Yoshinari Fujinuma (藤沼祥成)

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I’m currently a member of technical staff at Cantina Labs. Prior to joining Cantina, I was a senior applied scientist at AWS AI Labs. I also earned a computer science PhD with focus on cross-lingual NLP from University of Colorado Boulder.

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My CV is here.

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Fun Facts:

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Oct 23, 2025 Uploaded the slides I used for my talk tour in Japan during 2023-2024 titled “Visually-Rich Documentを軸とした多言語処理の動向”
Oct 21, 2025 New preprint on LLM judge bias titled “Contrastive Decoding Mitigates Score Range Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge” is dropped to arXiv!
Dec 9, 2024 I started working as a member of technical staff at Cantina Labs.

selected publications

2022

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    Match the Script, Adapt if Multilingual: Analyzing the Effect of Multilingual Pretraining on Cross-lingual Transferability
    Yoshinari Fujinuma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Katharina Kann
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022

2019

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    A Resource-Free Evaluation Metric for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings based on Graph Modularity
    Yoshinari Fujinuma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Michael J. Paul
    In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019