei Wu, Yuanxing Liu, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu

Reward-Shifted Speculative Sampling Is An Efficient Test-Time Weak-to-Strong Aligner

Bolian Li, Yanran Wu, Xinyu Luo, Ruqi Zhang

Unlearning vs. Obfuscation: Are We Truly Removing Knowledge?

Guangzhi Sun, Potsawee Manakul, Xiao Zhan, Mark Gales

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

Zhuohang Li, Chao Yan, Nicholas J Jackson, Wendi Cui, Bo Li

Deriving Strategic Market Insights with Large Language Models: A Benchmark for Forward Counterfactual Generation

Keane Ong, Rui Mao, Deeksha Varshney, Paul Pu Liang, Erik Cambria

Collaborative Beam Search: Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Collective Consensus

Yangyifan Xu, Shuo Ren, Jiajun Zhang

DEL-ToM: Inference-Time Scaling for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning via Dynamic Epistemic Logic

Yuheng Wu, Jianwen Xie, Denghui Zhang, Zhaozhuo Xu

CaKE: Circuit-aware Editing Enables Generalizable Knowledge Learners

Yunzhi Yao, Jizhan Fang, Jia-Chen Gu, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng

Dual-Path Dynamic Fusion with Learnable Query for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Miao Zhou, Lina Yang, Thomas Wu, Dongnan Yang, Xinru Zhang

AlphaOne: Reasoning Models Thinking Slow and Fast at Test Time

Junyu Zhang, Runpei Dong, Han Wang, Xuying Ning, Haoran Geng

Analyzing Uncertainty of LLM-as-a-Judge: Interval Evaluations with Conformal Prediction

Huanxin Sheng, Xinyi Liu, Hangfeng He, Jieyu Zhao, Jian Kang

Interdisciplinary Research in Conversation: A Case Study in Computational Morphology for Language Documentation

Enora Rice, Katharina von der Wense, Alexis Palmer

Back Attention: Understanding and Enhancing Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zeping Yu, Yonatan Belinkov, Sophia Ananiadou

ResFormer: All-Time Reservoir Memory for Long Sequence Classification

Hongbo Liu, Jia Xu

SUA: Stealthy Multimodal Large Language Model Unlearning Attack

Xianren Zhang, Hui LIU, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xianfeng Tang, Qi He

LATTE: Learning to Think with Vision Specialists

Zixian Ma, Jianguo Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Juntao Tan

Towards Infinite-Long Prefix in Transformer

Yingyu Liang, Zhenmei Shi, Zhao Song, Chiwun Yang

Efficient Unstructured Pruning of Mamba State-Space Models for Resource-Constrained Environments

Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma

Circuit Complexity Bounds for RoPE-based Transformer Architecture

Bo Chen, Xiaoyu Li, Yingyu Liang, Jiangxuan Long, Zhenmei Shi

Cache-Efficient Posterior Sampling for Reinforcement Learning with LLM-Derived Priors Across Discrete and Continuous Domains

Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma

Voice of a Continent: Mapping Africa’s Speech Technology Frontier

AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Sang Yun Kwon, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte, Hanan Aldarmaki

Long-Form Information Alignment Evaluation Beyond Atomic Facts

Danna Zheng, Mirella Lapata, Jeff Z. Pan

A Computational Simulation of Language Production in First Language Acquisition

Yuan Gao, Weiwei Sun

NileChat: Towards Linguistically Diverse and Culturally Aware LLMs for Local Communities

Abdellah El Mekki, Houdaifa Atou, Omer Nacar, Shady Shehata, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

NeuroAda: Activating Each Neuron’s Potential for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Zhi Zhang, Yixian Shen, Congfeng Cao, Ekaterina Shutova

Can LLMs be Good Graph Judge for Knowledge Graph Construction?

Haoyu Huang, Chong Chen, Zeang Sheng, Yang Li, Wentao Zhang

LLMs cannot spot math errors, even when allowed to peek into the solution

Kv Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar

Feature Extraction and Steering for Enhanced Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models

Zihao Li, Xu Wang, Yuzhe Yang, Ziyu Yao, Haoyi Xiong

Identifying Unlearned Data in LLMs via Membership Inference Attacks

Advit Deepak, Megan Mou, Jing Huang, Diyi Yang

Deep Associations, High Creativity: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models

Ziliang Qiu, Renfen Hu

Bridging External and Parametric Knowledge: Mitigating Hallucination of LLMs with Shared-Private Semantic Synergy in Dual-Stream Knowledge

Yi Sui, Chaozhuo Li, Chen Zhang, Dawei Song, Qiuchi Li

From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations

Benlu Wang, Iris Xia, Yifan Zhang, Junda Wang, Feiyun Ouyang

Can Vision-Language Models Solve Visual Math Equations?

