Alham Fikri Aji
MBZUAI, Monash Indonesia
43 conference papers
5 as first author
10 as last author
28 as co-author
0 journal papers
0 as first author
0 as last author
0 as co-author
10 committee roles
Recent activity
- 2026 ACL Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages
- 2026 ACL Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI
- 2026 ACL Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling
- 2026 ICML Measuring Meta-Cultural Competency: A Spectral Framework for LLM Knowledge Structures
- 2026 ICML Predicting the Order of Upcoming Tokens Improves Language Modeling
- 2026 NeurIPS Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
- 2025 ACL BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
- 2025 ACL Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
- 2025 ACL Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation
- 2025 ACL Do Language Models Understand Honorific Systems in Javanese?
- 2025 ACL KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan
- 2025 ACL NusaAksara: A Multimodal and Multilingual Benchmark for Preserving Indonesian Indigenous Scripts
- 2025 EMNLP Balanced Multi-Factor In-Context Learning for Multilingual Large Language Models
- 2025 EMNLP From Surveys to Narratives: Rethinking Cultural Value Adaptation in LLMs
- 2025 EMNLP LORAXBENCH: A Multitask, Multilingual Benchmark Suite for 20 Indonesian Languages
- 2025 EMNLP WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
- 2025 NAACL WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines
- 2025 Committee Area chair, ACL 2025
- 2025 Committee Area chair, EMNLP 2025
Publications 43
2026
- ACL Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Muhidin Mohamed, and 13 others
- ACL Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI Yuxia Wang, Rui Xing, Jonibek Mansurov, Giovanni Puccetti, Zhuohan Xie, Minh Ngoc Ta, and 20 others
- ACL Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling Last author Alaa Elsetohy, Sama Hadhoud, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Chenxi Whitehouse, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Alham Fikri Aji
- ICML Measuring Meta-Cultural Competency: A Spectral Framework for LLM Knowledge Structures Sougata Saha, Madhur Jindal, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Mahardika Ihsani, Alham Fikri Aji, Monojit Choudhury
- ICML Predicting the Order of Upcoming Tokens Improves Language Modeling Last author Zayd Muhammad Kawakibi Zuhri, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Alham Fikri Aji
- NeurIPS Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures Tyler Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Abeer Kashar, Daud Abolade, and 331 others
2025
- ACL BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, and 42 others
- ACL Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Tack Hwa Wong, Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Thant Thiri Maung, and 86 others
- ACL Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation Last author Jonibek Mansurov, Akhmed Sakip, Alham Fikri Aji
- ACL Do Language Models Understand Honorific Systems in Javanese? Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Iwan Darmawan, Adryan Kusumawardhana, Genta Indra Winata, Alham Fikri Aji, Derry Tanti Wijaya
- ACL KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan, Jonibek Mansurov, Maiya Goloburda, Akhmed Sakip, and 8 others
- ACL NusaAksara: A Multimodal and Multilingual Benchmark for Preserving Indonesian Indigenous Scripts Last author Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Musa Izzanardi Wijanarko, Lucky Susanto, Khumaisa Nur'aini, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Alham Fikri Aji
- EMNLP Balanced Multi-Factor In-Context Learning for Multilingual Large Language Models Masahiro Kaneko, Alham Fikri Aji, Timothy Baldwin
- EMNLP From Surveys to Narratives: Rethinking Cultural Value Adaptation in LLMs Last author Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Chen Cecilia Liu, Iryna Gurevych, Alham Fikri Aji
- EMNLP LORAXBENCH: A Multitask, Multilingual Benchmark Suite for 20 Indonesian Languages First author Alham Fikri Aji, Trevor Cohn
- EMNLP WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
- NAACL WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines Genta Indra Winata, Frederikus Hudi, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, David Anugraha, Rifki Afina Putri, Yutong Wang, and 45 others
2024
- ACL Cendol: Open Instruction-tuned Generative Large Language Models for Indonesian Languages Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Fajri Koto, Rifki Afina Putri, Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro, Jhonson Lee, and 10 others
