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most citedLessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models

5 citations · 9 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.AI2026

TermJudge: A Document-Level Metric Judging, Not Counting, Terminology in Machine Translation Evaluation

Nicolas Dahan, Fran{\cc}ois Yvon, Rachel Bawden

Existing automatic metrics for evaluating terminological use in machine translation (MT) penalise any divergence from a fixed reference, conflating translation errors with the vali…

cs.CL2026

GlotOCR Bench: OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Jana Diesner +2

Optical character recognition (OCR) has advanced rapidly with the rise of vision-language models, yet evaluation has remained concentrated on a small cluster of high- and mid-resou…

cs.CL2026

EuroLLM-22B: Technical Report

Miguel Moura Ramos, Duarte M. Alves, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef +15

This report presents EuroLLM-22B, a large language model trained from scratch to support the needs of European citizens by covering all 24 official European Union languages and 11…

cs.CL2026

AdaptBPE: From General Purpose to Specialized Tokenizers

Vijini Liyanage, François Yvon

Subword tokenization methods, such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE), significantly impact the performance and efficiency of large language models (LLMs). The standard approach involves…

cs.CL2025

How Sampling Affects the Detectability of Machine-written texts: A Comprehensive Study

Matthieu Dubois, François Yvon, Pablo Piantanida

As texts generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) are ever more common and often indistinguishable from human-written content, research on automatic text detection has attracted g…

cs.CL2025

On the Entity-Level Alignment in Crosslingual Consistency

Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, François Yvon +1

Multilingual large language models (LLMs) are expected to recall factual knowledge consistently across languages. However, the factors that give rise to such crosslingual consisten…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation

Marine Carpuat, Omri Asscher, Kalika Bali +17

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between sy…

cs.CL2025

EuroLLM-9B: Technical Report

Pedro Henrique Martins, João Alves, Patrick Fernandes +14

This report presents EuroLLM-9B, a large language model trained from scratch to support the needs of European citizens by covering all 24 official European Union languages and 11 a…

cs.CL2025

MockConf: A Student Interpretation Dataset: Analysis, Word- and Span-level Alignment and Baselines

Dávid Javorský, Ondřej Bojar, François Yvon

In simultaneous interpreting, an interpreter renders a source speech into another language with a very short lag, much sooner than sentences are finished. In order to understand an…

cs.CL2025

How Programming Concepts and Neurons Are Shared in Code Language Models

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Yihong Liu, François Yvon +1

Several studies have explored the mechanisms of large language models (LLMs) in coding tasks, but most have focused on programming languages (PLs) in a monolingual setting. In this…

cs.CL2025

Tracing Multilingual Factual Knowledge Acquisition in Pretraining

Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of recalling multilingual factual knowledge present in their pretraining data. However, most studies evaluate only the final model, leaving…

cs.CL2025

On Relation-Specific Neurons in Large Language Models

Yihong Liu, Runsheng Chen, Lea Hirlimann +6

In large language models (LLMs), certain \emph{neurons} can store distinct pieces of knowledge learned during pretraining. While factual knowledge typically appears as a combinatio…

cs.CL2025

Understanding In-Context Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Manchu

Renhao Pei, Yihong Liu, Peiqin Lin +2

In-context machine translation (MT) with large language models (LLMs) is a promising approach for low-resource MT, as it can readily take advantage of linguistic resources such as…

cs.CL2024

Investigating Length Issues in Document-level Machine Translation

Ziqian Peng, Rachel Bawden, François Yvon

Transformer architectures are increasingly effective at processing and generating very long chunks of texts, opening new perspectives for document-level machine translation (MT). I…

cs.CL2024

GlotCC: An Open Broad-Coverage CommonCrawl Corpus and Pipeline for Minority Languages

Amir Hossein Kargaran, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze

The need for large text corpora has increased with the advent of pretrained language models and, in particular, the discovery of scaling laws for these models. Most available corpo…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MEXA: Multilingual Evaluation of English-Centric LLMs via Cross-Lingual Alignment

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ali Modarressi, Nafiseh Nikeghbal +3

English-centric large language models (LLMs) often show strong multilingual capabilities. However, their multilingual performance remains unclear and is under-evaluated for many ot…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

How Transliterations Improve Crosslingual Alignment

Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran +6

Recent studies have shown that post-aligning multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) using alignment objectives on both original and transliterated data can improve crossli…

cs.CL2024

MaskLID: Code-Switching Language Identification through Iterative Masking

Amir Hossein Kargaran, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze

We present MaskLID, a simple, yet effective, code-switching (CS) language identification (LID) method. MaskLID does not require any training and is designed to complement current h…

cs.CL2024

Optimizing example selection for retrieval-augmented machine translation with translation memories

Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego, François Yvon

Retrieval-augmented machine translation leverages examples from a translation memory by retrieving similar instances. These examples are used to condition the predictions of a neur…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models

Stella Biderman, Hailey Schoelkopf, Lintang Sutawika +27

Reliable evaluation of language models (LMs) remains an open challenge. Re- searchers and engineers face methodological issues such as the sensitivity of models to evaluation setup…