Md. Arafat Sultan

60 papers A* 10B 2Journal 30Unranked 18

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A*	`conf`	A Large-Scale Study of Reranker Relevance Feedback at Inference. SIGIR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Pradeep Dasigi, Md. Arafat Sultan, Arman Cohan, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2025	J	`jnl`	Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency. CoRR Md. Arafat Sultan, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
2025	J	`jnl`	Granite Embedding Models. CoRR Parul Awasthy, Aashka Trivedi, Yulong Li, Mihaela A. Bornea, David Cox, Abraham Daniels, Martin Franz, Gabe Goodhart, Bhavani Iyer, Vishwajeet Kumar, Luis A. Lastras, J. Scott McCarley, Rudra Murthy, Vignesh P, Sara Rosenthal, Salim Roukos, Jaydeep Sen, Sukriti Sharma, Avirup Sil, Kate Soule, Md. Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian
2025	J	`jnl`	Optimal Policy Minimum Bayesian Risk. CoRR Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md. Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2024	J	`jnl`	An Empirical Investigation into the Effect of Parameter Choices in Knowledge Distillation. CoRR Md. Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Parul Awasthy, Avirup Sil
2024	A*	`conf`	FIRST: Faster Improved Listwise Reranking with Single Token Decoding. EMNLP Revanth Gangi Reddy, JaeHyeok Doo, Yifei Xu, Md. Arafat Sultan, Deevya Swain, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
2024	J	`jnl`	FIRST: Faster Improved Listwise Reranking with Single Token Decoding. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, JaeHyeok Doo, Yifei Xu, Md. Arafat Sultan, Deevya Swain, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
2024	—	`conf`	Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from a Large Language Model for Semi-Supervised Sequence Generation. ACL (1) Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum
2024	J	`jnl`	Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels. CoRR Jasper Xian, Saron Samuel, Faraz Khoubsirat, Ronak Pradeep, Md. Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab
2024	J	`jnl`	ReFIT: Reranker Relevance Feedback during Inference. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. Revanth Gangi Reddy, Pradeep Dasigi, Md. Arafat Sultan, Arman Cohan, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2024	J	`jnl`	Self-Refinement of Language Models from External Proxy Metrics Feedback. CoRR Keshav Ramji, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md. Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2024	—	`conf`	Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Few-Shot Generation of Content-Grounded QA Conversations. EMNLP (Findings) Md. Arafat Sultan, Jatin Ganhotra, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
2024	J	`jnl`	Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Few-Shot Generation of Content-Grounded QA Conversations. CoRR Md. Arafat Sultan, Jatin Ganhotra, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
2023	J	`jnl`	Ensemble-Instruct: Generating Instruction-Tuning Data with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs. CoRR Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
2023	—	`conf`	Ensemble-Instruct: Instruction Tuning Data Generation with a Heterogeneous Mixture of LMs. EMNLP (Findings) Young-Suk Lee, Md. Arafat Sultan, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
2023	A*	`conf`	GAAMA 2.0: An Integrated System That Answers Boolean and Extractive Questions. AAAI J. Scott McCarley, Mihaela A. Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, Anthony Ferritto, Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
2023	J	`jnl`	Inference-time Re-ranker Relevance Feedback for Neural Information Retrieval. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Pradeep Dasigi, Md. Arafat Sultan, Arman Cohan, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2023	J	`jnl`	Knowledge Distillation ≈ Label Smoothing: Fact or Fallacy? CoRR Md. Arafat Sultan
2023	—	`conf`	Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking. ACL (Findings) Keshav Santhanam, Jon Saad-Falcon, Martin Franz, Omar Khattab, Avi Sil, Radu Florian, Md. Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts
2023	J	`jnl`	Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models. CoRR Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum
2023	—	`conf`	PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development. ACL (demo) Avi Sil, Jaydeep Sen, Bhavani Iyer, Martin Franz, Kshitij Fadnis, Mihaela A. Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, J. Scott McCarley, Rong Zhang, Vishwajeet Kumar, Yulong Li, Md. Arafat Sultan, Riyaz A. Bhat, Jürgen Broß, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2023	J	`jnl`	PrimeQA: The Prime Repository for State-of-the-Art Multilingual Question Answering Research and Development. CoRR Avirup Sil, Jaydeep Sen, Bhavani Iyer, Martin Franz, Kshitij Fadnis, Mihaela A. Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, J. Scott McCarley, Rong Zhang, Vishwajeet Kumar, Yulong Li, Md. Arafat Sultan, Riyaz A. Bhat, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2023	A*	`conf`	UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers. EMNLP Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Khattab, Keshav Santhanam, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Md. Arafat Sultan, Christopher Potts
2023	J	`jnl`	UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers. CoRR Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Khattab, Keshav Santhanam, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Md. Arafat Sultan, Christopher Potts
2022	A*	`conf`	Entity-Conditioned Question Generation for Robust Attention Distribution in Neural Information Retrieval. SIGIR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
2022	J	`jnl`	Entity-Conditioned Question Generation for Robust Attention Distribution in Neural Information Retrieval. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Avirup Sil, Heng Ji
