Publications by Zhiwei Liu

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2026 | 2025 | 2024

33 publications

2026

Lu, Z., Wang, W., Yu, Y., Wang, X., Li, Z., Liu, Z. and Ananiadou, S., One AI Signal, Many Human Judgments: A Bayesian Cascade Analysis of AI-based Credibility Indicators in Online Information Spread, in: ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment, pages 10–22, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Gong, J., Jiang, M., Liu, Z., Chen, Y., Xiong, G., Liu, X., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., TimeLitmus: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Cross-Modal Understanding and Explanation Faithfulness in Event-Conditioned Time-Series Prediction, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Zhu, T., Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Liu, X. and Ananiadou, S., NTDH: Complex Reasoning for Comprehensive Affective Analysis, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Gong, J., Jiang, M., Liu, Z., Qiao, Y., Wu, W., Xiao, M., Zhang, E., Kuang, Z., Chen, Y., Huang, C., Zhou, M., Du, X., Liu, X., Xiong, G., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., ShiJianBench: From Dialogue to Decision for Long-Horizon Evaluation of Investment Advisors, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., He, Y., Ou, Q., Zhu, T., Guo, X., Peng, X. and Ananiadou, S., AuditFraudBench: Benchmarking Audit Judgment in Detecting Fraudulent Misstatements, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Yu, Y., Cao, Y., Jiang, Y., Li, H., Lu, Z., Wang, Y., Zheng, Y., Guo, X., Cheng, C. Y. and Ananiadou, S., AutoRedTrader: Autonomous Red Teaming of Trading Agents through Synthetic Misinformation Injection, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Peng, X., Xie, Z., Cao, Y., Li, H., Qian, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, V. J., He, H., Ai, X., Ma, L., Xiang, R., He, Y., Han, Y., Wang, S., Guo, Y., Jiang, M., Zhao, Y., Dong, Y., Wang, X., Chen, Y., Yuan, Y., Zhang, Q., Lyu, F., Wu, H., Yang, Y., Zhao, Z., Dai, Y., Zhang, F., Elbadry, R., Gull, A., Safder, M. U., Chen, N., Zhu, F., Cai, T., Wang, Z., Giannouris, P., Jiang, Y., Liu, Z., Kabir, M., Wang, Y., Zheng, Y., Yu, Y., Liu, W., Cao, W., Xu, A., Lu, P., Huang, J., Lin, M., Tiwari, P., Zhao, Y., Gutiérrez-Basulto, V., Yanglet, X. L., Smith, K. E., Pei, J., Cohan, A., Huang, J., Tang, Y., Lopez-Lira, A., Chen, X., Liu, X., Tsujii, J., Nie, J. and Ananiadou, S., Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Thompson, P., Rong, J., Qu, B., Guo, R., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., MisSpans: Fine-Grained False Span Identification in Cross-Domain Fake News, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Guo, R., Qu, B., Jiang, Y., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., RAAR: Retrieval Augmented Agentic Reasoning for Cross-Domain Misinformation Detection, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Qiang, Q., Gong, J., Guo, R., Liu, H., Kuang, Z., Hui, S., Yang, J., He, W., Jiang, M., Xie, Z., Chen, Y., Liu, X., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., A Survey of Simulation in Finance: Data, Methods, Applications, and Evaluation, in: SSRN, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Jiang, Y., Liu, Z., Cao, Y., He, Y., Xu, Z., Xu, C., Deng, Z., Tiwari, P., Chen, X., Lopez-Lira, A., Huang, J., Tsujii, J. and Ananiadou, S., All That Glisters Is Not Gold: A Benchmark for Reference-Free Counterfactual Financial Misinformation Detection, in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 10737–10776, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Guo, X., Liu, Z., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., EmCellLLM: Human Peri-Implantation Embryonic Cell Annotation Based on Large Language Models, in: Proceedings of the BioNLP Workshop 2026, pages 382–391, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Wang, Y., Jiang, Y., Cao, Y., Zhu, T., Guo, X., Deng, Z., Yao, Z., Liu, X., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., MFMDQwen: Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection Based on Large Language Model, in: Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models (MeLLM), pages 75–82, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Peng, X., Qian, L., Wang, Y., Xiang, R., He, Y., Ren, Y., Jiang, M., Zhang, V. J., Guo, Y., Zhao, J., He, H., Han, Y., Feng, Y., Jiang, Y., Cao, Y., Li, H., Yu, Y., Wang, X., Gao, P., Lin, S., Wang, K., Yang, S., Zhao, Y., Liu, Z., Lu, P., Huang, J., Wang, S., Papadopoulos, T., Giannouris, P., Soufleri, E., Chen, N., Deng, Z., Fu, H., Zhao, Y., Lin, M., A, M. Q., Smith, K. E., Cohan, A., Liu, X., Huang, J., Xiong, G., Lopez-Lira, A., Chen, X., Tsujii, J., Nie, J., Ananiadou, S. and Xie, Q., MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application, in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 16934–16963, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Cao, Y., Jiang, Y., Kabir, M., Giannouris, P., Xu, C., Xu, Z., Zhu, T., Tariquzzaman, M., Papadopoulos, T., Wang, Y., Qian, L., Peng, X., Xie, Z., Yuan, Y., Almheiri, S., Alnajjar, A., Chen, M., Stuart, H., Thompson, P., Tiwari, P., Lopez-Lira, A., Liu, X., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection, in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL (Findings of ACL), pages 9838–9864, 2026 [DOI] [URL]

