Andre Martins
            
            @andre_t_martins
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              NLP/ML researcher in Lisbon (@ https://t.co/nau7DrwFWR)
              
              Lisbon, Portugal
            
            
              
              Joined June 2015
            
            
           🔥New model alert from sardines @Guilherme_PT1 @psanfernandes @SonalSannigrahi @ManosZaranis @Saul_Santos1997 @andre_t_martins!! 🔥 TowerVision for image and video understanding with advanced multilingual translation capabilities! Check it out:  https://t.co/mIIvRtMxJ5  🚀 
          
            
            guilhermeviveiros.github.io
              TowerVision is a fully open-source multilingual Vision-Language Model designed to bridge multilingual and multicultural gaps in visual understanding tasks across 20 languages.
            
                
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             Check out TowerVision, a multilingual multicultural VLM powered by the @sardine_lab_it. Great work led by @Guilherme_PT1 and @psanfernandes! Bonus: TowerVideo, kudos to @Saul_Santos1997! 
           This project is the result of an amazing collaboration between researchers: Authored by: @Guilherme_PT1 @psanfernandes @Saul_Santos1997 @SonalSannigrahi @ManosZaranis @nunonmg @amin_farajian @PierreColombo6 @gneubig @andre_t_martins
            
          
                
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             I'll be at COLM today presenting M-Prometheus (morning, Poster 40) and Zero-shot Benchmarking (afternoon, poster 9). Come check it out! 
           Don't miss our lab's presentations today at @COLM_conf!! 🔥 We will have two presentations 1/3 
          
                
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             BTW, we are looking for post-docs & PhD students to join our @sardine_lab_it (  https://t.co/afNvdmT9wu)!  Reach out if interested! 
          
                
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             5) EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages w/ @N1colAIs @gisship @DuarteMRAlves
            @AyoubHammal @UndefBehavior @Fannyjrd_ @ManuelFaysse @peyrardMax @psanfernandes
            @RicardoRei7 @PierreColombo6
            @tomaarsen - Poster session 5, Thu Oct 9, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
          
          
                
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             4) Multilingual Contextualization of Large Language Models for Document-Level Machine Translation w/ Miguel Moura Ramos @psanfernandes @swetaagrawal20 - Poster session 5, Thu Oct 9, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM 
          
                
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             3) Do LLMs Understand Your Translations? Evaluating Paragraph-level MT with Question Answering w/ @psanfernandes @swetaagrawal20 @ManosZaranis @gneubig - Poster session 5, Thu Oct 9, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM 
          
                
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             2) M-Prometheus: A Suite of Open Multilingual LLM Judges w/ @zmprcp @dongkeun_yoon @psanfernandes @ianwu97 @seungonekim @RicardoRei7 @gneubig - (Poster session 1, Tue Oct 7, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM) 
          
                
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             1) Zero-shot Benchmarking: A Framework for Flexible and Scalable Automatic Evaluation of Language Models w/ @zmprcp @nunonmg @RicardoRei7 - Poster session 2, Tue Oct 7, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM 
          
                
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             I'm heading soon to Montreal for @COLM_conf ! Our lab is presenting the following 5 papers: 🧵 
          
                
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             Check out this great work led by @ospanbatyr ! 
           Multimodal models typically need millions of examples from each modality paired with text for training. With SEMI 🌓, we integrate new low-resource modalities into LLMs with as few as 32 samples — including satellite images, galaxies, sensors, and molecules. (1/6) 
            
                
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             I'll be at ACL presenting our work, A Context-aware Framework for Translation-mediated Conversations (  https://t.co/3Y3IM2n3HU)  in the Machine Translation session, 28 Jul, 14:00-15:30, room 1.85. Come check it out if you're interested in bilingual chat MT! 
          
                
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             The sparsemax paper reached 1000 citations now and it keeps to bear fruit. Two recent sparse attention examples: long-context efficiency with Adasplash (  https://t.co/t3K24epba8)  and better length generalization with ASEntmax (  https://t.co/wbBfJWZqkA).  Check the story below! 
           Our ICML’16 sparsemax paper (  https://t.co/y5AeIw023P)  just reached 500 citations. I’m very proud about this paper, so I thought about telling a bit of the story here. 
            
                
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             Attending #ICML2025? Come see our oral presentation on "AdaSplash: Adaptive Sparse Flash Attention" today at 15:30 (Oral 2D Efficent ML) or catch us in the poster session at 16:30 (East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-3305). With Nuno Gonçalves and @MarcosTreviso. 
           Thrilled to share that our paper AdaSplash: Adaptive Sparse Flash Attention was accepted as a Spotlight at ICML 2025! 🎉 What makes our sparse attention different? ✅ Fully differentiable ✅ Adaptive ✅ Naturally sparse ✅ Exact (generalizes softmax) 📄  https://t.co/O84fJ5tdXJ 
            
            
                
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             Sparse attention isn't just effective... It's also fast! ✅ Our work builds on AdaSplash, an accelerated sparse attention kernel that will be presented as an Oral at ICML 2025 🎤 📦 Code: 
          
            
            github.com
              AdaSplash: Adaptive Sparse Flash Attention (aka Flash Entmax Attention) - deep-spin/adasplash
            
                
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             Attending @aclmeeting in Vienna? Check out our Unit's papers 👇 Peters, Martins  https://t.co/HKxv6vHBMv  Zaranis et al.  https://t.co/o3IRejXZcJ  Fucci et al.  https://t.co/cJYVrSgULS  Gomes et al.  https://t.co/VYYJe3AoRh  Pombal et al.  https://t.co/3lKePHNmwa 
          
          
                
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             The NeurIPS paper checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics. 
          
            
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              The NeurIPS checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.
            
                
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             Super proud about the EuroLLM/EuroVLM suites! Try it out! 
           👉  https://t.co/iMiPHGBZGN 
              @Unbabel and partners unveil EuroVLM, 🧠🖼️ a suite of multilingual vision-language models, while expanding their open-source #EuroLLM portfolio with the release of EuroLLM-22B 🚀 and EuroMoE. ⚙️ Next up: #multilingual speech 🗣️ and video 📹 #AI
            
            
                
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