# Impactio Meridian > Impactio Meridian (meridian.impactio.com) is a Magellan Global brand that gives scientific ideas and the people behind them a wider audience. It interviews the authors, usually the first author, of papers accepted at leading AI conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, SIGIR, COLM) in long-form video conversations recorded in Singapore, fifteen-minute paper Briefs, and a weekly newsletter, Meridian Notes. It begins as an Impactio initiative with research support from MTRI, Magellan Global's research institute in Tokyo and Singapore. Reviewed 26 October 2026. Key facts: - Guests are chosen editorially from accepted papers using public signals (orals, spotlights, awards, released code and data) and a reading by researchers. No one can pay to appear; no appearance fees are paid; sponsors have no say in guests, questions or edits. - Transcripts separate three things, each labelled: the author's view, the paper's documented finding (linked to its table or section), and Meridian's interpretation. - An appearance is not an academic endorsement. Sponsorship, travel costs covered and related-party relationships (MTRI, Impactio, magellon) are disclosed where they appear. - Singapore Sessions: authors are invited to Singapore for a recording, a Brief and an optional public seminar at MTRI's Singapore office in One-north. - Season one (2027) covers twelve themes; guests are announced on release, not before. - Revenue: disclosed sponsorship, Meridian Pro (indicative US$29/month) and Research Desk for teams, events, licensing, and an opt-in talent bridge run with magellon. How to cite: cite the paper for findings; cite Meridian for what the author said ("Author, in conversation with Impactio Meridian, date, timestamp"). ## Pages - [Conversations with the authors of AI's leading papers](https://meridian.impactio.com/): Impactio Meridian, a Magellan Global brand: long-form conversations with the authors of the year's leading AI conference papers (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR), recorded in Singapore, with every claim linked to the paper. - [Meridian Conversations](https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/): Long-form video and audio conversations with the first authors of leading AI conference papers, with chapters, transcripts linked to the paper and clear disclosures. - [Season one](https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/season-one/): Season one of Impactio Meridian: twelve themes in AI research (reasoning, retrieval, Asian languages, agents, evaluation, efficiency, multimodal, documents, science, alignment, theory, embodied learning), each with one author. - [Episode format](https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/format/): The nine chapters of a Meridian Conversation, the preparation call, the author's fact review and the annotated transcript. - [Meridian Briefs](https://meridian.impactio.com/briefs/): Fifteen-minute video explainers of leading AI conference papers, given by their authors with their own figures, built on five fixed questions. - [Meridian Notes](https://meridian.impactio.com/notes/): Meridian Notes: a weekly five-minute newsletter on the AI papers that mattered, each item in four parts (new, evidence, catch, who cares) and linked to the paper. - [Venues](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/): The AI conferences Impactio Meridian follows (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, SIGIR, COLM), by typical month, with official links. - [ICLR: International Conference on Learning Representations](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/iclr/): ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/icml/): ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [NeurIPS: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/neurips/): NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [ACL: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/acl/): ACL (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [EMNLP: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/emnlp/): EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [NAACL: Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/naacl/): NAACL (Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [CVPR: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/cvpr/): CVPR (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [ICCV / ECCV: International / European Conference on Computer Vision](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/iccv-eccv/): ICCV / ECCV (International / European Conference on Computer Vision): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [AAAI: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/aaai/): AAAI (AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/ijcai/): IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [KDD: ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/kdd/): KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [SIGIR: ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/sigir/): SIGIR (ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [COLM: Conference on Language Modeling](https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/colm/): COLM (Conference on Language Modeling): what the venue covers, its usual month, official links, and what Impactio Meridian does there. - [Singapore Sessions](https://meridian.impactio.com/singapore/): Singapore Sessions: Impactio Meridian invites authors of leading AI papers to Singapore for a recording, a Brief and an optional public seminar at MTRI One-north. Travel covered; no appearance fees; no one pays to appear. - [For authors](https://meridian.impactio.com/for-authors/): For authors of leading AI conference papers: what a Meridian appearance involves, consent and accuracy review, travel to Singapore, and why no one pays or is paid to appear. - [Nominate or apply](https://meridian.impactio.com/for-authors/nominate/): Nominate a paper accepted at a leading AI conference, or apply as its author, for a Meridian Conversation, Brief or Singapore Session. Free; never for sale. - [How guests are chosen](https://meridian.impactio.com/selection/): Impactio Meridian's selection method: accepted papers, public signals (orals, awards, released code), a reading by MTRI and Impactio researchers, and editors balancing a season. Never for sale. - [Editorial standards](https://meridian.impactio.com/editorial-standards/): Impactio Meridian's editorial standards: author views, documented findings and Meridian's interpretation labelled separately; no pay-to-appear; disclosed sponsorship; an interview is not an endorsement. - [Meridian Pro](https://meridian.impactio.com/pro/): Meridian Pro: annotated transcripts, the Briefs library, Venue