KIT’s Offline Speech Translation and Instruction Following Submission for IWSLT 2025 Sai Koneru, Maike Züfle, Thai Binh Nguyen, Seymanur Akti, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025). 2025.

📄Offline and Instruction Following Track:
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📄Low-Resource Track:
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📄Shared Task results:
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27.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇦🇹First evening at #ACL2025NLP with KIT‘s IWSLT Shared Task team.

We ranked 1st overall in
🥇offline (Sai Koneru)
🥇instruction following (Maike Züfle)
🥇Arabic dialects (Zhaolin Li)
tracks😍

👋Posters:
🖼️Thur, 14-15:30 (Offl.+ Instr. Fol.)
🖼️Fri, 11-12:30 (Arabic)

Papers in 🧵

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Contrastive Learning for Task-Independent SpeechLLM-Pretraining Maike Züfle, Jan Niehues. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. 2025.

Contrastive Learning for Task-Independent SpeechLLM-Pretraining
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NUTSHELL: A Dataset for Abstract Generation from Scientific Talks
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26.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP!

Interested in training a speech-aware LLM without a lot of parameteres or data? Come to my poster:
🖼️ Mon, 18:00

Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk-mt.bsky.social
🎤 Fri, 14:00

Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎

Papers in 🧵

26.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Excited to share 7 papers accepted at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉

Topics include multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, benchmarks, decoding, low-resource languages and more.

See you in Vienna! 🤩 #nlproc #acl2025nlp

28.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@zouharvi.bsky.social and I had fun presenting our poster on efficient reranking for machine translation! Check out our paper with @juliuscheng.bsky.social

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02.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Being in a hot air balloon in Albuquerque really makes one ponder *how to efficiently pick the best translation candidate without running expensive evaluation metrics on all of them.*

See you tomorrow at 9:00 in Hall 3 #NAACL2025.

02.05.2025 00:26 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

🗓️ Sunday
🎤 (11:40–12:00, NLP4DH): The AI Co-Ethnographer (Fabian Retkowski)
🖼️ (15:30–16:30, LM4UC): Enhance Contextual Learning in ASR for Endangered Low-resource Languages (Zhaolin Li)

30.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🗓️ Friday (9:00–10:30)
🖼️ A Bayesian Optimization Approach to MT Reranking (@juliuscheng.bsky.social Maike Züfle @zouharvi.bsky.social)
🖼️ Zero-Shot Strategies for Length-Controllable Summarization (Fabian Retkowski)
🖼️ How do Multimodal Foundation Models Encode Text and Speech? (Hyunji Lee, et al.)

30.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fabian and I've landed in Albuquerque for #NAACL25🌞 Can’t wait to connect with everyone!

🎤 Talks & 🖼️Posters from @kit.edu on:
- Efficient MT reranking
- Length-controlled summaries
- Cross-modal representations
- Low-resource ASR
- Annotation for qualitative research

🧵👇

30.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We had a great time hosting enthusiastic high schoolers at #GirlsDay2025! We explored #LLM basics, played "Break the AI" games, and shared study abroad opportunities at #KIT.

Thanks @maikezufle.bsky.social for organizing and @kit.edu @girls-day.de for this initiative! 👩‍💻🌟

15.04.2025 14:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to announce that our work "A Bayesian Optimization Approach to Machine Translation" was accepted to NAACL 2025!

Special thanks to @ufal-cuni.bsky.social for organizing MT Marathon 2025 where I was able to team up with @maikezufle.bsky.social and @zouharvi.bsky.social !

Explainer below:

23.01.2025 01:32 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1