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20232026
most citedStarCoder: may the source be with you!

200 citations · 332 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

Translation Heads: Disentangling meaning from language in LLM-based machine translation

Théo Lasnier, Armel Zebaze, Djamé Seddah +2

Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) seeks to explain how neural networks implement their capabilities, but the scale of Large Language Models (LLMs) has limited prior MI work in Mach…

cs.CL2025

LLM Reasoning for Machine Translation: Synthetic Data Generation over Thinking Tokens

Armel Zebaze, Rachel Bawden, Benoît Sagot

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have led to new possibilities in terms of problem-solving, through the devising of a natural language thought process prior to answering a query. Whil…

cs.CL2025

TopXGen: Topic-Diverse Parallel Data Generation for Low-Resource Machine Translation

Armel Zebaze, Benoît Sagot, Rachel Bawden

LLMs have been shown to perform well in machine translation (MT) with the use of in-context learning (ICL), rivaling supervised models when translating into high-resource languages…

cs.CL2025

Compositional Translation: A Novel LLM-based Approach for Low-resource Machine Translation

Armel Zebaze, Benoît Sagot, Rachel Bawden

The ability of generative large language models (LLMs) to perform in-context learning has given rise to a large body of research into how best to prompt models for various natural…

cs.LG2025★ 23 cited

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1168

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

cs.CL2024

Tree of Problems: Improving structured problem solving with compositionality

Armel Zebaze, Benoît Sagot, Rachel Bawden

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multiple tasks through in-context learning. For complex reasoning tasks that require step-by-step think…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

In-Context Example Selection via Similarity Search Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation

Armel Zebaze, Benoît Sagot, Rachel Bawden

The ability of generative large language models (LLMs) to perform in-context learning has given rise to a large body of research into how best to prompt models for various natural…

cs.SE2024★ 22 cited

BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions

Terry Yue Zhuo, Minh Chien Vu, Jenny Chim +30

Task automation has been greatly empowered by the recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) via Python code, where the tasks ranging from software engineering development to…

cs.CL2024

mOSCAR: A Large-scale Multilingual and Multimodal Document-level Corpus

Matthieu Futeral, Armel Zebaze, Pedro Ortiz Suarez +5

Multimodal Large Language Models (mLLMs) are trained on a large amount of text-image data. While most mLLMs are trained on caption-like data only, Alayrac et al. (2022) showed that…

cs.SE2024★ 67 cited

StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation

Anton Lozhkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal +63

The BigCode project, an open-scientific collaboration focused on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder2. In partnership wi…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Astraios: Parameter-Efficient Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models

Terry Yue Zhuo, Armel Zebaze, Nitchakarn Suppattarachai +4

The high cost of full-parameter fine-tuning (FFT) of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a series of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods. However, it remains unclear…

cs.CL2023★ 17 cited

OctoPack: Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models

Niklas Muennighoff, Qian Liu, Armel Zebaze +7

Finetuning large language models (LLMs) on instructions leads to vast performance improvements on natural language tasks. We apply instruction tuning using code, leveraging the nat…

cs.CL2023★ 200 cited

StarCoder: may the source be with you!

Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, Yangtian Zi +64

The BigCode community, an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase…