Ryandito Diandaru

Surabaya, Indonesia🇮🇩

I do research on Natural Language Processing (NLP) in GIK Lab with Derry Wijaya, Ph.D and Dr. Eng. Ayu Purwarianti, S.T, M.T.. My research interests are low-resource languages and Multilingual NLP. Currently, I’m working Indonesian Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) and exploring methods to train machine translation models that learn from beyond parallel sentences.

I received my B. Sc. in Informatics/CS (Hons) from Bandung Institute of Technology and was advised by Dr. Eng. Ayu Purwarianti, S.T, M.T.. My undergraduate thesis is about using LLM-generated synthetic data to improve machine translation between Indonesian and Javanese, a low resource language in Indonesia whose I’m a native speaker of.

news

Jul 17, 2024	implemented my own nanoGPT on this repo. less fancy in some aspects (no flash-attention, etc yet) but more work to be put in soon
Jul 08, 2024	i did the thing! micrograd in c from scratch lol
May 25, 2024	Our paper “Could We Have Had Better Multilingual LLMs if English Was Not the Central Language?” is accepted at TDLE 2024. First solo first-author publication and first oral presentation🙌
Nov 01, 2023	Published my first co-first author publication, “Replicable Benchmarking of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) on Low-Resource Local Languages in Indonesia” at SEALP 2023🎉
Nov 01, 2022	Got a research scholarship, Garuda ACE, to do research in GIK Lab!💻

selected publications

TDLE 2024

Could We Have Had Better Multilingual LLMs if English Was Not the Central Language?

Ryandito Diandaru, Lucky Susanto, Zilu Tang , and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability @ LREC-COLING 2024 , May 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{diandaru-etal-2024-better,
  title = {Could We Have Had Better Multilingual {LLM}s if {E}nglish Was Not the Central Language?},
  author = {Diandaru, Ryandito and Susanto, Lucky and Tang, Zilu and Purwarianti, Ayu and Wijaya, Derry Tanti},
  editor = {Gaspari, Federico and Moorkens, Joss and Aldabe, Itziar and Farwell, Aritz and Altuna, Begona and Piperidis, Stelios and Rehm, Georg and Rigau, German},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability @ LREC-COLING 2024},
  month = may,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Torino, Italia},
  publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.tdle-1.4},
  pages = {43--52},
}

SEALP 2023

Replicable Benchmarking of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) on Low-Resource Local Languages in Indonesia

Lucky Susanto, Ryandito Diandaru, Adila Krisnadhi , and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the First Workshop in South East Asian Language Processing , Nov 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{susanto-etal-2023-replicable,
  title = {Replicable Benchmarking of Neural Machine Translation ({NMT}) on Low-Resource Local Languages in {I}ndonesia},
  author = {Susanto, Lucky and Diandaru, Ryandito and Krisnadhi, Adila and Purwarianti, Ayu and Wijaya, Derry Tanti},
  editor = {Wijaya, Derry and Aji, Alham Fikri and Vania, Clara and Winata, Genta Indra and Purwarianti, Ayu},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop in South East Asian Language Processing},
  month = nov,
  year = {2023},
  address = {Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.sealp-1.8},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.sealp-1.8},
  pages = {100--115},
}