most citedFairness in Federated Learning: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

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cs.CV2026

Can We Trust Video Hallucination Detectors? VidHalLoc for Evaluating the Evaluators

Xinyu Chen, Adnan Mahmood, Mark Dras

Video-language models and video agents can produce hallucinations that conflict with spatiotemporal evidence. Existing benchmarks mainly evaluate model hallucinations, and heteroge…

cs.CL2026

When Confidence Fails: Overconfidence in LLMs under Uncertainty and Missing Clinical Information

Maryam Tahermazandarani, Adnan Mahmood, Fahmida Islam +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in medical question answering and clinical reasoning tasks. However, their reliability under uncertainty remains poorl…

cs.CL2026

AgenticAI-DialogGen: Topic-Guided Conversation Generation for Fine-Tuning and Evaluating Short- and Long-Term Memories of LLMs

Manoj Madushanka Perera, Adnan Mahmood, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake +1

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved their ability to process extended conversational contexts, yet fine-tuning and evaluating short- and long-term mem…

cs.LG2026

Federated Learning at the Forefront of Fairness: A Multifaceted Perspective

Noorain Mukhtiar, Adnan Mahmood, Yipeng Zhou +3

Fairness in Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a critical factor driven by heterogeneous clients' constraints and balanced model performance across various scenarios. In this s…

cs.LG2026

CoRe-Fed: Bridging Collaborative and Representation Fairness via Federated Embedding Distillation

Noorain Mukhtiar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng

With the proliferation of distributed data sources, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach to enable collaborative intelligence through decentralized model training…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

FedCLF -- Towards Efficient Participant Selection for Federated Learning in Heterogeneous IoV Networks

Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that preserves data privacy by sharing only the trained parameters instead of the client data. This makes FL ide…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

FairEquityFL -- A Fair and Equitable Client Selection in Federated Learning for Heterogeneous IoV Networks

Fahmida Islam, Adnan Mahmood, Noorain Mukhtiar +2

Federated Learning (FL) has been extensively employed for a number of applications in machine learning, i.e., primarily owing to its privacy preserving nature and efficiency in mit…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Towards Adaptive Context Management for Intelligent Conversational Question Answering

Manoj Madushanka Perera, Adnan Mahmood, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake +1

This particular paper introduces an Adaptive Context Management (ACM) framework for the Conversational Question Answering (ConvQA) systems. The key objective of the ACM framework i…

cs.CL2025

A Survey of the State-of-the-Art in Conversational Question Answering Systems

Manoj Madushanka Perera, Adnan Mahmood, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake +3

Conversational Question Answering (ConvQA) systems have emerged as a pivotal area within Natural Language Processing (NLP) by driving advancements that enable machines to engage in…

cs.LG2025★ 10 cited

Fairness in Federated Learning: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Noorain Mukhtiar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng

At the intersection of the cutting-edge technologies and privacy concerns, Federated Learning (FL) with its distributed architecture, stands at the forefront in a bid to facilitate…