Papers by Suchir Salhan
Pico: A Modular Framework for Hypothesis-Driven Small Language Model Research (2025.emnlp-demos)
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Richard Diehl Martinez, David Demitri Africa, Yuval Weiss, Suchir Salhan, Ryan Daniels, Paula Buttery
| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled strong performance across diverse tasks, but small enough to train on modest budgets. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight, modular framework that enables systematic, hypothesis-driven research for small and medium-scale language model development. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework enables systematic, hypothesis-driven research for small and medium-scale language model development. |
BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data (2026.eacl-long)
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Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya, Diana Galvan-Sosa, Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Francesca Padovani, Francois Meyer, Hai Hu, Julen Etxaniz, Laurent Prevot, Linyang He, María Grandury, Mila Marcheva, Negar Foroutan, Nikitas Theodoropoulos, Pouya Sadeghi, Siyuan Song, Suchir Salhan, Susana Zhou, Yurii Paniv, Ziyin Zhang, Arianna Bisazza, Alex Warstadt, Leshem Choshen
| Challenge: | prevailing trend in language modeling research is to prioritize scaling, authors say . from infancy to maturity, English learners acquire language through exposure to less than 100M words . |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual collection of datasets modeling the language a person observes from birth until they acquire a native language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform models trained on a fixed, developmentally plausible English corpus on various benchmarks. |