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Reza Farahbakhsh

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Machine LearningSocial and Information NetworksComputation and LanguageInformation RetrievalNetworking and Internet ArchitectureArtificial IntelligenceComputer Visioncs.CYeess.SPInformation Theory

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preprint2026arXiv

Information Density as a Quantitative Measure for AI-enabled Virtual Sensing: Feasibility and Limits

Modern IoT and sensor networks generate vast amounts of data, posing significant challenges for storage, transmission, and real-time processing. Traditional approaches, such as compressive sensing and machine learning-based compression, often suffer from computational inefficiencies and irreversible data loss. This paper introduces Information Density as a quantitative metric to support sensor deployment and enable AI-driven virtual sensing. We propose a framework that leverages spatial, temporal and inter-modal correlations among sensor signals to perform sensing tasks even in the absence of physical sensors. Two complementary measures: (i) Phase in Eigen Space and (ii) Mutual Information, are developed to quantify and assess information density, enabling the selection of optimal sensor configurations across both intra-modality and cross-modality scenarios. Validated using real-world data from Madrid's smart city infrastructure, this framework demonstrates the feasibility of replacing physical sensors with virtual ones under bounded error conditions (e.g., achieving $<3.21\%$ mean error with a single sensor). The results highlight the potential for scalable and energy-efficient sensing systems in smart environments.

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preprint2026arXiv

Med-StepBench: A Hierarchical Reasoning Framework for Evaluating Hallucinations in Medical Vision-Language Models

Large vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong performance in medical image understanding, but frequently generate clinically plausible yet incorrect statements, raising significant safety concerns. Existing medical hallucination benchmarks primarily focus on 2D imaging with one-shot diagnostic questions, offering limited insight into whether predictions are grounded in correct localization and abnormality identification, allowing critical reasoning errors to remain hidden behind seemingly correct diagnoses. We introduce Med-StepBench, the first large-scale benchmark for step-wise hallucination detection in 3D oncological PET/CT, comprising over 12,000 images and more than 1,000,000 image-statement pairs across volumetric and multi-view 2D data, which decomposes clinical reasoning into four expert-designed diagnostic stages. Using clinician-verified annotations, we perform the first step-level evaluation of general-purpose and medical VLMs, revealing systematic failure modes obscured by aggregate accuracy metrics. Furthermore, we show that current VLMs are highly susceptible to adversarial yet clinically plausible intermediate explanations, which significantly amplify hallucinations despite contradictory visual evidence. Together, our findings highlight fundamental limitations in grounding multi-step clinical reasoning and establish Med-StepBench as a rigorous benchmark for developing safer and more reliable medical VLMs.

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preprint2022arXiv

BERT-based Ensemble Approaches for Hate Speech Detection

With the freedom of communication provided in online social media, hate speech has increasingly generated. This leads to cyber conflicts affecting social life at the individual and national levels. As a result, hateful content classification is becoming increasingly demanded for filtering hate content before being sent to the social networks. This paper focuses on classifying hate speech in social media using multiple deep models that are implemented by integrating recent transformer-based language models such as BERT, and neural networks. To improve the classification performances, we evaluated with several ensemble techniques, including soft voting, maximum value, hard voting and stacking. We used three publicly available Twitter datasets (Davidson, HatEval2019, OLID) that are generated to identify offensive languages. We fused all these datasets to generate a single dataset (DHO dataset), which is more balanced across different labels, to perform multi-label classification. Our experiments have been held on Davidson dataset and the DHO corpora. The later gave the best overall results, especially F1 macro score, even it required more resources (time execution and memory). The experiments have shown good results especially the ensemble models, where stacking gave F1 score of 97% on Davidson dataset and aggregating ensembles 77% on the DHO dataset.

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preprint2020arXiv

A First Instagram Dataset on COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak is drastically shaping and reshaping many aspects of our life, with a huge impact on our social life. In this era of lockdown policies in most of the major cities around the world, we see a huge increase in people and professional engagement in social media. Social media is playing an important role in news propagation as well as keeping people in contact. At the same time, this source is both a blessing and a curse as the coronavirus infodemic has become a major concern, and is already a topic that needs special attention and further research. In this paper, we provide a multilingual coronavirus (COVID-19) Instagram dataset that we have been continuously collected since March 30, 2020. We are making our dataset available to the research community at Github. We believe that this contribution will help the community to better understand the dynamics behind this phenomenon in Instagram, as one of the major social media. This dataset could also help study the propagation of misinformation related to this outbreak.

