Babak Damavandi

According to our database, Babak Damavandi authored at least 22 papers between 2013 and 2026.

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2026

TRACE: A Framework for Analyzing and Enhancing Stepwise Reasoning in Vision-Language Models.

Shima Imani, Seungwhan Moon, Lambert Mathias, Lu Zhang, Babak Damavandi

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

SymPyBench: A Dynamic Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning with Executable Python Code.

Shima Imani, Seungwhan Moon, Adel Ahmadyan, Lu Zhang, Ahmed Kirmani, Babak Damavandi

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

VideoMind: Thinking in Steps for Long Video Understanding.

Shubhang Bhatnagar, Renxiong Wang, Kapil Krishnakumar, Adel Ahmadyan, Zhaojiang Lin, Lambert Mathias, Xin Luna Dong, Babak Damavandi, Narendra Ahuja, Seungwhan Moon

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

PRiSM: An Agentic Multimodal Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning via Python-Grounded Evaluation.

Shima Imani, Seungwhan Moon, Adel Ahmadyan, Lu Zhang, Ahmed Kirmani, Babak Damavandi

CoRR, December, 2025

WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios.

Eun Chang, Zhuangqun Huang, Yiwei Liao, Sagar Ravi Bhavsar, Amogh Param, Tammy Stark, Adel Ahmadyan, Xiao Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Ahsan Abdullah, Giang Nguyen, Akil Iyer, David Hall, Elissa Li, Shane Moon, Nicolas Scheffer, Ahmed Kirmani, Babak Damavandi, Rakesh Wanga, Anuj Kumar, Rohit Patel, Xin Luna Dong

CoRR, November, 2025

CRAG-MM: Multi-modal Multi-turn Comprehensive RAG Benchmark.

Jiaqi Wang, Xiao Yang, Kai Sun, Parth Suresh, Sanat Sharma, Adam Czyzewski, Derek Andersen, Surya Teja Appini, Arkav Banerjee, Sajal Choudhary, Shervin Ghasemlou, Ziqiang Guan, Akil Iyer, Haidar Khan, Lingkun Kong, Roy Luo, Tiffany Ma, Zhen Qiao, David Tran, Wenfang Xu, Skyler Yeatman, Chen Zhou, Gunveer Gujral, Yinglong Xia, Shane Moon, Nicolas Scheffer, Nirav Shah, Eun Chang, Yue Liu, Florian Metze, Tammy Stark, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Andrea Jessee, Mangesh Pujari, Ahmed Aly, Babak Damavandi, Rakesh Wanga, Anuj Kumar, Rohit Patel, Wen-tau Yih, Xin Luna Dong

CoRR, October, 2025

PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding.

Jang Hyun Cho, Andrea Madotto, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Triantafyllos Afouras, Tushar Nagarajan, Muhammad Maaz, Yale Song, Tengyu Ma, Shuming Hu, Suyog Dutt Jain, Miguel Martin, Huiyu Wang, Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, Peize Sun, Po-Yao Huang, Daniel Bolya, Nikhila Ravi, Shashank Jain, Tammy Stark, Shane Moon, Babak Damavandi, Vivian Lee, Andrew Westbury, Salman H. Khan, Philipp Krähenbühl, Piotr Dollár, Lorenzo Torresani, Kristen Grauman, Christoph Feichtenhofer

CoRR, April, 2025

WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios.

Eun Chang, Zhuangqun Huang, Yiwei Liao, Sagar Ravi Bhavsar, Amogh Param, Tammy Stark, Adel Ahmadyan, Xiao Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Ahsan Abdullah, Giang Nguyen, Akil Iyer, David Hall, Elissa Li, Nicolas Scheffer, Ahmed Kirmani, Babak Damavandi, Rakesh Wanga, Anuj Kumar, Rohit Patel, Seungwhan Moon, Xin Luna Dong

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, 2025

Proactive Assistant Dialogue Generation from Streaming Egocentric Videos.

Yichi Zhang, Xin Luna Dong, Zhaojiang Lin, Andrea Madotto, Anuj Kumar, Babak Damavandi, Joyce Chai, Seungwhan Moon

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

2024

Overview of the Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC10.

Koichiro Yoshino, Yun-Nung Chen, Paul A. Crook, Satwik Kottur, Jinchao Li, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seungwhan Moon, Zhengcong Fei, Zekang Li, Jinchao Zhang, Yang Feng, Jie Zhou, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu, Di Jin, Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Babak Damavandi, Alborz Geramifard, Chiori Hori, Ankit Shah, Chen Zhang, Haizhou Li, João Sedoc, Luis F. D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Alexander Rudnicky

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024

Doppelgänger's Watch: A Split Objective Approach to Large Language Models.

Shervin Ghasemlou, Ashish Katiyar, Aparajita Saraf, Seungwhan Moon, Mangesh Pujari, Pinar Donmez, Babak Damavandi, Anuj Kumar

CoRR, 2024

SnapNTell: Enhancing Entity-Centric Visual Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Multimodal LLM.

Jielin Qiu, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Paul A. Crook, Yifan Ethan Xu, Babak Damavandi, Xin Dong, Christos Faloutsos, Lei Li, Seungwhan Moon

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

AnyMAL: An Efficient and Scalable Any-Modality Augmented Language Model.

Seungwhan Moon, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Tushar Nagarajan, Matt Smith, Shashank Jain, Chun-Fu Yeh, Prakash Murugesan, Peyman Heidari, Yue Liu, Kavya Srinet, Babak Damavandi, Anuj Kumar

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2023

IMU2CLIP: Language-grounded Motion Sensor Translation with Multimodal Contrastive Learning.

Seungwhan Moon, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Aparajita Saraf, Amy Bearman, Babak Damavandi

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

SIMMC-VR: A Task-oriented Multimodal Dialog Dataset with Situated and Immersive VR Streams.

Te-Lin Wu, Satwik Kottur, Andrea Madotto, Mahmoud Azab, Pedro Rodríguez, Babak Damavandi, Nanyun Peng, Seungwhan Moon

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Tell Your Story: Task-Oriented Dialogs for Interactive Content Creation.

Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Aram H. Markosyan, Hardik Shah, Babak Damavandi, Alborz Geramifard

CoRR, 2022

IMU2CLIP: Multimodal Contrastive Learning for IMU Motion Sensors from Egocentric Videos and Text.

Seungwhan Moon, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Alireza Dirafzoon, Aparajita Saraf, Amy Bearman, Babak Damavandi

CoRR, 2022

Navigating Connected Memories with a Task-oriented Dialog System.

Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Alborz Geramifard, Babak Damavandi

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

2021

SIMMC 2.0: A Task-oriented Dialog Dataset for Immersive Multimodal Conversations.

Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Alborz Geramifard, Babak Damavandi

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Connecting What To Say With Where To Look by Modeling Human Attention Traces.

Zihang Meng, Licheng Yu, Ning Zhang, Tamara L. Berg, Babak Damavandi, Vikas Singh, Amy Bearman

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021

2016

NN-Grams: Unifying Neural Network and n-Gram Language Models for Speech Recognition.

Babak Damavandi, Shankar Kumar, Noam Shazeer, Antoine Bruguier

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

2013

Breast cancer prediction using genome wide single nucleotide polymorphism data.

Mohsen Hajiloo, Babak Damavandi, Metanat HooshSadat, Farzad Sangi, John R. Mackey, Carol E. Cass, Russell Greiner, Sambasivarao Damaraju

BMC Bioinform., 2013