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Ivan P. Yamshchikov

8 accepted papers

2026

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training

ICLR 2026oral

Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on large data from different sources and domains. These data most often contain trillions of tokens with large portions of copyrighted or proprietary content, which hinders the usage of such models under AI legislation. This raises the need for truly open…

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2025

Smotrom tvoja på ander drogoj verden! Resurrecting Dead Pidgin with Generative Models: Russenorsk Case Study

ACL 2025finding

Russenorsk, a pidgin language historically used in trade interactions between Russian and Norwegian speakers, represents a unique linguistic phenomenon. In this paper, we attempt to analyze its lexicon using modern large language models (LLMs), based on surviving literary sources. We construct a str…

2024

BPE Gets Picky: Efficient Vocabulary Refinement During Tokenizer Training

EMNLP 2024main

Language models can greatly benefit from efficient tokenization. However, they still mostly utilize the classical Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm, a simple and reliable method. BPE has been shown to cause such issues as under-trained tokens and sub-optimal compression that may affect the downstre…

2022

BERT in Plutarch’s Shadows

EMNLP 2022main

The extensive surviving corpus of the ancient scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-120 CE) also contains several texts which, according to current scholarly opinion, did not originate with him and are therefore attributed to an anonymous author Pseudo-Plutarch. These include, in particular, the wor…

2021

Style-transfer and Paraphrase: Looking for a Sensible Semantic Similarity Metric

AAAI 2021technical

The rapid development of such natural language processing tasks as style transfer, paraphrase, and machine translation often calls for the use of semantic similarity metrics. In recent years a lot of methods to measure the semantic similarity of two short texts were developed. This paper provides a…