Program Schedule
| Time | Session | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 –9: 10 am | Workshop Opening | — |
| 9:10–9:55 am | Invited Talk: David Adeline Mila – Quebec AI Institute |
Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages |
| 10:45–11:00 am | Break / Posters | — |
| 11:05–11:20 am | Oral Talk 1 | Toward Automatic Safe Driving Instruction: A Large-Scale Vision-Language Model Approach |
| 11:25–11:40 am | Oral Talk 2 | BengaliFig: A Low-Resource Challenge for Figurative and Culturally Grounded Reasoning in Bengali |
| 11:45 am–12:00 pm | Oral Talk 3 | Towards Blind and Low-Vision Accessibility of Lightweight VLMs and Custom LLM-Evals |
| 12:00–12:15 pm | Oral Talk 4 | Artwork Interpretation with Vision Language Models: A Case Study on Emotions and Emotion Symbols |
| 12:15–12:30 pm | Oral Talk 5 | TRepLiNa: Layer-wise CKA + REPINA Alignment Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation in Aya-23 8B |
| 12:30–1:45 pm | Lunch / Posters | — |
| 1:45–2:30 pm | Invited Talk: Roy Ka-Wei Lee Singapore University of Technology and Design |
Tackling Hateful Video Content with Multimodal AI |
| 2:35–3:20 pm | Invited Talk: Shamsudeen Muhammad Google DeepMind Academic Fellow |
The Illusion of Inclusion: How LLMs Misrepresent African Languages and Cultural Contexts |
| 3:25–3:40 pm | Oral Talk 6 | MemeGuard: Transformer-Based Fusion for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Low-Resource Social Media Memes |
| 3:45–4:00 pm | Oral Talk 8 (Challenge Track) | LoRAs in All Directions: Directional Adapters and Noisy-Channel Reranking for Indic MT |
| 4:00–4:15 pm | Oral Talk 9 (Challenge Track) | Breaking Language Barriers: Adapting NLLB-200 and mBART for Bhilli, Gondi, Mundari, and Santali Without Source Language Proficiency |
| 4:15–4:30 pm | Oral Talk 10 (Challenge Track) | Divide and Translate: Parameter Isolation with Encoder Freezing for Low-Resource Indic NMT |
| 4:30–4:45 pm | Oral Talk 11 (Challenge Track) | JHARNA-MT: A Copy-Augmented Hybrid of LoRA-Tuned NLLB and Lexical SMT with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Low-Resource Indic Languages |