Final year PhD Candidate @UniLeiden | Ex- @bookingcom | Ex-Microsoft | EX-VR @Irlab_amsterdam | Interested in IR, NLP, Large Language Models

Joined April 2018
🎉 Thrilled to share that my internship at Microsoft, titled "MAGIC: Generating Self-Correction Guideline for In-Context Text-to-SQL" has been accepted at the at AAAI 2025 (Main)! together w/ Christian Pölitz and Xinye Tang! #AAAI2025 #AAAI #NLP #Microsoft #SelfCorrection 1/9
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Excited to share that our paper "Query Performance Prediction using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Models" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), with @NegarEmpr, @arian_ask, @maliannejadi, @mdr. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37364… – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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🎉Our paper “HotelMatch-LLM: Joint Multi-Task Training of Small and Large Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Hotel Retrieval” has been accepted into #ACL2025 (main). The result of my internship at Booking with Emmanouil Stergiadis, Ilya Gusev & Moran Beladev
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🎉 Excited to share that our full paper titled "Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking dialogs" has been accpeted at #NAACL2025 together w/ @rmpetcu, @ChuanMg, @maliannejadi, @aminvenv, Evangelos Kanoulas, and @Suzan
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- Manager agent in MAGIC: - 🔄 Controls the feedback-correction cycle - ✏️ Revises instructions - 📝 Generates guidelines - 🔍 Using the guideline generated by MAGIC enhances interpretability of corrections, offering valuable insights into LLM failures and successes. 8/9
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🔹 Agent interactions, code, and updated pre-print will be available soon. Paper link: lnkd.in/eMvhgFqq 9/9
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📦 To make SOLID more accessible, we’ve also developed a Python library called SOLID-Conv, designed to generate synthetic intent-aware dialogues with LLMs, based on the SOLID method from our paper. You can explore it on github.com/arian-askari/SOLI….
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Using SOLID is quite easy! You could see a quick code example in below figure. SOLID can be used for generating intent-aware dialogues. This can enhance your conversational AI projects in various aspects including intent detection.
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💼 By the way, I’m a final year PhD candidate and hitting the job market looking mainly looking for NLP/ML scientist positions (late 2024-early 2025)! 🚨👨‍🔬 If you know of any exciting openings or have opportunities to discuss, please feel free to reach out!
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- 💡 SOLID-RL: Further refines this by generating dialogs in one step and improving quality through a length-based estimation mechanism. - 📊 Impact: Over 300k intent-aware dialogs generated, improving intent prediction quality compared to human-annotated data.
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Effortlessly generate synthetic dialogues given a sequence of intents ! 🤖 Our new ACL 2024 NLP for Conversational AI workshop paper w/ @rmpetcu, @ChuanMg , @maliannejadi , @aminvenv , @ekanou , and @suzan ! 🎉 #ACL2024 #NLP #ConversationalAI #LLMs
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- 🚀 Self-seeding: Enhances dialog generation by leveraging the LLM’s own knowledge to kickstart the process. - 🧩 Multi-intent Self-instructing: Allows the LLM to generate complex multi-intent utterances autonomously, simplifying prompt design.
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What is SOLID? - 🔍 Intent-aware Dialogs: SOLID uses large language models (LLMs) to generate dialogs that are aware of user intents, addressing the challenge of manual intent annotation.
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Last week, I had the honor of presenting our paper, "SOLID: Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking Dialogs," at the ACL 2024 NLP for Conversational AI workshop.
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