Monjoy Narayan Choudhury, Junling Wang, Yifan Hou, Mrinmaya Sachan

DischargeSim: A Simulation Benchmark for Educational Doctor–Patient Communication at Discharge

Zonghai Yao, Michael Sun, Won Seok Jang, Sunjae Kwon, Soie Kwon

Static or Dynamic: Towards Query-Adaptive Token Selection for Video Question Answering

Yumeng Shi, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Demystifying Synthetic Data in LLM Pre-training: A Systematic Study of Scaling Laws, Benefits, and Pitfalls

Feiyang Kang, Newsha Ardalani, Michael Kuchnik, Youssef Emad, Mostafa Elhoushi

AdamS: Momentum Itself Can Be A Normalizer for LLM Pretraining and Post-training

Huishuai Zhang, Bohan Wang, Luoxin Chen

Probing Logical Reasoning of MLLMs in Scientific Diagrams

Yufei Wang, Adriana Kovashka

SelfRACG: Enabling LLMs to Self-Express and Retrieve for Code Generation

Qian Dong, Jia Chen, Qingyao Ai, Hongning Wang, Haitao Li

Knowledge Editing through Chain-of-Thought

Changyue Wang, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai, Yichen Tang, Yiqun Liu

Measuring the Effect of Disfluency in Multilingual Knowledge Probing Benchmarks

Kirill Semenov, Rico Sennrich

Are Checklists Really Useful for Automatic Evaluation of Generative Tasks?

Momoka Furuhashi, Kouta Nakayama, Takashi Kodama, Saku Sugawara

IG-Pruning: Input-Guided Block Pruning for Large Language Models

Kangyu Qiao, Shaolei Zhang, Yang Feng

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization

Yilun Qiu, Tianhao Shi, Xiaoyan Zhao, Fengbin Zhu, Yang Zhang

Viability of Machine Translation for Healthcare in Low-Resourced Languages

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Nikita Mehandru, Negasi Haile Abadi, Blen Gebremeskel, Ahmed Alaa

On the Role of Model Prior in Real-World Inductive Reasoning

Zhuo Liu, Ding Yu, Hangfeng He

CIFLEX: Contextual Instruction Flow for Sub-task Execution in Multi-Turn Interactions with a Single On-Device LLM

Juntae Lee, Jihwan Bang, Seunghan Yang, Simyung Chang

DSG-MCTS: A Dynamic Strategy-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Diversified Reasoning in Large Language Models

Rui Ha, Chaozhuo Li, Rui Pu, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang

SATER: A Self-Aware and Token-Efficient Approach to Routing and Cascading

Yuanzhe Shen, Yide Liu, Zisu Huang, Ruicheng Yin, Xiaoqing Zheng

Calibrating LLM Confidence by Probing Perturbed Representation Stability

Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Mehrsa Mardikoraem, Simerjot Kaur, Ivan Brugere

Towards Faithful Natural Language Explanations: A Study Using Activation Patching in Large Language Models

Wei Jie Yeo, Ranjan Satapathy, Erik Cambria

Bit-Flip Error Resilience in LLMs: A Comprehensive Analysis and Defense Framework

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Ajay Kumar Jaiswal, Huaizhi Qu, Xinyu Zhao

Primus: A Pioneering Collection of Open-Source Datasets for Cybersecurity LLM Training

Yao-Ching Yu, Tsun-Han Chiang, Cheng-Wei Tsai, Chien-Ming Huang, Wen-Kwang Tsao

SPaRC: A Spatial Pathfinding Reasoning Challenge

Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Doubling Your Data in Minutes: Ultra-fast Tabular Data Generation via LLM-Induced Dependency Graphs

Shuo Yang, Zheyu Zhang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci

Evaluating Language Translation Models by Playing Telephone

Syeda Jannatus Saba, Steven Skiena

A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge’ez Script.

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu, Negasi Haile Abadi

When Long Helps Short: How Context Length in Supervised Fine-tuning Affects Behavior of Large Language Models

Yingming Zheng, Hanqi Li, Kai Yu, Lu Chen

Layered Insights: Generalizable Analysis of Human Authorial Style by Leveraging All Transformer Layers

Milad Alshomary, Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, Vishal Anand, Smaranda Muresan, Kathleen McKeown

CoBA: Counterbias Text Augmentation for Mitigating Various Spurious Correlations via Semantic Triples

Kyohoon Jin, Juhwan Choi, JungMin Yun, Junho Lee, Soojin Jang

SAEs Are Good for Steering – If You Select the Right Features

Dana Arad, Aaron Mueller, Yonatan Belinkov

Augmenting Multi-Agent Communication with State Delta Trajectory

Yichen Tang, Weihang Su, Yujia Zhou, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang

PRISM: Efficient Long-Range Reasoning With Short-Context LLMs

Dulhan Jayalath, James Bradley Wendt, Nicholas Monath, Sandeep Tata, Beliz Gunel

Learn and Unlearn: Addressing Misinformation in Multilingual LLMs

TaiMing Lu, Philipp Koehn

Train One Sparse Autoencoder Across Multiple Sparsity Budgets to Preserve Interpretability and Accuracy

Nikita Balagansky, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Vadim Kurochkin, Gleb Gerasimov

Towards Holistic Evaluation of Large Audio-Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Chih-Kai Yang, Neo S. Ho, Hung-yi Lee

