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Tianhui Cai, Yifan Liu, Zewei Zhou, Haoxuan Ma, Seth Z. Zhao, Zhiwen Wu, Xu Han, Zhiyu Huang, Jiaqi Ma

Understanding and adhering to traffic regulations is essential for autonomous vehicles to ensure safety and trustworthiness. However, traffic regulations are complex, context-dependent, and differ between regions, posing a major challenge to conventional rule-based decision-making approaches. We present an interpretable, regulation-aware decision-making framework, DriveReg, which enables autonomous vehicles to understand and adhere to region-specific traffic laws and safety guidelines. The framework integrates a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)-based Traffic Regulation Retrieval Agent, which retrieves relevant rules from regulatory documents based on the current situation, and a Large Language Model (LLM)-powered Reasoning Agent that evaluates actions for legal compliance and safety. Our design emphasizes interpretability to enhance transparency and trustworthiness. To support systematic evaluation, we introduce DriveReg Scenarios Dataset, a comprehensive dataset of driving scenarios across Boston, Singapore, and Los Angeles, with both hypothesized text-based cases and real-world driving data, specifically constructed and annotated to evaluate models’ capacity for regulation understanding and reasoning. We validate our framework on the DriveReg Scenarios Dataset and real-world deployment, demonstrating strong performance and robustness across diverse environments.

Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Saleh Zare Zade, Douglas Zytko, Prashant Khanduri, Dongxiao Zhu

Large Language Models (LLMs), pre-trained on massive text corpora, exhibit remarkable human-level language understanding, reasoning, and decision-making abilities. However, they tend to memorize unwanted information, such as private or copyrighted content, raising significant privacy and legal concerns. Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution, but existing methods face a significant challenge of over-forgetting. This issue arises because they indiscriminately suppress the generation of all the tokens in forget samples, leading to a substantial loss of model utility. To overcome this challenge, we introduce the Targeted Information Forgetting (TIF) framework, which consists of (1) a flexible targeted information identifier designed to differentiate between unwanted words (UW) and general words (GW) in the forget samples, and (2) a novel Targeted Preference Optimization approach that leverages Logit Preference Loss to unlearn unwanted information associated with UW and Preservation Loss to retain general information in GW, effectively improving the unlearning process while mitigating utility degradation. Extensive experiments on the TOFU and MUSE benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed TIF framework enhances unlearning effectiveness while preserving model utility and achieving state-of-the-art results.

Ankita Raj, Chetan Arora

Open-vocabulary object detectors (OVODs) unify vision and language to detect arbitrary object categories based on text prompts, enabling strong zero-shot generalization to novel concepts. As these models gain traction in high-stakes applications such as robotics, autonomous driving, and surveillance, understanding their security risks becomes crucial. In this work, we conduct the first study of backdoor attacks on OVODs and reveal a new attack surface introduced by prompt tuning. We propose TrAP (Trigger-Aware Prompt tuning), a multi-modal backdoor injection strategy that jointly optimizes prompt parameters in both image and text modalities along with visual triggers. TrAP enables the attacker to implant malicious behavior using lightweight, learnable prompt tokens without retraining the base model weights, thus preserving generalization while embedding a hidden backdoor. We adopt a curriculum-based training strategy that progressively shrinks the trigger size, enabling effective backdoor activation using small trigger patches at inference. Experiments across multiple datasets show that TrAP achieves high attack success rates for both object misclassification and object disappearance attacks, while also improving clean image performance on downstream datasets compared to the zero-shot setting.

Aditya Kumar, Tom Blanchard, Adam Dziedzic, Franziska Boenisch

State-of-the-art Diffusion Models (DMs) produce highly realistic images. While prior work has successfully mitigated Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content in the visual domain, we identify a novel threat: the generation of NSFW text embedded within images. This includes offensive language, such as insults, racial slurs, and sexually explicit terms, posing significant risks to users. We show that all state-of-the-art DMs (e.g., SD3, SDXL, Flux, DeepFloyd IF) are vulnerable to this issue. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that existing mitigation techniques, effective for visual content, fail to prevent harmful text generation while substantially degrading benign text generation. As an initial step toward addressing this threat, we introduce a novel fine-tuning strategy that targets only the text-generation layers in DMs. Therefore, we construct a safety fine-tuning dataset by pairing each NSFW prompt with two images: one with the NSFW term, and another where that term is replaced with a carefully crafted benign alternative while leaving the image unchanged otherwise. By training on this dataset, the model learns to avoid generating harmful text while preserving benign content and overall image quality. Finally, to advance research in the area, we release ToxicBench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating NSFW text generation in images. It includes our curated fine-tuning dataset, a set of harmful prompts, new evaluation metrics, and a pipeline that assesses both NSFW-ness and text and image quality. Our benchmark aims to guide future efforts in mitigating NSFW text generation in text-to-image models, thereby contributing to their safe deployment.

