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20192026
most citedFauxWard: A Graph Neural Network Approach to Fauxtography Detection Using Social Media Comments

22 citations · 47 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

Reliability-Aware LLM Alignment from Inconsistent Human Feedback

Jingyi Huang, Ruohan Zong, Yujun Feng +3

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is critical for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, its efficacy is often compromised by the in…

cs.SI2026

DisImpact: Quantifying the Physi-Social Impact of Natural Disasters Through Social Media

Ruichen Yao, Tejna Dasari, Xuanyu Meng +6

Natural disasters not only cause large-scale physical destruction, but also cascading social consequences that are difficult to quantify with traditional surveys and reports. Socia…

cs.HC2025

Designing Effective AI Explanations for Misinformation Detection: A Comparative Study of Content, Social, and Combined Explanations

Yeaeun Gong, Yifan Liu, Lanyu Shang +2

In this paper, we study the problem of AI explanation of misinformation, where the goal is to identify explanation designs that help improve users' misinformation detection abiliti…

cs.SI2025

MASH: A Multiplatform and Multimodal Annotated Dataset for Societal Impact of Hurricane

Ruichen Yao, Aslanbek Murzakhmetov, Raaghav Pillai +9

Natural disasters cause multidimensional threats to human societies, with hurricanes exemplifying one of the most disruptive events that not only caused severe physical damage but…

cs.CL2025

Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Bowen Jin, Huimin Zeng +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have introduced latent reasoning as a promising alternative to autoregressive reasoning. By performing internal computation with hid…

cs.SI2024★ 1 cited

SIDE: Socially Informed Drought Estimation Toward Understanding Societal Impact Dynamics of Environmental Crisis

Lanyu Shang, Bozhang Chen, Shiwei Liu +6

Drought has become a critical global threat with significant societal impact. Existing drought monitoring solutions primarily focus on assessing drought severity using quantitative…

cs.CL2024

Retrieval Augmented Fact Verification by Synthesizing Contrastive Arguments

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Lanyu Shang +3

The rapid propagation of misinformation poses substantial risks to public interest. To combat misinformation, large language models (LLMs) are adapted to automatically verify claim…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Evidence-Driven Retrieval Augmented Response Generation for Online Misinformation

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Yimeng Lu +3

The proliferation of online misinformation has posed significant threats to public interest. While numerous online users actively participate in the combat against misinformation,…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

MetaAdapt: Domain Adaptive Few-Shot Misinformation Detection via Meta Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Yang Zhang +2

With emerging topics (e.g., COVID-19) on social media as a source for the spreading misinformation, overcoming the distributional shifts between the original training domain (i.e.,…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

On Attacking Out-Domain Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Neural Networks

Huimin Zeng, Zhenrui Yue, Yang Zhang +3

In many applications with real-world consequences, it is crucial to develop reliable uncertainty estimation for the predictions made by the AI decision systems. Targeting at the go…

cs.CL2022

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for COVID-19 Information Service with Contrastive Adversarial Domain Mixup

Huimin Zeng, Zhenrui Yue, Ziyi Kou +3

In the real-world application of COVID-19 misinformation detection, a fundamental challenge is the lack of the labeled COVID data to enable supervised end-to-end training of the mo…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Domain Adaptation for Question Answering via Question Classification

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Ziyi Kou +2

Question answering (QA) has demonstrated impressive progress in answering questions from customized domains. Nevertheless, domain adaptation remains one of the most elusive challen…

cs.CV2022★ 9 cited

Contrastive Domain Adaptation for Early Misinformation Detection: A Case Study on COVID-19

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Ziyi Kou +2

Despite recent progress in improving the performance of misinformation detection systems, classifying misinformation in an unseen domain remains an elusive challenge. To address th…

cs.IR2022

Defending Substitution-Based Profile Pollution Attacks on Sequential Recommenders

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Ziyi Kou +2

While sequential recommender systems achieve significant improvements on capturing user dynamics, we argue that sequential recommenders are vulnerable against substitution-based pr…

cs.LG2022

Efficient Localness Transformer for Smart Sensor-Based Energy Disaggregation

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Ziyi Kou +2

Modern smart sensor-based energy management systems leverage non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to predict and optimize appliance load distribution in real-time. NILM, or energy…

cs.LG2021

AOMD: An Analogy-aware Approach to Offensive Meme Detection on Social Media

Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang, Yuheng Zha +3

This paper focuses on an important problem of detecting offensive analogy meme on online social media where the visual content and the texts/captions of the meme together make an a…

cs.SI2021★ 22 cited

FauxWard: A Graph Neural Network Approach to Fauxtography Detection Using Social Media Comments

Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang, Daniel Zhang +1

Online social media has been a popular source for people to consume and share news content. More recently, the spread of misinformation online has caused widespread concerns. In th…

cs.SI2019★ 1 cited

Towards Reliable Online Clickbait Video Detection: A Content-Agnostic Approach

Lanyu Shang, Daniel Zhang, Michael Wang +2

Online video sharing platforms (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo) have become an increasingly popular paradigm for people to consume video contents. Clickbait video, whose content clearly devi…