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20232025
most citedSeaLLMs -- Large Language Models for Southeast Asia

7 citations · 18 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

SeaLLMs-Audio: Large Audio-Language Models for Southeast Asia

Chaoqun Liu, Mahani Aljunied, Guizhen Chen +4

We introduce SeaLLMs-Audio, the first large audio-language model (LALM) tailored for multiple Southeast Asian (SEA) languages-Indonesian (id), Thai (th), and Vietnamese (vi)-alongs…

cs.CL2025★ 5 cited

Lingshu: A Generalist Foundation Model for Unified Multimodal Medical Understanding and Reasoning

LASA Team, Weiwen Xu, Hou Pong Chan +16

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in understanding common visual elements, largely due to their large-scale datasets and advanced t…

cs.CL2025

Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers

Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng +8

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), yet open-source multilingual LLMs remain scarce, with existing models often limited in language…

cs.CL2025

SeaExam and SeaBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Local Multilingual Questions in Southeast Asia

Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jiahao Ying +3

This study introduces two novel benchmarks, SeaExam and SeaBench, designed to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Southeast Asian (SEA) application scenari…

cs.CL2025

FINEREASON: Evaluating and Improving LLMs' Deliberate Reasoning through Reflective Puzzle Solving

Guizhen Chen, Weiwen Xu, Hao Zhang +6

Many challenging reasoning tasks require not just rapid, intuitive responses, but a more deliberate, multi-step approach. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) highlights…

cs.CL2024

Seed-Free Synthetic Data Generation Framework for Instruction-Tuning LLMs: A Case Study in Thai

Parinthapat Pengpun, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Weerayut Buaphet +1

We present a synthetic data approach for instruction-tuning large language models (LLMs) for low-resource languages in a data-efficient manner, specifically focusing on Thai. We id…

cs.CL2024

M-Longdoc: A Benchmark For Multimodal Super-Long Document Understanding And A Retrieval-Aware Tuning Framework

Yew Ken Chia, Liying Cheng, Hou Pong Chan +5

The ability to understand and answer questions over documents can be useful in many business and practical applications. However, documents often contain lengthy and diverse multim…

cs.CL2024

Zero-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities of Large Language Models Iteratively without Gold Labels

Chaoqun Liu, Qin Chao, Wenxuan Zhang +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance through supervised fine-tuning or in-context learning using gold labels. However, this paradigm is limited by…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SeaLLMs 3: Open Foundation and Chat Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages

Wenxuan Zhang, Hou Pong Chan, Yiran Zhao +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities across various tasks, yet their development has predominantly centered on high-resource languages like English and Chin…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models

Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Yiran Zhao +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated multilingual capabilities, yet they are mostly English-centric due to the imbalanced training corpora. While prior works have leverag…

cs.CL2024

On the Affinity, Rationality, and Diversity of Hierarchical Topic Modeling

Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, Thong Nguyen +4

Hierarchical topic modeling aims to discover latent topics from a corpus and organize them into a hierarchy to understand documents with desirable semantic granularity. However, ex…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

SeaLLMs -- Large Language Models for Southeast Asia

Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li +14

Despite the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs) in various tasks, there remains a linguistic bias that favors high-resource languages, such as English, often at…