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VeriTrail: Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance in multi-step AI workflows

August 5, 2025 | Dasha Metropolitansky

VeriTrail, new from Microsoft Research, can detect AI-generated content that is not supported by the source text, trace the provenance of content from final output back to the source, and locate where errors were likely…

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TableLoRA: Low-rank Adaptation on Table Structure Understanding for Large Language Models

Xinyi He, Yihao Liu, Mengyu Zhou, Yeye He, Haoyu Dong, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL ’25) | July 2025

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AdaptAgent: Adapting Multimodal Web Agents with Few-Shot Learning from Human Demonstrations

Gaurav Verma, Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Tucker Balch, Manuela Veloso

2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025

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LM Agents for Coordinating Multi-User Information Gathering

Harsh Jhamtani, Jacob Andreas, Ben Van Durme

ACL | July 2025

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MMInference: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context VLMs via Modality-Aware Permutation Sparse Attention

Yucheng Li, Huiqiang Jiang, Chengruidong Zhang, Qianhui Wu, Xufang Luo, Surin Ahn, Amir H. Abdi, Dongsheng Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yuqing Yang, Lili Qiu

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Scaling Laws of Synthetic Data for Language Models

Zeyu Qin, Qingxiu Dong, Xingxing Zhang, Li Dong, Xiaolong Huang, Ziyi Yang, Mahmoud Khademi, Dongdong Zhang, Hany Hassan Awadalla, Yi R. Fung, Weizhu Chen, Minhao Cheng, Furu Wei

COLM 2025 | July 2025

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PyramidKV: Dynamic KV Cache Compression based on Pyramidal Information Funneling

Zefan Cai, Yichi Zhang, Bofei Gao, Yuliang Liu, Tianyu Liu, Keming Lu, Wayne Xiong, Yue Dong, Baobao Chang, Junjie Hu, Wen Xiao

COLM 2025 | July 2025

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Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models

Harsha Nori, M. Daswani, Christopher Kelly, Scott M. Lundberg, Marco Túlio Ribeiro, Marc Wilson, Xiaoxuan Liu, V. Sounderajah, Jonathan M. Carlson, Matthew P Lungren, Bay Gross, Peter Hames, Mustafa Suleyman, Dominic King, Eric Horvitz

July 2025

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CollabLLM: From Passive Responders to Active Collaborators

Shirley Wu, Michel Galley, Baolin Peng, Hao Cheng, Gavin Li, Yao Dou, Weixin Cai, James Zou, J. Leskovec, Jianfeng Gao

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems

Myra Cheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu

2025 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025

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