3 papers
cs.AI2026
Do LLMs Experience an Internal Polylogue? Investigating Reasoning through the Lens of Personas
Nils A. Herrmann, Leander Girrbach, Kirill Bykov +1
Recent work shows that large language models (LLMs) encode behavioral traits ("personas") as linear directions in activation space, often called "persona vectors". Prior work has u…
cs.CL2026
Beyond Hate: Differentiating Uncivil and Intolerant Speech in Multimodal Content Moderation
Nils A. Herrmann, Tobias Eder, Jingyi He +1
Current multimodal toxicity benchmarks typically use a single binary hatefulness label. This coarse approach conflates two fundamentally different characteristics of expression: to…
cs.CL2025
Cleaning English Abstracts of Scientific Publications
Michael E. Rose, Nils A. Herrmann, Sebastian Erhardt
Scientific abstracts are often used as proxies for the content and thematic focus of research publications. However, a significant share of published abstracts contains extraneous…