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Rada Mihalcea

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

40 papers at tracked venues · 20 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×12EMNLP ×9NAACL ×6EACL ×4AAAI ×2ICLR ×2NeurIPS ×2AAMAS ×1ACM MM ×1ICML ×1

Frequent coauthors

Zhijing Jin
×12
Oana Ignat
×7
Bernhard Schölkopf
×7
Angana Borah
×6
Naihao Deng
×6
Jiarui Liu
×5
Mrinmaya Sachan
×5
Joan Nwatu
×4
Longju Bai
×4
Soujanya Poria
×4
Keenan Samway
×3
Bowen Yi
×3

Papers

  1. Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks
    ACL 2026 ·
    Guangwei Zhang
    ,
    Jianing Zhu
    ,
    Cheng Qian
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Jingrui He
    ,
    Jiaqi W. Ma
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Ahmed Abbasi
    ,
    Dongwon Lee
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
  2. Culture Affordance Atlas: Reconciling Object Diversity Through Functional Mapping
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Joan Nwatu
    ,
    Longju Bai
    ,
    Oana Ignat
    , Rada Mihalcea
  3. Democratic or Authoritarian? Probing a New Dimension of Political Biases in Large Language Models
    EACL 2026 ·
    David Guzman Piedrahita
    ,
    Irene Strauss
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Zhijing Jin
  4. NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities and Responsible Deployment
    EACL 2026 ·
    Antonia Karamolegkou
    ,
    Angana Borah
    ,
    Eunjung Cho
    ,
    Sagnik Ray Choudhury
    ,
    Martina Galletti
    ,
    Pranav Gupta
    ,
    Oana Ignat
    ,
    Priyanka Kargupta
    ,
    Neema Kotonya
    ,
    Hemank Lamba
    ,
    Sun-Joo Lee
    ,
    Arushi Mangla
    ,
    Ishani Mondal
    ,
    Fatima Zahra Moudakir
    ,
    Deniz Nazar
    ,
    Poli Nemkova
    ,
    Dina Pisarevskaya
    ,
    Naquee Rizwan
    ,
    Nazanin Sabri
    ,
    Keenan Samway
    ,
    Dominik Stammbach
    ,
    Anna Steinberg
    ,
    David Tomás
    ,
    Steven R. Wilson
    ,
    Bowen Yi
    ,
    Jessica H. Zhu
    ,
    Arkaitz Zubiaga
    ,
    Anders Søgaard
    ,
    Alexander Fraser
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Joel R. Tetreault
    ,
    Daryna Dementieva
  5. Persuasion at Play: Understanding Misinformation Dynamics in Demographic-Aware Human-LLM Interactions
    EACL 2026 ·
    Angana Borah
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Verónica Pérez-Rosas
  6. SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Vision Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Josue Torres-Fonseca
    ,
    Naihao Deng
    ,
    Yinpei Dai
    ,
    Shane Storks
    ,
    Yichi Zhang
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Casey Kennington
    ,
    Joyce Chai
  7. When Do Language Models Endorse Limitations on Human Rights Principles?
    EACL 2026 ·
    Keenan Samway
    ,
    Miu Nicole Takagi
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
    ,
    Ilias Chalkidis
    ,
    Daniel Hershcovich
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
  8. Acoustic Individual Identification of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys Using Joint Multi-Species Embeddings
    ACL 2025 ·
    Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo
    ,
    Artem Abzaliev
    ,
    Thore Bergman
    , Rada Mihalcea
  9. Are Language Models Consequentialist or Deontological Moral Reasoners?
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Keenan Samway
    ,
    Max Kleiman-Weiner
    ,
    David Guzman Piedrahita
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
  10. Benchmarking and Improving LLM Robustness for Personalized Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Chimaobi Okite
    ,
    Naihao Deng
    ,
    Kiran Bodipati
    ,
    Huaidian Hou
    ,
    Joyce Chai
    , Rada Mihalcea
  11. Causally Testing Gender Bias in LLMs: A Case Study on Occupational Bias
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Yuen Chen
    ,
    Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram
    ,
    Justus Mattern
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Zhijing Jin
  12. Chumor 2.0: Towards Better Benchmarking Chinese Humor Understanding from (Ruo Zhi Ba)
    ACL 2025 ·
    Ruiqi He
    ,
    Yushu He
    ,
    Longju Bai
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Zhenjie Sun
    ,
    Zenghao Tang
    ,
    He Wang
    ,
    Hanchen Xia
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Naihao Deng
