Publications
Messier: A High-Resolution Corpus for Cross-Benchmark Agent Evaluation
S. Krsteski, C. Meyer, G. Allegre, T. O'Halloran, A. Sallinen
EMNLP 2026. Also presented at the Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit 2026.
Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Language Model Alignment from Token Zero
J. Minder*, V. Moskvoretskii*, R. Singhal*, D. Jiao, A. Arditi, S. Cui, Y. Borjigin, K. Bali, S. Krsteski, H. Raj, H. Nguyen, J. Brinkmann, A. Anderson, R. Aydin, R. West
ICLR 2027, under review. Also presented at the NeurIPS: AI4GOOD Workshop.
Predicting Task Difficulty Without Rollouts
S. Krsteski, C. Meyer
COLM: WAB, 2026.
Valid Survey Simulations with Limited Human Data: The Roles of Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Rectification
S. Krsteski, G. Russo, S. Chang, R. West, K. Gligorić
ACL Main, 2026. Top 15% of accepted papers.
Towards Open Foundation Language Model and Corpus for Macedonian: A Low-Resource Language
S. Krsteski, M. Tashkovska, B. Sazdov, H. Gjoreski, B. Gerazov
ACL: BSNLP, 2025. Best paper award.
MMORE: Massive Multimodal Open RAG & Extraction
A. Sallinen, S. Krsteski, P. Teiletche, M. Allard, B. Lecoeur, M. Zhang, F. Nemo, D. Kalajdzic, M. Meyer, Mary-Anne Hartley
ICML: CODEML, 2025.
Predictive models for health-related quality of life built on two telemonitoring datasets
*S. Krsteski, *M. Tashkovska, E. Kizhevska, J. Valič, H. Gjoreski, M. Luštrek
PLOS ONE, 2024.
A System for Differentiation of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder based on rsfMRI
D. Janeva, S. Krsteski, M. Tashkovska, N. Jovanovski, T. Kartalov, D. Taskovski, Z. Ivanovski, B. Gerazov
IWSSIP, 2023.
Prediction of Hospital Readmission using Federated Learning
B. Sazdov, M. Tashkovska, S. Krsteski, B. Jovanovski, S. Kalabakov, V. Rakovic, D. Denkovski, H. Gjoreski
IWSSIP, 2023.
Intrusion Detection with Supervised and Unsupervised Learning using PyCaret over CICIDS 2017 dataset
S. Krsteski, M. Tashkovska, B. Sazdov, L. Radojichikj, A. Cholakoska, D. Efnusheva
Springer Nature: CSOC, 2023.
Academic Service
Reviewer, NeurIPS 2026 (main conference)
Reviewer, ICWSM