EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

POINTS-Reader: Distillation-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Document Conversion

Yuan Liu, Zhongyin Zhao, Le Tian, Haicheng Wang, Xubing Ye

Persuasion Dynamics in LLMs: Investigating Robustness and Adaptability in Knowledge and Safety with DuET-PD

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Daniel Wai Kit Chin, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

NL-Debugging: Exploiting Natural Language as an Intermediate Representation for Code Debugging

Weiming Zhang, Qingyao Li, Xinyi Dai, Jizheng Chen, Kounianhua Du

MMLU-ProX: A Multilingual Benchmark for Advanced Large Language Model Evaluation

Weihao Xuan, Rui Yang, Heli Qi, Qingcheng Zeng, Yunze Xiao

POSITION BIAS MITIGATES POSITION BIAS: Mitigate Position Bias Through Inter-Position Knowledge Distillation

Yifei Wang, Feng Xiong, Yong Wang, Linjing Li, Xiangxiang Chu

MEBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Cross-Document Multi-Entity Question Answering

Teng Lin, Yuyu Luo, Honglin Zhang, Jicheng Zhang, Chunlin Liu

LLM Bias Detection and Mitigation through the Lens of Desired Distributions

Ingroj Shrestha, Padmini Srinivasan

Enhancing Efficiency and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Mengqi Liao, Xiangyu Xi, Chen Ruinian, Jia Leng, Yangen Hu

Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models

Weihao Xuan, Qingcheng Zeng, Heli Qi, Junjue Wang, Naoto Yokoya

Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right?

Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan, Leyang Cui, Rob Voigt

VisualWebInstruct: Scaling up Multimodal Instruction Data through Web Search

Yiming Jia, Jiachen Li, Xiang Yue, Bo Li, Ping Nie

Personality Matters: User Traits Predict LLM Preferences in Multi-Turn Collaborative Tasks

Sarfaroz Yunusov, Kaige Chen, Kazi Nishat Anwar, Ali Emami

Learning from Few Samples: A Novel Approach for High-Quality Malcode Generation

Haijian Ma, Daizong Liu, Xiaowen Cai, Pan Zhou, Yulai Xie

LingGym: How Far Are LLMs from Thinking Like Field Linguists?

Changbing Yang, Franklin Ma, Freda Shi, Jian Zhu

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models’ Understanding on Indian Culture

Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh, Anushka, Nemil Shah

Think Wider, Detect Sharper: Reinforced Reference Coverage for Document-Level Self-Contradiction Detection

Yuhao Chen, Yuanjie Lyu, Shuochen Liu, Chao Zhang, Junhui Lv

MovieCORE: COgnitive REasoning in Movies

Gueter Josmy Faure, Min-Hung Chen, Jia-Fong Yeh, Ying Cheng, Hung-Ting Su

CondenseLM: LLMs-driven Text Dataset Condensation via Reward Matching

Cheng Shen, Yew-Soon Ong, Joey Tianyi Zhou

Skeletons Matter: Dynamic Data Augmentation for Text-to-Query

Yuchen Ji, Bo Xu, Jie Shi, Jiaqing Liang, Deqing Yang

SAKI-RAG: Mitigating Context Fragmentation in Long-Document RAG via Sentence-level Attention Knowledge Integration

Wenyu Tao, Xiaofen Xing, Zeliang Li, Xiangmin Xu

MCIP: Protecting MCP Safety via Model Contextual Integrity Protocol

Huihao Jing, Haoran Li, Wenbin Hu, Qi Hu, Xu Heli

The LLM Already Knows: Estimating LLM-Perceived Question Difficulty via Hidden Representations

Yubo Zhu, Dongrui Liu, Zecheng Lin, Wei Tong, Sheng Zhong

LaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question Answering

Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani

VC4VG: Optimizing Video Captions for Text-to-Video Generation

Yang Du, Zhuoran Lin, Kaiqiang Song, Biao Wang, Zhicheng Zheng

DatawiseAgent: A Notebook-Centric LLM Agent Framework for Adaptive and Robust Data Science Automation

Ziming You, Yumiao Zhang, Dexuan Xu, Yiwei Lou, Yandong Yan

Weight-Aware Activation Sparsity with Constrained Bayesian Optimization Scheduling for Large Language Models

Ming Wang, Miao Zhang, Xuebo Liu, Liqiang Nie

Molecular String Representation Preferences in Pretrained LLMs: A Comparative Study in Zero- & Few-Shot Molecular Property Prediction

George Arthur Baker, Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Katharina von der Wense

