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2026

SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?

Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Abdur Rahman, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Munem Shahriar, Mohsin Mahmud Topu, Sadia Tasnim Meem, Rahatun Nesa Priti, Sabrina Afroz Mitu, Md. Iqramul Hoque, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Majd Hawasly, Mohammad Raza, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICLR, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{wasi2026spatialab,
  author = {Wasi, Azmine Toushik and Faisal, Wahid and Rahman, Abdur and Ahmed Anik, Mahfuz and Shahriar, Munem and Mahmud Topu, Mohsin and Tasnim Meem, Sadia and Nesa Priti, Rahatun and Afroz Mitu, Sabrina and Hoque, Md. Iqramul and Zaman Ridoy, Shahriyar and Eunus Ali, Mohammed and Hawasly, Majd and Raza, Mohammad and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  title = {SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?},
  booktitle = {ICLR},
  year = {2026}
}

Graph-Theoretical Framework for Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Model Reasoning for Healthcare

Md Tanzib Hosain, Md Kishor Morol, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICML-Underreview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{hossain20264graph,
  title = {Graph-Theoretical Framework for Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Model Reasoning for Healthcare},
  author = {Hosain, Md Tanzib and Morol, Md Kishor and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ICML-Underreview},
  year = {2026}
}

DashboardQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Question Answering on Interactive Dashboards

Aaryaman Kartha, Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Thinh Lang, Shadikur Rahman, Ridwan Mahbub, Mizanur Rahman, Mahir Ahmed, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, and Shafiq Joty, in EACL-Findings, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{dashboardqa,
  title = {DashboardQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Question Answering on Interactive Dashboards},
  author = {Kartha, Aaryaman and Masry, Ahmed and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Lang, Thinh and Rahman, Shadikur and Mahbub, Ridwan and Rahman, Mizanur and Ahmed, Mahir and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq},
  booktitle = {EACL-Findings},
  year = {2026}
}

Xolver: Multi-Agent Reasoning with Holistic Experience Learning Just Like an Olympiad Team

Md Tanzib Hosain, Salman Rahman, Md Kishor Morol, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICLR-Underreview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{hosain20254xolver,
  title = {Xolver: Multi-Agent Reasoning with Holistic Experience Learning Just Like an Olympiad Team},
  author = {Hosain, Md Tanzib and Rahman, Salman and Morol, Md Kishor and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ICLR-Underreview},
  year = {2026}
}

MapAgent: A Hierarchical Agent for Geospatial Reasoning with Dynamic Map Tool Integration

Md Hasebul Hasan, Mahir Labib Dihan, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in EACL-Findings, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{hasan2025mapagent,
  title = {MapAgent: A Hierarchical Agent for Geospatial Reasoning with Dynamic Map Tool Integration},
  author = {Hasan, Md Hasebul and Dihan, Mahir Labib and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {EACL-Findings},
  year = {2026}
}

The Art of Saying "Maybe": A Conformal Lens for Uncertainty Benchmarking in VLMs

Asif Azad, Mohammad Sadat Hossain, M. D. Sadik Hossain Shanto, M. Saifur Rahman, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in EACL-Findings, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{azad2025theart,
  title = {The Art of Saying "Maybe": A Conformal Lens for Uncertainty Benchmarking in VLMs},
  author = {Azad, Asif and Hossain, Mohammad Sadat and Shanto, MD Sadik Hossain and Rahman, M Saifur and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {EACL-Findings},
  year = {2026}
}

When Two Works for Forty: Cross-Modal CoT–PoT Ensembling for Efficient Self-Consistency in LLM Reasoning

Raman Saparkhan, Majd Hawasly, Md Rizwan Parvez, and Mohammad Raza, in ICLR-Underreview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{saparkhan2025when,
  title = {When Two Works for Forty: Cross-Modal CoT–PoT Ensembling for Efficient Self-Consistency in LLM Reasoning },
  author = {Saparkhan, Raman and Hawasly, Majd and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Raza, Mohammad},
  booktitle = {ICLR-Underreview},
  year = {2026}
}

