proud to share one of the first projects I worked on at Pleias
in collaboration with NVIDIA: Nemotron-Personas-France
we release an open source synthetic dataset of 1 million French personas, covering the full demographic profile (e.g. age-sex pyramids, income and education, ...).
It will be presented by @mmitchell.bsky.social and the paper can be read here:
aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
Proud that our work on multilingual bias evals made it into @wired.com! The paper is being presented today at #NAACL2025.
📃 SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models
📅 Session K (2/5 at 12:00) @ Ballroom B
Picture of a crowd listening to our awesome introduction of the session “towards tokenizer-free end to end architectures”
If you are at #ICLR25 and care about tokenizers, drop by Aleph Alpha’s Birds of a Feather session – happening now at Opal 103.
So while I believe our use for tweety (and even my RobBERT model trained in 2019) is well within the law, it is a worrying precedent set by Brein.
geitje’s blog post here: goingdutch.ai/en/posts/gei...
.. instead of uni-backed Dutch LLMs like Fietje-2b by @bramvanroy.bsky.social (KUL) or our tweety-7b-dutch (KUL & UGent).
How copyright applies to LLMs is not so clearcut (it protects works from unauthorised distribution), since LLMs do not repeat training data unless severely oversampled.
I just found out that Stichting Brein took down GEITje, a Dutch 7B LLM made by Edwin Rijgersberg as a hobby project.
While its training corpus was indeed copyrighted (Gigacorpus), it is interesting that Brein went after a hobby project first.. 🧵 1/3
Not super multilingual, but for Dutch, German, French and English (all Belgian languages 🇧🇪) there is is this variant: huggingface.co/Parallia/Fai...
academic poster presenting the results of the research project.
TweetyIta and ItaEval are a language model and evaluation benchmark for Italian tasks. What's more, they are 100% community-driven and born within RiTA (rita-nlp.org). @asantilli.bsky.social will present the poster on Dec 5, 16:30-17:30.
+ Pieter Delobelle, Moreno La Quatra, @bsavoldi.bsky.social
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