Conference Publications

ICLR Workshop
Measuring Dataset Diversity from a Geometric Perspective
Yang Ba, Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Michelle V Mancenido, Rong Pan
ICLR 2026 (DATA-FM Workshop)
NeurIPS Workshop
Predict Training Data Quality via Its Geometry in Metric Space
Yang Ba, Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Rong Pan
NeurIPS 2025 (NPGML Workshop)
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EMNLP
Fill In The Gaps: Model Calibration and Generalization with Synthetic Data
Yang Ba, Michelle V. Mancenido, Rong Pan
In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024
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ICHMS
Trust in AI-Enabled Decision Support Systems: Preliminary Validation of MAST Criteria
Erin K. Chiou, Pouria Salehi, Erik Blasch, James Sung, Myke C. Cohen, Anna Pan, Michelle V. Mancenido, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Yang Ba, Shawaiz Bhatti
In International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS) 2022
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Preprints / Under Review

Preprint
Data Diversity as Implicit Regularization: How Does Diversity Shape the Weight Space of Deep Neural Networks?
Yang Ba, Michelle V. Mancenido, Rong Pan
Preprint
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Journal Publications

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Data Quality in Crowdsourcing and Spamming Behavior Detection
Yang Ba, Michelle V. Mancenido, Erin K. Chiou, Rong Pan
Behavior Research Methods
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Impact of EXplainable AI on Trust Evolution with AI Error Severity: Comparing Similar Instances and Saliency Map in a Baggage Screening Task
Yixuan Wang, Jieqiong Zhao, Yang Ba, Michelle V. Mancenido, Erin K. Chiou, Ross Maciejewski
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
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Towards trustworthy AI-enabled decision support systems: Validation of the multisource AI scorecard table (MAST)
Pouria Salehi, Yang Ba, Nayoung Kim, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Anna Pan, Myke C. Cohen, Yixuan Wang, Jieqiong Zhao, Shawaiz Bhatti, Michelle V. Mancenido, Erin K. Chiou, Erik Blasch, James Sung
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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PADTHAI-MM: Principles-based approach for designing trustworthy, human-centered AI using the MAST methodology
Myke C. Cohen, Nayoung Kim, Yang Ba, Anna Pan, Shawaiz Bhatti, Pouria Salehi, James Sung, Erik Blasch, Michelle V. Mancenido, Erin K. Chiou
AI Magazine
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