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Lucas Bandarkar

6 accepted papers

2025

Layer Swapping for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025spotlight

Model merging, such as model souping, is the practice of combining different models with the same architecture together without further training. In this work, we present a model merging methodology that addresses the difficulty of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for target tasks in non-Eng…

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2025

SNaRe: Domain-aware Data Generation for Low-Resource Event Detection

EMNLP 2025

Event Detection (ED) – the task of identifying event mentions from natural language text – is critical for enabling reasoning in highly specialized domains such as biomedicine, law, and epidemiology. Data generation has proven to be effective in broadening its utility to wider applications without r

2024

The Belebele Benchmark: a Parallel Reading Comprehension Dataset in 122 Language Variants

ACL 2024long

We present Belebele, a multiple-choice machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset spanning 122 language variants. Significantly expanding the language coverage of natural language understanding (NLU) benchmarks, this dataset enables the evaluation of text models in high-, medium-, and low-resource…

2021

Can Transformer Models Measure Coherence In Text: Re-Thinking the Shuffle Test

ACL 2021short

The Shuffle Test is the most common task to evaluate whether NLP models can measure coherence in text. Most recent work uses direct supervision on the task; we show that by simply finetuning a RoBERTa model, we can achieve a near perfect accuracy of 97.8%, a state-of-the-art. We argue that this outs…