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7 papers

cs.CR2025

Safeguarding Efficacy in Large Language Models: Evaluating Resistance to Human-Written and Algorithmic Adversarial Prompts

Tiarnaigh Downey-Webb, Olamide Jogunola, Oluwaseun Ajao

This paper presents a systematic security assessment of four prominent Large Language Models (LLMs) against diverse adversarial attack vectors. We evaluate Phi-2, Llama-2-7B-Chat,…

cs.CL2025

Linguistic Patterns in Pandemic-Related Content: A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19, Constraint, and Monkeypox Datasets

Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao

This study conducts a computational linguistic analysis of pandemic-related online discourse to examine how language distinguishes health misinformation from factual communication.…

cs.CR2025

Differential Robustness in Transformer Language Models: Empirical Evaluation Under Adversarial Text Attacks

Taniya Gidatkar, Oluwaseun Ajao, Matthew Shardlow

This study evaluates the resilience of large language models (LLMs) against adversarial attacks, specifically focusing on Flan-T5, BERT, and RoBERTa-Base. Using systematically desi…

cs.SI2025

Advanced Health Misinformation Detection Through Hybrid CNN-LSTM Models Informed by the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)

Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao

Health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly challenged public health efforts globally. This study applies the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to enhance…

cs.SI2025

Analysing Health Misinformation with Advanced Centrality Metrics in Online Social Networks

Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao

The rapid spread of health misinformation on online social networks (OSNs) during global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to public health, social stability, a…

cs.IR2024

A Comparative Study of Hybrid Models in Health Misinformation Text Classification

Mkululi Sikosana, Oluwaseun Ajao, Sean Maudsley-Barton

This study evaluates the effectiveness of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models in detecting COVID-19-related misinformation on online social networks (OSNs), aiming…