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Lester James V. Miranda
Google Scholar ID: 2RtnNKEAAAAJ
University of Cambridge
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
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Citations
1,736
H-index
11
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
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ljvmiranda@gmail.com
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Publications
5 items
FilBench: Can LLMs Understand and Generate Filipino?
2025
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The UD-NewsCrawl Treebank: Reflections and Challenges from a Large-scale Tagalog Syntactic Annotation Project
2025
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Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
2025
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TÜLU 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
arXiv.org · 2024
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5
SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
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6
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Academic Achievements
FilBench: A comprehensive LLM benchmark for Filipino, accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main
Three first/co-first author papers accepted at ACL 2025 Main: HyPER, M-RewardBench, and UD-NewsCrawl
Collaborative project SEA-VL also accepted at ACL 2025 Main
Contributed to Tülu 3 and OLMo 2 releases by scaling preference data via a synthetic on-policy pipeline, improving DPO models
Co-led (with Yizhong Wang) the paper 'Hybrid Preferences' on routing preference instances to human or LM annotators
Collaborated on 'M-RewardBench', evaluating reward models in multilingual settings, with researchers from Cohere for AI
Co-authors
9 total
Valentina Pyatkin
Allen Institute for AI & University of Washington
Nathan Lambert
Research Scientist, Allen AI
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
University of Washington; Allen AI
Yizhong Wang
University of Washington
Faeze Brahman
Research Scientist; Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Pradeep Dasigi
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Joseph Imperial
University of Bath, National University Philippines
Marzieh Fadaee
Staff Research Scientist, Cohere Labs
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