#ALPS2026 is over! 🎉 A week of inspiring talks, poster sessions and great moments! Huge thanks to our speakers: R. Moore, F. Yvon, I. Augenstein, J. Kreutzer, T. Lacroix, C. Ramisch & M. Scholivet! 👏
It was a pleasure to present on LLMs' knowledge conflicts at #ALPS2026!
Slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2026_...
Also really enjoyed the snowshoeing excursion. Warm recommendation if you're looking to attend a #NLProc winter school!
@aicentre.dk @lbesacier.bsky.social
Two great talks offering different perspectives on Day 1 of #ALPS2026: Roger Moore (Prof. University of Sheffield) on spoken interaction with machines, and Timothée Lacroix (CTO Mistral AI) sharing LLM experience from the field…
It's great to see how the ALPS winter school has progressively established itself in the field. If you're a student in NLP watch lig-alps.imag.fr in Sept to apply for next year before the deadline! This year is a special treat for skiers with all the late snow we keep having ❄️⛷️ Have a great week!
Co-organized by @naverlabseurope.bsky.social - more on lig-alps.imag.fr
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🚀 #ALPS2026 is officially open in the French Alps!
A unique winter school combining cutting-edge NLP research with an exceptional setting for collaboration and exchange:
🔹 55 participants from around the world
🔹 77% PhD students
🔹 7 international speakers from Canada, Denmark, France, and the UK
Our trained models form a Pareto frontier between coverage and precision
Inference-time scaling is great, but it only works if your model actually explores. RL training — by default — kills that exploration. If you are curious to learn why and what we did about it in about our recent ICLR 2026 paper, check out this 🧵!
🌍 #EACL2026 Committee Spotlight
🌞 Behind every great conference is a dedicated team.
From now until the conference starts, each week we’ll highlight the chairs contributing to EACL 2026.
This week: Industry, Demo and Sponsorship chairs!
2026.eacl.org/committees/o...
Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies for #EACL26 🌍
⚠️ Not for paper registrants
📝 Apply by Feb 27, 2026 (AoE)
📩 Decisions by Mar 2, 2026
2026.eacl.org/calls/virtua...
Don’t register before hearing back if you apply!
On parle beaucoup de Thierry Breton ce matin.
N'oublions pas Imran Ahmed (Center for Countering Digital Hate), Clare Melford (Global Disinformation Index), Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, fondatrice de HateAid et Josephine Ballon, de la même association.
I'm Sponsorship Co-Chair for #EACL2026 . EACL is a major NLP conference bringing together 2,000+ researchers and practitioners. Sponsorship boosts your organization’s visibility while supporting AI research. Sponsorship booklet: tinyurl.com/sponsor-eacl26
Finally done with my #ICLR2026 reviews! 🎉 Used the full rating scale this time: from 0 (a paper that should’ve been desk-rejected) to 10 (absolutely loved it). Average: 4.4.
The UTTER EU project is wrapping up!
At NAVER LABS Europe, we’re proud to have contributed with models like mHuBERT & SPIRE as well as datasets such as ELITR-Bench for long-context LLM evaluation.
Discover more in our latest post 👇
europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimo...
Ma chorale se produit le WE des 27-28 Septembre à la salle Edmond Vigne de Fontaine dans l’agglomération grenobloise. Occasion de venir écouter et voir du chant 🎤mis en scène et chorégraphie 🕺. QR code sur le flyer.
Applications are now open. Deadline: October 12th !
Très heureux d’intervenir à l’école d’été #ETAL2025 à Roscoff (en terre bretonne 🌊) pour un cours d’introduction aux modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale.
📚 Matériel : github.com/besacier/ETA...
Je découvre à l'instant que la vuelta (tour d’espagne) passe devant chez moi aujourd’hui à seyssins, près de grenoble… lors d’une étape en provenance... d’italie 🤨
If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered:
alps.imag.fr
Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:
🚀 A powerful and easy-to-build constrained speech LLM model. For multilingual SQA, we beat Microsoft-Phi and all unconstrained submissions on the SHORT track at IWSLT 2025 instruction-following track!
Presented this Thursday at ACL 2025 by myself and @beomseok-lee.bsky.social 🧵👇
Sam Soul sera à Laval-en-Belledonne pour la fête de la musique le 21.6 🎷🎷🎷
As a scientist it should feel like an accomplishment when domain you’ve contributed to nears resolution after years of collective effort. So why many react with frustration refusing to let go of a field that’s essentially become engineering instead of moving on to new challenges?
🛥️ Hier soir, en marge du festival de Cannes, Lauren Sánchez a reçu un prix pour son «plaidoyer pour la justice climatique»… qu’elle est venue récupérer à bord du yacht de 127m de long qu’elle partage avec son fiancé, le patron d'Amazon Jeff Bezos.
On vous en dit plus👇
Sam Soul fête ses 10 ans et vous invite à un apéro-concert le samedi 24.5 à 18h au lycée horticole (!) de St-Ismier 🌳 Entrée gratuite!
And we are done! Many tired eyes and lots of insights in today's project presentation (so much stuff done in 5 days!!) + insights from @dirkhovy.bsky.social
#ALPS2025
#ALPS2025 lecture #5 was given by Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh). Title: “Reasoning and Knowledge in Multilingual Models”!!
#ALPS2025 lecture #4: Dzmitry Bahdanau (ServiceNow Research). Agents and Reasoning !