Chenyu Zhang, Lanjun Wang, Yiwen Ma, Wenhui Li, Guoqing Jin, Anan Liu

Text-to-Image (T2I) models typically deploy safety mechanisms to prevent the generation of sensitive images. Unfortunately, recent jailbreaking attack methods manually design instructions for the LLM to generate adversarial prompts, which effectively exposing safety vulnerabilities of T2I models. However, existing methods have two limitations: 1) relying on manually exhaustive strategies for designing adversarial prompts, lacking a unified framework, and 2) requiring numerous queries to achieve a successful attack, limiting their practical applicability. To address this issue, we propose Reason2Attack~(R2A), which aims to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the LLM in jailbreaking attacks. Specifically, we first use Frame Semantics theory to systematize existing manually crafted strategies and propose a unified generation framework to generate CoT adversarial prompts step by step. Following this, we propose a two-stage LLM reasoning training framework guided by the attack process. In the first stage, the LLM is fine-tuned with CoT examples generated by the unified generation framework to internalize the adversarial prompt generation process grounded in Frame Semantics. In the second stage, we incorporate the jailbreaking task into the LLM's reinforcement learning process, guided by the proposed attack process reward function that balances prompt stealthiness, effectiveness, and length, enabling the LLM to understand T2I models and safety mechanisms. Extensive experiments on various T2I models with safety mechanisms, and commercial T2I models, show the superiority and practicality of R2A.

Shuai Liu, Da Chen, Yiheng Pan, Chenwei Tian, Qian Li, Chenhao Lin

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in video understanding. However, video MLLMs (VideoMLLMs) still suffer from hallucinations, generating nonsensical or irrelevant content. This issue partly stems from over-reliance on pre-trained knowledge, sometimes neglecting the rich visual information present in the video. Additionally, many existing methods rely on uniform frame sampling, which can overlook critical visual cues. To address these challenges, we present EchoBat, a novel approach that leverages audio information as well as video temporal and logical consistency to improve preference data construction and keyframe extraction. Our method integrates Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to mitigate hallucinations by leveraging high-quality, contextually rich preference feedback. Specifically, we use GPT-4o to generate high-quality video descriptions and integrate visually relevant segments from Whisper-derived transcripts to construct preference responses. Correspondingly, we use the reference model itself to describe the reversed video, and use GPT-4o to flashback the text and fill in the hallucination to produce non-preferred responses. This strategy enhances the model’s ability to better understand visual content and temporal, logical relationships within videos. Furthermore, we propose an echo-layered sampling strategy for keyframe extraction from videos, which can provide more precise visual supervision compared to uniform sampling. Experimental results on the three latest video hallucination benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

Bishnu Bhusal, Manoj Acharya, Ramneet Kaur, Colin Samplawski, Anirban Roy, Adam D. Cobb, Rohit Chadha, Susmit Jha

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed natural language understanding and generation, but they raise privacy concerns due to potential exposure of sensitive information. Studies have highlighted the risk of information leakage, where adversaries can extract sensitive information embedded in the prompts. In this work, we introduce a novel private prediction framework for generating high-quality synthetic text with strong privacy guarantees. Our approach leverages the Differential Privacy (DP) framework to ensure worst-case theoretical bounds on information leakage without requiring any fine-tuning of the underlying models. The proposed method performs inference on private records and aggregates the resulting per-token output distributions. This enables the generation of longer and coherent synthetic text while maintaining privacy guarantees. Additionally, we propose a simple blending operation that combines private and public inference to further enhance utility. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our approach outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on in-context-learning (ICL) tasks, making it a promising direction for privacy-preserving text generation while maintaining high utility.

