Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Summarization.

Seyed Ali Bahrainian https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UkzwC_EAAAAJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2860-5346 Joschka Braun Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Summarization. EACL (Findings) 2026 3849-3884 conf/eacl/2026f https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.200/ db/conf/eacl/eacl2026f.html#BraunEB26 streams/conf/eacl

Xinyu Zhou Chang Jin Carsten Eickhoff Zhijiang Guo Seyed Ali Bahrainian When Silence Is Golden: Can LLMs Learn to Abstain in Temporal QA and Beyond? 2026 February abs/2602.04755 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.04755 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-04755 streams/journals/corr

Federico Ravenda Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andrea Raballo Antonietta Mira Fabio Crestani A self-supervised seed-driven approach to topic modelling and clustering. 333-353 2025 February 63 J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-024-00891-8 db/journals/jiis/jiis63.html#RavendaBRMC25 streams/journals/jiis

Federico Ravenda Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andrea Raballo Antonietta Mira Noriko Kando Are LLMs effective psychological assessors? Leveraging adaptive RAG for interpretable mental health screening through psychometric practice. 8975-8991 2025 ACL (1) https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.440/ conf/acl/2025-1 db/conf/acl/acl2025-1.html#RavendaBRMK25 Siran Li Linus Stenzel Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study of Best Practices. 6705-6717 2025 COLING https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.449/ conf/coling/2025 db/conf/coling/coling2025.html#LiSEB25 Gregory Polyakov Christian Hepting Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian Interpretability Analysis of Arithmetic In-Context Learning in Large Language Models. 1758-1777 2025 EMNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.92 conf/emnlp/2025 db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2025.html#PolyakovHEB25 streams/conf/emnlp Federico Ravenda Seyed Ali Bahrainian Noriko Kando Antonietta Mira Andrea Raballo Fabio Crestani Tailoring Adaptive-Zero-Shot Retrieval and Probabilistic Modelling for Psychometric Data. 1014-1018 2025 SAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3672608.3707922 conf/sac/2025 db/conf/sac/sac2025.html#RavendaBKMRC25

Federico Ravenda Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andrea Raballo Antonietta Mira Noriko Kando Are LLMs effective psychological assessors? Leveraging adaptive RAG for interpretable mental health screening through psychometric practice. 2025 January abs/2501.00982 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.00982 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-00982 streams/journals/corr

Siran Li Linus Stenzel Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study of Best Practices. 2025 January abs/2501.07391 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.07391 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-07391 streams/journals/corr

Joschka Braun Carsten Eickhoff David Krueger 0001 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Dmitrii Krasheninnikov Understanding (Un)Reliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models. 2025 May abs/2505.22637 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.22637 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-22637 streams/journals/corr

Joschka Braun Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization. 2025 May abs/2505.24859 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.24859 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-24859 streams/journals/corr

Joschka Braun Bálint Mucsányi Seyed Ali Bahrainian Logit Reweighting for Topic-Focused Summarization. 2025 July abs/2507.05235 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.05235 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-05235 streams/journals/corr

Zerui Cheng Stella Wohnig Ruchika Gupta Samiul Alam Tassallah Abdullahi João Alves Ribeiro Christian Nielsen-Garcia Saif Mir Siran Li Jason Orender Seyed Ali Bahrainian Daniel Kirste Aaron Gokaslan Mikolaj Glinka Carsten Eickhoff Ruben Wolff Benchmarking is Broken - Don't Let AI be its Own Judge. 2025 October abs/2510.07575 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.07575 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-07575 streams/journals/corr

Federico Ravenda Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andrea Raballo Antonietta Mira Navigating through the hidden embedding space: steering LLMs to improve mental health assessment. 2025 October abs/2510.16373 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.16373 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-16373 streams/journals/corr

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Jonathan Dou Carsten Eickhoff Text Simplification via Adaptive Teaching. 6574-6584 2024 ACL (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.392 https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.392 conf/acl/2024f db/conf/acl/acl2024f.html#BahrainianDE24 Sofia Blinova Xinyu Zhou Martin Jaggi Carsten Eickhoff Seyed Ali Bahrainian SIMSUM: Document-level Text Simplification via Simultaneous Summarization. 9927-9944 2023 ACL (1) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.552 https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.552 conf/acl/2023-1 db/conf/acl/acl2023-1.html#BlinovaZJEB23

