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Kristian Kersting

TU Darmstadt, Computer Science Department, Germany

47 papers at tracked venues · 32 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

NeurIPS ×11ICLR ×6ICML ×5ACL ×4EMNLP ×3ICCV ×3UAI ×3AAAI ×2AISTATS ×2ECAI ×2ECML-PKDD ×2CVPR ×1IJCAI ×1IROS ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

Patrick Schramowski
×14
Devendra Singh Dhami
×13
Manuel Brack
×10
Felix Friedrich
×9
Wolfgang Stammer
×9
Antonia Wüst
×6
Martin Mundt
×5
Hikaru Shindo
×4
Tim Woydt
×4
Quentin Delfosse
×4
Maurice Kraus
×4
Felix Divo
×4

Papers

  1. Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Sikuan Yan
    ,
    Xiufeng Yang
    ,
    Zuchao Huang
    ,
    Ercong Nie
    ,
    Zifeng Ding
    ,
    Zonggen Li
    ,
    Xiaowen Ma
    ,
    Jinhe Bi
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Jeff Z. Pan
    ,
    Hinrich Schütze
    ,
    Volker Tresp
    ,
    Yunpu Ma
  2. SLR: Automated Synthesis for Scalable Logical Reasoning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Lukas Helff
    ,
    Ahmad Omar
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Antonia Wüst
    ,
    Hikaru Shindo
    ,
    Rupert Mitchell
    ,
    Tim Woydt
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    , Kristian Kersting
  3. ART: Adaptive Relation Tuning for Generalized Relation Prediction
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Gopika Sudhakaran
    ,
    Hikaru Shindo
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Simone Schaub-Meyer
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Stefan Roth
  4. Adaptable Hindsight Experience Replay for Search-Based Learning
    ECML-PKDD 2025 ·
    Alexandros Vazaios
    ,
    Jannis Brugger
    ,
    Cedric Derstroff
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Mira Mezini
  5. BlendRL: A Framework for Merging Symbolic and Neural Policy Learning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Hikaru Shindo
    ,
    Quentin Delfosse
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  6. Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?
    ICML 2025 ·
    Antonia Wüst
    ,
    Tim Nelson Tobiasch
    ,
    Lukas Helff
    ,
    Inga Ibs
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    ,
    Constantin A. Rothkopf
    , Kristian Kersting
  7. Core Tokensets for Data-Efficient Sequential Training of Transformers
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Subarnaduti Paul
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Martin Mundt
  8. Credibility-Aware Multimodal Fusion Using Probabilistic Circuits
    AISTATS 2025 ·
    Sahil Sidheekh
    ,
    Pranuthi Tenali
    ,
    Saurabh Mathur
    ,
    Erik Blasch
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Sriraam Natarajan
  9. EmoNet-Face: An Expert-Annotated Benchmark for Synthetic Emotion Recognition
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Christoph Schuhmann
    ,
    Robert Kaczmarczyk
    ,
    Gollam Rabby
    ,
    Maurice Kraus
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Huu Nguyen
    ,
    Krishna Kalyan
    ,
    Kourosh Nadi
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Sören Auer
  10. Exploring Neural Granger Causality with xLSTMs: Unveiling Temporal Dependencies in Complex Data
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Harsh Poonia
    ,
    Felix Divo
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
  11. How to Train Your Text-to-Image Model: Evaluating Design Choices for Synthetic Training Captions
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Sudeep Katakol
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Hareesh Ravi
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Ajinkya Kale
  12. Human-in-the-loop or AI-in-the-loop? Automate or Collaborate?
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Sriraam Natarajan
    ,
    Saurabh Mathur
    ,
    Sahil Sidheekh
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    , Kristian Kersting
  13. Judging Quality Across Languages: A Multilingual Approach to Pretraining Data Filtering with Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mehdi Ali
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Max Lübbering
    ,
    Elias Wendt
    ,
    Abbas Goher Khan
    ,
    Richard Rutmann
    ,
    Alex Jude
    ,
    Maurice Kraus
    ,
    Alexander Arno Weber
    ,
    Felix Stollenwerk
    ,
    David Kaczér
    ,
    Florian Mai
    ,
    Lucie Flek
    ,
    Rafet Sifa
    ,
    Nicolas Flores-Herr
    ,
    Joachim Köhler
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Michael Fromm
    , Kristian Kersting
  14. LlavaGuard: An Open VLM-based Framework for Safeguarding Vision Datasets and Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Lukas Helff
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Patrick Schramowski
  15. METok: Multi-Stage Event-based Token Compression for Efficient Long Video Understanding
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mengyue Wang
    ,
    Shuo Chen
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Volker Tresp
    ,
    Yunpu Ma
  16. Measuring and Guiding Monosemanticity
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ruben Härle
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Björn Deiseroth
    ,
    Stephan Wäldchen
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting
  17. Multilingual Text-to-Image Generation Magnifies Gender Stereotypes
    ACL 2025 ·
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Katharina Hämmerl
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Jindrich Libovický
    ,
    Alexander Fraser
    , Kristian Kersting
  18. Object-Centric Concept-Bottlenecks
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    David Steinmann
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    ,
    Antonia Wüst
    , Kristian Kersting
  19. ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Indraneil Paul
    ,
    Haoyi Yang
    ,
    Goran Glavas
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Iryna Gurevych
  20. Right on Time: Revising Time Series Models by Constraining Their Explanations
    ECML-PKDD 2025 ·
    Maurice Kraus
    ,
    David Steinmann
    ,
    Antonia Wüst
    ,
    Andre Kokozinski
    , Kristian Kersting
  21. STRICTA: Structured Reasoning in Critical Text Assessment for Peer Review and Beyond
    ACL 2025 ·
    Nils Dycke
    ,
    Matej Zecevic
    ,
