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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

October 01, 2026
Mariia Everstova has joined the group as a Ph.D student.
September 25, 2026
One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026 on understand visual information flow in vision-language models. Congratulations Isra!
September 07, 2026
One paper accepted at COLM 2026 on reasoning dynamics in multimodal models. Congratulations Danae!
August 21, 2026
Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2026 on movie understanding and cross-lingual distillation. Congratulations to Mike and Manos!
July 01, 2026
One paper accepted in Computational Linguistics on fine-grained sexism detection in social media videos. Congratulations Laura!

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Research Themes

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	Beyond Binary Classification: Detecting Fine-Grained Sexism in Social Media Videos. Laura De Grazia, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Desmond Elliott, Mireia Farrús, and Mariona Taulé. Computational Linguistics.
2026	Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models. Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata, Desmond Elliott, and Constanza Fierro. Proceedings of NeurIPS.
2026	How Well Do Vision-Language Models Understand Movies?. Emmanouil Zaranis, António Farinhas, Saul Santos, Beatriz Canaverde, Miguel Moura Ramos, Wafaa Mohammed, Giuseppe Attanasio, Chrysoula Zerva, Nithin Sivakumaran, Shoubin Yu, Elena Bueno-Benito, Aditya K Surikuchi, Ben Peters, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Andre G. Viveiros, Pavlo Vasylenko, Baohao Liao, Sonal Sannigrahi, Jaehong Yoon, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mariella Dimiccoli, Oswald Lanz, Alessandro Suglia, Mohit Bansal, Sandro Pezzelle, Stella Frank, Vlad Niculae, Desmond Elliott, Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, and Andre Martins. Proceedings of EMNLP.
2026	CroCo: Cross-Lingual Contrastive Preference Tuning on Self-Generations. Mike Zhang, Ali Basirat, and Desmond Elliott. Findings of EMNLP.
2026	Reasoning Dynamics and the Limits of Monitoring Modality Reliance in Vision-Language Models. Danae Sánchez Villegas, Samuel Lewis-Lim, Nikolaos Aletras, and Desmond Elliott. Proceedings of COLM.
2026	Long Story Short: Disentangling Compositionality and Long-Caption Understanding in Contrastive VLMs. Israfel Salazar, Desmond Elliott, and Yova Kementchedjhieva. Findings of ACL.
2026	LatentLens: Revealing Highly Interpretable Visual Tokens in LLMs. Benno Krojer, Shravan Nayak, Oscar Mañas, Vaibhav Adlakha, Desmond Elliott, Siva Reddy, and Marius Mosbach. Proceedings of ICML.
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.