4 papers
SENSESHIFT: Continuous Sentiment-Controlled Text Generation via Encoder-based Mask Infilling
Shahed Masoudian, Markus Frohmann, Emmanouil Karystinaios +2
Recent controllable text generation (CTG) for sentiment control has largely focused on decoder-based large language models, making causal attention the dominant paradigm. While eff…
What We Observe as LLM Behavior Can Be a Side-effect of Inference Backend
Shahed Masoudian, Passant Shafaei, Monorama Swain +1
Benchmark scores are reported as properties of a model, yet the inference framework used to produce them, such as HuggingFace, vLLM, or Ollama, are considered non-influential and t…
A Comparative Study on Affective Cues in Text Embeddings Across Psychological Emotion Theories
Fabio Ciani, Harald Schweiger, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro +1
Text encoders are known for their utility in natural language processing, as they are able to efficiently compress inputs into dense vectors while preserving semantics. These model…
H-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hierarchical Parent-Child Retrieval for Multi-Turn RAG Conversations
Passant Elchafei, Hossam Emam, Mohamed Alansary +2
We present H-RAG, our submission to SemEval-2026 Task 8 (MTRAGEval), addressing both Task A (Retrieval) and Task C (Generation with Retrieved Passages). Task A evaluates standalone…