8 papers
SeaLLMs-Audio: Large Audio-Language Models for Southeast Asia
Chaoqun Liu, Mahani Aljunied, Guizhen Chen +4
We introduce SeaLLMs-Audio, the first large audio-language model (LALM) tailored for multiple Southeast Asian (SEA) languages-Indonesian (id), Thai (th), and Vietnamese (vi)-alongs…
Lingshu: A Generalist Foundation Model for Unified Multimodal Medical Understanding and Reasoning
LASA Team, Weiwen Xu, Hou Pong Chan +16
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in understanding common visual elements, largely due to their large-scale datasets and advanced t…
FINEREASON: Evaluating and Improving LLMs' Deliberate Reasoning through Reflective Puzzle Solving
Guizhen Chen, Weiwen Xu, Hao Zhang +6
Many challenging reasoning tasks require not just rapid, intuitive responses, but a more deliberate, multi-step approach. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) highlights…
Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models
Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Yiran Zhao +2
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated multilingual capabilities, yet they are mostly English-centric due to the imbalanced training corpora. While prior works have leverag…
Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers
Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng +8
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), yet open-source multilingual LLMs remain scarce, with existing models often limited in language…
SeaExam and SeaBench: Benchmarking LLMs with Local Multilingual Questions in Southeast Asia
Chaoqun Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jiahao Ying +3
This study introduces two novel benchmarks, SeaExam and SeaBench, designed to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Southeast Asian (SEA) application scenari…