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MELT Workshop
@meltworkshop.bsky.social
🌍 Workshop on multilingual & culturally aware AI.

Co-located with @colmweb.org‬ 2025 in Montreal, Canada

https://melt-workshop.github.io/
Keynote talk: Optimizing Multilinguality Post Training.

Can multilingual ability be boosted at post training?
Julia Kreutzer from @cohereforai.bsky.social explores RL, test-time scaling & data distillation to improve open-ended tasks across languages. 🌍✨

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October 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Keynote talk: RL from world feedback.

Shixiang Shane Gu explains why building AGI requires understanding and collaborating across global markets and talents.
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Keynote talk:
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments.

Imanol Schlag introduces Apertus, a fully open suite of LLMs with a focus on compliance, transparency, and multilingual representation training across 1000+ languages. 🌍🤖
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
✨ Excited to kick off the Spotlight Paper Presentations at #MELTWorkshop2025!

These selected papers highlight cutting-edge research on multilingual and equitable language technologies. 🌍📑

Presenters: Koshiro Saito, @mariagrandury.bsky.social , and Ej Zhoo

Papers in the thread 👇
October 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🎤 Keynote talk: Expanding the Language and Cultural Coverage of Common Crawl.

Pedro Ortiz Suarez highlights the efforts to improve language diversity & cultural representation in web archives, ensuring underserved languages & communities are better represented. 📚🌐

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October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Kicking off the 1st Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025 with opening remarks from @abosselut.bsky.social !

Excited to set the stage for a day full of discussions on multilingualism, equity, and the future of NLP. 🌍✨

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October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM