Hi👋, I’m Qianli Wang and work as a NLP researcher dedicated to advancing the interpretability and explainability of LLMs at XplainNLP group, Quality and Usability Lab, Technische Universität Berlin under the supervision of Sebastian Möller.
Research interests 👀
Topics of interest are post-hoc explanations (counterfactual generation, rationale generation), interactive conversational XAI systems, data-centric interpretability, evaluation for generated text.
News ✨
2025-01-15: 🎉I’m glad to announce that I have received funding granted by German Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech) and Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV), supporting PhD students with up to 32 Mio. Euro over 9 months for their doctoral research projects/start-up ideas.
2025-01-03: 🌴 FitCF paper is now publicly available on arXiv!
2024-12-15: I will be at COLING 2025 to present our Cross-Refine paper. See you in Abu Dhabi!
2024-12-11: One new paper in submission about feature importance-guided counterfactual example generation (FitCF). The preprint is scheduled for release in January 2025. Stay tuned!
2024-11-29: The 3rd first-authored paper titled Cross-Refine: Improving Natural Language Explanation Generation by Learning in Tandem accepted at COLING 2025, which will be hold in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates🏜️!
2024-11-08: I will be in Miami at EMNLP 2024 to present our CoXQL paper. See you in Miami!
2024-10-15: One co-authored paper about LLM self-explanation alignment is in submission!
2024-09-20: The 2nd first-authored paper CoXQL: A Dataset for Parsing Explanation Requests in Conversational XAI Systems accepted at EMNLP 2024 Findings, which will be hold in Miami, USA 🗽!
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Education Background 👨🎓
2024-ongoing: Computer Science, Ph.D., Technische Universität Berlin. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Möller.
2021-2023: Computer Science, M.Sc., Technische Universität Berlin. Supervised by Nils Feldhus and Dr.-Ing. Leonhard Hennig: A Singular LLM is all you need for dialogue-based explanation regarding NLP tasks.
2018-2021: Computer Science, B.Sc., Freie Universität Berlin. Supervised by Prof. Dr. László Kozma: Understanding and implementation of the algorithm for three-coloring in triangle-free planar graphs.
Jobs 🧑💻
2024.07 - ongoing: NLP Researcher @ Quality and Usability Lab, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; funded by VERANDA project.
2024.02 - ongoing: Guest Researcher @ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) - SLT Group, Berlin, Germany.
2023.01 - 2024.01: Research Assistant @ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) - SLT Group, Berlin, Germany.