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Affinity Workshop Tue, Dec 2, 2025 • 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST Upper Level Room 32AB

Muslims in ML

Ehsaneddin Asgari · Gasser Elbanna · Ahmed Youssef · Shaokai Yang · Muhammad Irfan khan · Kamran Soomro · Yousra Farhani · Azmine Toushik Wasi · Rian Adam Rajagede · Nasik Muhammad Nafi · Maryam Anwer

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Abstract

The 5th Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) Workshop will be co-located with NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, CA, USA.

The MusIML Workshop 2025 will be held in person and will feature invited speakers, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The event brings together Muslim researchers, engineers, and practitioners across academia and industry to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. The workshop will also include mentoring opportunities and panel discussions on research directions, career development, and community engagement. Attendees of all backgrounds are welcome.

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Schedule

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles

1:00 PM

Registration

1:05 PM

Opening Remarks Opening Remarks

Gasser Elbanna · Ehsaneddin Asgari

1:30 PM

Invited Talk 1 by Abdelrahman Mahmoud (Assistant Professor at MBZUAI): Speaking in Tongues: Binary, Language Models, and Neural Signals Invited talk

Abdulrahman Mahmoud

2:00 PM

Invited Talk 2 by Mohamed Rayan Barhdadi (Undergraduate Student and Researcher at Texas A&M University): EMPATHIA: Multi-Agent Reasoning for AI That Understands and Supports Human Needs Invited talk

Mohamed Rayan Barhdadi

2:30 PM

Lightning Talks

Nida Saddaf Khan · Sarah Chehade · Alaa Alharbi · Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

2:50 PM

Invited Talk 3 by Nazneen Rajani (CEO at Collinear AI, former Research Lead at Hugging Face): TraitBasis: An NPC Trait Engine for High-Fidelity RL Gym Simulations Invited talk

Nazneen Rajani

3:20 PM

Industry Partner Talk: Google Industry Talk

3:30 PM

Internal Poster Presentation Poster

4:30 PM

Panel Discussion, AI in Academia & Industry: Thinking past hype Panel

Ehsaneddin Asgari · Mansur Khan · Nazneen Rajani · Abubakar Abid · Ahmad Rushdi · Syed Shah

Network Inversion for Uncertainty-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection Poster

Pirzada Suhail · Rehna Afroz Shaik · Gouranga Bala · Amit Sethi

Surg-SegFormer: A Dual Transformer-Based Model for Holistic Surgical Scene Segmentation Poster

Fatimaelzahraa Ahmed · Muraam Abdel-Ghani · Mahmoud Ali · Muhammad Arsalan · Abdulaziz Al-Ali · Shidin Balakrishnan

AH-Translit: A Multi-Domain Dataset and Benchmark for Arabic-to-Hindi Transliteration Poster

Vilal Ali · Mohd Hozaifa Khan · Bassam Adnan

A Dual-Branch Convolutional Neural Network with Gated Recurrent Units Network for Enhanced Multimodal Stress Monitoring from Wearable Physiological Signals Poster

Md Rokonuzzaman Mim · Md Santo Ali · Mohammod Motin · Mufti Mahmud

X-TASAR: An Explainable Token-Selection Transformer Approach for Arabic Sign Language Alphabet Recognition Poster

Noushath Shaffi · Vimbi Viswan · Abdelhamid Abdesselam · Mufti Mahmud

A Quantum Machine Learning Algorithm for Solving Binary Constraint Problems Poster

Sarah Chehade · Elaine Wong · Andrea Delgado

A Multi-Criteria Complexity Evaluation of Cyberattack Detection Datasets in Industrial Control Systems Poster

Saddam Hussain · Ali Tufail · Abdul Naim

Large Vision Language Models as Algorithmic Reasoners for Multimodal Annotations Poster

Shaina Raza · Mahveen Raza

QAS: A Composite Query-Attributed Score for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems Poster

Maira Ata · Sumaira Saeed · Nida Saddaf Khan

Bridging the Gap Between AI Quantization and Edge Deployment: INT4 and INT8 on the Edge Poster

Mohammad Köse · Qazi Arbab Ahmed · Thorsten Jungeblut

Towards Explainable Segmentation of Complex Boundaries in Lung Nodule Detection Poster

Mohammad Asifur Rahim · Mufti Mahmud

Benchmarking Generative AI on Quranic Knowledge Poster

Hamza Aljaji · Rawan Mohamed · Roaa Ibrahim · Abdallah Alkanani · Arwa Elaradi · Ehsaneddin Asgari

