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Unifying Continuous and Discrete Text Diffusion with Non-simultaneous Diffusion Processes

Bocheng Li, Zhujin Gao, Linli Xu

机构 * School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China（计算机科学与技术学院，中国科学技术大学） ； State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence（认知智能国家重点实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference

Limited Generalizability in Argument Mining: State-Of-The-Art Models Learn Datasets, Not Arguments

Marc Feger, Katarina Boland, Stefan Dietze

机构 * Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf（海因里希-海涅大学多特蒙德） ； GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences（莱布尼茨社会科学研究所） 纠错

Comments This paper has been accepted to ACL 2025 and will be published after 27.07.2025

Knowledge Base Construction for Knowledge-Augmented Text-to-SQL

Jinheon Baek, Horst Samulowitz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Sola Shirai, Alfio Gliozzo, Debarun Bhattacharjya

机构 * KAIST（韩国科学技术院） ； IBM Research（IBM研究院） 纠错

Comments ACL Findings 2025

RISE: Reasoning Enhancement via Iterative Self-Exploration in Multi-hop Question Answering

Bolei He, Xinran He, Mengke Chen, Xianwei Xue, Ying Zhu, Zhenhua Ling

机构 * University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学） ； Baidu Inc.（百度公司） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

Graph-Assisted Culturally Adaptable Idiomatic Translation for Indic Languages

Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki, Pankaj Wasnik

机构 * Media Analysis Group, Sony Research India（索尼印度研究机构媒体分析组） 纠错

Journal ref ACL Findings 2025

Efficient Ensemble for Fine-tuning Language Models on Multiple Datasets

Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang, Hongyang R. Zhang

机构 * Northeastern University（东北大学） ； University of Michigan（密歇根大学） 纠错

Comments 17 pages. To appear in ACL'25

Beyond Completion: A Foundation Model for General Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Yin Hua, Zhiqiang Liu, Mingyang Chen, Zheng Fang, Chi Man Wong, Lingxiao Li, Chi Man Vong, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang

机构 * Zhejiang University（浙江大学） ； Shopee Pte.Ltd.（Shopee公司） ； University of Macau（澳门大学） ； Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Big Data Intelligent Computing（浙江大学大数据智能计算重点实验室） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

Principled Content Selection to Generate Diverse and Personalized Multi-Document Summaries

Vishakh Padmakumar, Zichao Wang, David Arbour, Jennifer Healey

机构 * New York University（纽约大学） ； Adobe Research（Adobe研究院） 纠错

Comments To appear at ACL 2025 - Main Conference

Revisiting Common Assumptions about Arabic Dialects in NLP

Amr Keleg, Sharon Goldwater, Walid Magdy

机构 * Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation（语言、认知与计算研究所） ； School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学信息学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025

Towards Safety Reasoning in LLMs: AI-agentic Deliberation for Policy-embedded CoT Data Creation

Tharindu Kumarage, Ninareh Mehrabi, Anil Ramakrishna, Xinyan Zhao, Richard Zemel, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan, Rahul Gupta, Charith Peris

机构 * Amazon Nova Responsible AI（亚马逊Nova负责任的人工智能） ； Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Findings)

How does Misinformation Affect Large Language Model Behaviors and Preferences?

Miao Peng, Nuo Chen, Jianheng Tang, Jia Li

机构 * The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州）） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference

Rethinking Data Mixture for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey and New Perspectives

Yajiao Liu, Congliang Chen, Junchi Yang, Ruoyu Sun

机构 * The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳）） ； Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data（深圳大数据研究院） 纠错

Comments The first version of this paper was submitted to ACL ARR 2025 February Submission

Something's Fishy In The Data Lake: A Critical Re-evaluation of Table Union Search Benchmarks

Allaa Boutaleb, Bernd Amann, Hubert Naacke, Rafael Angarita

机构 * Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6（索邦大学、法国国家科学研究中心、LIP6） 纠错

Comments Accepted @ ACL 2025's Table Representation Learning Workshop (TRL)

Breaking the Ceiling: Exploring the Potential of Jailbreak Attacks through Expanding Strategy Space

Yao Huang, Yitong Sun, Shouwei Ruan, Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong, Xingxing Wei

机构 * Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学人工智能研究院） ； College of AI, Tsinghua University（清华大学人工智能学院） ； Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Institute for AI, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, BNRist Center, Tsinghua University（清华大学计算机科学与技术系） 纠错

Comments 19 pages, 20 figures, accepted by ACL 2025, Findings

Comparing Moral Values in Western English-speaking societies and LLMs with Word Associations

Chaoyi Xiang, Chunhua Liu, Simon De Deyne, Lea Frermann

机构 * School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学计算与信息系统学院） ； Complex Human Data Hub, The University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学复杂人类数据中心） 纠错

