Ali Payani

30 papers at tracked venues · 21 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×7 EMNLP ×5 AAAI ×4 ICLR ×3 ICML ×2 NeurIPS ×2 AISTATS ×1 CIKM ×1 ICCV ×1 IJCAI ×1 NAACL ×1 SIGMOD ×1 VLDB ×1

Frequent coauthors

Siheng Xiong

×6

Faramarz Fekri

×6

Yuan Yang

×5

Gaowen Liu

×4

Mengnan Du

×4

Kai Shu

×3

Venkatesh Mishra

×3

Jayanth Srinivasa

×3

Chitta Baral

×3

Baharan Mirzasoleiman

×3

Xiongxiao Xu

×2

Haoran Wang

×2

Papers

Benchmarking LLMs for Political Science: A United Nations Perspective
AAAI 2026 ·
Yueqing Liang
,
Liangwei Yang
,
Chen Wang
,
Congying Xia
,
Rui Meng
,
Xiongxiao Xu
,
Haoran Wang
, Ali Payani,
Kai Shu
FAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments
ACL 2026 ·
Amir Saeidi
,
Venkatesh Mishra
,
Souradeep Mukhopadhyay
,
Gaowen Liu
, Ali Payani,
Jayanth Srinivasa
,
Chitta Baral
Model Editing as a Double-Edged Sword: Steering Agent Behavior Toward Beneficence or Harm
AAAI 2026 ·
Baixiang Huang
,
Zhen Tan
,
Haoran Wang
,
Zijie Liu
,
Dawei Li
, Ali Payani,
Huan Liu
,
Tianlong Chen
,
Kai Shu
A Generic Framework for Conformal Fairness
ICLR 2025 ·
Aditya T. Vadlamani
,
Anutam Srinivasan
,
Pranav Maneriker
, Ali Payani,
Srinivasan Parthasarathy
AutoSDT: Scaling Data-Driven Discovery Tasks Toward Open Co-Scientists
EMNLP 2025 ·
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
Beyond Semantic Entropy: Boosting LLM Uncertainty Quantification with Pairwise Semantic Similarity
ACL 2025 ·
Dang Nguyen
, Ali Payani,
Baharan Mirzasoleiman
Beyond Single Concept Vector: Modeling Concept Subspace in LLMs with Gaussian Distribution
ICLR 2025 ·
Haiyan Zhao
,
Heng Zhao
,
Bo Shen
, Ali Payani,
Fan Yang
,
Mengnan Du
Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?
ICLR 2025 ·
Baixiang Huang
,
Canyu Chen
,
Xiongxiao Xu
, Ali Payani,
Kai Shu
Deliberate Reasoning in Language Models as Structure-Aware Planning with an Accurate World Model
ACL 2025 ·
Siheng Xiong
, Ali Payani,
Yuan Yang
,
Faramarz Fekri
Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
ICCV 2025 ·
Yuwei Yang
,
Zeyu Zhang
,
Yunzhong Hou
,
Zhuowan Li
,
Gaowen Liu
, Ali Payani,
Yuan-Sen Ting
,
Liang Zheng
How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on tau-bench
EMNLP 2025 ·
Venkatesh Mishra
,
Amir Saeidi
,
Satyam Raj
,
Mutsumi Nakamura
,
Gaowen Liu
, Ali Payani,
Jayanth Srinivasa
,
Chitta Baral
InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer Interaction
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Bin Lei
,
Weitai Kang
,
Zijian Zhang
,
Winson Chen
,
Xi Xie
,
Shan Zuo
,
Mimi Xie
, Ali Payani,
Mingyi Hong
,
Yan Yan
,
Caiwen Ding
Investigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning
NAACL 2025 ·
Venkatesh Mishra
,
Bimsara Pathiraja
,
Mihir Parmar
,
Sat Chidananda
,
Jayanth Srinivasa
,
Gaowen Liu
, Ali Payani,
Chitta Baral
