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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chain-of-Thought reasoning can sound plausible while being unfaithful. Is there a way to test that directly by looking inside the model? Our new work led by @qiaw99.bsky.social w/ @apepa.bsky.social et al. 📜 Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2609.23065

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎉 Thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for BlackboxNLP 2026 @emnlpmeeting, with three incredible perspectives on interpretability: 🔍 Ivan Titov 🔍 Sheridan Feucht @sfeucht.bsky.social 🔍 Michael Hahn @m-hahn.bsky.social Join us on October 29th! 🇭🇺

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Due to the unprecedented amount of submissions to BlackboxNLP 2026, we will announce the decisions for Main, Special and ARR commitments on September 2 AoE. Thanks for your patience!

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Martin Tutek @mtutek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The @blackboxnlp.bsky.social reproducibility track is in an urgent need for reviewers! If you can review a paper (or two), these bite-sized papers deserve some attention, and reviewing them will leave you fulfilled! 🥰 Please reach out if you can help out! RTs appreciated 👐

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for emergency reviewers for BlackboxNLP 2026. Please sign up through the form linked in the post below if you have time to review 1-2 papers before Aug 20 AoE. bsky.app/profile/blac...

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DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com · 07/08/2026

If you are qualified and have any capacity to do an emergency review (or three) for INLG in the next couple of days, please email inlg-organizers@googlegroups.com to let the PCs know--we have an urgent need for dozens of emergency reviews unfortunately :(

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Deadline extended for YNLG 2026 (Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation workshop) at @inlg.bsky.social ! You can submit your 2-page position papers until August 13 AoE. It's a great opportunity to connect with fellow NLG researchers over two days in Utrecht! bsky.app/profile/nfel...

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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 04/08/2026

YNLG Is a great opportunity for young researchers to get into NLG research and get meaningful advice from us senior researchers.

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The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky @datatherapist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🚨 unfortunately, #ARR still desperately needs emergency Area Editors / ACs to write meta-reviews ASAP! If you qualify and can help, pls reply/DM ASAP. I’ll also post a link if I find it soon. Please BOOST! Thanks! #ACL #ARR #SAC #EMNLP2026 #NLP #NLProc

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Gabriele Sarti @gsarti.com · 23/07/2026

An unprecedented number of submissions means an unprecedented need for reviewers! If you have published work in interpretability, please consider signing up to review ⬇️

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

With a high volume of submissions this year, we're recruiting additional reviewers for BlackboxNLP 2026! 🗓 Review deadline: August 17 (AoE) 🗓 Review load: 2-4 papers 📝 Sign up: forms.gle/tha166UQZYqX...

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

⏳ The BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Challenge deadline has been extended to July 24 (AoE) ⏳ If you've been working on a robustness check, ablation, or replication of recent NLP interpretability work, you have a bit more time to get your submission in.

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Call for Papers: YNLG 2026 The Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation workshop is a 2d in-person event part of INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social in Utrecht 🇳🇱, with poster sessions, keynote talks, roundtable discussions, and a one-day hackathon. Due: August 10, 2026 ynlg-workshop.github.io

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

⏳ One week left! The submission deadline for BlackboxNLP 2026 is July 17 (AoE). If you're working on analyzing or interpreting neural networks for NLP, now's the time to get your paper in. 📍 Co-located with #EMNLP2026 in Budapest 🔗 blackboxnlp.github.io

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm looking for two emergency reviewers for #EMNLP2026 papers about cultural benchmarking and cultural reasoning. Please send me an email if you would be able to help me out in the next few days!

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I need *several* emergency reviewers on on mech interp for NLP. I also need emergency reviewers for papers on neuro-symbolic language reasoning, for a paper extracting symbolic structures from text, and for a paper on knowledge collapse in LLMs. Many missing reviews this cycle

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🙋 Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR May / #EMNLP2026 Topics: Interpretability/Explainability, RAG, Answer Attribution, Knowledge Conflicts If you're willing to complete a review before July 6 AoE, please reply or send a DM!

