David Stap

Researcher, NXAI

Joined

May 2021

Names

David Stap (Preferred)

Emails

****@uva.nl (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@nx-ai.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

NXAI (nxai.com)

2025 – Present

PhD student

University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)

2020 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Christof Monz

2020 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Vlad Niculae

2020 – 2024

Expertise

Linearizing Transformers

2025 – Present

LLM Knowledge Distillation

2025 – Present

Multilingual Machine Translation

2020 – 2025

Publications

KVpop - Retrofitting LLMs with xLSTM-guided Token Eviction
Lukas Hauzenberger, Niklas Schmidinger, Anamaria-Roberta Hartl, David Stap, Thomas Schmied, Sebastian Böck, Günter Klambauer, Sepp Hochreiter
- TTU at ICLR 2026 (Main)
- Readers: Everyone
The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities
Ke Tran, David Stap, Eva Hasler, Bill Byrne, Christof Monz
- emnlp
- Readers: Everyone
Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book?
Seth Aycock, David Stap, Di Wu, Christof Monz, Khalil Sima'an
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark
Kenneth C. Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua, Márton Kardos, Ashwin Mathur, David Stap, Jay Gala, Wissam Siblini, Dominik Krzeminski, Genta Indra Winata, Saba Sturua, Saiteja Utpala, Mathieu Ciancone, Marion Schaeffer, Diganta Misra, Shreeya Dhakal, Jonathan Rystrøm, Roman Solomatin, Ömer Veysel Çagatan, Akash Kundu et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark
Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua, Márton Kardos, Ashwin Mathur, David Stap, Jay Gala, Wissam Siblini, Dominik Krzemiński, Genta Indra Winata, Saba Sturua, Saiteja Utpala, Mathieu Ciancone, Marion Schaeffer, Diganta Misra, Shreeya Dhakal, Jonathan Rystrøm, Roman Solomatin, Ömer Veysel Çağatan, Akash Kundu et al. (62 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book?
Seth Aycock, David Stap, Di Wu, Christof Monz, Khalil Sima'an
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
How Far can 100 Samples Go? Unlocking Zero-Shot Translation with Tiny Multi-Parallel Data
Di Wu, Shaomu Tan, Yan Meng, David Stap, Christof Monz
- ACL (Findings) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Data Contamination Report from the 2024 CONDA Shared Task
Oscar Sainz, Iker García-Ferrero, Alon Jacovi, Jon Ander Campos, Yanai Elazar, Eneko Agirre, Yoav Goldberg, Wei-Lin Chen, Jenny Chim, Leshem Choshen, Luca D'Amico-Wong, Melissa Dell, Run-Ze Fan, Shahriar Golchin, Yucheng Li, Pengfei Liu, Bhavish Pahwa, Ameya Prabhu, Suryansh Sharma, Emily Silcock et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities
David Stap, Eva Hasler, Bill Byrne, Christof Monz, Ke Tran
- ACL (1) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
UvA-MT's Participation in the WMT24 General Translation Shared Task
Shaomu Tan, David Stap, Seth Aycock, Christof Monz, Di Wu
- WMT 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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