collaborators

6 papers

cs.CL2026

SemCSE-Multi: Multifaceted and Decodable Embeddings for Aspect-Specific and Interpretable Scientific Domain Mapping

Marc Brinner, Sina Zarrieß

We propose SemCSE-Multi, a novel unsupervised framework for generating multifaceted embeddings of scientific abstracts, evaluated in the domains of invasion biology and medicine. T…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Domain-Specific Encoder Models with LLM-Generated Data: How to Leverage Ontologies, and How to Do Without Them

Marc Brinner, Tarek Al Mustafa, Sina Zarrieß

We investigate the use of LLM-generated data for continual pretraining of encoder models in specialized domains with limited training data, using the scientific domain of invasion…

cs.CL2025

Rationalizing Transformer Predictions via End-To-End Differentiable Self-Training

Marc Brinner, Sina Zarrieß

We propose an end-to-end differentiable training paradigm for stable training of a rationalized transformer classifier. Our approach results in a single model that simultaneously c…

cs.CL2025

Model Interpretability and Rationale Extraction by Input Mask Optimization

Marc Brinner, Sina Zarriess

Concurrent to the rapid progress in the development of neural-network based models in areas like natural language processing and computer vision, the need for creating explanations…

cs.CL2025

SemCSE: Semantic Contrastive Sentence Embeddings Using LLM-Generated Summaries For Scientific Abstracts

Marc Brinner, Sina Zarriess

We introduce SemCSE, an unsupervised method for learning semantic embeddings of scientific texts. Building on recent advances in contrastive learning for text embeddings, our appro…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Scientific Full Text Classification: The Case of EICAT Impact Assessments

Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrieß

This study explores strategies for efficiently classifying scientific full texts using both small, BERT-based models and local large language models like Llama-3.1 8B. We focus on…