Ars Inquirendi 2026 · your paper

Workshop: Building Your Own LLM (TBC)

Ben Kiessling (École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) & Inria)

Your slot

Strand

Building Your Own LLM

Day

Day 3 · Sunday 22 November 2026

Part

Morning — exact times to follow

Role

Workshop

Participation

In person

Abstract

An update of his 2025 workshop, reflecting a year of rapid movement on fine-tuning LLMs for pre-modern studies — from understanding the instrument to constructing one.

Subjects

HTR & instrumentsSovereign & open modelsEducation & training

What we need from you

A title and a short abstract (a few lines is enough)
Your pre-recorded talk (25 to 60 minutes) by 13 November 2026
Your presence at the live discussion of your strand (date below)

How the conference works

All talks except the live keynotes are pre-recorded and released a week ahead of the conference, by 13 November 2026.

The live sessions are discussions of the pre-recorded talks, held in the room at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online.

Speakers do not register or pay.

Invitation or visa letters, and accommodation questions: write to arsinquirendi@gmail.com.