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most citedAiravata: Introducing Hindi Instruction-tuned LLM

3 citations · 8 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Scripts Through Time: A Survey of the Evolving Role of Transliteration in NLP

Thanmay Jayakumar, Deepon Halder, Raj Dabre

Cross-lingual transfer in NLP is often hindered by the ``script barrier'' where differences in writing systems inhibit transfer learning between languages. Transliteration, the pro…

cs.CL2026

IndicIFEval: A Benchmark for Verifiable Instruction-Following Evaluation in 14 Indic Languages

Thanmay Jayakumar, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Raj Dabre +2

Instruction-following benchmarks remain predominantly English-centric, leaving a critical evaluation gap for the hundreds of millions of Indic language speakers. We introduce Indic…

cs.CL2025

RiddleBench: A New Generative Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs

Deepon Halder, Alan Saji, Thanmay Jayakumar +3

Large Language Models have demonstrated strong performance on many established reasoning benchmarks. However, these benchmarks primarily evaluate structured skills like quantitativ…

cs.CL2025

CycleDistill: Bootstrapping Machine Translation using LLMs with Cyclical Distillation

Deepon Halder, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre

Large language models (LLMs), despite their ability to perform few-shot machine translation (MT), often lag behind dedicated MT systems trained on parallel corpora, which are cruci…

cs.CL2025

CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation

Emilio Villa-Cueva, Sholpan Bolatzhanova, Diana Turmakhan +32

Translating cultural content poses challenges for machine translation systems due to the differences in conceptualizations between cultures, where language alone may fail to convey…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

RomanLens: The Role Of Latent Romanization In Multilinguality In LLMs

Alan Saji, Jaavid Aktar Husain, Thanmay Jayakumar +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong multilingual performance despite being predominantly trained on English-centric corpora. This raises a fundamental question: How do LLMs…

cs.CV2024

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo +73

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an important task in multimodal AI, and it is often used to test the ability of vision-language models to understand and reason on knowledge pres…

cs.CL2024

Leveraging Linguistically Enhanced Embeddings for Open Information Extraction

Fauzan Farooqui, Thanmay Jayakumar, Pulkit Mathur +1

Open Information Extraction (OIE) is a structured prediction (SP) task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to extract structured -ary tuples - usually subject-relatio…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Airavata: Introducing Hindi Instruction-tuned LLM

Jay Gala, Thanmay Jayakumar, Jaavid Aktar Husain +8

We announce the initial release of "Airavata," an instruction-tuned LLM for Hindi. Airavata was created by fine-tuning OpenHathi with diverse, instruction-tuning Hindi datasets to…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Large Language Models are legal but they are not: Making the case for a powerful LegalLLM

Thanmay Jayakumar, Fauzan Farooqui, Luqman Farooqui

Realizing the recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to the legal sector poses challenging problems such as extremely long sequence lengths, specialized vocabulary th…