Reports before and after each major AI conference, and the Author Map. Research Desk for teams. Indicative pricing. - [Partners](https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/): How Impactio Meridian is funded: disclosed sponsorship, Meridian Pro and Research Desk, events, licensing and an opt-in talent bridge, none of which buys appearances or editorial input. - [Sponsorship](https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/sponsorship/): Sponsor Impactio Meridian: episode, season, venue-desk and Singapore Sessions partnerships, all disclosed, with no say in guests, questions or edits. Indicative terms. - [Events](https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/events/): Impactio Meridian events: Singapore Sessions evenings at MTRI One-north, conference side events and Research Desk briefings. - [Licensing](https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/licensing/): License Impactio Meridian episodes and Briefs for university teaching, corporate learning and media clips. Indicative terms. - [Talent bridge](https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/talent-bridge/): Opt-in introductions for Meridian guests through magellon, Magellan Global's talent business, kept separate from guest selection and disclosed. - [About Impactio Meridian](https://meridian.impactio.com/about/): About Impactio Meridian: a Magellan Global brand that begins as an Impactio initiative, with research support from MTRI, recorded in Singapore. - [Research partner: MTRI](https://meridian.impactio.com/about/research/): MTRI, Magellan Global's research institute in Tokyo and Singapore, reads the papers, prepares questions and checks findings for Impactio Meridian, under disclosed related-party rules. - [Roadmap](https://meridian.impactio.com/about/roadmap/): Impactio Meridian's roadmap: a pilot, season one in 2027, Meridian Pro and venue desks in 2028, and a multilingual archive in 2029. - [Brand](https://meridian.impactio.com/about/brand/): The Impactio Meridian brand: the Impactio master logo with the Meridian product name, the six Impactio colours, type and downloadable logo files. - [Subscribe](https://meridian.impactio.com/subscribe/): Subscribe to Impactio Meridian: Conversations and Briefs on video and podcast apps, and Meridian Notes by email every Friday. - [Contact](https://meridian.impactio.com/contact/): Contact Impactio Meridian: authors and nominations, corrections, sponsorship, Meridian Pro and press. - [For AI assistants](https://meridian.impactio.com/for-ai/): How Impactio Meridian publishes for AI assistants: llms.txt, schema.org markup, labelled Markdown transcripts and citation guidance. - [Terms of use](https://meridian.impactio.com/legal/terms/): Terms for using meridian.impactio.com and Meridian content. - [Privacy](https://meridian.impactio.com/legal/privacy/): How Impactio Meridian handles personal data. - [Disclosures](https://meridian.impactio.com/legal/disclosures/): Related parties, sponsorship and funding disclosures for Impactio Meridian. - [Guest release](https://meridian.impactio.com/legal/guest-release/): The principles of the agreement every Meridian guest signs. ## Optional - [llms-full.txt](https://meridian.impactio.com/llms-full.txt): full text of the main pages --- # Conversations with the authors of AI's leading papers URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/ Impactio Meridian · a Magellan Global brand ## The people behind the papers. Long-form conversations with the authors of the year’s leading AI conference papers, from ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS to ACL, EMNLP and CVPR. Recorded in Singapore. Every claim linked to the paper. See season one Nominate a paper The first author The person who ran the experiments is the guest Never paid to appear Sponsors have no say in who or what View · finding · interpretation Labelled, in every transcript The research year. Venues sit at their usual month; a ring marks those recently held in Singapore. Months vary by edition. ## Five formats, one standard From ninety minutes to five, every format is built on the paper itself, and every claim can be checked against it. 60 to 90 minutes, video and audio Meridian Conversations The long form. One author, one paper and the path that led to it: the idea, the experiment that nearly killed it, what the reviewers asked, and what comes next. Recorded in Singapore or at the conference. 15 minutes, with the figures Meridian Briefs The author explains one paper with its own figures on screen: the claim, the evidence, the limits. For the reader who has fifteen minutes before a meeting. Weekly, five minutes to read Meridian Notes A short newsletter. Each item is a paper and why it matters, in a fixed structure: what is new, the evidence, the catch, who should care. Every item links to the paper. Before and after each major conference Venue Reports What to watch before ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP and CVPR, and what mattered afterwards: the orals, the awards, the trends, and the authors to know. Part of Meridian Pro. Singapore Sessions and conference evenings Meridian Live Public recordings and seminars in Singapore, and small side events at the major conferences. ## Season one: twelve themes, twelve authors Each episode takes one theme from this year’s programme and one author whose paper moved it. Guests are announced when the episode is released, never before they have agreed in writing. 01 ICLR · NeurIPS ## How models learn to reason What actually changes inside a model trained to think step by step, and what the evaluations miss. Guest announced on release 02 SIGIR · ACL ## Retrieval, memory and long context When a model should look something up, when it should remember, and why long context did not end retrieval. Guest announced on release 03 ACL · EMNLP ## Language models for Asian languages Tokenisation, data and evaluation for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Bahasa and the languages between them. Guest announced on release 04 ICML · COLM ## Agents that use tools Planning, tool use and recovery from error, and how to tell an agent benchmark from a demo. Guest announced on release 05 NeurIPS D&B · EMNLP ## The science of evaluation Contamination, judges that are models, and what a benchmark is for once models saturate it. Guest announced on release 06 ICML · MLSys ## Training and serving efficiently Quantisation, distillation, mixture-of-experts and the economics that decide which ideas ship. Guest announced on release All twelve themes ## What the author thinks, what the paper shows, what we think Most interviews blur the three. We label them. Pro transcripts tag every substantive line, link findings to the