2025

Liu, Z., Thompson, P., Rong, J. and Ananiadou, S., ConspEmoLLM-v2: A robust and stable model to detect sentiment-transformed conspiracy theories, in: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2025), pages 5311–5318, 2025 [URL]
Xu, B., Liu, Z. and Ananiadou, S., Disentangled VAD Representations via a Variational Framework for Political Stance Detection, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
Liu, Z., Wang, K., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Dong, J., Yang, K, Kabir, M., Giannouris, P., Xing, R., Park, S., Kim, J., Li, D., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal-2025 Shared Task: Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge Task, in: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal), pages 271–276, 2025 [URL]
Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Yang, K, Xie, Q., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., FMDLlama: Financial Misinformation Detection Based on Large Language Models, in: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, pages 1153–1157, 2025 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Qian, L., Xie, Q., Huang, J., Yang, K and Ananiadou, S., MMAFFBen: A Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Analysis Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs and VLMs, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
Peng, X., Qian, L., Wang, Y., Xiang, R., He, Y., Ren, Y., Jiang, M., Zhao, J., He, H., Han, Y., Feng, Y., Jiang, Y., Cao, Y., Li, H., Yu, Y., Wang, X., Gao, P., Lin, S., Wang, K., Yang, S., Zhao, Y., Liu, Z., Lu, P., Huang, J., Wang, S., Papadopoulos, T., Giannouris, P., Soufleri, E., Chen, N., Xiong, G., Deng, Z., Zhao, Y., Lin, M., Qiu, M., Smith, K., Cohan, A., Liu, X. -Y., Lopez-Lira, A., Chen, X., Tsujii, J., Nie, J., Ananiadou, S. and Xie, Q., MultiFinBen: A Multilingual, Multimodal, and Difficulty-Aware Benchmark for Financial LLM Evaluation, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
Liu, Z., Yang, K, Xie, Q., de Kock, C., Ananiadou, S. and Hovy, E., RAEmoLLM: Retrieval Augmented LLMs for Cross-Domain Misinformation Detection Using In-Context Learning based on Emotional Information, in: Proceedings of ACL 2025, pages 16508–16523, 2025 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Yang, K, Hovy, E. and Ananiadou, S., Rumor Detection by Multi-task Suffix Learning based on Time-series Dual Sentiments, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
Yang, K, Liu, Z., Xie, Q., Huang, J., Min, E. and Ananiadou, S., Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation, in: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 7032–7056, 2025 [DOI] [URL]

2024

Liu, Z., Yang, K., Xie, Q., Zhang, T. and Ananiadou, S., EmoLLMs: A Series of Emotional Large Language Models and Annotation Tools for Comprehensive Affective Analysis, 2024 [DOI] [URL] [Pure]
Yang, K., Liu, Z., Xie, Q., Huang, J., Zhang, T. and Ananiadou, S., MetaAligner: Towards Generalizable Multi-Objective Alignment of Language Models, in: Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 10/12/24, 2024 [URL] [Pure]
Liu, Z., Liu, B, Thompson, P., Yang, K and Ananiadou, S., ConspEmoLLM: Conspiracy Theory Detection Using an Emotion-Based Large Language Model, in: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2024), pages 4649–4656, 2024 [DOI] [URL]
Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Yang, K., Thompson, P., Yu, Z. and Ananiadou, S., Emotion detection for misinformation: A review, in: Information Fusion, 2024 [DOI] [Pure]
Xie, Q., Han, W., Chen, Z., Xiang, R., Zhang, X., He, Y., Xiao, M., Li, D., Dai, Y., Feng, D., Xu, Y., Kang, H., Kuang, Z., Yuan, C., Yang, K, Luo, Z., Zhang, T., Liu, Z., Xiong, G., Deng, Z., Jiang, Y., Yao, Z., Li, H., Yu, Y., Lopez-Lira, A., Wang, B., Lai, Y., Wang, H., Peng, M., Ananiadou, S. and Huang, J., FinBen: An Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models, in: Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 [URL]
Xie, Q., Huang, J., Li, D., Chen, Z., Xiang, R., Xiao, M., Yu, Y., Somasundaram, V., Yang, K, Yuan, C., Luo, Z., Liu, Z., He, Y., Jiang, Y., Li, H., Feng, D., Liu, X. -Y., Wang, B., Wang, H., Lai, Y., Suchow, J., Lopez-Lira, A., Peng, M. and Ananiadou, S., FinNLP-AgentScen-2024 Shared Task: Financial Challenges in Large Language Models - FinLLMs, in: Proceedings of the Eighth Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning, pages 119- 126, 2024 [URL]
Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Yang, K, Xie, Q., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., FMDLlama: Financial Misinformation Detection based on Large Language Models, in: arXiv, 2024 [URL]
Xie, Q., Li, D., Xiao, M., Jiang, Y., Xiang, R., Zhang, X., Chen, Z., He, Y., Han, W., Yang, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Shen, L., Kim, D., Liu, Z., Luo, Z., Yu, Y., Cao, Y., Deng, Z., Yao, Z., Li, H., Feng, D., Dai, Y., Somasundaram, V., Lu, P., Zhao, Y., Long, Y., Xiong, G., Smith, K., Yu, H., Lai, Y., Peng, M., Nie, J., Suchow, J., Liu, X. -Y., Wang, B., Lopez-Lira, A., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., Open-FinLLMs: Open Multimodal Large Language Models for Financial Applications, in: arXiv, 2024 [URL]
Yang, K, Liu, Z., Xie, Q., Huang, J., Min, E. and Ananiadou, S., Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation, in: arXiv, 2024 [URL]