Manuel Antonio Rufino

ML Engineer & Researcher @ Samsung R&D Institute Philippines | Multimodal AI, CV | Looking for PhD opportunities

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

@AlhamFikri Looking forward to this :D

[Kosta Derpanis @CSProfKGD]

The first rule of sharing arXiv links

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

@AlhamFikri @mbzuai Congratulations! 👏🎊🎉

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Many thanks to @seacrowd_ai for letting me be part of this effort for bridging the resource gap for Southeast Asian AI

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Last week, I had the chance to attend #ACL2025, one of the top conferences in NLP and CL where together with coauthors we presented the poster for the SEA-VL paper.

Looking forward to many more conferences in the future!

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

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[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Novel use of #ACL2025 badges at last night's social event 😂

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Happening now

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Are you an NLP researcher from SEA / a researcher interested in SEA languages at ACL 2025? Come join us for the Southeast Asia BoF!

[Samsung Research @samsungresearch]

[SR] Samsung R&D Institute Philippines’s program, #SPARK11 just concluded 3rd iteration w/ UP Rural High School students, empowering #FutureEngineers with agile, data structures, and problem-solving skills. SPARK11 keeps the spark of #innovation alive.

https://t.co/wEOgqsM3Je

[SEACrowd @seacrowd_ai]

🌏 Join SEA-VL Phase 2 – Help Build a Vision-Language Model for Southeast Asia!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of SEA-VL Phase 2, a global community initiative to build VLMs that truly understands SEA—its languages, cultures, and visual richness.🧵(1/x)
#nlproc #seacrowd

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

I am very proud to have had the chance to work with such a talented and diverse group of AI researchers in improving SEA resources for AI. Looking forward to future projects with the SEACrowd community :)

[SEACrowd @seacrowd_ai]

SEA-VL: Building AI That Understands Southeast Asia 🇧🇳🇰🇭🇹🇱🇮🇩🇱🇦🇲🇾🇲🇲🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇭🇻🇳

We just released SEA-VL, the largest vision-language dataset tailored for SEA’s diverse culture.

📜 arXiv: https://t.co/LaTOr291x2
🤗 Data: https://t.co/eklung8rJx

Check the thread 🧵

[Holy Lovenia @HolyLovenia]

🌏 Mid-Project Update: SEA-VL

We’re excited to share SEA-VL's progress, our open-source initiative creating high-quality vision-language datasets for Southeast Asian (SEA) languages!

Thanks to you, we’ve hit:
🎉 4,523 images submitted
👥 90 contributors

https://t.co/YEAgPcCJKq

[Manuel Antonio Rufino @_antonrufino]

Hello, world!