Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

2026

Toward Large Language Models as Universal Tools

Kian Ahrabian
University of Southern California,  2026

A Deployed Investigative AI Search Engine for Combating Human Trafficking at Web Scale

Mayank Kejriwal
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40 (47), 40015 …,  2026

Tied In on TikTok: Tie Strength and Emotional Dynamics in Algorithmic Communities

Charles Bickham, Minh Duc Chu, Arianna Yuan, Valerie Lookingbill, Ehsan Mohammadi, Stuart Murray, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22504,  2026

SWARM+: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Agent Consensus for Fully-Decentralized Data-Aware Workload Management

Komal Thareja, Krishnan Raghavan, Anirban Mandal, Ewa Deelman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19431,  2026

Information Pathways in Online Science Communication: The Role of Platform Actors and News Media

Alexandros Efstratiou, Giuseppe Russo, Luca Luceri
ICWSM'26 – 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,  2026

VoxEmo: Benchmarking Speech Emotion Recognition with Speech LLMs

Hezhao Zhang, Huang-Cheng Chou, Shrikanth Narayanan, Thomas Hain
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08936,  2026

Seamless Deception: Larger Language Models Are Better Knowledge Concealers

Dhananjay Ashok, Ruth-Ann Armstrong, Jonathan May
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14672,  2026

Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives

Emily Chen, Alexander J Bisberg, Dmitri Williams, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16136,  2026

Proof-of-Guardrail in AI Agents and What (Not) to Trust from It

Xisen Jin, Michael Duan, Qin Lin, Aaron Chan, Zhenglun Chen, Junyi Du, Xiang Ren
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05786,  2026

Speech Codec Probing from Semantic and Phonetic Perspectives

Xuan Shi, Chang Zeng, Tiantian Feng, Shih-Heng Wang, Jianbo Ma, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10371,  2026

VoxCare: Studying Natural Communication Behaviors of Hospital Caregivers through Wearable Sensing of Egocentric Audio

Tiantian Feng, Kleanthis Avramidis, Anfeng Xu, Deqi Wang, Brandon M Booth, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10888,  2026

Trade-offs Between Capacity and Robustness in Neural Audio Codecs for Adversarially Robust Speech Recognition

Jordan Prescott, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09034,  2026

Accent Vector: Controllable Accent Manipulation for Multilingual TTS Without Accented Data

Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Thanapat Trachu, Jihwan Lee, Tiantian Feng, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07534,  2026

Targeted Speaker Poisoning Framework in Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

Thanapat Trachu, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07551,  2026

Learning-free L2-Accented Speech Generation using Phonological Rules

Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Yoonjeong Lee, Jihwan Lee, Tiantian Feng, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07550,  2026

Reconstruct! Don't Encode: Self-Supervised Representation Reconstruction Loss for High-Intelligibility and Low-Latency Streaming Neural Audio Codec

Junhyeok Lee, Xiluo He, Jihwan Lee, Helin Wang, Shrikanth Narayanan, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05887,  2026

Affect Decoding in Phonated and Silent Speech Production from Surface EMG

Simon Pistrosch, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Jihwan Lee, Monica Gonzalez-Machorro, Shrikanth Narayanan, Björn W Schuller
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11715,  2026

Towards defending crosstalk-mediated attacks in multi-tenant quantum computing

Devika Mehra, Amir Kalev
Physica Scripta,  2026

Exploring Perceptual Limitations of Multimodal LLMs on Small Visual Objects

Jiarui Zhang, Jinyi Hu, Mahyar Khayatkhoei, Filip Ilievski, Maosong Sun
Transactions on Machine Learning Research,  2026

Guest editor’s note: Special issue on system-level innovations for performance and fairness at scale: From interconnects to schedulers

Roman Wyrzykowski, Ewa Deelman
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 40 (2 …,  2026