Vlad Niculae
42 papers · 2012–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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machine translation
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natural language inference
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Papers
Representation Collapse in Machine Translation Through the Lens of Angular Dispersion
EACL 2026
Unlocking Latent Discourse Translation in LLMs Through Quality-Aware Decoding
EACL 2026
Hopfield-Fenchel-Young Networks: A Unified Framework for Associative Memory Retrieval
JMLR 2025
Angular Dispersion Accelerates k-Nearest Neighbors Machine Translation
EMNLP 2025
Asking a Language Model for Diverse Responses
EMNLP 2025
kNN For Whisper And Its Effect On Bias And Speaker Adaptation
NAACL 2025
Sparse and Structured Hopfield Networks
ICML 2024
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Target Embeddings for Continuous-Output Neural Machine Translation
NAACL 2024
On Measuring Context Utilization in Document-Level MT Systems
EACL 2024
Viewing Knowledge Transfer in Multilingual Machine Translation Through a Representational Lens
EMNLP 2023
DAG Learning on the Permutahedron
ICLR 2023
Sparse Communication via Mixed Distributions
ICLR 2022
Sparse Continuous Distributions and Fenchel-Young Losses
JMLR 2022
On Target Representation in Continuous-output Neural Machine Translation
ACL 2022
Modeling Structure with Undirected Neural Networks
ICML 2022
Learning Binary Decision Trees by Argmin Differentiation
ICML 2021
Efficient Marginalization of Discrete and Structured Latent Variables via Sparsity
NIPS 2020
Sparse and Continuous Attention Mechanisms
NIPS 2020
LP-SparseMAP: Differentiable Relaxed Optimization for Sparse Structured Prediction
ICML 2020
Learning with Fenchel-Young losses
JMLR 2020
Understanding the Mechanics of SPIGOT: Surrogate Gradients for Latent Structure Learning
EMNLP 2020
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP
NAACL 2019
Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models
ACL 2019
Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing
ACL 2019
Learning Classifiers with Fenchel-Young Losses: Generalized Entropies, Margins, and Algorithms
AISTATS 2019
Adaptively Sparse Transformers
EMNLP 2019
Adaptively Sparse Transformers
IJCNLP 2019
Interpretable Structure Induction via Sparse Attention
EMNLP 2018
Towards Dynamic Computation Graphs via Sparse Latent Structure
EMNLP 2018
SparseMAP: Differentiable Sparse Structured Inference
ICML 2018
Multi-output Polynomial Networks and Factorization Machines
NIPS 2017
Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs
ACL 2017
A Regularized Framework for Sparse and Structured Neural Attention
NIPS 2017
Conversational Markers of Constructive Discussions
NAACL 2016
Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game
IJCNLP 2015
Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game
ACL 2015
AMBRA: A Ranking Approach to Temporal Text Classification
SEMEVAL 2015
Temporal Text Ranking and Automatic Dating of Texts
EACL 2014
Brighter than Gold: Figurative Language in User Generated Comparisons
EMNLP 2014
Computational considerations of comparisons and similes
ACL 2013
Dealing with the Grey Sheep of the Romanian Gender System, the Neuter
COLING 2012
Learning How to Conjugate the Romanian Verb. Rules for Regular and Partially Irregular Verbs
EACL 2012