arXiv:2602.20092cs.CL
BabyLM Turns 4 and Goes Multilingual: Call for Papers for the 2026 BabyLM Workshop
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Abstract
The goal of the BabyLM is to stimulate new research connections between cognitive modeling and language model pretraining. We invite contributions in this vein to the BabyLM Workshop, which will also include the 4th iteration of the BabyLM Challenge. As in previous years, the challenge features two ``standard'' tracks (Strict and Strict-Small), in which participants must train language models on under 100M or 10M words of data, respectively. This year, we move beyond our previous English-only pretraining datasets with a new Multilingual track, focusing on English, Dutch, and Chinese. For the workshop, we call for papers related to the overall theme of BabyLM, which includes training efficiency, small-scale training datasets, cognitive modeling, model evaluation, and architecture innovation.
You can look at the CFP for the most recent BabyLM https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20092v2 : "This year, we have merged the Multimodal and Interaction tracks into the Strict and Strict-small tracks. This is for two primary reasons: Firstly, there were insufficient submissions to…
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