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most citedCross-Lingual QA as a Stepping Stone for Monolingual Open QA in Icelandic

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cs.CL2026

Stochastic Estimation of Transduced Language Models

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Samuel Kiegeland, Manuel de Prada Corral +2

Transduced language models (TLMs) compose a pretrained \emph{source} language model with a functional finite-state transducer to induce a language model over \emph{target} strings.…

cs.CL2025

Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling

Jannek Ulm, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge amounts of textual data, and concerns have been raised that the limits of such data may soon be reached. A potential solution is to…

cs.CL2024

Activation Scaling for Steering and Interpreting Language Models

Niklas Stoehr, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson +3

Given the prompt "Rome is in", can we steer a language model to flip its prediction of an incorrect token "France" to a correct token "Italy" by only multiplying a few relevant act…

cs.LG2024

LoQT: Low-Rank Adapters for Quantized Pretraining

Sebastian Loeschcke, Mads Toftrup, Michael J. Kastoryano +2

Despite advances using low-rank adapters and quantization, pretraining of large models on consumer hardware has not been possible without model sharding, offloading during training…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Context versus Prior Knowledge in Language Models

Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Niklas Stoehr +3

To answer a question, language models often need to integrate prior knowledge learned during pretraining and new information presented in context. We hypothesize that models perfor…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Byte-Level Grammatical Error Correction Using Synthetic and Curated Corpora

Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir, Pétur Orri Ragnarsson, Haukur Páll Jónsson +3

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of correcting typos, spelling, punctuation and grammatical issues in text. Approaching the problem as a sequence-to-sequence task, we…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Discriminative Class Tokens for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Idan Schwartz, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Hila Chefer +4

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the generation of diverse and high-quality images. While impressive, the images often fall short of depicting subtle…

cs.CV2022

Assessing Neural Network Robustness via Adversarial Pivotal Tuning

Peter Ebert Christensen, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Andrea Dittadi +2

The robustness of image classifiers is essential to their deployment in the real world. The ability to assess this resilience to manipulations or deviations from the training data…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Cross-Lingual QA as a Stepping Stone for Monolingual Open QA in Icelandic

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Hafsteinn Einarsson

It can be challenging to build effective open question answering (open QA) systems for languages other than English, mainly due to a lack of labeled data for training. We present a…

cs.CL2022

A Warm Start and a Clean Crawled Corpus -- A Recipe for Good Language Models

Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Pétur Orri Ragnarsson +4

We train several language models for Icelandic, including IceBERT, that achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of downstream tasks, including part-of-speech tagging, nam…

cs.CL2021

Miðeind's WMT 2021 submission

Haukur Barri Símonarson, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Pétur Orri Ragnarsson +2

We present Miðeind's submission for the EnglishIcelandic and IcelandicEnglish subsets of the 2021 WMT news translation task. Transformer-base models are trained for trans…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Icelandic Parallel Abstracts Corpus

Haukur Barri Símonarson, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

We present a new Icelandic-English parallel corpus, the Icelandic Parallel Abstracts Corpus (IPAC), composed of abstracts from student theses and dissertations. The texts were coll…