Maxence Lasbordes

PhD Student · RL, Agents, Multilinguality

Maxence Lasbordes
  1. Conference · Budapest, Hungary

    EMNLP 2026

    I presented Rethinking the Multilingual Reasoning Gap with Layer Swap at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest.

  2. Model release

    ColGrep-Agent-2B

    We released a small code-search agent that runs locally and helps coding agents find the right files with semantic search.

  3. Preprint

    TrustMI: Causally controlling how assistants trust their users

    We study how activation steering can control an assistant’s trust in its users and how that trust shapes safety-relevant behavior.

  4. Preprint

    Small Agents with Semantic Search: Efficient Multilingual Code Localization

    We train compact agents to find relevant files with semantic search, improving code localization across programming languages while reducing latency and token usage.

  5. Paper acceptance

    Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026

    Rethinking the Multilingual Reasoning Gap with Layer Swap was accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026.

  6. Model release

    Luth-2

    We released Luth-2-0.8B and Luth-2-2B: small models specialized for French through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and multi-domain on-policy distillation.

  7. Conference · Rabat, Morocco

    EACL 2026

    I presented Luth, our work on efficient French specialization for small language models and cross-lingual transfer, at the EACL Student Research Workshop.