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Kenji-Endo: a BabyLM @EVALITA

  • Calogero Jerik Scozzaro
    ,
  • Mattero Rinaldi
    ,
  • Gianluca Mittone
    ,
  • University of Torino
    ,
  • Aequa-tech
Research Output:
Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter
Article in proceedings
Peer-review

Open access

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter
Article in proceedings
Peer-review

Original language

Undefined/Unknown

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 16-26 (11 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2026

Publication status

Published - 2026

Publisher

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Publication IDs

  • ORCID: /0000-0001-9337-7250/work/220441813
  • Scopus: 105040222824

Host publication title

Ceur Workshop Proceedings

Abstract

We present Kenji-Endo, a BabyLM pretrained on a dedicated Italian dataset, which participated in four tasks at the 9th edition of EVALITA: DeSegMa, MultiPRIDE, IMPOLS, and FadeIT. Kenji-Endo achieved competitive performance across all tasks, demonstrating that language modeling with limited data and compact model sizes
can represent a viable alternative to Large Language Models

Publication metrics

PlumX

Citations
4

Related Event

Title

9th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop

Event type

Conference

Degree of recognition

International event

Date

26/02/2026 - 27/02/2026

Location

BariItaly