    Ilia Kuznetsov
    ,
    Beatrix Suess
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Iryna Gurevych
  22. Scaling Probabilistic Circuits via Data Partitioning
    UAI 2025 ·
    Jonas Seng
    ,
    Florian Peter Busch
    ,
    Pooja Prasad
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    ,
    Martin Mundt
    , Kristian Kersting
  23. Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Moritz Willig
    ,
    Tim Nelson Tobiasch
    ,
    Florian Peter Busch
    ,
    Jonas Seng
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  24. The Constitutional Filter: Bayesian Estimation of Compliant Agents
    IROS 2025 ·
    Simon Kohaut
    ,
    Felix Divo
    ,
    Benedict Flade
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    ,
    Julian Eggert
    , Kristian Kersting
  25. When Causal Dynamics Matter: Adapting Causal Strategies through Meta-Aware Interventions
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Moritz Willig
    ,
    Tim Woydt
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  26. Where is the Truth? The Risk of Getting Confounded in a Continual World
    ICML 2025 ·
    Florian Peter Busch
    ,
    Roshni Ramanna Kamath
    ,
    Rupert Mitchell
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Martin Mundt
  27. xLSTM-Mixer: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting by Mixing via Scalar Memories
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Maurice Kraus
    ,
    Felix Divo
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  28. Adaptive Rational Activations to Boost Deep Reinforcement Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Quentin Delfosse
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Martin Mundt
    ,
    Alejandro Molina
    , Kristian Kersting
  29. Be Careful What You Smooth For: Label Smoothing Can Be a Privacy Shield but Also a Catalyst for Model Inversion Attacks
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Lukas Struppek
    ,
    Dominik Hintersdorf
    , Kristian Kersting
  30. Causality in Flux: Continual Adaptation of Causal Knowledge via Evidence Matching
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Jonas Seng
    ,
    Florian Peter Busch
    , Kristian Kersting
  31. Deep Classifier Mimicry without Data Access
    AISTATS 2024 ·
    Steven Braun
    ,
    Martin Mundt
    , Kristian Kersting
  32. Defending Our Privacy with Backdoors
    ECAI 2024 ·
    Dominik Hintersdorf
    ,
    Lukas Struppek
    ,
    Daniel Neider
    , Kristian Kersting
  33. DeiSAM: Segment Anything with Deictic Prompting
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Hikaru Shindo
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Gopika Sudhakaran
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting
  34. Divergent Token Metrics: Measuring degradation to prune away LLM components - and optimize quantization
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Björn Deiseroth
    ,
    Max Meuer
    ,
    Nikolas Gritsch
    ,
    Constantin Eichenberg
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    ,
    Matthias Aßenmacher
    , Kristian Kersting
  35. Exploiting Cultural Biases via Homoglyphs inText-to-Image Synthesis (Abstract Reprint)
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Lukas Struppek
    ,
    Dominik Hintersdorf
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting
  36. Finding NeMo: Localizing Neurons Responsible For Memorization in Diffusion Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Dominik Hintersdorf
    ,
    Lukas Struppek
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Adam Dziedzic
    ,
    Franziska Boenisch
  37. Graph Neural Networks Need Cluster-Normalize-Activate Modules
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Arseny Skryagin
    ,
    Felix Divo
    ,
    Mohammad Amin Ali
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  38. Interpretable Concept Bottlenecks to Align Reinforcement Learning Agents
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Quentin Delfosse
    ,
    Sebastian Sztwiertnia
    ,
    Mark Rothermel
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    , Kristian Kersting
  39. LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing Using Text-to-Image Models
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    ,
    Katharina Kornmeier
    ,
    Linoy Tsaban
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Apolinário Passos
  40. Learning Large DAGs is Harder than you Think: Many Losses are Minimal for the Wrong DAG
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Jonas Seng
    ,
    Matej Zecevic
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  41. Learning to Intervene on Concept Bottlenecks
    ICML 2024 ·
    David Steinmann
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    ,
    Felix Friedrich
    , Kristian Kersting
  42. Mechanistic Design and Scaling of Hybrid Architectures
    ICML 2024 ·
    Michael Poli
    ,
    Armin W. Thomas
    ,
    Eric Nguyen
    ,
    Pragaash Ponnusamy
    ,
    Björn Deiseroth
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Taiji Suzuki
    ,
    Brian L. Hie
    ,
    Stefano Ermon
    ,
    Christopher Ré
    ,
    Ce Zhang
    ,
    Stefano Massaroli
  43. Neural Concept Binder
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Wolfgang Stammer
    ,
    Antonia Wüst
    ,
    David Steinmann
    , Kristian Kersting
  44. Pix2Code: Learning to Compose Neural Visual Concepts as Programs
    UAI 2024 ·
    Antonia Wüst
    ,
    Wolfgang Stammer
    ,
    Quentin Delfosse
    ,
    Devendra Singh Dhami
    , Kristian Kersting
  45. Representation Matters for Mastering Chess: Improved Feature Representation in AlphaZero Outperforms Switching to Transformers
    ECAI 2024 ·
    Johannes Czech
    ,
    Jannis Blüml
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Hedinn Steingrimsson
  46. T-FREE: Subword Tokenizer-Free Generative LLMs via Sparse Representations for Memory-Efficient Embeddings
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Björn Deiseroth
    ,
    Manuel Brack
    ,
    Patrick Schramowski
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Samuel Weinbach
  47. χSPN: Characteristic Interventional Sum-Product Networks for Causal Inference in Hybrid Domains
    UAI 2024 ·
    Harsh Poonia
    ,
    Moritz Willig
    ,
    Zhongjie Yu
    ,
    Matej Zecevic
    , Kristian Kersting,
    Devendra Singh Dhami