publications

2026

1. arXiv

   

   A Shared Valence Axis Across Modern LLMs and Human EEG: The Saturation Regularity

   Yousef A. Radwan, Xuhui Liu, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.00129, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @article{radwan2026valence,
     title = {A Shared Valence Axis Across Modern {LLMs} and Human {EEG}: The Saturation Regularity},
     author = {Radwan, Yousef A. and Liu, Xuhui and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Fu, Yuqian and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.00129},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. EMNLP

   

   Towards AI-Assisted Psychotherapy: Emotion-Guided Generative Interventions

   Kilichbek Haydarov, Youssef Mohamed, Emilio Goldenhersch, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

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   @inproceedings{haydarov2025towards,
     title = {Towards {AI}-Assisted Psychotherapy: Emotion-Guided Generative Interventions},
     author = {Haydarov, Kilichbek and Mohamed, Youssef and Goldenhersch, Emilio and O'Callaghan, Paul and Li, Li-jia and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
     pages = {32736--32755},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1664},
   }

2024

1. EMNLP

   

   No Culture Left Behind: ArtELingo-28, a Benchmark of WikiArt with Captions in 28 Languages

   Youssef Mohamed, Runjia Li, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

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   @inproceedings{mohamed2024culture,
     title = {No Culture Left Behind: {ArtELingo}-28, a Benchmark of {WikiArt} with Captions in 28 Languages},
     author = {Mohamed, Youssef and Li, Runjia and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Torr, Philip and Church, Kenneth and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
     pages = {20939--20962},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1165},
   }

2. CVPR

   

   Adversarial Text to Continuous Image Generation

   Kilichbek Haydarov, Aashiq Muhamed, Xiaoqian Shen, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

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   @inproceedings{haydarov2023adversarial,
     title = {Adversarial Text to Continuous Image Generation},
     author = {Haydarov, Kilichbek and Muhamed, Aashiq and Shen, Xiaoqian and Lazarevic, Jovana and Skorokhodov, Ivan and Galappaththige, Chamuditha Jayanga and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     pages = {6316--6326},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. ECCV

   

   Affective Visual Dialog: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Emotional Reasoning Based on Visually Grounded Conversations

   Kilichbek Haydarov, Xiaoqian Shen, Avinash Madasu, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

   DOI arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{haydarov2023affective,
     title = {Affective Visual Dialog: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Emotional Reasoning Based on Visually Grounded Conversations},
     author = {Haydarov, Kilichbek and Shen, Xiaoqian and Madasu, Avinash and Salem, Mahmoud and Li, Li-Jia and Elsayed, Gamaleldin and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
     pages = {18--36},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Springer},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-73226-3_2},
   }

4. TMLR

   

   ChatGPT Asks, BLIP-2 Answers: Automatic Questioning Towards Enriched Visual Descriptions

   Deyao Zhu, Jun Chen, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 3 more authors

   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @article{zhu2023chatgpt,
     title = {{ChatGPT} Asks, {BLIP-2} Answers: Automatic Questioning Towards Enriched Visual Descriptions},
     author = {Zhu, Deyao and Chen, Jun and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Shen, Xiaoqian and Zhang, Wenxuan and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. arXiv

   

   Video ChatCaptioner: Towards Enriched Spatiotemporal Descriptions

   Jun Chen, Deyao Zhu, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04227, 2023

   arXiv Bib Code

   @article{chen2023video,
     title = {Video {ChatCaptioner}: Towards Enriched Spatiotemporal Descriptions},
     author = {Chen, Jun and Zhu, Deyao and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Li, Xiang and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04227},
     year = {2023},
   }

2022

1. CVPR

   

   It is Okay to Not Be Okay: Overcoming Emotional Bias in Affective Image Captioning by Contrastive Data Collection

   Youssef Mohamed, Faizan Farooq Khan, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{mohamed2022okay,
     title = {It is Okay to Not Be Okay: Overcoming Emotional Bias in Affective Image Captioning by Contrastive Data Collection},
     author = {Mohamed, Youssef and Khan, Faizan Farooq and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Elhoseiny, Mohamed},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     pages = {21263--21272},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. CVPR

   

   ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Art

   Panos Achlioptas, Maks Ovsjanikov, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{achlioptas2021artemis,
     title = {{ArtEmis}: Affective Language for Visual Art},
     author = {Achlioptas, Panos and Ovsjanikov, Maks and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Elhoseiny, Mohamed and Guibas, Leonidas J.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     pages = {11569--11579},
     year = {2021},
   }

2020

1. IJCNN

   One-Shot Learning for Surveillance Anomaly Recognition using Siamese 3D CNN

   Amin Ullah, Khan Muhammad, Kilichbek Haydarov, and 3 more authors

   In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{ullah2020oneshot,
     title = {One-Shot Learning for Surveillance Anomaly Recognition using {Siamese} {3D} {CNN}},
     author = {Ullah, Amin and Muhammad, Khan and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Ul Haq, Ijaz and Lee, Miyoung and Baik, Sung Wook},
     booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)},
     pages = {1--8},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207595}
   }

2. Sensors

   Deep Learning Assisted Buildings Energy Consumption Profiling Using Smart Meter Data

   Amin Ullah, Kilichbek Haydarov, Ijaz Ul Haq, and 4 more authors

   Sensors, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @article{ullah2020deep,
     title = {Deep Learning Assisted Buildings Energy Consumption Profiling Using Smart Meter Data},
     author = {Ullah, Amin and Haydarov, Kilichbek and Ul Haq, Ijaz and Muhammad, Khan and Rho, Seungmin and Lee, Miyoung and Baik, Sung Wook},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {20},
     number = {3},
     pages = {873},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {MDPI},
     doi = {10.3390/s20030873}
   }