4 papers
Reading Cognition as Decisions Unfold in Words: A Factorized Inverse Decision Model
Jiawen Kang, Dongrui Han, Xixin Wu +1
Inverse decision modeling infers latent properties of decision processes from observed behavior, but existing formulations rely primarily on action trajectories. In verbalized cogn…
Imitation Learning for Elder-Facing Speech Synthesis
Dongrui Han, Weidong Chen, Jiawen Kang +3
Recent advances in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved highly natural and expressive speech generation. However, these systems are designed for general adults and overlook…
Agentic Cognitive Profiling: Realigning Automated Alzheimer's Disease Detection with Clinical Construct Validity
Jiawen Kang, Kun Li, Dongrui Han +5
Automated Alzheimer's Disease (AD) screening has predominantly followed the inductive paradigm of pattern recognition, which directly maps the input signal to the outcome label. Th…
On the Within-class Variation Issue in Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Jiawen Kang, Dongrui Han, Lingwei Meng +4
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) detection commonly employs machine learning classification models to distinguish between individuals with AD and those without. Different from conventional…