table or section that supports them, and keep our own reading apart. Editorial standards Transcript · annotated Illustrative excerpt, not a real interview 12:40 We expected the smaller model to collapse on the longer problems. It didn't, and that is the part I still find surprising. Author's view 12:58 On the held-out set, the method improves accuracy over the strongest baseline in four of the five task families; the fifth is within noise. Paper finding · Table 2, §4.1 13:31 If that holds at larger scale, it would make the technique cheap enough for most teams to try. The paper does not test that. Meridian interpretation 13:50 Reviewer two asked whether the gains came from the data rather than the method. That was the right question. Author's view 14:12 The ablation that trains on the same data without the method recovers less than half of the gain. Paper finding · Table 4, §5 View what the author thinks Finding what the paper shows Interpretation what we think Singapore Sessions ## Come to Singapore and tell us how you did it. Each month we invite a small number of authors to Singapore: a long-form recording in the studio, a fifteen-minute Brief with your figures, and, if you want, a public seminar at MTRI’s Singapore office in One-north. We cover return travel and up to three nights. We never pay appearance fees, and no one pays to appear. How Singapore Sessions work - Singapore hosted ICLR in 2025 and AAAI in 2026 - Magellan Global’s headquarters and MTRI’s Singapore office are here - A short flight from most of Asia’s research labs - Recording, seminar and a day to see the city ## How guests are chosen Selection is editorial and never for sale. Public signals narrow the field; researchers read the papers; editors choose. Accepted papers Every paper at the main tracks of the venues we cover, from the official proceedings. Public signals Orals, spotlights and awards; released code and data; follow-on work. Read by researchers MTRI and Impactio researchers read the shortlist for substance, not fame. Chosen by editors Balanced across topics, regions, institutions and career stages. Invited The first author first. Consent in writing before anything is announced. The selection method For authors ## Where the papers come from The venues we follow, by their usual month. Each page explains the venue, links to its official site and proceedings, and shows what Meridian does there. Apr · Machine learning ICLR International Conference on Learning Representations Held in Singapore Jul · Machine learning ICML International Conference on Machine Learning Dec · Machine learning NeurIPS Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Jul · Natural language processing ACL Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Nov · Natural language processing EMNLP Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing May · Natural language processing NAACL Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL Jun · Computer vision CVPR IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Oct · Computer vision ICCV / ECCV International / European Conference on Computer Vision Feb · Artificial intelligence AAAI AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Held in Singapore Aug · Artificial intelligence IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Aug · Data mining KDD ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Jul · Information retrieval SIGIR ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Oct · Language models COLM Conference on Language Modeling ## For teams who need to keep up Meridian Pro adds annotated transcripts, the Briefs library, Venue Reports before and after each major conference, and the Author Map: who is working on what. The Research Desk brings the editors to your team each quarter. Meridian Pro Partner with Meridian ## Three rules that do not bend - No one pays to appear, and sponsors never choose guests, questions or edits. - Every sponsored or commissioned piece is labelled where it appears. - An interview is not an endorsement; views, findings and interpretation are labelled. ## Questions What is Impactio Meridian? A Magellan Global brand that interviews the authors of top AI conference papers, at ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR and other venues, in long-form conversations, short paper briefs and a weekly newsletter. It begins as an Impactio initiative, with research support from MTRI. Who are the guests? Authors of papers accepted at the leading AI conferences, chosen by the editors for the substance of the work. Selection uses public signals (orals, spotlights, awards, released code and data) and a reading by researchers; it is never for sale. Where is it recorded? In Singapore, where Magellan Global is headquartered and where MTRI has an office at One-north, and at the major conferences. Some conversations are recorded remotely. Is an interview an endorsement? No. An appearance on Meridian is not an academic endorsement of the paper, the author or their institution. We separate what the author says, what the paper shows and what we think, and label each. How does Meridian make money? Disclosed sponsorship, Meridian Pro subscriptions and the Research Desk for teams, live events and licensing. None of these buys an appearance or editorial input. A Magellan Global brand ## Impactio, MTRI and Magellan Global Meridian begins as an Impactio initiative. Impactio helps researchers show the impact of their work; Meridian gives that work a wider audience. MTRI, the group’s research institute in Tokyo and Singapore, reads the papers with us and keeps the questions technical. Magellan Global, headquartered in Singapore, is the group behind both. magellanglobal.com · About Meridian · Related-party disclosures ## Get Meridian Notes every week Five minutes, every Friday: the papers that mattered and why, each linked to the source. Subscribe Nominate a paper --- # Meridian Conversations URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/ Meridian Conversations ## Ninety minutes with the person who ran the experiments. Not the lab director, not the founder: the first author. One paper, the path that led to it, the experiment that nearly failed, the questions the reviewers asked and what comes next. Video and audio, with a full transcript linked to the paper. Season one Subscribe ## Why authors The most-listened technology shows interview the people who run companies and fund them. That is valuable, and it is not the same thing as hearing from the researcher who built the result. Meridian is for that conversation. The work, not the reputation We choose papers, then invite their authors. A first-year PhD student with an oral paper outranks a famous name with a minor one. Technical, and still listenable Questions are prepared with researchers who have read the paper. Explanations are for an informed listener, not a specialist only. Checked against the paper Every finding mentioned is linked to the table, figure or section that supports it. Asia in the frame Recorded in Singapore, with a deliberate share of authors from labs across Asia, whose work is under-heard in English-language media. The failures too Every episode asks what did not work. Negative results rarely make the paper; they are often the most useful part of the conversation. Built to last Episodes are organised by venue, year and theme, so the archive becomes a reference to the field, not a feed. ## Season one Twelve themes from this year’s programme. Guests are announced on release. 