Styled Attacks: Exploiting Style-Based Backdoors in Code LLMs

Khang Tran, Yazan Boshmaf, Issa Khalil, NhatHai Phan, Ting Yu, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICLR-Underreview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{tran2026pws,
  title = {Styled Attacks: Exploiting Style-Based Backdoors in Code LLMs},
  author = {Tran, Khang and Boshmaf, Yazan and Khalil, Issa and Phan, NhatHai and Yu, Ting and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ICLR-Underreview},
  year = {2026}
}

DR-VQA: Large Language Model based Vision Question Answering System on Diabetic Retinopathy

Saleh Musleh, Hamada R. H. Al-Absi, Md Rizwan Parvez, and Tanvir Alam, in NDSS-Underreview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{musleh2025drvqa,
  title = {DR-VQA: Large Language Model based Vision Question Answering System on Diabetic Retinopathy},
  author = {Musleh, Saleh and R. H. Al-Absi, Hamada and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Alam, Tanvir},
  booktitle = {NDSS-Underreview},
  year = {2026}
}

VideoLights: Feature Refinement and Cross-Task Alignment Transformer for Joint Video Highlight Detection and Moment Retrieval

Dhiman Paul, Md Rizwan Parvez, Mohammed Nabeel, and Shafin Rahman, in KDD-Underview, 2026.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{paul2026videolights,
  title = {VideoLights: Feature Refinement and Cross-Task Alignment Transformer for Joint Video Highlight Detection and Moment Retrieval},
  author = {Paul, Dhiman and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Nabeel, Mohammed and Rahman, Shafin},
  booktitle = {KDD-Underview},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

X-teaming: Multi-turn jailbreaks and defenses with adaptive multi-agents

Salman Rahman, Liwei Jiang, James Shiffer, Genglin Liu, Sheriff Issaka, Md Rizwan Parvez, Hamid Palangi, Kai-Wei Chang, Yejin Choi, and Saadia Gabriel, in COLM, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{salman20254xteaming,
  title = {X-teaming: Multi-turn jailbreaks and defenses with adaptive multi-agents},
  author = {Rahman, Salman and Jiang, Liwei and Shiffer, James and Liu, Genglin and Issaka, Sheriff and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Palangi, Hamid and Chang, Kai-Wei and Choi, Yejin and Gabriel, Saadia},
  booktitle = {COLM},
  year = {2025}
}

AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims

Salman Rahman, Sheriff Issaka, Ashima Suvarna, Genglin Liu, James Shiffer, Jaeyoung Lee, Md Rizwan Parvez, Hamid Palangi, Shi Feng, Nanyun Peng, Yejin Choi, Julian Michael, Liwei Jiang, and Saadia Gabriel, in NeurIPS, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{salman20254debate,
  title = {AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims},
  author = {Rahman, Salman and Issaka, Sheriff and Suvarna, Ashima and Liu, Genglin and Shiffer, James and Lee, Jaeyoung and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Palangi, Hamid and Feng, Shi and Peng, Nanyun and Choi, Yejin and Michael, Julian and Jiang, Liwei and Gabriel, Saadia},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS},
  year = {2025}
}

ChartQAPro: A More Diverse and Challenging Benchmark for Chart Question Answering

Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mahir Ahmed, Aayush Bajaj, Firoz Kabir, Aaryaman Kartha, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Shadikur Rahman, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Megh Thakkar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, and Shafiq Joty, in ACL-Findings, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{masry20254chartqapro,
  title = {ChartQAPro: A More Diverse and Challenging Benchmark for Chart Question Answering},
  author = {Masry, Ahmed and Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Ahmed, Mahir and Bajaj, Aayush and Kabir, Firoz and Kartha, Aaryaman and Laskar, Md Tahmid Rahman and Rahman, Mizanur and Rahman, Shadikur and Shahmohammadi, Mehrad and Thakkar, Megh and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq},
  booktitle = {ACL-Findings},
  year = {2025}
}

MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models

Mahir Labib Dihan, Md Tanvir Hassan, Md Tanvir Parvez, Md Hasebul Hasan, Md Almash Alam, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ICML (Spotlight), 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{dihan2025mapeval,
  title = {MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models},
  author = {Dihan, Mahir Labib and Hassan, Md Tanvir and Parvez, Md Tanvir and Hasan, Md Hasebul and Alam, Md Almash and Cheema, Muhammad Aamir and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ICML (Spotlight)},
  year = {2025}
}

TechniqueRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Adversarial Technique Annotation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Text

Ahmed Lekssays, Utsav Shukla, Husrev Taha Sencar, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ACL-Findings, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{lekssays20254ctechniquerag,
  title = {TechniqueRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Adversarial Technique Annotation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Text},
  author = {Lekssays, Ahmed and Shukla, Utsav and Sencar, Husrev Taha and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ACL-Findings},
  year = {2025}
}

MapQaTor: A System for Efficient Annotation of Map Query Datasets

Mahir Labib Dihan, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in ACL Demo, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{dihan2025mapqator,
  title = {MapQaTor: A System for Efficient Annotation of Map Query Datasets},
  author = {Dihan, Mahir Labib and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {ACL Demo},
  year = {2025}
}

Open-RAG: A Novel AI Framework Designed to Enhance Reasoning Capabilities in RAG with Open-Source LLMs

MarkTechPost News, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@article{marktechpostnews,
  title = {Open-RAG: A Novel AI Framework Designed to Enhance Reasoning Capabilities in RAG with Open-Source LLMs},
  author = {{MarkTechPost News}},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/10/14/open-rag-a-novel-ai-framework-designed-to-enhance-reasoning-capabilities-in-rag-with-open-source-llms/}
}

CodeSim: Multi-Agent Code Generation and Problem Solving through Simulation-Driven Planning and Debugging

Md Ashraful Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, NAACL-findings, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@article{islam2025codesim,
  title = {CodeSim: Multi-Agent Code Generation and Problem Solving through Simulation-Driven Planning and Debugging},
  author = {Islam, Md Ashraful and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  journal = {NAACL-findings},
  year = {2025}
}

Evidence to Generate (E2G): A Single-agent Two-step Prompting for Context Grounded and Retrieval Augmented Reasoning

Md Rizwan Parvez, NAACL KnowledgeNLP, 2025.
BibTeX Details

@article{parvez2024evidence,
  title = {Evidence to Generate (E2G): A Single-agent Two-step Prompting for Context Grounded and Retrieval Augmented Reasoning},
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  journal = {NAACL KnowledgeNLP},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Texts

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, and Shafiq Joty, in EMNLP, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{saiful2024datanarrative,
  title = {DataNarrative: Automated Data-Driven Storytelling with Visualizations and Texts},
  author = {Islam, Mohammed Saidul and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq},
  booktitle = {EMNLP},
  year = {2024}
}

ChartInstruct: Instruction Tuning for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, and Shafiq Joty, in ACL-Findings, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{masry2024chartinstruct,
  title = {ChartInstruct: Instruction Tuning for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning},
  author = {Masry, Ahmed and Shahmohammadi, Mehrad and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq},
  booktitle = {ACL-Findings},
  year = {2024}
}

OPEN-RAG: Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Open-Source Large Language Models

Shayekh Bin Islam, Md Asib Rahman, K. SM Tozammel Hossain, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, and Md Rizwan Parvez, in EMNLP-Findings, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{shayekh2024openrag,
  title = {OPEN-RAG: Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Open-Source Large Language Models},
  author = {Islam, Shayekh Bin and Rahman, Md Asib and Hossain, KSM Tozammel and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  booktitle = {EMNLP-Findings},
  year = {2024}
}