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🏆 Announcing the NDIF Best Paper Award for the BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Challenge! @ndif-team.bsky.social Reproduce an interp. finding with nnsight + NDIF, open-source it, and push it further. Winners will receive a $500 prize, and will be invited to present at the workshop!

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Yonatan Belinkov @boknilev.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Are you wondering if LLM interpretability results generalize, reproduce, etc.? Check out the reproducibility challenge and submit your work reproducing papers in this area: bsky.app/profile/blac...

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📣 Announcing the BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Challenge! A new track dedicated to rigorous robustness checks of NLP interpretability work - stress-testing baselines, ablations, generalizability, and evaluation.

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Aaron Eidt and I are currently presenting our #EACL2026 System Demo paper ELIA on simplifying mechanistic interpretability outcomes using vision-language models. Come see us in the poster hall! Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-de...

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Johann Frei and I are now presenting our Infherno #EACL2026 System Demonstration paper. Come to the poster hall to learn about our agentic approach to medical information extraction! Paper here: aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-de...

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Can Persona Prompting function as a lens on social reasoning? In our #EACL2026 work (led by @jingyng.bsky.social), we investigate how it impacts the quality of model outputs and rationales. 🗞️ arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20757 Come and find us (Jing, Moritz, Elisabeth, myself) in 🇲🇦 Rabat next week!

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BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

BlackboxNLP will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in 🇭🇺 Budapest 🇭🇺 this October! This edition will feature a special reproducibility track, investigating generalization and robustness of established results from interpretability research 👷‍♂️ Stay tuned for more details!

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Antonin Poché @antoninpoche.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🔥Super excited to share our new demo website for 🪄Interpreto! 🖼️It is basically an explanation gallery showcasing attribution and concept-based explanations for classification and generation. 🎮Play with it: for-sight-ai.github.io/interpreto-d... We will keep improving it, so stay tuned!

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

One to go! Thanks to everyone who agreed to review so far! 🫶 If you have the capacity for one emergency review on explainability of NLP models, please reach out via DMs/chat or by replying here. #ACL2026NLP bsky.app/profile/nfel...

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Shane Storks @shanestorks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP community, I'm looking for an emergency reviewer for an ARR submission on LLM interpretability. If you're available to complete a review before Feb 15, please reply or DM 🙏

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Giuseppe Attanasio @gattanasio.cc · 10/02/2026

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR. Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available. Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

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Martin Tutek @mtutek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'm looking for two emergency reviewers 🧑‍🚒👩‍🚒 for the ARR January Generalizability and Transfer track. Please reach out if you have time & qualify for review or RT for visibility🙏🙏

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Jeremy Barnes @jeremy-nlp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Seems to be a common situation for ACs this round, but I'm also looking for two emergency reviewers for the January #ARR Evaluation and Resources track. I'd appreciate any help (reposts, encouragement, black magic...)

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Stephanie Brandl @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I am looking for 2 emergency reviewers for the ARR Ethics, Bias & Fairness track. Please DM me if you are available 🙏

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR Special Track "Explainability of NLP Models". Topics: Faithfulness, mechanistic interpretability, surveys and position papers. Deadline Feb 14 AoE. #ACL2026NLP

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It was a real pleasure to visit the Health NLP Lab in Tübingen and present my research at BIFOLD and TU Berlin in collaboration with Charité and University of Augsburg among others. We had some exciting discussions. Thanks for having me!

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 21/01/2026

Last week, Dr. Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher at @tuberlin.bsky.social and @bifold.berlin, visited our lab and presented his research during our weekly lab meeting.

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Sharing my favorite papers I read in 2025 from human-centric XAI, mechanistic interpretability, NLG evaluation, and related fields, covering conferences I've attended (ACL in Austria, EMNLP in China), but also journals, ML and HCI conferences: nfelnlp.github.io/recommended/...

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Laura Kopf @lkopf.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’m at #NeurIPS in San Diego this week! Come see our poster on feature interpretability. Find @eberleoliver.bsky.social and me at: 🪧Poster Session 1 @ Exhibit Hall C,D,E #1015 Wed 3 Dec, 11 am - 2 pm 🪧Poster @ Mech Interp Workshop Upper Level Room 30A-E Sun 7 Dec, 8 am - 5 pm

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Martin Tutek @mtutek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated

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Explainable AI Berlin @xai-berlin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Heading to the EMNLP BlackboxNLP Workshop this Sunday? Don’t miss @nfel.bsky.social and @lkopf.bsky.social poster on „Interpreting Language Models Through Concept Descriptions: A Survey“ aclanthology.org/2025.blackbo... #EMNLP #BlackboxNLP #XAI #Interpretapility

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'm at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou🇨🇳 to present these papers in the coming days: Nov 7, Session 14, 12:30-13:30 @ Hall C – Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems (Wang et al.) @qiaw99.bsky.social 🗞️ aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🔍 Are you curious about uncovering the underlying mechanisms and identifying the roles of model components (neurons, …) and abstractions (SAEs, …)? We provide the first survey of concept description generation and evaluation methods. Joint effort w/ @lkopf.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01048

Overview of descriptions for model components (neurons, attention heads) and model abstractions (SAE features, circuits).

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Laura Kopf @lkopf.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Happy to share that our PRISM paper has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025 🎉 In this work, we introduce a multi-concept feature description framework that can identify and score polysemantic features. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538 #NeurIPS #MechInterp #XAI

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The submission deadline of the inaugural Young Researchers workshop at INLG 2025 has been extended by 5 days. We're excited to receive your 2p position papers showcasing your NLG-related research until August 31, 2025! @siggen.bsky.social ynlg-workshop.github.io bsky.app/profile/nfel...

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YNLG 2025 - Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025. Call for Submissions is out now! ynlg-workshop.github.io

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thoroughly enjoying the range of topics at the first #ACL2025NLP poster session! Our FitCF poster presentation on counterfactual example generation at #ACL2025 has been moved to Tuesday, July 29, at 16:00-17:30. bsky.app/profile/nfel...

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

🚆On my way to Vienna! #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 Together with my amazing colleagues from TU Berlin, DFKI, Saarland & Potsdam, I will present 4 papers on counterfactuals (Findings), free-text rationales (GEM), fact checking (FEVER oral), table understanding (TRL oral). Excited to meet old and new friends!

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Mahdi Dhaini @mahdidh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Very happy to be at #FAccT2025 in Athens, where I presented our work "Gender Bias in Explainability: Investigating Performance Disparity in Post-hoc Methods" 📄Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... At #FAccT2025? Let's connect if you're interested in improving the usability of explainability methods!

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Glad to announce our #FAccT2025 paper about gender bias in feature attribution methods, led by Mahdi Dhaini, will be presented tomorrow in 🇬🇷 Athens as part of the "Evaluating Explainable AI" session from 10:45 AM to 12:15 PM in Amphitheatre Ioannis Despotopoulos: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

Overview of our experimental pipeline, exemplified with the GECO dataset (Wilming et al., 2024). We begin by obtaining predictions for male/female sentence pairs. We then use feature attribution methods to explain the predictions and evaluate the explanations using various metrics. We finally analyze the distributions of evaluation scores per each metric for male and female sentences and observe if the evaluations differ significantly between the two genders, indicating gender bias and disparity in explanations.

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Laura Kopf @lkopf.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🔍 When do neurons encode multiple concepts? We introduce PRISM, a framework for extracting multi-concept feature descriptions to better understand polysemanticity. 📄 Capturing Polysemanticity with PRISM: A Multi-Concept Feature Description Framework arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538 🧵 (1/7)

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Successfully defended my PhD yesterday! 🎓 🎉 Special thanks to my mentor Sebastian Möller and professors Sina Zarrieß @clausebielefeld.bsky.social, Christin Seifert, and @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social for being part of my committee. Will continue working on XAI & NLP as a post-doc at TU Berlin & BIFOLD

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