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Publications (19)

cs.CL2023

A Data-centric Framework for Improving Domain-specific Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets

Iva Bojic, Josef Halim, Verena Suharman +6

Low-quality data can cause downstream problems in high-stakes applications. Data-centric approach emphasizes on improving dataset quality to enhance model performance. High-quality…

cs.CV2017

Truly Multi-modal YouTube-8M Video Classification with Video, Audio, and Text

Zhe Wang, Kingsley Kuan, Mathieu Ravaut +13

The YouTube-8M video classification challenge requires teams to classify 0.7 million videos into one or more of 4,716 classes. In this Kaggle competition, we placed in the top 3% o…

cs.CL2024

Enriching Datasets with Demographics through Large Language Models: What's in a Name?

Khaled AlNuaimi, Gautier Marti, Mathieu Ravaut +3

Enriching datasets with demographic information, such as gender, race, and age from names, is a critical task in fields like healthcare, public policy, and social sciences. Such de…

cs.CL2023

SummaReranker: A Multi-Task Mixture-of-Experts Re-ranking Framework for Abstractive Summarization

Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty, Nancy F. Chen

Sequence-to-sequence neural networks have recently achieved great success in abstractive summarization, especially through fine-tuning large pre-trained language models on the down…

cs.CL2024

On Context Utilization in Summarization with Large Language Models

Mathieu Ravaut, Aixin Sun, Nancy F. Chen +1

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle lon…

stat.AP2019

Diabetes Mellitus Forecasting Using Population Health Data in Ontario, Canada

Mathieu Ravaut, Hamed Sadeghi, Kin Kwan Leung +2

Leveraging health administrative data (HAD) datasets for predicting the risk of chronic diseases including diabetes has gained a lot of attention in the machine learning community…

stat.ML2018

ReGAN: RE[LAX|BAR|INFORCE] based Sequence Generation using GANs

Aparna Balagopalan, Satya Gorti, Mathieu Ravaut +1

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have seen steep ascension to the peak of ML research zeitgeist in recent years. Mostly catalyzed by its success in the domain of image genera…

stat.ML2018

Gradient descent revisited via an adaptive online learning rate

Mathieu Ravaut, Satya Gorti

Any gradient descent optimization requires to choose a learning rate. With deeper and deeper models, tuning that learning rate can easily become tedious and does not necessarily le…

cs.CV2017

Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Detection: Tackling the Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 Challenge

Kingsley Kuan, Mathieu Ravaut, Gaurav Manek +7

We present a deep learning framework for computer-aided lung cancer diagnosis. Our multi-stage framework detects nodules in 3D lung CAT scans, determines if each nodule is malignan…

cs.LG2025

Measuring What LLMs Think They Do: SHAP Faithfulness and Deployability on Financial Tabular Classification

Saeed AlMarri, Mathieu Ravaut, Kristof Juhasz +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted significant attention for classification tasks, offering a flexible alternative to trusted classical machine learning models like LightG…

cs.CL2025

A Comprehensive Survey of Contamination Detection Methods in Large Language Models

Mathieu Ravaut, Bosheng Ding, Fangkai Jiao +6

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent years, abundant new opportunities are emerging, but also new challenges, among which contamination is quickly becoming criti…

cs.CL2025

StructTest: Benchmarking LLMs' Reasoning through Compositional Structured Outputs

Hailin Chen, Fangkai Jiao, Mathieu Ravaut +8

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) demands robust, unbiased, and scalable evaluation methods. However, human annotations are costly to scale, model-based evaluat…

cs.CL2024

ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up?

Hailin Chen, Fangkai Jiao, Xingxuan Li +5

Upon its release in late 2022, ChatGPT has brought a seismic shift in the entire landscape of AI, both in research and commerce. Through instruction-tuning a large language model (…

cs.CL2023

PromptSum: Parameter-Efficient Controllable Abstractive Summarization

Mathieu Ravaut, Hailin Chen, Ruochen Zhao +3

Prompt tuning (PT), a parameter-efficient technique that only tunes the additional prompt embeddings while keeping the backbone pre-trained language model (PLM) frozen, has shown p…

cs.CL2025

Interpreting LLMs as Credit Risk Classifiers: Do Their Feature Explanations Align with Classical ML?

Saeed AlMarri, Kristof Juhasz, Mathieu Ravaut +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as flexible alternatives to classical machine learning models for classification tasks through zero-shot prompting. However,…

cs.CL2024

LOCOST: State-Space Models for Long Document Abstractive Summarization

Florian Le Bronnec, Song Duong, Mathieu Ravaut +6

State-space models are a low-complexity alternative to transformers for encoding long sequences and capturing long-term dependencies. We propose LOCOST: an encoder-decoder architec…

cs.CL2023

Towards Summary Candidates Fusion

Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty, Nancy F. Chen

Sequence-to-sequence deep neural models fine-tuned for abstractive summarization can achieve great performance on datasets with enough human annotations. Yet, it has been shown tha…

cs.CL2024

Unsupervised Summarization Re-ranking

Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty, Nancy Chen

With the rise of task-specific pre-training objectives, abstractive summarization models like PEGASUS offer appealing zero-shot performance on downstream summarization tasks. Howev…

cs.CL2024

Parameter-Efficient Conversational Recommender System as a Language Processing Task

Mathieu Ravaut, Hao Zhang, Lu Xu +2

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend relevant items to users by eliciting user preference through natural language conversation. Prior work often utilizes exte…