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    2026 & Preprints

  1. Analyzing Reasoning Shifts in Audio Deepfake Detection under Adversarial Attacks: The Reasoning Tax versus Shield Bifurcation Security Speech Audio LM Deepfake Explainable AI Binh Nguyen, Thai Le Preprint 2026
  2. ShareChat: A Dataset of Chatbot Conversations in the Wild Gen AI Yueru Yan, Tuc Nguyen, Bo Su, Melissa Lieffers, Thai Le Preprint
  3. LLM Reasoning Steering with External Knowledge Gen AI Explainable AI Aakriti Shah, Thai Le Preprint 2025
  4. System Prompt Poisoning: Two-Stage Malicious System Prompt Generation and Refining Framework Security Gen AI Viet Pham, Thai Le Preprint 2025
  5. Unveiling Topological Structures in Text: A Comprehensive Survey of Topological Data Analysis Applications in NLP Survey TDA Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le Preprint 2024
  6. The Effect of Similarity Measures on Accurate Stability Estimates for Local Surrogate Models in Text-based Explainable AI Gen AI Explainable AI Christopher Burger, Charles Walter, Thai Le Preprint 2024
  7. Interpretable Failure Analysis in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems Security Explainable AI Risal Shahriar Shefin, Debashis Gupta, Thai Le, Sarra Alqahtani AAMAS 2026
  8. Style-First Authorship Verification for Academic Integrity in the Generative AI Era Gen AI Human Jun Jang, Thai Le AAAI-26 (SAPP)

    2025

  1. CtrlAct: Grounding LLMs to Bridge the Gap between Embodied Instruction and Action Gen AI Qingyang Xiao, Bo Su, Ling Sun, Zhu Zhu, Thai Le NeurIPS 2025 Workshop FMEA
  2. Manipulating LLM Web Agents with Indirect Prompt Injection Attack via HTML Accessibility Tree Security Gen AI Sam Johnson, Viet Pham, Thai Le 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, 2025, Demo)
  3. What You Read Isn't What You Hear: Linguistic Sensitivity in Deepfake Speech Detection Security Speech Audio LM Gen AI Deepfake Binh Nguyen, Shuju Shi, Ryan Ofman, Thai Le 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP, 2025)
  4. Unraveling Interwoven Roles of Large Language Models in Authorship Privacy: Obfuscation, Mimicking, and Verification Privacy Gen AI Tuc Nguyen, Yifan Hu, Thai Le EMNLP 2025
  5. Harry Potter is Still Here! Probing Knowledge Leakage in Targeted Unlearned Large Language Models via Automated Adversarial Prompting Security Gen AI Unlearning Bang Trinh Tran To, Thai Le EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
  6. Turing's Echo: Investigating Linguistic Sensitivity of Deepfake Voice Detection via Gamification Security Gen AI Audio LM Deepfake Binh Nguyen, Thai Le INTERSPEECH 2025 (Demo)
  7. NoisyHate: Benchmarking Content Moderation Machine Learning Models with Human-Written Perturbations Online Security Yiran Ye, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee ICWSM 2025 (Dataset)
  8. PlagBench: Exploring the Duality of Large Language Models in Plagiarism Generation and Detection Gen AI Deepfake Jooyoung Lee, Toshini Agrawal, Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, Jinghui Chen, Dongwon Lee NAACL 2025
  9. xSRL: Safety-Aware Explainable RL - Safety as a Product of Explainability Explainable AI Security Risal Shahriar Shefin, Md Asifur Rahman, Thai Le, Sarra Alqahtani AAMAS 2025
  10. NoMatterXAI: Generating “No Matter What” Alterfactual Examples for Explaining Black-Box Text Classification Models Explainable AI Tuc Nguyen, James Michels, Hua Shen, Thai Le AAAI 2025
  11. Natural Language Processing Methods for the Study of Protein-Ligand Interactions Survey James Michels, Ramya Bandarupalli, Amin Ahangar Akbari, Thai Le, Hong Xiao, Jing Li, Erik F. Y. Hom Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2025)

    2024

  1. Adapters Mixup: Mixing Parameter-Efficient Adapters to Enhance the Adversarial Robustness of Fine-tuned Pre-trained Text Classifiers Security Tuc Nguyen, Thai Le EMNLP 2024
  2. Topology-Aware Authorship Attribution of Deepfake Texts with Diverse Writing Styles Gen AI TDA Deepfake Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee ECAI 2024
  3. Generalizability of Mixture of Domain-Specific Adapters from the Lens of Signed Weight Directions and its Application to Effective Model Pruning Security Tuc Nguyen, Thai Le ACL 2024
  4. A Curious Case of Searching for the Correlation between Training Data and Adversarial Robustness of Transformer Textual Models Security Dang Cao Cuong, Dung D. Le, Thai Le ACL 2024 (Findings)
  5. A Ship of Theseus: Curious Cases of Paraphrasing in LLM-Generated Texts Security Gen AI Deepfake Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Saranya Venkatraman, Dominik Macko, Robert Moro, Ivan Srba, Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee ACL 2024
  6. The Unexpected Effects of Google Smart Compose on Open-Ended Writing Tasks Human Gen AI Robert Cummings, Sijan Shrestha, Carrie Smith, Thai Le AIED'24
  7. ALISON: Fast and Effective Stylometric Authorship Obfuscation Security Eric Xin, Saranya Venkatraman, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee AAAI'24
  8. The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde: Analysis of r/ToastMe and r/RoastMe Users on Reddit Social Media Wooyong Jung, Nishant Asati, Lucy Phuong Doan, Thai Le, Aiping Xiong, Dongwon Lee AAAI-ICWSM'24
  9. Enhancing Brand Affinity in the Face of Political Controversy: the Role of Disclosing AI Moderator on Social Media Platforms Social Media Marie Ozanne, Maria Molina, Thai Le. AAA'24