01 ICLR · NeurIPS ## How models learn to reason What actually changes inside a model trained to think step by step, and what the evaluations miss. Guest announced on release 02 SIGIR · ACL ## Retrieval, memory and long context When a model should look something up, when it should remember, and why long context did not end retrieval. Guest announced on release 03 ACL · EMNLP ## Language models for Asian languages Tokenisation, data and evaluation for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Bahasa and the languages between them. Guest announced on release 04 ICML · COLM ## Agents that use tools Planning, tool use and recovery from error, and how to tell an agent benchmark from a demo. Guest announced on release 05 NeurIPS D&B · EMNLP ## The science of evaluation Contamination, judges that are models, and what a benchmark is for once models saturate it. Guest announced on release 06 ICML · MLSys ## Training and serving efficiently Quantisation, distillation, mixture-of-experts and the economics that decide which ideas ship. Guest announced on release 07 CVPR · ICCV/ECCV ## Seeing, reading and listening Vision-language models, documents as images, video understanding and speech. Guest announced on release 08 EMNLP · SIGIR ## Documents, law and professional work Contracts, filings and forms: the unglamorous documents where language models meet liability. Guest announced on release 09 NeurIPS · ICML ## AI for science Proteins, materials and weather: what transfers from language models to scientific discovery and what does not. Guest announced on release 10 ICLR · NeurIPS ## Alignment and safety research Interpretability, oversight and robustness, explained by the people running the experiments. Guest announced on release 11 COLT · ICML ## Why deep learning works Scaling, generalisation and optimisation: the theory catching up with practice. Guest announced on release 12 CoRL · CVPR ## Robots and embodied learning Learning from demonstration, simulation and the gap between a lab arm and a warehouse. Guest announced on release ## Every episode includes - Video (YouTube) and audio (all major podcast apps) - Chapters, so you can jump to the reviewers’ questions or the limits - A full transcript with timestamps and links to the paper, code and data - A one-paragraph summary in plain language, and the sixty-second take - Disclosures: travel costs covered, any sponsorship, any relationship to Magellan Global companies The episode format Editorial standards --- # Season one URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/season-one/ Season one · 2027 ## Twelve themes, twelve authors. Each episode follows one theme through this year’s programme and centres one paper that moved it. The venue line shows where we expect to find the papers; the guest is chosen by the selection method and announced on release. 01 ICLR · NeurIPS ## How models learn to reason What actually changes inside a model trained to think step by step, and what the evaluations miss. Guest announced on release 02 SIGIR · ACL ## Retrieval, memory and long context When a model should look something up, when it should remember, and why long context did not end retrieval. Guest announced on release 03 ACL · EMNLP ## Language models for Asian languages Tokenisation, data and evaluation for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Bahasa and the languages between them. Guest announced on release 04 ICML · COLM ## Agents that use tools Planning, tool use and recovery from error, and how to tell an agent benchmark from a demo. Guest announced on release 05 NeurIPS D&B · EMNLP ## The science of evaluation Contamination, judges that are models, and what a benchmark is for once models saturate it. Guest announced on release 06 ICML · MLSys ## Training and serving efficiently Quantisation, distillation, mixture-of-experts and the economics that decide which ideas ship. Guest announced on release 07 CVPR · ICCV/ECCV ## Seeing, reading and listening Vision-language models, documents as images, video understanding and speech. Guest announced on release 08 EMNLP · SIGIR ## Documents, law and professional work Contracts, filings and forms: the unglamorous documents where language models meet liability. Guest announced on release 09 NeurIPS · ICML ## AI for science Proteins, materials and weather: what transfers from language models to scientific discovery and what does not. Guest announced on release 10 ICLR · NeurIPS ## Alignment and safety research Interpretability, oversight and robustness, explained by the people running the experiments. Guest announced on release 11 COLT · ICML ## Why deep learning works Scaling, generalisation and optimisation: the theory catching up with practice. Guest announced on release 12 CoRL · CVPR ## Robots and embodied learning Learning from demonstration, simulation and the gap between a lab arm and a warehouse. Guest announced on release Themes may change as papers are accepted. Venue lines are indicative; MLSys, COLT and CoRL are covered when the paper fits. No guest is named before they have agreed in writing. ## Release rhythm When What Every other Tuesday A Conversation (60 to 90 minutes) Every Tuesday between A Brief (15 minutes) from the same or a related paper Every Friday Meridian Notes, the newsletter Before and after each major venue A Venue Report (Meridian Pro) --- # Episode format URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/conversations/format/ Episode format ## What happens in ninety minutes. The same nine chapters every time, so listeners know where to jump and authors know what to prepare. The hardest chapter is the one in the middle: what the reviewers asked. Chapter Minutes What it is for Cold open 3 The one result, in the author's words The paper in five minutes 5 Claim, method, evidence The path 20 Where the idea came from The experiment that nearly failed 12 What did not work, and why What the reviewers asked 10 The hardest questions, answered Limits 10 Where the