University of Southern California（南加州大学）

Vulnerability of LLMs to Vertically Aligned Text Manipulations

Zhecheng Li, Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi, Yujun Cai, Zhen Xiong, Nanyun Peng, Kai-wei Chang

机构 * University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校） ； University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校） ； The University of Queensland（昆士兰大学） ； National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； University of California, Merced（加州大学默塞德分校） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Main)

AHA -- Predicting What Matters Next: Online Highlight Detection Without Looking Ahead

Aiden Chang, Celso De Melo, Stephanie M. Lukin

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory（陆军研究实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted at NeurIPS 2025, 32 pages, 5 figures

Non-locally averaged pruned reassigned spectrograms: a tool for glottal pulse visualization and analysis

Gabriel J. Griswold, Mark A. Griswold

机构 * University of Southern California（美国南加州大学） ； Case Western Reserve University（凯斯西储大学） 纠错

Comments Submitted to Speech Communications. 16 pages, 7 figs, 1 table

NaviSense: A Multimodal Assistive Mobile application for Object Retrieval by Persons with Visual Impairment

Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Fuli Qiao, Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas, Yanpei Shi, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Laurent Itti, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

机构 * The Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学） ； Independent Researcher（独立研究者） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Analyzing Uncertainty of LLM-as-a-Judge: Interval Evaluations with Conformal Prediction

Huanxin Sheng, Xinyi Liu, Hangfeng He, Jieyu Zhao, Jian Kang

机构 * University of Rochester（罗切斯特大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； MBZUAI 纠错

Comments To appear in EMNLP 2025. Our code and data are available at \url{https://github.com/BruceSheng1202/Analyzing_Uncertainty_of_LLM-as-a-Judge

BRAID: Input-Driven Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling of Neural-Behavioral Data

Parsa Vahidi, Omid G. Sani, Maryam M. Shanechi

机构 * Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2 Computer Science, 3 Biomedical Engineering（电气与计算机工程、计算机科学、生物医学工程） ； Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC)（维特比工程学院，南加州大学） 纠错

Comments Published at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025. Code is available at GitHub https://github.com/ShanechiLab/BRAID

Journal ref ICLR 2025

Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data

Mohammad Hosseini, Maryam M. Shanechi

机构 * Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC)（维特比工程学院，南加州大学） 纠错

Comments Published at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025. Code available at: https://github.com/ShanechiLab/SBIND/

Journal ref ICML 2025

Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis with application to neural data

Han-Lin Hsieh, Maryam M. Shanechi

机构 * Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程系） ； Viterbi School of Engineering（维特比工程学院） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments Published at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025. Code is available at GitHub https://github.com/ShanechiLab/PGPCA.git

Journal ref ICLR 2025

PEEK: Guiding and Minimal Image Representations for Zero-Shot Generalization of Robot Manipulation Policies

Jesse Zhang, Marius Memmel, Kevin Kim, Dieter Fox, Jesse Thomason, Fabio Ramos, Erdem Bıyık, Abhishek Gupta, Anqi Li

机构 * University of Washington（华盛顿大学） ； NVIDIA（NVIDIA公司） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； Allen Institute for AI（人工智能研究所） 纠错

Comments 11 pages

Promote, Suppress, Iterate: How Language Models Answer One-to-Many Factual Queries

Tianyi Lorena Yan, Robin Jia

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025

Language Models Can Predict Their Own Behavior

Dhananjay Ashok, Jonathan May

机构 * Information Sciences Institute（信息科学研究所） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2025)

SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning

Yiting Wang, Wanghao Ye, Ping Guo, Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Bowei Tian, Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen, Sihan Chen, Ankur Srivastava, Qingfu Zhang, Gang Qu, Ang Li

机构 * University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学科帕克分校） ； City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments NeurIPS 2025

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling and Benchmarking Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets

Shenzhe Zhu, Jiao Sun, Yi Nian, Tobin South, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei

机构 * Stanford University（斯坦福大学） ； University of Toronto（多伦多大学） ； Google DeepMind（谷歌DeepMind） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院） 纠错

MobiZO: Enabling Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning at the Edge via Inference Engines

Lei Gao, Amir Ziashahabi, Yue Niu, Salman Avestimehr, Murali Annavaram

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Rethinking Backdoor Detection Evaluation for Language Models

Jun Yan, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Xiang Ren, Robin Jia

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025

Implicit Behavioral Alignment of Language Agents in High-Stakes Crowd Simulations

Yunzhe Wang, Gale M. Lucas, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Volkan Ustun

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； USC Institute for Creative Technologies（USC创意技术研究所） 纠错

Comments Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Main Conference

'Rich Dad, Poor Lad': How do Large Language Models Contextualize Socioeconomic Factors in College Admission ?

