3 papers
cs.CL2026
Rethinking the Multilingual Reasoning Gap with Layer Swap
Maxence Lasbordes, Amélie Chatelain, Djamé Seddah
Recent reasoning Large Language Models produce a chain-of-thought (CoT) predominantly in English, even when prompted in non-English languages. Prior work suggests that forcing the…
cs.CL2026
Luth: Efficient French Specialization for Small Language Models and Cross-Lingual Transfer
Maxence Lasbordes, Sinoué Gad
The landscape of Large Language Models remains predominantly English-centric, resulting in a significant performance gap for other major languages, such as French, especially in th…
cs.CL2025
Splitformer: An improved early-exit architecture for automatic speech recognition on edge devices
Maxence Lasbordes, Daniele Falavigna, Alessio Brutti
The ability to dynamically adjust the computational load of neural models during inference in a resource aware manner is crucial for on-device processing scenarios, characterised b…