activity
20242026
collaborators

10 papers

cs.CV2026

OpenMedReason: Scientific Reasoning Supervision for Medical Vision-Language Models

Negin Baghbanzadeh, Pritam Sarkar, Michael Colacci +6

High-stakes clinical use of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires reasoning that is grounded in visual evidence and clinical knowledge, not just correct final answers. We i…

cs.LG2026

Fine-Grained Benchmark Generation for Comprehensive Evaluation of Foundation Models

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Negin Baghbanzadeh, Farnaz Kohankhaki +5

Evaluation of foundation models often rely on aggregate scores from benchmarks that lack comprehensive coverage and metadata for a fine-grained evaluation. We introduce a framework…

cs.CV2025

Open-PMC-18M: A High-Fidelity Large Scale Medical Dataset for Multimodal Representation Learning

Negin Baghbanzadeh, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Sajad Ashkezari +2

In biomedical vision-language modeling, datasets are typically mined from scientific literature, pairing compound figures with captions that are short, context-dependent, and ofter…

cs.LG2025

Automated Capability Evaluation of Foundation Models

Arash Afkanpour, Omkar Dige, Fatemeh Tavakoli +3

Current evaluation frameworks for foundation models rely heavily on static, manually curated benchmarks, limiting their ability to capture the full breadth of model capabilities. T…

cs.CV2025

Consistency-Guided Asynchronous Contrastive Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Tuning of Foundation Models

Shuvendu Roy, Elham Dolatabadi, Arash Afkanpour +1

We propose Consistency-guided Asynchronous Contrastive Tuning (CoACT), a novel method for continuously tuning foundation models to learn new classes in few-shot settings. CoACT con…

eess.IV2025

Advancing Medical Representation Learning Through High-Quality Data

Negin Baghbanzadeh, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Yasaman Parhizkar +8

Despite the growing scale of medical Vision-Language datasets, the impact of dataset quality on model performance remains under-explored. We introduce Open-PMC, a high-quality medi…