Language Ranker: A Metric for Quantifying LLM Performance Across High and Low-Resource Languages
AAAI 2025 ·
Zihao Li
,
Yucheng Shi
,
Zirui Liu
,
Fan Yang
, Ali Payani,
Ninghao Liu
,
Mengnan Du
Large Vision-Language Model Alignment and Misalignment: A Survey Through the Lens of Explainability
EMNLP 2025 ·
Dong Shu
,
Haiyan Zhao
,
Jingyu Hu
,
Weiru Liu
, Ali Payani,
Lu Cheng
,
Mengnan Du
MDBench: A Synthetic Multi-Document Reasoning Benchmark Generated with Knowledge Guidance
ACL 2025 ·
Joseph J. Peper
,
Wenzhao Qiu
, Ali Payani,
Lu Wang
SAE-SSV: Supervised Steering in Sparse Representation Spaces for Reliable Control of Language Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Zirui He
,
Mingyu Jin
,
Bo Shen
, Ali Payani,
Yongfeng Zhang
,
Mengnan Du
A Federated Stochastic Multi-level Compositional Minimax Algorithm for Deep AUC Maximization
ICML 2024 ·
Xinwen Zhang
, Ali Payani,
Myungjin Lee
,
Richard Souvenir
,
Hongchang Gao
Can LLMs Reason in the Wild with Programs?
EMNLP 2024 ·
Yuan Yang
,
Siheng Xiong
, Ali Payani,
Ehsan Shareghi
,
Faramarz Fekri
Data-Efficient Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining: Prioritizing Data Quality over Quantity
AISTATS 2024 ·
Siddharth Joshi
,
Arnav Jain
, Ali Payani,
Baharan Mirzasoleiman
Few-shot Adaptation to Distribution Shifts By Mixing Source and Target Embeddings
ICML 2024 ·
Yihao Xue
, Ali Payani,
Yu Yang
,
Baharan Mirzasoleiman
Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Natural Language to First-Order Logic Translation
ACL 2024 ·
Yuan Yang
,
Siheng Xiong
, Ali Payani,
Ehsan Shareghi
,
Faramarz Fekri
Large Language Models Can Learn Temporal Reasoning
ACL 2024 ·
Siheng Xiong
, Ali Payani,
Ramana Kompella
,
Faramarz Fekri
MACM: Utilizing a Multi-Agent System for Condition Mining in Solving Complex Mathematical Problems
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Bin Lei
,
Yi Zhang
,
Shan Zuo
, Ali Payani,
Caiwen Ding
Neural Additive Tensor Decomposition for Sparse Tensors
CIKM 2024 ·
Dawon Ahn
,
Uday Singh Saini
,
Evangelos E. Papalexakis
, Ali Payani
SketchQL Demonstration: Zero-shot Video Moment Querying with Sketches
VLDB 2024 ·
Renzhi Wu
,
Pramod Chunduri
,
Dristi J. Shah
,
Ashmitha Julius Aravind
, Ali Payani,
Xu Chu
,
Joy Arulraj
,
Kexin Rong
SketchQL: Video Moment Querying with a Visual Query Interface
SIGMOD 2024 ·
Renzhi Wu
,
Pramod Chunduri
, Ali Payani,
Xu Chu
,
Joy Arulraj
,
Kexin Rong
TEILP: Time Prediction over Knowledge Graphs via Logical Reasoning
AAAI 2024 ·
Siheng Xiong
,
Yuan Yang
, Ali Payani,
James Clayton Kerce
,
Faramarz Fekri
Temporal Inductive Logic Reasoning over Hypergraphs
IJCAI 2024 ·
Yuan Yang
,
Siheng Xiong
, Ali Payani,
James Clayton Kerce
,
Faramarz Fekri
When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator
ACL 2024 ·
Ziru Chen
,
Michael White
,
Raymond J. Mooney
, Ali Payani,
Yu Su
,
Huan Sun