An investment by the Autonomous Province of Trento in young talents involved in projects in synergy between FBK and the University of Trento on common research and highly innovative technological development initiatives that will pave the way for market and societal impact. The research activities will take place in the 4 macro-areas of Integrative AI, AI at the edge, Certified AI, and Interactive AI.
Our pick of the week by
@FBKZhihangXie : "Speech-XL: Towards Long-Form Speech Understanding in Large Speech Language Models" by Haoqin Sun, @Chenyang_Lyu, Shiwan Zhao, Xuanfan Ni, Xiangyu Kong, @wangly0229, Weihua Luo and Yong Qin
#SpeechLLM #LongFormSpeech #SLU
🚀 New paper: Speech-XL for long-form SpeechLLMs
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05373
🧩 Uses Speech Summarization Tokens to compress local speech intervals into compact KV states efficiently.
✨ Improves long-form speech understanding while reducing memory and FLOPs on 10-minute audio.
Our pick of the week by
@BeatriceSavoldi
: "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation" by Yujun Wang,
@EhudReiter
, Shimei Pan,
@egere14
and Wei Zhao #MachineTranslation #TranslationQuality #Evaluation
📖 #PickoftheWeek @fbk_mt "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation"
A cool analysis of the conflicting interests of different communities around MT(AI developers, LSPs, and users)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.09655
#NLP #MachineTranslation #DiverseStakeholders
We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026!
@luisabentivogli and @negri_teo are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT.
#LanguageTechnologies #FBK