2022	J	`jnl`	GAAMA 2.0: An Integrated System that Answers Boolean and Extractive Questions. CoRR J. Scott McCarley, Mihaela A. Bornea, Sara Rosenthal, Anthony Ferritto, Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
2022	—	`conf`	Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever. NAACL-HLT Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md. Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil
2022	J	`jnl`	Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking. CoRR Keshav Santhanam, Jon Saad-Falcon, Martin Franz, Omar Khattab, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian, Md. Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Matei Zaharia, Christopher Potts
2022	A*	`conf`	Not to Overfit or Underfit the Source Domains? An Empirical Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering. EMNLP Md. Arafat Sultan, Avi Sil, Radu Florian
2022	J	`jnl`	Not to Overfit or Underfit? A Study of Domain Generalization in Question Answering. CoRR Md. Arafat Sultan, Avirup Sil, Radu Florian
2022	J	`jnl`	SPARTAN: Sparse Hierarchical Memory for Parameter-Efficient Transformers. CoRR Ameet Deshpande, Md. Arafat Sultan, Anthony Ferritto, Ashwin Kalyan, Karthik Narasimhan, Avirup Sil
2022	J	`jnl`	Synthetic Target Domain Supervision for Open Retrieval QA. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avirup Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2022	B	`conf`	Towards Robust Neural Retrieval with Source Domain Synthetic Pre-Finetuning. COLING Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil
2021	J	`jnl`	Learning Cross-Lingual IR from an English Retriever. CoRR Yulong Li, Martin Franz, Md. Arafat Sultan, Bhavani Iyer, Young-Suk Lee, Avirup Sil
2021	A*	`conf`	Synthetic Target Domain Supervision for Open Retrieval QA. SIGIR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avirup Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2021	J	`jnl`	Towards Robust Neural Retrieval Models with Synthetic Pre-Training. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Vikas Yadav, Md. Arafat Sultan, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli, Heng Ji, Avirup Sil
2020	—	`conf`	Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension. EMNLP (Findings) Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil
2020	J	`jnl`	Answer Span Correction in Machine Reading Comprehension. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Rong Zhang, Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil
2020	J	`jnl`	End-to-End QA on COVID-19: Domain Adaptation with Synthetic Training. CoRR Revanth Gangi Reddy, Bhavani Iyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Rong Zhang, Avi Sil, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2020	A*	`conf`	GPT-too: A Language-Model-First Approach for AMR-to-Text Generation. ACL Manuel Mager, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md. Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2020	J	`jnl`	GPT-too: A language-model-first approach for AMR-to-text generation. CoRR Manuel Mager, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md. Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
2020	J	`jnl`	Improved Synthetic Training for Reading Comprehension. CoRR Yanda Chen, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli
2020	—	`conf`	Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. EMNLP (1) Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Todd Ward
2020	J	`jnl`	Multi-Stage Pre-training for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation. CoRR Rong Zhang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian, Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Todd Ward
2020	A*	`conf`	On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA. ACL Md. Arafat Sultan, Shubham Chandel, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Vittorio Castelli
2019	—	`conf`	Cross-Task Knowledge Transfer for Query-Based Text Summarization. MRQA@EMNLP Elozino Egonmwan, Vittorio Castelli, Md. Arafat Sultan
2016	J	`jnl`	A Joint Model for Answer Sentence Ranking and Answer Extraction. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics Md. Arafat Sultan, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian
2016	—	`conf`	Bayesian Supervised Domain Adaptation for Short Text Similarity. HLT-NAACL Md. Arafat Sultan, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Tamara Sumner
2016	—	`conf`	DLS$@$CU at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Supervised Models of Sentence Similarity. SemEval@NAACL-HLT Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2016	B	`conf`	Equity of Learning Opportunities in the Chicago City of Learning Program. EDM David Quigley, Ogheneovo Dibie, Md. Arafat Sultan, Katie Van Horne, William R. Penuel, Tamara Sumner, Ugochi Acholonu, Nichole Pinkard
2016	—	`conf`	Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy. HLT-NAACL Md. Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner
2015	—	`conf`	DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition. SemEval@NAACL-HLT Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2015	A*	`conf`	Feature-Rich Two-Stage Logistic Regression for Monolingual Alignment. EMNLP Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2014	J	`jnl`	Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2014	—	`conf`	DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment. SemEval@COLING Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2014	—	`conf`	Towards automatic identification of core concepts in educational resources. JCDL Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2013	—	`conf`	DLS$@$CU-CORE: A Simple Machine Learning Model of Semantic Textual Similarity. *SEM@NAACL-HLT Md. Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner
2012	—	`conf`	Identifying core concepts in educational resources. JCDL James M. Foster, Md. Arafat Sultan, Holly Devaul, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Tamara Sumner
2012	—	`conf`	Identifying science concepts and student misconceptions in an interactive essay writing tutor. BEA@NAACL-HLT Steven Bethard, Ifeyinwa Okoye, Md. Arafat Sultan, Haojie Hang, James H. Martin, Tamara Sumner