Publications
This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.
2026
Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination
Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Yaokang Wu, Linhao Jin, Bo Shui, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Xuezhe Ma
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15864, 2026
Second Guess: Detecting Uncertainty Through Abstention and Answer Stability in Small Language Models
Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25394, 2026
Permutation Matrix Representation for Quantum Simulation: Comparative Resource Analysis
Hriday Sabharwal, Itay Hen
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29279, 2026
The Traffickers' Pitch: Detecting Deceptive Recruitment in Online Job Boards
Siyi Zhou, Peiran Qiu, Tanishq Salkar, Leonardo Blas Urrutia, Dacheng Shen, Deyang Hsu, Eun Cheol Choi, Emilio Ferrara
Workshop Proceedings of the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and …, 2026
How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models
Daniel C Ruiz, Anna Serbina, Ashwin Rao, Emilio Ferrara, Luca Luceri
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22880, 2026
Rethinking Skip Connections in Diffusion Models for Replication Mitigation
Chenghao Li, Yuke Zhang, Dake Chen, Jingqi Xu, Peter A Beerel
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …, 2026
DRInQ: Evaluating Conversational Implicature with Controlled Context Variation
Hirona Jacqueline Arai, Xiang Ren
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.24267, 2026
ChildVox: A Speech, Audio, and Large Audio-Language Model Benchmark in Understanding and Characterizing Sound across Childhood
Tiantian Feng, Anfeng Xu, Xuan Shi, Aditya Kommineni, Shakhrul Iman Siam, Megan Micheletti, Zhonghao Shi, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Mi Zhang, Lynn K Perry, Catherine Lord, Daniel Messinger, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29257, 2026
A Multi-dimensional Framework for Evaluating Generalization in EEG Foundation Models
Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28563, 2026
Aperiodic and Low-Frequency Spectral Bias in Reconstruction based EEG Foundation Models
Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou, Kleanthis Avramidis, Simon Bock Segaard, Jeppe Roden Münster, Andreas Peter Juhl Hansen, Takfarinas Medani, Tiantian Feng, Richard Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26434, 2026
Can Large Language Models Assess the Social Impact of Conspiracy Theories?
Bohan Jiang, Dawei Li, Zhen Tan, Xinyi Zhou, Ashwin Rao, Kristina Lerman, H Russell Bernard, Huan Liu
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 20 …, 2026
GTA: Generating Long-Horizon Tasks for Web Agents at Scale
Tenghao Huang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Yilun Zhou, Muhao Chen, Jonathan May, Chien-Sheng Wu
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29218, 2026
Modeling Community Attitude through Reaction Tone: A Human-AI Collaborative Framework for Evaluating LLM Alignment with Linguistic Behaviors in Online Communities
Nuan Wen, Xuezhe Ma
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27388, 2026
ApexClaw: A Persistent Infrastructure for Agentic Scientific Research
Zhisheng Tang, Mayank Kejriwal
Preprints, 2026
ExComm: Exploration-Stage Communication for Error-Resilient Agentic Test-Time Scaling
Woomin Song, Beomjun Kim, Daewon Choi, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Saket Dingliwal, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22102, 2026
IdleSpec: Exploiting Idle Time via Speculative Planning for LLM Agents
Daewon Choi, Kyunghyun Park, Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22154, 2026
RoPE Distinguishes Neither Positions Nor Tokens in Long Contexts, Provably
Yufeng Du, Phillip Harris, Minyang Tian, Eliu A Huerta, Srikanth Ronanki, Subendhu Rongali, Aram Galstyan, Hao Peng
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15514, 2026
Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits
Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao, Ding Chen, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18890, 2026
Who, Why, and How: Disentangling the Effects of Moderation Source, Context, and Language on Post-Removal Behavior
Siyi Zhou, Lindsay Young, Marlon Twyman, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16204, 2026