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Ansgar Scherp

@ansgarscherp.bsky.social
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Researcher, Entrepreneur-thinker, Free-Your-Mind!

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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Being different and going a new path is part of being a researcher. Love the cartoon 👍
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🧩 Semantic code segmentation can make source code easier to understand and navigate. Our key findings from the analysis 🔹 Line-by-line segmentation generally performs best. 🔹 Smaller fine-tuned models like CodeBERT and CodeT5+ outperform larger LLMs. 📄 Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Extracting Logical Structure in Code Documents via Semantic Segmentation and Language Models | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Can classification metrics be supported by ranking metrics — and can ranking metrics help classification? 🤔📊 We believe XML methods should be considered for HTC, and future HTC models should also be evaluated for ranking performance. 🔍📈 📄 Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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On the Transferability Between Extreme Multi-Label and Hierarchical Text Classification | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Metascience 2027 is scheduled for June 14-16 in Montreal. We are delighted to partner with the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute for this important meeting. Join the mailing list for updates at: metascience.info
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Metascience 2027
A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to improve science.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you don't know the "The Nerd Reich" on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy yet, you should. See the interview of the book's author on Democracy Now! at www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7Y...
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"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Angelo Salatino @angelosalatino.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞? In this paper, we unpack this question, arguing that a form of replacement is already underway, shifting our role from creator to curator of science. What are the consequences? Read pre-print: zenodo.org/records/2006...
Research paper discussing the thesis on "𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞?"
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are happy to announce an update to our article “Semantic Web: Past, Present, and Future”, published in TGDK 2(1): 3:1–3:37 (2024). ✨ The article has been extended with learning methods on knowledge graphs and language models and knowledge graphs. 🤖📚 🔗 lnkd.in/eDNDYSp5 Feedback is very welcome! 💬
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
An interesting new paper on the Distances Between Formal Concept Analysis Structures just published in @tgdkjournal.bsky.social See: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...
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Distances Between Formal Concept Analysis Structures
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I wonder how many conferences taking place this year in the US will be online only / in parts virtual because of what is going on there - Or to put it in MeidasTouch's Tennessee Brando's words, "America Is Now a Dictatorship", see substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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America Is Now a Dictatorship
We Are There Now
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
When Springer renames a journal from IR to "Discover Computing", it sucks! Now it looks like our article with @lukasgalke.bsky.social and Iacopo Vagliano appeared in there. I don't even know what "Discover Computing" is, nor does my AI-companion. Stop doing this. The journal impact factor is now 0.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🤖 Classic ML Still Matters: I make my case 🔍 Discrete Key-Value Bottleneck arxiv.org/abs/2207.11240 ➡️ k-means for codebook—buried in refs 🌲 CascadeXML arxiv.org/abs/2211.00640 ➡️ Transformer + hierarchical k-means label tree 🧠 Mirage arxiv.org/abs/2310.09486 ➡️ Graph distillation via pattern mining
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Discrete Key-Value Bottleneck
Deep neural networks perform well on classification tasks where data streams are i.i.d. and labeled data is abundant. Challenges emerge with non-stationary training data streams such as continual lear...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Thank you, we still have sane people in the US! @meidastouch.com Now it is time for US research institutions to stand up! @columbiauniversity.bsky.social you can do better! Make Ron happy!
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In the US, classes are back online — not due to a pandemic, but because students fear being snatched off the street and deported 😟📚 Meanwhile, in Germany, some still act like it’s a game To students & scholars: you’re welcome here. To Europe’s academics: wake up. This is not a drill. ⏰🌍 #50501
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The AI that DOGE allegedly uses is obviously a simple list of regular expressions (aka a Gazetteer approach) and aims to delete all web content, fire all people, etc., that match on trans*, gay*, dei * ... see also the "Enola Gay" story, www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ90...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢 A major tech-related legal case is back in the spotlight! A well-documented scandal in the British Post Office—caused by programming errors—led to serious miscarriages of justice. Great to see *Comm. of the ACM* covering this important issue in their latest edition. cacm.acm.org/news/how-sof...
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How Software Bugs led to ‘One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice’ in British History – Communications of the ACM
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
American scientists, come to Europe! 🌍✈️ We all speak English, we have excellent affordable health care 🏥💊, safe schools 🏫🔒, and free university education for your kids 🎓👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. Enjoy more money after deduction of taxes and living expenses 💰📉. We care for you! ❤️🤝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_l0...
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American Scientists - come to Europe.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🗞️ A simple trick improves embedding retrieval performance even without further training. ZCA whitening increases isotropy of the embedding space and thereby helps retrieval Paper by Andor Diera and with @lukasgalke.bsky.social at ESANN 2025. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17538
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Isotropy Matters: Soft-ZCA Whitening of Embeddings for Semantic Code Search
Low isotropy in an embedding space impairs performance on tasks involving semantic inference. Our study investigates the impact of isotropy on semantic code search performance and explores post-proces...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚀 Text News Alert! 🚀 Our long-running text classification survey just got a fresh new home—and an epic boost! 🎉 /w @lukasgalke.bsky.social * Added hierarchical classification (HTC) 📚 * Latest research papers on leveraging LLMs 🤖 👉 Explore More: github.com/ascherp/text...
