Simon Ostermann

Simon Ostermann

NLP & AI Researcher @ DFKI. Mechanistic interpretability and multilingual NLP, with a focus on low-resource languages.

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

Published in Accepted at the Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026

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Recommended citation: Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Pepa Atanasova, Fedor Splitt, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller, and Vera Schmitt. (2026). "Can Large Language Models Still Explain Themselves? Investigating the Impact of Quantization on Self-Explanations." Accepted at the Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
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