--- title: "Md Arafat Sultan — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Md Arafat Sultan, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Md Arafat Sultan # Md Arafat Sultan Md Arafat Sultan has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2026, most of them on [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Ramón Fernandez Astudillo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramon-fernandez-astudillo/), [Steven Bethard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-bethard/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055236060) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3783-7225) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055236060) · [45 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055236060) · [743 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055236060&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 183 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5917](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5917) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Md+Arafat+Sultan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Md+Arafat+Sultan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Md+Arafat+Sultan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Md+Arafat+Sultan) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2019–2025 · 20 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Oakland University** Rochester · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/oakland-university/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2012–2016 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2020 · 2 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🎓**University of Colorado System** Boulder · United States 2014–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-system/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2014-back-basics-monolingual-alignment-exploiting/)** *(2014 · 175 citations)* The paper tackles monolingual alignment, which means finding which words in two English sentences correspond in meaning. 2. **[Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2026-confidence-weighted-token-set-cover/)** *(2026)* Self-consistency (majority voting over many sampled solutions) is strong but costly in tokens. Earlier efficiency methods generate samples in sequential batches, which gives up parallelism and adds latency. This paper keeps every hypothesis decoding in parallel but stops the unpromising ones partway through long… ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2014-back-basics-monolingual-alignment-exploiting/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner*2014 · 175 citations* 2. **[DLS@CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S15-2027/) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yet**Md Arafat Sultan, Steven Bethard, Tamara Sumner*2015 · 160 citations* 3. **[Fast and Easy Short Answer Grading with High Accuracy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1123/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Md Arafat Sultan, Cristobal Salazar, Tamara Sumner*2016 · 158 citations* 4. **[On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.500/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Md Arafat Sultan et al.*2020 · 87 citations* 5. **[UDAPDR: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via LLM Prompting and Distillation of Rerankers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.693/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jon Saad-Falcon et al.*2023 · 52 citations* 6. **[Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.738/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · no summary yet**Keshav Santhanam et al.*2023 · 12 citations* 7. **[Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11706) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jasper Xian et al.*2024 · 3 citations* 8. **[Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sultan-2026-confidence-weighted-token-set-cover/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Md Arafat Sultan, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo*2026* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ramón Fernandez Astudillo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramon-fernandez-astudillo/) - [Steven Bethard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-bethard/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2014/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 183 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-arafat-sultan/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026