A Systematic Survey and Critical Review on Evaluating Large Language Models: Challenges, Limitations, and Recommendations

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Sawsan Alqahtani, M. Saiful Bari, Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Abdullah Matin Khan, Haidar Khan, Israt Jahan, Amran Bhuiyan, Chee Wei Tan, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, and Jimmy Huang, EMNLP, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@article{Laskar2024evalsurvey,
  title = {A Systematic Survey and Critical Review on Evaluating Large Language Models: Challenges, Limitations, and Recommendations},
  author = {Laskar, Md Tahmid Rahman and Alqahtani, Sawsan and Bari, M Saiful and Rahman, Mizanur and Khan, Mohammad Abdullah Matin and Khan, Haidar and Jahan, Israt and Bhuiyan, Amran and Tan, Chee Wei and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hoque, Enamul and Joty, Shafiq and Huang, Jimmy},
  journal = {EMNLP},
  year = {2024}
}

MapCoder: Multi-Agent Code Generation for Competitive Problem Solving

Md Ashraful Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Md Rizwan Parvez, ACL, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@article{islam2024mapcoder,
  title = {MapCoder: Multi-Agent Code Generation for Competitive Problem Solving},
  author = {Islam, Md Ashraful and Ali, Mohammed Eunus and Parvez, Md Rizwan},
  journal = {ACL},
  year = {2024}
}

Improving Language Models Trained with Translated Data via Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis

Sabri Boughorbel, M. D. Parvez, and Majd Hawasly, ArabNLP, ACL, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@article{boughorbel2024improving,
  title = {Improving Language Models Trained with Translated Data via Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis},
  author = {Boughorbel, Sabri and Parvez, MD and Hawasly, Majd},
  journal = {ArabNLP, ACL},
  year = {2024}
}

xCodeEval: A Large Scale Multilingual Multitask Benchmark for Code Understanding, Generation, Translation and Retrieval

Mohammad Abdullah Matin Khan, M. Saiful Bari, Xuan Long Do, Weishi Wang, Md Rizwan Parvez, and Shafiq Joty, ACL, 2024.
BibTeX Details

@article{khan2023xcodeeval,
  title = {xCodeEval: A Large Scale Multilingual Multitask Benchmark for Code Understanding, Generation, Translation and Retrieval},
  author = {Khan, Mohammad Abdullah Matin and Bari, M Saiful and Do, Xuan Long and Wang, Weishi and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Joty, Shafiq},
  journal = {ACL},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

Retrieval Enhanced Data Augmentation for Question Answering on Privacy Policies

Md Rizwan Parvez, Wasi Ahmad, Jianfeng Chi, Tian Yuan, and Kai-Wei Chang, in EACL, 2023.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2022ret-privacy,
  title = {Retrieval Enhanced Data Augmentation for Question Answering on Privacy Policies},
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Ahmad, Wasi and Chi, Jianfeng and Yuan, Tian and Chang, Kai-Wei},
  booktitle = {EACL},
  year = {2023}
}

DelucionQA: Detecting Hallucinations in Domain-specific Question Answering

Mobashir Sadat, Zhengyu Zhou, Lukas Lange, Jun Araki, Arsalan Gundroo, Bingqing Wang, Rakesh Menon, Md Parvez, and Zhe Feng, EMNLP-findings, 2023.
BibTeX Details

@article{sadatetal2023delucionqa,
  title = {{D}elucion{QA}: Detecting Hallucinations in Domain-specific Question Answering},
  author = {Sadat, Mobashir and Zhou, Zhengyu and Lange, Lukas and Araki, Jun and Gundroo, Arsalan and Wang, Bingqing and Menon, Rakesh and Parvez, Md and Feng, Zhe},
  journal = {EMNLP-findings},
  year = {2023}
}

