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20192025
most citedSoftAdapt: Techniques for Adaptive Loss Weighting of Neural Networks with Multi-Part Loss Functions

68 citations · 79 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2025

Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems

Yubin Kim, Ken Gu, Chanwoo Park +17

Agents, language model-based systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting are widely adopted in real-world tasks, yet how their performance changes as these systems scale acr…

cs.AI2025★ 5 cited

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent

A. Ali Heydari, Ken Gu, Vidya Srinivas +35

Health is a fundamental pillar of human wellness, and the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the development of a new generation of health agents. Howev…

cs.LG2025

SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors

Yuwei Zhang, Kumar Ayush, Siyuan Qiao +17

We present SensorLM, a family of sensor-language foundation models that enable wearable sensor data understanding with natural language. Despite its pervasive nature, aligning and…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

LSM-2: Learning from Incomplete Wearable Sensor Data

Maxwell A. Xu, Girish Narayanswamy, Kumar Ayush +22

Foundation models, a cornerstone of recent advancements in machine learning, have predominantly thrived on complete and well-structured data. Wearable sensor data frequently suffer…

cs.DB2025

RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data

Ken Gu, Zhihan Zhang, Kate Lin +18

Language models (LMs) are increasingly being deployed to perform autonomous data analyses. However, their data awareness -- the ability to recognize, reason over, and appropriately…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Insulin Resistance Prediction From Wearables and Routine Blood Biomarkers

Ahmed A. Metwally, A. Ali Heydari, Daniel McDuff +9

Insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes, is characterized by impaired insulin action in tissues. Current methods for measuring insulin resistance, while effective, are e…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

A Scalable Framework for Evaluating Health Language Models

Neil Mallinar, A. Ali Heydari, Xin Liu +10

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing complex datasets. Recent studies demonstrate their potential to generate useful, personalized responses wh…

cs.LG2024

Lifestyle-Informed Personalized Blood Biomarker Prediction via Novel Representation Learning

A. Ali Heydari, Naghmeh Rezaei, Javier L. Prieto +2

Blood biomarkers are an essential tool for healthcare providers to diagnose, monitor, and treat a wide range of medical conditions. Current reference values and recommended ranges…

cs.LG2022

No Pairs Left Behind: Improving Metric Learning with Regularized Triplet Objective

A. Ali Heydari, Naghmeh Rezaei, Daniel J. McDuff +1

We propose a novel formulation of the triplet objective function that improves metric learning without additional sample mining or overhead costs. Our approach aims to explicitly r…

stat.ML2021

A Recommendation System to Enhance Midwives' Capacities in Low-Income Countries

Anna Guitart, Afsaneh Heydari, Eniola Olaleye +4

Maternal and child mortality is a public health problem that disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries. Every day, 800 women and 6,700 newborns die from complicat…

cs.LG2019★ 68 cited

SoftAdapt: Techniques for Adaptive Loss Weighting of Neural Networks with Multi-Part Loss Functions

A. Ali Heydari, Craig A. Thompson, Asif Mehmood

Adaptive loss function formulation is an active area of research and has gained a great deal of popularity in recent years, following the success of deep learning. However, existin…