VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Asad Aali
dblp:346/0508
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-2120-5722ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion model training
ambient diffusion |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion sampling
diffusion posterior sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data · ICLR 2025 |
Medical and health informatics
medical imaging |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data · ICLR 2025 |
Medical and health informatics › medical imaging › magnetic resonance imaging
MRI reconstruction |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
posterior sampling · 1.7fourier subsampling · 1.7ambient diffusion · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted DataabstractWe provide a framework for solving inverse problems with diffusion models learned from linearly corrupted data. Firstly, we extend the Ambient Diffusion framework to enable training directly from measurements corrupted in the Fourier domain. Subsequently, we train diffusion models for MRI with access only to Fourier subsampled multi-coil measurements at acceleration factors R$=2, 4, 6, 8$. Secondly, we propose $\textit{Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling}$ (A-DPS), a reconstruction algorithm that leverages generative models pre-trained on one type of corruption (e.g. image inpainting) to perform posterior sampling on measurements from a different forward process (e.g. image blurring). For MRI reconstruction in high acceleration regimes, we observe that A-DPS models trained on subsampled data are better suited to solving inverse problems than models trained on fully sampled data. We also test the efficacy of A-DPS on natural image datasets (CelebA, FFHQ, and AFHQ) and show that A-DPS can sometimes outperform models trained on clean data for several image restoration tasks in both speed and performance. Asad Aali, Giannis Daras, Brett Levac, Sidharth Kumar, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Jonathan I. Tamir |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2025 | A dataset and benchmark for hospital course summarization with adapted large language modelsabstractOBJECTIVE: Brief hospital course (BHC) summaries are clinical documents that summarize a patient's hospital stay. While large language models (LLMs) depict remarkable capabilities in automating real-world tasks, their capabilities for healthcare applications such as synthesizing BHCs from clinical notes have not been shown. We introduce a novel preprocessed dataset, the MIMIC-IV-BHC, encapsulating clinical note and BHC pairs to adapt LLMs for BHC synthesis. Furthermore, we introduce a benchmark of the summarization performance of 2 general-purpose LLMs and 3 healthcare-adapted LLMs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using clinical notes as input, we apply prompting-based (using in-context learning) and fine-tuning-based adaptation strategies to 3 open-source LLMs (Clinical-T5-Large, Llama2-13B, and FLAN-UL2) and 2 proprietary LLMs (Generative Pre-trained Transformer [GPT]-3.5 and GPT-4). We evaluate these LLMs across multiple context-length inputs using natural language similarity metrics. We further conduct a clinical study with 5 clinicians, comparing clinician-written and LLM-generated BHCs across 30 samples, focusing on their potential to enhance clinical decision-making through improved summary quality. We compare reader preferences for the original and LLM-generated summary using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. We further request optional qualitative feedback from clinicians to gain deeper insights into their preferences, and we present the frequency of common themes arising from these comments. RESULTS: The Llama2-13B fine-tuned LLM outperforms other domain-adapted models given quantitative evaluation metrics of Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-Score. GPT-4 with in-context learning shows more robustness to increasing context lengths of clinical note inputs than fine-tuned Llama2-13B. Despite comparable quantitative metrics, the reader study depicts a significant preference for summaries generated by GPT-4 with in-context learning compared to both Llama2-13B fine-tuned summaries and the original summaries (P<.001), highlighting the need for qualitative clinical evaluation. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: We release a foundational clinically relevant dataset, the MIMIC-IV-BHC, and present an open-source benchmark of LLM performance in BHC synthesis from clinical notes. We observe high-quality summarization performance for both in-context proprietary and fine-tuned open-source LLMs using both quantitative metrics and a qualitative clinical reader study. Our research effectively integrates elements from the data assimilation pipeline: our methods use (1) clinical data sources to integrate, (2) data translation, and (3) knowledge creation, while our evaluation strategy paves the way for (4) deployment. Asad Aali, Dave Van Veen, Yamin Ishraq Arefeen, Jason Hom, Christian Bluethgen, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Sergios Gatidis, Namuun Clifford, Joseph Daws, Arash S. Tehrani, Jangwon Kim, Akshay Chaudhari |
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. | 1 |