EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Low-Resource Languages LLM Disinformation is Within Reach: The Case of Walliserdeutsch

Andrei Kucharavy, Sherine Seppey, Cyril Vallez, Dimitri Percia David, Ljiljana Dolamic

LCAN: A Label-Aware Contrastive Attention Network for Multi-Intent Recognition and Slot Filling in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Shuli Zhang, Zhiqiang You, Xiao Xiang Qi, Peng Liu, Gaode Wu

DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization

Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Akmmahbubur Rahman, Aman Chadha

HATECAT-TR: A Hate Speech Span Detection and Categorization Dataset for Turkish

Hasan Kerem Şeker, Gökçe Uludoğan, Pelin Önal, Arzucan Özgür

Improving the Language Understanding Capabilities of Large Language Models Using Reinforcement Learning

Sai Ashish Somayajula, Bokai Hu, Qi Cao, Xin Pan, Pengtao Xie

Towards the Roots of the Negation Problem: A Multilingual NLI Dataset and Model Scaling Analysis

Tereza Vrabcova, Marek Kadlcik, Petr Sojka, Michal Štefánik, Michal Spiegel

We Argue to Agree: Towards Personality-Driven Argumentation-Based Negotiation Dialogue Systems for Tourism

Priyanshu Priya, Saurav Dudhate, Desai Vishesh Yasheshbhai, Asif Ekbal

SparsePO: Controlling Preference Alignment of LLMs via Sparse Token Masks

Fenia Christopoulou, Ronald Cardenas, Gerasimos Lampouras, Haitham Bou Ammar, Jun Wang

How to Generalize the Detection of AI-Generated Text: Confounding Neurons

Claudio Borile, Carlo Abrate

Can Language Models Follow Multiple Turns of Entangled Instructions?

Chi Han, Xin Liu, Haodong Wang, Shiyang Li, Jingfeng Yang

STA-CoT: Structured Target-Centric Agentic Chain-of-Thought for Consistent Multi-Image Geological Reasoning

Beibei Yu, Tao Shen, Ling Chen

ControlText: Unlocking Controllable Fonts in Multilingual Text Rendering without Font Annotations

Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Xinyi Bai, Zhuoqun Hao, Alyson Yin

ReFLAIR: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning via Structured Reflection and Reward-Guided Learning

Jiazhou Ji, Xinru Lu

InterFeedback: Unveiling Interactive Intelligence of Large Multimodal Models with Human Feedback

Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Wenqi Pei, Yifei Tao, Haiyang Mei, Mike Zheng Shou

On the Fine-Grained Planning Abilities of VLM Web Agents

Surgan Jandial, Yinong Oliver Wang, Andrea Bajcsy, Fernando De la Torre

UniSpeaker: A Unified Approach for Multimodality-driven Speaker Generation

Zhengyan Sheng, Zhihao Du, Heng Lu, Shiliang Zhang, Zhen-Hua Ling

Who’s the Author? How Explanations Impact User Reliance in AI-Assisted Authorship Attribution

Calvin Bao, Connor Baumler, Hal Daume III, Marine Carpuat

Injecting Domain-Specific Knowledge into Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Zirui Song, Bin Yan, Yuhan Liu, Miao Fang, Mingzhe Li

Enhancing Goal-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems via Dynamic Multi-dimensional Consistency Optimization

Didi Zhang, Yaxin Fan, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

Diverse Multi-tool Aggregation with Large Language Models for Enhanced Math Reasoning

Bohan Yao, Vikas Yadav

Masked Diffusion Captioning for Visual Feature Learning

Chao Feng, Zihao Wei, Andrew Owens

FicSim: A Dataset for Multi-Faceted Semantic Similarity in Long-Form Fiction

Natasha Johnson, Amanda Bertsch, Maria-Emil Deal, Emma Strubell

UIPE: Enhancing LLM Unlearning by Removing Knowledge Related to Forgetting Targets

Wenyu Wang, Mengqi Zhang, Xiaotian Ye, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren

Uncovering Scaling Laws for Large Language Models via Inverse Problems

Arun Verma, Zhaoxuan Wu, Zijian Zhou, Xiaoqiang Lin, Zhiliang Chen

GeLoRA: Geometric Adaptive Ranks For Efficient LoRA Fine-tuning

Abdessalam Ed-dib, Zhanibek Datbayev, Amine M. Aboussalah

Does It Run and Is That Enough? Revisiting Text-to-Chart Generation with a Multi-Agent Approach

James Ford, Anthony Rios

RAC: Efficient LLM Factuality Correction with Retrieval Augmentation

Changmao Li, Jeffrey Flanigan

Pi-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Fine-Grained Guidance from Pivot Programming Languages

Yongdong Chi, Hanqing Wang, Yun Chen, yan yang, Jian Yang

GreekBarBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Free-Text Legal Reasoning and Citations

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis, Nikolaos Aletras, Ion Androutsopoulos

Uncertainty-Aware Answer Selection for Improved Reasoning in Multi-LLM Systems

Aakriti Agrawal, Rohith Aralikatti, Anirudh Satheesh, Souradip Chakraborty, Amrit Singh Bedi

Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking

Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang, A S M Iftekhar, Ahmed Magooda

SACL: Understanding and Combating Textual Bias in Code Retrieval with Semantic-Augmented Reranking and Localization

Dhruv Gupta, Gayathri Ganesh Lakshmy, Yiqing Xie

Open-DeBias: Toward Mitigating Open-Set Bias in Language Models

Arti Rani, Shweta Singh, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo, Gaurav Kumar Nayak

Real-World Summarization: When Evaluation Reaches Its Limits

Patricia Schmidtova, Ondřej Dušek, Saad Mahamood

Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Explanations of Large Language Models for Question Answering

Yangyi Li, Mengdi Huai

Rating Roulette: Self-Inconsistency in LLM-As-A-Judge Frameworks

Rajarshi Haldar, Julia Hockenmaier

Embedding-Free RAG

Jessica Maghakian, Raunak Sinha, Max Schettewi, Gunkirat Kaur

Active Learning for Multidialectal Arabic POS Tagging

Diyam Akra, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar

Are LLMs Empathetic to All? Investigating the Influence of Multi-Demographic Personas on a Model’s Empathy

Ananya Malik, Nazanin Sabri, Melissa M. Karnaze, Mai ElSherief

Who Speaks Matters: Analysing the Influence of the Speaker’s Linguistic Identity on Hate Classification

Ananya Malik, Kartik Sharma, Shaily Bhatt, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

Reliability Crisis of Reference-free Metrics for Grammatical Error Correction

Takumi Goto, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe

DIPLomA: Efficient Adaptation of Instructed LLMs to Low-Resource Languages via Post-Training Delta Merging

Ixak Sarasua, Ander Corral, Xabier Saralegi

Dependency Parsing-Based Syntactic Enhancement of Relation Extraction in Scientific Texts

Devvrat Joshi, Islem Rekik

OptiSeq: Ordering Examples On-The-Fly for In-Context Learning

Rahul Atul Bhope, Praveen Venkateswaran, K. R. Jayaram, Vatche Isahagian, Vinod Muthusamy

Mitigating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models through Aligning Attention Distribution to Information Flow

Jianfei Zhao, Feng Zhang, Xin Sun, Chong Feng

Mixed Signals: Decoding VLMs’ Reasoning and Underlying Bias in Vision-Language Conflict

Pouya Pezeshkpour, Moin Aminnaseri, Estevam Hruschka

AMANDA: Agentic Medical Knowledge Augmentation for Data-Efficient Medical Visual Question Answering

Ziqing Wang, Chengsheng Mao, Xiaole Wen, Yuan Luo, Kaize Ding

RTTC: Reward-Guided Collaborative Test-Time Compute

Juan Pablo Munoz, Jinjie Yuan

Columbo: Expanding Abbreviated Column Names for Tabular Data Using Large Language Models

Ting Cai, Stephen Sheen, AnHai Doan

POW: Political Overton Windows of Large Language Models

Leif Azzopardi, Yashar Moshfeghi

FLAMES: Improving LLM Math Reasoning via a Fine-Grained Analysis of the Data Synthesis Pipeline

Parker Seegmiller, Kartik Mehta, Soumya Saha, Chenyang Tao, Shereen Oraby

GraphCheck: Multipath Fact-Checking with Entity-Relationship Graphs

Hyewon Jeon, Jay-Yoon Lee

ToolHaystack: Stress-Testing Tool-Augmented Language Models in Realistic Long-Term Interactions

