Vlad Niculae

42 papers · 2012–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (58) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🏃 Academic Marathon (13) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (14) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🔥 Unstoppable (14) 💎 Century Club (40) ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 📈 Trend Setter 🗃️ Keyword Collector (137)

Conferences

EMNLP (8) ACL (6) EACL (5) ICML (5) NAACL (4) NIPS (4) JMLR (3) ICLR (2) IJCNLP (2) AISTATS (1) COLING (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Andre Martins (9) André F. T. Martins (8) Mathieu Blondel (6) Evgeniia Tokarchuk (4) Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (4) António Farinhas (3) Sergey Troshin (3) Liviu P. Dinu (3) Claire Cardie (3) Tsvetomila Mihaylova (3)

Keywords

machine translation (7) sparse attention (6) attention mechanism (6) fenchel-young loss (4) structured prediction (4) neural machine translation (4) natural language inference (3) factor graph (2) discrete latent variable (2) sparse inference (2) convex optimization (2) natural language processing (2) exponential family (2) support vector machine (2) knowledge transfer (2) variational inference (2) representation learning (2) document-level translation (2) k-nearest neighbor (2) angular dispersion (2)

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