David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬
@davlanade
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Assistant Professor @mcgillu, Core Academic Member @Mila_Quebec, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @CIFAR_News | interested in multilingual NLP | Disciple of Jesus
Saarbrücken, Germany
Joined September 2017
I'm happy to share the electronic copy of my PhD thesis ."Natural language processing for African languages" . Happy reading especially if you are new to AfricaNLP. A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow & the examination committee members:
Thank you @NaijaNLP . Hallelujah! I'm happy to share that I defended my PhD today on "Natural language processing for African languages". The journey of 8 years is finally over. A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow and reviewers: Prof. Alex Fraser & Prof. Benoît Sagot.
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RT @xiuyu_l: Sparsity can make your LoRA fine-tuning go brrr 💨. Announcing SparseLoRA (ICML 2025): up to 1.6-1.9x faster LLM fine-tuning (2….
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RT @cesare_spinoso: A blizzard is raging in Montreal when your friend says “Wow, the weather is amazing!” Humans easily interpret irony, wh….
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RT @tylerachang: We're organizing a shared task to develop a multilingual physical commonsense reasoning evaluation dataset! Details on how….
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RT @MeltWorkshop: 🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨.The MELT Workshop Track submission deadline is now June 30, 2025 (AoE). We still welcome new & unp….
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RT @linguist_cat: As part of the workshop, we are also organizing a shared task to develop a collaborative physical commonsense reasoning e….
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Submission deadline for papers: August 23, 2025. We also invite you to contribute to the MRL 2025 Shared Task on Multilingual Physical Reasoning Datasets Extending PIQA dataset to diverse set of languages. Shared task deadline: September 15, 2025.
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Excited to announce the call for papers for the Multilingual Representation Learning workshop #EMNLP2025 with @_dataman_ @linguist_cat Jiayi Wang @fdschmidt @tylerachang @hila_gonen . and amazing speakers: Alice Oh, Kelly Marchisio, & Pontus Stenetorp.
The call for papers is out for the 5th edition of the Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning which will take place in Suzhou, China co-located with EMNLP 2025! See details below!
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RT @jxmnop: In the beginning, there was BERT. Eventually BERT gave rise to RoBERTa. Then, DeBERTa. Later, ModernBERT. And now, NeoBERT.….
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RT @RicardoRei7: 🚀 Tower+: our latest model in the Tower family — sets a new standard for open-weight multilingual models!.We show how to g….
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RT @SakanaAILabs: Introducing Reinforcement-Learned Teachers (RLTs): Transforming how we teach LLMs to reason with reinforcement learning (….
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RT @Cohere_Labs: Global MMLU is revolutionizing multilingual AI. 🌍. Recognized by Stanford HAI and adopted by top labs, it's the benchmark….
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RT @_josh_meyer_: The NaijaVoices Dataset (accepted to Interspeech 2025). arXiv link: video overview: https://t.co/….
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RT @irenelizihui: 📢 Today, we release #MMLUProX, which upgrades MMLU-Pro to 29 languages across 14 disciplines—11,829 reasoning-heavy Qs pe….
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RT @soheeyang_: 🚨 New Paper 🧵.How effectively do reasoning models reevaluate their thought? We find that:.- Models excel at identifying unh….
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RT @Cohere_Labs: How can we make language models more flexible to adapt to new languages after pretraining? 🌏. 🧠 Our latest work investigat….
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RT @DSFSI_Research: 🚀 Help shape African language tech! Take a quick 10-15 min survey by DSFSI's to build fair, community-driven machine tr….
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RT @sarahookr: Truly excellent video by @MLStreetTalk about how a handful of providers have systematically overfit to @lmarena_ai. 26 mins….
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