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.
Kenji-Endo: a BabyLM @EVALITA
Calogero Jerik Scozzaro
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;Matteo Rinaldi;Gianluca Mittone;Marco Antonio StranisciLast
2026-01-01
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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.File in questo prodotto:
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