23 papers
Time Present and Time Past: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Temporally Evolving Document Understanding
Mahbub E Sobhani, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Fahmid Hasan Chowdhury +4
Evolving documents, such as laws, tax codes, and software documentation, are amended, replaced, and sometimes reverted over time, so a question has different correct answers at dif…
Frozen but Not Always Accessible: A Representation Analysis of Genomic Language Models
Nirjhor Datta, Swakkhar Shatabda, M. Sohel Rahman
Genomic foundation models are increasingly reused as frozen feature extractors for downstream sequence prediction, offering a compute-efficient alternative to full fine-tuning. How…
Do Small Models Use the Law You Give Them? Context-Injected Fine-Tuning for Legal QA in Bangladesh
Moniruzzaman Mahadi, Abrar Mohammed Tanzim Alam, Sayma Siddika Monalisa +3
A small language model can receive the governing statutory provision and still answer incorrectly. We test whether fine-tuning on examples containing relevant law improves later us…
TextEconomizer: Enhancing Lossy Text Compression with Denoising Transformers and Entropy Coding
Mahbub E Sobhani, Anika Tasnim Rodela, Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman +2
Lossy text compression reduces data size while preserving core meaning, making it well-suited for summarization, automated analysis, and digital archives. Despite the dominance of…
Many Dialects, Many Languages, One Cultural Lens: Evaluating Multilingual VLMs for Bengali Culture Understanding Across Historically Linked Languages and Regional Dialects
Nurul Labib Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Shubhashis Roy Dipta +6
Bangla culture is richly expressed through region, dialect, history, food, politics, media, and everyday visual life, yet it remains underrepresented in multimodal evaluation. To a…
VisText-Mosquito: A Unified Multimodal Dataset for Visual Detection, Segmentation, and Textual Explanation on Mosquito Breeding Sites
Md. Adnanul Islam, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Md. Asaduzzaman Shuvo +3
Mosquito-borne diseases pose a major global health risk, requiring early detection and proactive control of breeding sites to prevent outbreaks. In this paper, we present VisText-M…