Today the EuroLLM-9B was released. This work had the participation of Sardine Lab members Andre Martins Patrick Fernandes Duarte Alves Nuno M. Guerreiro José Maria Pombal Blog post & models: lnkd.in/d9JJvmd7 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.16235

Applications for the 2025 Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) are open, with Andre Martins as one of the organizers. LxMLS is a great opportunity to learn from top speakers and to interact with other students. You can apply for a scholarship. lxmls.it.pt/2025/

🚀EuroBERT: a new multilingual encoder model family for European & global languages is out!! 🌍 This was a joint venture of Sardine members Duarte Alves Andre Martins Patrick Fernandes & Nuno M. Guerreiro with members from other research institutions and companies.

Our very own José Maria Pombal just released a new work on automating model benchmarking. The work also counted with the help of fellow Sardines Nuno M. Guerreiro and Andre Martins. Don't miss it! 🚀🚀

Very proud of this work with Patrick Fernandes Sweta Agrawal Manos Zaranis Graham Neubig at Sardine Lab and Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon. TL;DR: We evaluate translation quality of complex content by checking question answering invariance.

New paper alert from Manos Zaranis and many other sardines!! 🚀 Meet MF²: Movie Facts & Fibs: a new benchmark for long-movie understanding This benchmark focuses on narrative understanding (key events, emotional arcs, causal chains) in long movies.