Comments 9 pages,7 figures. Accepted to the ACL 2025 conference

The Silent Saboteur: Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks against Black-Box Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Hongru Song, Yu-an Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Jianming Lv, Maarten de Rijke, Xueqi Cheng

Comments 18 pages,accepted by ACL25 findings

KaFT: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Boosting LLMs' Domain-specific Question-Answering Performance

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Xiantao Cai, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao

机构 * School of Computer Science, National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Hubei Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Network Communication Engineering（计算机科学学院、多媒体软件国家工程研究中心、人工智能研究院、多媒体与网络通信工程湖北省重点实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL2025 Findings

Advancing Sequential Numerical Prediction in Autoregressive Models

Xiang Fei, Jinghui Lu, Qi Sun, Hao Feng, Yanjie Wang, Wei Shi, An-Lan Wang, Jingqun Tang, Can Huang

机构 * ByteDance Inc.（字节跳动公司） ； City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference

User Feedback Alignment for LLM-powered Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems

Jianling Wang, Yifan Liu, Yinghao Sun, Xuejian Ma, Yueqi Wang, He Ma, Zhengyang Su, Minmin Chen, Mingyan Gao, Onkar Dalal, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Ningren Han, Haokai Lu

Comments ACL'25 (Industry) Oral

Tempest: Autonomous Multi-Turn Jailbreaking of Large Language Models with Tree Search

Andy Zhou, Ron Arel

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main

Light-R1: Curriculum SFT, DPO and RL for Long COT from Scratch and Beyond

Liang Wen, Yunke Cai, Fenrui Xiao, Xin He, Qi An, Zhenyu Duan, Yimin Du, Junchen Liu, Lifu Tang, Xiaowei Lv, Haosheng Zou, Yongchao Deng, Shousheng Jia, Xiangzheng Zhang

机构 * First Author Affiliation（第一作者机构） 纠错

Comments v4: ACL'25 industry track camera ready; v3: minor modifications; v2: better writing & format for later submission; all release at https://github.com/Qihoo360/Light-R1

Odysseus Navigates the Sirens' Song: Dynamic Focus Decoding for Factual and Diverse Open-Ended Text Generation

Wen Luo, Feifan Song, Wei Li, Guangyue Peng, Shaohang Wei, Houfeng Wang

机构 * State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University（多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室，计算机科学学院，北京大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to the ACL 2025 Main Conference

Beyond Surface-Level Patterns: An Essence-Driven Defense Framework Against Jailbreak Attacks in LLMs

Shiyu Xiang, Ansen Zhang, Yanfei Cao, Yang Fan, Ronghao Chen

Comments 16 pages, 12 figures, ACL 2025 findings

Self-Taught Agentic Long Context Understanding

Yufan Zhuang, Xiaodong Yu, Jialian Wu, Ximeng Sun, Ze Wang, Jiang Liu, Yusheng Su, Jingbo Shang, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum

机构 * AMD ； UC San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校） 纠错

Comments Published at ACL 2025 Main Conference

Mitigating Lost-in-Retrieval Problems in Retrieval Augmented Multi-Hop Question Answering

Rongzhi Zhu, Xiangyu Liu, Zequn Sun, Yiwei Wang, Wei Hu

机构 * State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China（新型软件技术国家重点实验室，南京大学，中国） ； University of California, Merced, USA（加州大学默塞德分校，美国） ； National Institute of Healthcare Data Science, Nanjing University, China（健康数据科学国家研究院，南京大学，中国） 纠错

Comments Accepted in the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)

ThinkGuard: Deliberative Slow Thinking Leads to Cautious Guardrails

Xiaofei Wen, Wenxuan Zhou, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Muhao Chen

机构 * University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025

EPO: Explicit Policy Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Xiaoqian Liu, Ke Wang, Yongbin Li, Yuchuan Wu, Wentao Ma, Aobo Kong, Fei Huang, Jianbin Jiao, Junge Zhang

机构 * University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学） ； Tongyi Lab（通义实验室） ； The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（复杂系统认知与决策智能重点实验室，中国科学院自动化研究所） 纠错

Comments ACL2025 main

Leveraging Dual Process Theory in Language Agent Framework for Real-time Simultaneous Human-AI Collaboration

Shao Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Chaoran Li, Junru Song, Tingyu Li, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai, Wen Yao, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang, Ying Wen

机构 * Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学） ； Meituan（美团） ； Intelligent Game and Decision Laboratory（智能游戏与决策实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Main. Camera Ready Version

Which Retain Set Matters for LLM Unlearning? A Case Study on Entity Unlearning

Hwan Chang, Hwanhee Lee

机构 * Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea（人工智能系， Chung-Ang 大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

ReLearn: Unlearning via Learning for Large Language Models

Haoming Xu, Ningyuan Zhao, Liming Yang, Sendong Zhao, Shumin Deng, Mengru Wang, Bryan Hooi, Nay Oo, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang

Comments ACL 2025