6 papers
SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Junho Myung, Carla Perez-Almendros +27
We present our shared task on evaluating the adaptability of LLMs and NLP systems across multiple languages and cultures. The task data consist of an extended version of our manual…
Anthropogenic Regional Adaptation in Multimodal Vision-Language Model
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Tack Hwa Wong +45
While the field of vision-language (VL) has achieved remarkable success in integrating visual and textual information across multiple languages and domains, there is still no dedic…
Statement-Tuning Enables Efficient Cross-lingual Generalization in Encoder-only Models
Ahmed Elshabrawy, Thanh-Nhi Nguyen, Yeeun Kang +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in zero-shot and few-shot tasks, but achieving similar performance with encoder-only models like BERT and RoBERTa has been challenging due to the…
CLIP meets DINO for Tuning Zero-Shot Classifier using Unlabeled Image Collections
Mohamed Fazli Imam, Rufael Fedaku Marew, Jameel Hassan +3
In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to t…
Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +89
Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region of extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity, yet it remains significantly underrepresented in vision-language (VL) research. This often resu…
Can Multimodal LLMs do Visual Temporal Understanding and Reasoning? The answer is No!
Mohamed Fazli Imam, Chenyang Lyu, Alham Fikri Aji
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant advancements in tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA) by leveraging foundational Large Language Models (LLMs…