activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.CY2026

Occupational Prompting Reveals Cultural Bias in Large Language Models

Maksim E. Eren, Andrea Brennen, Ryan C. Barron +1

Social roles shape expectations, priorities, and judgments, yet it remains unclear how large language models (LLMs) associate occupational identities with broader cultural value pa…

cs.LG2025

Topic Modeling and Link-Prediction for Material Property Discovery

Ryan C. Barron, Maksim E. Eren, Valentin Stanev +2

Link prediction infers missing or future relations between graph nodes, based on connection patterns. Scientific literature networks and knowledge graphs are typically large, spars…

cs.CL2025

Bridging Legal Knowledge and AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Vector Stores, Knowledge Graphs, and Hierarchical Non-negative Matrix Factorization

Ryan C. Barron, Maksim E. Eren, Olga M. Serafimova +2

Agentic Generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and Vector Stores (VSs), represents a transformati…

cs.LG2025

Matrix Factorization for Inferring Associations and Missing Links

Ryan Barron, Maksim E. Eren, Duc P. Truong +4

Missing link prediction is a method for network analysis, with applications in recommender systems, biology, social sciences, cybersecurity, information retrieval, and Artificial I…

cs.IR2024

HEAL: Hierarchical Embedding Alignment Loss for Improved Retrieval and Representation Learning

Manish Bhattarai, Ryan Barron, Maksim Eren +8

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external document retrieval to provide domain-specific or up-to-date knowledge. The effect…