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Publications (6)

cs.CL2024

BEAR: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Relational Knowledge in Causal and Masked Language Models

Jacek Wiland, Max Ploner, Alan Akbik

Knowledge probing assesses to which degree a language model (LM) has successfully learned relational knowledge during pre-training. Probing is an inexpensive way to compare LMs of…

cs.CL2025

From Data to Knowledge: Evaluating How Efficiently Language Models Learn Facts

Daniel Christoph, Max Ploner, Patrick Haller +1

Sample efficiency is a crucial property of language models with practical implications for training efficiency. In real-world text, information follows a long-tailed distribution.…

cs.CL2024

TransformerRanker: A Tool for Efficiently Finding the Best-Suited Language Models for Downstream Classification Tasks

Lukas Garbas, Max Ploner, Alan Akbik

Classification tasks in NLP are typically addressed by selecting a pre-trained language model (PLM) from a model hub, and fine-tuning it for the task at hand. However, given the ve…

cs.CL2025

Towards a Principled Evaluation of Knowledge Editors

Sebastian Pohl, Max Ploner, Alan Akbik

Model editing has been gaining increasing attention over the past few years. For Knowledge Editing in particular, more challenging evaluation datasets have recently been released.…

cs.CL2025

Familiarity: Better Evaluation of Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition by Quantifying Label Shifts in Synthetic Training Data

Jonas Golde, Patrick Haller, Max Ploner +3

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) is the task of detecting named entities of specific types (such as 'Person' or 'Medicine') without any training examples. Current research…

cs.CL2024

LM-PUB-QUIZ: A Comprehensive Framework for Zero-Shot Evaluation of Relational Knowledge in Language Models

Max Ploner, Jacek Wiland, Sebastian Pohl +1

Knowledge probing evaluates the extent to which a language model (LM) has acquired relational knowledge during its pre-training phase. It provides a cost-effective means of compari…