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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Robust Predictive Modeling Under Unseen Data Distribution Shifts: A Methodological Commentary

Hanyu Duan, Yi Yang, Ahmed Abbasi +1

Most research designing novel predictive models, or employing existing ones, assumes that training and testing data are independent and identically distributed. In practice, the da…

cs.LG2026

Ready2Unlearn: A Learning-Time Approach for Preparing Models with Future Unlearning Readiness

Hanyu Duan, Yi Yang, Ahmed Abbasi +1

Machine unlearning is the process of removing the imprint left by specific data samples during the training of a machine learning model. AI developers, including those building per…

cs.CL2025

PersonaFuse: A Personality Activation-Driven Framework for Enhancing Human-LLM Interactions

Yixuan Tang, Yi Yang, Ahmed Abbasi

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities across various fields. These developments have led to more direct communication between huma…

cs.CL2025

Benchmarking Sociolinguistic Diversity in Swahili NLP: A Taxonomy-Guided Approach

Kezia Oketch, John P. Lalor, Ahmed Abbasi

We introduce the first taxonomy-guided evaluation of Swahili NLP, addressing gaps in sociolinguistic diversity. Drawing on health-related psychometric tasks, we collect a dataset o…

cs.CL2025

PersonaTwin: A Multi-Tier Prompt Conditioning Framework for Generating and Evaluating Personalized Digital Twins

Sihan Chen, John P. Lalor, Yi Yang +1

While large language models (LLMs) afford new possibilities for user modeling and approximation of human behaviors, they often fail to capture the multidimensional nuances of indiv…

cs.CL2025

Bridging the LLM Accessibility Divide? Performance, Fairness, and Cost of Closed versus Open LLMs for Automated Essay Scoring

Kezia Oketch, John P. Lalor, Yi Yang +1

Closed large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 have set state-of-the-art results across a number of NLP tasks and have become central to NLP and machine learning (ML)-driven sol…