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Laurent Besacier

@lbesacier.bsky.social
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Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe && Professor at University Grenoble Alpes #NLP #AI #LLMs

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Applications to ALPS 2027 are open !!!
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
L’affaire ‘Thélyson Orélien a rendu les gens dingues. Après avoir lu plusieurs dizaines de messages sur les réseaux sociaux, j’utilise ce qui me reste de cerveau pour dire ces 4 choses:
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are running #ALPS again in 2027! 1 week in a stunning alpine location, awesome lectures about modern NLP, constant interactions with fellow students & researchers Applications opened today alps.imag.fr
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
About mathandai.org I expected a defensive statement from a community under attack. Instead I was struck by how universal and sharp it is (this isn't just about maths). My favourite quote:
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mathematicians might soon feel the way computational linguists did a few years ago: watching AI systems solve tasks that the field had long considered extremely hard…
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our paper "Ready to Speak: Aligning LLMs for TTS-Friendly Text Generation" has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference! 🎉 Check our arXiv preprint for more details: arxiv.org/abs/2609.01246. Code and data will be released in the upcoming weeks. #EMNLP2026 #LLM #NLP
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Ready to Speak: Aligning LLMs for TTS-Friendly Text Generation
Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily optimized for written text, often producing outputs that are grammatically correct and helpful yet poorly suited for spoken delivery via Text-to-Spee...
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Recently switched from "I have a list of experiment ideas and need to find time to implement and run them" to "I have a list of experiments my coding agent already ran and I need to find time to analyse the results" 🤔
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lol, back from vacation I’m realizing I write my Booking reviews like academic peer reviews, assuming the host is actually going to take my comments into account… Hard to switch off the professional mindset…
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mon fils de seize ans qui me dit “c’est la première finale de coupe du monde que je regarde sans la France “ 🙄 pourri gâté cet ado …
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#ANGFRA pour la 3e place samedi… le match Prozac. 😅 D'un côté les Bleus, qui viennent de prendre une leçon de foot face à l'Espagne. De l'autre les Anglais, qui se demandent encore ce qui leur est tombé sur la tête. 🤯 Pas certain que le vainqueur reparte avec un meilleur moral
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Signez la pétition
Contre la destruction des institutions de santé mentale/ Pour la défense du soin humaniste
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
❄️ ALPS 2027: 7th Advanced Language Processing School 📍 Aussois, French Alps · 📅 28 Mar–2 Apr 2027 World-class NLP lectures, poster sessions & mountains. For PhD/MSc students & practitioners. Applications open soon! lig-alps.imag.fr #NLP #NLProc
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Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 28th March – 2nd April 2027
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bonjour ! Mon fils étudiant cherche un studio ou une chambre en colocation du côté de Saint-Denis / Villetaneuse / Paris Nord. Une piste, une colloc où une chambre se libère ? Contactez-moi en DM. Merci d'avance ! 🙏
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Reviewing for ACL Rolling Review and amazed again how related work older than 5y just disappears in the dark. Authors re-propose ideas from 2 or 3 generations of techniques ago ... and I don't even dare cite the originals, they'd treat them as ancient history...
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As Claude and similar tools become serious research accelerators, a new divide is emerging: industrial labs can afford enterprise AI plans for their scientists; many academic labs cannot. The research gap isn't just about compute anymore. Not everyone gets the shot.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚀 Research intern opening @NAVERLABSEurope (Grenoble, 5–6 months) Topic: enforcing hard constraints in LLMs while preserving quality Looking for: 🎓 PhD (or exceptional MSc) student 🧠 LLMs + PyTorch 📚 RLHF / alignment methods 📍 Onsite only apply → lnkd.in/dPf3DfDd
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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NAVER LABS Europe @naverlabseurope.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Congratulations to Dr. @beomseok-lee.bsky.social for defending his thesis yesterday @fbk-mt.bsky.social on 'Multilingual SLU'! Pictured here w/collaborator Ioan Calapodescu & co-supervisor @lbesacier.bsky.social. Welcome to @naverlabseurope.bsky.social alumni ➡️ tinyurl.com/2pcveh6z ☺️
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#ALPS2026 is over! 🎉 A week of inspiring talks, poster sessions and great moments! Huge thanks to our speakers: R. Moore, F. Yvon, I. Augenstein, J. Kreutzer, T. Lacroix, C. Ramisch & M. Scholivet! 👏
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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It was a pleasure to present on LLMs' knowledge conflicts at #ALPS2026! Slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2026_... Also really enjoyed the snowshoeing excursion. Warm recommendation if you're looking to attend a #NLProc winter school! @aicentre.dk @lbesacier.bsky.social
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#ALPS2026 is also about shared activities in the beautiful landscapes of the Vanoise.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Two great talks offering different perspectives on Day 1 of #ALPS2026: Roger Moore (Prof. University of Sheffield) on spoken interaction with machines, and Timothée Lacroix (CTO Mistral AI) sharing LLM experience from the field…
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NAVER LABS Europe @naverlabseurope.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It's great to see how the ALPS winter school has progressively established itself in the field. If you're a student in NLP watch lig-alps.imag.fr in Sept to apply for next year before the deadline! This year is a special treat for skiers with all the late snow we keep having ❄️⛷️ Have a great week!
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Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚀 #ALPS2026 is officially open in the French Alps! A unique winter school combining cutting-edge NLP research with an exceptional setting for collaboration and exchange: 🔹 55 participants from around the world 🔹 77% PhD students 🔹 7 international speakers from Canada, Denmark, France, and the UK
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Germán Kruszewski @germank.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For more details, check out our blog post: huggingface.co/blog/germank...
