Publications

Preprint

• Curriculum Learning for LLM Pretraining: An Analysis of Learning Dynamics
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  preprint [PDF]

• LingGen: Linguistic Fine-grained Controlled Generation
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  arXiv:2410.24201, Under Review at EACL 2026 [PDF]

• Analysis of Race, Sex, and Language Proficiency Disparities in Documented Medical Decisions
  Hadi Amiri, Nidhi Vakil, Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Mitra Mohtarami, Adrian Wong, Mehrnaz Sadrolashrafi, Leo Anthony G Celi
  medRxiv 2024.07.11.24310289 [PDF]

Peer-Reviewed

• Linguistically-Controlled Paraphrase Generation
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  Findings of EMNLP 2025 [PDF]

• LingConv: An Interactive Toolkit for Controlled Paraphrase Generation with Linguistic Attribute Control Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EMNLP Demo Track 2025 [PDF] [Demo]

• MedDecXtract: A Clinician-Support System for Extracting, Visualizing, and Annotating Medical Decisions in Clinical Narratives
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri, Mitra Mohtarami, Leo Anthony Celi
  ACL Demo Track 2025 [PDF] [Demo]

• MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Clinical Narratives
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri, Leo Anthony Celi
  Findings of ACL 2024 [PDF] [Code]

• CogniVoice: Multimodal and Multilingual Fusion Networks for Mild Cognitive Impairment Assessment from Spontaneous Speech
  Jiali Cheng, Mohamed Elgaar, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri
  INTERSPEECH 2024 [PDF] [Code]

• Ling-CL: Multiview Curriculum Learning using Linguistic Complexity
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EMNLP 2023 [PDF] [Code]

• HuCurl: Human-induced Curriculum Discovery
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  ACL 2023 [PDF] [Code]

• Multi-Speaker and Multi-Domain Emotional Voice Conversion Using Factorized Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jungbae Park, Sang Wan Lee
  IEEE ICASSP 2020 [PDF] [Demo]

Patents

• Methods for Emotional Voice Conversion, Mohamed Elgaar, Jungbae Park, Korean Patent (10-2277205)