Publications

This page collects DS@GT ARC publications, working notes, and related research outputs across CLEF and other competitive research venues.

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Publications below are grouped by venue and sorted in reverse chronological order.

TREC 2025

Text REtrieval Conference · Online · December 11–12, 2025 · [Website] · [Proceedings]

• DS@GT at TREC TOT 2025: Bridging Vague Recollection with Fusion Retrieval and Learned Reranking [Paper] [Preprint]
  Wenxin Zhou, Ritesh Mehta, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD

MediaEval 2025

MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation · Dublin, Ireland and Online · October 25–26, 2025 · [Website]

• LLM-based Fusion of Multi-modal Features for Commercial Memorability Prediction [Preprint]
  Aleksandar Pramov^iD

CLEF 2025

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · Madrid, Spain · September 9–12, 2025 · [Website] · [Proceedings]

• Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Shashank Verma^iD, Fengyi Jiang^iD, Xiangning Xue^iD
• DS@GT at Touché: Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Debate [Paper] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Conor Johnston^iD, Aaryan Potdar
• Enhancing Biomedical Named Entity Recognition using GLiNER-BioMed with Targeted Dictionary-Based Post-processing for BioASQ 2025 task 6 [Paper]
  Ritesh Mehta
• DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: A Simple Retrieval-First, LLM-Backed Framework for Claim Normalization [Paper]
  Aleksandar Pramov^iD, Jiangqin Ma^iD, Bina Patel^iD
• DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025 - Ensemble Methods for Detection of Scientific Discourse on Social Media [Paper] [Preprint]
  Ayush Parikh^iD, Hoang Thanh Thanh Truong^iD, Jeanette Schofield^iD, Maximilian Heil^iD
• DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Exploring Retrieval and Reranking Pipelines for Scientific Claim Source Retrieval on Social Media Discourse [Paper] [Preprint]
  Jeanette Schofield^iD, Shuyu Tian^iD, Hoang Thanh Thanh Truong^iD, Maximilian Heil^iD
• DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Detecting Subjectivity via Transfer-Learning and Corrective Data Augmentation [Paper] [Preprint]
  Maximilian Heil^iD, Dionne Bang
• DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Evaluating Context and Tokenization Strategies for Numerical Fact Verification [Paper] [Preprint]
  Maximilian Heil^iD, Aleksandar Pramov^iD
• DS@GT at eRisk 2025: From prompts to predictions, benchmarking early depression detection with conversational agent based assessments and temporal attention models [Paper] [Preprint]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, David Guecha^iD, Yuwen Chiu, Sidharth Gaur
• Tackling Sexism in Multimodal Social Media: Exploring Hybrid Generative-Transformer models [Paper]
  Moiz Ali^iD, Lakshmi Yendapalli^iD, Bishoy Tawfik^iD, Matt Winzenried^iD
• Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings [Paper] [Preprint]
  Russell Taylor^iD, Benjamin Herbert^iD, Michael Sana^iD
• DS@GT AnimalCLEF: Triplet Learning over ViT Manifolds with Nearest Neighbor Classification for Animal Re-identification [Paper]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Chandrasekaran Maruthaiyannan^iD, Charles R. Clark^iD
• Distilling Spectrograms into Tokens: Fast and Lightweight Bioacoustic Classification for BirdCLEF+ 2025 [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Adrian Cheung^iD
• Transfer Learning and Mixup for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Fungi Classification [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Jason Kahei Tam, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD
• Tile-Based ViT Inference with Visual-Cluster Priors for Zero-Shot Multi-Species Plant Identification [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Murilo Gustineli^iD, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Adrian Cheung^iD, Divyansh Khattak
• DS@GT at LongEval: Evaluating Temporal Performance in Web Search Systems and Topics with Two-Stage Retrieval [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Imran Afrulbasha^iD, Aleksandar Pramov^iD
• Cultivating Multimodal Intelligence: Interpretive Reasoning and Agentic RAG Approaches to Dermatological Diagnosis [Paper] [Preprint]
  Karishma Thakrar^iD, Shreyas Basavatia^iD, Akshay Daftardar^iD
• Binoculars, BART, and Adversaries: Multi-Faceted AI Text Detection for PAN 2025 [Paper]
  Benjamin Ostrower, Poonam Doongare, Mathitha Thekkinkattuvalappil Unnikrishnan
• Quantum Annealing for Machine Learning: Applications in Feature Selection, Instance Selection, and Clustering [Paper]
  Chloe Pomeroy^iD, Aleksandar Pramov^iD, Karishma Thakrar^iD, Lakshmi Yendapalli^iD
• LLM-Guided Planning and Summary-Based Scientific Text Simplification: DS@GT at CLEF 2025 SimpleText [Paper]
  Krishna Chaitanya Marturi, Heba H. Elwazzan
• Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Scientific Text Simplification using Ensemble Approaches [Paper]
  Krishna Chaitanya Marturi, Heba H. Elwazzan

CLEF 2024

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · Grenoble, France · September 9–12, 2024 · [Website] · [Proceedings]

• Transfer Learning with Pseudo Multi-Label Birdcall Classification for DS@GT BirdCLEF 2024 [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Adrian Cheung^iD, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Ashley Kim
• Multi-Label Plant Species Classification with Self-Supervised Vision Transformers [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Murilo Gustineli^iD, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Ian Stalter
• Tile Compression and Embeddings for Multi-Label Classification in GeoLifeCLEF 2024 [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa, Mark McDuffie
• Fine-Grained Classification for Poisonous Fungi Identification with Transfer Learning [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Christopher Chiu^iD, Maximilian Heil^iD, Teresa Kim^iD, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD
• Transfer Learning with Self-Supervised Vision Transformers for Snake Identification [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Austin Fischer, Ryan Lundqvist
• DS@GT at Touché: Image Search and Ranking via CLIP and Image Generation [Paper] [Preprint]
  Benjamin Ostrower, Patcharapong Aphiwetsa
• AI Authorship Verification: an Ensembled Approach [Paper]
  Benjamin Ostrower, Jacob Wessell, Abhinav Bindal
• DS@GT eRisk 2024: Sentence Transformers for Social Media Risk Assessment [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  David Guecha^iD, Aaryan Potdar, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD
• Machine Learning for ALSFRS-R Score Prediction: Making Sense of the Sensor Data [Paper] [Preprint]
  Ritesh Mehta, Aleksandar Pramov^iD, Shashank Verma^iD
• Biomedical Nested NER with Large Language Model and UMLS Heuristics [Paper] [Preprint]
  Wenxin Zhou
• Using Pretrained Large Language Model with Prompt Engineering to Answer Biomedical Questions [Paper] [Preprint]
  Wenxin Zhou, Thuy Hang Ngo

CLEF 2023

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · Thessaloniki, Greece · September 18–21, 2023 · [Website] · [Proceedings]

• Transfer Learning with Semi-Supervised Dataset Annotation for Birdcall Classification [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Nathan Zhong, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Chris Hayduk

CLEF 2022

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · Bologna, Italy · September 5–8, 2022 · [Website] · [Proceedings]

• Motif Mining and Unsupervised Representation Learning for BirdCLEF 2022 [Paper] [Preprint] [Code]
  Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Jiangyue Yu^iD, Bryan Cheungvivatpant^iD, Dakota Dudley^iD, Aniketh Swain^iD