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Florian Eichin

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PhD candidate at LMU Munich. Representations, model and data attribution, training dynamics. Strong opinions on coffee and tea ☕ florian-eichin.com

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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 29/06/2026
𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆? In our ICML paper, we show that it might just be. ExPLAIND is a method that unifies data attribution, model component attribution, and training dynamics by computing an exact decomposition of model behavior based on gradient products.
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Ryan Soh-Eun Shim @soheunshim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
✨New paper✨ We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you to our great Munich Center for Machine Learning (@munichcenterml.bsky.social) for featuring me in this research film! Lots of great films clips with my MCML colleagues are available on MCML's YouTube channel. #ai #aiethics #mcml #philosophy youtu.be/KUqiY8o1yng?...
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What is intelligence—and what kind of intelligence do we want in our future? With Prof. Sven Nyholm
YouTube video by MCML_Munich Center for Machine Learning
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Unsure which presentations to attend at #ACL2025? 🛎️🗣️
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🕺🏼swing by our poster in Hall 4/5 on Wednesday, July 30 at 11:00 to chat with @florian-eichin.com and I to find out the answers to these questions 🛎️ bonus: to see the full poster 🫣🧩 #ACL2025 #NLProc
part of the poster presentation at ACL 2025
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📝Probing LLMs for Multilingual Discourse Generalization Through a Unified Label Set 🔎Do LLMs encode and generalize discourse knowledge across languages? 👥 @florian-eichin.com @janetlauyeung.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social @barbaraplank.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515 📁Main - Long
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 23/07/2025
Some recommendations for #ACL2025 👇 (join me and @janetlauyeung.bsky.social to talk about discourse generalization and probing!)
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Headed to ACL? MaiNLP & our most recent work will be there too👥📄 Come see what we’ve been working on!
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
XAI’s dogwater performance on the 2025 IMO confirms that their Grok 4 benchmark claims were hot air. Their eye popping metrics were down to the following innovations: - train on test - train on test - train on test
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Philipp Mondorf @pmondorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📄 [ACL 2025 main] LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks (doi.org/10.48550/arX...)
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LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks
There is an increasing trend towards evaluating NLP models with LLMs instead of human judgments, raising questions about the validity of these evaluations, as well as their reproducibility in the case...
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Philipp Mondorf @pmondorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📄 [ACL 2025 main] Circuit compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models (doi.org/10.48550/arX...)
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Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models
A fundamental question in interpretability research is to what extent neural networks, particularly language models, implement reusable functions through subnetworks that can be composed to perform mo...
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Interpretability meets Discourse. Congratulations to @florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 10/07/2025
Paper alert 🛎️
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🦙 how well do LLMs encode discourse knowledge? does that generalize across languages? 🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations! joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515
to appear at ACL2025
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Ali Modarressi @amodarressi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’ll be at @icmlconf.bsky.social next week presenting NoLiMa! Poster on Tue July 15, 4:30–7pm (E-2312). Happy to grab a coffee and chat about long-context, memory, research, or just to catch up. I’ll be in Toronto for a couple of days after the conference, let me know if you’re around!
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Caught some great moments at #MCML Munich AI Day 2025 last week📍 From sharp keynotes to poster debates. Our team had the chance to show some recent work, join the conversations, and bring back plenty of food for thought🧠🗣️📊
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The study is here but gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... I’d be curious how these dynamics play out in our NLP review crisis. My hunch: many conscientious volunteers might be junior women. That time comes at a cost; chasing slackers means less time for rebutting my own reviews.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city. Thank you #blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
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Alexander Hoyle @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
preprint is out bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
X disproportionately pushing content from far-right parties in the “for you” feed in the context of German and Polish elections. Algorithmic auditing suggests that X’s feed algorithm uses political affiliation as a signal to boost content. @przemyslslaw.bsky.social at DETOX workshop #ICWSM
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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 18/06/2025
Can you point to where "LLM knowledge" can be found in this graph? Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is real.
A press release from the State Department. It reads:

Russia National Day

PRESS STATEMENT

MARCO RUBIO, SECRETARY OF STATE
JUNE 12, 2025

On behalf of the American people, I want to congratulate the Russian people on Russia Day.

The United States remains committed to supporting the Russian people as they continue to build on their aspirations for a brighter future. We also take this opportunity to reaffirm the United States’ desire for constructive engagement with the Russian Federation to bring about a durable peace between Russia and Ukraine. It is our hope that peace will foster more mutually beneficial relations between our countries
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I found this really moving, as a “technical” person who is often fighting with the boundary between technical and non-technical.
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 30/05/2025
Want to know if your prompting is also affected by this? Addressing this and other issues systematically, we proposed Spotlight, which utilizes data mining to uncover the effects of prompt- and model-changes (meet us at ACL to discuss) arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
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What's the Difference? Supporting Users in Identifying the Effects of Prompt and Model Changes Through Token Patterns
Prompt engineering for large language models is challenging, as even small prompt perturbations or model changes can significantly impact the generated output texts. Existing evaluation methods, eithe...
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 30/05/2025
Happy not Friday everyone
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 28/05/2025
Proposing "kilometers cycled in 2 weeks" as a new success metric for research groups 🚴‍♀️📊🥇 @mainlp.bsky.social #stadtradeln
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you! Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦 As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄 🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
Welcome to the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research, co-located with COLM 2025, October 10, 2025, Montreal, Canada.
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 14/05/2025
comes with a well-being feature prompting you to take writing breaks before major conferences! 🧘‍♂️
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Dirk Lorenz @dirque.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Start saying "conclave" instead of "using the axiom of choice" when constructing large cardinals
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Bleibt Menschen
Bild von Margot Friedländer
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The full workshop programme is here: noisy-text.github.io/2025/
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W-NUT 2025: Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (at NAACL 2025)
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Party time! 🛎️🎉 We had a cozy barbecue by the Isar river to celebrate MaiNLP’s 3rd anniversary — here are some impressions! 🎂
the MaiNLP birthday cake with our logo on topa barbecue with grill cheese and skewersa Tiramisu with our logo carved into the cocoa powder on topthe Isar river with swans and ducks on it
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to be part of that team for almost 1/3 of that time 😀
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wondering how our journey will continue? Consider following our starter pack: go.bsky.app/MPYvmu5
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🎉MaiNLP is turning 3 today!🎂🥳 We’ve grown a lot since @barbaraplank.bsky.social started this group with nothing but three aspiring researches and a hand-drawn sign on the door. Huge thanks to all the amazing people who have joined or visited us since. Here’s to many more years of exciting research!🚀
The hand-drawn sign from three years ago.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/03/2025
We should have nationwide demonstrations on college campuses in solidarity with the grad students and postdocs who are being abducted.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst
The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hello on the new sky!
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 22/01/2025
MaiNLP now has its own Bluesky page! bsky.app/profile/main... This is a good time to consider following some more cool people: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am shocked by the death of Felix Hill. He was one of the brightest minds of my generation. His last blog post on the stress of working in AI is very poignant. Apart from the emptiness of working mostly to make billionaires even richer, there's the intellectual emptiness of 'scale is all you need'
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