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Jakob Schuster

@schusterj.bsky.social

PhD Candidate at the Institute of Computational Linguistics in Heidelberg, Germany

Jakob Schuster @schusterj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Excited to share the first preprint of my PhD! While many papers focus on what kind of information LLMs trust, @dippedrusk.com, Katja Markert, and I instead investigate whose evidence models prefer by looking at source credibility. #NLP #Research #CL #LLMs 1/7 🧵

“Whose Facts Win? LLM Source Preference under Knowledge Conflicts”
Authors: Jakob Schuster, Vagrant Gautam, Katja Markert

Source credibility hierarchy of Government > Newspaper > Person, Social Media induced by evaluating 13 LLMs on source and knowledge conflicts. However, repeating information can flip preferences.

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Jakob Schuster @schusterj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Excited to share the first preprint of my PhD! While many papers focus on what kind of information LLMs trust, @dippedrusk.com, Katja Markert, and I instead investigate whose evidence models prefer by looking at source credibility. #NLP #Research #CL #LLMs 1/7 🧵

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