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We are the Language and Multimodal Processing Group at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. Our recent work includes representation learning for multilingual and multimodal data, resource creation, and language modelling.

News

January 26, 2026
Three papers accepted at ICLR 2026 on test-time scaling for vision-language models, token distillation, and in-language multimodal exams. Congratulations to Onur, Konstantin, and Isra!
December 01, 2025
Mike Zhang has joined the group as a Postdoc.
November 11, 2025
One paper accepted to WACV on sequential image-text modelling. Congratulations Danae!
September 26, 2025
Jonas defended his Ph.D thesis with unanimous agreement by the assessment committee. Congratulations Jonas!
September 01, 2025
Nathalie Hau Sørensen has joined the group as a Ph.D student.

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Research Areas

Vision-Language Models

Design, understand, and evaluate vision-language models

Retrieval Augmentation

Retrieval augmented generation in multimodal and text-only settings.

Pixel Language Models

We are developing language models that can process any written language.

Recent Publications

2026	Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Small Vision-Language Models. Mehmet Onurcan Kaya, Desmond Elliott, and Dim Papadopoulos. Proceedings of ICLR.
2026	Token Distillation: Attention-Aware Input Embeddings for New Tokens. Konstantin Dobler, Desmond Elliott, and Gerard Melo. Proceedings of ICLR.
2026	Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation. Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam, Arshia Soltani Moakhar, Shivalika Singh, Fabian Farestam, Angelika Romanou, Danylo Boiko, Dipika Khullar, Mike Zhang, Dominik Krzemiński, Jekaterina Novikova, Luísa Shimabucoro, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Rishabh Maheshwary, Sharad Duwal, Alfonso Amayuelas, Swati Rajwal, Jebish Purbey, Ahmed Ruby, Nicholas Popovič, Marek Suppa, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala, Olga Tsymboi, Maksim Kostritsya, Bardia Soltani Moakhar, Gabriel Costa Merlin, Otávio Ferracioli Coletti, Maral Jabbari Shiviari, MohammadAmin fard, Silvia Fernandez, María Grandury, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Drishti Sharma, Andre Guarnier De Mitri, Leticia Bossatto Marchezi, Setayesh Heydari, Johan Obando-Ceron, Nazar Kohut, Beyza Ermis, Desmond Elliott, Enzo Ferrante, Sara Hooker, and Marzieh Fadaee. Proceedings of ICLR.
2026	ImageChain: Advancing Sequential Image-to-Text Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models. Danae Sanchez Villegas, Ingo Ziegler, and Desmond Elliott. Proceedings of WACV.