Workshop Schedule 2025 · Saturday, November 8

• 09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks
• 09:15-10:15  BabyLM Challenge Orals
  CLASS-IT: Conversational and Lecture-Aligned Small-Scale Instruction Tuning for BabyLMs Luca Capone, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci
  Masked Diffusion Language Models with Frequency-Informed Training Despoina Kosmopoulou, Efthymios Georgiou, Vaggelis Dorovatas, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Alexandros Potamianos
  MoEP: Modular Expert Paths for Sample-Efficient Language Modeling Joonas Tapaninaho
  Mask and You Shall Receive: Optimizing Masked Language Modeling for Pre-training BabyLMs Lukas Edman, Alexander Fraser
  Once Upon a Time: Interactive Learning for Storytelling with Small Language Models Jonas Mayer Martins, Ali Hamza Bashir, Muhammad Rehan Khalid, Lisa Beinborn
• 10:15-11:00 Break
• 11:00-12:00 Invited Talk 1: Hai Hu
• 12:00-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-15:00 Poster Session
• 15:00-15:30 Break
• 15:30-16:30 Invited Talk 2: Yohei Oseki
• 16:30-17:05  BabyLM Workshop Orals
  Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM’s Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction Suchir Salhan, Hongyi Gu, Donya Rooein, Diana Galvan-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Andrew Caines, Zheng Yuan, Paula Buttery
  Are BabyLMs Deaf to Gricean Maxims? A Pragmatic Evaluation of Sample-Efficient Language Models Raha Askari, Sina Zarrieß, Özge Alacam, Judith Sieker
  Looking to Learn: Token-wise Dynamic Gating for Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
• 17:05-17:15 Awards and Closing Remarks