SEA: Supervised Embedding Alignment for Token-Level Visual-Textual Integration in MLLMs

Yuanyang Yin, Yaqi Zhao, Yajie Zhang, Yuanxing Zhang, Ke Lin

ProtoVQA: An Adaptable Prototypical Framework for Explainable Fine-Grained Visual Question Answering

Xingjian Diao, Weiyi Wu, Keyi Kong, Peijun Qing, Xinwen Xu

IPIGuard: A Novel Tool Dependency Graph-Based Defense Against Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents

Hengyu An, Jinghuai Zhang, Tianyu Du, Chunyi Zhou, Qingming Li

On Relation-Specific Neurons in Large Language Models

Yihong Liu, Runsheng Chen, Lea Hirlimann, Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, Mingyang Wang

LinkAlign: Scalable Schema Linking for Real-World Large-Scale Multi-Database Text-to-SQL

Yihan Wang, Peiyu Liu, Xin Yang

OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking

Zekun Xi, Wenbiao Yin, Jizhan Fang, Jialong Wu, Runnan Fang

Refusal-Aware Red Teaming: Exposing Inconsistency in Safety Evaluations

Yongkang Chen, Xiaohu Du, Xiaotian Zou, Chongyang Zhao, Huan Deng

EQA-RM: A Generative Embodied Reward Model with Test-time Scaling

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen

Parallel Continuous Chain-of-Thought with Jacobi Iteration

Haoyi Wu, Zhihao Teng, Kewei Tu

SLoW: Select Low-frequency Words! Automatic Dictionary Selection for Translation on Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Zixuan Li, Zefan Zhang, Wai Lam

Towards General-Domain Word Sense Disambiguation: Distilling Large Language Model into Compact Disambiguator

Liqiang Ming, Sheng-hua Zhong, Yuncong Li

Context Reasoner: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability for Contextualized Privacy and Safety Compliance via Reinforcement Learning

Wenbin Hu, Haoran Li, Huihao Jing, Qi Hu, Ziqian Zeng

TracSum: A New Benchmark for Aspect-Based Summarization with Sentence-Level Traceability in Medical Domain

Bohao Chu, Meijie Li, Sameh Frihat, Chengyu Gu, Georg Lodde

EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling

Yilin Jiang, Mingzi Zhang, Sheng Jin, Zengyi Yu, Xiangjie Kong

Automating Steering for Safe Multimodal Large Language Models

Lyucheng Wu, Mengru Wang, Ziwen Xu, Tri Cao, Nay Oo

Towards Controllable Speech Synthesis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey

Tianxin Xie, Yan Rong, Pengfei Zhang, Wenwu Wang, Li Liu

TACO: Enhancing Multimodal In-context Learning via Task Mapping-Guided Sequence Configuration

Yanshu Li, Jianjiang Yang, Tian Yun, Pinyuan Feng, Jinfa Huang

Theorem-Validated Reverse Chain-of-Thought Problem Generation for Geometric Reasoning

Deng Linger, Linghao Zhu, Yuliang Liu, Yu Wang, Qunyi Xie

PAFT: Prompt-Agnostic Fine-Tuning

Chenxing Wei, Mingwen Ou, Ying He, YAO SHU, Fei Yu

CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation

Zhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang, Zhanghao Hu, Yali Du

MAC-Tuning: LLM Multi-Compositional Problem Reasoning with Enhanced Knowledge Boundary Awareness

Junsheng Huang, Zhitao He, Yuchen Huang, Sandeep Polisetty, Qingyun Wang

SportReason: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning across Tables and Text for Sports Question Answering

Kaiyue Feng, Siyue Zhang, Bingsen Chen, Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao

Training a Utility-based Retriever Through Shared Context Attribution for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Yilong Xu, Jinhua Gao, Xiaoming Yu, Yuanhai Xue, Baolong Bi

PBI-Attack: Prior-Guided Bimodal Interactive Black-Box Jailbreak Attack for Toxicity Maximization

Ruoxi Cheng, Yizhong Ding, Shuirong Cao, Ranjie Duan, Xiaoshuang Jia

Emotion Transfer with Enhanced Prototype for Unseen Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Kun Peng, Cong Cao, Hao Peng, Guanlin Wu, Zhifeng Hao

T-MAD: Target-driven Multimodal Alignment for Stance Detection

ZhaoDan Zhang, Jin Zhang, Xueqi Cheng, Hui Xu

RoT: Enhancing Table Reasoning with Iterative Row-Wise Traversals

Xuanliang Zhang, Dingzirui Wang, Keyan Xu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che