  13. CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Naihao Deng
    ,
    Kapotaksha Das
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Vitaliy Popov
    ,
    Mohamed Abouelenien
  14. Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Expert-in-the-Loop Supervised and Preference Optimization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Siyang Liu
    ,
    Bianca Brie
    ,
    Wenda Li
    ,
    Laura Biester
    ,
    Andrew Lee
    ,
    James W. Pennebaker
    , Rada Mihalcea
  15. Evaluating LLMs' Mathematical and Coding Competency through Ontology-guided Interventions
    ACL 2025 ·
    Pengfei Hong
    ,
    Navonil Majumder
    ,
    Deepanway Ghosal
    ,
    Somak Aditya
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Soujanya Poria
  16. Examining Spanish Counseling with MIDAS: a Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Aylin Gunal
    ,
    Bowen Yi
    ,
    John Piette
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Verónica Pérez-Rosas
  17. Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Max Kleiman-Weiner
    ,
    Giorgio Piatti
    ,
    Sydney Levine
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Fernando Gonzalez Adauto
    ,
    Francesco Ortu
    ,
    András Strausz
    ,
    Mrinmaya Sachan
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
  18. MAiDE-up: Multilingual Deception Detection of AI-generated Hotel Reviews
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Oana Ignat
    ,
    Xiaomeng Xu
    , Rada Mihalcea
  19. Mind the (Belief) Gap: Group Identity in the World of LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    Angana Borah
    ,
    Marwa Houalla
    , Rada Mihalcea
  20. MoMentS: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Theory of Mind
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Emilio Villa-Cueva
    ,
    S. M. Masrur Ahmed
    ,
    Rendi Chevi
    ,
    Jan Christian Blaise Cruz
    ,
    Kareem Elzeky
    ,
    Fermin Cristobal
    ,
    Alham Fikri Aji
    ,
    Skyler Wang
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Thamar Solorio
  21. Rethinking Table Instruction Tuning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Naihao Deng
    , Rada Mihalcea
  22. Revealing Hidden Mechanisms of Cross-Country Content Moderation with Natural Language Processing
    ACL 2025 ·
    Neemesh Yadav
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Francesco Ortu
    ,
    Roya Ensafi
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
    , Rada Mihalcea
  23. Revisiting LLM Value Probing Strategies: Are They Robust and Expressive?
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Siqi Shen
    ,
    Mehar Singh
    ,
    Lajanugen Logeswaran
    ,
    Moontae Lee
    ,
    Honglak Lee
    , Rada Mihalcea
  24. The Agent Paradox: Can Multi-Agent Systems Replicate the Complexity of Human Cognition and Social Behavior?
    AAMAS 2025 · Rada Mihalcea
  25. The Power of Many: Multi-Agent Multimodal Models for Cultural Image Captioning
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Longju Bai
    ,
    Angana Borah
    ,
    Oana Ignat
    , Rada Mihalcea
  26. Uplifting Lower-Income Data: Strategies for Socioeconomic Perspective Shifts in Large Multi-modal Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Joan Nwatu
    ,
    Oana Ignat
    , Rada Mihalcea
  27. Why AI Is WEIRD and Shouldn't Be This Way: Towards AI for Everyone, with Everyone, by Everyone
    AAAI 2025 · Rada Mihalcea,
    Oana Ignat
    ,
    Longju Bai
    ,
    Angana Borah
    ,
    Luis Chiruzzo
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Claude Kwizera
    ,
    Joan Nwatu
    ,
    Soujanya Poria
    ,
    Thamar Solorio
  28. A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity
    ICML 2024 ·
    Andrew Lee
    ,
    Xiaoyan Bai
    ,
    Itamar Pres
    ,
    Martin Wattenberg
    ,
    Jonathan K. Kummerfeld
    , Rada Mihalcea
  29. CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    David Romero
    ,
    Chenyang Lyu
    ,
    Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo
    ,
    Santiago Góngora
    ,
    Aishik Mandal
    ,
    Sukannya Purkayastha
    ,
    Jesús-Germán Ortiz-Barajas
    ,
    Emilio Villa-Cueva
    ,
    Jinheon Baek
    ,
    Soyeong Jeong
    ,
    Injy Hamed
    ,
    Zheng Xin Yong
    ,
    Zheng Wei Lim
    ,
    Paula Mónica Silva
    ,
    Jocelyn Dunstan
    ,
    Mélanie Jouitteau
    ,
    David Le Meur
    ,
    Joan Nwatu
    ,
    Ganzorig Batnasan
