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Publications (13)

cs.CL2025

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments

Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…

cs.CL2023

CRoW: Benchmarking Commonsense Reasoning in Real-World Tasks

Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Syrielle Montariol +2

Recent efforts in natural language processing (NLP) commonsense reasoning research have yielded a considerable number of new datasets and benchmarks. However, most of these dataset…

cs.AI2025

Creativity in AI: Progresses and Challenges

Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Antoine Bosselut +1

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand h…

cs.CL2023

kogito: A Commonsense Knowledge Inference Toolkit

Mete Ismayilzada, Antoine Bosselut

In this paper, we present kogito, an open-source tool for generating commonsense inferences about situations described in text. kogito provides an intuitive and extensible interfac…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Creative Short Story Generation in Humans and Large Language Models

Mete Ismayilzada, Claire Stevenson, Lonneke van der Plas

Story-writing is a fundamental aspect of human imagination, relying heavily on creativity to produce narratives that are novel, effective, and surprising. While large language mode…

cs.CL2024

DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion

Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Mengjie Zhao +3

Inferring contextually-relevant and diverse commonsense to understand narratives remains challenging for knowledge models. In this work, we develop a series of knowledge models, Di…