Laurent Besacier
@lbesacier.bsky.social
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Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe && Professor at University Grenoble Alpes
#NLP
#AI
#LLMs
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This is my first post here as I transition from Twitter/X, which has been ruined by EM. I'll stay there a bit longer during the transition. I share content on
#NLP
,
#LLMs
,
#AI
, and occasionally promote concerts in
#Grenoble
area from my soul band.
over 1 year ago
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🚀 Research intern opening @NAVERLABSEurope (Grenoble, 5–6 months) Topic: enforcing hard constraints in LLMs while preserving quality Looking for: 🎓 PhD (or exceptional MSc) student 🧠 LLMs + PyTorch 📚 RLHF / alignment methods 📍 Onsite only apply →
lnkd.in/dPf3DfDd
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5 days ago
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NAVER LABS Europe
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to Dr.
@beomseok-lee.bsky.social
for defending his thesis yesterday
@fbk-mt.bsky.social
on 'Multilingual SLU'! Pictured here w/collaborator Ioan Calapodescu & co-supervisor
@lbesacier.bsky.social
. Welcome to
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
alumni ➡️
tinyurl.com/2pcveh6z
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#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! 👏
2 months ago
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Isabelle Augenstein
2 months ago
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
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#ALPS2026
is also about shared activities in the beautiful landscapes of the Vanoise.
2 months ago
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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…
2 months ago
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NAVER LABS Europe
2 months ago
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!
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Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026
https://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
2 months ago
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Germán Kruszewski
3 months ago
For more details, check out our blog post:
huggingface.co/blog/germank...
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Distribution Matching Prevents Mode Collapse in Training Reasoning Models
A Blog post by Germán Kruszewski on Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/blog/germank/alpha-dpg
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Germán Kruszewski
3 months ago
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 🧵!
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EACL 2027
3 months ago
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#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...
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EACL 2027
3 months ago
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!
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Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies
Official website for the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
https://2026.eacl.org/calls/virtual-subsidies/
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Nicolas Henin
5 months ago
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.
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Thierry Breton et des personnalités européennes sanctionnés par Washington pour leur rôle dans la régulation de la tech
Paris a dénoncé « avec la plus grande fermeté » la décision américaine visant l’ancien commissaire européen qui évoque, de son côté, une chasse aux sorcières. Le département d’Etat qualifie de « censu...
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/12/23/regulation-de-la-tech-washington-cible-thierry-breton-et-des-ong_6659269_4408996.html
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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
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Sponsorship brochure for ACL 2026 Conferences - 2025-11-28.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/sponsor-eacl26
6 months ago
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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.
7 months ago
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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...
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Multimodal, multilingual and trustworthy AI models and resources for XR
Models, data, resources and publications as part of the EU project UTTER (2022-2025).
https://europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimodal-multilingual-and-trustworthy-ai-models-and-resources-for-xr/
8 months ago
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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.
9 months ago
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Applications are now open. Deadline: October 12th !
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9 months ago
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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...
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GitHub - besacier/ETAL2025: Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale
Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale. Contribute to besacier/ETAL2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/besacier/ETAL2025
9 months ago
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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 🤨
9 months ago
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10 months ago
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:
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Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026
https://alps.imag.fr
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Marcely Zanon Boito
10 months ago
🚀 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
🧵👇
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Sam Soul sera à Laval-en-Belledonne pour la fête de la musique le 21.6 🎷🎷🎷
12 months ago
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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?
about 1 year ago
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Vert, le média 💚
about 1 year ago
🛥️ 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👇
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À Cannes, la fiancée de Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez débarque de son yacht et reçoit un prix pour son supposé engagement écolo
Cannes ça pêche. À l’occasion d’un étonnant gala organisé près de la Croisette, Lauren Sánchez a été récompensée pour sa prétendue action en faveur de «la justice climatique». De quoi faire oublier so...
https://vert.eco/articles/a-cannes-la-fiancee-de-jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-debarque-de-son-yacht-et-recoit-un-prix-pour-son-suppose-engagement-ecolo
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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!
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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
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#ALPS2025
lecture #5 was given by Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh). Title: “Reasoning and Knowledge in Multilingual Models”!!
about 1 year ago
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#ALPS2025
lecture #4: Dzmitry Bahdanau (ServiceNow Research). Agents and Reasoning !
about 1 year ago
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Yes, although it is April,
#ALPS2025
is a truly WINTER school with snow activities etc. ❄️🎿🌨️
about 1 year ago
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Wonderful lecture #3 at
#ALPS2025
on Algorithms for text generation by François Yvon who introduced us to the large space of decoding algorithms!
about 1 year ago
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We end day1 of
#ALPS2025
with Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere For AI): “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”
about 1 year ago
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This year at
#ALPS2025
we innovate with group mini projects proposed by organisers or participants themselves!
about 1 year ago
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#ALPS2025
first talk: Kyunghyun Cho himself! “Causality gets help from deep learning “
about 1 year ago
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#ALPS2025
day1 kicks off with a poster session!
about 1 year ago
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Still possible to join this shared task !