Huy Nghiem, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, John Prindle, Rachel Rudinger, Hal Daumé

机构 * University of Maryland（马里兰大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025, ver 1, 35 pages

Evaluating Behavioral Alignment in Conflict Dialogue: A Multi-Dimensional Comparison of LLM Agents and Humans

Deuksin Kwon, Kaleen Shrestha, Bin Han, Elena Hayoung Lee, Gale Lucas

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； USC for Institute of Creative Technologies（南加州大学创意技术研究所） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference)

A Data-Driven Discretized CS:GO Simulation Environment to Facilitate Strategic Multi-Agent Planning Research

Yunzhe Wang, Volkan Ustun, Chris McGroarty

机构 * USC Institute for Creative Technologies（USC创意技术研究所） ； Dept. of Computer Science University of Southern California（计算机科学系大学南加州大学） ； U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command（美国陆军作战能力发展指挥部） 纠错

Comments Accepted at the Winter Simulation Conference 2025, December, Seattle USA

ReWiND: Language-Guided Rewards Teach Robot Policies without New Demonstrations

Jiahui Zhang, Yusen Luo, Abrar Anwar, Sumedh Anand Sontakke, Joseph J Lim, Jesse Thomason, Erdem Biyik, Jesse Zhang

机构 * Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California（南加州大学计算机科学系） ； Amazon Robotics（亚马逊机器人技术） ； Kim Jaechul School of Artificial Intelligence, KAIST（韩国科学技术院人工智能学院） 纠错

Comments CoRL 2025 Oral

ASTRA: A Negotiation Agent with Adaptive and Strategic Reasoning via Tool-integrated Action for Dynamic Offer Optimization

Deuksin Kwon, Jiwon Hae, Emma Clift, Daniel Shamsoddini, Jonathan Gratch, Gale M. Lucas

机构 * University of Southern California（美国南加州大学） ； St. Olaf College（圣奥拉夫学院） ； Northwestern University（西北大学） ； USC for Institute of Creative Technologies（美国南加州大学创意技术研究所） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference)

A long-form single-speaker real-time MRI speech dataset and benchmark

Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Kevin Huang, Xuan Shi, Yoonjeong Lee, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan

机构 * Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, University of Southern California（南加州大学信号分析与解释实验室） ； Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California（南加州大学语言学系） 纠错

SPAR: Scalable LLM-based PDDL Domain Generation for Aerial Robotics

Songhao Huang, Yuwei Wu, Guangyao Shi, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar

机构 * GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学GRASP实验室） ； Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California（南加州大学计算机科学系） 纠错

Controllable Pareto Trade-off between Fairness and Accuracy

Yongkang Du, Jieyu Zhao, Yijun Yang, Tianyi Zhou

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； University of Technology Sydney（悉尼技术大学） ； University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学学院市分校） 纠错

Uncertainty-Aware Hourly Air Temperature Mapping at 2 km Resolution via Physics-Guided Deep Learning

Shengjie Kris Liu, Siqin Wang, Lu Zhang

机构 * Spatial Sciences Institute（空间科学研究所） ； Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences（文理学院） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences（流行病学与公共卫生科学系生物统计学部） ； Keck School of Medicine（凯克医学院） 纠错

Fast Fourier Transform-Based Spectral and Temporal Gradient Filtering for Differential Privacy

Hyeju Shin, Vincent-Daniel, Kyudan Jung, Seongwon Yun

机构 * Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)（电子电信研究所） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； KAIST（韩国科学技术院） ； Hanwha Life Insurance（翰威特生命保险） ； OpenNN Lab, MODULABS（OpenNN实验室，MODULABS） 纠错

The MSP-Podcast Corpus

Carlos Busso, Reza Lotfian, Kusha Sridhar, Ali N. Salman, Wei-Cheng Lin, Lucas Goncalves, Srinivas Parthasarathy, Abinay Reddy Naini, Seong-Gyun Leem, Luz Martinez-Lucas, Huang-Cheng Chou, Pravin Mote

机构 * Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University（语言技术研究所，卡内基梅隆大学） ； Athenahealth ； Accenture LLP ； ARRAY Innovation ； Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bosch Research（博世人工智能中心，博世研究） ； Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas（埃里克·乔纳森工程与计算机科学学院，德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校） ； Reality Labs at Meta Platforms, Inc.（Meta平台现实实验室） ； Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California (USC)（信号分析与解释实验室（SAIL），明希德电子与计算机工程系，南加州大学（USC）） 纠错

Comments IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing submission

Adaptive Rainfall Forecasting from Multiple Geographical Models Using Matrix Profile and Ensemble Learning

Dung T. Tran, Huyen Ngoc Huyen, Hong Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Phan, Nam-Phong Nguyen

机构 * Ha Noi University of Science and Technology（河内科学技术大学） ； Center of Environmental Intelligence（环境智能中心） ； VinUniversity（文大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错

Aggregation Artifacts in Subjective Tasks Collapse Large Language Models' Posteriors

Georgios Chochlakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Kristina Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； National Technical University of Athens（雅典国立技术大学） 纠错

Comments 16 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables

Journal ref Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5513-5528, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2025

VRAE: Vertical Residual Autoencoder for License Plate Denoising and Deblurring

Cuong Nguyen, Dung T. Tran, Hong Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Phan, Nam-Phong Nguyen

机构 * Ha Noi University of Science and Technology（河内科学技术大学） ； Center of Environmental Intelligence（环境智能中心） ； VinUniversity（文大学） ； University of Southern California（南加州大学） 纠错