result stops What comes next 20 Open problems and the next paper Advice 8 For students and for teams Sixty seconds 2 Why it matters, plainly ## Before, during and after - ## Preparation call, 30 minutes The author, the host and an MTRI researcher who has read the paper. We agree the outline, what is out of scope (unpublished or confidential work) and the figures to show. - ## Recording, two hours booked In the Singapore studio, at the conference or remotely. Three cameras in the studio; the author can stop and restate anything. - ## Edit and fact review The author sees the edit and checks technical accuracy. Corrections to what they said about their own work are made; fair questions and their answers stay. - ## Release Video, audio, transcript, Brief and a Notes item, all linked to the paper. - ## Corrections If a finding is misstated after release, we correct the transcript and show notes and log the change. ## The transcript Free transcripts are full and timestamped, with links to the paper. Meridian Pro transcripts add the labels below to every substantive line, link each finding to its table, figure or section, and let you filter by label. How labels are applied Transcript · annotated Illustrative excerpt, not a real interview 12:40 We expected the smaller model to collapse on the longer problems. It didn't, and that is the part I still find surprising. Author's view 12:58 On the held-out set, the method improves accuracy over the strongest baseline in four of the five task families; the fifth is within noise. Paper finding · Table 2, §4.1 13:31 If that holds at larger scale, it would make the technique cheap enough for most teams to try. The paper does not test that. Meridian interpretation 13:50 Reviewer two asked whether the gains came from the data rather than the method. That was the right question. Author's view 14:12 The ablation that trains on the same data without the method recovers less than half of the gain. Paper finding · Table 4, §5 View what the author thinks Finding what the paper shows Interpretation what we think --- # Meridian Briefs URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/briefs/ Meridian Briefs ## One paper in fifteen minutes, with its own figures. The author on screen beside their figures, answering the same five questions every time. For the reader with fifteen minutes before a meeting, and for the student deciding what to read in full. Subscribe Nominate a paper ## The five questions - ## What is the claim? One sentence, then the figure that shows it. - ## How do you know? The experiment, the baseline and the number that matters. - ## What would change your mind? The result that would falsify it, and whether anyone has tried. - ## Where does it stop? The limits: scale, data, languages, tasks not tested. - ## Who should care, and what should they do? Practitioners, researchers, students: one concrete next step each. ## Briefs and Conversations Brief Conversation Length 15 minutes 60 to 90 minutes Focus One paper The paper, the path, the person Format Author with figures on screen Studio conversation, three cameras Recorded Remotely or in Singapore Singapore, the conference or remotely Cadence Weekly Every other week Free Yes Yes ## For teams Meridian Pro includes the full Briefs library with downloadable figures (with the authors’ permission) and a searchable index by venue, theme and method. Teams on the Research Desk can licence Briefs for internal training. Meridian Pro Licensing --- # Meridian Notes URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/notes/ Meridian Notes ## The papers that mattered this week, and why. A short weekly newsletter. Every item has the same four parts, so you can read it in five minutes and know exactly where to go deeper. Subscribe free ## Four parts, every item - New: what the paper does that was not done before, in one sentence - Evidence: the result and the comparison that supports it - Catch: the limit the authors state, or the one we see - Who cares: who should read it, and which section Each issue carries five to eight items, a link to that week’s Conversation and Brief, and a calendar of upcoming venues and deadlines. Meridian Notes · one item Illustrative format, fictional paper ## A cheaper way to make small models reason over long problems Example Paper Title · Venue 2027 · first author A. Researcher NEW A training method that lets a small model hold its accuracy on problems three times longer than it was trained on. EVIDENCE Better than the strongest baseline on four of five task families; an ablation shows most of the gain comes from the method, not the data. CATCH Tested up to mid-sized models only, and on English tasks. WHO CARES Teams serving small models on long documents. Read §4 and Table 4. ## What Notes is not - Not a press-release digest: we read the paper, not the announcement - Not a hype cycle: an item with no catch is not an item - Not sponsored editorially: any sponsor is a labelled line at the end --- # Singapore Sessions URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/singapore/ Singapore Sessions ## Come to Singapore and tell us how you did it. Each month a small number of authors come to Singapore for three days: a long-form recording, a Brief, an optional public seminar at MTRI’s Singapore office in One-north, and time to meet researchers and see the city. Apply or nominate For authors ## Three days A typical visit. Every element except the recording is optional. Day 0 Arrive Airport transfer, hotel, a short dinner with the host and the MTRI researcher who read your paper. Day 1 Preparation and Brief Morning outline call in person. Afternoon: record the fifteen-minute Brief with your figures. Day 2 The Conversation Two hours booked in the studio for a sixty-to-ninety-minute recording. Evening: optional public seminar at One-north. Day 3 Your day Meet researchers, visit labs you choose, or see the city. Fly home. ## What we cover, and what we do not Covered Not covered Return economy airfare (premium economy over eight hours) Appearance fees, for anyone Up to three nights in a hotel near the studio Extra nights or travelling companions Airport transfers and local transport Visa fees, where they apply Meals on recording days Anything conditional on what you say Costs we cover are disclosed in the episode notes. If your employer or funder has rules on accepting travel, we will send a letter describing exactly what is covered. ## Before you travel - An invitation letter from Magellan Global for your visa or employer - Entry requirements depend on your passport: check the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority - A one-page brief for your communications or legal team - Consent and release signed before travel is booked ## Why Singapore Where the field already meets Singapore hosted ICLR in 2025 and AAAI in 2026, at Singapore EXPO. Where the group is Magellan Global is headquartered in Singapore, and MTRI has an office at One-north. Between the labs Within a few hours of research groups across East, South and Southeast Asia, and a direct flight from most of the rest. A neutral room Away from the conference rush: time to think, prepare and say it properly. ## Sources - ICLR 2025 dates and venue - AAAI-26 at Singapore EXPO - Immigration & Checkpoints Authority - MTRI Reviewed 26 October 2026. Rules and fees change; confirm with the authority before relying on them. ## Public seminars Most Session evenings include a talk by the visiting author, free to attend, at MTRI’s Singapore office. Hosts may support an evening; they are named, and the talk is the author’s. Events Get seminar announcements --- # For authors URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/for-authors/ For authors ## Your paper, explained by you, to the people who should read it. If you are an author of a paper accepted at a leading AI venue, Meridian can give it a wider audience: a long-form Conversation, a fifteen-minute Brief with your figures, and a place in the archive organised by venue and theme. Apply or nominate Selection method ## What an appearance involves - ## Invitation or application Editors invite authors through the selection method; you can also apply, or a colleague can nominate you. - ## Consent and release A plain-language agreement: what we record, where it is published, your right to review for accuracy, and your rights to your figures. Nothing is announced before you sign. - ## Preparation call Thirty minutes with the host and an MTRI researcher who has read your paper. - ## Recording In Singapore, at a conference or remotely. - ## Your review You see the edit and correct anything inaccurate about your work. - ## Release and after We link your paper, code and data, and your Impactio profile if you have one. Corrections are logged. ## What you can count on No pay-to-appear, ever And no appearance fees, so that no one appears for money. Accuracy review You check the technical accuracy of the edit before release. Your figures stay yours You grant a licence to show them; you keep the rights. Nothing confidential We do not ask about unpublished work, work under review or your employer’s confidential projects. Disclosure Travel costs we cover, sponsors and any Magellan Global relationship are disclosed in the episode. Not an endorsement We say clearly that an interview is not an academic endorsement, of you or of us. ## Questions authors ask Do I have to pay to appear? No, never. No one can pay to appear on Meridian, and sponsors have no say in who appears. If anyone offers you a paid appearance in Meridian's name, tell us. Do you pay guests? We do not pay appearance fees, so that no one appears for the money. For Singapore Sessions we cover return travel, up to three nights' accommodation and local transport, and we say so in the episode notes. Can I see the episode before it goes out? Yes. You review the edit for technical accuracy and can correct anything you said about your work. You cannot remove a fair question or the answer you gave to it; if we disagree, we talk it through, and corrections are published. I am a PhD student. Is that too junior? No. The first author is usually the person who ran the experiments, and that is who we want. Many guests will be students or early-career researchers. My co-author is better known. Should they come instead? We usually ask the first author, and a senior co-author can join if the first author wants. The episode is about the work, not the reputation. What about my employer's communications policy? We send a one-page brief you can share with your communications or legal team before you agree, and we do not ask about unpublished work, confidential projects or anything under review. Can I bring slides or a demo? Yes. Briefs are built around your own figures, and you keep all rights to them. Live demos are welcome in Singapore Sessions. --- # How guests are chosen URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/selection/ How guests are chosen ## Papers first. Then the people who wrote them. Selection is editorial and never for sale. Public signals narrow the field, researchers read the shortlist, and editors choose a season balanced across topics, regions, institutions and career stages. Accepted papers All main-track papers at the venues we follow, from official proceedings, OpenReview and the ACL Anthology. Public signals Oral or spotlight, awards, released code and data, early follow-on work, and the author’s Impactio profile where public. Read by researchers MTRI and Impactio researchers read the shortlist and score substance: novelty, evidence, clarity, honesty about limits. Chosen by editors The editorial board picks for the season, balancing topic, region, institution and career stage. Invited First author first. Consent in writing before anything is announced. ## Signals we use, and how much they count Signal Why Weight Oral, spotlight or award The programme committee’s own judgement High Researchers’ reading Substance, not fame; catches overlooked work Highest: it can overrule the rest Released code and data Others can check and build on it Medium Early follow-on work The field is already using it Medium, with a lag Social media attention Easy to game, often about the lab not the paper Not used The author’s seniority or fame The opposite of what Meridian is for Not used ## Balance across a season - At least a third of guests from institutions in Asia, and no more than two from any one institution - At least half of guests are first authors who are students or early-career researchers - No more than one guest in twelve from MTRI or another Magellan Global company, always disclosed - Every theme in the season covered by at least one venue outside the largest three These are targets the editors report against at the end of each season, published on this page. ## Who cannot influence selection - Sponsors and partners, including Magellan Global companies acting as sponsors. - Meridian Pro and Research Desk subscribers. - Anyone offering payment, travel or other benefit to Meridian in return for an appearance. --- # Editorial standards URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/editorial-standards/ Editorial standards ## Say who is speaking, and how they know. Meridian gives scientific ideas and the people behind them a wider audience. That only works if listeners can tell an author’s view from what the paper shows, and both from what we think. ## Three labels View What the author thinks Opinions, intuitions, predictions