Zhihan Zhou, Daqian Shi, Rui Song, Lida Shi, Xiaolei Diao, Hao Xu

Comprehension of ancient texts plays an important role in archaeology and understanding of Chinese history and civilization. The rapid development of large language models needs benchmarks that can evaluate their comprehension of ancient characters. Existing Chinese benchmarks are mostly targeted at modern Chinese and transmitted documents in ancient Chinese, but the part of excavated documents in ancient Chinese is not covered. To meet this need, we propose the AncientBench, which aims to evaluate the comprehension of ancient characters, especially in the scenario of excavated documents. The AncientBench is divided into four dimensions, which correspond to the four competencies of ancient character comprehension: glyph comprehension, pronunciation comprehension, meaning comprehension, and contextual comprehension. The benchmark also contains ten tasks, including radical, phonetic radical, homophone, cloze, translation, and more, providing a comprehensive framework for evaluation. We convened archaeological researchers to conduct experimental evaluations, proposed an ancient model as baseline, and conducted extensive experiments on the currently best-performing large language models. The experimental results reveal the great potential of large language models in ancient textual scenarios as well as the gap with humans. Our research aims to promote the development and application of large language models in the field of archaeology and ancient Chinese language.

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Xiachong Feng, Lei Huang, Weitao Ma, Qichen Hong, Yunfei Lu, Duyu Tang, Dandan Tu, Bing Qin

Joint multilingual instruction tuning is a widely adopted approach to improve the multilingual instruction-following ability and downstream performance of large language models (LLMs), but the resulting multilingual capability remains highly sensitive to the composition and selection of the training data. Existing selection methods, often based on features like text quality, diversity, or task relevance, typically overlook the intrinsic linguistic structure of multilingual data. In this paper, we propose LangGPS, a lightweight two-stage pre-selection framework guided by language separability—a signal that quantifies how well samples in different languages can be distinguished in the model’s representation space. LangGPS first filters training data based on separability scores and then refines the subset using existing selection methods. Extensive experiments across six benchmarks and 22 languages demonstrate that applying LangGPS on top of existing selection methods improves their effectiveness and generalizability in multilingual training, especially for understanding tasks and low-resource languages. Further analysis reveals that highly separable samples facilitate the formation of clearer language boundaries and support faster adaptation, while low-separability samples tend to function as bridges for cross-lingual alignment. Besides, we also find that language separability can serves as an effective signal for multilingual curriculum learning, where interleaving samples with diverse separability levels yields stable and generalizable gains. Together, we hope our work offers a new perspective on data utility in multilingual contexts and support the development of more linguistically informed LLMs.

Dexuan Xu, Jieyi Wang, Zhongyan Chai, Yongzhi Cao, Hanpin Wang, Huamin Zhang, Yu Huang

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved medical AI, enabling it to unify the understanding of visual and textual information. However, as medical knowledge continues to evolve, it is critical to allow these models to efficiently update outdated or incorrect information without retraining from scratch. Although textual knowledge editing has been widely studied, there is still a lack of systematic benchmarks for multimodal medical knowledge editing involving image and text modalities. To fill this gap, we present MedMKEB, the first comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the reliability, generality, locality, portability, and robustness of knowledge editing in medical multimodal large language models. MedMKEB is built on a high-quality medical visual question-answering dataset and enriched with carefully constructed editing tasks, including counterfactual correction, semantic generalization, knowledge transfer, and adversarial robustness. We incorporate human expert validation to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the benchmark. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art general and medical MLLMs demonstrate the limitations of existing knowledge editing methods in the medical domain, highlighting the need to develop specialized editing strategies.

Shengtao Wen, Haodong Chen, Yadong Wang, Zhongying Pan, Xiang Chen, Yu Tian, Bo Qian, Dong Liang, Sheng-Jun Huang

Knowledge editing (KE) provides a scalable approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models without full retraining. While previous studies have demonstrated effectiveness in general domains and medical QA tasks, little attention has been paid to KE in multimodal medical scenarios. Unlike text-only settings, medical KE demands integrating updated knowledge with visual reasoning to support safe and interpretable clinical decisions. To address this gap, we propose MultiMedBench, the first benchmark tailored to evaluating KE in clinical multimodal tasks. Our framework spans both understanding and reasoning task types, defines a three-dimensional metric suite (reliability, generality, and locality), and supports cross-paradigm comparisons across general and domain-specific models. We conduct extensive experiments under single-editing and lifelong-editing settings. Results suggest that current methods struggle with generalization and long-tail reasoning, particularly in complex clinical workflows. We further present an efficiency analysis (e.g., edit latency, memory footprint), revealing practical trade-offs in real-world deployment across KE paradigms. Overall, MultiMedBench not only reveals the limitations of current approaches but also provides a solid foundation for developing clinically robust knowledge editing techniques in the future.