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about 1 year ago
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ALPS 2025, the
#NLP
winter school in the Alps, kicks off in 2 days! 50 participants from around the world 🌍 7 top speakers, mini-projects, and 3 poster sessions ! Plus: snowy, screen-free fun in Aussois❄️
#ALPS2025
Web: https:/alps.imag.fr
about 1 year ago
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Interesting to see the 20y-old Fisher dataset from 2004 making a strong comeback and being used to build dual-channel conversational speech models !
about 1 year ago
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Join AutoMin 2025 - 3d Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task at
#SIGDIAL2025
to push the limits of LLMs in 📌 Meeting Summarization 📌 Meeting Question Answering 📅 Workshop: Aug. 28, 2025
ufal.github.io/automin-2025/
#NLP
#LLMs
#AI
#AutoMin
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AutoMin 2025 | Home
Shared Task on Automatic Minuting
https://ufal.github.io/automin-2025/
about 1 year ago
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IRI-Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
over 1 year ago
🤝 Supported by 10 beneficiaries: Uni Degli Studi Napoli Federico II, Uni de Extremadura,
@csic.es
,
@uni-hamburg.de
, Ensta Paris,
@palrobotics.bsky.social
,
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
, Furhat Robotics, Uni de León,
@sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social
✍️ Info:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317628
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15 PhD positions as part of the SWEET project – a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Industrial Doctoral Network
Applications are invited for 15 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) positions to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network on “Social aWareness for sErvice roboTs” (SWEET) within the Hor...
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317628
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NAVER LABS Europe
over 1 year ago
Welcome to NAVER LABS Europe on Bluesky! We chose 'LABS blue' to kickoff our posts & we'd appreciate it if you could share this one widely
tinyurl.com/2nt9jdnv
😊
#hiring
#jobs
#internships
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Sam Soul revient au local à St-Egreve le 15 Mars !
over 1 year ago
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Worried that w/ rise of AI agents conducting multi-step research online (like OpenAI's Deep Research), human-made surveys will quickly lose visibility. We'll soon have a flood of non-opinionated AI-generated surveys that all look the same, marginalizing those created by humans...
over 1 year ago
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Marine Tondelier
over 1 year ago
C'est la dernière provocation du gouvernement : suspendre toutes les nouvelles missions de Service Civique tant que le budget 2025 n'aura pas été adopté. Ce chantage scandaleux maltraite encore une fois la jeunesse et le secteur associatif, déjà malmenés par 7 ans de macronisme.
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Thibaut Thonet
over 1 year ago
🚨 Excited about ML/NLP and looking for a research internship on controlled text generation? Come work with us on advanced constraint processing in large language models at NAVER LABS Europe! ✨ Learn more and apply here:
europe.naverlabs.com/job/2-7/
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Internship: Advanced Constraint Processing in LLMs
The ability to control the outputs of Large Language Models is a central topic in NLP and Machine Learning, with applications to safety, trustworthiness, reasoning, etc. Following […]
https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/2-7/
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Marcely Zanon Boito
over 1 year ago
🚨🚨2025 Internship Call 🚨🚨 Come work with us on multimodal research for speech and text at NAVER LABS Europe 🤗 Apply here:
europe.naverlabs.com/job/internsh...
Please check the requirements on the next post 👇
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Internship on multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as crucial tools for advancing knowledge across various disciplines. With their ability to process vast amounts of text data, […]
https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/internship-on-multimodal/
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I'll present two papers at the main
#COLING2025
conference next week: (1) ELITR-Bench: A Meeting Assistant Benchmark for Long-Context Language Models (w/ T. Thonet and J. Rozen) - see
arxiv.org/abs/2403.20262
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github.com/utter-projec...
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ELITR-Bench: A Meeting Assistant Benchmark for Long-Context Language Models
Research on Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently witnessed an increasing interest in extending models' context size to better capture dependencies within long documents. While benchmarks have bee...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20262
over 1 year ago
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MT Group at FBK
over 1 year ago
🙌🏼 Excited to share our work on Speech Foundation Model for data crowdsourcing at COLING 2025 🙌🏼 Our co-author Laurent Besacier (
@lbesacier.bsky.social
) at NAVER LABS Europe will be presenting -- don't miss it. 👉🏼 Details:
mt.fbk.eu/1-paper-acce...
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1 PAPER ACCEPTED AT COLING 2025 | Machine Translation Unit
https://mt.fbk.eu/1-paper-accepted-at-coling-2025/
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