Thomas Butler

Thomas Butler has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on English, Language models & pretraining, Dialogue systems; often with Dezhi Hong.

2 papers in our library · 2026

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DialectLLM: A Dialect-Aware Dialog[ue] Generation Framework Beyond Standard American English (2026)
Most English speakers worldwide do not use Standard American English (SAE). LLMs often misidentify other dialects and produce caricatured text for their speakers. Existing generators lean on eWAVE, which covers only grammar, and apply its features wholesale. The authors present DialectLLM, a pipeline that builds…
English is Not All You Need: Systematically Exploring the Role of Multilinguality in LLM Post-Training (2026)
Most LLM post-training is still done almost entirely in English. This paper asks whether that choice costs performance, in English and in other languages, and how the answer changes with model size and task type. The authors ran 220 supervised fine-tuning runs on Qwen-3 (0.6B, 1.7B, 8B) and Gemma-3 (1B, 4B). They…

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Updated 30 October 2026