publications

2026

1. An Emergent Mirage: Is Emergent Misalignment and Realignment Indeed a Robust Phenomenon?

   Abhinav Rao, Liancheng Gong, Bin Hu, and Atharva Naik

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.09053 2026

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2. Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis

   Liancheng Gong, Zhiyang Wang, Yiwei Xu, and Julia Mendelsohn

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.14580 2026

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3. The Limits of De-politicizing—and Also of Annotation: A Case Study in Russian Media Outlets’ Social Media Posts, 2016–2024

   Liancheng Gong, Daniel J. Hopkins, and Samuel Wolken

   Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2026

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4. Iterative Formalization and Planning in Partially Observable Environments

   Liancheng Gong, Wang Zhu, Jesse Thomason, and Li Zhang

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026

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