Learning to filter context for retrieval-augmented generation

Zhiruo Wang, Jun Araki, Zhengbao Jiang, Md Rizwan Parvez, and Graham Neubig, Pre-print, 2023.
BibTeX Details

@article{Wang2023filco,
  title = {Learning to filter context for retrieval-augmented generation},
  author = {Wang, Zhiruo and Araki, Jun and Jiang, Zhengbao and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Neubig, Graham},
  journal = {Pre-print},
  year = {2023}
}

2021

Evaluating the Values of Sources in Transfer Learning

Md Rizwan Parvez and Kai-Wei Chang, in NAACL, 2021.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2021evaluating,
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Chang, Kai-Wei},
  title = {Evaluating the Values of Sources in Transfer Learning},
  booktitle = {NAACL},
  year = {2021}
}

Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization

Md Rizwan Parvez, Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, and Kai-Wei Chang, in EMNLP-Findings, 2021.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2021retrieval,
  title = {Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization},
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Ahmad, Wasi and Chakraborty, Saikat and Ray, Baishakhi and Chang, Kai-Wei},
  booktitle = {EMNLP-Findings},
  year = {2021}
}

2019

Robust Text Classifier on Test-Time Budgets

Md Rizwan Parvez, Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, and Venkatesh Saligrama, in EMNLP, 2019.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2019robust,
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Bolukbasi, Tolga and Chang, Kai-Wei and Saligrama, Venkatesh},
  title = {Robust Text Classifier on Test-Time Budgets},
  booktitle = {EMNLP},
  year = {2019}
}

2018

Building Language Models for Text with Named Entities

Md Rizwan Parvez, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, and Kai-Wei Chang, in ACL, 2018.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2018building,
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Chakraborty, Saikat and Ray, Baishakhi and Chang, Kai-Wei},
  title = {Building Language Models for Text with Named Entities},
  booktitle = {ACL},
  year = {2018}
}

A corpus of drug usage guidelines annotated with type of advice

Sarah Masud Preum, Md Rizwan Parvez, Kai-Wei Chang, and John Stankovic, in LREC, 2018.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{preum2018corpus,
  title = {A corpus of drug usage guidelines annotated with type of advice},
  author = {Preum, Sarah Masud and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Chang, Kai-Wei and Stankovic, John},
  booktitle = {LREC},
  year = {2018}
}

2016

A novel approach to identify spatio-temporal crime pattern in dhaka city

Md Rizwan Parvez, Turash Mosharraf, and Mohammed Eunus Ali, in Proceedings of the eighth international conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2016.
BibTeX Details

@inproceedings{parvez2016novel,
  title = {A novel approach to identify spatio-temporal crime pattern in dhaka city},
  author = {Parvez, Md Rizwan and Mosharraf, Turash and Ali, Mohammed Eunus},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the eighth international conference on information and communication technologies and development},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2016}
}

2014

DhakaSim: A Tool for Simulating Traffic Mobility in Dhaka City

Himel Dev, Md. Rizwan Parvez, Md Momen Bhuiyan, Turash Mosharraf, Taslim Arefin Khan, Ferdous Haque, Abdullah Al Mamun, Farhan Ahmed Chowdhury, Md Sharif Shadat Hossain, Mehrab Bin Morshed, and others, MoHCI, 2014.
BibTeX Details

@article{himel2014dhakasim,
  title = {DhakaSim: A Tool for Simulating Traffic Mobility in Dhaka City},
  author = {Dev, Himel and Parvez, Md. Rizwan and Bhuiyan, Md Momen and Mosharraf, Turash and Khan, Taslim Arefin and Haque, Ferdous and Al Mamun, Abdullah and Chowdhury, Farhan Ahmed and Hossain, Md Sharif Shadat and Morshed, Mehrab Bin and others},
  booktitle = {MoHCI},
  year = {2014}
}