Research Seminar

TurkuNLP Research Seminar

A collaborative forum co-organized with TurkuNLP featuring distinguished talks in NLP and AI.

Please follow our Google group for seminar announcements, Zoom links and calendar invites.

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Upcoming Seminars

November 6, 2026

Learning to Remember: Adaptive Memory for Long-Horizon Language and Multimodal Agents

Sikuan Yan (LMU Munich)
16:00 - 17:00 (UTC+2)
Zoom only
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November 11, 2026 · HAIF Seminar Series

Label-Free Steering: Compressing Test-Time Reinforcement Learning into Bias-Only Subspaces

Naveen Vakada (University of Turku)
10:30 - 11:00 (UTC+2)
Säästöpankki lecture room, Main Building, UTU / Zoom
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Past Seminars

October 7, 2026

From Portable Memory to Adaptive Memory: Building Reusable Memory Interfaces for Large Language Models

Mingyuan Li (ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku)
13:00 - 14:00 (UTC+3)
1171 TU3, Maarintie 8, Aalto / Zoom
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August 10, 2026

Cross-Cultural Reasoning in Large Language Models

Md Mohsinul Kabir (University of Manchester)
14:30 - 15:30 (UTC+3)
Mänty & Honka, Agora / Zoom
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June 24, 2026

Crosslingual On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multilingual Reasoning

Yihong Liu (LMU Munich)
16:00 - 17:00 (UTC+3)
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Our seminars are held virtually and open to all interested researchers, students, and collaborators. If you are interested in presenting or receiving seminar announcements, please contact Shaoxiong Ji at .