Tingjiang Wei, Qin Ni, Rong Gao, Yingying Wang, Liang He

The capacity for social reasoning, particularly Theory of Mind (ToM), is a foundational prerequisite for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values. However, current evaluations are predominantly confined to simplistic, short-text scenarios, obscuring their true capabilities and potential failure modes in complex, long-range social dynamics. To address this deficit, we introduce MovieGraph-ToM, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating long-range ToM and social cognition within extended, multimodal narratives. We employ a "scaffold-and-probe" methodology: we construct a ground-truth Social-Causal Graph offline, which maps the narrative's latent mental states and causal chains. During evaluation, the model is denied access to this graph and must reason directly from raw multimodal inputs. This decoupling forces genuine inference over superficial pattern matching. Reasoning is probed via a hierarchical questioning framework designed to differentiate spontaneous understanding from logical robustness. Our empirical results reveal systematic vulnerabilities in even state-of-the-art models. We identify a critical "multiple-choice pitfall," where accuracy plummets against well-crafted distractors, and a stark "generative-discriminative divide," where models fail to construct coherent explanations for answers they correctly identify. These findings highlight a latent risk, as models that feign comprehension could lead to unpredictable and misaligned behaviors. MovieGraph-ToM thus offers a rigorous platform for assessing and advancing the robust social intelligence required for safely aligned AI systems.

Yuanyuan Wang, Dongchao Yang, Yiwen Shao, Hangting Chen, Jiankun Zhao, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Xixin Wu

Extending pre-trained text Large Language Models (LLMs)’s speech understanding or generation abilities by introducing various effective speech tokens has attracted great attention in the speech research community. However, building a unified speech understanding and generation model still faces the following challenges: (1) Due to the huge modality gap between speech and text tokens, extending text LLMs to unified speech LLMs relies on large-scale paired data for fine-tuning, and (2) Generation and understanding tasks prefer information at different levels, e.g., generation benefits from detailed acoustic features, while understanding favors high-level semantics. This divergence leads to difficult performance optimization in one unified model. To solve these challenges, in this paper, we present two key insights in speech tokenization and speech language modeling. Specifically, we first propose an Understanding-driven Speech Tokenizer (USTokenizer), which extracts high-level semantic information essential for accomplishing understanding tasks using text LLMs. In this way, USToken enjoys better modality commonality with text, which reduces the difficulty of modality alignment in adapting text LLMs to speech LLMs. Secondly, we present DualSpeechLM, a dual-token modeling framework that concurrently models USToken as input and acoustic token as output within a unified, end-to-end framework, seamlessly integrating speech understanding and generation capabilities. Furthermore, we propose a novel semantic supervision loss and a Chain-of-Condition (CoC) strategy to stabilize model training and enhance speech generation performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach effectively fosters a complementary relationship between understanding and generation tasks, highlighting the promising strategy of mutually enhancing both tasks in one unified model.