    ,
    Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold
    ,
    Munkhjargal Gochoo
    ,
    Guido Ivetta
    ,
    Luciana Benotti
    ,
    Laura Alonso Alemany
    ,
    Hernán Maina
    ,
    Jiahui Geng
    ,
    Tiago Timponi Torrent
    ,
    Frederico Belcavello
    ,
    Marcelo Viridiano
    ,
    Jan Christian Blaise Cruz
    ,
    Dan John Velasco
    ,
    Oana Ignat
    ,
    Zara Burzo
    ,
    Chenxi Whitehouse
    ,
    Artem Abzaliev
    ,
    Teresa Clifford
    ,
    Grainne Caulfield
    ,
    Teresa Lynn
    ,
    Christian Salamea Palacios
    ,
    Vladimir Araujo
    ,
    Yova Kementchedjhieva
    ,
    Mihail Mihaylov
    ,
    Israel Abebe Azime
    ,
    Henok Biadglign Ademtew
    ,
    Bontu Fufa Balcha
    ,
    Naome A. Etori
    ,
    David Ifeoluwa Adelani
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
    ,
    Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera
    ,
    Gisela Vallejo
    ,
    Holy Lovenia
    ,
    Ruochen Zhang
    ,
    Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia
    ,
    Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar
    ,
    Toqeer Ehsan
    ,
    Rendi Chevi
    ,
    Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda
    ,
    Ryandito Diandaru
    ,
    Samuel Cahyawijaya
    ,
    Fajri Koto
    ,
    Tatsuki Kuribayashi
    ,
    Haiyue Song
    ,
    Aditya Khandavally
    ,
    Thanmay Jayakumar
    ,
    Raj Dabre
    ,
    Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam
    ,
    Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe
    ,
    Alina Dragonetti
    ,
    Luis Fernando D'Haro
    ,
    Olivier Niyomugisha
    ,
    Jay Gala
    ,
    Pranjal A. Chitale
    ,
    Fauzan Farooqui
    ,
    Thamar Solorio
    ,
    Alham Fikri Aji
  30. Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Zhiheng Lyu
    ,
    Spencer Poff
    ,
    Mrinmaya Sachan
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Mona T. Diab
    ,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
  31. Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Giorgio Piatti
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Max Kleiman-Weiner
    ,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
    ,
    Mrinmaya Sachan
    , Rada Mihalcea
  32. Do LLMs Think Fast and Slow? A Causal Study on Sentiment Analysis
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhiheng Lyu
    ,
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Fernando Gonzalez Adauto
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
    ,
    Mrinmaya Sachan
  33. EmoBench: Evaluating the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Sahand Sabour
    ,
    Siyang Liu
    ,
    Zheyuan Zhang
    ,
    June M. Liu
    ,
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Alvionna S. Sunaryo
    ,
    Tatia M. C. Lee
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Minlie Huang
  34. Implicit Personalization in Language Models: A Systematic Study
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhijing Jin
    ,
    Nils Heil
    ,
    Jiarui Liu
    ,
    Shehzaad Dhuliawala
    ,
    Yahang Qi
    ,
    Bernhard Schölkopf
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Mrinmaya Sachan
  35. Tables as Texts or Images: Evaluating the Table Reasoning Ability of LLMs and MLLMs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Naihao Deng
    ,
    Zhenjie Sun
    ,
    Ruiqi He
    ,
    Aman Sikka
    ,
    Yulong Chen
    ,
    Lin Ma
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    , Rada Mihalcea
  36. Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Navonil Majumder
    ,
    Chia-Yu Hung
    ,
    Deepanway Ghosal
    ,
    Wei-Ning Hsu
    , Rada Mihalcea,
    Soujanya Poria
  37. The Generation Gap: Exploring Age Bias in the Value Systems of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Siyang Liu
    ,
    Trisha Maturi
    ,
    Bowen Yi
    ,
    Siqi Shen
    , Rada Mihalcea
  38. Towards Implicit Bias Detection and Mitigation in Multi-Agent LLM Interactions
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Angana Borah
    , Rada Mihalcea
  39. Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Siqi Shen
    ,
    Lajanugen Logeswaran
    ,
    Moontae Lee
    ,
    Honglak Lee
    ,
    Soujanya Poria
    , Rada Mihalcea
  40. Unsupervised Discrete Representations of American Sign Language
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Artem Abzaliev
    , Rada Mihalcea