Papers by Zhi Zeng
IMOL: Incomplete-Modality-Tolerant Learning for Multi-Domain Fake News Video Detection (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fake news video detection focus on a specific domain and assume multiple modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose an incomplete-modality-tolerant learning framework for fake news video detection . they use cross-modal consistency to reconstruct missing modalities and transferable knowledge through cross-sample reasoning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance and robustness of multi-domain fake news video detection while generalizing to unseen domains under incomplete modality conditions. |
Event-Radar: Event-driven Multi-View Learning for Multimodal Fake News Detection (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for detecting multimedia fake news have demonstrated excellent results . however, addressing event-level inconsistency and learning from poor-quality news remains a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose an Event-diven fake news detection framework that integrates visual manipulation, textual emotion and multimodal inconsistency at event-level for fake news identification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework performs well on three large-scale fake news detection benchmarks. |
From Detection to Understanding: Multi-Turn Reasoning for Video Misinformation Analysis (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus on binary veracity judgments and do not evaluate process-level justifications for misinformation models. |
| Approach: | They propose a video misinformation analysis benchmark that assesses reasoning in video misinterpretation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves reasoning accuracy and explanation quality compared to existing models . it covers 12 fine-grained deception categories and progresses from perceptual attribution to intent and persuasion analysis. |
From What Is Said to Why It Is Framed: Intent-Aware News Video Understanding (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing verification methods for short-form news videos neglect communicative intent . stylistic presentation and factual manipulation are often intertwined, resulting in shortcut learning . |
| Approach: | They propose a theory-grounded representation of communicative intent that captures creator stance, audience need activation, and communication strategy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures creator stance, audience need activation, and communication strategy. |
KuiLeiXi: a Chinese Open-Ended Text Adventure Game (2021.acl-demo)
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Yadong Xi, Xiaoxi Mao, Le Li, Lei Lin, Yanjiang Chen, Shuhan Yang, Xuhan Chen, Kailun Tao, Zhi Li, Gongzheng Li, Lin Jiang, Siyan Liu, Zeng Zhao, Minlie Huang, Changjie Fan, Zhipeng Hu
| Challenge: | Recent advances in pre-trained language models have made it possible to generate human-like text. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate an open-ended text adventure game in Chinese, named KuiLeiXi, where players interact with the AI until the plot goals are reached. |
| Outcome: | The proposed game lacks incentives and relies on players to explore on their own. |