Publications and Preprints

Highly Accurate and Fast Prediction of MOF Free Energy Via Machine Learning

A. Niyongabo Rubungo*, F. Fajardo-Rojas*, D. Gómez-Gualdrón, A. B. Dieng

Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 2025 [Paper] [Code]

LLM-Prop: predicting the properties of crystalline materials using large language models

A. Niyongabo Rubungo, C. Arnold, B. P. Rand, A. B. Dieng

npj Computational Materials, 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Best Poster Award, Materials Research Society Conference, Fall 2023

Probing Out-of-distribution Generalization in Machine Learning for Materials

K. Li, A. Niyongabo Rubungo, X. Lei, D. Persaud, K. Choudhary, B. DeCost, A. B. Dieng, J. Hattrick-Simpers

Communications Materials, 2025 [Paper] [Code]

KinyaColBERT: A Lexically Grounded Retrieval Model for Low-Resource Retrieval-Augmented Generation

A. Nzeyimana, A. Niyongabo Rubungo

arXiv preprint, 2025 (under review) [arXiv] [Code]

LLM4Mat-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Materials Property Prediction

A. Niyongabo Rubungo, K. Li, J. Hattrick-Simpers, A. B. Dieng

Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2024 [Paper] [Code]

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

O. Ogundepo, T. R. Gwadabe, C. E. Rivera, J. H. Clark, S. Ruder, et al. including A. Niyongabo Rubungo

Findings of EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code]

OccGen: Selection of Real-world Multilingual Parallel Data Balanced in Gender within Occupations

M. R. Costa-jussà, C. Basta, O. Domingo, A. Niyongabo Rubungo

NeurIPS 2022, Datasets and Benchmarks Track [Paper] [Dataset] [Code]

A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

D. I. Adelani, J. O. Alabi, A. Fan, et al. including A. Niyongabo Rubungo

NAACL 2022 [Paper] [Code]

KinyaBERT: A Morphology-aware Kinyarwanda Language Model

A. Nzeyimana, A. Niyongabo Rubungo

ACL 2022 [Paper] [Code]

Best Linguistic Insight Paper Award, ACL 2022

Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets

I. Caswell, J. Kreutzer, et al. including R. A. Niyongabo

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2022 [Paper]

The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics

S. Gehrmann, T. Adewumi, et al. including R. A. Niyongabo

Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), 2021 [Paper] [Website] [Team] [Metrics code]

Multi-Perspective Reasoning Transformers

D. Moges, R. A. Niyongabo, H. Qu

International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC), 2021 [Paper]

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

D. I. Adelani, J. Abbott, et al. including R. A. Niyongabo

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021 [Paper] [Video] [Code]

Best Paper Award, AfricaNLP Workshop, ACL 2021

KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi

R. A. Niyongabo, H. Qu, J. Kreutzer, H. Li

COLING 2020 [Paper] [Code]

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

W. Nekoto, V. Marivate, et al. including R. A. Niyongabo

Findings of EMNLP 2020 [Paper] [Video] [Code]

Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2020

Weakly-supervised Character-level Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification

Y. Liu, W. Chen, R. A. Niyongabo, H. Qu, K. Miao

14th International FLINS Conference, 2020 [Paper]

Recognizing Emotions from Texts using a BERT-based Approach

F. A. Acheampong, H. Nunoo-Mensah, W. Chen, R. A. Niyongabo

International Computer Conference on Wavelet Active Media Technology and Information Processing (ICCWAMTIP), 2020 [Paper]