LLMs and Islamic Fiqh: A Reliability Study Grounded in Maliki Jurisprudential Principles Poster

Alaa Alharbi · Nada Almarwani · Samah Aloufi

GeoPolRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Contextually Grounded QA on Complex Geopolitical Matters Poster

Anas Madkoor · Hamza Aljaji · Talha shahid · Fagr Tahir · Noreldin Morssy · Mohamed Elansari · Mustafa Jarrar · Ehsaneddin Asgari

Qur’anic Phonemizer: Bringing Tajweed-Aware Phonemes to Qur’anic Machine Learning Poster

Ahmed Ibrahim

Streaming k-Medoids for Fair and Scalable Patient Phenotyping under Memory Constraints Poster

Syed Shah · Fatima Almaghrabi · Aziz Sheikh

Technical vs Cultural: Evaluating LLMs in Arabic Poster

Ahmad Rushdi

From Rules to Pixels: A Decoupled Framework for Segmenting Human-Centric Rule Violations Poster

Mohd Hozaifa Khan · Harsh Awasthi · Pragati Jain · Mohammad Ammar

The Unseen Hand: Manipulating Model Fairness and SHAP with Targeted Identity Re-Association Attacks Poster

Sannaan Khan · Muhammad Khan

AlzFed-XAI: High-Fidelity Interpretable Alzheimer's Diagnosis with Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Poster

Md. Abdur Rahman · Md. Tofael Bhuiyan · Abdul Masum

Bridging Governance and Technology: Data, Models, and Responsibility in Regulation Poster

Shaina Raza · Mahveen Raza

DLAGF: Motion-Queried Cross-Attention Transformer Framework for Multimodal Cardiomyocyte Ageing Detection and Early Heart Failure Risk Poster

abu sufian

Carbon Literacy for Generative AI: Visualizing Training Emissions Through Human-Scale Equivalents Poster

Mahveen Raza · Maximus Powers · shaina raza

FirstAidQA: A Synthetic Dataset for First Aid and Emergency Response in Low-Connectivity Settings Poster

Rezwan Islam Salvi · Saiyma Sittul Muna · Md. Mushfiqur Rahman Mushfique · Ajwad Abrar

Can You See Me Think? Grounding LLM feedback in keystrokes and revision behaviour Poster

Samra Zafar

DeepLLR-CUSUM: Sequential Change Detection with Learned Log-Likelihood Ratios for Site Reliability Engineering Poster

Nadim Ahmed · Mahmudul Hasan · Ashraful Babu · Mortuza Ahmmed · M. Mostafizur Rahman · Mufti Mahmud

Differentiable Predictive Control for Precise Oxygen Level Maintenance for Critical Patients Poster

Azmine Toushik Wasi · Md Manjurul Ahsan

Towards Inclusive NLP: Evaluating LLMs on Low-Resource Indo-Iranian Languages Poster

Arta Modarres Kamaly

BLISS: Bandit Layer Importance Sampling Strategy for Efficient Training of Graph Neural Networks Poster

Omar Alsaqa · Linh Hoang · Muhammed Fatih Balin

Exploring the Utility of Large Language Models in Improving the Precision of Narrator Name Extraction Poster

Kaymaram · Shawn Nassabi · Ibrahim Akar

Responsible Generative AI: A Review of Technical and Regulatory Frontiers Poster

Safiullah Kamawal · Shaina Raza · Rizwan Qureshi

Sentiment-augmented reinforcement learning for portfolio optimization with large language models Poster

KEMAL KIRTAC

LLM Agent-Based Modeling for Zakat Policy Simulation in Islamic Finance Poster

Zaur Omarov · Roman Sultimov · Aleksandr Volkov · Yury Maximov

Tabular Deep Learning vs Classical Machine Learning for Urban Land Cover Classification Poster

Muntasir Tabasum · Tanpia Tasnim · Ekramul Islam · Al Zadid Sultan Bin Habib

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

K M Tahlil Mahfuz Faruk · Mushfiqur Rahman Talha · H. Ahamad · Mohammad Shams · Nabil Mosharraf · Syed Rifat Raiyan · Md Kamrul Hasan · Hasan Mahmud · Riasat Islam

