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cs.AI2026

The complexities of patient-centred conversational artificial intelligence

João Matos, Olivia Buege, Donny Cheung +8

Consumer-facing health chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for symptom assessment. However, chatbot development and evaluation often rely on coop…

cs.LG2024

Selective Fine-tuning on LLM-labeled Data May Reduce Reliance on Human Annotation: A Case Study Using Schedule-of-Event Table Detection

Bhawesh Kumar, Jonathan Amar, Eric Yang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their efficacy across a broad spectrum of tasks in healthcare applications. However, often LLMs need to be fine-tuned on task-specifi…

cs.LG2025

The Geometry of Queries: Query-Based Innovations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Healthcare QA

Eric Yang, Jonathan Amar, Jong Ha Lee +2

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare question answering requires robust methods to ensure accuracy and reliability. This work introduces Query-Based Retrieval Augm…

cs.LG2023

Equitable Restless Multi-Armed Bandits: A General Framework Inspired By Digital Health

Jackson A. Killian, Manish Jain, Yugang Jia +3

Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) are a popular framework for algorithmic decision making in sequential settings with limited resources. RMABs are increasingly being used for se…

cs.LG2025

Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions

Taedong Yun, Eric Yang, Mustafa Safdari +13

We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle…

cs.GT2020

The Second-Price Knapsack Problem: Near-Optimal Real Time Bidding in Internet Advertisement

Jonathan Amar, Nicholas Renegar

In many online advertisement (ad) exchanges, ad slots are each sold via a separate second-price auction. This paper considers the bidder's problem of maximizing the value of ads th…