and recollections. Valuable, and not evidence. Finding What the paper shows A result documented in the paper, linked to the table, figure or section. If the paper does not show it, it is not a finding. Interpretation What we think Meridian’s own reading: what a result might mean, how it relates to other work. Always ours, always labelled. {transcript_demo()} ## Rules No pay-to-appear No one can buy an appearance, a question or an edit. No appearance fees are paid. Disclosure where it appears Sponsorship, commissioned work, travel costs we covered and any relationship to a Magellan Global company are disclosed in the episode, the show notes and the transcript. Not an endorsement An appearance is not an academic endorsement of a paper, an author or an institution. Accuracy review, not approval Authors check the technical accuracy of the edit. They cannot remove fair questions or their answers. Corrections in the open Errors are corrected in the transcript and show notes, with a dated log at the end. No confidential material We do not ask about unpublished work, work under review or confidential projects. Related parties MTRI researchers help prepare questions and may appear as guests (at most one in twelve). Both are disclosed. AI tools, disclosed We use AI tools for transcription and first-draft summaries; editors check every line before publication. ## Complaints and corrections Write to corrections@meridian.impactio.com with the episode and timestamp. We reply within five working days and publish corrections in the episode’s log. --- # Meridian Pro URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/pro/ Meridian Pro ## Keep up with the field without reading everything. Everything Meridian publishes is free to watch, listen and read. Meridian Pro is for people whose work depends on keeping up: annotated transcripts, the Briefs library, Venue Reports and the Author Map. ## Listen Free - Every Conversation and Brief, video and audio - Meridian Notes, weekly - Transcripts with paper links - Clips and show notes Subscribe ## Meridian Pro US$29 per month, or US$290 a year - Annotated transcripts: every claim tagged view, finding or interpretation, with section links - The full Briefs library and downloadable figures - Venue Reports before and after each major conference - The Author Map: who is working on what, by topic and venue - Members' Q&A with guests after release Join the waitlist ## Research Desk From US$12,000 a year, for teams of up to 10 - Everything in Pro for the team - A quarterly briefing with the editors on your topics - Custom author maps: the people behind a research area - Seats at Singapore Sessions and conference evenings - Usage rights for internal training Talk to us Indicative launch prices in US dollars. Meridian Pro opens with season one; the free tier will always include every Conversation, Brief and Notes issue. ## What is in Pro Annotated transcripts Every substantive line labelled view, finding or interpretation; findings linked to tables and sections; filter by label. Venue Reports Before each major conference: the orals, themes and authors to watch. After: what mattered, and why. The Author Map Who is working on what, by topic, method and venue, built from public proceedings and Impactio profiles. Authors can see and correct their own entry. The Briefs library Every Brief, searchable by venue, theme and method, with downloadable figures where authors allow. Members’ Q&A A live session with selected guests after release. Research Desk For teams: a quarterly briefing with the editors, custom author maps, Singapore Sessions seats and training rights. ## Join the waitlist Name Email Interested in Meridian Pro Research Desk Join the waitlist ## Pro never buys influence Subscribers cannot nominate with priority, suggest questions to guests outside the public Q&A, or see episodes before release. The Author Map uses public information only, and any author can ask to correct or remove their entry. --- # Partners URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/ Partners ## How Meridian is funded, in full. Five sources of revenue, each disclosed, none of which buys an appearance or editorial input. Partners get an audience of researchers, engineers and research leaders; they do not get a say. Source What the partner gets What the partner never gets Sponsorship Disclosed reads, show-notes lines, season and venue-desk naming A say in guests, questions or the edit Meridian Pro and Research Desk Annotated transcripts, Venue Reports, the Author Map, briefings Priority, previews or influence Events Hosting a Singapore Sessions evening or a conference side event Control of the talk Licensing Rights to use episodes and Briefs in courses and training Edits to the content Talent bridge Opt-in introductions to guests through magellon Access to any guest who has not opted in ## Who partners with Meridian - Companies building or deploying AI who want to reach the researchers and engineers who listen - Cloud and hardware providers supporting conference coverage - Universities and institutes licensing episodes for teaching - Research and strategy teams who need to keep up (Research Desk) ## Talk to the partnerships team Indicative terms, audience and disclosure rules on request. Contact partnerships Sponsorship --- # Sponsorship URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/sponsorship/ Sponsorship ## Reach the people who build AI. Without touching the content. Sponsors are named where they appear and have no say in guests, questions or the edit. That is what makes the audience worth reaching. Episode partner From US$6,000 per episode A read at the start and end, a line in the show notes and the newsletter. Category exclusivity for that episode. No say in the guest, the questions or the edit. Season partner From US$90,000 per season Twelve episodes, the season page, and naming on Singapore Sessions for the season. The same rule: no editorial input of any kind. Venue desk partner From US$25,000 per conference Supports Meridian's recordings and Notes at one conference. Disclosed on every piece produced there. Singapore Sessions host By arrangement Hosts a public seminar evening for a visiting author. The host is named; the talk is the author's. Indicative launch terms; final terms depend on season length and audience at signing. ## The sponsor agreement says - The sponsor has no right to choose, propose or veto guests, topics, questions or edits. - Sponsor reads are written and read by Meridian and labelled as sponsorship. - A sponsor whose own research appears in an episode is disclosed in that episode, and cannot sponsor it. - Category exclusivity applies to reads only, never to guests: a competitor’s researcher