Student Research Workshop (SRW) Accepted Papers

• From Sentences to Proof Trees: Leveraging Language Models for Structured Reasoning
  Aayushee Gupta
• Understanding Subliminal Learning: Generality, Sensitivity, and Token-Level Explanations
  Yagnesh Veeraraghavan, Keanu Lim, Jacob Lipner, Saanvi Ibrahimpatnam, Kevin Zhu, Madhur Panwar
• Active Learning for Corpus Refinement: Cost-Effective Preprocessing to Improve Validity of Applied Quantitative Text Analysis
  Jakob Steglich, Stephan Poppe
• You Didn’t Have to Say It Like That: Subliminal Learning from Faithful Paraphrases
  Isaia Gisler, Zhonghao He, Tianyi Alex Qiu
• Broken Chains: The Cost of Incomplete Reasoning in LLMs
  Ian Su, Gaurav Purushothaman, Jey Narayan, Ruhika Goel, Kevin Zhu, Sunishchal Dev, Yash More, Maheep Chaudhary
• Pushing the Boundaries of Multiple Choice Evaluation to One Hundred Options
  Nahyun Lee, Guijin Son
• Colorism in Large Vision-Language Models: An Empirical Exploration of Socioeconomic Linguistic Bias
  Raj Gaurav Maurya, Vaibhav Shukla, Sreedath Panat
• Hospitality-VQA: Decision-Oriented Informativeness Evaluation for Vision–Language Models
  Jeongwoo Lee, Baek Duhyeong, Eungyeol Han, Soyeon Shin, Gukin han, Seungduk Kim, Jaehyun Jeon, Taewoo Jeong
• TimeRes: A Turkish Benchmark For Evaluating Temporal Understanding of Large Language Models
  Habib Yağız Demir, Susan Üsküdarlı, Ümit Atlamaz
• What the Router Sees Matters: Funnel Pooling for Fast, Content Driven Expert Routing
  Josef Pichlmeier, Sebastian Nicolas Mueller, Jakob Sturm, Josef Dräxl, Andre Luckow
• FluffInjector: Diagnosing Logical Consistency Failures in Chain-of-Thought Reward Models
  Varshith Vijjapu, Krishiv Ray, Archana Vaidheeswaran
• Emergent Misalignment: Tracking the Emergence and Evolution of Misaligned traits throughout Model Training
  Geunwoo Park, Pranay Chauhan, Haihao Liu
• Beep boop: Bot Detection as a Preprocessing Step for Polish Reddit
  Karmela Matyjaszek
• An Evaluation of Classifiers for Mapping Generative LLM Responses to Answer Options of Multiple-choice Questionnaires
  Alisea Stroligo, Anna Shamray, Julian Schelb, Andreas Spitz
• Bring the Apple, Not the Sofa: Impact of Irrelevant Context in Embodied AI Commands on VLA Models
  Andrey Moskalenko, Daria Pugacheva, Denis Shepelev, Andrey Kuznetsov, Vlad Shakhuro, Elena Tutubalina
• Thesis Proposal: Comparing Human and Model Perception of Writing Style under Controlled Perturbations
  Ewelina Paulina Księżniak
• Automatic Generation of a Compositional QA Benchmark for Geospatial Reasoning under Spatial and Entity Constraints
  Tetsuhisa Suizu, Shohei Higashiyama, Hiroyuki Shindo, Hiroki Ouchi, Sakriani Sakti
• $\texttt{lrnn-lib}$: A library for Linear RNNs
  Karan Bania, Soham Kalburgi, Manit Tanwar, Dhruthi, Aditya Nagarsekar, Harshvardhan Mestha, Naman Chibber, Raj Deshmukh, Anish Sathyanarayanan, Aarush Rathore, Pratham Chheda
• Detecting Overflow in Compressed Token Representations for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  Julia Belikova, Danila Rozhevskii, Dennis Svirin, Konstantin Polev, Alexander Panchenko
• Thesis Proposal: Stability-Aware, Evidence-Grounded Knowledge Graphs for Substance Use Disorders and Social Determinants of Health
  Gautham Vijay Kumar
• Energy Matching based Preference Learning for Diffusion Langauge Models
  Shiv Shankar
• Thesis Proposal: Measuring Prejudice at Scale
  Zoran Fijavž, Senja Pollak, Veronika Bajt
• Evaluating Cost-Efficiency of LLMs in a RAG Setup on Polish Wikipedia: Quality vs. Energy Consumption Patrycja Smits, Tomasz Walkowiak
• How Do Lexical Senses Correspond Between Spoken German and German Sign Language?
