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20202026
most citedSkinDistilViT: Lightweight Vision Transformer for Skin Lesion Classification

3 citations · 17 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

cs.CL2026

ROMPAR: Morphological Completion and Demographic Unlearning for Romanian-Accented Speech Recognition

Andrei-Marius Avram, Aureliu-Valentin Antonie, Ştefan-Bogdan Badea +3

Automated transcription of parliamentary proceedings faces significant hurdles due to demographic bias, dialectal variation, and technical artifacts such as utterance truncation du…

cs.CL2026

RoIt-XMASA: Multi-Domain Multilingual Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Romanian and Italian

Andrei-Marius Avram, Aureliu Valentin Antonie, Cosmin-Mircea Croitoru +2

We present RoIt-XMASA, a multilingual dataset that extends the Cross-lingual Multi-domain Amazon Sentiment Analysis to Italian and Romanian, comprising 36,000 labeled reviews acros…

cs.CL2026

RoLegalGEC: Legal Domain Grammatical Error Detection and Correction Dataset for Romanian

Mircea Timpuriu, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

The importance of clear and correct text in legal documents cannot be understated, and, consequently, a grammatical error correction tool meant to assist a professional in the law…

cs.CL2025

Parameter Efficient Multimodal Instruction Tuning for Romanian Vision Language Models

George-Andrei Dima, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

Focusing on low-resource languages is an essential step toward democratizing generative AI. In this work, we contribute to reducing the multimodal NLP resource gap for Romanian. We…

cs.CV2025

RoCoISLR: A Romanian Corpus for Isolated Sign Language Recognition

Cătălin-Alexandru Rîpanu, Andrei-Theodor Hotnog, Giulia-Stefania Imbrea +1

Automatic sign language recognition plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between deaf communities and hearing individuals; however, most available datasets focus…

cs.LG2025

Air Pollution Forecasting in Bucharest

Dragoş-Andrei Şerban, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

Air pollution, especially the particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), has become a growing concern in recent years, primarily in urban areas. Being exposed to air pollution is linked to de…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

SeLeRoSa: Sentence-Level Romanian Satire Detection Dataset

Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Andreea Iuga, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +1

Satire, irony, and sarcasm are techniques typically used to express humor and critique, rather than deceive; however, they can occasionally be mistaken for factual reporting, akin…

cs.CY2025

Multimodal Learning with Augmentation Techniques for Natural Disaster Assessment

Adrian-Dinu Urse, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop

Natural disaster assessment relies on accurate and rapid access to information, with social media emerging as a valuable real-time source. However, existing datasets suffer from cl…

cs.CL2025

MoRoVoc: A Large Dataset for Geographical Variation Identification of the Spoken Romanian Language

Andrei-Marius Avram, Ema-Ioana Bănescu, Anda-Teodora Robea +2

This paper introduces MoRoVoc, the largest dataset for analyzing the regional variation of spoken Romanian. It has more than 93 hours of audio and 88,192 audio samples, balanced be…

cs.CV2025

IGAff: Benchmarking Adversarial Iterative and Genetic Affine Algorithms on Deep Neural Networks

Sebastian-Vasile Echim, Andrei-Alexandru Preda, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +1

Deep neural networks currently dominate many fields of the artificial intelligence landscape, achieving state-of-the-art results on numerous tasks while remaining hard to understan…

cs.CL2025

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams

Andrei Vlad Man, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Cristian-George Craciun +3

The intersection of AI and legal systems presents a growing need for tools that support legal education, particularly in under-resourced languages such as Romanian. In this work, w…

cs.CL2025

MuSaRoNews: A Multidomain, Multimodal Satire Dataset from Romanian News Articles

Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Andreea Iuga, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

Satire and fake news can both contribute to the spread of false information, even though both have different purposes (one if for amusement, the other is to misinform). However, it…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Federated Learning Solutions with Kubernetes for Synthesizing Histopathology Images

Andrei-Alexandru Preda, Iulian-Marius Tăiatu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

In the field of deep learning, large architectures often obtain the best performance for many tasks, but also require massive datasets. In the histological domain, tissue images ar…

cs.CL2025

SaRoHead: Detecting Satire in a Multi-Domain Romanian News Headline Dataset

Mihnea-Alexandru Vîrlan, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +2

The primary goal of a news headline is to summarize an event in as few words as possible. Depending on the media outlet, a headline can serve as a means to objectively deliver a su…

cs.CL2025

UniBERT: Adversarial Training for Language-Universal Representations

Andrei-Marius Avram, Marian Lupaşcu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +2

This paper presents UniBERT, a compact multilingual language model that uses an innovative training framework that integrates three components: masked language modeling, adversaria…

cs.CL2024

RoLargeSum: A Large Dialect-Aware Romanian News Dataset for Summary, Headline, and Keyword Generation

Andrei-Marius Avram, Mircea Timpuriu, Andreea Iuga +6

Using supervised automatic summarisation methods requires sufficient corpora that include pairs of documents and their summaries. Similarly to many tasks in natural language proces…

cs.CL2024

GRAF: Graph Retrieval Augmented by Facts for Romanian Legal Multi-Choice Question Answering

Cristian-George Crăciun, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +1

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have shown remarkable performances in recent years, setting a new paradigm for NLP research and industry. The legal domain has received some atte…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Investigating Large Language Models for Complex Word Identification in Multilingual and Multidomain Setups

Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, David-Gabriel Ion, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +2

Complex Word Identification (CWI) is an essential step in the lexical simplification task and has recently become a task on its own. Some variations of this binary classification t…

cs.CL2024

A Cross-Lingual Meta-Learning Method Based on Domain Adaptation for Speech Emotion Recognition

David-Gabriel Ion, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +2

Best-performing speech models are trained on large amounts of data in the language they are meant to work for. However, most languages have sparse data, making training models chal…

cs.CL2024

RoQLlama: A Lightweight Romanian Adapted Language Model

George-Andrei Dima, Andrei-Marius Avram, Cristian-George Crăciun +1

The remarkable achievements obtained by open-source large language models (LLMs) in recent years have predominantly been concentrated on tasks involving the English language. In th…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Romanian Offensive Language Detection through Knowledge Distillation, Multi-Task Learning, and Data Augmentation

Vlad-Cristian Matei, Iulian-Marius Tăiatu, Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu +1

This paper highlights the significance of natural language processing (NLP) within artificial intelligence, underscoring its pivotal role in comprehending and modeling human langua…

cs.CL2024

Investigating the Impact of Semi-Supervised Methods with Data Augmentation on Offensive Language Detection in Romanian Language

Elena-Beatrice Nicola, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop

Offensive language detection is a crucial task in today's digital landscape, where online platforms grapple with maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. However, buildi…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

HistNERo: Historical Named Entity Recognition for the Romanian Language

Andrei-Marius Avram, Andreea Iuga, George-Vlad Manolache +8

This work introduces HistNERo, the first Romanian corpus for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in historical newspapers. The dataset contains 323k tokens of text, covering more than h…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Explainability-Driven Leaf Disease Classification Using Adversarial Training and Knowledge Distillation

Sebastian-Vasile Echim, Iulian-Marius Tăiatu, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel +1

This work focuses on plant leaf disease classification and explores three crucial aspects: adversarial training, model explainability, and model compression. The models' robustness…