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most citedText classification with word embedding regularization and soft similarity measure

8 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Dynamic Routing as a New Dimension for Test-time Versatility of LLMs

Michal Štefánik, Marek Kadlčík, Josef Kuchař +1

Beyond scaling their parameters and data, large language models currently gain versatility on new problems along a single axis: the tokens they spend on chain-of-thought (CoT). We…

cs.CL2026

Synthetic Pre-pretraining Survives Scale, but Not as a Grammatical Prior

Atsuki Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Inaba, Joel Niklaus +3

Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic non-natural language data improves token efficiency during language model pre-training (PT). Prior work attributes this gain to a grammatical pri…

cs.CL2026

Edustories: A Collection of Real-world Case Studies from Classroom Practices

Michal Štefánik, Jan Nehyba, Jirina Karasova +4

Despite the widely recognized potential of AI in education, most prior work has focused on individualized student assistance. In contrast, the majority of educational practice worl…

cs.AI2026

Prompt-Robust Language Models: Which Training Strategies Work?

Frederic Sadrieh, Michal Štefánik

Despite their strong performance, large language models remain highly sensitive to prompt formulation. Prior work addresses this through refined data construction or through dedica…

cs.CL2025

Language Models Learn Universal Representations of Numbers and Here's Why You Should Care

Michal Štefánik, Timothee Mickus, Marek Kadlčík +7

Prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) often converge to accurate input embedding for numbers, based on sinusoidal representations. In this work, we quantify that t…

cs.CL2025

Can Out-of-Distribution Evaluations Uncover Reliance on Shortcuts? A Case Study in Question Answering

Michal Štefánik, Timothee Mickus, Marek Kadlčík +2

A majority of recent work in AI assesses models' generalization capabilities through the lens of performance on out-of-distribution (OOD) datasets. Despite their practicality, such…

cs.LG2025

VectorEdits: A Dataset and Benchmark for Instruction-Based Editing of Vector Graphics

Josef Kuchař, Marek Kadlčík, Michal Spiegel +1

We introduce a large-scale dataset for instruction-guided vector image editing, consisting of over 270,000 pairs of SVG images paired with natural language edit instructions. Our d…

cs.CL2025

Pre-trained Language Models Learn Remarkably Accurate Representations of Numbers

Marek Kadlčík, Michal Štefánik, Timothee Mickus +2

Pretrained language models (LMs) are prone to arithmetic errors. Existing work showed limited success in probing numeric values from models' representations, indicating that these…

cs.CL2025

Negation: A Pink Elephant in the Large Language Models' Room?

Tereza Vrabcová, Marek Kadlčík, Petr Sojka +2

Negations are key to determining sentence meaning, making them essential for logical reasoning. Despite their importance, negations pose a substantial challenge for large language…

cs.LG2025

Attend or Perish: Benchmarking Attention in Algorithmic Reasoning

Michal Spiegel, Michal Štefánik, Marek Kadlčík +1

Can transformers learn to perform algorithmic tasks reliably across previously unseen input/output domains? While pre-trained language models show solid accuracy on benchmarks inco…

cs.CL2024

Self-training Language Models for Arithmetic Reasoning

Marek Kadlčík, Michal Štefánik

Recent language models achieve impressive results in tasks involving complex multistep reasoning, but scaling these capabilities further traditionally requires expensive collection…

cs.CL2024

Concept-aware Data Construction Improves In-context Learning of Language Models

Michal Štefánik, Marek Kadlčík, Petr Sojka

Many recent language models (LMs) are capable of in-context learning (ICL), manifested in the LMs' ability to perform a new task solely from natural-language instruction. Previous…

cs.CL2023

People and Places of Historical Europe: Bootstrapping Annotation Pipeline and a New Corpus of Named Entities in Late Medieval Texts

Vít Novotný, Kristýna Luger, Michal Štefánik +2

Although pre-trained named entity recognition (NER) models are highly accurate on modern corpora, they underperform on historical texts due to differences in language OCR errors. I…

cs.CL2023

Concept-aware Training Improves In-context Learning Ability of Language Models

Michal Štefánik, Marek Kadlčík

Many recent language models (LMs) of Transformers family exhibit so-called in-context learning (ICL) ability, manifested in the LMs' ability to modulate their function by a task de…

cs.LG2023

Calc-X and Calcformers: Empowering Arithmetical Chain-of-Thought through Interaction with Symbolic Systems

Marek Kadlčík, Michal Štefánik, Ondřej Sotolář +1

Despite outstanding performance in many tasks, language models are notoriously inclined to make factual errors in tasks requiring arithmetic computation. We address this deficiency…

cs.CL2022

Methods for Estimating and Improving Robustness of Language Models

Michal Štefánik

Despite their outstanding performance, large language models (LLMs) suffer notorious flaws related to their preference for simple, surface-level textual relations over full semanti…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Regressive Ensemble for Machine Translation Quality Evaluation

Michal Štefánik, Vít Novotný, Petr Sojka

This work introduces a simple regressive ensemble for evaluating machine translation quality based on a set of novel and established metrics. We evaluate the ensemble using a corre…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

When FastText Pays Attention: Efficient Estimation of Word Representations using Constrained Positional Weighting

Vít Novotný, Michal Štefánik, Eniafe Festus Ayetiran +2

In 2018, Mikolov et al. introduced the positional language model, which has characteristics of attention-based neural machine translation models and which achieved state-of-the-art…

cs.IR2020★ 8 cited

Text classification with word embedding regularization and soft similarity measure

Vít Novotný, Eniafe Festus Ayetiran, Michal Štefánik +1

Since the seminal work of Mikolov et al., word embeddings have become the preferred word representations for many natural language processing tasks. Document similarity measures ex…