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20202025
most citedVALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena

55 citations · 101 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2025

Aleph-Alpha-GermanWeb: Improving German-language LLM pre-training with model-based data curation and synthetic data generation

Thomas F Burns, Letitia Parcalabescu, Stephan Wäldchen +5

Scaling data quantity is essential for large language models (LLMs), yet recent findings show that data quality can significantly boost performance and training efficiency. We intr…

cs.CL2024

Do Vision & Language Decoders use Images and Text equally? How Self-consistent are their Explanations?

Letitia Parcalabescu, Anette Frank

Vision and language model (VLM) decoders are currently the best-performing architectures on multimodal tasks. Next to answers, they are able to produce natural language explanation…

cs.CL2023

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

Ilker Kesen, Andrea Pedrotti, Mustafa Dogan +8

With the ever-increasing popularity of pretrained Video-Language Models (VidLMs), there is a pressing need to develop robust evaluation methodologies that delve deeper into their v…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

On Measuring Faithfulness or Self-consistency of Natural Language Explanations

Letitia Parcalabescu, Anette Frank

Large language models (LLMs) can explain their predictions through post-hoc or Chain-of-Thought (CoT) explanations. But an LLM could make up reasonably sounding explanations that a…

cs.CV2022★ 19 cited

MM-SHAP: A Performance-agnostic Metric for Measuring Multimodal Contributions in Vision and Language Models & Tasks

Letitia Parcalabescu, Anette Frank

Vision and language models (VL) are known to exploit unrobust indicators in individual modalities (e.g., introduced by distributional biases) instead of focusing on relevant inform…

cs.CL2021★ 55 cited

VALSE: A Task-Independent Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Centered on Linguistic Phenomena

Letitia Parcalabescu, Michele Cafagna, Lilitta Muradjan +3

We propose VALSE (Vision And Language Structured Evaluation), a novel benchmark designed for testing general-purpose pretrained vision and language (V&L) models for their visio-lin…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

MAGMA -- Multimodal Augmentation of Generative Models through Adapter-based Finetuning

Constantin Eichenberg, Sidney Black, Samuel Weinbach +2

Large-scale pretraining is fast becoming the norm in Vision-Language (VL) modeling. However, prevailing VL approaches are limited by the requirement for labeled data and the use of…

cs.AI2021

What is Multimodality?

Letitia Parcalabescu, Nils Trost, Anette Frank

The last years have shown rapid developments in the field of multimodal machine learning, combining e.g., vision, text or speech. In this position paper we explain how the field us…

cs.CV2020

Seeing past words: Testing the cross-modal capabilities of pretrained V&L models on counting tasks

Letitia Parcalabescu, Albert Gatt, Anette Frank +1

We investigate the reasoning ability of pretrained vision and language (V&L) models in two tasks that require multimodal integration: (1) discriminating a correct image-sentence pa…

cs.CL2020★ 20 cited

AMR Similarity Metrics from Principles

Juri Opitz, Letitia Parcalabescu, Anette Frank

Different metrics have been proposed to compare Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs. The canonical Smatch metric (Cai and Knight, 2013) aligns the variables of two graphs…