Hi! I'm Marek. I lead the Data Team at Slido, where we try to change the way audiences interact. I also teach at Comenius University in Bratislava, with research interests in NLP, computer vision and ML. More about me →
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- Oct 2026 sk-bench, a native-first benchmark for evaluating LLMs in Slovak, made it to EMNLP 2026. paper · code
- Oct 2026 Our COLM 2026 paper shows that tool-creating LLM agents gain little from keeping their tools: building a tool and throwing it away works just as well. paper
- Jul 2026 SkMTEB, the first comprehensive text embedding benchmark for Slovak, together with two open Slovak embedding models, was presented at ACL 2026. paper · code
- Jul 2025 The first comprehensive Slovak NLU benchmark, skLEP, was presented at ACL 2025. paper · code
- Jan 2025 RAGthoven, our toolkit for RAG experimentation, was presented at COLING 2025. paper · code
- Dec 2023 The prompt IDE we use at Slido, prompterator, made it to EMNLP 2023. repo · paper
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