Publications

@misc{mohamed2026steer,
  author = {Mohamed, Abdalla and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
  title = {{STEER}: Reducing Inference Cost in Relational Foundation Models through Semantically Informed Sampling},
  month = {October},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2610.00907},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

@inproceedings{tahmid2026grasp,
  author = {Tahmid, Talha and Sabir, Humera and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
  title = {From Transport to Grounding: Designing {MCP} Connectors for Reliable {SPARQL} Querying by {LLMs}},
  booktitle = {VLDB 2026 Workshop: Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA)},
  address = {Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
  month = {September},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.vldb.org/2026/Workshops/VLDB-Workshops-2026/TaDA/TaDA26_10.pdf},
}

@misc{khan2026metasieve,
  author = {Khan, Fahim Shahriar and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
  title = {{MetaSieve}: Faster Relational Deep Learning through {SQL}-Based Metapath Selection},
  month = {August},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.25903},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

@misc{sabir2025ghawk,
  author = {Sabir, Humera and Farooq, Fatima and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
  title = {{gHAWK}: Local and Global Structure Encoding for Scalable Training of Graph Neural Networks on Knowledge Graphs},
  month = {December},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2512.08274},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  note = {Humera Sabir and Fatima Farooq contributed equally.},
}

@inproceedings{khan2025sqlrdl,
  author = {Khan, Fahim Shahriar and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
  title = {A Vision for {SQL}-Based Relational Deep Learning},
  booktitle = {VLDB 2025 Workshop: Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA)},
  address = {London, United Kingdom},
  month = {September},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.vldb.org/2025/Workshops/VLDB-Workshops-2025/TaDA/TaDA25_3.pdf},
}