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Ali Payani

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

34

Venues

16

Active years

2017–2026

Best venue rank

A*

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Papers

34 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AAAIModel Editing as a Double-Edged Sword: Steering Agent Behavior Toward Beneficence or Harm.Baixiang Huang, Zhen Tan, Haoran Wang, Zijie Liu, Dawei Li, Ali Payani, Huan Liu, Tianlong Chen, Kai Shu
2026AAAIBenchmarking LLMs for Political Science: A United Nations Perspective.Yueqing Liang, Liangwei Yang, Chen Wang, Congying Xia, Rui Meng, Xiongxiao Xu, Haoran Wang, Ali Payani, Kai Shu
2026ACLFAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments.Amir Saeidi, Venkatesh Mishra, Souradeep Mukhopadhyay, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Jayanth Srinivasa, Chitta Baral
2025AAAILanguage Ranker: A Metric for Quantifying LLM Performance Across High and Low-Resource Languages.Zihao Li, Yucheng Shi, Zirui Liu, Fan Yang, Ali Payani, Ninghao Liu, Mengnan Du
2025ACLBeyond Semantic Entropy: Boosting LLM Uncertainty Quantification with Pairwise Semantic Similarity.Dang Nguyen, Ali Payani, Baharan Mirzasoleiman
2025ACLMDBench: A Synthetic Multi-Document Reasoning Benchmark Generated with Knowledge Guidance.Joseph J. Peper, Wenzhao Qiu, Ali Payani, Lu Wang
2025ACLDeliberate Reasoning in Language Models as Structure-Aware Planning with an Accurate World Model.Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Yuan Yang, Faramarz Fekri
2025EMNLPSAE-SSV: Supervised Steering in Sparse Representation Spaces for Reliable Control of Language Models.Zirui He, Mingyu Jin, Bo Shen, Ali Payani, Yongfeng Zhang, Mengnan Du
2025EMNLPAutoSDT: Scaling Data-Driven Discovery Tasks Toward Open Co-Scientists.Yifei Li, Hanane Nour Moussa, Ziru Chen, Shijie Chen, Botao Yu, Mingyi Xue, Benjamin Burns, Tzu-Yao Chiu, Vishal Dey, Zitong Lu, Chen Wei, Qianheng Zhang, Tianyu Zhang, Song Gao, Xuhui Huang, Xia Ning, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ali Payani, Huan Sun
2025EMNLPHow Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on tau-bench.Venkatesh Mishra, Amir Saeidi, Satyam Raj, Mutsumi Nakamura, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Jayanth Srinivasa, Chitta Baral
2025EMNLPLarge Vision-Language Model Alignment and Misalignment: A Survey Through the Lens of Explainability.Dong Shu, Haiyan Zhao, Jingyu Hu, Weiru Liu, Ali Payani, Lu Cheng, Mengnan Du
2025ICCVEffective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding.Yuwei Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yunzhong Hou, Zhuowan Li, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Yuan-Sen Ting, Liang Zheng
2025ICLRBeyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution.Haiyan Zhao, Heng Zhao, Bo Shen, Ali Payani, Fan Yang, Mengnan Du
2025ICLRCan Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?Baixiang Huang, Canyu Chen, Xiongxiao Xu, Ali Payani, Kai Shu
2025ICLRA Generic Framework for Conformal Fairness.Aditya T. Vadlamani, Anutam Srinivasan, Pranav Maneriker, Ali Payani, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
2025NAACLInvestigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning.Venkatesh Mishra, Bimsara Pathiraja, Mihir Parmar, Sat Chidananda, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Chitta Baral
2024AAAITEILP: Time Prediction over Knowledge Graphs via Logical Reasoning.Siheng Xiong, Yuan Yang, Ali Payani, James Clayton Kerce, Faramarz Fekri
2024ACLWhen is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator.Ziru Chen, Michael White, Raymond J. Mooney, Ali Payani, Yu Su, Huan Sun
2024ACLLarge Language Models Can Learn Temporal Reasoning.Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Ramana Kompella, Faramarz Fekri
2024ACLHarnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Natural Language to First-Order Logic Translation.Yuan Yang, Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Ehsan Shareghi, Faramarz Fekri
2024AISTATSData-Efficient Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining: Prioritizing Data Quality over Quantity.Siddharth Joshi, Arnav Jain, Ali Payani, Baharan Mirzasoleiman
2024CIKMNeural Additive Tensor Decomposition for Sparse Tensors.Dawon Ahn, Uday Singh Saini, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Ali Payani
2024EMNLPCan LLMs Reason in the Wild with Programs?Yuan Yang, Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Ehsan Shareghi, Faramarz Fekri
2024ICMLFew-shot Adaptation to Distribution Shifts By Mixing Source and Target Embeddings.Yihao Xue, Ali Payani, Yu Yang, Baharan Mirzasoleiman
2024ICMLA Federated Stochastic Multi-level Compositional Minimax Algorithm for Deep AUC Maximization.Xinwen Zhang, Ali Payani, Myungjin Lee, Richard Souvenir, Hongchang Gao
2024IJCAITemporal Inductive Logic Reasoning over Hypergraphs.Yuan Yang, Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, James Clayton Kerce, Faramarz Fekri
2024MOBICOMLightPure: Realtime Adversarial Image Purification for Mobile Devices Using Diffusion Models.Hossein Khalili, Seongbin Park, Vincent Li, Brandan Bright, Ali Payani, Ramana Rao Kompella, Nader Sehatbakhsh
2023ACLText-to-SQL Error Correction with Language Models of Code.Ziru Chen, Shijie Chen, Michael White, Raymond J. Mooney, Ali Payani, Jayanth Srinivasa, Yu Su, Huan Sun
2023ACSSCClassifying Functional Brain Graphs Using Graph Hypervector Representation.Lulu Ge, Ali Payani, Hugo Latapie, Keshab K. Parhi
2023ICLRLogicDP: Creating Labels for Graph Data via Inductive Logic Programming.Yuan Yang, Faramarz Fekri, James Clayton Kerce, Ali Payani
2021ICMLAVisual Question Answering based on Formal Logic.Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri, J. Clayton Kerce
2021WCNCPredicting Mobile Users Traffic and Access-Time Behavior Using Recurrent Neural Networks.Abdulrahman Alamoudi, Mingliu Liu, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri, Deshi Li
2017DCCSeismic Data Compression Using Online Double-Sparse Dictionary Learning Schemes.Entao Liu, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri
2017ICASSPLearning dictionary for efficient signal compression.Afshin Abdi, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri