Md. Arafat Sultan

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2012-2024
Publications (10 Years): 45

Top Topics

Domain Adaptation

Top Venues

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics

Publications

Keshav Ramji, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md. Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
Self-Refinement of Language Models from External Proxy Metrics Feedback. CoRR (2024)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, JaeHyeok Doo, Yifei Xu, Md. Arafat Sultan, Deevya Swain, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
FIRST: Faster Improved Listwise Reranking with Single Token Decoding. CoRR (2024)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Jatin Ganhotra, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Few-Shot Generation of Content-Grounded QA Conversations. CoRR (2024)
Jasper Xian, Saron Samuel, Faraz Khoubsirat, Ronak Pradeep, Md. Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab
Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels. CoRR (2024)
Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum
Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from a Large Language Model for Semi-Supervised Sequence Generation. ACL (1) (2024)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Parul Awasthy, Avirup Sil
An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Parameter Choices in Knowledge Distillation. CoRR (2024)
Md. Arafat Sultan
Knowledge Distillation ≈ Label Smoothing: Fact or Fallacy? CoRR (2023)
Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
Ensemble-Instruct: Generating Instruction-Tuning Data with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs. CoRR (2023)
Keshav Santhanam, Jon Saad-Falcon, Martin Franz, Omar Khattab, Avi Sil, Radu Florian, Md. Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts
Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking. ACL (Findings) (2023)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Pradeep Dasigi, Md. Arafat Sultan, Arman Cohan, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Inference-time Re-ranker Relevance Feedback for Neural Information Retrieval. CoRR (2023)
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
PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development. ACL (demo) (2023)
Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Khattab, Keshav Santhanam, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Md. Arafat Sultan, Christopher Potts
UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers. EMNLP (2023)
Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Khattab, Keshav Santhanam, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Md. Arafat Sultan, Christopher Potts
UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers. CoRR (2023)
Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum
Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models. CoRR (2023)
Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
Ensemble-Instruct: Instruction Tuning Data Generation with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs. EMNLP (Findings) (2023)
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
PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development. CoRR (2023)
J. Scott McCarley, Mihaela Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, Anthony Ferritto, Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
GAAMA 2.0: An Integrated System That Answers Boolean and Extractive Questions. AAAI (2023)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
Not to Overfit or Underfit? A Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering. CoRR (2022)
Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md. Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil
Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever. NAACL-HLT (2022)
Ameet Deshpande, Md. Arafat Sultan, Anthony Ferritto, Ashwin Kalyan, Karthik Narasimhan, Avirup Sil
SPARTAN: Sparse Hierarchical Memory for Parameter-Efficient Transformers. CoRR (2022)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Avi Sil, Radu Florian
Not to Overfit or Underfit the Source Domains? An Empirical Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering. EMNLP (2022)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
Entity-Conditioned Question Generation for Robust Attention Distribution in Neural Information Retrieval. SIGIR (2022)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avirup Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
Synthetic Target Domain Supervision for Open Retrieval QA. CoRR (2022)
Keshav Santhanam, Jon Saad-Falcon, Martin Franz, Omar Khattab, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian, Md. Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts
Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking. CoRR (2022)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
Entity-Conditioned Question Generation for Robust Attention Distribution in Neural Information Retrieval. CoRR (2022)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil
Towards Robust Neural Retrieval with Source Domain Synthetic Pre-Finetuning. COLING (2022)
J. Scott McCarley, Mihaela Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, Anthony Ferritto, Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
GAAMA 2.0: An Integrated System that Answers Boolean and Extractive Questions. CoRR (2022)
Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md. Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil
Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever. CoRR (2021)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avirup Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
Synthetic Target Domain Supervision for Open Retrieval QA. SIGIR (2021)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil
Towards Robust Neural Retrieval Models with Synthetic Pre-Training. CoRR (2021)
Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Todd Ward
Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. CoRR (2020)
Yanda Chen, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli
Improved Synthetic Training for Reading Comprehension. CoRR (2020)
Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Todd Ward
Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. EMNLP (1) (2020)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil
Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension. CoRR (2020)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avi Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
End-to-End QA on COVID-19: Domain Adaptation with Synthetic Training. CoRR (2020)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Shubham Chandel, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Vittorio Castelli
On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA. ACL (2020)
Manuel Mager, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md. Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
GPT-too: A language-model-first approach for AMR-to-text generation. CoRR (2020)
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil
Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension. EMNLP (Findings) (2020)
Manuel Mager, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md. Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
GPT-too: A Language-Model-First Approach for AMR-to-Text Generation. ACL (2020)
Elozino Egonmwan, Vittorio Castelli, Md. Arafat Sultan
Cross-Task Knowledge Transfer for Query-Based Text Summarization. MRQA@EMNLP (2019)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
DLS$@$CU at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Supervised Models of Sentence Similarity. SemEval@NAACL-HLT (2016)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Tamara Sumner
Bayesian Supervised Domain Adaptation for Short Text Similarity. HLT-NAACL (2016)
David Quigley, Ogheneovo Dibie, Md. Arafat Sultan, Katie Van Horne, William R. Penuel, Tamara Sumner, Ugochi Acholonu, Nichole Pinkard
Equity of Learning Opportunities in the Chicago City of Learning Program. EDM (2016)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian
A Joint Model for Answer Sentence Ranking and Answer Extraction. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 4 (2016)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner
Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy. HLT-NAACL (2016)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition. SemEval@NAACL-HLT (2015)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
Feature-Rich Two-Stage Logistic Regression for Monolingual Alignment. EMNLP (2015)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2 (2014)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
Towards automatic identification of core concepts in educational resources. JCDL (2014)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment. SemEval@COLING (2014)
Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
DLS$@$CU-CORE: A Simple Machine Learning Model of Semantic Textual Similarity. *SEM@NAACL-HLT (2013)
James M. Foster, Md. Arafat Sultan, Holly Devaul, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Tamara Sumner
Identifying core concepts in educational resources. JCDL (2012)
Steven Bethard, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Md. Arafat Sultan, Haojie Hang, James H. Martin, Tamara Sumner
Identifying science concepts and student misconceptions in an interactive essay writing tutor. BEA@NAACL-HLT (2012)