5 papers
What Parents Can See: Divergent Accounts of Youth AI Companion Use in Parenting and Teenager Subreddits
Thomas Berkane, Anne Bischops, Anika Mellacheruvu +1
Youth increasingly use AI companions, and parents are the primary mediators of that use. How effective that mediation can be depends on whether parents are aware of how adolescents…
Self-Ensembling Vision-Language Models for Chart Data Extraction
Thomas Berkane, Qianyi Wang, Maimuna S. Majumder
Charts effectively convey quantitative information, but the underlying data are often locked in image form, hindering reuse and analysis. Manually digitizing charts is time-consumi…
EpiCurveBench: Evaluating VLMs on Epidemic Curve Digitization
Thomas Berkane, Maimuna S. Majumder
Chart-to-data extraction with vision-language models (VLMs) is increasingly evaluated on benchmarks that show diminishing headroom (frontier VLMs exceed 89% on ChartQA) and with me…
The AI Committee: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Validation and Remediation of Web-Sourced Data
Sunith Vallabhaneni, Thomas Berkane, Maimuna Majumder
Many research areas rely on data from the web to gain insights and test their methods. However, collecting comprehensive research datasets often demands manually reviewing many web…
Statistical vs. Deep Learning Models for Estimating Substance Overdose Excess Mortality in the US
Sukanya Krishna, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Maimuna Majumder
Substance overdose mortality in the United States claimed over 80,000 lives in 2023, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating existing trends through healthcare disruptions and beha…