- ACL M4GT-Bench: Evaluation Benchmark for Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection Yuxia Wang, Jonibek Mansurov, Petar Ivanov, Jinyan Su, Artem Shelmanov, Akim Tsvigun, and 8 others
- EACL LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions Last author Minghao Wu, Abdul Waheed, Chiyu Zhang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Alham Fikri Aji
- EACL M4: Multi-generator, Multi-domain, and Multi-lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection Yuxia Wang, Jonibek Mansurov, Petar Ivanov, Jinyan Su, Artem Shelmanov, Akim Tsvigun, and 9 others
- EMNLP Cultural Conditioning or Placebo? On the Effectiveness of Socio-Demographic Prompting Sagnik Mukherjee, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Sunayana Sitaram, Kalika Bali, Alham Fikri Aji, Monojit Choudhury
- EMNLP Re-Evaluating Evaluation for Multilingual Summarization Jessica Zosa Forde, Ruochen Zhang, Lintang Sutawika, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Indra Winata, and 4 others
- EMNLP SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, Salsabil Maulana Akbar, Lester James V. Miranda, Jennifer Santoso, Elyanah Aco, and 55 others
- EMNLP Towards Measuring and Modeling "Culture" in LLMs: A Survey Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Sagnik Mukherjee, Pradhyumna Lavania, Siddhant Singh, Alham Fikri Aji, Jacki O'Neill, Ashutosh Modi, Monojit Choudhury
- NAACL COPAL-ID: Indonesian Language Reasoning with Local Culture and Nuances Last author Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Alham Fikri Aji
- NeurIPS CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark Last author David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Santiago Góngora, Aishik Mandal, Sukannya Purkayastha, and 70 others
2023
- ACL BLOOM+1: Adding Language Support to BLOOM for Zero-Shot Prompting Zheng Xin Yong, Hailey Schoelkopf, Niklas Muennighoff, Alham Fikri Aji, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Khalid Almubarak, and 9 others
- ACL Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning Niklas Muennighoff, Thomas Wang, Lintang Sutawika, Adam Roberts, Stella Biderman, Teven Le Scao, and 13 others
- ACL Direct Fact Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs without Entity Linking Jinheon Baek, Alham Fikri Aji, Jens Lehmann, Sung Ju Hwang
- ACL On "Scientific Debt" in NLP: A Case for More Rigour in Language Model Pre-Training Research Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Indra Winata, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Phil Blunsom, Adhiguna Kuncoro
- ACL WebIE: Faithful and Robust Information Extraction on the Web Chenxi Whitehouse, Clara Vania, Alham Fikri Aji, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Andrea Pierleoni
- EACL NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages Genta Indra Winata, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Rahmad Mahendra, Fajri Koto, Ade Romadhony, and 4 others
- EMNLP GlobalBench: A Benchmark for Global Progress in Natural Language Processing Yueqi Song, Simran Khanuja, Pengfei Liu, Fahim Faisal, Alissa Ostapenko, Genta Indra Winata, and 5 others
- EMNLP LLM-powered Data Augmentation for Enhanced Cross-lingual Performance Last author Chenxi Whitehouse, Monojit Choudhury, Alham Fikri Aji
- EMNLP Multilingual Large Language Models Are Not (Yet) Code-Switchers Last author Ruochen Zhang, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Genta Indra Winata, Alham Fikri Aji
2022
- ACL One Country, 700+ Languages: NLP Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in Indonesia First author Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Ade Romadhony, Rahmad Mahendra, and 6 others
2021
- EMNLP IndoNLI: A Natural Language Inference Dataset for Indonesian Rahmad Mahendra, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Louvan, Fahrurrozi Rahman, Clara Vania
2020
- ACL In Neural Machine Translation, What Does Transfer Learning Transfer? First author Alham Fikri Aji, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Rico Sennrich
2019
- EMNLP Combining Global Sparse Gradients with Local Gradients in Distributed Neural Network Training First author Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Nikolay Bogoychev
2018
- ACL Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz, Tomasz Dwojak, Hieu Hoang, Kenneth Heafield, Tom Neckermann, and 6 others
- EMNLP Accelerating Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent for Neural Machine Translation Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Alham Fikri Aji, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
2017
- EMNLP Sparse Communication for Distributed Gradient Descent First author Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield