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20222025
most citedBERTIN: Efficient Pre-Training of a Spanish Language Model using Perplexity Sampling

33 citations · 39 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2025

Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks

Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…

cs.CL2025

BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data

Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga +23

We present BabyBabelLM, a multilingual collection of datasets modeling the language a person observes from birth until they acquire a native language. We curate developmentally pla…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Adding LLMs to the psycholinguistic norming toolbox: A practical guide to getting the most out of human ratings

Javier Conde, María Grandury, Tairan Fu +7

Word-level psycholinguistic norms lend empirical support to theories of language processing. However, obtaining such human-based measures is not always feasible or straightforward.…

cs.CL2025

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments

Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…

cs.CL2025

La Leaderboard: A Large Language Model Leaderboard for Spanish Varieties and Languages of Spain and Latin America

María Grandury, Javier Aula-Blasco, Júlia Falcão +22

Leaderboards showcase the current capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs). To motivate the development of LLMs that represent the linguistic and cultural diver…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Psycholinguistic Word Features: a New Approach for the Evaluation of LLMs Alignment with Humans

Javier Conde, Miguel González, María Grandury +3

The evaluation of LLMs has so far focused primarily on how well they can perform different tasks such as reasoning, question-answering, paraphrasing, or translating. For most of th…

cs.CL2025

Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation

Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam +42

The evaluation of vision-language models (VLMs) has mainly relied on English-language benchmarks, leaving significant gaps in both multilingual and multicultural coverage. While mu…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

It's the same but not the same: Do LLMs distinguish Spanish varieties?

Marina Mayor-Rocher, Cristina Pozo, Nina Melero +3

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated a high capacity for understanding and generating text in Spanish. However, with five hundred million native speakers…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Multiple Choice Questions: Reasoning Makes Large Language Models (LLMs) More Self-Confident, Especially When They are Wrong

Tairan Fu, Javier Conde, Gonzalo Martínez +2

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) tests are among the most used methods for evaluating large language models (LLMs). Besides checking the correctness of the selected answer, evaluatio…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating Large Language Models with Tests of Spanish as a Foreign Language: Pass or Fail?

Marina Mayor-Rocher, Nina Melero, Elena Merino-Gómez +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been profusely evaluated on their ability to answer questions on many topics and their performance on different natural language understanding tas…

cs.CL2024

The #Somos600M Project: Generating NLP resources that represent the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean, and Spain

María Grandury

We are 600 million Spanish speakers. We launched the #Somos600M Project because the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean and Spain needs to be represented in Artifi…

cs.CL2024

Spanish and LLM Benchmarks: is MMLU Lost in Translation?

Irene Plaza, Nina Melero, Cristina del Pozo +4

The evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a key element in their continuous improvement process and many benchmarks have been developed to assess the performance of LLMs in…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 33 cited

BERTIN: Efficient Pre-Training of a Spanish Language Model using Perplexity Sampling

Javier de la Rosa, Eduardo G. Ponferrada, Paulo Villegas +3

The pre-training of large language models usually requires massive amounts of resources, both in terms of computation and data. Frequently used web sources such as Common Crawl mig…