Beong-woo Kwak, Minju Kim, Dongha Lim, Hyungjoo Chae, Dongjin Kang

Beyond Content: How Grammatical Gender Shapes Visual Representation in Text-to-Image Models

Muhammed Saeed, Shaina Raza, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Ali Emami

Do Before You Judge: Self-Reference as a Pathway to Better LLM Evaluation

Wei-Hsiang Lin, Sheng-Lun Wei, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Thinking Before You Speak: A Proactive Test-time Scaling Approach

Cong Liu, Wenchang Chai, Hejun Wu, Yan Pan, Pengxu Wei

QEVA: A Reference-Free Evaluation Metric for Narrative Video Summarization with Multimodal Question Answering

Woojun Jung, Junyeong Kim

Equipping Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models with Document Structure Awareness

Lingnan Xu, Chong Feng, Kaiyuan Zhang, Liu Zhengyong, Wenqiang Xu

Forget the Unneeded: Backdooring Large Language Models via Contrastive-enhanced Machine Unlearning

Shiji Yang, Shu Zhao, Congyao Mei, Zhen Yang, Jie Chen

Toward the Automatic Detection of Word Meaning Negotiation Indicators in Conversation

Aina Garí Soler, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel

PUER: Boosting Few-shot Positive-Unlabeled Entity Resolution with Reinforcement Learning

Yaoshu Wang, Mengyi Yan, Wei Wang

Dissecting Persona-Driven Reasoning in Language Models via Activation Patching

Ansh Poonia, Maeghal Jain

KELE: Residual Knowledge Erasure for Enhanced Multi-hop Reasoning in Knowledge Editing

Mengqi Zhang, Bowen Fang, Qiang Liu, Xiaotian Ye, Shu Wu

Investigating Multi-layer Representations for Dense Passage Retrieval

Zhongbin Xie, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Leveraging Unpaired Feedback for Long-Term LLM-based Recommendation Tuning

Jizhi Zhang, Chongming Gao, Wentao Shi, Xin Chen, Jingang Wang

StructuThink: Reasoning with Task Transition Knowledge for Autonomous LLM-Based Agents

Haiyu Zhao, Zhenyu Guo, Chunhong Zhang, Ziyu Zhou, Zheng Hu

Guaranteed Guess: A Language Modeling Approach for CISC-to-RISC Transpilation with Testing Guarantees

Ahmed Heakl, Sarim Hashmi, Chaimaa Abi, Celine Lee, Abdulrahman Mahmoud

Improving Preference Alignment of LLM with Inference-Free Self-Refinement

Fukun Ma, Kaibin Tian, Jieting Xue, Xiaoyi Wang, Ye Ma

AgentDrug: Utilizing Large Language Models in an Agentic Workflow for Zero-Shot Molecular Optimization

Le Huy Khiem, Ting Hua, Nitesh V Chawla

Sang Min Jung, Kaixiang Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

SpecCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Speculative Exploration

Junhan Shi, Yijia Zhu, Zhenning Shi, Dan Zhao, Qing Li

Insights into using temporal coordinated behaviour to explore connections between social media posts and influence

Elisa Sartori, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi, Mauro Conti, Alessandro Galeazzi

Exploring Context Strategies in LLMs for Discourse-Aware Machine Translation

Ritvik Choudhary, Rem Hida, Masaki Hamada, Hayato Futami, Toshiyuki Sekiya

Nexus: Adaptive Upcycling to Efficiently Pretrain Mixture of Experts

Nikolas Gritsch, Qizhen Zhang, Acyr Locatelli, Sara Hooker, Ahmet Üstün

Think Right, Not More: Test-Time Scaling for Numerical Claim Verification

Primakov Chungkham, Venktesh V, Vinay Setty, Avishek Anand

Under the Shadow of Babel: How Language Shapes Reasoning in LLMs

Chenxi Wang, YIXUAN ZHANG, Lang Gao, Zixiang Xu, Zirui Song

ExeSQL: Self-Taught Text-to-SQL Models with Execution-Driven Bootstrapping for SQL Dialects

Jipeng Zhang, Haolin Yang, Kehao Miao, Ruiyuan Zhang, Renjie Pi

Breaking Token Into Concepts: Exploring Extreme Compression in Token Representation Via Compositional Shared Semantics

Kavin R V, Pawan Goyal

TIU-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models on Text-rich Image Understanding

Kun Zhang, Liqiang Niu, Zhen Cao, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou

Estimating Machine Translation Difficulty

Lorenzo Proietti, Stefano Perrella, Vilém Zouhar, Roberto Navigli, Tom Kocmi

From Generation to Detection: A Multimodal Multi-Task Dataset for Benchmarking Health Misinformation

Zhihao Zhang, Yiran Zhang, Xiyue Zhou, Liting Huang, Imran Razzak

SciCompanion: Graph-Grounded Reasoning for Structured Evaluation of Scientific Arguments

Joshua Alan Flashner, Adithya Kulkarni, Dawei Zhou

Evaluating Compound AI Systems through Behaviors, Not Benchmarks

Pranav Bhagat, K N Ajay Shastry, Pranoy Panda, Chaitanya Devaguptapu

Facilitating Cross-lingual Transfer of Empathy through Language-independent Latent Diffusion: A Case Study in Chinese

Junlin Li, Peng Bo, Yu-Yin Hsu

DeKeyNLU: Enhancing Natural Language to SQL Generation through Task Decomposition and Keyword Extraction

Jian Chen, Zhenyan Chen, Xuming Hu, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua

BannerBench: Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Multi-Ad Selection with Human Preferences

Hiroto Otake, Peinan Zhang, Yusuke Sakai, Masato Mita, Hiroki Ouchi

Efficient Latent Semantic Clustering for Scaling Test-Time Computation of LLMs

Sungjae Lee, Hoyoung Kim, Jeongyeon Hwang, Eunhyeok Park, Jungseul Ok

CogAtom: From Cognitive Atoms to Olympiad-level Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zhuofan Chen, Jiyuan He, Yichi Zhang, Xing Hu, Haoxing Wen

Revealing the impact of synthetic native samples and multi-tasking strategies in Hindi-English code-mixed humour and sarcasm detection

Debajyoti Mazumder, Aakash Kumar, Jasabanta Patro

Enhancing RAG Efficiency with Adaptive Context Compression

Shuyu Guo, Shuo Zhang, Zhaochun Ren

RG-VQA: Leveraging Retriever-Generator Pipelines for Knowledge Intensive Visual Question Answering

Settaluri Lakshmi Sravanthi, Pulkit Agarwal, Debjyoti Mondal, Rituraj Singh, Subhadarshi Panda

AutoMIR: Effective Zero-Shot Medical Information Retrieval without Relevance Labels

Lei Li, Xiangxu Zhang, Xiao Zhou, Zheng Liu

Runaway is Ashamed, But Helpful: On the Early-Exit Behavior of Large Language Model-based Agents in Embodied Environments

Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Siyi Cao, Xuebo Liu, Kanjian Zhang

Can Federated Learning Safeguard Private Data in LLM Training? Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defense Evaluation

Wenkai Guo, Xuefeng Liu, Haolin Wang, Jianwei Niu, Shaojie Tang

Promptception: How Sensitive Are Large Multimodal Models to Prompts?

Mohamed Insaf Ismithdeen, Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Salman Khan

Adaptive LLM Routing under Budget Constraints

Pranoy Panda, Raghav Magazine, Chaitanya Devaguptapu, Sho Takemori, Vishal Sharma

Enhancing Time Awareness in Generative Recommendation

Sunkyung Lee, Seongmin Park, Jonghyo Kim, Mincheol Yoon, Jongwuk Lee

An Evaluation Resource for Grounding Translation Errors

Sujin Chen, Kang Wang, Zixuan Zhou, Xiangyu Duan, Wanqun Zhang

Reveal and Release: Iterative LLM Unlearning with Self-generated Data

Linxi Xie, Xin Teng, Shichang Ke, Hongyi Wen, Shenji Wan

EoT: Evolution of Thoughts for Complex Reasoning Tasks

Qin Hua, Jiaqi Sun, Shiyou Qian, Dingyu Yang, Jian Cao