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Behind Maya: Building a Multilingual Vision Language Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
In recent times, we have seen a rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs). They have shown impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken lang…
Understanding and Mitigating Toxicity in Image-Text Pretraining Datasets: A Case Study on LLaVA
Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda, Nahid Alam +1
Pretraining datasets are foundational to the development of multimodal models, yet they often have inherent biases and toxic content from the web-scale corpora they are sourced fro…
Maya: An Instruction Finetuned Multilingual Multimodal Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
The rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has led to impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken languages. However, significant gaps r…
INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova +56
The performance differential of large language models (LLM) between languages hinders their effective deployment in many regions, inhibiting the potential economic and societal val…
Bangla Grammatical Error Detection Leveraging Transformer-based Token Classification
Shayekh Bin Islam, Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir, Sihat Afnan
Bangla is the seventh most spoken language by a total number of speakers in the world, and yet the development of an automated grammar checker in this language is an understudied p…
bbOCR: An Open-source Multi-domain OCR Pipeline for Bengali Documents
Imam Mohammad Zulkarnain, Shayekh Bin Islam, Md. Zami Al Zunaed Farabe +9
Despite the existence of numerous Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools, the lack of comprehensive open-source systems hampers the progress of document digitization in various…