Papers by Ashmari Pramodya
WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines (2025.naacl-long)
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Genta Indra Winata, Frederikus Hudi, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, David Anugraha, Rifki Afina Putri, Wang Yutong, Adam Nohejl, Ubaidillah Ariq Prathama, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Afifa Amriani, Anar Rzayev, Anirban Das, Ashmari Pramodya, Aulia Adila, Bryan Wilie, Candy Olivia Mawalim, Cheng Ching Lam, Daud Abolade, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Fariz Ikhwantri, Garry Kuwanto, Hanyang Zhao, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Holy Lovenia, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Junho Myung, Lucky Susanto, Maria Angelica Riera Machin, Marina Zhukova, Michael Anugraha, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Natasha Christabelle Santosa, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Raj Dabre, Rio Alexander Audino, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Stephanie Yulia Salim, Yi Zhou, Yinxuan Gui, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Shogo Okada, Ayu Purwarianti, Alham Fikri Aji, Taro Watanabe, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Alice Oh, Chong-Wah Ngo
| Challenge: | Vision Language Models struggle with cultural-specific knowledge, especially in languages other than English and in underrepresented cultural contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a visual question answering (VQA) dataset with text-image pairs across 30 languages and dialects and a training dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better with correct location context, but struggles with adversarial contexts and predicting specific regional cuisines and languages. |
SinhalaMMLU: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Multitask Language Understanding in Sinhala (2025.emnlp-main)
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Ashmari Pramodya, Nirasha Nelki, Heshan Shalinda, Chamila Liyanage, Yusuke Sakai, Randil Pushpananda, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have been evaluated mostly on global or anglocentric subjects, often neglecting low-resource languages and culturally specific content. |
| Approach: | They evaluate 26 Large Language Models using a multiple-choice question answering benchmark for Sinhala. |
| Outcome: | The new benchmarks show that Claude 3.5 sonnet and GPT-4o achieve the highest average accuracies, but overall performance remains limited. |
Translating Movie Subtitles by Large Language Models using Movie-meta Information (2025.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have advanced natural language processing by understanding, generating, and manipulating texts. |
| Approach: | They propose to use movie subtitle prompts to improve translation accuracy by incorporating movie meta-information into the models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed prompts improve translation accuracy and reduce computational effort. |