Research

Score Before You Speak: Improving Persona Consistency in Dialogue Generation using Response Quality Scores

Arpita Saggar, Jonathan C. Darling, Vania Dimitrova, Duygu Sarikaya, David C. Hogg

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Score-conditioned next token prediction to improve persona consistency in dialogue

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Micro-projections of multidimensional child poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Marina Vicini, John Fitzgerald, Daniela Pinto Veizaga, Arpita Saggar, Oliver Fiala

Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality (2025)

Chapter on machine learning methods for producing fine-grained multidimensional child poverty estimates.

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XAI-MethylMarker: Explainable AI approach for biomarker discovery for breast cancer subtype classification using methylation data

Sheetal Rajpal, Ankit Rajpal, Arpita Saggar, Ashok K Vaid, Virendra Kumar, Manoj Agarwal, Naveen Kumar

Expert Systems with Applications (2023)

Explainable AI-based biomarker discovery framework applied to DNA methylation data to determine a small biomarker set for breast cancer stratification.

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COV-ELM classifier: An extreme learning machine based identification of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images

Sheetal Rajpal, Manoj Agarwal, Ankit Rajpal, Navin Lakhyani, Arpita Saggar, Naveen Kumar

Intelligent Decision Technologies (2022)

A three-stage ELM-based framework to distinguish between COVID-19, normal, and pneumonia chest X-rays.

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