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GitHub - ascherp/text-classification-survey: Companion website to a long-running survey on text classification.
Companion website to a long-running survey on text classification. - ascherp/text-classification-survey
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
When fact's don't matter anymore, you end up with Elon and Donald. -
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
German public news authority @tagesschau.de.web.brid.gy's front page calls the Trump government by the right words: dictatorship and coup. As a researcher, I need unfiltered facts. I deleted the @cnn.com app weeks ago. Tune in to Prof @meiselasb.bsky.social and @meidastouch.com Src:
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
After people have left X, they will also leave Facebook after this move. Luckily, not many researchers are actively pushing research content on FB anyway. So I won't care :-) @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zucke...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey
Capitulation is contagious.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
🌟 Reflecting on the Semantic Web 🌟 With Katja Hose, Maria-Esther Vidal, Gerd Groener, and Petr Škoda, we wrote "Semantic Web: Past, Present, and Future", published in TGDK. A journey that started 13 years ago! 👉 Primer: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc... ✨ Interested in contributing? Let’s chat!
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Semantic Web: Past, Present, and Future
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Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge @tgdkjournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Transactions on Graph Data & Knowledge (TGDK), Vol. 2, Issues 2 & 3 now available, featuring 8 resource articles, and 2 research articles! All #DiamondOA (no fees for authors/readers) w/ Dagstuhl Publishing. Enjoy! 2(2): drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/iss... 2(3): drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/iss...
Screenshot of table of contents in Volume 2, Issue 2.Screenshot of table of contents in Volume 2, Issue 3.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Preventing catastrophic forgetting in NLP! 🌟 Our discrete key-value bottleneck enables efficient continual learning in encoder-only language models—no major updates, just localized tweaks. With Andor Diera and @lukasgalke.bsky.social Learn more! 🚀 arxiv.org/abs/2412.08528
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Continual Learning for Encoder-only Language Models via a Discrete Key-Value Bottleneck
Continual learning remains challenging across various natural language understanding tasks. When models are updated with new training data, they risk catastrophic forgetting of prior knowledge. In the...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Standard GNNs excel on homophilic graphs but depend on neighborhood patterns. ES-MLP, a student project by Matthias Kohn and co-supervised with Marcel Hoffmann, presented at #log2024, combines Graph-MLP with edge-splitting for faster, robust, edge-free inference. openreview.net/forum?id=BQE...
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Edge-Splitting MLP: Node Classification on Homophilic and...
Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in node classification on homophilic graphs. It has been shown that they do not solely rely on homophily but on...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) vs. eXtreme Multilabel Classification (XML) are two research areas that have been disconnected so far. A team of students and with @lukasgalke.bsky.social we show that it is crucial to cross the two worlds. Read more arxiv.org/abs/2411.13687
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Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) vs. eXtreme Multilabel Classification (XML): Two Sides of the Same Medal
Assigning a subset of labels from a fixed pool of labels to a given input text is a text classification problem with many real-world applications, such as in recommender systems. Two separate research...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
LossVal, a new efficient method for data valuation for neural networks. It allows assessing the importance of individual training samples for different tasks and constraints. Find out more arxiv.org/abs/2412.04158
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LossVal: Efficient Data Valuation for Neural Networks
Assessing the importance of individual training samples is a key challenge in machine learning. Traditional approaches retrain models with and without specific samples, which is computationally expens...
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I grew up with Twitter, me and my academic life. We used it at conferences, saw it struggle financially & wondered if it’d survive. I never imagined a billionaire would buy it for $44B, overrun it, & turn it into a hate platform. Now, Twitter-based research is part of scientific history?
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hierarchical text classification does not need a graph encoder or label semantics. Work at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (ECAI) by Yousef Younes and with @lukasgalke.bsky.social - learn more: ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/...
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IOS Press Ebooks - RADAr: A Transformer-Based Autoregressive Decoder Architecture for Hierarchical Text Classification
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
... but it would be no fun if I just left X without saying anything further. From now on, I will advertise all my messages on Mastodon, BlueSky, and LinkedIn with a link from X and encourage people to move on and turn the page. Meanwhile, my X account is labeled as (legacy account) 😛 Elon
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I decided weeks ago to leave Twitter, prepared it, and now it is done. So many others have done so by now, too.
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Understand how fascists are creating an "upside-down world" thanks to @pbsnews.bsky.social and history professor @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social in "How Trump's rhetoric compares to historic fascist language", see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4N...
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How Trump's rhetoric compares to historic fascist language
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Ansgar Scherp @ansgarscherp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hi!
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