ACL

Sparse Logit Sampling: Accelerating Knowledge Distillation in LLMs

Anshumann, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Akhil Kedia, Jinwoo Ahn, Taehwak Kwon, Kangwook Lee, Haejun Lee, Joohyung Lee

Comments Accepted as Oral paper at ACL 2025. Source code is available at https://github.com/akhilkedia/RandomSamplingKD . Anshumann, Mohd Abbas Zaidi and Akhil Kedia have Equal Contribution

Effective Multi-Task Learning for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition

João Ruano, Gonçalo M. Correia, Leonor Barreiros, Afonso Mendes

机构 * Priberam Labs（Priberam实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted at the 24th BioNLP workshop (ACL2025), 15 pages, 3 figures

Hybrid Annotation for Propaganda Detection: Integrating LLM Pre-Annotations with Human Intelligence

Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Veronika Solopova, Jiaao Li, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

机构 * Quality and Usability Lab, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany（柏林技术大学质量与可用性实验室） ； German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany（德国人工智能研究中心（DFKI）） 纠错

Comments NLP4PI at ACL

Locate-and-Focus: Enhancing Terminology Translation in Speech Language Models

Suhang Wu, Jialong Tang, Chengyi Yang, Pei Zhang, Baosong Yang, Junhui Li, Junfeng Yao, Min Zhang, Jinsong Su

机构 * Department of Digital Media Technology, Xiamen University（厦门大学数字媒体技术系） ； Tongyi Lab（通义实验室） ； Soochow University（苏州大学） ； Key Laboratory of Digital Protection and Intelligent Processing of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Fujian and Taiwan (Xiamen University), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China（福建省和台湾非物质文化遗产数字化保护与智能处理重点实验室（厦门大学），中华人民共和国文化和旅游部，中国） 纠错

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025

Exploring the Impact of Instruction-Tuning on LLM's Susceptibility to Misinformation

Kyubeen Han, Junseo Jang, Hongjin Kim, Geunyeong Jeong, Harksoo Kim

机构 * Konkuk University（韩国康 kuk 大学） ； ETRI（电子技术研究院） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Accepted

Safeguarding RAG Pipelines with GMTP: A Gradient-based Masked Token Probability Method for Poisoned Document Detection

San Kim, Jonghwi Kim, Yejin Jeon, Gary Geunbae Lee

机构 * Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH, Republic of Korea（人工智能研究生院，POSTECH，韩国） ； Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea（计算机科学与工程系，POSTECH，韩国） 纠错

Comments 18 pages, accepted to ACL Findings 2025

Sticking to the Mean: Detecting Sticky Tokens in Text Embedding Models

Kexin Chen, Dongxia Wang, Yi Liu, Haonan Zhang, Wenhai Wang

Comments ACL 2025 main

Dynamic and Generalizable Process Reward Modeling

Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang

机构 * College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University（复旦大学计算机科学与人工智能学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Main

Enhancing Transformation from Natural Language to Signal Temporal Logic Using LLMs with Diverse External Knowledge

Yue Fang, Zhi Jin, Jie An, Hongshen Chen, Xiaohong Chen, Naijun Zhan

机构 * School of Computer Science, Peking University（北京大学计算机学院） ； Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (PKU), MOE（高可信软件技术重点实验室（PKU）） ； National Key Laboratory of Space Integrated Information System, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences（空间一体化信息系统国家重点实验室，软件研究所，中国科学院） ； East China Normal University（华东师范大学） 纠错

Comments 11 pages, 5 figures, published to ACL 2025

Beyond Profile: From Surface-Level Facts to Deep Persona Simulation in LLMs

Zixiao Wang, Duzhen Zhang, Ishita Agrawal, Shen Gao, Le Song, Xiuying Chen

机构 * Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学） ； Shandong University（山东省大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Findings

AIR-Bench: Automated Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Benchmark

Jianlyu Chen, Nan Wang, Chaofan Li, Bo Wang, Shitao Xiao, Han Xiao, Hao Liao, Defu Lian, Zheng Liu

机构 * University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学） ； Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence（北京人工智能研究院） ； Jina AI（极光科技） ； Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学） ； Shenzhen University（深圳大学） ； State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence（认知智能国家重点实验室） ； Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学） 纠错

Comments 32 pages, 6 figures; Accepted to ACL 2025 Main

Visualising Policy-Reward Interplay to Inform Zeroth-Order Preference Optimisation of Large Language Models

Alessio Galatolo, Zhenbang Dai, Katie Winkle, Meriem Beloucif

机构 * Uppsala University（乌普萨拉大学） 纠错

Comments ACL25 Findings

Multi-Level Explanations for Generative Language Models

Lucas Monteiro Paes, Dennis Wei, Hyo Jin Do, Hendrik Strobelt, Ronny Luss, Amit Dhurandhar, Manish Nagireddy, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Prasanna Sattigeri, Werner Geyer, Soumya Ghosh

机构 * Harvard University（哈佛大学） ； IBM Research（IBM研究院） ； Merck Research Labs（默克研究实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted as an oral presentation at ACL 2025. Code available at https://github.com/IBM/ICX360

Filter-And-Refine: A MLLM Based Cascade System for Industrial-Scale Video Content Moderation

Zixuan Wang, Jinghao Shi, Hanzhong Liang, Xiang Shen, Vera Wen, Zhiqian Chen, Yifan Wu, Zhixin Zhang, Hongyu Xiong

机构 * TikTok（字节跳动） 纠错

Comments Camera Ready for ACL 2025

Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?

