Fajri Koto
MBZUAI
28 conference papers
5 as first author
12 as last author
11 as co-author
1 journal paper
1 as first author
0 as last author
0 as co-author
11 committee roles
Recent activity
- 2026 ACL Controlling Distributional Bias in Multi-Round LLM Generation via KL-Optimized Fine-Tuning
- 2026 ACL Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues
- 2026 ACL FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning
- 2026 ACL Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling
- 2026 ACL Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages
- 2026 ACL Revisiting Metric Reliability for Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine Translation and Summarization in Indian Languages
- 2026 ACL Stereotype Bias in a Bilingual Setting: A Culturally Grounded Evaluation in Kazakhstan
- 2026 EACL LLMs as Cultural Archives: Cultural Commonsense Knowledge Graph Extraction
- 2026 EACL Nanda Family: Open-Weights Generative Large Language Models for Hindi
- 2026 Committee Area chair, EACL 2026
- 2025 ACL Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture
- 2025 ACL Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
- 2025 ACL Instruction Tuning on Public Government and Cultural Data for Low-Resource Language: a Case Study in Kazakh
- 2025 ACL KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan
- 2025 ACL Unveiling Cultural Blind Spots: Analyzing the Limitations of mLLMs in Procedural Text Comprehension
- 2025 EMNLP IndoSafety: Culturally Grounded Safety for LLMs in Indonesian Languages
- 2025 EMNLP What Do Indonesians Really Need from Language Technology? A Nationwide Survey
- 2025 ICLR INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
- 2025 Committee Area chair, ACL 2025
- 2025 Committee Area chair, EMNLP 2025
Publications 29
2026
- ACL Controlling Distributional Bias in Multi-Round LLM Generation via KL-Optimized Fine-Tuning Last author Yanbei Jiang, Amr Keleg, Ryandito Diandaru, Jey Han Lau, Lea Frermann, Biaoyan Fang, Fajri Koto
- ACL Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues Last author Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan, Bilal Elbouardi, Younes Samih, Sarfraz Ahmad, and 10 others
- ACL FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning Zhuohan Xie, Daniil Orel, Rushil Thareja, Dhruv Sahnan, Hachem Madmoun, Fan Zhang, and 19 others
- ACL Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling Alaa Elsetohy, Sama Hadhoud, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Chenxi Whitehouse, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Alham Fikri Aji
- ACL Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages Last author Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida, Irina Nikishina, Ashwath Rao, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, and 13 others
- ACL Revisiting Metric Reliability for Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine Translation and Summarization in Indian Languages Last author Amir Hossein Yari, Kalmit Kulkarni, Ahmad Raza Khan, Fajri Koto
- ACL Stereotype Bias in a Bilingual Setting: A Culturally Grounded Evaluation in Kazakhstan Last author Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Ayana Mussabayeva, Maiya Goloburda, Kamila Kuishibekova, Liya Goloburda, and 4 others
- EACL LLMs as Cultural Archives: Cultural Commonsense Knowledge Graph Extraction Last author Junior Cedric Tonga, Chen Cecilia Liu, Iryna Gurevych, Fajri Koto
- EACL Nanda Family: Open-Weights Generative Large Language Models for Hindi Aaryamonvikram Singh, Debopriyo Banerjee, Dhruv Sahnan, Monojit Choudhury, Shivam Chauhan, Rocktim Jyoti Das, and 24 others
2025
- ACL Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture Last author Abdelrahman Boda Sadallah, Junior Cedric Tonga, Khalid Almubarak, Saeed Almheiri, Farah Atif, Chatrine Qwaider, and 4 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 Instruction Tuning on Public Government and Cultural Data for Low-Resource Language: a Case Study in Kazakh Last author Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Rituraj Joshi, Maiya Goloburda, Yuxia Wang, Preslav Nakov, Fajri Koto
- ACL KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan Last author Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan, Jonibek Mansurov, Maiya Goloburda, Akhmed Sakip, and 8 others
- ACL Unveiling Cultural Blind Spots: Analyzing the Limitations of mLLMs in Procedural Text Comprehension Last author Amir Hossein Yari, Fajri Koto
- EMNLP IndoSafety: Culturally Grounded Safety for LLMs in Indonesian Languages Last author Muhammad Falensi Azmi, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Fajri Koto
- EMNLP What Do Indonesians Really Need from Language Technology? A Nationwide Survey Last author Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Lucky Susanto, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Fajri Koto
- ICLR INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova, Zeming Chen, Sree Harsha Nelaturu, Shivalika Singh, and 53 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
- EACL Zero-shot Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource Languages Using a Multilingual Sentiment Lexicon First author Fajri Koto, Tilman Beck, Zeerak Talat, Iryna Gurevych, Timothy Baldwin
- 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
- NAACL Are Multilingual LLMs Culturally-Diverse Reasoners? An Investigation into Multicultural Proverbs and Sayings Chen Liu, Fajri Koto, Timothy Baldwin, Iryna Gurevych
- NeurIPS CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Santiago Góngora, Aishik Mandal, Sukannya Purkayastha, and 70 others
- TACL IndoCulture: Exploring Geographically Influenced Cultural Commonsense Reasoning Across Eleven Indonesian Provinces First author Fajri Koto, Rahmad Mahendra, Nurul Aisyah, Timothy Baldwin
2023
- 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 Large Language Models Only Pass Primary School Exams in Indonesia: A Comprehensive Test on IndoMMLU First author Fajri Koto, Nurul Aisyah, Haonan Li, Timothy Baldwin
2022
- ACL One Country, 700+ Languages: NLP Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in Indonesia Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Ade Romadhony, Rahmad Mahendra, and 6 others
2021
- EACL Top-down Discourse Parsing via Sequence Labelling First author Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin
- EMNLP IndoBERTweet: A Pretrained Language Model for Indonesian Twitter with Effective Domain-Specific Vocabulary Initialization First author Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin
- NAACL Discourse Probing of Pretrained Language Models First author Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin