@inproceedings{hern-andez-cano-etal-2026-apertus,
    title = "Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant {LLM}s for Global Language Environments",
    author = "Hern{\textbackslash}'andez-Cano, Alejandro  and
      H{\textbackslash}{''}agele, Alexander  and
      Huang, Allen Hao  and
      Romanou, Angelika  and
      Solergibert, Antoni-Joan  and
      P{\textbackslash}'asztor, Barna  and
      Messmer, Bettina  and
      Garbaya, Dhia  and
      {\textbackslash}v{\{}D{\}}urech, Eduard Frank  and
      Hakimi, Ido  and
      Giraldo, Juan Garcia  and
      Ismayilzada, Mete  and
      Foroutan, Negar  and
      Moalla, Skander  and
      Chen, Tiancheng  and
      Sabol{\textbackslash}v{\{}c{\}}ec, Vinko  and
      Xu, Yixuan  and
      Aerni, Michael  and
      AlKhamissi, Badr  and
      Marinas, In{\textbackslash}'es Altemir  and
      Amani, Mohammad Hossein  and
      Ansaripour, Matin  and
      Badanin, Ilia  and
      Benoit, Harold  and
      Boros, Emanuela  and
      Browning, Nicholas John  and
      B{\textbackslash}{''}osch, Fabian  and
      B{\textbackslash}{''}other, Maximilian  and
      Canova, Niklas  and
      Challier, Camille  and
      Charmillot, Cl{\textbackslash}'ement  and
      Coles, Jonathan  and
      Deriu, Jan Milan  and
      Devos, Arnout  and
      Drescher, Lukas  and
      Dzenhaliou, Daniil  and
      Ehrmann, Maud  and
      Fan, Dongyang  and
      Fan, Simin  and
      Gao, Silin  and
      Gila, Miguel  and
      Grandury, Mar{\{}{\textbackslash}'{\textbackslash}i{\}}a  and
      Hashemi, Diba  and
      Hoyle, Alexander Miserlis  and
      Jiang, Jiaming  and
      Klein, Mark  and
      Kucharavy, Andrei  and
      Kucherenko, Anastasiia  and
      L{\textbackslash}{''}ubeck, Frederike  and
      Machacek, Roman  and
      Manitaras, Theofilos Ioannis  and
      Marfurt, Andreas  and
      Matoba, Kyle  and
      Matrenok, Simon  and
      Mendon{\textbackslash}c{\{}c{\}}a, Henrique  and
      Mohamed, Fawzi Roberto  and
      Montariol, Syrielle  and
      Mouchel, Luca  and
      Najem-Meyer, Sven  and
      Ni, Jingwei  and
      Oliva, Gennaro  and
      Pagliardini, Matteo  and
      Palme, Elia  and
      Panferov, Andrei  and
      Paoletti, L{\textbackslash}'eo  and
      Passerini, Marco  and
      Pavlov, Ivan  and
      Poiroux, Auguste  and
      Ponkshe, Kaustubh  and
      Ranchin, Nathan  and
      Rando, Javier  and
      Sauser, Mathieu  and
      Saydaliev, Jakhongir  and
      Sayfiddinov, Mukhammadali  and
      Schneider, Marian  and
      Schuppli, Stefano  and
      Scialanga, Marco  and
      Semenov, Andrei  and
      Shridhar, Kumar  and
      Singhal, Raghav  and
      Sotnikova, Anna  and
      Sternfeld, Alexander  and
      Tarun, Ayush Kumar  and
      Teiletche, Paul  and
      Vamvas, Jannis  and
      Yao, Xiaozhe  and
      Zhao, Hao  and
      Ilic, Alexander  and
      Klimovic, Ana  and
      Krause, Andreas  and
      Gulcehre, Caglar  and
      Rosenthal, David  and
      Ash, Elliott  and
      Tram{\textbackslash}`er, Florian  and
      VandeVondele, Joost  and
      Veraldi, Livio  and
      Rajman, Martin  and
      Schulthess, Thomas C.  and
      Hoefler, Torsten  and
      Bosselut, Antoine  and
      Jaggi, Martin  and
      Schlag, Imanol",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.2172/",
    pages = "46877--46955",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}