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.

CLEF 2026

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · Jena, Germany · September 21–24, 2026 · [Website]

Retrieval-Augmented Biomedical Question Answering with Weak-Question Recovery and Neural Reranking for BioASQ Task 14b [Preprint: TBD]
Xueying Zhao^iD, Lee Mai, Balaji Anandganesh
DS@GT ARC at CheckThat! 2026: LLM-Based Trace Ranking and Grouped Reward Modeling for Multilingual Numerical Claim Verification [Preprint: TBD]
Sagnik Sinha^iD, Shreyas Shrestha^iD
DS@GT ARC at CheckThat! 2026: A Verdict-Anchored Pipeline for Generating Fact-Checking Articles [Preprint: TBD]
Hoang Thanh Thanh Truong^iD, Shuyu Tian^iD
DS@GT ARC at eRisk 2026: Hybrid Multi-Agent LLM System with Structured Algorithmic Guidance for Conversational Depression Screening [Preprint]
Victor Gong^iD, David Guecha^iD
DS@GT-ARC at eRisk 2026 Task 3: Sparse, Semantic, and LLM Reranking for ADHD Symptom Sentences [Preprint: TBD]
David Guecha^iD
Language-Routed RAG and Direct Option Scoring for Multilingual Financial QA: DS@GT at FinMMEval [Preprint]
Justice Ayela^iD, Kabir Sahni^iD
FinNexus: Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Reranking Orchestration for Multilingual Financial Question Answering [Preprint: TBD]
Dianze Liu^iD, Sirui Li, Shuyu Tian^iD
DS@GT ARC at FinMMeval 2026: On the Role of Tools in Agentic LLM-Based Trading Systems [Preprint: TBD]
Maximilian Heil^iD, Aleksandar Pramov^iD, Boyang Gong^iD
Lightweight Person-Place Relation Extraction from Historical Newspapers with Dependency Graphs and Proximity Features [Preprint]
Mlen-Too Wesley^iD
Predicting Viticulture Potential through an Ensemble of U-Net and a Geospatial Foundation Model [Preprint]
Jorge Ignacio Perez^iD, Hwaai Kang Kee^iD, Lucas Rassbach^iD
DS@GT ARC at ImageCLEFmedical 2026: Architectural Diversity for Concept Detection and Foundation-Model Scaling for Caption Prediction in Medical Image Analysis [Preprint: TBD]
Bowen Wang^iD, Youwen Zhang, Ritesh Mehta^iD
DS@GT ARC at ImageCLEFmed GANs 2026: Geometric Filtering for Privacy-Preserving CT Slice Generation [Preprint]
Eric Regina^iD, Richard Arnaud^iD, Samir Hadi Cisneros^iD
DS@GT ARC at MEDIQA-CORE-Task-1 2026: Trimodal Model Fusion with Task-Specific Gates for Brain Tumor Subtype Classification [Preprint: TBD]
Hoang Thanh Thanh Truong^iD, Charles R. Clark^iD
DS@GT at ImageCLEF 2026 MultimodalReasoning: Visual Multiple Choice Question Reasoning with Vision-Language Models [Preprint: TBD]
Yue Li, Zhanxu Liu, Chengxi Zhang
Searching for Sound-Meaning Collisions: Graph-Based Affordance Retrieval and Multi-Evaluator Ranking for Cross-Lingual Pun Translation at CLEF 2026 JOKER Task 2 [Preprint: TBD]
Russell Taylor^iD, Adam Brikman^iD, Prateek Awate^iD
DS@GT ARC at AnimalCLEF 2026: Species-Aware Graph Construction for Multi-Species Animal Re-Identification [Preprint]
Evan Sinclair Smith^iD, Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Snigdha Palamari^iD, Danté Evangelista^iD
Can Tokens Compete? Token Representations against Supervised CNN Backbones for BirdCLEF+ 2026 [Preprint]
Anthony Miyaguchi^iD, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Adrian Cheung^iD
Decoupled Pipeline with Proposal Reranking and Score Fusion for Positive-Unlabeled Marine Species Detection [Preprint]
Robert James Brock^iD, Sebastian Maximilian Krupa^iD, Jason Kahei Tam^iD
Multi-Scale ViT Inference with Habitat-Fit Priors and kNN Retrieval for Multi-Species Plant Identification [Preprint]
Alper Erten^iD, Murilo Gustineli^iD, Adrian Cheung^iD
DS@GT ARC at LongEval: Citation Integrity and Factual Grounding in Scientific QA [Preprint]
Brandon Michaels^iD, Brendon Johnson^iD
Fine-Tuning Fundamentals and Data Augmentation: DS@GT ARC at Voight-Kampff 2026 [Preprint: TBD]
Harshul Basava, Murilo Gustineli^iD
Cluster-Aware QUBO Instance Selection with Representativeness Scoring and Noise Pre-Filtering for the QuantumCLEF 2026 Sentiment Classification Task [Preprint: TBD]
Prateek Awate^iD

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^iD, 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^iD
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^iD, 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^iD, 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