publications

publications in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2025

  1. NAACL
    A Practical Analysis of Human Alignment with *PO
    Kian Ahrabian, Xihui Lin, Barun Patra, Vishrav Chaudhary, Alon Benhaim, Jay Pujara, and Xia Song
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, Apr 2025
  2. EMNLP
    A Systematic Analysis of Base Model Choice for Reward Modeling
    Kian Ahrabian, Pegah Jandaghi, Negar Mokhberian, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, and Jay Pujara
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2025

2024

  1. COLM
    The Curious Case of Nonverbal Abstract Reasoning with Multi-Modal Large Language Models
    Kian Ahrabian*, Zhivar Sourati*, Kexuan Sun*, Jiarui Zhang, Yifan Jiang, Fred Morstatter, and Jay Pujara
    In First Conference on Language Modeling, Nov 2024
  2. NeurIPS
    MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning
    Yifan Jiang*, Jiarui Zhang*, Kexuan Sun*, Zhivar Sourati, Kian Ahrabian, Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, and Jay Pujara
    In The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, Nov 2024
  3. LREC-COLING
    On the Adaptation of Unlimiformer for Decoder-Only Transformers
    Kian Ahrabian, Alon Benhaim, Barun Patra, Jay Pujara, Saksham Singhal, and Xia Song
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), May 2024
  4. ArXiv
    Surprising Resilience of Science During a Global Pandemic: A Large-Scale Descriptive Analysis
    Kian Ahrabian, Casandra Rusti, Ziao Wang, Jay Pujara, and Kristina Lerman
    May 2024

2023

  1. ISSI
    Changes in Research Collaborations During the Pandemic
    Ziao Wang, Kian Ahrabian, Casandra Rusti, Jay Pujara, and Kristina Lerman
    In International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, May 2023
  2. ISWC
    Comparison of Knowledge Graph Representations for Consumer Scenarios
    Ana Iglesias-Molina, Kian Ahrabian, Filip Ilievski, Jay Pujara, and Oscar Corcho
    In The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023, May 2023
  3. ArXiv
    PubGraph: A Large-Scale Scientific Knowledge Graph
    Kian Ahrabian, Xinwei Du, Richard Delwin Myloth, Arun Baalaaji Sankar Ananthan, and Jay Pujara
    May 2023
  4. AAAI
    Citation Intent Classification Through Weakly Supervised Knowledge Graphs
    Xinwei Du, Kian Ahrabian, Arun Baalaaji Sankar Ananthan, Richard Delwin Myloth, and Jay Pujara
    In SDU@AAAI, May 2023
  5. AAAI
    Is Dynamicity All You Need?
    Richard Delwin Myloth, Kian Ahrabian, Arun Baalaaji Sankar Ananthan, Xinwei Du, and Jay Pujara
    In SDU@AAAI, May 2023
  6. EMNLP
    Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting Without Knowledge Using In-Context Learning
    Kian Ahrabian*, Dong-Ho Lee*, Woojeong Jin, Fred Morstatter, and Jay Pujara
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023

2021

  1. CIKM
    Structure Aware Experience Replay for Incremental Learning in Graph-based Recommender Systems
    Kian Ahrabian, Yishi Xu, Yingxue Zhang, Jiapeng Wu, Yuening Wang, and Mark Coates
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, Dec 2021

2020

  1. ICML
    Software Engineering Event Modeling using Relative Time in Temporal Knowledge Graphs
    Kian Ahrabian, Daniel Tarlow, Hehuimin Cheng, and Jin LC Guo
    Graph Representation Learning and Beyond (GRL+) Workshop at the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, Jul 2020
  2. EMNLP
    Structure Aware Negative Sampling in Knowledge Graphs
    Kian Ahrabian*, Aarash Feizi*, Yasmin Salehi*, William L. Hamilton, and Avishek Joey Bose
    In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Nov 2020
  3. Thesis
    GitHub Events Through the Lens of Knowledge Graphs
    Kian Ahrabian
    McGill University, Dec 2020

2019

  1. Journal
    Usage of autoencoders and Siamese networks for online handwritten signature verification
    Kian Ahrabian and Bagher BabaAli
    Neural Computing and Applications, Dec 2019