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Michael A. Hedderich

@mhedderich.bsky.social
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Research group leader at LMU Munich and MCML on ML, NLP & HCI. Also experimenting with lemonade that glows in the dark 🥤 (he/him)

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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Excited for 5 papers at #ACL2026NLP with my group and with collaborators. 📍 You can find the work here: 🗓️ Sun. July 5 AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages Oral Session B: Multilinguality and Language Diversity 2
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Unifying interpretability perspectives in one approach. Congratulations to @florian-eichin.com for his ICML paper!
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
MCML just started again a call for their very competitive but also really nice, fully funded PhD positions. These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Excited to share that our survey paper "Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead" lead by Jesujoba Alabi has been accepted at #EMNLP2025! Here’s a short 🧵 about the paper.
NLP research distribution across Africa by
language coverage.
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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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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Looking forward to my visit to Hamburg University and their Data Science group!
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
What changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”? Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors? 

In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
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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 · 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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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects? Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd: Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🌐 ☀️ noisy-text.github.io/2025/
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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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