Seeing More, Saying More: Lightweight Language Experts are Dynamic Video Token Compressors

Xiangchen Wang, Jinrui Zhang, Teng Wang, Haigang Zhang, Feng Zheng

SoundMind: RL-Incentivized Logic Reasoning for Audio-Language Models

Xingjian Diao, Chunhui Zhang, Keyi Kong, Weiyi Wu, Chiyu Ma

JI2S: Joint Influence‐Aware Instruction Data Selection for Efficient Fine‐Tuning

Jingyu Wei, Bo Liu, Tianjiao Wan, Baoyun Peng, Xingkong Ma

Analyzing the Effects of Supervised Fine-Tuning on Model Knowledge from Token and Parameter Levels

Junjie Ye, Yuming Yang, Yang Nan, Shuo Li, Qi Zhang

MPRF: Interpretable Stance Detection through Multi-Path Reasoning Framework

ZhaoDan Zhang, Jin Zhang, Hui Xu, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

Mixture of Length and Pruning Experts for Knowledge Graphs Reasoning

Enjun Du, Siyi Liu, Yongqi Zhang

DeepResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world Environments

Yuxiang Zheng, Dayuan Fu, Xiangkun Hu, Xiaojie Cai, Lyumanshan Ye

ViClaim: A Multilingual Multilabel Dataset for Automatic Claim Detection in Videos

Patrick Giedemann, Pius Von Däniken, Jan Milan Deriu, Alvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas

MixLoRA-DSI: Dynamically Expandable Mixture-of-LoRA Experts for Rehearsal-Free Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora

Tuan-Luc Huynh, Thuy-Trang Vu, Weiqing Wang, Trung Le, Dragan Gasevic

SensorLLM: Aligning Large Language Models with Motion Sensors for Human Activity Recognition

Zechen Li, Shohreh Deldari, Linyao Chen, Hao Xue, Flora D. Salim

ToneCraft: Cantonese Lyrics Generation with Harmony of Tones and Pitches

Junyu Cheng, Chang Pan, Shuangyin Li

Permutative Preference Alignment from Listwise Ranking of Human Judgments

Yang Zhao, Yixin Wang, Mingzhang Yin

CompKBQA: Component-wise Task Decomposition for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Yuhang Tian, Dandan Song, Zhijing Wu, Pan Yang, Changzhi Zhou

From Problem-Solving to Teaching Problem-Solving: Aligning LLMs with Pedagogy using Reinforcement Learning

David Dinucu-Jianu, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Ido Hakimi, Iryna Gurevych

Gradient-Attention Guided Dual-Masking Synergetic Framework for Robust Text-based Person Retrieval

Tianlu Zheng, Yifan Zhang, Xiang An, Ziyong Feng, Kaicheng Yang

Fingerprinting LLMs through Survey Item Factor Correlation: A Case Study on Humor Style Questionnaire

Simon Münker

Preemptive Detection and Correction of Misaligned Actions in LLM Agents

Haishuo Fang, Xiaodan Zhu, Iryna Gurevych

MathTutorBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Open-ended Pedagogical Capabilities of LLM Tutors

Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Ido Hakimi, Manu Kapur, Iryna Gurevych

Is the Top Still Spinning? Evaluating Subjectivity in Narrative Understanding

Melanie Subbiah, Akankshya Mishra, Grace Kim, Liyan Tang, Greg Durrett

Comparing Specialised Small and General Large Language Models on Text Classification: 100 Labelled Samples to Achieve Break-Even Performance

Branislav Pecher, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova

A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling

Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Jay Pujara

Revisiting LLM Value Probing Strategies: Are They Robust and Expressive?

Siqi Shen, Mehar Singh, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee

QFrCoLA: a Quebec-French Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability Judgments

David Beauchemin, Richard Khoury

JUDGEBERT: Assessing Legal Meaning Preservation Between Sentences

David Beauchemin, Michelle Albert-Rochette, Richard Khoury, Pierre-Luc Déziel

Large Language Models as Realistic Microservice Trace Generators

Donghyun Kim, Sriram Ravula, Taemin Ha, Alex Dimakis, Daehyeok Kim

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories

Donya Rooein, Vilém Zouhar, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy

Break the Checkbox: Challenging Closed-Style Evaluations of Cultural Alignment in LLMs

Mohsinul Kabir, Ajwad Abrar, Sophia Ananiadou

Towards Automated Error Discovery: A Study in Conversational AI

Dominic Petrak, Thy Thy Tran, Iryna Gurevych