Jinting Wang, Shan Yang, Chenxing Li, Dong Yu, Li Liu

Cued Speech (CS) enhances lipreading via hand coding, offering visual phonemic cues that support precise speech perception for the hearing-impaired. The task of CS Video-to-Speech generation (CSV2S) aims to convert CS videos into intelligible speech signals. Most existing research focuses on CS Recognition (CSR), which transcribes video content into text. Consequently, a common solution for CSV2S is to integrate CSR with a text-to-speech (TTS) system. However, this pipeline relies on text as an intermediate medium, which may lead to error propagation and temporal misalignment between speech and CS video dynamics. In contrast, directly generating audio speech from CS video (direct CSV2S) often suffer from the inherent multimodal complexity and the limited availability of CS data. To address these challenges, we propose UniCUE, the first unified framework for CSV2S that directly generates speech from CS videos without relying on intermediate text. The core innovation of UniCUE lies in integrating a understanding task (CSR) that provides fine-grained CS visual-semantic cues to to guide the speech generation. Specifically, UniCUE incorporates a pose-aware visual processor, a semantic alignment pool that enables precise visual–semantic mapping, and a VisioPhonetic adapter to bridge the understanding and generation tasks within a unified architecture. To support this framework, we construct UniCUE-HI, a large-scale Mandarin CS dataset containing 11,282 videos from 14 cuers, including both hearing-impaired and normal-hearing individuals. Extensive experiments conducted on this dataset demonstrate that UniCUE achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across multiple evaluation metrics.

Guansu Wang, Peijie Sun

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology have been remarkable, enabling current models to clone arbitrary unseen speakers and synthesize high-quality, natural-sounding speech. However, corresponding evaluation techniques appear to be lagging: existing Mean Opinion Score (MOS) estimation models typically perform regression-based scoring on entire speech segments, while a failed synthesized speech usually contains problematic elements in only a few isolated words rather than throughout the entire utterance. In this context, we present an intriguing finding: encoder-decoder ASR models, such as Whisper, leverage their extensive pre-training to precisely capture word-level mismatches between speech and text within their cross-attention mechanisms, thereby providing a fine-grained reward signal. Building upon this insight, we propose a novel TTS optimization method, which we term Word-level TTS Alignment by ASR-driven Attentive Reward (W3AR). Instead of relying on any explicit reward annotations, W3AR leverages the attention information within a pre-trained ASR model, enabling finer-grained alignment and optimization of the sequences predicted by the TTS model. Experimental results demonstrate that W3AR not only effectively improves the TTS generation quality of existing models but also further enhances zero-shot robustness based on both in-domain and out-of-domain prompt speakers. Additionally, our findings and proposed methodology offer a new insight for generative tasks: understanding models can potentially serve as evaluators, providing highly fine-grained and valuable feedback for generative optimization.

Seokwon Song, Minsu Park, Gunhee Kim

Source attribution aims to enhance the reliability of AI-generated answers by including references for each statement, helping users validate the provided answers. However, existing work has primarily focused on text-only scenario and largely overlooked the role of multimodality. We introduce MAVIS, the first benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal source attribution systems that understand user intent behind visual questions, retrieve multimodal evidence, and generate long-form answers with citations. Our dataset comprises 157K visual QA instances, where each answer is annotated with fact-level citations referring to multimodal documents. We develop fine-grained automatic metrics along three dimensions of informativeness, groundedness, and fluency, and demonstrate their strong correlation with human judgments. Our key findings are threefold: (1) LVLMs with multimodal RAG generate more informative and fluent answers than unimodal RAG, but they exhibit weaker groundedness for image documents than for text documents, a gap amplified in multimodal settings. (2) Given the same multimodal documents, there is a trade-off between informativeness and groundedness across different prompting methods. (3) Our proposed method highlights mitigating contextual bias in interpreting image documents as a crucial direction for future research.

Yi Shi, Wenlong Meng, Zhenyuan Guo, Chengkun Wei, Wenzhi Chen

With the rapid rise of social media and Internet culture, memes have become a popular medium for expressing emotional tendencies. This has sparked growing interest in Meme Emotion Understanding (MEU), which aims to classify the emotional intent behind memes by leveraging their multimodal contents. While existing efforts have achieved promising results, two major challenges remain: (1) a lack of fine-grained multimodal fusion strategies, and (2) insufficient mining of memes' implicit meanings and background knowledge. To address these challenges, we propose MemoDetector, a novel framework for advancing MEU. First, we introduce a four-step textual enhancement module that utilizes the rich knowledge and reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to progressively infer and extract implicit and contextual insights from memes. These enhanced texts significantly enrich the original meme contents and provide valuable guidance for downstream classification. Next, we design a dual-stage modal fusion strategy: the first stage performs shallow fusion on raw meme image and text, while the second stage deeply integrates the enhanced visual and textual features. This hierarchical fusion enables the model to better capture nuanced cross-modal emotional cues. Experiments on two datasets, MET-MEME and MOOD, demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. Specifically, MemoDetector improves F1 scores by 4.3% on MET-MEME and 3.4% on MOOD. Further ablation studies and in-depth analyses validate the effectiveness and robustness of our approach, highlighting its strong potential for advancing MEU.