  Melis Çelikkol, Wei Zhao
• From Detection to Explanation: Modeling Fine-Grained Emotional Social Influence Techniques with LLMs and Human Preferences
  Maciej Markiewicz, Wiktoria Mieleszczenko-Kowszewicz, Beata Bajcar, Tomasz Adamczyk, Aleksander Szczęsny, Jolanta Babiak, Przemyslaw Kazienko
• Beyond Bias Scores: Unmasking Vacuous Neutrality in Small Language Models
  Sumanth Manduru, Carlotta Domeniconi
• LLMs Exhibit Performative Fairness When Generating Profiles with Complex Geopolitical Identities
  Maida Aizaz, Quang Minh Nguyen
• Learning Nested Named Entity Recognition from Flat Annotations
  Igor Rozhkov, Natalia V Loukachevitch
• Efficient Low-Resource Language Model Using Tokenizer Transfer
  Gustaf Gren, Murathan Kurfali
• DRAGOn: Designing RAG On Periodically Updated Corpus
  Fedor Chernogorskii, Sergei Averkiev, Liliya Kudraleeva, Zaven Martirosian, Maria Tikhonova, Valentin Malykh, Alena Fenogenova
• Fake News Detection Strategies under Dataset Bias: Using Large-scale Coarse-grained Labels
  Yuki Kishi, Yuji Arima, Hitoshi Iyatomi
• Thesis Proposal: A Multi-Agent System for Ontology-Based Perspective-Aware Knowledge Extraction
  Luiz do Valle Miranda, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
• A Computational Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Narrative and Question-Answer Structures in Italian Police Interrogation Transcripts
  Romane Werner, Thomas François, Sonja Bitzer
• Annotation-Efficient Vision-Language Model Adaptation to the Polish Language Using the LLaVA Framework
  Grzegorz Statkiewicz, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Karolina Seweryn, Aleksandra Krasnodębska, Karolina Piosek, Katarzyna Bogusz, Sebastian Cygert, Wojciech Kusa
• Evaluating the Impact of SAE-based Language Steering on LLM Performance
  Sebastian Zwirner, Wentao Hu, Koshiro Aoki, Daisuke Kawahara
• Towards Singable Lyrics Translation Using Large Language Models
  Liu Hanze, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe
• Thesis Proposal: Development of End-to-End Speech Translation Models for Indian Languages
  Jamaluddin
• Probabilistic Bilingual Subword Segmentation with Latent Subword Alignment
  Shoto Nishida, Daiki Matsui, Takashi Ninomiya, Isao Goto, Akihiro Tamura
• Text-to-Text Automatic Story Generation: A Survey
  Yuan Ma, Hanna Suominen, Patrik Haslum, Richard Susilo
• In-Image Machine Translation. A Preliminary Modular Approach
  Sergio Gomez Gonzalez, Miguel Domingo, Francisco Casacuberta
• Plasticity vs. Rigidity: The Impact of Low-Rank Adapters on Reasoning on a Micro-Budget
  Zohaib Khan, Omer Tafveez, Zoha Hayat Bhatti
• Scale Is All You Need 🙄: Analyzing Modality Interaction and Speaker Intent Without Fine-Tuning
  Animesh Gurjar, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
• Token Pruning for Improving Graph-Generating State Space Model Performance
  Monish Beegamudre, Jack Zheng, Margaret Capetz
• GraphRAG-Rad: Concept-Aware Radiology Report Generation via Latent Visual-Semantic Retrieval
  Faezeh Safari, Hang Dong, ZEYU FU, Aline Villavicencio
• When Prompt Optimization Becomes Jailbreaking: Adaptive Red-Teaming of Large Language Models
  Zafir Shamsi, Nikhil Chekuru, Zachary Guzman, Shivank Garg
• Chronocept: Instilling a Sense of Time in Machines
  Krish Goel, Sanskar Pandey, Mahadevan KS, Harsh Kumar, Vishesh Khadaria
• Acceleration of Backpropagation in Linear Layers of Transformer Models Based on Gradient Structure
  Dmitrii Topchii, Alexander Panchenko, Viktoriia A. Chekalina
• The Clinical Fingerprint: Comparing the Rhetorical Integrity and Epistemic Safety of Human Physicians and Large Language Models Bayram Ayadi
• Communication as a Complex System: Modeling the Feedback Dynamics of Trust and Credibility
  Swaptik Chowdhury, Samuel D. Allen, Jung Hee Hyun
• Thesis Proposal: Multimodal Benchmark for Music Understanding in Large Language Models
  Tomáš Sourada
• Who Plays Which Role? Protagonist Detection and Classification in Moral Discourse
  Mirko Sommer, Maria Becker
• A Benchmark and Evaluation of Automated Language of Study Extraction from Computational Linguistics Publications
  Ashwin Kirubakaran, Henry Gagnier
• Kahaani: A Multimodal Co-Creative Storytelling System
  Samee Arif, Taimoor Arif, Muhammad Saad Haroon, Aamina Jamal Khan, Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar
• Exploring the Semantic Space of Second Language Learners
  Trisha Godara, Rui He, Wolfram Hinzen, Yan Cong
• CAPID: Context-Aware PII Detection for Question-Answering Systems
  Mariia Ponomarenko, Sepideh Abedini, Masoumeh Shafieinejad, D. B. Emerson, Shubhankar Mohapatra, Xi He
• Generalising LLM Routing using Past Performance Retrieval: A Few-Shot Router is Sufficient
  Clovis Varangot-Reille, Christophe Bouvard, Antoine Gourru
• Call, Reward, Repeat: Advancing Dialog State Tracking with GRPO and Function Calling
  Timur Ionov, Anna Marshalova, Valentin Malykh
• Different Time, Different Language: Revisiting the Bias Against Non-Native Speakers in GPT Detectors
  Adnan Al Ali, Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický
• Trainable, Multiword-aware Tokenization Using Modern Neural Networks
  Clara Boesenberg, Kilian Evang
• LEMUR: Robust Fine-Tuning for Multilingual Embedding Models for Retrieval
  Narges Baba Ahmadi, Jan Strich, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann
• Comprehensive Comparison of RAG Methods Across Multi-Domain Conversational QA
  Klejda Alushi, Jan Strich, Chris Biemann, Martin Semmann
• Comparing Text Compression Capabilities of Large Language Models with Traditional Compression Algorithms
  Mehran Haddadi, William John Teahan
• Construction of an Evaluation Dataset for Hallucination Detection in Japanese Summarization Task
  Hikari Tanaka, Atsushi Keyaki, Mamoru Komachi
• Thesis proposal: Are We Losing Textual Diversity to Natural Language Processing?
  Josef Jon, Ondřej Bojar
• Beyond One-Step Distillation: Bridging the Capacity Gap in Small Language Models via Multi-Step Knowledge Transfer
  Gaeun Yim, Nayoung Ko, Manasa Bharadwaj
• Thesis proposal: COGNILENS: Analyzing Cognitive Decline in Language Models for Alzheimer’s Monitoring
  Jonathan Guerne
• Thesis Proposal: Efficient KV Cache Reuse for Multi-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  Zhipeng Zhang, Dmitry Ilvovsky
• Voice Identification of 1960s Tamil Singers Using Transfer Learning for Preserving Cultural Heritage
  Sathiyakugan Balakrishnan, Uthayasanker Thayasivam
• What Persona Are We Missing? Identifying Unknown Relevant Personas for Faithful User Simulation
  Weiwen SU, Yuhan Zhou, Zihan Wang, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda
• Modality Matching Matters: Calibrating Language Distances for Cross-Lingual Transfer in URIEL+
  York Hay Ng, Aditya Khan, Xiang Lu, Matteo Salloum, Michael Zhou, Phuong Hanh Hoang, A. Seza Doğruöz, En-Shiun Annie Lee
• Rethinking the Evaluation of Alignment Methods: Insights into Diversity, Generalisation, and Safety
  Denis Janiak, Julia Moska, Dawid Motyka, Karolina Seweryn, Paweł Walkowiak, Bartosz Żuk, Arkadiusz Janz
• Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages through Monolingual Data and LLM: A Case Study of English-to-Basque
  Nam Luu, Aitor Soroa, German Rigau, Ondřej Bojar
• Luth: Efficient French Specialization for Small Language Models and Cross-Lingual Transfer
  Sinoué GAD, Maxence Lasbordes
• PATCH Dataset: Empowering Traditional Chinese Safety Classifiers for Lightweight LLM
  Chi-Wei Chang, Chiung-Jui Chen, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
• Do Multi-Agents Solve Better Than Single? Evaluating Agentic Frameworks for Diagram-Grounded Geometry Problem Solving and Reasoning
  Mahbub E Sobhani, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Mohammad Nehad Alam, Proma Hossain Progga, Swakkhar Shatabda
• Domain Adaptation of Image Encoder for Multimodal Manga Translation
  Kota Manabe, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Isao Goto, Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Hiroshi Noji
• Mask What Matters: Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision–Language Models with Object-Aligned Visual Contrastive Decoding
  Boqi Chen, Xudong Liu, Jianing Qiu