Publications

Fast Prompt Alignment for Text-to-Image Generation

Khalil Mrini, Hanlin Lu, Linjie Yang, Weilin Huang, Heng Wang

2024 TikTok Technical Report

Finetuned Multimodal Language Models Are High-Quality Image-Text Data Filters

Weizhi Wang, Khalil Mrini, Linjie Yang, Sateesh Kumar, Yu Tian, Xifeng Yan, Heng Wang

arXiv pre-print

Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023

Hassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham

First ArabicNLP Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2023

🇸🇬 Singapore

InfiMM-Eval: Complex Open-Ended Reasoning Evaluation For Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Xiaotian Han, Quanzeng You, Yongfei Liu, Wentao Chen, Huangjie Zheng, Khalil Mrini, Xudong Lin, Yiqi Wang, Bohan Zhai, Jianbo Yuan, Heng Wang, Hongxia Yang

arXiv pre-print

Ahmed and Khalil at NADI 2022: Transfer Learning and Addressing Class Imbalance for Arabic Dialect Identification and Sentiment Analysis

Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Khalil Mrini

EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP)

🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Online

Medical Question Understanding and Answering with Knowledge Grounding and Semantic Self-Supervision

Khalil Mrini, Harpreet Singh, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

COLING 2022

🇰🇷 Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, and Online

Goud.ma: a News Article Dataset for Summarization in Moroccan Darija

Abderrahmane Issam, Khalil Mrini

AfricaNLP workshop at ICLR 2022

Detection, Disambiguation, Re-ranking: Autoregressive Entity Linking as a Multi-Task Problem

Khalil Mrini, Shaoliang Nie, Jiatao Gu, Sinong Wang, Maziar Sanjabi, Hamed Firooz

ACL 2022 (Findings, Long Paper)

🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Sentence-level Privacy for Document Embeddings

Casey Meehan, Khalil Mrini, Kamalika Chaudhuri

ACL 2022 (Main, Long Paper)

🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Rewards with Negative Examples for Reinforced Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization

Khalil Mrini, Can Liu, Markus Dreyer

EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization (NewSum)

Interpretable Label-Attentive Encoder-Decoder Parser

Khalil Mrini, Walter Chang, Trung Bui, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt

United States Patent Application Publication

A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2021 (Main, Long Paper)

Recursive Tree-Structured Self-Attention for Answer Sentence Selection

Khalil Mrini, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2021 (Main, Long Paper)

Toward a Unified Metadata Schema for Ecological Momentary Assessment with Voice-First Virtual Assistants

Chen Chen, Khalil Mrini, Kemeberly Charles, Ella Lifset, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas

The 2021 ACM Conversational User Interface (CUI) Conference

Joint Summarization-Entailment Optimization for Consumer Health Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

NAACL 2021 workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations (NLPMC)

Best Student Paper Award

UCSD-Adobe at MEDIQA 2021: Transfer Learning and Answer Sentence Selection for Medical Summarization

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

NAACL 2021 workshop on Biomedical NLP (BioNLP)

Medical Question Understanding and Answering for Older Adults

Khalil Mrini, Chen Chen, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas

The 2021 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium

Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Tran, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole

EMNLP 2020 (Findings, Long paper)

Voice-Based Conversational Agents for Older Adults

Janet Johnson, Khalil Mrini, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas

CHI 2020 Workshop on Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing

Using HCI to Tackle Race and Gender Bias in ADHD Diagnosis

Naba Rizvi, Khalil Mrini

CHI 2020 Workshop on Engaging in Race in HCI

Highlights of Attention Mechanisms for Model Interpretability

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole

The 2019 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA

Interpretable Structure-aware Document Encoders with Hierarchical Attention

Khalil Mrini, Claudiu Musat, Michael Baeriswyl, Martin Jaggi

EPFL Master Thesis (2018)

Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots

Thibault Asselborn, Arzu Guneysu, Khalil Mrini, Elmira Yadollahi, Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg

IDC 2018: The 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway

Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space

Khalil Mrini, Marc Laperrouza, Pierre Dillenbourg

SwissText 2018: The 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference

🇨🇭 Winterthur, Switzerland

Best Presentation Award

Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet

Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond

GWC 2018: The 9th Global WordNet Conference

🇸🇬 Singapore

Building the Moroccan Darija Wordnet (MDW) using Bilingual Resources

Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond

ICNLSSP 2017: The International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing

🇲🇦 Casablanca, Morocco

Towards Producing Human-Validated Translation Resources for the Fula language through WordNet Linking

Khalil Mrini, Martin Benjamin

RANLP 2017 Workshop on Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT)

🇧🇬 Varna, Bulgaria