People want to attend ✅ Organizers want to organize ✅ ACL 2025 doesn't want to have it, sad 😦

Very excited to give a keynote talk at MRL tomorrow titled "Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages"!

there’s a great talk comming up later today in Miami (EMNLP 2025). FOMO.

So, apparently, confusing these two buttons can ignite a serious flame-war in reviewer-author discussion.🔥 ACLRollingReview ACL 2025 [🦋posting]

It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here! 🔡🤩

BLT model weights are out! Responding to popular demand, we just open-sourced model weights for our 1B and 8B BLT models for the research community to play with! huggingface.co/facebook/blt Hoping to see many new and improved BLT based architectures this year!

If you are at #ICLR25 and care about tokenizers, drop by our (Aleph Alpha)’s Birds of a Feather session – happening now at Opal 103.

📝 Submit papers (up to 9 pages, shorter submission ) via OpenReview: openreview.net/group?id=ICML.… 🗓️ Important dates: Deadline: May 30, 2025 Notifications: June 9, 2025 Workshop: July 18, 2025 Both archival and non-archival options available! #ICML2025 #TokShop #ML #NLProc

Got a good tokenization paper under review at COLM, but the scores were a letdown? 😬 Why bother with rebuttal when the perfect venue is right around the corner! Submit your paper to the #ICML2025 Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) by May 30! 🚀

🎤 Meet our expert panelists! Join Albert Gu, Alisa Liu, Kris Cao, Sander Land, and Yuval Pinter as they discuss the Future of Tokenization on July 18 at 3:30 PM at TokShop at #ICML2025.

I'm pleased to be in Vancouver for ICML Conference this week 🇨🇦🤖. I'll be happy to chat about multilingual, multimodal LMs and tokenization(free).

Happening now in Meeting 112 -113 ICML Conference !

Full house at the Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) @ICML2025 tokenization workshop at #ICML2025 today!

Check the Byte Latent Transformer poster at Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) @ICML2025. It’s just fortaste before the main presentation soon at ACL 2025 from Artidoro Pagnoni!

Panel on Future of Tokenization is happening now in Meeting 111-112. With: Alisa Liu Albert Gu Yuval Pinter @ #acl2025nlp 🇦🇹 Sander Land Kris Cao Moderated by: @esalesky

most controversial statement so far from Alisa Liu: "tokenization research is not as cool" **very vocals disagreements from crowd of tokenization nerds**

🏆 Announcing our Best Paper Awards! 🥇 Winner: "BPE Stays on SCRIPT: Structured Encoding for Robust Multilingual Pretokenization" openreview.net/forum?id=AO78C… 🥈 Runner-up: "One-D-Piece: Image Tokenizer Meets Quality-Controllable Compression" openreview.net/forum?id=lC4xk… Congrats! 🎉