The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models Bolei Ma, Yusuke Miyao
Memory Efficiency and Resource-Rational Encoding in Sentence Processing Weijie Xu, Brian Dillon, Richard Futrell
Characterizing the Expressivity of Local Attention in Transformers Jiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell
Best Theme Papers
CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models Mengfan Li, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng
Mapping the Circumplex of Affect: Geometric Analysis of Emotion Representations via Hyperspherical Contrastive Learning Yusuke Yamauchi, Akiko Aizawa
Best Resource Papers
HSCodeComp: A Realistic and Expert-level Agent Benchmark for Hierarchical Rule Application Tian Lan, Yiqian Yang, Qianghuai Jia, Li Zhu, Hui Jiang, Hang Zhu, Weihua Luo, Longyue Wang
ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptation in Large Language Models Chonghan Qin, Xiachong Feng, Weitao Ma, Xiaocheng Feng, Lingpeng Kong
Audio MultiChallenge: A Multi-Turn Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems on Natural Human Interaction Advait Gosai, Tyler Vuong, Utkarsh Tyagi, Steven Li, Wenjia You, Miheer Bavare, Arda Ucar, Zhongwang Fang, Brian Jang, Bing Liu, Yunzhong He
VeriTaS: The First Dynamic Benchmark for Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking Mark Rothermel, Marcus Kornmann, Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach
Best Social Impact Papers
DIA-HARM: Dialectal Disparities in Harmful Content Detection Across 50 English Dialects Jason S Lucas, Matt Murtagh White, Ali Al-Lawati, Uchendu Uchendu, Adaku Uchendu, Dongwon Lee
Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did Sebastian Kobler, Matthew Clemson, Angela Sun, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Muhidin A Mohamed, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Negasi Haile Abadi, Abigail Oppong, Nnaemeka Casmir Obiefuna, Idris Abdulmumin, Naome A Etori, Eric Peter Wairagala, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Imanigirimbabazi Emmanuel, Gabofetswe Malema, Alham Fikri Aji, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Thamar Solorio
Outstanding Papers
MauBERT: Universal Phonetic Inductive Biases for Few-Shot Acoustic Units Discovery Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Manel Khentout, Youssef Benchekroun, Thomas Hueber, Emmanuel Dupoux
Evolutionary Guided Decoding: Iterative Value Refinement for LLMs Zhenhua Liu, Lijun Li, Ruizhe Chen, Yuxian Jiang, Tong Zhu, Zhaochen Su, Wenliang Chen, Jing Shao
Beyond the Final Actor: Modeling the Dual Roles of Creator and Editor for Fine-Grained LLM-Generated Text Detection Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Zhengjia Wang, Yehan Yang, Danding Wang, Juan Cao
Lying with Truths: Open-Channel Multi-Agent Collusion for Belief Manipulation via Generative Montage Jinwei Hu, Xinmiao Huang, Youcheng Sun, Yi Dong, Xiaowei Huang
Mind the (DH) Gap! A Contrast in Risky Choices Between Reasoning and Conversational LLMs Luise Ge, Yongyan Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
MediEval: A Unified Medical Benchmark for Patient-Contextual and Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning in LLMs Zhan Qu, Michael Farber
Maximizing Local Entropy Where It Matters: Prefix-Aware Localized LLM Unlearning Naixin Zhai, Pengyang Shao, Binbin Zheng, Yonghui Yang, Fei Shen, Long Bai, Xun Yang
GeoRA: Geometry-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for RLVR Jiaying Zhang, Lei Shi, Jiguo Li, Jun Xu, Jiuchong Gao, Jinghua Hao, Renqing He
CURE: Critique-Driven Unified Reinforcement Learning for Test-Time Self-Improvement Guirong Chen, Shuqi Ye, Wenkai Yang, Shiqi Shen, Guangyao Shen, Yankai Lin
Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn, Kate McCurdy
Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change Perspective Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Haoyang Liu, Jian Luo, Jiarui Yu, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen
From Local to Global: Revisiting Structured Pruning Paradigms for Large Language Models Ziyan Wang, Enmao Diao, Qi Le, Pu Wang, Minwoo Lee, Shu-ping Yeh, Evgeny Stupachenko, Hao Feng, Li Yang
Massively Multilingual Joint Segmentation and Glossing Michael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Enora Rice, Ali Marashian, Maria Valentini, Jasmine Xu, Graham Neubig, Alexis Palmer
CAR-bench: Evaluating the Consistency and Limit-Awareness of LLM Agents under Real-World Uncertainty Johannes Kirmayr, Lukas Stappen, Elisabeth Andre
ViLL-E: Video LLM Embeddings for Retrieval Rohit Gupta, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Fan Fei, Sheng Liu, Son Tran, Mubarak Shah
CxMP: A Linguistic Minimal-Pair Benchmark for Evaluating Constructional Understanding in Language Models Miyu Oba, Saku Sugawara
CIG: Measuring Conversational Information Gain in Deliberative Dialogues with Semantic Memory Dynamics Ming-Bin Chen, Jey Han Lau, Lea Frermann
Best Demonstration Paper
The olmOCR Project: Building Fully Open OCR using VLMs Jake Poznanski, Kyle Lo, Luca Soldaini
Student Research Workshop Best Papers
Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language Models Kaito Watanabe, Taisei Yamamoto, Tomoki Doi, Hitomi Yanaka
BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Bangladeshi Social Interaction Tanvir Ahmed Sijan, S. M Golam Rifat, Pankaj Chowdhury Partha, Md. Tanjeed Islam, Md. Musfique Anwar