Publications

A collection of my research work. († denotes equal contribution)

Total Papers

24

First Author

13

Conferences

15

Workshops

4

In Submission

4

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Citations

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2023
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2026

Research Topics

Counterfactual
6
Rationale
5
Conversational XAI
5
Interpretability
4
Misc
4
Faithfulness
3
Multilingual
3
RAG
2

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Showing 24 of 24 publications
2026
Can Large Language Models Still Explain Themselves? Investigating the Impact of Quantization on Self-Explanations
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Can Large Language Models Still Explain Themselves? Investigating the Impact of Quantization on Self-Explanations

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus†, Pepa Atanasova†, Fedor Splitt, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller

EMNLP Findings 2026

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Macro: Enhancing Multilingual Counterfactual Explanations through Alignment-as-Preference Optimization
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Macro: Enhancing Multilingual Counterfactual Explanations through Alignment-as-Preference Optimization

1st Author
Yilong Wang†, Qianli Wang†, Bohao Chu, Yihong Liu, Jing Yang, Simon Ostermann

EMNLP Findings 2026

†Equal contribution.

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iFlip: Iterative Feedback-driven Counterfactual Example Refinement
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iFlip: Iterative Feedback-driven Counterfactual Example Refinement

1st Author
Yilong Wang†, Qianli Wang†, Nils Feldhus

EMNLP Findings 2026

†Equal contribution.

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SimXAI: A Simple Drop-in Layer Increases Interaction Quality and Understanding in Conversational XAI
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SimXAI: A Simple Drop-in Layer Increases Interaction Quality and Understanding in Conversational XAI

Van Bach Nguyen, Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Jörg Schlötterer, Christin Seifert

EMNLP Findings 2026

What Are We Measuring in NLG? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Trends 2020-2025
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What Are We Measuring in NLG? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Trends 2020-2025

Jing Yang, Nils Feldhus, Salar Mohtaj, Leonhard Hennig, Qianli Wang, Eleni Metheniti, Sherzod Hakimov

EMNLP 2026

Oral Presentation

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eTracer: Polarity-Aware Evidence Grounding
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eTracer: Polarity-Aware Evidence Grounding

Bohao Chu, Qianli Wang, Hendrik Damm, Shuning Zhang, Hui Wang, Andrea Papenmeier, Georg Lodde

EMNLP 2026

Oral Presentation

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Limitations of Automated Simulatability: LLM Simulators Can Bypass Explanations
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Limitations of Automated Simulatability: LLM Simulators Can Bypass Explanations

Antonin Poché, Fanny Jourdan, Nils Feldhus, Qianli Wang, Jing Yang, Simon Ostermann, Nicholas Asher

BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2026

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Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation
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Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Yihong Liu, Fedor Splitt, Nils Feldhus, Christin Seifert, Hinrich Schütze

ACL 2026

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Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
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Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models

Hengyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Zunhai Su, Yiwei Wang, Qianli Wang, Shuzhou Yuan

ACL Findings 2026

The extended version accepted at Computer Science Review

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Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating The Impact of Quantization on Factual Knowledge Recall
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Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating The Impact of Quantization on Factual Knowledge Recall

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Yuan Cao, Hinrich Schütze, Sebastian Möller

TrustNLP @ ACL 2026

Oral Presentation

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From Concept Alignment to Causal Grounding: An Intervention Test of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
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From Concept Alignment to Causal Grounding: An Intervention Test of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Yilong Wang, Dennis Wei, Jingyi Sun, Simon Ostermann, Isabelle Augenstein, Pepa Atanasova

2026

In submission.

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Investigating the Interplay between Contextual and Parametric Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
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Investigating the Interplay between Contextual and Parametric Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

1st Author
Jingyi Sun†, Qianli Wang†, Pepa Atanasova, Nils Feldhus, Isabelle Augenstein

2026

In submission. †Equal contribution.

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Locally Sound, Globally Insufficient: The Local-Global Gap in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning
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Locally Sound, Globally Insufficient: The Local-Global Gap in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

Bohao Chu, Hendrik Damm, Qianli Wang, Hui Wang, Shuning Zhang, Christoph M. Friedrich, Norbert Fuhr

2026

In submission.

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Judge Circuits
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Judge Circuits

Nils Feldhus, Tanja Bäumel, Elena Golimblevskaia, Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Aaron Louis Eidt, Selin Kahvecioglu

2026

In submission.

Paper
2025
Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems
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Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Fedor Splitt, Jiaao Li, Yoana Tsoneva

EMNLP Findings 2025

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

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Sebastian Möller

ACL Findings 2025

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

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina†, Nils Feldhus†, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller

COLING 2025

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

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Nils Feldhus, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Christin Seifert, Sebastian Möller

INLG 2025

Oral Presentation

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Beyond Transparency: Evaluating Explainability in AI-Supported Fact-Checking

Vera Schmitt, Isabel Bezzaoui, Charlott Jakob, Premtim Sahitaj, Qianli Wang, Arthur Hilbert, Max Upravitelev

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation 2025

Paper
2024

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

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina†, Nils Feldhus†, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller

EMNLP Findings 2024

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

1st Author
Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Josef Genabith, Leonhard Hennig, Sebastian Möller

HCI+NLP Workshop @ NAACL 2024

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Towards Modeling and Evaluating Instructional Explanations in Teacher-Student Dialogues

Nils Feldhus, Aliki Anagnostopoulou, Qianli Wang, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Daniel Sonntag, Sebastian Möller

Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 2024

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Anchored Alignment for Self-Explanations Enhancement

Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Ata Nizamoglu, Qianli Wang, Sebastian Möller

2024

Preprint

Paper
2023
InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations
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InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations

Nils Feldhus, Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Sahil Chopra, Cennet Oguz, Sebastian Möller

EMNLP Findings 2023

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