ACL

Can Perplexity Predict Fine-tuning Performance? An Investigation of Tokenization Effects on Sequential Language Models for Nepali

Nishant Luitel, Nirajan Bekoju, Anand Kumar Sah, Subarna Shakya

Comments 11 pages

Journal ref Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM^2), pages 239-248, Vienna, Austria and virtual meeting, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

Can Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Spatial Relations?

Jingping Liu, Ziyan Liu, Zhedong Cen, Yan Zhou, Yinan Zou, Weiyan Zhang, Haiyun Jiang, Tong Ruan

机构 * School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China（信息科学与工程学院，东华大学，上海，中国） ； School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China（计算机科学学院，复旦大学，上海，中国） 纠错

Comments 13 pages, 7 figures, published to ACL 2025

Journal ref In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 620-632, 2025, Vienna, Austria

Revisiting Uncertainty Quantification Evaluation in Language Models: Spurious Interactions with Response Length Bias Results

Andrea Santilli, Adam Golinski, Michael Kirchhof, Federico Danieli, Arno Blaas, Miao Xiong, Luca Zappella, Sinead Williamson

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025 (Main)

Context-Aware Hierarchical Merging for Long Document Summarization

Litu Ou, Mirella Lapata

机构 * University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

Are Your LLMs Capable of Stable Reasoning?

Junnan Liu, Hongwei Liu, Linchen Xiao, Ziyi Wang, Kuikun Liu, Songyang Gao, Wenwei Zhang, Songyang Zhang, Kai Chen

Comments ACL 2025 Camera, Benchmark: https://huggingface.co/datasets/opencompass/LiveMathBench, Code: https://github.com/open-compass/GPassK

CoCoLex: Confidence-guided Copy-based Decoding for Grounded Legal Text Generation

Santosh T. Y. S. S, Youssef Tarek Elkhayat, Oana Ichim, Pranav Shetty, Dongsheng Wang, Zhiqiang Ma, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Xiaomo Liu

机构 * School of Computation, Information, and Technology, Technical University of Munich（计算、信息与技术学院，慕尼黑技术大学） ； Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva（国际与发展研究研究生院，日内瓦） ； JPMorgan AI Research（摩根大通人工智能研究） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025-Main Conference

Finding Needles in Images: Can Multimodal LLMs Locate Fine Details?

Parth Thakkar, Ankush Agarwal, Prasad Kasu, Pulkit Bansal, Chaitanya Devaguptapu

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025 in the main track

Journal ref Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025

McBE: A Multi-task Chinese Bias Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

Tian Lan, Xiangdong Su, Xu Liu, Ruirui Wang, Ke Chang, Jiang Li, Guanglai Gao

机构 * College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学计算机科学学院） ； National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Information Processing Technology for Mongolian（蒙古语智能信息处理技术国家与地方联合工程研究中心） ； Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Multilingual Artificial Intelligence Technology（内蒙古多语种人工智能技术重点实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL2025 Findings

Journal ref In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 6033-6056, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics

Can Vision Language Models Understand Mimed Actions?

Hyundong Cho, Spencer Lin, Tejas Srinivasan, Michael Saxon, Deuksin Kwon, Natali T. Chavez, Jonathan May

机构 * Information Sciences Institute（信息科学研究所） ； Institute for Creative Technologies（创意技术研究所） ； Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； University of California, Santa Barbara（加州大学圣巴巴拉分校） ； Aristotle University of Thessaloniki（希腊雅典纳大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Findings

Uncovering Visual-Semantic Psycholinguistic Properties from the Distributional Structure of Text Embedding Space

Si Wu, Sebastian Bruch

机构 * Northeastern University（东北大学） 纠错

Comments The camera-ready version for ACL 2025 in Vienna

VoxRAG: A Step Toward Transcription-Free RAG Systems in Spoken Question Answering

