EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Disambiguation in Conversational Question Answering in the Era of LLMs and Agents: A Survey

Mehrab Tanjim, Yeonjun In, Xiang Chen, Victor Bursztyn, Ryan A. Rossi

Bitune: Leveraging Bidirectional Attention to Improve Decoder-Only LLMs

Dawid Jan Kopiczko, Tijmen Blankevoort, Yuki M Asano

Token-Aware Editing of Internal Activations for Large Language Model Alignment

Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Kewei Liao, Chengzhao Yang, Zhange Zhang

Does quantization affect models’ performance on long-context tasks?

Anmol Mekala, Anirudh Atmakuru, Yixiao Song, Marzena Karpinska, Mohit Iyyer

LM-Searcher: Cross-domain Neural Architecture Search with LLMs via Unified Numerical Encoding

Yuxuan Hu, Jihao Liu, Ke Wang, Jinliang Zheng, Weikang Shi

SPECS: Specificity-Enhanced CLIP-Score for Long Image Caption Evaluation

Xiaofu Chen, Israfel Salazar, Yova Kementchedjhieva

On LLM-Based Scientific Inductive Reasoning Beyond Equations

Brian S. Lin, Jiaxin Yuan, Zihan Zhou, Shouli Wang, Shuo Wang

FaST: Feature-aware Sampling and Tuning for Personalized Preference Alignment with Limited Data

Thibaut Thonet, Germán Kruszewski, Jos Rozen, Pierre Erbacher, Marc Dymetman

DrDiff: Dynamic Routing Diffusion with Hierarchical Attention for Breaking the Efficiency-Quality Trade-off

Jusheng Zhang, Yijia Fan, Kaitong Cai, Zimeng Huang, Xiaofei Sun

CARD: Cross-modal Agent Framework for Generative and Editable Residential Design

Pengyu Zeng, Jun Yin, Miao Zhang, Yuqin Dai, Jizhizi Li

HYDRA: A Multi-Head Encoder-only Architecture for Hierarchical Text Classification

Fabian Karl, Ansgar Scherp

FB-Bench: A Fine-Grained Multi-Task Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs’ Responsiveness to Human Feedback

Youquan Li, Miao Zheng, Fan Yang, Guosheng Dong, Bin CUI

Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models

Pu Jian, Junhong Wu, Wei Sun, Chen Wang, Shuo Ren

M-LongDoc: A Benchmark For Multimodal Super-Long Document Understanding And A Retrieval-Aware Tuning Framework

Yew Ken Chia, Liying Cheng, Hou Pong Chan, Maojia Song, Chaoqun Liu

VLASCD: A Visual Language Action Model for Simultaneous Chatting and Decision Making

Zuojin Tang, Bin Hu, Chenyang Zhao, De Ma, Gang Pan

Steering LLM Reasoning Through Bias-Only Adaptation

Viacheslav Sinii, Alexey Gorbatovski, Artem Cherepanov, Boris Shaposhnikov, Nikita Balagansky

Can LLMs Help You at Work? A Sandbox for Evaluating LLM Agents in Enterprise Environments

Harsh Vishwakarma, Ankush Agarwal, Ojas Patil, Chaitanya Devaguptapu, Mahesh Chandran

IndoSafety: Culturally Grounded Safety for LLMs in Indonesian Languages

Muhammad Falensi Azmi, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Fajri Koto

ViDoRAG: Visual Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Dynamic Iterative Reasoning Agents

Qiuchen Wang, Ruixue Ding, Zehui Chen, Weiqi Wu, Shihang Wang

ComplexTempQA: A 100m Dataset for Complex Temporal Question Answering

Raphael Gruber, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Michael Färber, Adam Jatowt

Predicate-Guided Generation for Mathematical Reasoning

Jiajun Chen, Yik-cheung Tam

Improving Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Language Models through Dialectic Reasoning Argumentations

Leonardo Ranaldi, Federico Ranaldi, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Ambiguity Awareness Optimization: Towards Semantic Disambiguation for Direct Preference Optimization