can appear in a sponsored episode. - Meridian can end a sponsorship that breaches these terms, with no refund of the breached part. ## Who listens Meridian is built for researchers, ML engineers, research leaders, students and the technical decision-makers who follow them. Audience figures will be published with the first season; until then, we share pilot data under NDA. Ask for the sponsor pack --- # Talent bridge URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/partners/talent-bridge/ Talent bridge ## Introductions, only when the author asks. Guests on Meridian are some of the most capable researchers of their year. Some want to hear about roles or collaborations; most do not, at least not yet. The talent bridge, run with magellon, Magellan Global’s talent business, makes introductions only for authors who opt in. ## How it works - ## Opt in, separately After release, never before, a guest can choose to join. It is a separate agreement from the guest release, and declining changes nothing about the episode. - ## The author sets the terms What they are open to (roles, collaborations, advisory work), where and when. - ## magellon makes introductions To organisations that match. The organisation pays magellon; the author pays nothing. - ## Disclosed The episode page notes that the guest has joined the talent bridge, if they choose to make that public. ## Walls between the bridge and the show - The talent bridge has no access to the selection process, and selection never considers whether an author might join it. - Organisations using the bridge cannot sponsor an episode featuring a guest they are recruiting. - Guest data stays with Meridian unless the guest opts in. --- # About Impactio Meridian URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/about/ About ## Give scientific ideas, and the people behind them, a wider audience. Impactio Meridian is a Magellan Global brand. It begins as an Impactio initiative, with research support from MTRI, and is recorded in Singapore, where the group is headquartered. Impactio Helps researchers present the impact of their work. Meridian extends that from the profile to the conversation. MTRI Magellan Global’s research institute, in Tokyo and Singapore, working on language, retrieval, agentic and multimodal AI. Its researchers read the papers and prepare the questions. Magellan Global The group behind Impactio, Meridian, magellon, OpenDossier and other brands. Headquartered in Singapore. magellon The group’s talent business, which runs the opt-in talent bridge. ## The team Roles at launch. Names are published as people join. Role What they do Editor Owns selection, standards and corrections; chairs the editorial board Host Prepares and leads Conversations; trained in the field Research editors (MTRI) Read shortlisted papers; prepare questions; check findings Producer Studio, travel, edit and release Partnerships Sponsors, licensing and Research Desk, kept apart from the editorial team ## Related parties MTRI, Impactio and magellon are Magellan Global companies. MTRI researchers help prepare episodes and may appear as guests (at most one in twelve), always disclosed. Group companies may sponsor Meridian on the same terms as anyone else, disclosed in the same way. See Disclosures . A Magellan Global brand ## Impactio, MTRI and Magellan Global Meridian begins as an Impactio initiative. Impactio helps researchers show the impact of their work; Meridian gives that work a wider audience. MTRI, the group’s research institute in Tokyo and Singapore, reads the papers with us and keeps the questions technical. Magellan Global, headquartered in Singapore, is the group behind both. magellanglobal.com · About Meridian · Related-party disclosures --- # Research partner: MTRI URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/about/research/ Research partner ## The researchers who read the papers. MTRI is Magellan Global’s research institute, with offices in Tokyo (Meguro) and Singapore (One-north). Its work spans natural-language processing and information retrieval, agentic and multimodal AI, and document automation for legal and professional services. mtri.co.jp ## What MTRI does for Meridian - Reads shortlisted papers and scores them for substance - Prepares technical questions with the host - Checks that every finding cited in an episode is supported by the paper - Hosts Singapore Sessions seminars at its One-north office - Contributes to Venue Reports ## What MTRI does not do - Choose guests on its own: the editors decide - Favour its own papers: MTRI authors appear at most once in twelve episodes, disclosed - Use guests’ unpublished work: preparation uses published papers only --- # Venues URL: https://meridian.impactio.com/venues/ Venues ## Where the papers come from. The conferences Meridian follows, by their usual month. Months vary by edition and some venues alternate years, so each page links to the official site for current dates and locations. ## The research year Jan Feb AAAI Mar Apr ICLR May NAACL Jun CVPR Jul ICML ACL SIGIR Aug IJCAI KDD Sep Oct ICCV / ECCV COLM Nov EMNLP Dec NeurIPS ## All venues All Machine learning Natural language processing Computer vision Artificial intelligence Data mining Information retrieval Language models Apr · Machine learning ICLR International Conference on Learning Representations Held in Singapore Jul · Machine learning ICML International Conference on Machine Learning Dec · Machine learning NeurIPS Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Jul · Natural language processing ACL Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Nov · Natural language processing EMNLP Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing May · Natural language processing NAACL Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL Jun · Computer vision CVPR IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Oct · Computer vision ICCV / ECCV International / European Conference on Computer Vision Feb · Artificial intelligence AAAI AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Held in Singapore Aug · Artificial intelligence IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Aug · Data mining KDD ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Jul · Information retrieval SIGIR ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Oct · Language models COLM Conference on Language Modeling ## What Meridian does at a venue Before During After Venue Report (Pro): the orals, themes and authors to watch Recordings with authors near the venue; a daily Notes item Venue Report (Pro): what mattered, award papers, the conversations that followed Meridian is not affiliated with or endorsed by any conference. Conference names are the marks of their organisers.