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I was trying to think of a smart thing to say when reposting this … but @nikhilsksharma did such a good job I’ll let this speak for itself and not introduce my own narrative.

Looking forward to visiting UVA this Friday. If you are around Charlottesville, I’d love to chat more about multilingual challenges in AI. uvaml.github.io/texts/2026-0…

Excited for MAGMaR 2026 in two days. People worry about LLMs hallucinating, and often you use RAG to help mitigate that. But what if your evidence isn’t in text? We ran a whole shared task (and workshop) where you use multimodal sources instead of documents - including videos.

Super excited for the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals (WMDQS) which is happening at #COLM2025 tomorrow. We are focused on looking all the way back to the web data that goes into all your LLMs and how we can do better at multilingual. Stop by! @COLM_conf

Congrats to Dr. Xu @fe1ixxu on a successful thesis defense of "Minimizing Language Interference for Multilingual Models". The thesis covered 9 of his first author papers encompassing: Modeling (arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04588, arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13993, arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02176)

Introducing X-ALMA: a 50 language multilingual machine translation model. It’s average translation performance outperforms other multilingual models (including ones focused on fewer num of langs) pushing against the curse of multilinguality.

عسلامة, As part of IWSLT 2023, we are hosting a Tunisian-to-English Speech Translation Shared Task and would love people to participate. The evaluation campaign runs April 1st-15th. More details can be found here: iwslt.org/2023/low-resource#… Yaishek