Jian Li, Shenglin Yin, Yujia Zhang, Alan Zhao, Xi Chen

LLM-OREF: An Open Relation Extraction Framework Based on Large Language Models

Hongyao Tu, Liang Zhang, Yujie Lin, Xin lin, Haibo Zhang

SlideCoder: Layout-aware RAG-enhanced Hierarchical Slide Generation from Design

Wenxin Tang, Jingyu Xiao, Wenxuan Jiang, Xi Xiao, Yuhang Wang

Accelerate Parallelizable Reasoning via Parallel Decoding within One Sequence

Yijiong Yu, Wei Wang, Ran Chen, Ji Pei

HVGuard: Utilizing Multimodal Large Language Models for Hateful Video Detection

Yiheng Jing, Mingming Zhang, Yong Zhuang, Jiacheng Guo, Juan Wang

Leveraging Semantic Triples for Private Document Generation with Local Differential Privacy Guarantees

Stephen Meisenbacher, Maulik Chevli, Florian Matthes

WebEvolver: Enhancing Web Agent Self-Improvement with Co-evolving World Model

Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Zhisong Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu

IIET: Efficient Numerical Transformer via Implicit Iterative Euler Method

Xinyu Liu, Bei Li, Jiahao Liu, Junhao Ruan, Kechen Jiao

A Fully Probabilistic Perspective on Large Language Model Unlearning: Evaluation and Optimization

Anda Cheng, Wei Huang, Yinggui Wang

Language-Guided Temporal Token Pruning for Efficient VideoLLM Processing

Yogesh Kumar

Conditional [MASK] Discrete Diffusion Language Model

Hyukhun Koh, Minha Jhang, Dohyung Kim, Sangmook Lee, Kyomin Jung

Judging Quality Across Languages: A Multilingual Approach to Pretraining Data Filtering with Language Models

Mehdi Ali, Manuel Brack, Max Lübbering, Elias Wendt, Abbas Goher Khan

Multimodal Fine-grained Context Interaction Graph Modeling for Conversational Speech Synthesis

Zhenqi Jia, Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li

Hierarchical Bracketing Encodings Work for Dependency Graphs

Ana Ezquerro, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares

Sheaf Discovery with Joint Computation Graph Pruning and Flexible Granularity

Lei Yu, Jingcheng Niu, Zining Zhu, Xi Chen, Gerald Penn

We Need to Measure Data Diversity in NLP — Better and Broader

Dong Nguyen, Esther Ploeger

Taming Text-to-Image Synthesis for Novices: User-centric Prompt Generation via Multi-turn Guidance

Yilun Liu, Minggui He, Feiyu Yao, Yuhe Ji, Shimin Tao

A Training-Free Length Extrapolation Approach for LLMs: Greedy Attention Logit Interpolation

Yan Li, Tianyi Zhang, Zechuan Li, Caren Han

Beyond Seen Data: Improving KBQA Generalization Through Schema-Guided Logical Form Generation

Shengxiang Gao, Jey Han Lau, Jianzhong Qi

Certainty in Uncertainty: Reasoning over Uncertain Knowledge Graphs with Statistical Guarantees

Yuqicheng Zhu, Jingcheng Wu, Yizhen Wang, Hongkuan Zhou, Jiaoyan Chen

TurnBack: A Geospatial Route Cognition Benchmark for Large Language Models through Reverse Route

Hongyi Luo, Qing Cheng, Daniel Matos, Hari Krishna Gadi, Yanfeng Zhang

LLM-Independent Adaptive RAG: Let the Question Speak for Itself

Maria Marina, Nikolay Ivanov, Sergey Pletenev, Mikhail Salnikov, Daria Galimzianova

VELA: An LLM-Hybrid-as-a-Judge Approach for Evaluating Long Image Captions

Kazuki Matsuda, Yuiga Wada, Shinnosuke Hirano, Seitaro Otsuki, Komei Sugiura

Reason to Rote: Rethinking Memorization in Reasoning

Yupei Du, Philipp Mondorf, Silvia Casola, Yuekun Yao, Robert Litschko

DocReRank: Single-Page Hard Negative Query Generation for Training Multi-Modal RAG Rerankers

Navve Wasserman, Oliver Heinimann, Yuval Golbari, Tal Zimbalist, Eli Schwartz

Steering Language Models in Multi-Token Generation: A Case Study on Tense and Aspect

Alina Klerings, Jannik Brinkmann, Daniel Ruffinelli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Will It Still Be True Tomorrow? Multilingual Evergreen Question Classification to Improve Trustworthy QA

Sergey Pletenev, Maria Marina, Nikolay Ivanov, Daria Galimzianova, Nikita Krayko

Your Language Model Can Secretly Write Like Humans: Contrastive Paraphrase Attacks on LLM-Generated Text Detectors

