Dr Diana Benavides Prado

Lecturer in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

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Publications

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

2025

Psychology-Driven Enhancement of Humour Translation
Su Y Zhu Y Chen Y Benavides Prado D Witbrock M
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan 20 Nov 2025 - 24 Nov 2025. 

DOI 10.1007/978-981-95-4088-4_34

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09-11-2025

Annotator Disagreement-Based Analysis for Developing Bias Benchmark Datasets in Resource-Restricted Settings
Yogarajan V Rayson P Dobbie G Keesing A Keegan TT Witbrock M Benavides Prado D
ICONIP: International Conference on Neural Information Processing. 

DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-6603-4_28

01-07-2025

Using a Predictive Risk Model to Prioritize Families for Prevention Services: The Hello Baby Program in Allegheny County, PA
Vaithianathan R Benavides-Prado D Rebbe R Putnam-Hornstein E
Prevention Science, Springer Nature vol. 26 (3), 321-330.  

DOI 10.1007/s11121-025-01802-1

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01-04-2025

2024

Data Science and Machine Learning 21st Australasian Conference, AusDM 2023, Auckland, New Zealand, December 11–13, 2023, Proceedings
Benavides-Prado D Erfani S Fournier-Viger P Boo YL Koh YS
 
14-01-2024

2022

A Theory for Knowledge Transfer in Continual Learning
Benavides Prado D Riddle P
Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs). 
01-08-2022

Information Resilience: the nexus of responsible and agile approaches to information use
Sadiq S Aryani A Demartini G Hua W Indulska M Burton-Jones A Khosravi H Benavides-Prado D et al.
The Vldb Journal, Springer Nature vol. 31 (5), 1059-1084.  

DOI 10.1007/s00778-021-00720-2

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16-01-2022

Eye Gaze and Self-attention: How Humans and Transformers Attend Words in Sentences
Bensemann J Peng A Benavides-Prado D Chen Y Tan N Corballis PM Riddle P Witbrock M
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics., 75-87.  

DOI 10.18653/v1/2022.cmcl-1.9

01-01-2022

2021

Generalised Controller Design Using Continual Learning
Benavides Prado D Wanigasekara C Swain A
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). 

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-86340-1_32

01-09-2021

Continual Correction of Errors Using Smart Memory Replay
Cory C Benavides-Prado D Koh YS
2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). vol. 00, 1-8.  

DOI 10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9534260

22-07-2021

Using a Machine Learning Tool to Support High‐Stakes Decisions in Child Protection
Vaithianathan R Benavides‐Prado D Dalton E Chouldechova A Putnam‐Hornstein E
AI Magazine, Wiley vol. 42 (1), 53-60.  

DOI 10.1002/j.2371-9621.2021.tb00011.x

01-03-2021

2020

Hospital Injury Encounters of Children Identified by a Predictive Risk Model for Screening Child Maltreatment Referrals
Vaithianathan R Putnam-Hornstein E Chouldechova A Benavides-Prado D Berger R
Jama Pediatrics, American Medical Association (Ama) vol. 174 (11) 

DOI 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2770

01-11-2020

Towards Knowledgeable Supervised Lifelong Learning Systems
Benavides-Prado D Koh YS Riddle P
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, AI Access Foundation vol. 68, 159-224.  

DOI 10.1613/jair.1.11432

08-05-2020

2019

Selective Hypothesis Transfer for Lifelong Learning
Benavides-Prado D Koh YS Riddle P
2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). vol. 00, 1-10.  

DOI 10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8851778

19-07-2019

An SVM-Based Framework for Long-Term Learning Systems
Benavides Prado D
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 

DOI 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019915

24-01-2019

2018

A case study of algorithm-assisted decision making in child maltreatment hotline screening decisions
Chouldechova A Benavides Prado D Putnam-Hornstein E Vaithianathan R Fialko O
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency. 
01-02-2018

2017

AccGenSVM: Selectively Transferring from Previous Hypotheses
Benavides-Prado D Koh YS Riddle P
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence., 1440-1446.  

DOI 10.24963/ijcai.2017/199

01-08-2017

A Framework for Long-Term Learning Systems
Benavides-Prado D
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence., 5167-5168.  

DOI 10.24963/ijcai.2017/743

01-08-2017

A Survey of Pun Generation: Datasets, Evaluations and Methodologies
Su Y Zhu Y Huang Z Benavides Prado D Witbrock M
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Suzhou, China 4 Nov 2025 - 9 Nov 2025. 

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Message-Passing under Heterophily for Graph Classification
Cory C Qiao M Benavides Prado D Koh YS
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDM Workshops) Washington DC, United States 12 Nov 2025 - 15 Nov 2025. 

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