Zackary Rackauckas, Julia Hirschberg

机构 * Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Workshop MAGMaR

Journal ref Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2025), pp. 40-46, Vienna, Austria, August 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics

Large Language Models Still Exhibit Bias in Long Text

Wonje Jeung, Dongjae Jeon, Ashkan Yousefpour, Jonghyun Choi

机构 * Yonsei University（延世大学） ； Seoul National University（首尔国立大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL, code and models are available at https://github.com/WonjeJeung/LTF-TEST

Recent Advances in Speech Language Models: A Survey

Wenqian Cui, Dianzhi Yu, Xiaoqi Jiao, Ziqiao Meng, Guangyan Zhang, Qichao Wang, Yiwen Guo, Irwin King

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（计算机科学与工程系，香港中文大学） ； LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS ； National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学） ； Tencent（腾讯） 纠错

Comments The reduced version of this paper has been accepted at ACL 2025

Know the Unknown: An Uncertainty-Sensitive Method for LLM Instruction Tuning

Jiaqi Li, Yixuan Tang, Yi Yang

机构 * The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科学与技术大学） 纠错

Comments Findings of The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings 2025)

CodeTool: Enhancing Programmatic Tool Invocation of LLMs via Process Supervision

Yifei Lu, Fanghua Ye, Jian Li, Qiang Gao, Cheng Liu, Haibo Luo, Nan Du, Xiaolong Li, Feiliang Ren

机构 * Northeastern University（东北大学） ； Hunyuan AI Digital Human（文英AI数字人） 纠错

Comments ACL2025

OS Agents: A Survey on MLLM-based Agents for General Computing Devices Use

Xueyu Hu, Tao Xiong, Biao Yi, Zishu Wei, Ruixuan Xiao, Yurun Chen, Jiasheng Ye, Meiling Tao, Xiangxin Zhou, Ziyu Zhao, Yuhuai Li, Shengze Xu, Shenzhi Wang, Xinchen Xu, Shuofei Qiao, Zhaokai Wang, Kun Kuang, Tieyong Zeng, Liang Wang, Jiwei Li, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Guoyin Wang, Keting Yin, Zhou Zhao, Hongxia Yang, Fan Wu, Shengyu Zhang, Fei Wu

机构 * Zhejiang University（浙江大学） ； Fudan University（复旦大学） ； OPPO AI Center（OPPO AI中心） ； University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学） ； Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所） ； The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学） ； Tsinghua University（清华大学） ； Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学） ； The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 (Oral)

Leveraging Context for Multimodal Fallacy Classification in Political Debates

Alessio Pittiglio

机构 * DISI, University of Bologna（DISI，博洛尼亚大学） 纠错

Comments 12th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2025) @ ACL 2025

Journal ref In Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop (ArgMining 2025), pages 388-397, Vienna, Austria

Bridging Robustness and Generalization Against Word Substitution Attacks in NLP via the Growth Bound Matrix Approach

Mohammed Bouri, Adnane Saoud

机构 * College of Computing, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University（计算学院、摩洛哥穆莱·易斯·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹理工学院） ； CID Development（CID开发公司） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL Findings 2025

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pp. 12118-12137, Vienna, Austria, July 2025

CAVGAN: Unifying Jailbreak and Defense of LLMs via Generative Adversarial Attacks on their Internal Representations

Xiaohu Li, Yunfeng Ning, Zepeng Bao, Mayi Xu, Jianhao Chen, Tieyun Qian

机构 * School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China（武汉大学计算机学院） ； Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China（中关村学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Findings), camera-ready version

NameTag 3: A Tool and a Service for Multilingual/Multitagset NER

Jana Straková, Milan Straka

机构 * Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics（查理大学数学与物理学院，形式与应用语言学研究所） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025

FinanceReasoning: Benchmarking Financial Numerical Reasoning More Credible, Comprehensive and Challenging

