| Oct 10, 2026 |
Attended COLM 2026 in San Francisco and had a great time at the panel in the tokenization workshop!
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| Oct 7, 2026 |
Bolmo is published in Nature as Retrofitting Language Models to Operate over Bytes! We also released new byteified Qwen and Llama checkpoints in the Bolmo collection on Hugging Face.
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| Jan 21, 2026 |
I wrote a (my first!) blog post on Four Ingredients for Successful Language Model Retrofitting.
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| Dec 19, 2025 |
Our new preprint Bolmo: Byteifying the Next Generation of Language Models is up on arXiv!
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| Sep 18, 2025 |
Universal Cross-Tokenizer Distillation via Approximate Likelihood Matching is accepted at NeurIPS! See you (probably) at EurIPS!
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| Jul 7, 2025 |
Started an internship at Ai2 in Seattle over the Summer to work with Luca Soldaini and Valentin Hofmann!
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| Nov 29, 2024 |
Talk about «The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization» at the NLIP Seminar in Cambridge. This talk was based on an Invited Lecture at the University of Göttingen in early November. Slides.
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| Nov 27, 2024 |
Attended the ELLIS NLP Workshop at Dagstuhl. Some nice photos.
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| Sep 25, 2024 |
Zero-Shot Tokenizer Transfer is accepted at NeurIPS 2024. See you in Vancouver! 
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| Jul 24, 2024 |
I presented Zero-Shot Tokenizer Transfer at Google DeepMind and Mozilla. Slides.
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