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Publications (30)

cs.LG2026

Parameter Exploration for RLVR via Variational Learning

Vatsal Venkatkrishna, Nico Daheim, Iryna Gurevych

Exploration has been a focus of reinforcement learning research for a long time. Recently, there has been growing evidence that it is also an important ingredient in LLM reinforcem…

cs.CL2026

Uncertainty-Aware Generation and Decision-Making Under Ambiguity

Nico Daheim, Iryna Gurevych

With rapidly improving capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in many complex real-world tasks. Beyond requiring in-depth knowledge and reasoning skills,…

cs.LG2025

Improving LoRA with Variational Learning

Bai Cong, Nico Daheim, Yuesong Shen +3

Bayesian methods have recently been used to improve LoRA finetuning and, although they improve calibration, their effect on other metrics (such as accuracy) is marginal and can som…

cs.CL2022

Controllable Factuality in Document-Grounded Dialog Systems Using a Noisy Channel Model

Nico Daheim, David Thulke, Christian Dugast +1

In this work, we present a model for document-grounded response generation in dialog that is decomposed into two components according to Bayes theorem. One component is a tradition…

cs.CL2021

Cascaded Span Extraction and Response Generation for Document-Grounded Dialog

Nico Daheim, David Thulke, Christian Dugast +1

This paper summarizes our entries to both subtasks of the first DialDoc shared task which focuses on the agent response prediction task in goal-oriented document-grounded dialogs.…

cs.CL2023

MathDial: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems

Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury +4

While automatic dialogue tutors hold great potential in making education personalized and more accessible, research on such systems has been hampered by a lack of sufficiently larg…