Xiaofan Zheng  (郑小凡)

Hi there, thanks for visiting my website! I am a junior undergraduate student majoring in Software Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. I am also a member of the Baidu Big Data and AI Elite Class at Xi’an Jiaotong University.

I am currently interning at the LUD Undergraduate Research Group at Xi'an Jiaotong University, under the supervision of Professor Minnan Luo.

LUD is founded by Professor Minnan Luo and a group of undergraduates interested in NLP.  During my time with the LUD, I have found many like-minded friends, and together we grow and collaborate. To date, dozens of students have published research papers as first authors during their undergraduate studies.

My primary research interest lies in building a healthier and more transparent internet information ecosystem in the age of artificial intelligence.

Recently, I have been focusing on the safety challenges posed by LLMs, including toxicity and bias. Additionally, I have been exploring privacy risks such as membership inference attacks(MIA).

I am looking for master's or doctoral programs that can accept me in 2026!

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News
[2025-05] Our paper "DHMD: Uncertainty-based Dynamic LVLMs Integration for Efficient Harmful Meme Detection" has been accepted at ACL 2025@workshop NLP4PosImpact (non-archival)!
[2025-1-21] 🎉🎉🎉 Our paper "From Predictions to Analyses: Rationale-Augmented Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models" has been accepted at WWW 2025 Main Conference (oral) !!!
The Oral Presentation Schedule for conference can be found at this Link. We welcome everyone to connect and engage with us.
[2024-11] Our paper "Unveiling Fake News with Adversarial Arguments Generated by Multimodal Large Language Models" has been accepted at COLING 2025 Main Conference (short paper)!
[2024-09] Our paper "From Predictions to Analyses: Explainable Rationales-Augmented Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models" has been accepted at EMNLP 2024@workshop NLP for Positive Impact (non-archival)!
Under review
Tracing Training Footprints: A Calibration Approach for Membership Inference Attacks Against Multimodal Large Language Models
Submissions under review
DHMD: Uncertainty-based Dynamic LVLMs Integration for Efficient Harmful Meme Detection
Submissions under review
Deconstructing Harmful Memes: An Explainable Fine-Grained Approach via Multi-hop Chain-of-Thought and Semantic Graphs
Submissions under review
Accepted
DHMD: Uncertainty-based Dynamic LVLMs Integration for Efficient Harmful Meme Detection
Xiaofan Zheng*, Xinghao Wang*, Minnan Luo
ACL 2025@workshop NLP4PosImpact (non-archival)
From Predictions to Analyses: Rationale-Augmented Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models
Xiaofan Zheng, Zinan Zeng, Heng Wang, Yuyang Bai, Yuhan Liu, Minnan Luo
THE WEB CONFERENCE 2025, Web4Good track as oral presentation.
link/ code/ oral presentation schedule

Despite their remarkable reasoning skills, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) struggle to reliably detect multimodal fake news, often falling short of specialized detection models. While LVLMs excel at dissecting news content from multiple angles, they stumble when synthesizing these insights into accurate judgments. Our proposed EARAM framework bridges this gap by adaptively extracting critical rationales from their analyses and generating trustworthy explanations.

Unveiling Fake News with Adversarial Arguments Generated by Multimodal Large Language Models
Xiaofan Zheng, Minnan Luo, Xinghao Wang
COLING 2025, NLP Applications track (short paper)
link/ code

In the age of social media, detecting fake news, especially in multimodal content, is more critical than ever. Conventional methods often fall short due to their black-box nature and lack of real-world understanding. We leverage Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to introduce adversarial reasoning through debates. By generating opposing arguments and learning from contradictory evidence, our approach transforms the model into a skilled debate referee, achieving more effective multimodal fusion and fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on four datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, providing a powerful new tool to combat fake news.

From Predictions to Analyses: Explainable Rationales-Augmented Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models
Xiaofan Zheng, Zinan Zeng, Heng Wang, Yuyang Bai, Yuhan Liu, Minnan Luo
EMNLP 2024@workshop NLP for Positive Impact (non-archival)
link / poster/ code
Education
Xi'an Jiaotong University
2022.09 - 2026.07 (Expected)

B.E. in Software Engineering
GPA: 87.2 / 100.0
Advisor: Prof. Minnan Luo
Academic Experiences
Luo lab Undergraduate Division (LUD) @ XJTU

Advisor: Prof. Minnan Luo
Service
  • Reviewer:  WWW 2025 (RespWeb track; WebforGood track),   ICLR@VerifAI 2025,   EMNLP@NLP4P 2024
Miscellaneous
  • I enjoy playing table tennis🏓 and won the first place in a district-level team competition during elementary school.
  • I enjoy playing badminton🏸 and was a member of the school team in high school.
  • I am a fan of Miyuki Nakajima.

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