Bill Byrne
Professor of Information Engineering
Works on speech and language processing, including statistical machine translation and task-oriented dialogue understanding.
Bill Byrne's lab at Cambridge works on multimodal & grounded language, multilingual, translation & linguistics and speech recognition & spoken language. 26 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly ACL and NAACL. 4 PhD students. 61 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 69%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 61
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 4
- 7 papers2024 · T1 6
- 9 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multimodal & grounded language6 papers
- Speech recognition & spoken language5 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics4 papers
- dialogue2 papers
- machine translation1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
20265 papers
- ACL (T1)Benchmarking Deflection and Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- EACLExploring Fine-Tuning for In-Context Retrieval and Efficient KV-Caching in Long-Context Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)ExPO-HM: Learning to Explain-then-Detect for Hateful Meme Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Retrieval-Augmented Defense: Adaptive and Controllable Jailbreak Prevention for Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)What Does LLM Refinement Actually Improve? A Systematic Study on Document-Level Literary Translation (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- ACL (T1)Learning to Reason Over Time: Timeline Self-Reflection for Improved Temporal Reasoning in Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)On Extending Direct Preference Optimization to Accommodate Ties (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)RAGferee: Building Contextual Reward Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for Retrieval Augmented Hateful Meme Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPXRAG: Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- NAACL (T1)A Preference-driven Paradigm for Enhanced Translation with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Control-DAG: Constrained Decoding for Non-Autoregressive Directed Acyclic T5 using Weighted Finite State Automata (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Direct Preference Optimization for Neural Machine Translation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Improving Hateful Meme Detection through Retrieval-Guided Contrastive Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)PreFLMR: Scaling Up Fine-Grained Late-Interaction Multi-modal Retrievers (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPRetrieving Contextual Information for Long-Form Question Answering using Weak Supervision (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities (opens in a new tab)
20239 papers
- ACL (T1)An Inner Table Retriever for Robust Table Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Fine-grained Late-interaction Multi-modal Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLFVQA 2.0: Introducing Adversarial Samples into Fact-based Visual Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- SIGDIALGrounding Description-Driven Dialogue State Trackers with Knowledge-Seeking Turns (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)LI-RAGE: Late Interaction Retrieval Augmented Generation with Explicit Signals for Open-Domain Table Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLMore Robust Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking via Tree-Based Paraphrase Ranking (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLNeural Ranking with Weak Supervision for Open-Domain Question Answering : A Survey (opens in a new tab)
- ECAIUniform Training and Marginal Decoding for Multi-Reference Question-Answer Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)xPQA: Cross-Lingual Product Question Answering in 12 Languages (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went61 listed
Apply to CambridgeMichaelmas 2027
PhD in Computer Science
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- Funding round (8 Dec 2026)
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