Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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Senior Lecturer
Publication
2026
- Shafiei, M. et al., 2026. TruthTrap: A bilingual benchmark for evaluating factually correct yet misleading information in question answering. Presented at: EACL Rabat, Morocco 24-29 March 2026. Published in: Demberg, V. , Inui, K. and Marquez, L. eds. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.2966-2987. (10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.155)
2025
- Abbasi, S. , Modarres, M. R. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. NormXLogit: The head-on-top never lies. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.34914-34935. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1769)
- Marcuzzo, M. et al., 2025. Morables: A benchmark for assessing abstract moral reasoning in LLMs with fables. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.27715-27739. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1411)
- Nobakhtian, M. , Yaghoobzadeh, Y. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. Evaluating cultural knowledge and reasoning in LLMs through Persian allusions. Presented at: EMNLP 2025 Suzhou, China 4 - 9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.25725-25737. (10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.1403)
- Zakizadeh, M. and Pilehvar, M. 2025. Blind men and the elephant: diverse perspectives on gender stereotypes in benchmark datasets. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.22838-22851. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1162)
- Zangari, A. et al., 2025. Pun unintended: LLMs and the illusion of humor understanding. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.27924-27959. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1419)
- Mehri, F. , Baghshah, M. S. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. LibraGrad: Balancing gradient flow for universally better vision transformer attributions. Presented at: 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Nashville, TN, USA 10-17 June 2025. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE. , pp.67-78. (10.1109/cvpr52734.2025.00016)
- Delbari, Z. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. Beyond accuracy: revisiting out-of-distribution generalization in NLI models. Presented at: 29th Conference on Computational Natural LanguageLearning Vienna, Austria 31 July - 1 August 2025. Published in: Boleda, G. and Roth, M. eds. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.557-570. (10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.36)
- Moosavi Monazzah, E. et al., 2025. PerCul: A story-driven cultural evaluation of LLMs in Persian. Presented at: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 29 April - 4 May 2025. Published in: Chiruzzo, L. , Ritter, A. and Wang, L. eds. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). Albuquerque, New Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.12670-12687. (10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.631)
2024
- Mehri, F. et al., 2024. SkipPLUS: Skip the first few layers to better explain vision transformers. Presented at: 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) Seattle, WA, USA 17-18 June 2024. 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). , pp.204-215. (10.1109/cvprw63382.2024.00025)
- Delbari, Z. , Moosavi, N. S. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2024. Spanning the spectrum of hatred detection: a Persian multi-label hate speech dataset with annotator rationales. Presented at: Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vancouver, Canada 20-27 February 2024. Published in: Woolridge, M. , Dy, J. and Natarajan, S. eds. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 38.Vol. 16. Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. , pp.17889-17897. (10.1609/aaai.v38i16.29743)
2023
- Modarressi, A. et al., 2023. DecompX: Explaining transformers decisions by propagating token decomposition. Presented at: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Toronto, Canada 9-14 July 2023. Published in: Rogers, A. , Boyd-Graber, J. and Okazaki, N. eds. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.2649–2664. (10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.149)
Conferences
- Shafiei, M. et al., 2026. TruthTrap: A bilingual benchmark for evaluating factually correct yet misleading information in question answering. Presented at: EACL Rabat, Morocco 24-29 March 2026. Published in: Demberg, V. , Inui, K. and Marquez, L. eds. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.2966-2987. (10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.155)
- Abbasi, S. , Modarres, M. R. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. NormXLogit: The head-on-top never lies. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.34914-34935. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1769)
- Marcuzzo, M. et al., 2025. Morables: A benchmark for assessing abstract moral reasoning in LLMs with fables. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.27715-27739. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1411)
- Nobakhtian, M. , Yaghoobzadeh, Y. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. Evaluating cultural knowledge and reasoning in LLMs through Persian allusions. Presented at: EMNLP 2025 Suzhou, China 4 - 9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.25725-25737. (10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.1403)
- Zakizadeh, M. and Pilehvar, M. 2025. Blind men and the elephant: diverse perspectives on gender stereotypes in benchmark datasets. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.22838-22851. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1162)
- Zangari, A. et al., 2025. Pun unintended: LLMs and the illusion of humor understanding. Presented at: 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Suzhou, China 4-9 November 2025. Published in: Christodoulopoulos, C. et al., Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.27924-27959. (10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1419)
- Mehri, F. , Baghshah, M. S. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. LibraGrad: Balancing gradient flow for universally better vision transformer attributions. Presented at: 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Nashville, TN, USA 10-17 June 2025. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE. , pp.67-78. (10.1109/cvpr52734.2025.00016)
- Delbari, Z. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2025. Beyond accuracy: revisiting out-of-distribution generalization in NLI models. Presented at: 29th Conference on Computational Natural LanguageLearning Vienna, Austria 31 July - 1 August 2025. Published in: Boleda, G. and Roth, M. eds. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.557-570. (10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.36)
- Moosavi Monazzah, E. et al., 2025. PerCul: A story-driven cultural evaluation of LLMs in Persian. Presented at: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 29 April - 4 May 2025. Published in: Chiruzzo, L. , Ritter, A. and Wang, L. eds. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). Albuquerque, New Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.12670-12687. (10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.631)
- Mehri, F. et al., 2024. SkipPLUS: Skip the first few layers to better explain vision transformers. Presented at: 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) Seattle, WA, USA 17-18 June 2024. 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). , pp.204-215. (10.1109/cvprw63382.2024.00025)
- Delbari, Z. , Moosavi, N. S. and Pilehvar, M. T. 2024. Spanning the spectrum of hatred detection: a Persian multi-label hate speech dataset with annotator rationales. Presented at: Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vancouver, Canada 20-27 February 2024. Published in: Woolridge, M. , Dy, J. and Natarajan, S. eds. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 38.Vol. 16. Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. , pp.17889-17897. (10.1609/aaai.v38i16.29743)
- Modarressi, A. et al., 2023. DecompX: Explaining transformers decisions by propagating token decomposition. Presented at: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Toronto, Canada 9-14 July 2023. Published in: Rogers, A. , Boyd-Graber, J. and Okazaki, N. eds. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics. , pp.2649–2664. (10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.149)
Teaching
- CMT 227: Advanced Topics in NLP
- CMT 222:Topics, Research and Skills in Computing and IT Management
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Specialisms
- Natural language processing