Marcos Vinicius Treviso

Marcos Treviso

Academic position:	Post. Doc.
Joining date:	01-02-2019
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
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https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-3286-0609

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Scientific Achievements

Affiliations

Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-09-2025, Academic

Academic Activities

3Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Linear Recurrent Models for Machine Translation, MSc Student, Hugo Henrique Silva Pitorro, Concluded 06-2024
Sparse & Interpretable Graph Attention Networks, MSc Student, Titus Naber, Concluded 06-2023

As Co-supervisor

Adaptively Sparse Flash Attention, MSc Student, Nuno Miguel Matos Gonçalves, Concluded 08-2025

Publications

1Papers in Journals

M. V. T. Treviso, Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing: A Survey, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 11, No., pp. 826 - 860, 2023 | BibTex

20Papers in Conferences

N. Gonçalves, M. V. T. Treviso, A. Martins, ADASPLASH: Adaptive Sparse Flash Attention, International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, Vancouver, Canada, Vol., pp. -, July, 2025 | BibTex
H. P. Pitorro, M. V. T. Treviso, LATIM: Measuring Latent Token-to-Token Interactions in Mamba Models, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Vienna, Austria, Vol., pp. -, July, 2025 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, N. Guerreiro, S. A. Agrawal, R. Rei, J. Pombal, T. Vaz, HW Wu, B. Silva, D. Stigt, A. Martins, xTower: A Multilingual LLM for Explaining and Correcting Translation Errors, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Miami, United States, November, 2024,
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M. V. T. Treviso, H. P. Pitorro, P. Vasylenko, A. Martins, How Effective are State Space Models for Machine Translation?, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Miami, United States, November, 2024,
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R. Rei, N. Guerreiro, J. Pombal, D. Stigt, M. V. T. Treviso, L. C. Coheur, J. G. de Souza, A. Martins, Scaling up CometKiwi: Unbabel-IST 2023 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Singapore, Singapore, December, 2023 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, A. R. Ross, N. Guerreiro, A. Martins, CREST: A Joint Framework for Rationalization and Counterfactual Text Generation, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Toronto, Canada, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, R. Rei, N. Guerreiro, L. C. Coheur, A. Lavie, A. Martins, The Inside Story: Towards Better Understanding of Machine Translation Neural Evaluation Metrics, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Toronto, Canada, July, 2023 | BibTex
R. Rei, M. V. T. Treviso, C Zerva, N. Guerreiro, A. C. Farinha, C. M. Maroti, J.M. Sousa, T. Glushkova, D. M. A. Alves, A. Lavie, L. C. Coheur, A. Martins, CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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P. Fernandes, M. V. T. Treviso, D. Pruthi, A. Martins, G. Neubig, Learning to Scaffold: Optimizing Model Explanations for Teaching, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS, New Orleans, United States, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022,
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F. Santos, M. V. T. Treviso, S. Gama, A Framework to Semi-automated Usability Evaluations Processing Considering Users’ Emotional Aspects, International Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction - HCII, Berlin, Germany, June, 2022 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, A. Gois, P. Fernandes, E.F. Fonseca, A. Martins, Predicting Attention Sparsity in Transformers, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Dublin, Ireland, May, 2022 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, N. Guerreiro, R. Rei, A. Martins, IST-Unbabel 2021 Submission for the Explainable Quality Estimation Shared Task, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2021 | BibTex
A. Martins, M. V. T. Treviso, The Explanation Game: Towards Prediction Explainability through Sparse Communication, BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2020 | Full text (PDF 642 KBs) | BibTex
A. Martins, A. F. Farinhas, M. V. T. Treviso, V. Niculae, P. Aguiar, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Sparse and Continuous Attention Mechanisms, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2020 | BibTex
F. Kepler, J. Trénous, M. V. T. Treviso, M. Vera, A. Gois, M. Farajian, A. Lopes, A. Martins, Unbabel's Participation in the WMT19 Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, August, 2019 | Full text (PDF 264 KBs) | BibTex
F. Kepler, J. Trénous, M. V. T. Treviso, M. Vera, A. Martins, OpenKiwi: An Open Source Framework for Quality Estimation, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, August, 2019 | Full text (PDF 327 KBs) | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, S. M. Aluísio, Sentence Segmentation and Disfluency Detection in Narrative Transcripts from Neuropsychological Tests, International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Canela, Brazil, September, 2018 | BibTex
N. Hartmann, E.F. Fonseca, C. Shulby, M. V. T. Treviso, J. Silva, S. M. Aluísio, Portuguese Word Embeddings: Evaluating on Word Analogies and Natural Language Tasks, Brazilian Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language Technology - STIL, Uberlandia, Brazil, October, 2017 | BibTex
E. A. Corrêa, V. Marinho, L. Santos, T. Bertaglia, M. V. T. Treviso, H. Brum, PELESent: Cross-Domain Polarity Classification Using Distant Supervision, Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems BRACIS, Uberlandia, Brazil, October, 2017 | BibTex
M. V. T. Treviso, C. Shulby, S. M. Aluísio, Sentence Segmentation in Narrative Transcripts from Neuropsychological Tests using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks, EACL: Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL, Valencia, Spain, April, 2017 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
NextGenAI	NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI	IAPMEI	01-10-2021	31-12-2025

Closed Projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DeepSPIN	DeepSPIN	EU/H2020	01-02-2018	01-02-2023
UTTER	Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality	EU	01-10-2022	30-09-2025

Other Scientific Achievements

4Awards

M. V. T. Treviso, H. P. Pitorro, Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025, Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025, 01-07-2025
M. V. T. Treviso, Shared Task Winner & Best Explainability Approach Award at Eval4NLP 2021, Shared Task Winner & Best Explainability Approach Award at Eval4NLP 2021, 01-11-2021
M. V. T. Treviso, F. Kepler, J. Trénous, M. Vera, A. Martins, Best Demo Paper Award ACL 2019, Best Demo Paper Award ACL 2019 for OpenKiwi, 01-07-2019
M. V. T. Treviso, Best MSc Thesis at PROPOR 2018, Best MSc Thesis at PROPOR 2018, 01-03-2019

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