Md Arafat Sultan

Researcher, International Business Machines

Joined

May 2021

Names

Md Arafat Sultan (Preferred)

Md. Arafat Sultan

Emails

****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

****@colorado.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

International Business Machines (ibm.com)

2016 – Present

PhD student

University of Colorado Boulder (colorado.edu)

2011 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Tamara Sumner

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Optimal Policy Minimum Bayesian Risk
Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Improved Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models with Position Contrastive Guidance
Dhruvesh Patel, Tahira Naseem, Gaurav Pandey, Md Arafat Sultan, Andrew McCallum, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
- SPIGM @ NeurIPS
- Readers: Everyone
Optimal Policy Minimum Bayesian Risk
Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md Arafat Sultan, Aashka Trivedi, Yousef El-Kurdi, Tahira Naseem, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Granite Embedding Models
Parul Awasthy, Aashka Trivedi, Yulong Li, Mihaela Bornea, David Cox, Abraham Daniels, Martin Franz, Gabe Goodhart, Bhavani Iyer, Vishwajeet Kumar, Luis A. Lastras, J. Scott McCarley, Rudra Murthy, Vignesh P, Sara Rosenthal, Salim Roukos, Jaydeep Sen, Sukriti Sharma, Avirup Sil, Kate Soule et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Codespace Autoencoder for Language Tasks
Celine Lee, Md Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Alexander M Rush, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Sampling Language from Latent System 2 Reasoning
Celine Lee, Md Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Alexander M Rush, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
- Sys2-Reasoning Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from a Large Language Model for Semi-Supervised Sequence Generation
Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Md. Arafat Sultan, Jay-Yoon Lee, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum
- ACL (1) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Few-Shot Generation of Content-Grounded QA Conversations
Md. Arafat Sultan, Jatin Ganhotra, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Refinement of Language Models from External Proxy Metrics Feedback
Keshav Ramji, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Md. Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Asim Munawar, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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