Zichen Tang, Haihong E, Ziyan Ma, Haoyang He, Jiacheng Liu, Zhongjun Yang, Zihua Rong, Rongjin Li, Kun Ji, Qing Huang, Xinyang Hu, Yang Liu, Qianhe Zheng

机构 * Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Main Conference

Journal ref Proc. ACL 2025 (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 15721-15749

Meta-rater: A Multi-dimensional Data Selection Method for Pre-training Language Models

Xinlin Zhuang, Jiahui Peng, Ren Ma, Yinfan Wang, Tianyi Bai, Xingjian Wei, Jiantao Qiu, Chi Zhang, Ying Qian, Conghui He

机构 * Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室） ； School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University（东华大学计算机科学与技术学院） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Best Theme Paper Award

Assessing Agentic Large Language Models in Multilingual National Bias

Qianying Liu, Katrina Qiyao Wang, Fei Cheng, Sadao Kurohashi

机构 * National Institute of Informatics, Japan（日本信息机构国家研究所） ； University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA（美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校） ； Kyoto University, Japan（日本京都大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Findings. 14 pages

Improved Unbiased Watermark for Large Language Models

Ruibo Chen, Yihan Wu, Junfeng Guo, Heng Huang

机构 * University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学学院公园分校） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference

AUTALIC: A Dataset for Anti-AUTistic Ableist Language In Context

Naba Rizvi, Harper Strickland, Daniel Gitelman, Tristan Cooper, Alexis Morales-Flores, Michael Golden, Aekta Kallepalli, Akshat Alurkar, Haaset Owens, Saleha Ahmedi, Isha Khirwadkar, Imani Munyaka, Nedjma Ousidhoum

机构 * University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣迭戈分校） ； Cardiff University（卡迪夫大学） 纠错

Comments accepted to ACL main 2025, 9 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables

AVG-LLaVA: An Efficient Large Multimodal Model with Adaptive Visual Granularity

Zhibin Lan, Liqiang Niu, Fandong Meng, Wenbo Li, Jie Zhou, Jinsong Su

机构 * School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China（厦门大学信息学院） ； Pattern Recognition Center, WeChat AI, Tencent Inc, China（腾讯人工智能研究院） ； 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） ； Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China（上海人工智能实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Findings

Principled Understanding of Generalization for Generative Transformer Models in Arithmetic Reasoning Tasks

Xingcheng Xu, Zibo Zhao, Haipeng Zhang, Yanqing Yang

机构 * Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室） ； ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学） ； University of Hong Kong（香港大学） ； Fudan University（复旦大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Main Conference

Journal ref Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2025

Inherent and emergent liability issues in LLM-based agentic systems: a principal-agent perspective

Garry A. Gabison, R. Patrick Xian

机构 * Queen Mary University of London（伦敦女王大学） ； UC Berkeley（伯克利大学） ； Certivize AI ； UC San Francisco（旧金山大学） 纠错

Comments 22 pages (incl. appendix), accepted at REALM workshop, ACL2025

Evaluating Structured Output Robustness of Small Language Models for Open Attribute-Value Extraction from Clinical Notes

Nikita Neveditsin, Pawan Lingras, Vijay Mago

机构 * Saint Mary’s University（圣玛丽大学） ； York University（约克大学） 纠错

Comments To appear in the ACL Anthology

M2S: Multi-turn to Single-turn jailbreak in Red Teaming for LLMs

Junwoo Ha, Hyunjun Kim, Sangyoon Yu, Haon Park, Ashkan Yousefpour, Yuna Park, Suhyun Kim

机构 * AIM Intelligence（AIM智能研究所） ； University of Seoul（首尔大学） ； Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology（韩国科学技术院） ； Seoul National University（首尔国立大学） ； Yonsei University（延世大学） ； Korea Institute of Science and Technology（韩国科学技术院） ； Kyung Hee University（庆熙大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Main Track). Camera-ready version

Journal ref Proc. ACL 2025 (Vol. 1: Long Papers), pp. 16489-16507, Vienna, Austria, 2025