Five papers were accepted to the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). Congratulations to Zhihan, Wenqian, Yifei, Minda, and Ian!
- Zhihan Guo, Jiele Wu, Wenqian Cui, Yifei Zhang, Minda Hu, Yufei Wang, Irwin King. From General Reward to Targeted Reward: Improving Open-ended Long-context Generation Models. EMNLP 2025.
- Minda Hu, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Bowei He, Hongru WANG, Jingyan Zhou, Liangyou Li, Yasheng Wang, Chen Ma, Irwin King. NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models. EMNLP 2025.
- Minda Hu, Tianqing Fang, Jianshu Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma, Zhisong Zhang, Jingyan Zhou, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Irwin King. WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback. Findings. EMNLP 2025.
- Yueen Ma, DaFeng Chi, Shiguang Wu, Yuecheng Liu, Yuzheng Zhuang, Irwin King. ACTRA: Efficient Transformer Architecture and Contrastive Dynamics Learning for Embodied Instruction Following. EMNLP 2025.
- Jingheng Ye, Shen Wang, Deqing Zou, Yibo Yan, Kun Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Ruitong Liu, Zenglin Xu, Irwin King, Philip S. Yu, Qingsong Wen. Position Paper: LLMs Can be Good Tutors in English Education. EMNLP 2025.