{"id":181,"date":"2019-12-13T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.cocobasic.com\/ukko-wp\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:00:19","slug":"onepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/","title":{"rendered":"OnePage"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"181\" class=\"elementor elementor-181\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b0713de elementor-section-full_width op-section elementor-section-height-full elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"5b0713de\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"home\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-40dcf5a6\" data-id=\"40dcf5a6\" 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class=\"home-section extra-width\">\n    <h1 class=\"entry-title global-color\" data-jarallax-element=\"0 30\">\n        Hello, <br>I\u2019m <span>\u0141ukasz<br> Borchmann<\/span>    <\/h1>\n\n    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/301836375_395794265960024_519366250418991652_n.jpg\" class=\"main-photo\" alt=\"\" data-jarallax-element=\"0 -30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/301836375_395794265960024_519366250418991652_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/301836375_395794265960024_519366250418991652_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/301836375_395794265960024_519366250418991652_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n            \n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3749d9a4 op-section elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3749d9a4\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"about\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3eef4c01\" data-id=\"3eef4c01\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-789e5a4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"789e5a4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">ABOUT<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ba7bb9 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61ba7bb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI am an ML researcher with 10+ years of experience in language processing and computer vision and 15+ years in software engineering.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b78f40a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b78f40a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today, I am primarily focused on large language models, LVLMs, and document understanding, which includes developing novel architectures and inference methods.<\/p><p>Most of the recent research was conducted at Applica.ai, where I have worked since 2018, most recently as a<span style=\"font-size: 15px; background-color: #f3f3f3;\"> Staff Research Scientist. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; background-color: #f3f3f3;\">This journey continues under the new banner after Applica was acquired by <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 15px; outline-color: currentcolor; background-image: none; background-color: #f3f3f3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snowflake.com\/en\/\">Snowflake<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30e1d31e extra-width parallax_0_-30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"30e1d31e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66f93105 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66f93105\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>At the same time, I am involved in developing models to prevent fake news, hoaxes, and disinformation at <a href=\"https:\/\/amu.edu.pl\/en\">Adam Mickiewicz University<\/a>. My previous work in this area resulted in winning the SemEval 2020 propaganda detection shared task and receiving the Best Paper Award at this venue.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cb15e1f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7cb15e1f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Every once in a while, I serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, and a couple of smaller venues.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-57f61afc extra-width parallax_0_30 global-background-color elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"57f61afc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c29fe38 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c29fe38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c29fe38 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c29fe38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p>Some of my recently published papers.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14c2b970 elementor-widget elementor-widget-coco-blog\" data-id=\"14c2b970\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"coco-blog.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2022.acl-long.590\/\">Sparsifying Transformer Models with Trainable Representation Pooling<\/a><\/h4><div class=\"blog-list-info\"><div class=\"entry-date published\">2022.05<\/div><div class=\"cat-links-wrapper\"><ul class=\"cat-links global-color\"><li><a class=\"global-color\">ACL<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li><li><h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc\/paper\/2021\/hash\/069059b7ef840f0c74a814ec9237b6ec-Abstract-round2.html\">DUE: End-to-End Document Understanding Benchmark<\/a><\/h4><div class=\"blog-list-info\"><div class=\"entry-date published\">2021.12<\/div><div class=\"cat-links-wrapper\"><ul class=\"cat-links global-color\"><li><a class=\"global-color\">NeurIPS<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li><li><h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2102.09550\">Going Full-TILT Boogie on Document Understanding with Text-Image-Layout Transformer<\/a><\/h4><div class=\"blog-list-info\"><div class=\"entry-date published\">2021.09<\/div><div class=\"cat-links-wrapper\"><ul class=\"cat-links global-color\"><li><a class=\"global-color\">ICDAR<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul>                                                \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-867a4a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-coco-button\" data-id=\"867a4a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"coco-button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"service-link slow-scroll\" href=https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=IPpWyNIAAAAJ&#038;hl=en&#038;oi=ao  >SEE MORE<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-79b8e72a op-section elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"79b8e72a\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"skills\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7b7cebf6\" data-id=\"7b7cebf6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81ce8d7 op-section elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"81ce8d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" id=\"timeline\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">WHAT'S NEW<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7b4a8f elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e7b4a8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Since you\u2019ve made it this far, you might be interested in my recent activity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f14a1ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f14a1ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It has been a while since I started my career in Computer Science, but in the middle of the 2000s, it was mainly software development that I found no longer attractive. In the early 2010s, I moved into applied ML and Natural Language Processing, whereas a few years ago, I started conducting serious research in the field. Here are some updates regarding the most recent period of my life.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47441a70 extra-width elementor-widget elementor-widget-coco-timeline\" data-id=\"47441a70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"coco-timeline.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"timeline-holder global-background-color\">\n    \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">2025<\/span>\n                    <p>I introduced a decoding <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.24364\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">strategy for text-to-SQL<\/a>, enabling smaller, cost-effective models to surpass expensive reasoning models, and established a novel state-of-the-art in this area with the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.20315\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">Arctic-Text2SQL-R1<\/a> model. The journey continues.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">&nbsp;2024<\/span>\n                    <p>I worked on Snowflake's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowflake.com\/en\/data-cloud\/arctic\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">Arctic<\/a> dense-MoE hybrid LLM and published two pieces on large language model evaluation: one introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.23331\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">FeatEng<\/a> benchmark, designed to test a model\u2019s capabilities in feature engineering tasks, and the other discussed the challenges of assessing LLMs through multiple-choice problems. \n\n<br><br>Concerning the document understanding field, I was invited to give a <a href=\"https:\/\/das2024.seecs.edu.pk\/keynote.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">keynote<\/a> at the ICDAR's Document Analysis Systems event and have written technical reports on the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.04632\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">Arctic-TILT<\/a> model and the applicability of GPT-4 to this domain.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">&nbsp;2023<\/span>\n                    <p>I created the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2305.08455\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">DUDE<\/a> data set for multipage Document VQA evaluation. It was presented at ICCV and used for the ICDAR competition I co-organised. I presented a pitch on Scaling up Document Image Understanding at ICDAR's ScalDoc and gave educational talks on LLMs at the Snowflake BUILD event.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">&nbsp;2022<\/span>\n                    <p>My paper on sparsifying transformer models was presented at ACL. I published a preprint on text-to-table inference and defended my <a href=\"https:\/\/sin.put.poznan.pl\/dissertations\/details\/d3006\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">Computer Science Ph.D.<\/a> thesis with honors.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">&nbsp;2021<\/span>\n                    <p>I published a paper introducing the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2102.09550\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">TILT<\/a> model, a state-of-the-art Document Understanding solution. It won ICDAR's InfographicsVQA shared task. Subsequently, I proposed the <a href=\"https:\/\/datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc\/paper\/2021\/hash\/069059b7ef840f0c74a814ec9237b6ec-Abstract-round2.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: inherit; font-weight: bold\">DUE benchmark<\/a> and was invited by Huawei Research for a talk on End-to-End Document Understanding. Other pieces from this year tackle the problem of semantic retrieval and trainable top-k mechanism.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">...2020<\/span>\n                    <p>Since 2014, I have been involved in commercial and scientific ML projects. This resulted in several mildly interesting papers and a 2016 master's thesis focused on automating the segmentation of words into morphemes. <br><br>Starting in 2018, I did a lot of applied research related to semantic retrieval and document understanding at Applica.ai. With my Named Entity Recognition model, I won the nationwide PolEval 2018 competition.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n            \n                <li>\n                    <span class=\"date\">2005...<\/span>\n                    <p>Between 2005 and 2013, I did boring stuff related to software development I taught myself. In the meantime, I became interested in general and quantitative linguistics, ultimately leading me to Natural Language Processing.<\/p>                    \n                <\/li>          \n             \n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I\u2019m \u0141ukasz Borchmann ABOUT I am an ML researcher with 10+ years of experience in language processing and computer vision and 15+ years in software engineering. Today, I am primarily focused on large language models, LVLMs, and document understanding, which includes developing novel architectures and inference methods. Most of the recent research was conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borchmann.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}