The First Lamarr-MCML Workshop
from
Wednesday 24 September 2025 (12:00)
to
Thursday 25 September 2025 (15:05)
Monday 22 September 2025
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Wednesday 24 September 2025
12:00
Arrival and lunch
Arrival and lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
Lucie Flek - Lamarr Institute NLP Landscape
Lucie Flek - Lamarr Institute NLP Landscape
13:30 - 14:00
14:00
Thomas Meier/Michael Hedderich - MCML NLP landscape
Thomas Meier/Michael Hedderich - MCML NLP landscape
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Raoyuan Zhao (on cultural evaluation of LLMs)
Raoyuan Zhao (on cultural evaluation of LLMs)
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Florian Mai (Towards Scalable Alignment of Reasoning Models)
Florian Mai (Towards Scalable Alignment of Reasoning Models)
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Mehdi Ali - Building Foundation Models at Lamarr
Mehdi Ali - Building Foundation Models at Lamarr
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
Yihong Liu (on language-script aware multilingual pretraining)
Yihong Liu (on language-script aware multilingual pretraining)
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
Michael Kamp, Ting Han (Flattening the Path to Generalization in LLMs)
Michael Kamp, Ting Han (Flattening the Path to Generalization in LLMs)
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
Ercong Nie (on language confusion in English-centric LLMs)
Ercong Nie (on language confusion in English-centric LLMs)
17:30 - 18:00
18:00
Time for Transfer and Check-In
Time for Transfer and Check-In
18:00 - 19:30
19:30
Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Thursday 25 September 2025
09:00
Coffee and warm-up
Coffee and warm-up
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
Michael Hedderich (Human-Centric Methods in NLP)
Michael Hedderich (Human-Centric Methods in NLP)
09:30 - 10:30
10:30
Thomas Meier “About Political Challenges for Digital Sovereignty"
Thomas Meier “About Political Challenges for Digital Sovereignty"
10:30 - 11:30
11:30
Discussion & Lunch Break
Discussion & Lunch Break
11:30 - 13:30
13:30
Akbar Karimi (Towards robust reasoning with hyperbolic representations)
Akbar Karimi (Towards robust reasoning with hyperbolic representations)
13:30 - 14:00
14:00
Siyao Logan Peng (on human label variation and explanations in NLI)
Siyao Logan Peng (on human label variation and explanations in NLI)
14:00 - 14:30
14:30
Review of opportunities & Wrap-up
Review of opportunities & Wrap-up
14:30 - 15:00
15:00
Closing words
Closing words
15:00 - 15:05