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Benjamin Van Durme

Johns Hopkins University, USA

54 papers at tracked venues · 31 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×12EMNLP ×10NAACL ×9ICLR ×6AAAI ×5CVPR ×3SIGIR ×3ECIR ×2IJCAI ×2ICML ×1NeurIPS ×1

Frequent coauthors

Daniel Khashabi
×13
Kate Sanders
×11
Jingyu Zhang
×9
Eugene Yang
×7
Orion Weller
×7
Nathaniel Weir
×7
Jason Eisner
×7
Zhengping Jiang
×6
Alexander Martin
×6
Patrick Xia
×6
Harsh Jhamtani
×6
Dawn J. Lawrie
×5

Papers

  1. Bonsai: Interpretable Tree-Adaptive Grounded Reasoning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Kate Sanders
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  2. Can LLMs Identify Tax Abuse?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Andrew Blair-Stanek
    ,
    Nils Holzenberger
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  3. CoverageBench: Evaluating Information Coverage across Tasks and Domains
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Saron Samuel
    ,
    Andrew Yates
    ,
    Dawn J. Lawrie
    ,
    Ian Soboroff
    ,
    Trevor Adriaanse
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Eugene Yang
  4. Does Reasoning Make Search More Fair? Comparing Fairness in Reasoning and Non-reasoning Rerankers
    ECIR 2026 ·
    Saron Samuel
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Eugene Yang
  5. How Grounded is Wikipedia? A Study on Structured Evidential Support and Retrieval
    ACL 2026 ·
    William Gantt Walden
    ,
    Kathryn Ricci
    ,
    Miriam Wanner
    ,
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Chandler May
    ,
    Rongkun Zhou
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  6. Language Models and Logic Programs for Trustworthy Tax Reasoning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    William Jurayj
    ,
    Nils Holzenberger
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  7. Multi-Vector Index Compression in Any Modality
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Hanxiang Qin
    ,
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    Rohan Jha
    ,
    Chunsheng Zuo
    ,
    Reno Kriz
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  8. WikiVideo: Article Generation from Multiple Videos
    ACL 2026 ·
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    Reno Kriz
    ,
    William Gantt Walden
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Hannah Recknor
    ,
    Eugene Yang
    ,
    Francis Ferraro
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  9. arXiv2Table: Toward Realistic Benchmarking and Evaluation for LLM-Based Literature-Review Table Generation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Weiqi Wang
    ,
    Jiefu Ou
    ,
    Yangqiu Song
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  10. CLAIMCHECK: How Grounded are LLM Critiques of Scientific Papers?
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jiefu Ou
    ,
    William Gantt Walden
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Kaiser Sun
    ,
    Jeffrey Cheng
    ,
    William Jurayj
    ,
    Miriam Wanner
    ,
    Shaobo Liang
    ,
    Candice Morgan
    ,
    Seunghoon Han
    ,
    Weiqi Wang
    ,
    Chandler May
    ,
    Hannah Recknor
    ,
    Daniel Khashabi
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  11. CLERC: A Dataset for U. S. Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Abe Bohan Hou
    ,
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Guanghui Qin
    ,
    Eugene Yang
    ,
    Dawn J. Lawrie
    ,
    Nils Holzenberger
    ,
    Andrew Blair-Stanek
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  12. Certified Mitigation of Worst-Case LLM Copyright Infringement
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Jiacan Yu
    ,
    Marc Marone
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  13. Conformal Linguistic Calibration: Trading-off between Factuality and Specificity
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Anqi Liu
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  14. Controllable Safety Alignment: Inference-Time Adaptation to Diverse Safety Requirements
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Ahmed Elgohary
    ,
    Ahmed Magooda
    ,
    Daniel Khashabi
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  15. Core: Robust Factual Precision with Informative Sub-Claim Identification
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Nathaniel Weir
    ,
    Seth Ebner
    ,
    Miriam Wanner
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Daniel Khashabi
    ,
    Anqi Liu
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  16. DnDScore: Decontextualization and Decomposition for Factuality Verification in Long-Form Text Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Miriam Wanner
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Mark Dredze
  17. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Benjamin Chang
    ,
    Sean MacAvaney
    ,
    Kyle Lo
    ,
    Arman Cohan
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Dawn J. Lawrie
