Publications

2026

1. Detecting Post-generation Edits to Watermarked LLM Outputs via Error-Correcting Codes

   Zewei Deng, Muhammad Siddeek, Liyan Xie, and 4 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, Oct 2026

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   @inproceedings{deng2026detecting,
     title = {Detecting Post-generation Edits to Watermarked {LLM} Outputs via Error-Correcting Codes},
     author = {Deng, Zewei and Siddeek, Muhammad and Xie, Liyan and Seif, Mohamed and Wang, Mengdi and Poor, H. Vincent and Goldsmith, Andrea},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: {EMNLP} 2026},
     month = oct,
     year = {2026},
     address = {Budapest, Hungary},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     pages = {45788--45796},
   }

2. Anchor-ECC: Local Integrity Checking for Watermarked LLM Outputs via Error-Correcting Codes

   Zewei Deng, Muhammad Siddeek, Liyan Xie, and 4 more authors

   2026

   arXiv:2609.38722; submitted to TMLR

   arXiv Bib Website

   @unpublished{deng2026local,
     title = {{Anchor-ECC}: Local Integrity Checking for Watermarked {LLM} Outputs via Error-Correcting Codes},
     author = {Deng, Zewei and Siddeek, Muhammad and Xie, Liyan and Seif, Mohamed and Wang, Mengdi and Poor, H. Vincent and Goldsmith, Andrea},
     note = {arXiv:2609.38722; submitted to TMLR},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. Watermarkability: Measuring and Improving Language-Model Compatibility with Logit-Based Watermarks

   Zewei Deng, Mohamed Seif, and Liyan Xie

   2026

   arXiv:2610.22810

   arXiv Bib

   @unpublished{deng2026watermarkability,
     title = {Watermarkability: Measuring and Improving Language-Model Compatibility with Logit-Based Watermarks},
     author = {Deng, Zewei and Seif, Mohamed and Xie, Liyan},
     note = {arXiv:2610.22810},
     year = {2026},
   }

4. Learning to Test: Physics-Informed Representation for Dynamical Instability Detection

   Minxing Zheng, Zewei Deng, Liyan Xie, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10967, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{zheng2026learning,
     title = {Learning to Test: Physics-Informed Representation for Dynamical Instability Detection},
     author = {Zheng, Minxing and Deng, Zewei and Xie, Liyan and Zhu, Shixiang},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.10967},
     year = {2026},
   }

5. HawkesLLM: Semantic Uncertainty Propagation in Agentic Text Simulation

   Zewei Deng, Tinghan Ye, and Liyan Xie

   In ICML Workshop on Statistical Frameworks for Uncertainty in Agentic Systems, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{deng2026hawkesllm,
     title = {{HawkesLLM}: Semantic Uncertainty Propagation in Agentic Text Simulation},
     author = {Deng, Zewei and Ye, Tinghan and Xie, Liyan},
     booktitle = {ICML Workshop on Statistical Frameworks for Uncertainty in Agentic Systems},
     year = {2026},
   }

6. Distributionally Robust Inference for Delayed Point Processes

   Zewei Deng, Shuyi Chen, Shixiang Zhu, and 1 more author

   Working paper. Workshop version forthcoming at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Workshop , 2026

   Extended manuscript in preparation for submission to the Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS).

   Bib

   @unpublished{deng2026robust,
     title = {Distributionally Robust Inference for Delayed Point Processes},
     author = {Deng, Zewei and Chen, Shuyi and Zhu, Shixiang and Xie, Liyan},
     note = {Extended manuscript in preparation for submission to the Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS).},
     year = {2026},
   }