Publications

A full list of my publications is available on my Google Scholar profile.

2025

🔍Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating the Impact of Quantization on LLM Explainability and Interpretability

Qianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Yuan Cao, Hinrich Schütze, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
In submission
arXiv | (Code will be publicly available once the paper is published)

Truth or Twist? Optimal Model Selection for Reliable Label Flipping Evaluation in LLM-based Counterfactuals

Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Nils Feldhus, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Christin Seifert, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
In submission
arXiv | (Code will be publicly available once the paper is published)

Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Fedor Splitt, Jiaao Li, Yoana Tsoneva, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
In submission
(Code will be publicly available once the paper is published)

FitCF: A Framework for Automatic Feature Importance-guided Counterfactual Example Generation

Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
ACL 2025 Findings
ACL Anthology will be available in July | arXiv | GitHub

Cross-Refine: Improving Natural Language Explanation Generation by Learning in Tandem

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller, and Vera Schmitt
COLING 2025
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

2024

AnchorAlign: Self-Explanations Enhancement via Anchored Alignment

Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Ata Nizamoglu, Qianli Wang, Sebastian Möller, and Vera Schmitt
In submission
arXiv | GitHub

CoXQL: A Dataset for Explanation Request Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, and Sebastian Möller
EMNLP 2024 Findings
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

Towards Modeling and Evaluating Instructional Explanations in Teacher-Student Dialogues

Nils Feldhus, Aliki Anagnostopoulou, Qianli Wang, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Daniel Sonntag, and Sebastian Möller
ACM GoodIT 2024 (Work in Progress track)
ACM Digital Library | OpenReview (previous version submitted to ARR)

LLMCheckup: Conversational Examination of Large Language Models via Interpretability Tools and Self-Explanations

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Josef van Genabith, Leonhard Hennig, and Sebastian Möller
NAACL 2024 Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub

2023

InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations

Nils Feldhus, Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Sahil Chopra, Cennet Oguz, and Sebastian Möller
EMNLP 2023 Findings & BlackboxNLP Workshop
ACL Anthology | arXiv | GitHub