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most citedIs it Time to Swish? Comparing Deep Learning Activation Functions Across NLP tasks

6 citations · 8 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

One Mask to Rule Them All: On Hidden Facts after Editing and How to Find Them

Ali Holmov, Paul Youssef, Nandi Schoots +1

Knowledge editing methods such as ROME and MEMIT update factual associations in transformer models by modifying MLP weights. While evaluated mainly by output behavior, their intern…

cs.CL2026

Persuasion Tokens for Editing Factual Knowledge in LLMs

Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert, Jörg Schlötterer

In-context knowledge editing (IKE) is a promising technique for updating Large Language Models (LLMs) with new information. However, IKE relies on lengthy, fact-specific demonstrat…

cs.CL2025

Can Fine-Tuning Erase Your Edits? On the Fragile Coexistence of Knowledge Editing and Adaptation

Yinjie Cheng, Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert +2

Knowledge editing (KE) offers a lightweight alternative to retraining for updating large language models (LLMs). Meanwhile, fine-tuning remains the default operation for adapting L…

cs.CL2025

Tracing and Reversing Edits in LLMs

Paul Youssef, Zhixue Zhao, Christin Seifert +1

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) are a cost-effective way to update the factual content of large language models (LLMs), but they pose a dual-use risk. While KEs are beneficial for…

cs.CL2025

Position: Editing Large Language Models Poses Serious Safety Risks

Paul Youssef, Zhixue Zhao, Daniel Braun +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) contain large amounts of facts about the world. These facts can become outdated over time, which has led to the development of knowledge editing method…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing Fact Retrieval in PLMs through Truthfulness

Paul Youssef, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) encode various facts about the world at their pre-training phase as they are trained to predict the next or missing word in a sentence. There has…

cs.CL2024

How to Make LLMs Forget: On Reversing In-Context Knowledge Edits

Paul Youssef, Zhixue Zhao, Jörg Schlötterer +1

In-context knowledge editing (IKE) enables efficient modification of large language model (LLM) outputs without parameter changes and at zero-cost. However, it can be misused to ma…

cs.CL2024

Has this Fact been Edited? Detecting Knowledge Edits in Language Models

Paul Youssef, Zhixue Zhao, Christin Seifert +1

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) can update language models' obsolete or inaccurate knowledge learned from pre-training. However, KEs can be used for malicious applications, e.g., i…

cs.CL2024

LLMs for Generating and Evaluating Counterfactuals: A Comprehensive Study

Van Bach Nguyen, Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert +1

As NLP models become more complex, understanding their decisions becomes more crucial. Counterfactuals (CFs), where minimal changes to inputs flip a model's prediction, offer a way…

cs.CL2024

The Queen of England is not England's Queen: On the Lack of Factual Coherency in PLMs

Paul Youssef, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert

Factual knowledge encoded in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) enriches their representations and justifies their use as knowledge bases. Previous work has focused on probing PLMs…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Give Me the Facts! A Survey on Factual Knowledge Probing in Pre-trained Language Models

Paul Youssef, Osman Alperen Koraş, Meijie Li +2

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are trained on vast unlabeled data, rich in world knowledge. This fact has sparked the interest of the community in quantifying the amount of fac…

cs.CL2023

Guidance in Radiology Report Summarization: An Empirical Evaluation and Error Analysis

Jan Trienes, Paul Youssef, Jörg Schlötterer +1

Automatically summarizing radiology reports into a concise impression can reduce the manual burden of clinicians and improve the consistency of reporting. Previous work aimed to en…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

When is ACL's Deadline? A Scientific Conversational Agent

Mohsen Mesgar, Paul Youssef, Lin Li +4

Our conversational agent UKP-ATHENA assists NLP researchers in finding and exploring scientific literature, identifying relevant authors, planning or post-processing conference vis…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Is it Time to Swish? Comparing Deep Learning Activation Functions Across NLP tasks

Steffen Eger, Paul Youssef, Iryna Gurevych

Activation functions play a crucial role in neural networks because they are the nonlinearities which have been attributed to the success story of deep learning. One of the current…