RESEARCH

Locatail builds reliable AI for real retail work

Our research spans AI safety, specialized language models, reasoning, tool use, retrieval, speech, and evaluation. We turn frontier AI research into reliable systems built for real-world deployment.

Published at leading AI conferences

01

Factuality, hallucination & evaluation

arXiv · 2025Citations

On the Robustness of Answer Formats in Medical Reasoning Models

Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Natpatchara Pongjirapat, Krittaphas Chaisutyakorn, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Tossaporn Saengja, Kunat Pipatanakul

Evaluates whether medical reasoning models remain correct across multiple-choice, open-ended, and ranked-list answer formats.

02

Specialized and multilingual large language models

arXiv · 2023Citations 78

Typhoon: Thai Large Language Models

Kunat Pipatanakul, Phatrasek Jirabovonvisut, Potsawee Manakul, Sittipong Sripaisarnmongkol, Ruangsak Patomwong, Pathomporn Chokchainant, Kasima Tharnpipitchai

Introduces an open family of Thai-focused large language models and training resources.

arXiv · 2025Citations 10

Sailor2: Sailing in South-East Asia with Inclusive Multilingual LLMs

Longxu Dou, Qian Liu, Fan Zhou, Changyu Chen, Zili Wang, Ziqi Jin, Zichen Liu, Tongyao Zhu, Cunxiao Du, Penghui Yang, Haonan Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Yongchi Zhao, Xiachong Feng, Xin Mao, Man Tsung Yeung, Kunat Pipatanakul, Fajri Koto, Min Si Thu, Hynek Kydlíček, Zeyi Liu, Qunshu Lin, Sittipong Sripaisarnmongkol, Kridtaphad Sae-Khow, Nirattisai Thongchim, Taechawat Konkaew, Narong Borijindargoon, Anh Dao, Matichon Maneegard, Phakphum Artkaew, Zheng-Xin Yong, Quan Nguyen, Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun, Hoang H. Tran, Mike Zhang, Shiqi Chen, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du, Xinyi Wan, Wei Lu, Min Lin

Develops multilingual language models designed to broaden coverage across Southeast Asian languages.

ICLR SCI-FM Workshop · 2025Citations 2

Typhoon T1: An Open Thai Reasoning Model

Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Potsawee Manakul, Kasima Tharnpipitchai, Kunat Pipatanakul

Documents an open approach for adapting a Thai language model to structured reasoning tasks.

03

Reasoning, agents & retrieval

EMNLP FinNLP Workshop · 2025Citations 8

FinCoT: Grounding Chain-of-Thought in Expert Financial Reasoning

Natapong Nitarach, Warit Sirichotedumrong, Panop Pitchayarthorn, Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Potsawee Manakul, Kunat Pipatanakul

Grounds chain-of-thought generation in financial reasoning patterns drawn from domain expertise.

SIGIR LiveRAG · 2025Citations 2

DoTA-RAG: Dynamic of Thought Aggregation RAG

Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Natthapath Rungseesiripak, Peerawat Rojratchadakorn, Monthol Charattrakool, Natapong Nitarach

Aggregates multiple retrieval and reasoning paths to answer questions over large knowledge collections.

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Speech & audio-language systems