Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social Super interesting paper on the limitations of quantization, demonstrating how post-training quantization scales poorly in data. arxiv.org/abs/2411.04330

🎓 Come and join our group! 🎓 We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions: 🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6) 🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7) ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

🎓 Today we attended the FBK PhD Day, and our amazing students presented their research lines: @apierg.bsky.social: gender-inclusive MT @linaconti.bsky.social: explainable speech translation @zhihangxie.bsky.social: long-form SpeechLLMs @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: resource-efficient translation

Last week at the @fbk-mt.bsky.social seminars, we hosted Elizabeth Salesky from Google DeepMind, presenting her work on "Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels" #NLProc #tokenization #MT

Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social : How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs? Quantization has become a widely adopted technique for model compression. This work investigates the impact of quantization on different languages in multilingual LLMs. aclanthology.org/2024.finding...

Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation! #nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social