Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications

Shafiq Joty; Enamul Hoque; Ahmed Masry; Spandana Gella; Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications

Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Ahmed Masry, Spandana Gella, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

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This tutorial presents foundations, agentic capabilities, and inclusive applications of multimodal large language models, covering architectures, multimodal alignment and reasoning, conversational GUI agents, accessibility, multilingual communication, and responsible deployment.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts)
Month:: March
Year:: 2026
Address:: St. Julian's, Malta
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Cite (ACL):: Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Ahmed Masry, Spandana Gella, and Samira Ebrahimi Kahou. 2026. Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 9–11, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-tutorials.4/) (Joty et al., EACL 2026)

Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications (Joty et al., EACL 2026)

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Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Ahmed Masry, Spandana Gella, and Samira Ebrahimi Kahou. 2026. Multimodal Large Language Models for Human-AI Interaction: Foundations, Agents, and Inclusive Applications. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 9–11, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.