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20192026
most citedMasakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

24 citations · 34 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

Super Weights in LLMs and the Failure of Selective Training

Shreyas Subramanian, Adewale Akinfaderin, Akarsha Sehwag

Recent work identified Super Weights, individual parameters whose removal degrades model performance by orders of magnitude. We show that this degradation due to pruning Super Weig…

cs.CL2026

FregeLogic at SemEval 2026 Task 11: A Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Content-Robust Syllogistic Validity Prediction

Adewale Akinfaderin, Nafi Diallo

We present FregeLogic, a hybrid neuro-symbolic system for SemEval-2026 Task 11 (Subtask 1), which addresses syllogistic validity prediction while reducing content effects on predic…

cs.IR2026

Keyword search is all you need: Achieving RAG-Level Performance without vector databases using agentic tool use

Shreyas Subramanian, Adewale Akinfaderin, Yanyan Zhang +4

While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has proven effective for generating accurate, context-based responses based on existing knowledge bases, it presents several challenges i…

q-fin.CP2025

VERAFI: Verified Agentic Financial Intelligence through Neurosymbolic Policy Generation

Adewale Akinfaderin, Shreyas Subramanian

Financial AI systems suffer from a critical blind spot: while Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) excels at finding relevant documents, language models still generate calculation…

cs.CL2025

Plan-and-Write: Structure-Guided Length Control for LLMs without Model Retraining

Adewale Akinfaderin, Shreyas Subramanian, Akarsha Sehwag

Length control in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a crucial but under-addressed challenge, with applications ranging from voice interfaces requiring concise responses to research s…

cs.LG2025

User-Based Sequential Modeling with Transformer Encoders for Insider Threat Detection

Mohamed Elbasheer, Adewale Akinfaderin

Insider threat detection presents unique challenges due to the authorized status of malicious actors and the subtlety of anomalous behaviors. Existing machine learning methods ofte…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Temporal Analysis of Climate Policy Discourse: Insights from Dynamic Embedded Topic Modeling

Rafiu Adekoya Badekale, Adewale Akinfaderin

Understanding how policy language evolves over time is critical for assessing global responses to complex challenges such as climate change. Temporal analysis helps stakeholders, i…

cs.AI2025

AI-Driven Climate Policy Scenario Generation for Sub-Saharan Africa

Rafiu Adekoya Badekale, Adewale Akinfaderin

Climate policy scenario generation and evaluation have traditionally relied on integrated assessment models (IAMs) and expert-driven qualitative analysis. These methods enable stak…

cs.CL2021

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig +58

We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named en…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila +45

Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP can be scaled to low-resourced languages has not yet been adequately solved. "Low-resourced"-ness is a compl…

cs.CL2020

HausaMT v1.0: Towards English-Hausa Neural Machine Translation

Adewale Akinfaderin

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low-resource languages suffers from low performance because of the lack of large amounts of parallel data and language diversity. To contribute…

cs.CL2020

Predicting and Analyzing Law-Making in Kenya

Oyinlola Babafemi, Adewale Akinfaderin

Modelling and analyzing parliamentary legislation, roll-call votes and order of proceedings in developed countries has received significant attention in recent years. In this paper…

cs.CL2020★ 24 cited

Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda +22

Africa has over 2000 languages. Despite this, African languages account for a small portion of available resources and publications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This is du…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

NASS-AI: Towards Digitization of Parliamentary Bills using Document Level Embedding and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory

Adewale Akinfaderin, Olamilekan Wahab

There has been several reports in the Nigerian and International media about the Senators and House of Representative Members of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) being the hig…