IslamTrust: A Benchmark for LLMs Alignment with Islamic Values Poster

Abderraouf Lahmar · Easin Arafat · Zakarya Farou · Mufti Mahmud

Leveraging Multi-Task Learning for Detecting Aggression, Emotion, Violence, and Sentiment in Bengali Texts Poster

Shamima Afroz · Kawsar Ahmed · Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Quran-MD: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Dataset of the Quran Poster

Muhammad Umar Salman · Mohammad Qazi · Mohammed Talha Alam

The MENAValues Shared Task on Cultural and Multilingual Alignment Poster

Pardis Zahraei · Ehsaneddin Asgari

Sparse-Checklist Prompting for Arabic Grammar Tutoring: Fast, Token-Efficient Feedback Poster

Zayan Hasan

FASL-Seg: Anatomy and Tool Segmentation of Surgical Scenes Poster

Muraam Abdel-Ghani · Mohamed Ali · Mahmoud Ali · Fatimaelzahraa Ahmed · Muhammad Arsalan · Abdulaziz Al-Ali · Shidin Balakrishnan

Improving Arabic-English Translation for Humanitarian Response Efforts via Open LLMs with In-Context Learning Poster

Ying Tang · Ezzeldeen Al-Sheikh Khalil · Samia Skaik

Faithful Summarization of Consumer Health Queries: A Cross-Lingual Framework with LLMs Poster

Ajwad Abrar · Nafisa Oeshy · Prianka Maheru · Farzana Tabassum · Tareque Mohmud Chowdhury

An Explainable Hybrid Multimodal Model for Alzheimer's Disease Detection Poster

Md Siyamul Islam · Noushath Shaffi · Mahfuzur Rahman · Mufti Mahmud

BIICK-Bench: A Bengali Benchmark for Introductory Islamic Creed Knowledge in Large Language Models Poster

Umar Hasan

Uncertainty-Diversity Ranking Coreset Selection for Efficient Spam Detection Poster

Aisha Hassan · Tushar Shinde

Riwaya-ID: Towards ML-powered Identification of Qur’anic Recitation Style from Audio Poster

A. Anas Chentouf

Islamic Chatbots in the Age of Large Language Models Poster

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

Hybrid CNN-Vision Transformer for Rabbit Gastric Dilation: Projection-Dependent Architectural Requirements in Veterinary Radiology Poster

Markus Clauss · Kerstin Müller · Marcus Clauss · Henning Richter

Bridging Geomechanics and Machine Learning with Physics-Informed Neural Surrogates for Triaxial Soil Testing Poster

Minhaz Chowdhury · Azmine Toushik Wasi · Md Manjurul Ahsan

Crafting Culturally Aligned Narratives: Large Language Models for Arabic Children's Story Generation Poster

Houssam Boukhalfa · Selma Mani · Larbi Said Chikh · HADJ Seghir · Ahmed Guessoum

TajweedAI: A Hybrid ASR-Classifier for Real-Time Qalqalah Detection in Quranic Recitation Poster

Nabhan Mazid · Muaz Ahmad

The Singular Anchor: First Token Dominance in Large Language Model Attention Sinks Poster

Khurram Khalil

Can LLMs Write Faithfully? An Agent-Based Evaluation of LLM-generated Islamic Content Poster

Abdullah Mushtaq · Rafay Naeem · Ezieddin Elmahjub · Ibrahim Ghaznavi · Shawqi Al-Maliki · Mohamed Abdallah · Ala Al-Fuqaha · Junaid Qadir

Context-Aware Extraction of Quranic References: A Hybrid Language Model- and Rule-Based Approach Poster

Alireza Sahebi · Mohammadmahdi Hemmatyar · Ehsaneddin Asgari

Activation Matching for Explanation Generation and Circuit Discovery Poster

Pirzada Suhail · Aditya Anand · Amit Sethi

Training-Time Explainability for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection: Aligning Model Reasoning with Human Rationales Poster

Muhammad Qureshi · Sannaan Khan · Muhammad Qureshi · Wael Rashwan

MOSAIC: A Dataset for Cultural Dimension Evaluation in Arabic LLMs Poster

Nadhem Benhadjali · Seifeddine Hamdi · Istabrak Abbes · Safa Messaoud · Ines Arous

Complexity-based Analysis for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems Poster

Saddam Hussain · Ali Tufail · Abdul Naim

From Proposals to Enactment: The Procedural Bottleneck in AI Safety Regulation Poster

Mansur Khan · Ahmad Rushdi · Mehmet Efe Akengin