Papers
· MSc thesis, EPFL & Yale
Expanding the Meditron Protocol
Applying the Meditron fine-tuning and evaluation recipe to Gemma, Phi, Llama and Qwen, with a focus on safety and instruction following.
@mastersthesis{boisson2025meditron, author = {Boisson, Etienne}, title = {Expanding the Meditron Protocol}, school = {EPFL and Yale University}, year = {2025}, month = apr, url = {https://etienneboisson.com/papers/boisson-2025-msc-thesis.pdf} }· GenAI for Health workshop, AAAI 2025
Llama-3-Meditron: An Open-Weight Suite of Medical LLMs Based on Llama-3.1
Open-weight medical LLMs built on Llama-3.1: pre-trained on curated medical text, fine-tuned on diverse instructions, and enhanced with MediTree for state-of-the-art medical QA.
@inproceedings{sallinen2025llamameditron, title = {Llama-3-Meditron: An Open-Weight Suite of Medical {LLM}s Based on Llama-3.1}, author = {Alexandre Sallinen and Antoni-Joan Solergibert and Michael Zhang and Guillaume Boy{\'e} and Maud Dupont-Roc and Xavier Theimer-Lienhard and Etienne Boisson and Bastien Bernath and Hichem Hadhri and Antoine Tran and Tahseen Rabbani and Trevor Brokowski and Meditron Medical Doctor Working Group and Tim G. J. Rudner and Mary-Anne Hartley}, booktitle = {Workshop on Large Language Models and Generative AI for Health at AAAI 2025}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZcD35zKujO} }· LaTeCH-CLfL workshop, EACL 2023
GPoeT: a Language Model Trained for Rhyme Generation on Synthetic Data
Fine-tuning GPT-2 on synthetic rhyming quatrains to teach a small language model to rhyme: from about 11% to 60% rhyming lines.
@inproceedings{popescu-belis-etal-2023-gpoet, title = "{GP}oe{T}: a Language Model Trained for Rhyme Generation on Synthetic Data", author = "Popescu-Belis, Andrei and Atrio, {\`A}lex R. and Bernath, Bastien and Boisson, Etienne and Ferrari, Teo and Theimer-Lienhard, Xavier and Vernikos, Giorgos", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature", month = may, year = "2023", address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.latechclfl-1.2/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.2", pages = "10--20" }