    ,
    Luca Soldaini
  18. From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question-Answering
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Nathaniel Weir
    ,
    Bhavana Dalvi Mishra
    ,
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Oyvind Tafjord
    ,
    Sam Hornstein
    ,
    Alexander Sabol
    ,
    Peter A. Jansen
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Peter Clark
  19. Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Tong Chen
    ,
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Patrick Xia
    ,
    Xiaodong Liu
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Luke Zettlemoyer
    ,
    Jianfeng Gao
    ,
    Hao Cheng
  20. Is That Your Final Answer? Test-Time Scaling Improves Selective Question Answering
    ACL 2025 ·
    William Jurayj
    ,
    Jeffrey Cheng
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  21. Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Ahmed Elgohary
    ,
    Xiawei Wang
    ,
    A S. M. Iftekhar
    ,
    Ahmed Magooda
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
    ,
    Kyle Jackson
  22. LLM Agents for Coordinating Multi-User Information Gathering
    ACL 2025 ·
    Harsh Jhamtani
    ,
    Jacob Andreas
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  23. MICE for CATs: Model-Internal Confidence Estimation for Calibrating Agents with Tools
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Nishant Subramani
    ,
    Jason Eisner
    ,
    Justin Svegliato
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Yu Su
    ,
    Sam Thomson
  24. Multi-Field Adaptive Retrieval
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Millicent Li
    ,
    Tongfei Chen
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Patrick Xia
  25. MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Reno Kriz
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    David Etter
    ,
    Kenton Murray
    ,
    Cameron Carpenter
    ,
    Hannah Recknor
    ,
    Jimena Guallar-Blasco
    ,
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    Eugene Yang
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  26. Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Orion Weller
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Dawn J. Lawrie
    ,
    Ashwin Paranjape
    ,
    Yuhao Zhang
    ,
    Jack Hessel
  27. RATIONALYST: Pre-training Process-Supervision for Improving Reasoning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Dongwei Jiang
    ,
    Guoxuan Wang
    ,
    Yining Lu
    ,
    Andrew Wang
    ,
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Chuyu Liu
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  28. RE-AdaptIR: Improving Information Retrieval through Reverse Engineered Adaptation
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    William Fleshman
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  29. SELF-[IN]CORRECT: LLMs Struggle with Discriminating Self-Generated Responses
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Dongwei Jiang
    ,
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Nathaniel Weir
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  30. TurkingBench: A Challenge Benchmark for Web Agents
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Kevin Xu
    ,
    Yeganeh Kordi
    ,
    Tanay Nayak
    ,
    Adi Asija
    ,
    Yizhong Wang
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Adam Byerly
    ,
    Jingyu Zhang
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  31. Verifiable by Design: Aligning Language Models to Quote from Pre-Training Data
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Marc Marone
    ,
    Tianjian Li
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  32. Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Arun V. Reddy
    ,
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    Eugene Yang
    ,
    Andrew Yates
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Kenton Murray
    ,
    Reno Kriz
    ,
    Celso M. de Melo
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Rama Chellappa
  33. WorldAPIs: The World Is Worth How Many APIs? A Thought Experiment
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jiefu Ou
    ,
    Arda Uzunoglu
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
  34. mFollowIR: A Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval
    ECIR 2025 ·
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Benjamin Chang
    ,
    Eugene Yang
    ,
    Mahsa Yarmohammadi
    ,
    Samuel Barham
    ,
    Sean MacAvaney
    ,
    Arman Cohan
    ,
    Luca Soldaini
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Dawn J. Lawrie
  35. A Survey of Video Datasets for Grounded Event Understanding
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Kate Sanders
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  36. Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation
    ICML 2024 ·
    Haoran Xu
    ,
    Amr Sharaf
    ,
    Yunmo Chen
    ,
    Weiting Tan
    ,
    Lingfeng Shen
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Kenton Murray
