Simone Balloccu

@simoneballoccu

(he/him) ExpNLP lab leader @TUDarmstadt. Researching AI w.r.t human evaluation, behaviour change, safety and controllability, expert domains. Opnions my own.

Darmstadt

uccollab.github.io

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Simone Balloccu
@simoneballoccu
Feb 7, 2024
🚨Happy to share that our paper "Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs" has been accepted at #eacl2024.🚨 Huge thanks to my co-authors @PSchmidtova, @LangoMateusz and @tuetschek. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.03927
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Simone Balloccu
@simoneballoccu
Jul 30
One of my student decided to opt-in the experimental ARR AI review. The AI complains that we use greedy decoding (this is a medical task) and that we do not compare with a finetuned BERT (in a paper showing issues across 13LLMs) Not great..
Simone Balloccu
@simoneballoccu
Jul 5
And people keep telling me there is no problem with how we manage submissions.
michael
@WasianBayesian
Jul 5
Absolutely insane. 65 submissions from one author. #acl2026
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Simone Balloccu
@simoneballoccu
Nov 28, 2025
Turns out "Leak, Cheat, Repeat" works in peer-review too, if your API is buggy enough.
Simone Balloccu
@simoneballoccu
Oct 14, 2025
Life once you start supervising: 9-10: meeting 10-10.30 meeting 10.30-11 meeting 11-11:30 meeting ✨ coffee ✨ 13.30-14 meeting 14-15 meeting 15.30-16 meeting 16-17 meeting