Md. Arafat Sultan

According to our database, Md. Arafat Sultan authored at least 44 papers between 2012 and 2024.

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2024

Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels.

Jasper Xian, Saron Samuel, Faraz Khoubsirat, Ronak Pradeep, Md. Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab

CoRR, 2024

Self-Refinement of Language Models from External Proxy Metrics Feedback.

Keshav Ramji, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md. Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

CoRR, 2024

An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Parameter Choices in Knowledge Distillation.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Parul Awasthy, Avirup Sil

CoRR, 2024

Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Few-Shot Generation of Content-Grounded QA Conversations.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Jatin Ganhotra, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

FIRST: Faster Improved Listwise Reranking with Single Token Decoding.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, JaeHyeok Doo, Yifei Xu, Md. Arafat Sultan, Deevya Swain, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from a Large Language Model for Semi-Supervised Sequence Generation.

Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models.

Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum

CoRR, 2023

Ensemble-Instruct: Generating Instruction-Tuning Data with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs.

Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

CoRR, 2023

Inference-time Re-ranker Relevance Feedback for Neural Information Retrieval.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Pradeep Dasigi, Md. Arafat Sultan, Arman Cohan, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

CoRR, 2023

Knowledge Distillation ≈ Label Smoothing: Fact or Fallacy?

Md. Arafat Sultan

CoRR, 2023

PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development.

Avirup Sil, Jaydeep Sen, Bhavani Iyer, Martin Franz, Kshitij Fadnis, Mihaela Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, J. Scott McCarley, Rong Zhang, Vishwajeet Kumar, Yulong Li, Md. Arafat Sultan, Riyaz Bhat, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

CoRR, 2023

UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers.

Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Khattab, Keshav Santhanam, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Md. Arafat Sultan, Christopher Potts

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Ensemble-Instruct: Instruction Tuning Data Generation with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs.

Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development.

Avi Sil, Jaydeep Sen, Bhavani Iyer, Martin Franz, Kshitij Fadnis, Mihaela Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, J. Scott McCarley, Rong Zhang, Vishwajeet Kumar, Yulong Li, Md. Arafat Sultan, Riyaz Bhat, Jürgen Broß, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2023

Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking.

Keshav Santhanam, Jon Saad-Falcon, Martin Franz, Omar Khattab, Avi Sil, Radu Florian, Md. Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

GAAMA 2.0: An Integrated System That Answers Boolean and Extractive Questions.

J. Scott McCarley, Mihaela Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, Anthony Ferritto, Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

2022

SPARTAN: Sparse Hierarchical Memory for Parameter-Efficient Transformers.

Ameet Deshpande, Md. Arafat Sultan, Anthony Ferritto, Ashwin Kalyan, Karthik Narasimhan, Avirup Sil

CoRR, 2022

Not to Overfit or Underfit? A Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian

CoRR, 2022

Entity-Conditioned Question Generation for Robust Attention Distribution in Neural Information Retrieval.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji

Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever.

Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md. Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Not to Overfit or Underfit the Source Domains? An Empirical Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Avi Sil, Radu Florian

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Towards Robust Neural Retrieval with Source Domain Synthetic Pre-Finetuning.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

2021

Towards Robust Neural Retrieval Models with Synthetic Pre-Training.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil

CoRR, 2021

Synthetic Target Domain Supervision for Open Retrieval QA.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avirup Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

Proceedings of the SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021

2020

End-to-End QA on COVID-19: Domain Adaptation with Synthetic Training.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avi Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

CoRR, 2020

Improved Synthetic Training for Reading Comprehension.

Yanda Chen, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli

CoRR, 2020

Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation.

Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Todd Ward

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension.

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Shubham Chandel, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Vittorio Castelli

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

GPT-too: A Language-Model-First Approach for AMR-to-Text Generation.

Manuel Mager, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md. Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019

Cross-Task Knowledge Transfer for Query-Based Text Summarization.

Elozino Egonmwan, Vittorio Castelli, Md. Arafat Sultan

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering, 2019

2016

A Joint Model for Answer Sentence Ranking and Answer Extraction.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2016

DLS$@$CU at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Supervised Models of Sentence Similarity.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2016

Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

Bayesian Supervised Domain Adaptation for Short Text Similarity.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

Equity of Learning Opportunities in the Chicago City of Learning Program.

David Quigley, Ogheneovo Dibie, Md. Arafat Sultan, Katie Van Horne, William R. Penuel, Tamara Sumner, Ugochi Acholonu, Nichole Pinkard

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2016

2015

DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2015

Feature-Rich Two-Stage Logistic Regression for Monolingual Alignment.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014

Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2014

DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2014

Towards automatic identification of core concepts in educational resources.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2014

2013

DLS$@$CU-CORE: A Simple Machine Learning Model of Semantic Textual Similarity.

Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2013

2012

Identifying core concepts in educational resources.

James M. Foster, Md. Arafat Sultan, Holly Devaul, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2012

Identifying science concepts and student misconceptions in an interactive essay writing tutor.

Steven Bethard, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Md. Arafat Sultan, Haojie Hang, James H. Martin, Tamara Sumner

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP, 2012