Hao Fang, Jiawei Kong, Tianqu Zhuang, Yixiang Qiu, Kuofeng Gao

MUZO: Leveraging Multiple Queries and Momentum for Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Yuezhang Peng, Yuxin Liu, Fei Wen, Xie Chen

Attacks by Content: Automated Fact-checking is an AI Security Issue

Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull

AnchorAttention: Difference-Aware Sparse Attention with Stripe Granularity

Yu Zhang, Dong Guo, Fang Wu, Guoliang Zhu, Dian Ding

SEAL: Structure and Element Aware Learning Improves Long Structured Document Retrieval

Xinhao Huang, Zhibo Ren, Yipeng Yu, Ying Zhou, Zulong Chen

The Psychology of Falsehood: A Human-Centric Survey of Misinformation Detection

Arghodeep Nandi, Megha Sundriyal, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Jikai Sun, Emily K. Vraga

Self-Critique and Refinement for Faithful Natural Language Explanations

Yingming Wang, Pepa Atanasova

When Annotators Disagree, Topology Explains: Mapper, a Topological Tool for Exploring Text Embedding Geometry and Ambiguity

Nisrine Rair, Alban Goupil, Valeriu Vrabie, Emmanuel Chochoy

Does Acceleration Cause Hidden Instability in Vision Language Models? Uncovering Instance-Level Divergence Through a Large-Scale Empirical Study

Yizheng Sun, Hao Li, Chang Xu, Hongpeng Zhou, Chenghua Lin

ConsistentChat: Building Skeleton-Guided Consistent Multi-Turn Dialogues for Large Language Models from Scratch

Jiawei Chen, Xinyan Guan, Qianhao Yuan, Guozhao Mo, Weixiang Zhou

Robust Native Language Identification through Agentic Decomposition

Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Tannon Kew, Tilia Ellendorff, Gerold Schneider, Rico Sennrich

X-FLoRA: Cross-modal Federated Learning with Modality-expert LoRA for Medical VQA

Min Hyuk Kim, Changheon Kim, Seok Bong Yoo

Variance Sensitivity Induces Attention Entropy Collapse and Instability in Transformers

Jonghyun Hong, Sungyoon Lee

A Middle Path for On-Premises LLM Deployment: Preserving Privacy Without Sacrificing Model Confidentiality

Hanbo Huang, Yihan Li, Bowen Jiang, Bo Jiang, Lin Liu

Alignment with Fill-In-the-Middle for Enhancing Code Generation

Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu, Weikang Shi, Haotian Hou, Yunqiao Yang

A Rigorous Evaluation of LLM Data Generation Strategies for Low-Resource Languages

Tatiana Anikina, Jan Cegin, Jakub Simko, Simon Ostermann

AbsVis – Benchmarking How Humans and Vision-Language Models “See” Abstract Concepts in Images

Tarun Tater, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Uncovering Argumentative Flow: A Question-Focus Discourse Structuring Framework

Yini Wang, Xian Zhou, Shengan Zheng, Linpeng Huang, Zhunchen Luo

Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects

Minh Duc Bui, Carolin Holtermann, Valentin Hofmann, Anne Lauscher, Katharina von der Wense

RAGferee: Building Contextual Reward Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Andrei C. Coman, Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, James Henderson, Bill Byrne

Mining the Past with Dual Criteria: Integrating Three types of Historical Information for Context-aware Event Forecasting

Rong Ma, Lei Wang, Yating Yang, Bo Ma, Rui Dong

NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models

Minda Hu, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Bowei He, Hongru Wang

Probing for Arithmetic Errors in Language Models

Yucheng Sun, Alessandro Stolfo, Mrinmaya Sachan

RethinkMCTS: Refining Erroneous Thoughts in Monte Carlo Tree Search for Code Generation

Qingyao Li, Wei Xia, Xinyi Dai, Kounianhua Du, Weiwen Liu

ToDi: Token-wise Distillation via Fine-Grained Divergence Control

Seongryong Jung, Suwan Yoon, DongGeon Kim, Hwanhee Lee

MLWQ: Efficient Small Language Model Deployment via Multi-Level Weight Quantization

Chun Hu, Junhui He, Shangyu Wu, Yuxin He, Chun Jason Xue

Cross-domain Rumor Detection via Test-Time Adaptation and Large Language Models

Yuxia Gong, Shuguo Hu, Huaiwen Zhang

Layer-Aware Representation Filtering: Purifying Finetuning Data to Preserve LLM Safety Alignment

