Publications

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Preprints

Greener yet Powerful: Taming Large Code Generation Models with Quantization

Published in arXiv, 2023

Xiaokai Wei, Sujan Gonugondla, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Shiqi Wang, Baishakhi Ray, Haifeng Qian, Xiaopeng Li, Varun Kumar, Zijian Wang, Yuchen Tian, Qing Sun, Ben Athiwaratkun, Mingyue Shang, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Parminder Bhatia, and Bing Xiang.

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CoCoMIC: Code Completion By Jointly Modeling In-file and Cross-file Context

Published in arXiv, 2022

Yangruibo Ding^*, Zijian Wang^*, Wasi Uddin Ahmad^*, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Ramesh Nallapati, Parminder Bhatia, Dan Roth, and Bing Xiang.

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Pre-trained Language Models for Keyphrase Generation: A Thorough Empirical Study

Published in arXiv, 2022

Di Wu, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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PLUE: Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark for Privacy Policies in English

Published in arXiv, 2022

Jianfeng Chi, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Yuan Tian, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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ContraGen: Effective Contrastive Learning For Causal Language Model

Published in arXiv, 2022

Nihal Jain^*, Dejiao Zhang^*, Wasi Uddin Ahmad^*, Zijian Wang, Feng Nan, Xiaopeng Li, Ming Tan, Ramesh Nallapati, Baishakhi Ray, Parminder Bhatia, Xiaofei Ma, and Bing Xiang.

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CrossSum: Beyond English-Centric Cross-Lingual Abstractive Text Summarization for 1500+ Language Pairs

Published in arXiv, 2021

Tahmid Hasan, Abhik Bhattacharjee, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Yuan-Fang Li, Yong-Bin Kang, and Rifat Shahriyar.

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AVATAR: A Parallel Corpus for Java-Python Program Translation

Published in arXiv, 2021

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Md Golam Rahman Tushar, Saikat Chakraborty, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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Text2App: A Framework for Creating Android Apps from Text Descriptions

Published in arXiv, 2021

Masum Hasan^*, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab^*, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, and Rifat Shahriyar.

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Learning Robust, Transferable Sentence Representations for Text Classification

Published in arXiv, 2018

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Xueying Bai, Nanyun Peng, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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2023

FixEval: Execution-based Evaluation of Program Fixes for Programming Problems

Published in International Workshop on Automated Program Repair, 2023

Md Mahim Anjum Haque, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Ismini Lourentzou, and Chris Brown.

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Multi-lingual Evaluation of Code Generation Models

Published in ICLR, 2023

Ben Athiwaratkun, Sanjay Krishna Gouda, Zijian Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Yuchen Tian, Ming Tan, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Shiqi Wang, Qing Sun, Mingyue Shang, Sujan Kumar Gonugondla, Hantian Ding, Varun Kumar, Nathan Fulton, Arash Farahani, Siddhartha Jain, Robert Giaquinto, Haifeng Qian, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Ramesh Nallapati, Baishakhi Ray, Parminder Bhatia, Sudipta Sengupta, Dan Roth, and Bing Xiang.

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BanglaNLG: Benchmarks and Resources for Evaluating Low-Resource Natural Language Generation in Bangla

Published in Findings of the ACL: EACL, 2023

Abhik Bhattacharjee, Tahmid Hasan, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, and Rifat Shahriyar.

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Summarize and Generate to Back-translate: Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages

Published in EACL, 2023

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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Retrieval Enhanced Data Augmentation for Question Answering on Privacy Policies

Published in EACL, 2023

Md Rizwan Parvez, Jianfeng Chi, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Yuan Tian, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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2022

Representation Learning for Resource-Constrained Keyphrase Generation

Published in Findings of the ACL: EMNLP, 2022

Di Wu, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Sunipa Dev, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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BanglaBERT: Language Model Pretraining and Benchmarks for Low-Resource Language Understanding Evaluation in Bangla

Published in Findings of the ACL: NAACL, 2022

Abhik Bhattacharjee^*, Tahmid Hasan^*, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Kazi Samin, Md Saiful Islam, Anindya Iqbal, M. Sohel Rahman, and Rifat Shahriyar.

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2021

Cross-lingual Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing

Published in UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021

Wasi Uddin Ahmad

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Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning via Robust Training

Published in EMNLP, 2021

Kuan-Hao Huang, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Nanyun Peng, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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Retrieval Augmented Code Generation and Summarization

Published in Findings of the ACL: EMNLP, 2021

Md Rizwan Parvez, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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Syntax-augmented Multilingual BERT for Cross-lingual Transfer

Published in ACL, 2021

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Haoran Li, Kai-Wei Chang, and Yashar Mehdad.

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Select, Extract and Generate: Neural Keyphrase Generation with Layer-wise Coverage Attention

Published in ACL, 2021

Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Xiao Bai, Soomin Lee, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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Intent Classification and Slot Filling for Privacy Policies

Published in ACL, 2021

Wasi Uddin Ahmad^*, Jianfeng Chi^*, Tu Le, Thomas Norton, Yuan Tian, and Kai-Wei Chang.

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CoDesc: A Large Code–Description Parallel Dataset

Published in Findings of the ACL, 2021

Masum Hasan^*, Tanveer Muttaqueen^*, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Md. Mahim Anjum Haque, Tahmid Hasan, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Anindya Iqbal, and Rifat Shahriyar.

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