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Philipp Mondorf

7 accepted papers

2026

Compositional-ARC: Assessing Systematic Generalization in Abstract Spatial Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Systematic generalization refers to the capacity to understand and generate novel combinations from known components. Despite recent progress by large language models (LLMs) across various domains, these models often fail to extend their knowledge to novel compositional scenarios, revealing notable…

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2026

ExPLAIND: Unifying Model, Data, and Training Attribution to Study Model Behavior

ICML 2026poster

Post-hoc interpretability methods typically attribute a model’s behavior to its components, data, or training trajectory in isolation. This leads to explanations that lack a unified view and may miss key interactions. While combining existing methods or applying them at different training stages off…

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2025

Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models

ACL 2025long

A fundamental question in interpretability research is to what extent neural networks, particularly language models, implement reusable functions through subnetworks that can be composed to perform more complex tasks. Recent advances in mechanistic interpretability have made progress in identifying…

2025

LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks

ACL 2025short

There is an increasing trend towards evaluating NLP models with LLMs instead of human judgments, raising questions about the validity of these evaluations, as well as their reproducibility in the case of proprietary models. We provide JUDGE-BENCH, an extensible collection of 20 NLP datasets with hum…

2025

Reason to Rote: Rethinking Memorization in Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Large language models readily memorize arbitrary training instances, such as label noise, yet they perform strikingly well on reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate how language models memorize label noise, and why such memorization in many cases does not heavily affect generalizable reasonin

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2025

The Validation Gap: A Mechanistic Analysis of How Language Models Compute Arithmetic but Fail to Validate It

EMNLP 2025

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to validate their output and identify potential errors is crucial for ensuring robustness and reliability. However, current research indicates that LLMs struggle with self-correction, encountering significant challenges in detecting errors. While studies h

2024

Comparing Inferential Strategies of Humans and Large Language Models in Deductive Reasoning

ACL 2024long

Deductive reasoning plays a pivotal role in the formulation of sound and cohesive arguments. It allows individuals to draw conclusions that logically follow, given the truth value of the information provided. Recent progress in the domain of large language models (LLMs) has showcased their capabilit…