BabyLM 4 at EMNLP 2026 - Workshop Schedule

October 29, 2026 | Room F4-5, HungExpo Budapest, Hungary. All times are in Budapest local time (CET, UTC+1).

Time	Session
09:15 - 09:30	Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:30	BabyLM Orals pt 1 09:30 - 09:45 BabySteps at BabyLM 2026: Stronger Optimization and Causal Baselines for Data-Constrained Pretraining 09:45 - 10:00 Qwenfant: Train Big Character-level BabyLMs on Concise Parallel Text 10:00 - 10:15 Recursive Transformers for BabyLM 2026 10:15 - 10:30 Miss Universal Grammar: Pretraining BabyLMs with Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Sources
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Invited Talk 1 Mitja Nikolaus (CNRS, Toulouse) Communicative Feedback: Language Acquisition Within and Through Social Interaction
12:00 - 12:30	BabyLM Orals pt 2 12:00 - 12:15 Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling 12:15 - 12:30 TinyLibrary: Do Age-Graded Curricula Help Small Vision-Language Models?
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Poster Session
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Invited Talk 2 Pontus Stenetorp (University College London) UK-LLM, Sofair, and a path towards frontier-level Open Source Artificial Intelligence
17:00 - 17:25	Town Hall
17:25 - 17:30	Awards and Closing Remarks