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20182026
most citedJoint entity recognition and relation extraction as a multi-head selection problem

450 citations · 653 across the 56 of their papers we have counts for

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59 papers

cs.CL2026

Agent Collectives Should Not Detect Their Own Imposters: A Chess Case Study

Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester

A collective of AI agents collaborating on a task has the potential to outclass any individual agent for that task. We study the robustness of such collectives against possible imp…

cs.CL2026

CLASP: Defending Hybrid Large Language Models Against Hidden State Poisoning Attacks

Alexandre Le Mercier, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder

State space models (SSMs) like Mamba have gained significant traction as efficient alternatives to Transformers, achieving linear complexity while maintaining competitive performan…

cs.CL2026

WorkRB: A Community-Driven Evaluation Framework for AI in the Work Domain

Matthias De Lange, Warre Veys, Federico Retyk +16

Today's evolving labor markets rely increasingly on recommender systems for hiring, talent management, and workforce analytics, with natural language processing (NLP) capabilities…

stat.ML2026

The Entropic Signature of Class Speciation in Diffusion Models

Florian Handke, Dejan Stančević, Felix Koulischer +2

Diffusion models do not recover semantic structure uniformly over time. Instead, samples transition from semantic ambiguity to class commitment within a narrow regime. Recent theor…

cs.CL2026

Hidden State Poisoning Attacks against Mamba-based Language Models

Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester

State space models (SSMs) like Mamba offer efficient alternatives to Transformer-based language models, with linear time complexity. Yet, their adversarial robustness remains criti…

cs.CL2025

A Customer Journey in the Land of Oz: Leveraging the Wizard of Oz Technique to Model Emotions in Customer Service Interactions

Sofie Labat, Thomas Demeester, Véronique Hoste

Emotion-aware customer service needs in-domain conversational data, rich annotations, and predictive capabilities, but existing resources for emotion recognition are often out-of-d…