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Distribution Matching Prevents Mode Collapse in Training Reasoning Models
A Blog post by Germán Kruszewski on Hugging Face
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Germán Kruszewski @germank.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Inference-time scaling is great, but it only works if your model actually explores. RL training — by default — kills that exploration. If you are curious to learn why and what we did about it in about our recent ICLR 2026 paper, check out this 🧵!
Our trained models form a Pareto frontier between coverage and precision
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🌍 #EACL2026 Committee Spotlight 🌞 Behind every great conference is a dedicated team. From now until the conference starts, each week we’ll highlight the chairs contributing to EACL 2026. This week: Industry, Demo and Sponsorship chairs! 2026.eacl.org/committees/o...
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies for #EACL26 🌍 ⚠️ Not for paper registrants 📝 Apply by Feb 27, 2026 (AoE) 📩 Decisions by Mar 2, 2026 2026.eacl.org/calls/virtua... Don’t register before hearing back if you apply!
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Call for Virtual Registration Subsidies
Official website for the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 24/12/2025
On parle beaucoup de Thierry Breton ce matin. N'oublions pas Imran Ahmed (Center for Countering Digital Hate), Clare Melford (Global Disinformation Index), Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, fondatrice de HateAid et Josephine Ballon, de la même association.
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Thierry Breton et des personnalités européennes sanctionnés par Washington pour leur rôle dans la régulation de la tech
Paris a dénoncé « avec la plus grande fermeté » la décision américaine visant l’ancien commissaire européen qui évoque, de son côté, une chasse aux sorcières. Le département d’Etat qualifie de « censu...
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I'm Sponsorship Co-Chair for #EACL2026 . EACL is a major NLP conference bringing together 2,000+ researchers and practitioners. Sponsorship boosts your organization’s visibility while supporting AI research. Sponsorship booklet: tinyurl.com/sponsor-eacl26
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Sponsorship brochure for ACL 2026 Conferences - 2025-11-28.pdf
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Finally done with my #ICLR2026 reviews! 🎉 Used the full rating scale this time: from 0 (a paper that should’ve been desk-rejected) to 10 (absolutely loved it). Average: 4.4.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The UTTER EU project is wrapping up! At NAVER LABS Europe, we’re proud to have contributed with models like mHuBERT & SPIRE as well as datasets such as ELITR-Bench for long-context LLM evaluation. Discover more in our latest post 👇 europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimo...
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Multimodal, multilingual and trustworthy AI models and resources for XR
Models, data, resources and publications as part of the EU project UTTER (2022-2025).
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ma chorale se produit le WE des 27-28 Septembre à la salle Edmond Vigne de Fontaine dans l’agglomération grenobloise. Occasion de venir écouter et voir du chant 🎤mis en scène et chorégraphie 🕺. QR code sur le flyer.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Applications are now open. Deadline: October 12th !
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Très heureux d’intervenir à l’école d’été #ETAL2025 à Roscoff (en terre bretonne 🌊) pour un cours d’introduction aux modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale. 📚 Matériel : github.com/besacier/ETA...
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GitHub - besacier/ETAL2025: Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale
Modèles Multimodaux pour l’Interaction Orale. Contribute to besacier/ETAL2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Je découvre à l'instant que la vuelta (tour d’espagne) passe devant chez moi aujourd’hui à seyssins, près de grenoble… lors d’une étape en provenance... d’italie 🤨
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mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered: alps.imag.fr Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:
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Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026
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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚀 A powerful and easy-to-build constrained speech LLM model. For multilingual SQA, we beat Microsoft-Phi and all unconstrained submissions on the SHORT track at IWSLT 2025 instruction-following track! Presented this Thursday at ACL 2025 by myself and @beomseok-lee.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Sam Soul sera à Laval-en-Belledonne pour la fête de la musique le 21.6 🎷🎷🎷
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
As a scientist it should feel like an accomplishment when domain you’ve contributed to nears resolution after years of collective effort. So why many react with frustration refusing to let go of a field that’s essentially become engineering instead of moving on to new challenges?
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Vert, le média 💚 @vert.eco · 21/05/2025
🛥️ Hier soir, en marge du festival de Cannes, Lauren Sánchez a reçu un prix pour son «plaidoyer pour la justice climatique»… qu’elle est venue récupérer à bord du yacht de 127m de long qu’elle partage avec son fiancé, le patron d'Amazon Jeff Bezos. On vous en dit plus👇
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À Cannes, la fiancée de Jeff Bezos Lauren Sánchez débarque de son yacht et reçoit un prix pour son supposé engagement écolo
Cannes ça pêche. À l’occasion d’un étonnant gala organisé près de la Croisette, Lauren Sánchez a été récompensée pour sa prétendue action en faveur de «la justice climatique». De quoi faire oublier so...
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Sam Soul fête ses 10 ans et vous invite à un apéro-concert le samedi 24.5 à 18h au lycée horticole (!) de St-Ismier 🌳 Entrée gratuite!
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mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
And we are done! Many tired eyes and lots of insights in today's project presentation (so much stuff done in 5 days!!) + insights from @dirkhovy.bsky.social #ALPS2025
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#ALPS2025 lecture #5 was given by Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh). Title: “Reasoning and Knowledge in Multilingual Models”!!
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#ALPS2025 lecture #4: Dzmitry Bahdanau (ServiceNow Research). Agents and Reasoning !
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yes, although it is April, #ALPS2025 is a truly WINTER school with snow activities etc. ❄️🎿🌨️
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wonderful lecture #3 at #ALPS2025 on Algorithms for text generation by François Yvon who introduced us to the large space of decoding algorithms!
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We end day1 of #ALPS2025 with Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere For AI): “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This year at #ALPS2025 we innovate with group mini projects proposed by organisers or participants themselves!
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#ALPS2025 first talk: Kyunghyun Cho himself! “Causality gets help from deep learning “
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