    ,
    Young Jin Kim
  37. Do Androids Know They're Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?
    ACL 2024 ·
    Sky CH-Wang
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Jason Eisner
    ,
    Chris Kedzie
  38. Dodo: Dynamic Contextual Compression for Decoder-only LMs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Guanghui Qin
    ,
    Corby Rosset
    ,
    Ethan C. Chau
    ,
    Nikhil Rao
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  39. Enhancing Systematic Decompositional Natural Language Inference Using Informal Logic
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nathaniel Weir
    ,
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Orion Weller
    ,
    Shreya Sharma
    ,
    Dongwei Jiang
    ,
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Bhavana Dalvi Mishra
    ,
    Oyvind Tafjord
    ,
    Peter A. Jansen
    ,
    Peter Clark
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  40. FAMuS: Frames Across Multiple Sources
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Siddharth Vashishtha
    ,
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    William Gantt
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Aaron Steven White
  41. Grounding Partially-Defined Events in Multimodal Data
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Reno Kriz
    ,
    David Etter
    ,
    Hannah Recknor
    ,
    Alexander Martin
    ,
    Cameron Carpenter
    ,
    Jingyang Lin
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  42. Interpreting User Requests in the Context of Natural Language Standing Instructions
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Nikita Moghe
    ,
    Patrick Xia
    ,
    Jacob Andreas
    ,
    Jason Eisner
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Harsh Jhamtani
  43. LLM-Rubric: A Multidimensional, Calibrated Approach to Automated Evaluation of Natural Language Texts
    ACL 2024 ·
    Helia Hashemi
    ,
    Jason Eisner
    ,
    Corby Rosset
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Chris Kedzie
  44. LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error
    ACL 2024 ·
    Boshi Wang
    ,
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Jason Eisner
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Yu Su
  45. Language-to-Code Translation with a Single Labeled Example
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kaj Bostrom
    ,
    Harsh Jhamtani
    ,
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Sam Thomson
    ,
    Richard Shin
    ,
    Patrick Xia
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Jason Eisner
    ,
    Jacob Andreas
  46. Learning to Retrieve Iteratively for In-Context Learning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yunmo Chen
    ,
    Tongfei Chen
    ,
    Harsh Jhamtani
    ,
    Patrick Xia
    ,
    Richard Shin
    ,
    Jason Eisner
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  47. NELLIE: A Neuro-Symbolic Inference Engine for Grounded, Compositional, and Explainable Reasoning
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Nathaniel Weir
    ,
    Peter Clark
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  48. Narrowing the Gap between Zero- and Few-shot Machine Translation by Matching Styles
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Weiting Tan
    ,
    Haoran Xu
    ,
    Lingfeng Shen
    ,
    Shuyue Stella Li
    ,
    Kenton Murray
    ,
    Philipp Koehn
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Yunmo Chen
  49. Natural Language Decomposition and Interpretation of Complex Utterances
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Harsh Jhamtani
    ,
    Hao Fang
    ,
    Patrick Xia
    ,
    Eran Levy
    ,
    Jacob Andreas
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  50. Ontologically Faithful Generation of Non-Player Character Dialogues
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nathaniel Weir
    ,
    Ryan Thomas
    ,
    Randolph D'Amore
    ,
    Kellie Hill
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Harsh Jhamtani
  51. RORA: Robust Free-Text Rationale Evaluation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhengping Jiang
    ,
    Yining Lu
    ,
    Hanjie Chen
    ,
    Daniel Khashabi
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Anqi Liu
  52. SemStamp: A Semantic Watermark with Paraphrastic Robustness for Text Generation
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Abe Bohan Hou
    ,
    Jingyu Zhang
    ,
    Tianxing He
    ,
    Yichen Wang
    ,
    Yung-Sung Chuang
    ,
    Hongwei Wang
    ,
    Lingfeng Shen
    , Benjamin Van Durme,
    Daniel Khashabi
    ,
    Yulia Tsvetkov
  53. TV-TREES: Multimodal Entailment Trees for Neuro-Symbolic Video Reasoning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kate Sanders
    ,
    Nathaniel Weir
    , Benjamin Van Durme
  54. Zero and Few-shot Semantic Parsing with Ambiguous Inputs
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Elias Stengel-Eskin
    ,
    Kyle Rawlins
    , Benjamin Van Durme