Wenxuan Shen, Mingjia Wang, Yaochen Wang, Dongping Chen, Junjie Yang, Yao Wan, Weiwei Lin

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show great promise for complex document understanding, yet their development is critically hampered by inadequate evaluation. Current benchmarks often focus on specific part of document RAG system and use synthetic data with incomplete ground truth and evidence labels, therefore failing to reflect real-world bottlenecks and challenges. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Double-Bench: a new large-scale, multilingual, and multimodal evaluation system that is able to produce fine-grained assessment to each component within document RAG systems. It comprises 3,276 documents (72,880 pages) and 5,168 single- and multi-hop queries across 6 languages and 4 document types with streamlined dynamic update support for potential data contamination issues. Queries are grounded in exhaustively scanned evidence pages and verified by human experts to ensure maximum quality and completeness. Our comprehensive experiments across 9 state-of-the-art embedding models, 4 MLLMs and 4 end-to-end document RAG frameworks demonstrate the gap between text and visual embedding models is narrowing, highlighting the need in building stronger document retrieval models. Our findings also reveal the over-confidence dilemma within current document RAG frameworks that tend to provide answer even without evidence support. We hope our fully open-source Double-Bench provide a rigorous foundation for future research in advanced document RAG systems. We plan to retrieve timely corpus and release new benchmarks on an annual basis.

Jaewoo Park, Jungyang Park, Dongju Jang, Jiwan Chung, Byungwoo Yoo, Jaewoo Shin, Seonjoon Park, Taehyeong Kim, Youngjae Yu

With the rapid advancement of mathematical reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), AI systems are increasingly being adopted in educational settings to support students’ comprehension of problem-solving processes. However, a critical component remains underexplored in current LLM-generated explanations: multimodal explanation. In real-world instructional contexts, human tutors routinely employ visual aids, such as diagrams, markings, and highlights, to enhance conceptual clarity. To bridge this gap, we introduce the multimodal solution explanation task, designed to evaluate whether models can identify visual keypoints, such as auxiliary lines, points, angles, and generate explanations that incorporate these key elements essential for understanding. To evaluate model performance on this task, we propose ME2, a multimodal benchmark consisting of 1,000 math problems annotated with visual keypoints and corresponding explanatory text that references those elements. Our empirical results show that current models struggle to identify visual keypoints. In the task of generating keypoint-based explanations, open-source models also face notable difficulties. This highlights a significant gap in current LLMs’ ability to perform mathematical visual grounding, engage in visually grounded reasoning, and provide explanations in educational contexts. We expect that the multimodal solution explanation task and the ME2 dataset will catalyze further research on LLMs in education and promote their use as effective, explanation-oriented AI tutors.

Wolfgang Otto, Lu Gan, Sharmila Upadhyaya, Saurav Karmakar, Stefan Dietze

Research in Machine Learning (ML) and AI evolves rapidly. Information Extraction (IE) from scientific publications enables to identify information about research concepts and resources on a large scale and therefore is a pathway to improve understanding and reproducibility of ML-related research. To training and testing of IE models focused on fine-grained information in ML-related research, e.g. method training and data usage, we introduce GSAP-ERE. It is a manually curated fine-grained dataset of mentions of 63K ML-related entities and 35K relations distributed across 10 entity types and 18 semantically categorized relation types annoated in the full text of 100 ML publications. We show that our dataset enables fine-tuned models to automatically extract ML-related information that facilitate knowledge graph (KG) construction from scholarly papers or monitoring of computational reproducibility of AI research at scale. Additionally, we use our dataset as a test suite to explore prompting strategies for IE using Large Language Models (LLM). We observe that the performance of state-of-the-art LLM prompting methods is largely outperformed by our best fine-tuned baseline model (NER: 80.6%, RE: 54.0% for the fine-tuned model vs. NER: 44.4%, RE: 10.1% for the LLM). This disparity of performance between supervised models and unsupervised usage of LLMs suggests datasets like GSAP-ERE are needed to advance research in the domain of scholarly information extraction.