Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Justin Xu, Johannes Moll, Alois Thomas, Zhihong Chen, Sophie Ostmeier, Asfandyar Azhar, Kelvin Zhenghao Li, Andrew Johnston, Christian Bluethgen, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Mohamed S Muneer, Maya Varma, Curtis Langlotz. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

Dennis Hein, Zhihong Chen, Sophie Ostmeier, Justin Xu, Maya Varma, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Arne Edward Michalson Md, Christian Bluethgen, Hyun Joo Shin, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

Justin Xu, Yiming Li, Zizheng Zhang, Augustine Yui Hei Luk, Mayank Jobanputra, Samarth Oza, Ashley Murray, Meghana Reddy Kasula, Andrew Parker, David W Eyre. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Reproducibility remains a significant challenge in machine learning (ML) for healthcare. Datasets, model pipelines, and even task or cohort definitions are often private in this field, leading to a significant barrier in sharing, iterating, and understanding ML results on electronic health record (EHR) datasets. We address a significant part of this problem by introducing the Automatic Cohort Extraction System (ACES) for event-stream data. This library is designed to simultaneously simplify the development of tasks and cohorts for ML in healthcare and also enable their reproduction, both at an exact level for single datasets and at a conceptual level across datasets. To accomplish this, ACES provides: (1) a highly intuitive and expressive domain-specific configuration language for defining both dataset-specific concepts and dataset-agnostic inclusion or exclusion criteria, and (2) a pipeline to automatically extract patient records that meet these defined criteria from real-world data. ACES can be automatically applied to any dataset in either the Medical Event Data Standard (MEDS) or Event Stream GPT (ESGPT) formats, or to *any* dataset in which the necessary task-specific predicates can be extracted in an event-stream form. ACES has the potential to significantly lower the barrier to entry for defining ML tasks in representation learning, redefine the way researchers interact with EHR datasets, and significantly improve the state of reproducibility for ML studies using this modality. ACES is available at: https://github.com/justin13601/aces.

Health AI suffers from a systemic reproducibility crisis that irreparably hinders research across both academia and industry [4,5].One key tool poised to solve this crisis is the Medical Event Data Standard (MEDS), a comprehensive data format and open-source ecosystem designed to enhance reproducibility and interoperability of AI research using longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR) [6].Currently adopted by over 15 institutions globally, MEDS encompasses various open-source tools, published models, and data processing pipelines, enabling streamlined model development and robust benchmarking.In this tutorial, participants will gain key hands-on experience in working with the MEDS format to perform efficient, reproducible, state-of-the-art AI research over real health data.Participants will transform data into the MEDS format, preprocess data, build predictive models, and contribute to the decentralized MEDS-DEV benchmarking platform.Interactive exercises using Jupyter notebooks will provide hands-on experience and practical skills for reproducible health AI research.Attendees will leave equipped

The prevailing way to test a self-driving vehicle (SDV) in simulation involves non-reactive open-loop replay of real world scenarios. However, in order to safely deploy SDVs to the real world, we need to evaluate them in closed-loop. Towards this goal, we propose to leverage the wealth of interesting scenarios captured in the real world and make them reactive and controllable to enable closed-loop SDV evaluation in what-if situations. In particular, we present MIXSIM, a hierarchical framework for mixed reality traffic simulation. MIXSIM explicitly models agent goals as routes along the road network and learns a reactive route-conditional policy. By inferring each agent's route from the original scenario, MIXSIM can reactively re-simulate the scenario and enable testing different autonomy systems under the same conditions. Furthermore, by varying each agent's route, we can expand the scope of testing to what-if situations with realistic variations in agent behaviors or even safety critical interactions. Our experiments show that MIXSIM can serve as a realistic, reactive, and controllable digital twin of real world scenarios. For more information, please visit the project website: https://waabi.ai/research/mixsim/

Advances in conversational AI have the potential to enable more engaging and effective ways to teach factual knowledge. To investigate this hypothesis, we created QuizBot, a dialogue-based agent that helps students learn factual knowledge in science, safety, and English vocabulary. We evaluated QuizBot with 76 students through two within-subject studies against a flashcard app, the traditional medium for learning factual knowledge. Though both systems used the same algorithm for sequencing materials, QuizBot led to students recognizing (and recalling) over 20% more correct answers than when students used the flashcard app. Using a conversational agent is more time consuming to practice with, but in a second study, of their own volition, students spent 2.6x more time learning with QuizBot than with flashcards and reported preferring it strongly for casual learning. Our results in this second study showed QuizBot yielded improved learning gains over flashcards on recall. These results suggest that educational chatbot systems may have beneficial use, particularly for learning outside of traditional settings.

This paper presents a novel modelling methodology for system-on-chip (SoC) verification based on software techniques. This methodology facilitates the automation of test generation; it also enables the focuses being placed on system-level behaviors such as concurrency and resource-contentions. We have demonstrated the feasibility to generalize heterogeneous interactions systematically and use them as the building blocks to generate complex test-cases of real-world concurrency