Papers by Patrick Amadeus Irawan
Towards Efficient and Robust VQA-NLE Data Generation with Large Vision-Language Models (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for creating a vision question-answering with natural language explanations rely on human annotations that are time-consuming and costly. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that generates high-quality natural language explanations using LVLMs by using visual prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates high-quality synthetic VQA-NLE datasets 20x faster than human annotations with minimal decrease in qualitative metrics. |
ProxyLM: Predicting Language Model Performance on Multilingual Tasks via Proxy Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Performance prediction is a method to estimate the performance of Language Models (LMs) on various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a task- and language-agnostic framework to predict the performance of Language Models (LMs) using proxy models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art in root-mean-square error (RMSE) and other robustness tests on multilingual NLP tasks. |
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. |
Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding (2025.emnlp-main)
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Burak Satar, Zhixin Ma, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Wilfried Ariel Mulyawan, Jing Jiang, Ee-Peng Lim, Chong-Wah Ngo
| Challenge: | Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in cultural understanding tasks . but these datasets often fall short of providing cultural reasoning while underrepresenting many cultures. |
| Approach: | They propose a Seeing Culture Benchmark that requires VLMs to reason on culturally rich images in two stages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach requires VLMs to reason on culturally rich images in two stages . the Seeing Culture Benchmark identifies cultural reasoning shortcomings in multimodal models . |