Arduin Findeis, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Ke Ye, Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter

机构 * University of Cambridge（剑桥大学） ； Apple（苹果公司） 纠错

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025

Cautious Next Token Prediction

Yizhou Wang, Lingzhi Zhang, Yue Bai, Mang Tik Chiu, Zhengmian Hu, Mingyuan Zhang, Qihua Dong, Yu Yin, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Yun Fu

机构 * Northeastern University（东北大学） ； Adobe（Adobe公司） ； Case Western Reserve University（凯斯西储大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025

AlignDistil: Token-Level Language Model Alignment as Adaptive Policy Distillation

Songming Zhang, Xue Zhang, Tong Zhang, Bojie Hu, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

机构 * Key Laboratory of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Transportation, (Beijing Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education（大数据与人工智能交通运输联合实验室，（北京交通大学）教育部） ； School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China（计算机科学与技术学院，北京交通大学，北京，中国） ； Tencent Inc, China（腾讯公司，中国） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference, code available at: https://github.com/songmzhang/AlignDistil

Modality-Aware Neuron Pruning for Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Zheyuan Liu, Guangyao Dou, Xiangchi Yuan, Chunhui Zhang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Meng Jiang

机构 * University of Notre Dame（诺丁汉大学） ； University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学） ； Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院） ； Dartmouth College（达特茅斯学院） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference

P-CoT: A Pedagogically-motivated Participatory Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Phonological Reasoning in LLMs

Dongjun Jang, Youngchae Ahn, Hyopil Shin

Journal ref ACL 2025 Findings

Exploring Gender Bias in Large Language Models: An In-depth Dive into the German Language

Kristin Gnadt, David Thulke, Simone Kopeinik, Ralf Schlüter

Comments Accepted at the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP) at ACL 2025

ICR Probe: Tracking Hidden State Dynamics for Reliable Hallucination Detection in LLMs

Zhenliang Zhang, Xinyu Hu, Huixuan Zhang, Junzhe Zhang, Xiaojun Wan

机构 * Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University（北京大学王璇计算机技术研究所） ； School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University（北京大学软件与微电子学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Main Conference)

GG-BBQ: German Gender Bias Benchmark for Question Answering

Shalaka Satheesh, Katrin Klug, Katharina Beckh, Héctor Allende-Cid, Sebastian Houben, Teena Hassan

机构 * Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems（弗劳恩霍夫智能分析与信息系统研究所） ； Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence（拉马尔机器学习与人工智能研究所） ； Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences（波恩-莱茵-锡格应用科学大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), taking place on August 1st 2025, as part of ACL 2025 in Vienna

SenWiCh: Sense-Annotation of Low-Resource Languages for WiC using Hybrid Methods

Roksana Goworek, Harpal Karlcut, Muhammad Shezad, Nijaguna Darshana, Abhishek Mane, Syam Bondada, Raghav Sikka, Ulvi Mammadov, Rauf Allahverdiyev, Sriram Purighella, Paridhi Gupta, Muhinyia Ndegwa, Haim Dubossarsky

Comments 8 pages, 22 figures, published at SIGTYP 2025 workshop in ACL

Hierarchical Safety Realignment: Lightweight Restoration of Safety in Pruned Large Vision-Language Models

Yue Li, Xin Yi, Dongsheng Shi, Gerard de Melo, Xiaoling Wang, Linlin Wang

机构 * East China Normal University（华东师范大学） ； Hasso Plattner Institute/University of Potsdam（哈索普劳特纳研究所/波茨坦大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

Typed-RAG: Type-Aware Decomposition of Non-Factoid Questions for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

DongGeon Lee, Ahjeong Park, Hyeri Lee, Hyeonseo Nam, Yunho Maeng

Comments Accepted to XLLM@ACL 2025

LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner

Florian Kandra, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller

机构 * Department of Language Science and Technology（语言科学与技术系） ； Saarland University（萨尔兰大学） 纠错

Comments 5 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, accepted at ACL (main conference) 2025

Autonomous Data Selection with Zero-shot Generative Classifiers for Mathematical Texts

Yifan Zhang, Yifan Luo, Yang Yuan, Andrew C Yao

机构 * Tsinghua University（清华大学） ； Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute（上海启智研究院） 纠错

Comments Published in ACL 2025 Findings

mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Min Li, Maartje ter Hoeve, Saloni Potdar, Sarah Chasins

机构 * UC Berkeley（伯克利大学） ； Apple（苹果公司） 纠错

Comments Accepted to Findings of ACL 2025

Help Me Write a Story: Evaluating LLMs' Ability to Generate Writing Feedback

Hannah Rashkin, Elizabeth Clark, Fantine Huot, Mirella Lapata

机构 * Google DeepMind（谷歌DeepMind） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 main conference

Exploring How Generative MLLMs Perceive More Than CLIP with the Same Vision Encoder

Siting Li, Pang Wei Koh, Simon Shaolei Du

机构 * University of Washington（华盛顿大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025; 19 pages, 3 figures