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preprint2020arXiv

Hate Speech Detection and Racial Bias Mitigation in Social Media based on BERT model

Disparate biases associated with datasets and trained classifiers in hateful and abusive content identification tasks have raised many concerns recently. Although the problem of biased datasets on abusive language detection has been addressed more frequently, biases arising from trained classifiers have not yet been a matter of concern. Here, we first introduce a transfer learning approach for hate speech detection based on an existing pre-trained language model called BERT and evaluate the proposed model on two publicly available datasets annotated for racism, sexism, hate or offensive content on Twitter. Next, we introduce a bias alleviation mechanism in hate speech detection task to mitigate the effect of bias in training set during the fine-tuning of our pre-trained BERT-based model. Toward that end, we use an existing regularization method to reweight input samples, thereby decreasing the effects of high correlated training set' s n-grams with class labels, and then fine-tune our pre-trained BERT-based model with the new re-weighted samples. To evaluate our bias alleviation mechanism, we employ a cross-domain approach in which we use the trained classifiers on the aforementioned datasets to predict the labels of two new datasets from Twitter, AAE-aligned and White-aligned groups, which indicate tweets written in African-American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) respectively. The results show the existence of systematic racial bias in trained classifiers as they tend to assign tweets written in AAE from AAE-aligned group to negative classes such as racism, sexism, hate, and offensive more often than tweets written in SAE from White-aligned. However, the racial bias in our classifiers reduces significantly after our bias alleviation mechanism is incorporated. This work could institute the first step towards debiasing hate speech and abusive language detection systems.

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preprint2020arXiv

How Impersonators Exploit Instagram to Generate Fake Engagement?

Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are playing an important role in the propagation of the content. These entities are the type of nefarious fake accounts that intend to disguise a legitimate account by making similar profiles. In addition to having impersonated profiles, we observed a considerable engagement from these entities to the published posts of verified accounts. Toward that end, we concentrate on the engagement of impersonators in terms of active and passive engagements which is studied in three major communities including ``Politician'', ``News agency'', and ``Sports star'' on Instagram. Inside each community, four verified accounts have been selected. Based on the implemented approach in our previous studies, we have collected 4.8K comments, and 2.6K likes across 566 posts created from 3.8K impersonators during 7 months. Our study shed light into this interesting phenomena and provides a surprising observation that can help us to understand better how impersonators engaging themselves inside Instagram in terms of writing Comments and leaving Likes.

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preprint2016arXiv

A Trust Model for Data Sharing in Smart Cities

The data generated by the devices and existing infrastructure in the Internet of Things (IoT) should be shared among applications. However, data sharing in the IoT can only reach its full potential when multiple participants contribute their data, for example when people are able to use their smartphone sensors for this purpose. We believe that each step, from sensing the data to the actionable knowledge, requires trust-enabled mechanisms to facilitate data exchange, such as data perception trust, trustworthy data mining, and reasoning with trust related policies. The absence of trust could affect the acceptance of sharing data in smart cities. In this study, we focus on data usage transparency and accountability and propose a trust model for data sharing in smart cities, including system architecture for trust-based data sharing, data semantic and abstraction models, and a mechanism to enhance transparency and accountability for data usage. We apply semantic technology and defeasible reasoning with trust data usage policies. We built a prototype based on an air pollution monitoring use case and utilized it to evaluate the performance of our solution.

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preprint2012arXiv

Seamless Handover for IMS over Mobile-IPv6 Using Context Transfer

Mobility support for the next generation IPv6 networks has been one of the recent research issues due to the growing demand for wireless services over internet. In the other hand, 3GPP has introduced IP Multimedia Subsystem as the next generation IP based infrastructure for wireless and wired multimedia services. In this paper we present two context transfer mechanisms based on predictive and reactive schemes, to support seamless handover in IMS over Mobile IPv6. Those schemes reduce handover latency by transferring appropriate session information between the old and the new access networks. Moreover, we present two methods for QoS parameters negotiations to preserve service quality along the mobile user movement path. The performances of the proposed mechanisms are evaluated by simulations.

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