People

David worked on interpretability of language models and on using them for information retrieval in specialised documents. He holds a PhD in NLP from Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université Paris Cité, on how pre-trained language models represent negation.

Projects

BM-TOK

Balancing multilingual token vocabularies

How to build the vocabulary of a multilingual language model so that less-resourced languages and non-Latin scripts are represented fairly.

Research 2026–2027

LPHI-mRAG

Language preference and hallucination in multilingual retrieval-augmented generation

Do language models prefer some languages over others when answering from documents? We test this for chatbots that answer questions from a collection of documents in several languages.

Research 2026

UBS–IDSIA AI Lab

UBS–IDSIA AI Lab collaboration

The NLP group participates in the collaboration across different NLP-related projects.

Applied 2024–now · Industry

Publications with the group