Publications

Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Reasoning: An Integrated Survey of Language Models, Neuro-symbolic Systems, and Verified Discovery

Under review

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan, Sophia Ananiadou.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, M. Kabir, H. Mahmud, M. K. Hasan and S. Ananiadou, "Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Reasoning: An Integrated Survey of Language Models, Neuro-symbolic Systems, and Verified Discovery," arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.08728, 2026.

@article{raiyan2026artificial,
     title={Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Reasoning: An Integrated Survey of Language Models, Neuro-symbolic Systems, and Verified Discovery},
     author={Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Kabir, Mohsinul and Mahmud, Hasan and Hasan, Md Kamrul and Ananiadou, Sophia},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.08728},
     year={2026}
 }

Statistically Grounded Sparse-Feature Interventions for Activation-Space Control in Large Language Models

Under review

Authors: Oshayer Siddique†, J. M Areeb Uzair Alam†, Md Jobayer Rahman Rafy†, Syed Rifat Raiyan†, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): O. Siddique, J. M. A. U. Alam, M. J. R. Rafy, S. R. Raiyan, H. Mahmud and M. K. Hasan, "Statistically Grounded Sparse-Feature Interventions for Activation-Space Control in Large Language Models," arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.19364, 2026.

@article{siddique2026statistically,
     title={Statistically Grounded Sparse-Feature Interventions for Activation-Space Control in Large Language Models},
     author={Siddique, Oshayer and Alam, J. M Areeb Uzair and Rafy, Md Jobayer Rahman and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Mahmud, Hasan and Hasan, Md Kamrul},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.19364},
     year={2026}
 }

LLM-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of LLMs as a Context-Conditioned Distribution

Under review

Authors: Adib Sakhawat†, Syed Rifat Raiyan†, Tahsin Islam, Takia Farhin, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): A. Sakhawat, S. R. Raiyan, T. Islam, T. Farhin, H. Mahmud and M. K. Hasan, "LLM-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of LLMs as a Context-Conditioned Distribution," arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.28335, 2026.

@article{sakhawat2026llmideoplasticity,
     title={{LLM}-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of {LLMs} as a Context-Conditioned Distribution},
     author={Sakhawat, Adib and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Islam, Tahsin and Farhin, Takia and Mahmud, Hasan and Hasan, Md Kamrul},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.28335},
     year={2026}
 }

Narrative over Numbers: The Identifiable Victim Effect and its Amplification Under Alignment and Reasoning in Large Language Models

Under review

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, "Narrative over Numbers: The Identifiable Victim Effect and its Amplification Under Alignment and Reasoning in Large Language Models," arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.12076, 2026.

AI Podcast

@article{raiyan2026narrative,
     title={Narrative over Numbers: The Identifiable Victim Effect and its Amplification Under Alignment and Reasoning in Large Language Models},
     author={Raiyan, Syed Rifat},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.12076},
     year={2026}
 }

CircuitLM: A Multi-Agent LLM-Aided Design Framework for Generating Circuit Schematics from Natural Language Prompts

Published in 2026 IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2026

Oral Presentation

Authors: Khandakar Shakib Al Hasan, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Hasin Mahtab Alvee, Wahid Sadik.

Citation (IEEE format): K. S. A. Hasan, S. R. Raiyan, H. M. Alvee and W. Sadik, "CircuitLM: A Multi-Agent LLM-Aided Design Framework for Generating Circuit Schematics from Natural Language Prompts," 2026 IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2026.

@inproceedings{hasan2026circuitlm,
     title={{CircuitLM}: A Multi-Agent {LLM}-Aided Design Framework for Generating Circuit Schematics from Natural Language Prompts},
     author={Hasan, Khandakar Shakib Al and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Alvee, Hasin Mahtab and Sadik, Wahid},
     booktitle={2026 IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD)},
     year={2026},
     url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04505}
 }

Political Alignment in Large Language Models: A Multidimensional Audit of Psychometric Identity and Behavioral Bias

Under review

Authors: Adib Sakhawat, Tahsin Islam, Takia Farhin, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): A. Sakhawat, T. Islam, T. Farhin, S. R. Raiyan, H. Mahmud and M. K. Hasan, "Political Alignment in Large Language Models: A Multidimensional Audit of Psychometric Identity and Behavioral Bias," arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06194, 2026.

@article{sakhawat2026politicalalignment,
     title={Political Alignment in Large Language Models: A Multidimensional Audit of Psychometric Identity and Behavioral Bias},
     author={Sakhawat, Adib and Islam, Tahsin and Farhin, Takia and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Mahmud, Hasan and Hasan, Md Kamrul},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06194},
     year={2026}
 }

ADAB: A Culturally-Aligned Automated Response Generation Framework for Islamic App Reviews by Integrating ABSA and Hybrid RAG

Published in 5th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2025, 2025

Poster Presentation

Authors: K. M. Tahlil Mahfuz Faruk, Mushfiqur Rahman Talha, H. M. Kawsar Ahamad, Mohammad Galib Shams, Nabil Mosharraf Hossain, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud, Riasat Islam.