    2023

  1. Catch Me If You GPT: Tutorial on Deepfake Texts Gen AI Deepfake Adaku Uchendu, Saranya Venkatraman, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee NAACL 2024 Tutorial / NSF Summit 2023
  2. ``Are Your Explanations Reliable?" Investigating the Stability of LIME in Explaining Text Classifiers by Marrying XAI and Adversarial Attack Explainable AI Security Christopher Burger, Lingwei Chen, Thai Le EMNLP'23
  3. MULTITuDE: Large-Scale Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmark Gen AI Deepfake Dominik Macko, Robert Moro, et al., Thai Le, Dongwon Lee EMNLP'23
  4. UPTON: Preventing Authorship Leakage from Public Text Release via Data Poisoning Security Privacy Ziyao Wang, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee Findings of EMNLP'23
  5. HANSEN: Human and AI Spoken Text Benchmark for Authorship Analysis Gen AI Audio LM Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, et al. Findings of EMNLP'23
  6. Does Human Collaboration Enhance the Accuracy of Identifying Deepfake Texts? Gen AI Human Adaku Uchendu, Jooyoung Lee, Hua Shen, Thai Le, Ting-Hao Huang and Dongwon Lee HCOMP'23
  7. A Policy-Graph Approach to Explain Reinforcement Learning Agents Tongtong Liu, Joe McCalmon, Thai Le, Md Asifur Rahman, Dongwon Lee, Sarra Alqahtani AAMASJ'23
  8. Catch Me If You GAN: Generation, Detection, and Obfuscation of Deepfake Texts Gen AI Deepfake Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee WWW'23 (Tutorial)
  9. Do Language Models Plagiarize? Gen AI Jooyoung Lee, Thai Le, Jinghui Chen, Dongwon Lee WWW'23
  10. CryptText: Interactive Discovery and Visualization of Human-Written Text Perturbations in the Wild Security Thai Le, Ye Yiran, Yifan Hu, Dongwon Lee ICDE'23

    2022

  1. SHIELD: Defending Textual Neural Networks against Multiple Black-Box Adversarial Attacks Security Thai Le, Noseong Park, Dongwon Lee ACL'22
  2. Perturbations in the Wild: Leveraging Human-Written Text Perturbations for Realistic Adversarial Attack and Defense Security Thai Le, Jooyoung Lee, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Dongwon Lee ACL'22 (Findings)
  3. CAPS: Comprehensible Abstract Policy Summaries for Explaining Reinforcement Learning Agents Explainable AI Joe McCalmon, Thai Le, Sarra Alqahtani and Dongwon Lee AAMAS'22
  4. Socialbots on Fire: Modeling Adversarial Behaviors of Socialbots via Multi-Agent HRL Security Social Media Thai Le, Long-Thanh Tran, Dongwon Lee WWW'22

    2021

  1. A Sweet Rabbit Hole by DARCY: Using Honeypots to Detect Universal Trigger’s Adversarial Attacks Security Thai Le, Noseong Park, Dongwon Lee ACL'21
  2. TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation Gen AI Deepfake Adaku Uchendu, Zeyu Ma, Thai Le, Rui Zhang and Dongwon Lee EMNLP'21 (Findings)
  3. CHECKER: Detecting Clickbait Thumbnails with Weak Supervision and Co-Teaching Weak Supervision Tianyi Xie, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee ECML-PKDD'21
  4. ”Does Clickbait Actually Attract More Clicks? Three Clickbait studies you must read Social Media Maria Molina, S. Shyam Sundar, Md Main Uddin Rony, Naeemul Hassan, Thai Le, Dongwon CHI'21
  5. Large-Scale Data-Driven Airline Market Influence Maximization Duanshun Li, Jing Liu, Jinsung Jeon, Seoyoung Hong, Thai Le, Noseong Park, Dongwon Lee KDD'21

    2020

  1. MALCOM: Generating Malicious Comments to Attack Neural Fake News Detection Models Social Media Security Gen AI Thai Le, Suhang Wang, Dongwon Lee ICDM'20
  2. GRACE: Generating Concise and Informative Contrastive Sample to Explain Neural Network Model’s Prediction Explainable AI Thai Le, Suhang Wang, Dongwon Lee KDD'20
  3. Authorship Attribution for Neural Text Generation Gen AI Deepfake Adaku Uchendu, Thai Le, Kai Shu, Dongwon Lee EMNLP'20

    2019 & Older

  1. 5 Sources of Clickbaits You Should Know! Social Media Gen AI Thai Le, Kai Shu, Maria Molina, Dongwon Lee, Shyam Sundar, Huan Liu ASONAM'19
  2. Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News Social Media Maria Molina, Jinping Wang, S. Shyam Sundar, Thai Le, Carlina DiRusso Communication Research, 2019
  3. How Gullible Are You? Predicting Susceptibility to Fake News Social Media Jia Shen, Robert Cowell, Aditi Gupta, Thai Le, Amulya Yadav, Dongwon Lee WebSci'19
  4. ”Fake News” is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content Social Media Maria Molina, Shyam Sundar, Thai Le, Dongwon Lee American Behavioral Scientist (2019)
  5. A Machine Learning Framework for Automating Well Log Depth Matching Signal Processing Thai Le, Lin Liang, Timon Zimmermann, Smaine Zeroug, Denis Helio Journal of Petrophysics, 2019