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most citedEffective Interfaces for Student-Driven Revision Sessions for Argumentative Writing

29 citations · 50 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2026

RAPID: Reliability-Aware Pair Importance Distillation

Ali Mahdavi, Azadeh Zamanifar, Amirfarhad Farhadi +1

Inter example relational distillation transfers a teacher's representation geometry by matching relations among examples within a mini batch. Computing all pairs has quadratic comp…

cs.AI2026

Spectral-LSH: Sub-Quadratic Prompt Compression via Krylov-Projected Locality-Sensitive Hashing

Ali Mahdavi, Azaseh Zamanifar, Amirfarhad Farhadi +1

Long-prompt inference remains expensive because prefill attention scales quadratically with sequence length. We propose Spectral-LSH, a training-free prompt compression method that…

cs.LG2026

Causal Unlearning in Collaborative Optimization: Exact and Approximate Influence Reversal under Adversarial Contributions

Ali Mahdavi, Azadeh Zamanifar, Amirfarhad Farhadi +1

Federated learning systems must support data deletion requests to comply with privacy regulations, yet retraining from scratch after each deletion is computationally prohibitive. W…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

ArgRewrite V.2: an Annotated Argumentative Revisions Corpus

Omid Kashefi, Tazin Afrin, Meghan Dale +4

Analyzing how humans revise their writings is an interesting research question, not only from an educational perspective but also in terms of artificial intelligence. Better unders…

cs.HC2021★ 29 cited

Effective Interfaces for Student-Driven Revision Sessions for Argumentative Writing

Tazin Afrin, Omid Kashefi, Christopher Olshefski +3

We present the design and evaluation of a web-based intelligent writing assistant that helps students recognize their revisions of argumentative essays. To understand how our revis…

cs.CL2018

Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Induction

Omid Kashefi

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is an old and fundamental task in natural language processing. While supervised POS taggers have shown promising accuracy, it is not always feasible to…

cs.CL2018★ 8 cited

MIZAN: A Large Persian-English Parallel Corpus

Omid Kashefi

One of the most major and essential tasks in natural language processing is machine translation that is now highly dependent upon multilingual parallel corpora. Through this paper,…

cs.DC2011★ 2 cited

A Low-Energy Fast Cyber Foraging Mechanism for Mobile Devices

Somayeh Kafaie, Omid Kashefi, Mohsen Sharifi

The ever increasing demands for using resource-constrained mobile devices for running more resource intensive applications nowadays has initiated the development of cyber foraging…