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20192026
most citedBad Actor, Good Advisor: Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Fake News Detection

207 citations · 908 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.CV2026

Multi-Tool Image Editing Attribution in Facial Forgery

Sheng Liu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang +3

As generative AI tools become increasingly powerful and easy to use, people can easily edit portrait images with a prompt, necessitating the task of image editing attribution, whic…

cs.CL2026

Beyond the Final Actor: Modeling the Dual Roles of Creator and Editor for Fine-Grained LLM-Generated Text Detection

Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Zhengjia Wang +3

The misuse of large language models (LLMs) requires precise detection of synthetic text. Existing works mainly follow binary or ternary classification settings, which can only dist…

cs.CL2026

Logical Consistency as a Bridge: Improving LLM Hallucination Detection via Label Constraint Modeling between Responses and Self-Judgments

Hao Mi, Qiang Sheng, Shaofei Wang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are prone to factual hallucinations, risking their reliability in real-world applications. Existing hallucination detectors mainly extract micro-level…

cs.AI2026

FactGuard: Agentic Video Misinformation Detection via Reinforcement Learning

Zehao Li, Hongwei Yu, Hao Jiang +7

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced video misinformation detection through unified multimodal reasoning, but they often rely on fixed-depth inferen…

cs.CL2025

Reasoning About the Unsaid: Misinformation Detection with Omission-Aware Graph Inference

Zhengjia Wang, Danding Wang, Qiang Sheng +2

This paper investigates the detection of misinformation, which deceives readers by explicitly fabricating misleading content or implicitly omitting important information necessary…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing Fake News Video Detection via LLM-Driven Creative Process Simulation

Yuyan Bu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +4

The emergence of fake news on short video platforms has become a new significant societal concern, necessitating automatic video-news-specific detection. Current detectors primaril…

cs.CL2025

Forewarned is Forearmed: Pre-Synthesizing Jailbreak-like Instructions to Enhance LLM Safety Guardrail to Potential Attacks

Sheng Liu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang +3

Despite advances in improving large language model (LLM) to refuse to answer malicious instructions, widely used LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks where attackers generat…

cs.CL2025

Bridging Thoughts and Words: Graph-Based Intent-Semantic Joint Learning for Fake News Detection

Zhengjia Wang, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang +2

Fake news detection is an important and challenging task for defending online information integrity. Existing state-of-the-art approaches typically extract news semantic clues, suc…

cs.CL2025

PhantomHunter: Detecting Unseen Privately-Tuned LLM-Generated Text via Family-Aware Learning

Yuhui Shi, Yehan Yang, Qiang Sheng +4

With the popularity of large language models (LLMs), undesirable societal problems like misinformation production and academic misconduct have been more severe, making LLM-generate…

cs.CL2025

From Judgment to Interference: Early Stopping LLM Harmful Outputs via Streaming Content Monitoring

Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Yehan Yang +2

Though safety alignment has been applied to most large language models (LLMs), LLM service providers generally deploy a subsequent moderation as the external safety guardrail in re…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing the Comprehensibility of Text Explanations via Unsupervised Concept Discovery

Yifan Sun, Danding Wang, Qiang Sheng +2

Concept-based explainable approaches have emerged as a promising method in explainable AI because they can interpret models in a way that aligns with human reasoning. However, thei…

cs.CL2025

The Staircase of Ethics: Probing LLM Value Priorities through Multi-Step Induction to Complex Moral Dilemmas

Ya Wu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang +5

Ethical decision-making is a critical aspect of human judgment, and the growing use of LLMs in decision-support systems necessitates a rigorous evaluation of their moral reasoning…

cs.CL2025★ 7 cited

LLM-Generated Fake News Induces Truth Decay in News Ecosystem: A Case Study on Neural News Recommendation

Beizhe Hu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +2

Online fake news moderation now faces a new challenge brought by the malicious use of large language models (LLMs) in fake news production. Though existing works have shown LLM-gen…

cs.CL2024

Vision-fused Attack: Advancing Aggressive and Stealthy Adversarial Text against Neural Machine Translation

Yanni Xue, Haojie Hao, Jiakai Wang +5

While neural machine translation (NMT) models achieve success in our daily lives, they show vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Despite being harmful, these attacks also offer be…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

FakingRecipe: Detecting Fake News on Short Video Platforms from the Perspective of Creative Process

Yuyan Bu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +3

As short-form video-sharing platforms become a significant channel for news consumption, fake news in short videos has emerged as a serious threat in the online information ecosyst…

cs.CL2024★ 61 cited

Let Silence Speak: Enhancing Fake News Detection with Generated Comments from Large Language Models

Qiong Nan, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +3

Fake news detection plays a crucial role in protecting social media users and maintaining a healthy news ecosystem. Among existing works, comment-based fake news detection methods…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Ten Words Only Still Help: Improving Black-Box AI-Generated Text Detection via Proxy-Guided Efficient Re-Sampling

Yuhui Shi, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +3

With the rapidly increasing application of large language models (LLMs), their abuse has caused many undesirable societal problems such as fake news, academic dishonesty, and infor…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Exploring news intent and its application: A theory-driven approach

Zhengjia Wang, Danding Wang, Qiang Sheng +3

Understanding the intent behind information is crucial. However, news as a medium of public discourse still lacks a structured investigation of perceived news intent and its applic…

cs.CL2023

Exploiting User Comments for Early Detection of Fake News Prior to Users' Commenting

Qiong Nan, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +4

Both accuracy and timeliness are key factors in detecting fake news on social media. However, most existing methods encounter an accuracy-timeliness dilemma: Content-only methods g…

cs.CL2023★ 207 cited

Bad Actor, Good Advisor: Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Fake News Detection

Beizhe Hu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +4

Detecting fake news requires both a delicate sense of diverse clues and a profound understanding of the real-world background, which remains challenging for detectors based on smal…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Learn over Past, Evolve for Future: Forecasting Temporal Trends for Fake News Detection

Beizhe Hu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +4

Fake news detection has been a critical task for maintaining the health of the online news ecosystem. However, very few existing works consider the temporal shift issue caused by t…

cs.CV2023★ 36 cited

Combating Online Misinformation Videos: Characterization, Detection, and Future Directions

Yuyan Bu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +3

With information consumption via online video streaming becoming increasingly popular, misinformation video poses a new threat to the health of the online information ecosystem. Th…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

Improving Fake News Detection of Influential Domain via Domain- and Instance-Level Transfer

Qiong Nan, Danding Wang, Yongchun Zhu +4

Both real and fake news in various domains, such as politics, health, and entertainment are spread via online social media every day, necessitating fake news detection for multiple…

cs.CL2022★ 139 cited

Memory-Guided Multi-View Multi-Domain Fake News Detection

Yongchun Zhu, Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao +5

The wide spread of fake news is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. Great efforts have been made for automatic fake news detection on a single domain (e.g., poli…