Papers by Vladislav Mikhailov
NorEval: A Norwegian Language Understanding and Generation Evaluation Benchmark (2025.findings-acl)
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Vladislav Mikhailov, Tita Enstad, David Samuel, Hans Christian Farsethås, Andrey Kutuzov, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid
| Challenge: | NorEval is a new evaluation suite for large-scale standardized benchmarking of Norwegian generative language models (LMs). |
| Approach: | They propose a new evaluation suite for large-scale standardized benchmarking of Norwegian generative language models (LMs) NorEval consists of 24 high-quality human-created datasets, of which five are created from scratch. |
| Outcome: | The evaluation framework and materials are publicly available. |
Humans Keep It One Hundred: an Overview of AI Journey (2020.lrec-1)
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Tatiana Shavrina, Anton Emelyanov, Alena Fenogenova, Vadim Fomin, Vladislav Mikhailov, Andrey Evlampiev, Valentin Malykh, Vladimir Larin, Alex Natekin, Aleksandr Vatulin, Peter Romov, Daniil Anastasiev, Nikolai Zinov, Andrey Chertok
| Challenge: | Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is showing growing performance in numerous applications - beating human performance in Chess and Go, using knowledge bases and text sources to answer questions and even pass human examination. |
| Approach: | They propose to use knowledge bases and text sources to answer questions to improve AI performance on knowledge bases, reasoning and text generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed AI Journey system passed the final native language exam in Russian with a high score of 69%, with 68% being an average human result. |
A Family of Pretrained Transformer Language Models for Russian (2024.lrec-main)
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Dmitry Zmitrovich, Aleksandr Abramov, Andrey Kalmykov, Vitaly Kadulin, Maria Tikhonova, Ekaterina Taktasheva, Danil Astafurov, Mark Baushenko, Artem Snegirev, Tatiana Shavrina, Sergei S. Markov, Vladislav Mikhailov, Alena Fenogenova
| Challenge: | Developing Transformer language models for the Russian language has received little attention . most of these LMs are developed for English, which imposes substantial constraints on the potential of the language technologies. |
| Approach: | They propose to release 13 Russian Transformer language models that span three languages . they aim to broaden the scope of NLP research directions and develop industrial solutions for the Russian language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are based on Russian language datasets and benchmarks. |
An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) (2025.acl-long)
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Laurie Burchell, Ona De Gibert Bonet, Nikolay Arefyev, Mikko Aulamo, Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Mariia Fedorova, Liane Guillou, Barry Haddow, Jan Hajič, Jindřich Helcl, Erik Henriksson, Mateusz Klimaszewski, Ville Komulainen, Andrey Kutuzov, Joona Kytöniemi, Veronika Laippala, Petter Mæhlum, Bhavitvya Malik, Farrokh Mehryary, Vladislav Mikhailov, Nikita Moghe, Amanda Myntti, Dayyán O’Brien, Stephan Oepen, Proyag Pal, Jousia Piha, Sampo Pyysalo, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, David Samuel, Pavel Stepachev, Jörg Tiedemann, Dušan Variš, Tereza Vojtěchová, Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu
| Challenge: | a large number of textual data is needed to train state-of-the-art large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a collection of monolingual and parallel corpora from the Internet Archive . they document the entire data pipeline and release the code to reproduce it . |
| Outcome: | The proposed collection of monolingual and parallel corpora is based on the HPLT v2 dataset . it includes 8T tokens covering 193 languages and 380M sentence pairs covering 51 languages . |
Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI (2026.acl-long)
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Yuxia Wang, Rui Xing, Jonibek Mansurov, Giovanni Puccetti, Zhuohan Xie, Minh Ngoc Ta, Jiahui Geng, Jinyan Su, Mervat Abassy, Saadeldine Eletter, Kareem Elozeiri, Nurkhan Laiyk, Maiya Goloburda, Tarek Mahmoud, Raj Vardhan Tomar, Alexander Aziz, Ryuto Koike, Masahiro Kaneko, Artem Shelmanov, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov, Akim Tsvigun, Alham Fikri Aji, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | Prior studies have shown that distinguishing text generated by Large Language Models from human-written text is challenging for humans and often no better than random guessing. |
| Approach: | They conduct extensive case study to determine the upper bound of human detection accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The findings challenge previous conclusions on human detection accuracy across languages and domains. |
LLM-DetectAIve: a Tool for Fine-Grained Machine-Generated Text Detection (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Mervat Abassy, Kareem Elozeiri, Alexander Aziz, Minh Ta, Raj Tomar, Bimarsha Adhikari, Saad Ahmed, Yuxia Wang, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Zhuohan Xie, Jonibek Mansurov, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov, Rui Xing, Jiahui Geng, Hasan Iqbal, Zain Mujahid, Tarek Mahmoud, Akim Tsvigun, Alham Aji, Artem Shelmanov, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | a large number of machine-generated texts are often hard to distinguish between human-written and machine-generated text . this raises concerns about potential misuse, especially within educational and academic domains . |
| Approach: | They propose a system that can detect whether a text is human-written or machine-generated . they use a fine-grained classification schema to identify the use of machine-generated text . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can distinguish between human-written and machine-generated text . it can detect attempts to obfuscate the fact that a text was machine- generated . |
Acceptability Judgements via Examining the Topology of Attention Maps (2022.findings-emnlp)
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Daniil Cherniavskii, Eduard Tulchinskii, Vladislav Mikhailov, Irina Proskurina, Laida Kushnareva, Ekaterina Artemova, Serguei Barannikov, Irina Piontkovskaya, Dmitri Piontkovski, Evgeny Burnaev
| Challenge: | Acceptability judgments are a key component of generative linguistics, but their ability to judge grammatical acceptability has not been explored. |
