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Flora D. Salim

11 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Words: Integrating Theory of Mind into Conversational Agents for Human-Like Belief, Desire, and Intention Alignment

ACL 2025finding

Natural language interaction has long served as the primary medium through which humans exchange ideas. A key enabler of this communication is the human capacity for Theory of Mind (ToM)—the ability to infer and align with the mental states of others. ToM is usually modeled as components of desires,…

2025

Bisecle: Binding and Separation in Continual Learning for Video Language Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Frontier vision-language models (VLMs) have made remarkable improvements in video understanding tasks. However, real-world videos typically exist as continuously evolving data streams (e.g., dynamic scenes captured by wearable glasses), necessitating models to continually adapt to shifting data dist…

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2025

Boosting Resilience of Large Language Models through Causality-Driven Robust Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable achievements across diverse applications; however, they remain plagued by spurious correlations and the generation of hallucinated content. Despite extensive efforts to enhance the resilience of LLMs, existing approaches either rely on indiscrimi…

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2025

SensorLLM: Aligning Large Language Models with Motion Sensors for Human Activity Recognition

EMNLP 2025

We introduce SensorLLM, a two-stage framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform human activity recognition (HAR) from sensor time-series data. Despite their strong reasoning and generalization capabilities, LLMs remain underutilized for motion sensor data due to the lack of semant

2024

AttEXplore: Attribution for Explanation with model parameters eXploration

ICLR 2024poster

Due to the real-world noise and human-added perturbations, attaining the trustworthiness of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a challenging task. Therefore, it becomes essential to offer explanations for the decisions made by these non-linear and complex parameterized models. Attribution methods are pr…

2024

Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building Analytics

NeurIPS 2024poster

Buildings play a crucial role in human well-being, influencing occupant comfort, health, and safety. Additionally, they contribute significantly to global energy consumption, accounting for one-third of total energy usage, and carbon emissions. Optimizing building performance presents a vital opport…

2024

Detecting Change Intervalswith Isolation Distributional Kernel (Abstract Reprint)

IJCAI 2024poster

Detecting abrupt changes in data distribution is one of the most significant tasks in streaming data analysis. Although many unsupervised Change-Point Detection (CPD) methods have been proposed recently to identify those changes, they still suffer from missing subtle changes, poor scalability, or/an…

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2024

ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark

NeurIPS 2024poster

Video language continual learning involves continuously adapting to information from video and text inputs, enhancing a model’s ability to handle new tasks while retaining prior knowledge. This field is a relatively under-explored area, and establishing appropriate datasets is crucial for facilitati…

2022

Event-Aware Multimodal Mobility Nowcasting

AAAI 2022technical

As a decisive part in the success of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), spatio-temporal predictive modeling for crowd movements is a challenging task particularly considering scenarios where societal events drive mobility behavior deviated from the normality. While tremendous progress has been made to mo…

2021

FFA-IR: Towards an Explainable and Reliable Medical Report Generation Benchmark

NeurIPS 2021poster

The automatic generation of long and coherent medical reports given medical images (e.g. Chest X-ray and Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FFA)) has great potential to support clinical practice. Researchers have explored advanced methods from computer vision and natural language processing to incorpor…

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