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DistilKaggle: a distilled dataset of Kaggle Jupyter notebooks
Published in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2024
DistilKaggle introduces a rigorously curated dataset of Kaggle Jupyter notebooks designed to support empirical studies and machine learning research.
Recommended citation: Mostafavi Ghahfarokhi, M., Asgari, A., Abolnejadian, M., & Heydarnoori, A. (2024). "DistilKaggle: a distilled dataset of Kaggle Jupyter notebooks." Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 647-651.
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Predicting the understandability of computational notebooks through code metrics analysis
Published in Empirical Software Engineering, 2025
This paper investigates how various code metrics can be utilized to evaluate and predict the understandability of computational notebooks.
Recommended citation: Ghahfarokhi, M. M., Asadi, A., Asgari, A., Mohammadi, B., & Heydarnoori, A. (2025). "Predicting the understandability of computational notebooks through code metrics analysis." Empirical Software Engineering, 30, 98.
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From Bias to Breakdown: Benchmarking Failure Mode Analysis of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Foundation Models in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2025
This study provides a comprehensive benchmarking of failure modes in foundation models applied to single-cell RNA sequencing data for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Recommended citation: Naziri, A., Asgari, A., An, A., Sachlos, E., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2025). "From Bias to Breakdown: Benchmarking Failure Mode Analysis of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Foundation Models in Acute Myeloid Leukemia." Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 7(1), 553-557.
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MedPerturbing LLMs: A Comparative Study of Toxicity, Prompt Tuning, and Jailbreaks in Medical QA
Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2025
This comparative study evaluates the robustness and safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of medical question-answering.
Recommended citation: Asgari, A., Naziri, A., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2025). "MedPerturbing LLMs: A Comparative Study of Toxicity, Prompt Tuning, and Jailbreaks in Medical QA." Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 7(1), 438-447.
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Improving Classification of Cell Types in Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Self-guided Masking Technique
Published in NeurIPS 2025 Workshop: AI Virtual Cells and Instruments: A New Era in Drug Discovery and Development, 2025
This research presents a novel computational approach utilizing self-guided masking techniques to enhance the classification of cell types in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Recommended citation: Naziri, A., Asgari, A., Sachlos, E., An, A., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2025). Improving Classification of Cell Types in Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Self-guided Masking Technique. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop: AI Virtual Cells and Instruments: A New Era in Drug Discovery and Development.
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Responsible Foundation Models for Healthcare: Risks, Opportunities, and Pathways to Responsibility
Published in AI for a Just World: Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind (Chapter 6), Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
A book chapter on the risks, opportunities, and responsible use of foundation models in healthcare.
Recommended citation: Seyyed-Kalantari, L., Kolahdouzi, M., Asgari, A., Hamidi, H., Naziri, A., Parkhimchyk, A., Tavakoli Afshari, S. M., Wu, H., Konate, S., & Mohanna, S. (2026). Responsible Foundation Models for Healthcare: Risks, Opportunities, and Pathways to Responsibility. In AI for a Just World: Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind, Chapter 6, 72–81. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
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MAM: Multinomial Attention Masking for Foundation Models on Sparse Single-Cell RNA-seq Data
Published in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), PMLR 333, 2026
MAM learns which gene positions to mask when pretraining foundation models on sparse single-cell RNA-seq data.
Recommended citation: Naziri, A., Asgari, A., An, A., Sachlos, E., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2026). MAM: Multinomial Attention Masking for Foundation Models on Sparse Single-Cell RNA-seq Data. Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning, PMLR 333, 295–311.
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Quantifying Metric and Model Agreement in Bias Evaluation of Large Language Models
Published in Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
This paper presents a comprehensive study quantifying the agreement across various bias evaluation metrics and Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming to provide a more robust understanding of fairness assessments in natural language processing.
Recommended citation: Asgari, A., Wu, H., Naziri, A., Kolahdouzi, M., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2026). "Quantifying Metric and Model Agreement in Bias Evaluation of Large Language Models." Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 16868–16933.
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ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts
Published in Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), 2026
ZIP measures the importance of individual words in zero-shot instructional prompts through controlled perturbations.
Recommended citation: Gohari Sadr, N., Madhusudan, S., Asgari, A., Sajjad, H., Seyyed-Kalantari, L., & Emami, A. (2026). ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts. Proceedings of the 15th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2026), 428–453.
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Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types
Published in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), PMLR 315, 2026
This research demonstrates that machine learning algorithms trained solely on normal chest X-rays can inadvertently learn to predict a patient`s health insurance type.
Recommended citation: Chen, C.-Y., Abulibdeh, R., Asgari, A., Ordóñez, S. A. C., Celi, L. A., Goode, D., Hamidi, H., McCague, N., Seyyed-Kalantari, L., Sounack, T., & Kuo, P.-C. (2026). Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, PMLR 315, 4166–4181.
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Same Chart, Different Story: Bias in Vision-Language Chart Interpretation
Published in EMNLP 2026 (Long Paper), 2026
ChartBias evaluates bias in vision-language chart interpretation through narrative shift, group hallucination, and preference polarity.
Recommended citation: Rahman, M., Wu, H., Asgari, A., Hoque, E., & Seyyed-Kalantari, L. (2026). Same Chart, Different Story: Bias in Vision-Language Chart Interpretation. EMNLP 2026.
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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