3 papers
cs.CL2026
MGSM-Pro: A Simple Strategy for Robust Multilingual Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation
Tianyi Xu, Kosei Uemura, Alfred Malengo Kondoro +6
Large language models have made substantial progress in mathematical reasoning. However, benchmark development for multilingual evaluation has lagged behind English in both difficu…
cs.CL2026
AfriMTEB and AfriE5: Benchmarking and Adapting Text Embedding Models for African Languages
Kosei Uemura, Miaoran Zhang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Text embeddings are an essential building component of several NLP tasks such as retrieval-augmented generation which is crucial for preventing hallucinations in LLMs. Despite the…
cs.CL2026
MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder-LLM Integration in Cross-Lingual Reasoning
Kosei Uemura, David Guzmán, Quang Phuoc Nguyen +3
Large language models excel in English but still struggle with complex reasoning in many low-resource languages (LRLs). Existing encoder-plus-decoder methods such as LangBridge and…