Papers by Yaxiong Wu
Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for manipulation detection and grounding focus on manipulator type classification under result-oriented supervision. |
| Approach: | They propose a reasoning-driven framework that shifts learning from outcome fitting to process modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art with superior generalization on large-scale datasets. |
From Form to Logic: Masked Reconstruction and Reasoning Distillation for Short Video Fake News Detection (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing detectors that detect short video fake news suffer from global-alignment bias and lack generative reasoning are too late. |
| Approach: | They propose a Perception-Cognition Dual-driven Detector that jointly observes the form and probes the logic for short video fake news detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed detector outperforms baseline detectors on real-world datasets while improving interpretability and robustness in data scarcity scenarios. |
Generating Attribution Reports for Manipulated Facial Images: A Dataset and Baseline (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing facial forgery detection methods focus on binary classification or pixel-level localization, providing little semantic insight into the nature of the manipulation. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal task that localizes forged regions and generates natural language explanations grounded in editing process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task localizes forged regions and generates natural language explanations grounded in editing process. |
Adaptive Schema-aware Event Extraction with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Event extraction is a task in natural language processing that involves identifying and extracting event information from unstructured text. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm that combines schema paraphrasing with schema retrieval-augmented generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm retrieves paraphrased schemas and accurately generates targeted structures. |