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20162026
most citedMultilingual NMT with a language-independent attention bridge

35 citations · 46 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

DIETA: A Decoder-only transformer-based model for Italian-English machine TrAnslation

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Alessandro Ghiotto +3

In this paper, we present DIETA, a small, decoder-only Transformer model with 0.5 billion parameters, specifically designed and trained for Italian-English machine translation. We…

cs.CV2025

Blending Concepts with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Lorenzo Olearo, Giorgio Longari, Alessandro Raganato +2

Diffusion models have dramatically advanced text-to-image generation in recent years, translating abstract concepts into high-fidelity images with remarkable ease. In this work, we…

cs.CL2025

Reasoning Capabilities and Invariability of Large Language Models

Alessandro Raganato, Rafael Peñaloza, Marco Viviani +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in manipulating natural language across multiple applications, but their ability to handle simple reasoning tasks is…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot performance across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, including document re-ranking. However, their effect…

cs.CL2025

SemEval-2025 Task 3: Mu-SHROOM, the Multilingual Shared Task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes

Raúl Vázquez, Timothee Mickus, Elaine Zosa +15

We present the Mu-SHROOM shared task which is focused on detecting hallucinations and other overgeneration mistakes in the output of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs).…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Personalized Community Question Answering

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato +1

Personalization in Information Retrieval (IR) is a topic studied by the research community since a long time. However, there is still a lack of datasets to conduct large-scale eval…

cs.CV2024

Localized Gaussians as Self-Attention Weights for Point Clouds Correspondence

Alessandro Riva, Alessandro Raganato, Simone Melzi

Current data-driven methodologies for point cloud matching demand extensive training time and computational resources, presenting significant challenges for model deployment and ap…

cs.CV2024

How to Blend Concepts in Diffusion Models

Lorenzo Olearo, Giorgio Longari, Simone Melzi +2

For the last decade, there has been a push to use multi-dimensional (latent) spaces to represent concepts; and yet how to manipulate these concepts or reason with them remains larg…

cs.CL2024

SemEval-2024 Shared Task 6: SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes

Timothee Mickus, Elaine Zosa, Raúl Vázquez +5

This paper presents the results of the SHROOM, a shared task focused on detecting hallucinations: outputs from natural language generation (NLG) systems that are fluent, yet inaccu…

cs.CL2024

MAMMOTH: Massively Multilingual Modular Open Translation @ Helsinki

Timothee Mickus, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Joseph Attieh +7

NLP in the age of monolithic large language models is approaching its limits in terms of size and information that can be handled. The trend goes to modularization, a necessary ste…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Democratizing Neural Machine Translation with OPUS-MT

Jörg Tiedemann, Mikko Aulamo, Daria Bakshandaeva +7

This paper presents the OPUS ecosystem with a focus on the development of open machine translation models and tools, and their integration into end-user applications, development p…

cs.CL2020

XL-WiC: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Semantic Contextualization

Alessandro Raganato, Tommaso Pasini, Jose Camacho-Collados +1

The ability to correctly model distinct meanings of a word is crucial for the effectiveness of semantic representation techniques. However, most existing evaluation benchmarks for…

cs.CL2020

Fixed Encoder Self-Attention Patterns in Transformer-Based Machine Translation

Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Jörg Tiedemann

Transformer-based models have brought a radical change to neural machine translation. A key feature of the Transformer architecture is the so-called multi-head attention mechanism,…

cs.CL2019

The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT19 news translation task

Aarne Talman, Umut Sulubacak, Raúl Vázquez +5

In this paper, we present the University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT 2019 shared task on news translation in three language pairs: English-German, English-Finnish and Finnis…

cs.CL2018★ 35 cited

Multilingual NMT with a language-independent attention bridge

Raúl Vázquez, Alessandro Raganato, Jörg Tiedemann +1

In this paper, we propose a multilingual encoder-decoder architecture capable of obtaining multilingual sentence representations by means of incorporating an intermediate {\em atte…

cs.CL2016★ 3 cited

A Large-Scale Multilingual Disambiguation of Glosses

José Camacho Collados, Claudio Delli Bovi, Alessandro Raganato +1

Linking concepts and named entities to knowledge bases has become a crucial Natural Language Understanding task. In this respect, recent works have shown the key advantage of explo…