Koyena Pal Seyed Ali Bahrainian Laura Mercurio Carsten Eickhoff Neural Summarization of Electronic Health Records. 2023 abs/2305.15222 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.15222 db/journals/corr/corr2305.html#abs-2305-15222

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Martin Jaggi Carsten Eickhoff Controllable Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization. 2023 abs/2311.06724 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.06724 db/journals/corr/corr2311.html#abs-2311-06724

Seyed Ali Bahrainian George Zerveas Fabio Crestani Carsten Eickhoff CATS: Customizable Abstractive Topic-based Summarization. 5:1-5:24 2022 40 ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.1145/3464299 db/journals/tois/tois40.html#BahrainianZCE22

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Sheridan Feucht Carsten Eickhoff NEWTS: A Corpus for News Topic-Focused Summarization. 493-503 2022 ACL (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.42 https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.42 conf/acl/2022f db/conf/acl/acl2022f.html#BahrainianFE22

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Sheridan Feucht Carsten Eickhoff NEWTS: A Corpus for News Topic-Focused Summarization. 2022 abs/2205.15661 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.15661 db/journals/corr/corr2205.html#abs-2205-15661

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Martin Jaggi Carsten Eickhoff Self-Supervised Neural Topic Modeling. 3341-3350 2021 EMNLP (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.284 https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.284 conf/emnlp/2021f db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2021f.html#BahrainianJE21 Manajit Chakraborty Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Forecasting Patent Growth by Combining Time-Series Signals Using Covariance Patterns. 2020 CIRCLE https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2621/CIRCLE20_01.pdf conf/circle/2020 db/conf/circle/circle2020.html#ChakrabortyBC20 Esteban A. Ríssola Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani A Dataset for Research on Depression in Social Media. 338-342 2020 UMAP https://doi.org/10.1145/3340631.3394879 conf/um/2020 db/conf/um/umap2020.html#RissolaBC20

Ida Mele Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Event mining and timeliness analysis from heterogeneous news streams. 969-993 2019 56 Inf. Process. Manag. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.02.003 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128390074 db/journals/ipm/ipm56.html#MeleBC19

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fattane Zarrinkalam Ida Mele Fabio Crestani Predicting the Topic of Your Next Query for Just-In-Time IR. 261-275 2019 ECIR (1) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_17 conf/ecir/2019-1 db/conf/ecir/ecir2019-1.html#BahrainianZMC19 Esteban A. Ríssola Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Anticipating Depression Based on Online Social Media Behaviour. 278-290 2019 FQAS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27629-4_26 conf/fqas/2019 db/conf/fqas/fqas2019.html#RissolaBC19 Esteban Andrés Ríssola Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Personality Recognition in Conversations using Capsule Neural Networks. 180-187 2019 WI https://doi.org/10.1145/3350546.3352516 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/117545353 conf/webi/2019 db/conf/webi/webi2019.html#RissolaBC19 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Augmentation of Human Memory: Anticipating Topics that Continue in the Next Meeting. 150-159 2018 CHIIR https://doi.org/10.1145/3176349.3176399 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559188 conf/chiir/2018 db/conf/chiir/chiir2018.html#BahrainianC18 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Ida Mele Fabio Crestani Predicting Topics in Scholarly Papers. 16-28 2018 ECIR https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_2 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559191 conf/ecir/2018 db/conf/ecir/ecir2018.html#BahrainianMC18 Ida Mele Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Linking News across Multiple Streams for Timeliness Analysis. 767-776 2017 CIKM https://doi.org/10.1145/3132847.3132988 conf/cikm/2017 db/conf/cikm/cikm2017.html#MeleBC17 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Tracking Smartphone App Usage for Time-Aware Recommendation. 161-172 2017 ICADL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70232-2_14 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559207 conf/icadl/2017 db/conf/icadl/icadl2017.html#BahrainianC17 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Towards the Next Generation of Personal Assistants: Systems that Know When You Forget. 169-176 2017 ICTIR https://doi.org/10.1145/3121050.3121071 conf/ictir/2017 db/conf/ictir/ictir2017.html#BahrainianC17 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Predicting the Topics to Review in Preparation of Your Next Meeting. 13-16 2017 IIR https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1911/3.pdf conf/iir/2017 db/conf/iir/iir2017.html#BahrainianC17 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Are Conversation Logs Useful Sources for Generating Memory Cues for Recalling Past Memories? 13-20 2017 LTA@MM https://doi.org/10.1145/3133202.3133205 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559197 conf/mm/2017lta db/conf/mm/lta2017.html#BahrainianC17 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Ida Mele Fabio Crestani Modeling discrete dynamic topics. 858-865 2017 SAC https://doi.org/10.1145/3019612.3019673 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559202 conf/sac/2017 db/conf/sac/sac2017.html#BahrainianMC17 Agon Bexheti Evangelos Niforatos Seyed Ali Bahrainian Marc Langheinrich Fabio Crestani Measuring the effect of cued recall on work meetings. 1020-1026 2016 UbiComp Adjunct https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968563 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59559217 conf/huc/2016ap db/conf/huc/ubicomp2016ap.html#BexhetiNBLC16 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Fabio Crestani Cued Retrieval of Personal Memories of Social Interactions. 3-12 2016 LTA@MM http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2983577 conf/mm/2016lta db/conf/mm/lta2016.html#BahrainianC16

Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andreas Dengel 0001 Sentiment analysis of texts by capturing underlying sentiment patterns. 53-68 2015 13 Web Intell. 1 https://doi.org/10.3233/WEB-150309 db/journals/wias/wias13.html#BahrainianDXP15

Mohammad Aliannejadi Seyed Ali Bahrainian Anastasia Giachanou Fabio Crestani University of Lugano at TREC 2015: Contextual Suggestion and Temporal Summarization Tracks. 2015 TREC http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec24/papers/USI-CXTS.pdf conf/trec/2015 db/conf/trec/trec2015.html#AliannejadiBGC15 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Marcus Liwicki Andreas Dengel 0001 Fuzzy Subjective Sentiment Phrases: A Context Sensitive and Self-Maintaining Sentiment Lexicon. 361-368 2014 WI-IAT (2) https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.57 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.57 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130928682 conf/webi/2014-2 db/conf/webi/webi2014-2.html#BahrainianLD14 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andreas Dengel 0001 Sentiment Analysis and Summarization of Twitter Data. 227-234 2013 CSE https://doi.org/10.1109/CSE.2013.44 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSE.2013.44 conf/cse/2013 db/conf/cse/cse2013.html#BahrainianD13 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Andreas Dengel 0001 Sentiment Analysis Using Sentiment Features. 26-29 2013 Web Intelligence/IAT Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2013.145 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2013.145 conf/iat/2013w db/conf/iat/iatw2013.html#BahrainianD13 Seyed Ali Bahrainian Seyed Mohammad Bahrainian Meytham Salarinasab Andreas Dengel 0001 Implementation of an Intelligent Product Recommender System in an e-Store. 174-182 2010 AMT https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15470-6_19 conf/amt/2010 db/conf/amt/amt2010.html#BahrainianBSD10 Tassallah Abdullahi Samiul Alam Mohammad Aliannejadi Seyed Mohammad Bahrainian Agon Bexheti Sofia Blinova Joschka Braun Manajit Chakraborty Zerui Cheng Fabio Crestani Andreas Dengel 0001 Jonathan Dou Carsten Eickhoff Sheridan Feucht Anastasia GiahanouAnastasia Giachanou Mikolaj Glinka Aaron Gokaslan Zhijiang Guo Ruchika Gupta Christian Hepting Martin Jaggi Chang Jin Noriko Kando Daniel Kirste Dmitrii Krasheninnikov David Krueger 0001 Marc Langheinrich Siran Li Marcus Liwicki Ida Mele Laura Mercurio Saif Mir Antonietta Mira Bálint Mucsányi Christian Nielsen-Garcia Evangelos Niforatos Jason Orender Koyena Pal Gregory Polyakov Andrea Raballo Federico Ravenda João Alves Ribeiro Esteban A. RíssolaEsteban Andrés Ríssola Meytham Salarinasab Linus Stenzel Stella Wohnig Ruben Wolff Fattane Zarrinkalam George Zerveas Xinyu Zhou