| Approach: | They propose to exploit the geometric properties of the attention graph to evaluate the grammatical acceptability of sentences using topological data analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms nine statistical and Transformer LM baselines on the BLiMP benchmark and the human-level performance on the same benchmark. |
Read and Reason with MuSeRC and RuCoS: Datasets for Machine Reading Comprehension for Russian (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | MRC in other languages, including Russian, has not been well-addressed due to the lack of high-quality and large-scale datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose two Russian machine reading comprehension datasets that require reasoning over multiple sentences and commonsense knowledge to infer the answer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed datasets are more complex than the original ones for Russian . the results show that the proposed models are challenging for advanced models . |
Artificial Text Detection via Examining the Topology of Attention Maps (2021.emnlp-main)
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Laida Kushnareva, Daniil Cherniavskii, Vladislav Mikhailov, Ekaterina Artemova, Serguei Barannikov, Alexander Bernstein, Irina Piontkovskaya, Dmitri Piontkovski, Evgeny Burnaev
| Challenge: | Existing methods for text detection lack interpretability and robustness towards unseen models. |
| Approach: | They propose three new types of interpretable topological features based on topological data analysis which is currently understudied in the field of NLP. |
| Outcome: | The proposed features outperform count- and neural-based baselines up to 10% on three common datasets and tend to be the most robust towards unseen GPT-style generation models. |
TAPE: Assessing Few-shot Russian Language Understanding (2022.findings-emnlp)
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Ekaterina Taktasheva, Tatiana Shavrina, Alena Fenogenova, Denis Shevelev, Nadezhda Katricheva, Maria Tikhonova, Albina Akhmetgareeva, Oleg Zinkevich, Anastasiia Bashmakova, Svetlana Iordanskaia, Alena Spiridonova, Valentina Kurenshchikova, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov
| Challenge: | Recent advances in zero-shot and few-shot learning have shown promise for a scope of research and practical purposes, but lacks standardized evaluation suites for non-English languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel benchmark that includes six more complex NLU tasks for Russian, covering multi-hop reasoning, ethical concepts, logic and commonsense knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes six more complex NLU tasks for Russian, covering multi-hop reasoning, ethical concepts, logic and commonsense knowledge. |
RuBLiMP: Russian Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (2024.emnlp-main)
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Ekaterina Taktasheva, Maxim Bazhukov, Kirill Koncha, Alena Fenogenova, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov
| Challenge: | Existing resources for minimal pairs address a limited number of languages and lack diversity of language-specific grammatical phenomena. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Russian benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs to evaluate grammatical knowledge of language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes 45k pairs of sentences that differ in grammaticality and isolate a morphological, syntactic, or semantic phenomenon. |
Beemo: Benchmark of Expert-edited Machine-generated Outputs (2025.naacl-long)
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Ekaterina Artemova, Jason S Lucas, Saranya Venkatraman, Jooyoung Lee, Sergei Tilga, Adaku Uchendu, Vladislav Mikhailov
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for machine-generated texts (MGTs) include single-author texts (human-written and machine-generated). |
| Approach: | They propose to benchmark machine-generated outputs (Beemo) which includes 6.5k texts written by humans, generated by ten instruction-finetuned LLMs, and edited by experts for various use cases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes 6.5k texts written by humans, generated by ten instruction-finetuned LLMs, and edited by experts for various use cases, ranging from creative writing to summarization. |
Vote’n’Rank: Revision of Benchmarking with Social Choice Theory (2023.eacl-main)
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Mark Rofin, Vladislav Mikhailov, Mikhail Florinsky, Andrey Kravchenko, Tatiana Shavrina, Elena Tutubalina, Daniel Karabekyan, Ekaterina Artemova
| Challenge: | ML benchmarks have been criticized for their construct validity, fragility of the design and task choices. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for ranking systems in multi-task benchmarks under the principles of the social choice theory and propose 'vote'n'rank' procedures are more robust than the mean average while being able to handle missing performance scores and determine conditions under which the system becomes the winner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be utilised to draw new insights on benchmarking in several ML sub-fields and identify the best-performing systems in research and development case studies. |
RuCoLA: Russian Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (2022.emnlp-main)
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Vladislav Mikhailov, Tatiana Shamardina, Max Ryabinin, Alena Pestova, Ivan Smurov, Ekaterina Artemova
| Challenge: | Recent research has focused on evaluating the grammatical knowledge of language models with acceptability judgments. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a corpus of linguistic acceptability in Russian using a binary LA approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed set of tests shows that the most widely used language models still fall behind humans by a large margin when detecting morphological and semantic errors. |
RussianSuperGLUE: A Russian Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark (2020.emnlp-main)
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Tatiana Shavrina, Alena Fenogenova, Emelyanov Anton, Denis Shevelev, Ekaterina Artemova, Valentin Malykh, Vladislav Mikhailov, Maria Tikhonova, Andrey Chertok, Andrey Evlampiev
| Challenge: | Modern scientific methodology is beginning to explore universal transformers as an independent object of study. |
| Approach: | They propose a Russian general language understanding evaluation benchmark - Russian SuperGLUE . they provide a benchmark of nine tasks, human level evaluation and a leaderboard for the Russian language . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark provides nine tasks for the Russian language and human level evaluation and leaderboard of transformer models. |