Citation (IEEE format): K. M. T. M. Faruk, M. R. Talha, H. M. K. Ahamad, M. G. Shams, N. M. Hossain, S. R. Raiyan, M. K. Hasan, H. Mahmud and R. Islam, "ADAB: A Culturally-Aligned Automated Response Generation Framework for Islamic App Reviews by Integrating ABSA and Hybrid RAG," 5th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2025, 2025.

OpenReview

@inproceedings{faruk2025adab,
     title={{ADAB}: A Culturally-Aligned Automated Response Generation Framework for Islamic App Reviews by Integrating {ABSA} and Hybrid {RAG}},
     author={Faruk, K. M. Tahlil Mahfuz and Talha, Mushfiqur Rahman and Ahamad, H. M. Kawsar and Shams, Mohammad Galib and Hossain, Nabil Mosharraf and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Hasan, Md Kamrul and Mahmud, Hasan and Islam, Riasat},
     booktitle={5th Muslims in ML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2025},
     year={2025},
     url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=PnWmDdwTXE}
 }

FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution

Under review

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Farhan Ishmam, Abdullah Al Imran, Mohammad Ali Moni.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, M. F. Ishmam, A. A. Imran and M. A. Moni, “FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16439, 2025.

@article{raiyan2025frugalprompt,
     title={FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution},
     author={Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Ishmam, Md Farhan and Imran, Abdullah Al and Moni, Mohammad Ali},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16439},
     year={2025}
 }

PhysicsEval: Inference-Time Techniques to Improve the Reasoning Proficiency of Large Language Models on Physics Problems

Published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2025, 2025

Authors: Oshayer Siddique†, J. M Areeb Uzair Alam†, Md Jobayer Rahman Rafy†, Syed Rifat Raiyan†, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): O. Siddique, J. M. A. U. Alam, M. J. R. Rafy, S. R. Raiyan, H. Mahmud and M. K. Hasan, “PhysicsEval: Inference-Time Techniques to Improve the Reasoning Proficiency of Large Language Models on Physics Problems,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00079, 2025.

@article{siddique2025physicseval,
     title={PhysicsEval: Inference-Time Techniques to Improve the Reasoning Proficiency of Large Language Models on Physics Problems},
     author={Siddique, Oshayer and Alam, JM and Rafy, Md Jobayer Rahman and Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Mahmud, Hasan and Hasan, Md Kamrul},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00079},
     year={2025}
 }

SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding

Published in Proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2025), 2025

Oral Presentation

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md. Hasanul Kabir.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan and M. H. Kabir, “SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12368, 2025.

@article{raiyan2025screedsolo,
     title={SCReedSolo: A Secure and Robust LSB Image Steganography Framework with Randomized Symmetric Encryption and Reed-Solomon Coding},
     author={Raiyan, Syed Rifat and Kabir, Md Hasanul},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12368},
     year={2025}
 }

HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition

Published in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops (WCCA Oral), 2025

Oral Presentation

Outstanding Presentation 🏆

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan, Zibran Zarif Amio, Sabbir Ahmed.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, Z. Z. Amio, and S. Ahmed, “HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10360, 2024.

@misc{raiyan2024hasper,
     title={HaSPeR: An Image Repository for Hand Shadow Puppet Recognition},
     author={Syed Rifat Raiyan and Zibran Zarif Amio and Sabbir Ahmed},
     year={2024},
     eprint={2408.10360},
     archivePrefix={arXiv},
     primaryClass={cs.CV}
 }

Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements

Published in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2023

Poster Presentation

Authors: Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md. Nafis Faiyaz, Shah Md. Jawad Kabir, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): S. R. Raiyan, Md. N. Faiyaz, S. Md. J. Kabir, M. Kabir, H. Mahmud, and M. K. Hasan, “Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13899, 2023.

@misc{raiyan2023math,
     title={Math Word Problem Solving by Generating Linguistic Variants of Problem Statements},
     author={Syed Rifat Raiyan and Md. Nafis Faiyaz and Shah Md. Jawad Kabir and Mohsinul Kabir and Hasan Mahmud and Md Kamrul Hasan},
     year={2023},
     eprint={2306.13899},
     archivePrefix={arXiv},
     primaryClass={cs.CL}
 }

BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews

Published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

Authors: Mohsinul Kabir†, Obayed Bin Mahfuz†, Syed Rifat Raiyan†, Hasan Mahmud, and Md Kamrul Hasan.

Citation (IEEE format): M. Kabir, O. B. Mahfuz, S. R. Raiyan, H. Mahmud, and M. K. Hasan, “BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06595, 2023.

@misc{kabir2023banglabook,
     title={BanglaBook: A Large-scale Bangla Dataset for Sentiment Analysis from Book Reviews},
     author={Mohsinul Kabir and Obayed Bin Mahfuz and Syed Rifat Raiyan and Hasan Mahmud and Md Kamrul Hasan},
     year={2023},
     eprint={2305.06595},
     archivePrefix={arXiv},
     primaryClass={cs.CL}
 }