Hao Li, Lijun Li, Zhenghao Lu, Xianyi Wei, Rui Li

ConCISE: Confidence-guided Compression in Step-by-step Efficient Reasoning

Ziqing Qiao, Yongheng Deng, Jiali Zeng, Dong Wang, Lai Wei

PoSum-Bench: Benchmarking Position Bias in LLM-based Conversational Summarization

Xu Sun, Lionel Delphin-Poulat, Christèle Tarnec, Anastasia Shimorina

PAKTON: A Multi-Agent Framework for Question Answering in Long Legal Agreements

Petros Raptopoulos, Giorgos Filandrianos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Stamou

Same evaluation, more tokens: On the effect of input length for machine translation evaluation using Large Language Models

Tobias Domhan, Dawei Zhu

WebAgent-R1: Training Web Agents via End-to-End Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

Zhepei Wei, Wenlin Yao, Yao Liu, Weizhi Zhang, Qin Lu

UNCERTAINTY-LINE: Length-Invariant Estimation of Uncertainty for Large Language Models

Roman Vashurin, Maiya Goloburda, Preslav Nakov, Maxim Panov

XAutoLM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models via Meta-Learning and AutoML

Ernesto Luis Estevanell Valladares, Suilan Estevez-Velarde, Yoan Gutiérrez, Andrés Montoyo, Ruslan Mitkov

DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement

Shaoqing Lin, Chong Teng, Fei Li, Donghong Ji, Lizhen Qu

Self-Adjust Softmax

Chuanyang Zheng, Yihang Gao, Guoxuan Chen, Han Shi, Jing Xiong

Can LLMs Explain Themselves Counterfactually?

Zahra Dehghanighobadi, Asja Fischer, Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Investigating Value-Reasoning Reliability in Small Large Language Models

Xia Du, Shuhan Sun, Pengyuan Liu, Dong Yu

EcoTune: Token-Efficient Multi-Fidelity Hyperparameter Optimization for Large Language Model Inference

Yuebin Xu, Zhiyi Chen, Zeyi Wen

PricingLogic: Evaluating LLMs Reasoning on Complex Tourism Pricing Tasks

Yunuo Liu, Dawei Zhu, Zena Al-Khalili, Dai Cheng, Yanjun Chen

Structuring Radiology Reports: Challenging LLMs with Lightweight Models

Johannes Moll, Louisa Fay, Asfandyar Azhar, Sophie Ostmeier, Sergios Gatidis

Noise, Adaptation, and Strategy: Assessing LLM Fidelity in Decision-Making

Yuanjun Feng, Vivek Choudhary, Yash Raj Shrestha

Enrich-on-Graph: Query-Graph Alignment for Complex Reasoning with LLM Enriching

Songze Li, Zhiqiang Liu, Zhengke Gui, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang

An Empirical Study of LLM Reasoning Ability Under Strict Output Length Constraint

Yi Sun, Han Wang, Jiaqiang Li, Jiacheng Liu, Xiangyu Li

UnCo: Uncertainty-Driven Collaborative Framework of Large and Small Models for Grounded Multimodal NER

Jielong Tang, Yang Yang, Jianxing Yu, Zhen-Xing Wang, Haoyuan Liang

DA-Pred: Performance Prediction for Text Summarization under Domain-Shift and Instruct-Tuning

Anum Afzal, Florian Matthes, Alexander Fabbri

AesBiasBench: Evaluating Bias and Alignment in Multimodal Language Models for Personalized Image Aesthetic Assessment

Kun Li, Lai Man Po, Hongzheng Yang, Xuyuan Xu, Kangcheng Liu

EMO: Embedding Model Distillation via Intra-Model Relation and Optimal Transport Alignments

Minh-Phuc Truong, Hai An Vu, Tu Vu, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diep, Linh Ngo Van

SURE: Safety Understanding and Reasoning Enhancement for Multimodal Large Language Models

Yuxin Gou, Xiaoning Dong, Qin Li, Shishen Gu, Richang Hong

SQLWOZ: A Realistic Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset with SQL-Based Dialogue State Representation for Complex User Requirements

Heng-Da Xu, Xian-Ling Mao, Fanshu Sun, Tian-Yi Che, Cheng-Xin Xin