RecGPT: A Foundation Model for Sequential Recommendation

Yangqin Jiang, Xubin Ren, Lianghao Xia, Da Luo, Kangyi Lin

FinTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Trustworthiness Evaluation in Finance Domain

Tiansheng Hu, Tongyan Hu, Liuyang Bai, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan

Benchmarking Large Language Models Under Data Contamination: A Survey from Static to Dynamic Evaluation

Simin Chen, Yiming Chen, Zexin Li, Yifan Jiang, Zhongwei Wan

Reshaping Representation Space to Balance the Safety and Over-rejection in Large Audio Language Models

Hao Yang, Lizhen Qu, Ehsan Shareghi, Gholamreza Haffari

Towards Transferable Personality Representation Learning based on Triplet Comparisons and Its Applications

Kai Tang, Rui Wang, Renyu Zhu, Minmin Lin, Xiao Ding

MusKGC: A Flexible Multi-source Knowledge Enhancement Framework for Open-World Knowledge Graph Completion

XIN SONG, Liu Haiyan, Haiyang Wang, Ye Wang, Kai Chen

PORTS: Preference-Optimized Retrievers for Tool Selection with Large Language Models

Lorenzo Molfetta, Giacomo Frisoni, Nicolò Monaldini, Gianluca Moro

AgentPro: Enhancing LLM Agents with Automated Process Supervision

Yuchen Deng, Shichen Fan, Naibo Wang, Xinkui Zhao, See-Kiong Ng

Stop Looking for “Important Tokens” in Multimodal Language Models: Duplication Matters More

Zichen Wen, Yifeng Gao, Shaobo Wang, Junyuan Zhang, Qintong Zhang

Measuring Chain of Thought Faithfulness by Unlearning Reasoning Steps

Martin Tutek, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Ana Marasović, Yonatan Belinkov

Enhancing LLM Text Detection with Retrieved Contexts and Logits Distribution Consistency

Zhaoheng Huang, Yutao Zhu, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou

CAT: Causal Attention Tuning For Injecting Fine-grained Causal Knowledge into Large Language Models

Kairong Han, Wenshuo Zhao, Ziyu Zhao, Ye Jun Jian, Lujia Pan

AI Knows Where You Are: Exposure, Bias, and Inference in Multimodal Geolocation with KoreaGEO

Xiaonan Wang, Bo Shao, Hansaem Kim

Not All Parameters Are Created Equal: Smart Isolation Boosts Fine-Tuning Performance

Yao Wang, Di Liang, Minlong Peng

RTQA : Recursive Thinking for Complex Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering with Large Language Models

Zhaoyan Gong, Juan Li, Zhiqiang Liu, Lei Liang, Huajun Chen

Weicong Qin, Yi Xu, Weijie Yu, Teng Shi, Chenglei Shen

Pre-training CLIP against Data Poisoning with Optimal Transport-based Matching and Alignment

Tong Zhang, Kuofeng Gao, Jiawang Bai, Leo Yu Zhang, Xin Yin

ICR: Iterative Clarification and Rewriting for Conversational Search

Zhiyu Cao, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

DINT Transformer

Yueyang Cang, Yuhang Liu, Xiaoteng Zhang, Erlu Zhao, Li Shi

XQuant: Achieving Ultra-Low Bit KV Cache Quantization with Cross-Layer Compression

Haoqi Yang, Yao Yao, Zuchao Li, Baoyuan Qi, Liu Guoming

CR4-NarrEmote: An Open Vocabulary Dataset of Narrative Emotions Derived Using Citizen Science

Andrew Piper, Robert Budac

CROP: Contextual Region-Oriented Visual Token Pruning

Jiawei Guo, Feifei Zhai, Pu Jian, Qianrun Wei, Yu Zhou

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez

Language models can learn implicit multi-hop reasoning, but only if they have lots of training data

Yuekun Yao, Yupei Du, Dawei Zhu, Michael Hahn, Alexander Koller

CodeArena: Evaluating and Aligning CodeLLMs on Human Preference

Jian Yang, Jiaxi Yang, Wei Zhang, Jin Ke, yibo miao

Can Large Language Models Win the International Mathematical Games?

Alessio Cocchieri, Luca Ragazzi, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Lorenzo Tordi, Antonella Carbonaro

Visual Contextual Attack: Jailbreaking MLLMs with Image-Driven Context Injection

Miao Ziqi, Yi Ding, Lijun Li, Jing Shao

Generative or Discriminative? Revisiting Text Classification in the Era of Transformers

Siva Rajesh Kasa, Karan Gupta, Sumegh Roychowdhury, Ashutosh Kumar, Yaswanth Biruduraju

Reimagining Safety Alignment with An Image

Yifan Xia, Guorui Chen, Wenqian Yu, Zhijiang Li, Philip Torr

TCPO: Thought-Centric Preference Optimization for Effective Embodied Decision-making

Kechen Jiao, Zhirui Fang, Jiahao Liu, Bei Li, Qifan Wang

Plan Dynamically, Express Rhetorically: A Debate-Driven Rhetorical Framework for Argumentative Writing

Xueguan Zhao, Wenpeng Lu, Chaoqun Zheng, Weiyu Zhang, Jiasheng Si