🧑‍🔬 Rafet Sifa

Affiliations

• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems · Sankt Augustin, Germany — current · 2014–2026 on 172 papers
• University of Bonn · Bonn, Germany — current · 2012–2026 on 56 papers
• Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence · Sankt Augustin — current · 2021–2026 on 7 papers
• Bonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology · Bonn, Germany — current · 2018–2026 on 6 papers
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft · Munich, Germany — 2017–2025 on 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

Topics

Language models & pretraining1Evaluation & benchmarks1Reasoning1Semitic languages1

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Is Reinforcement Learning (Not) for Natural Language Processing: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Building Blocks for Natural Language Policy Optimization (2022 · 166 citations)
   The paper asks whether reinforcement learning is a practical way to align pre-trained language models with human preferences.
2. Improving Natural Language Inference in Arabic using Transformer Models and Linguistically Informed Pre-Training (2023 · 2 citations)
   Arabic has few labelled resources for Natural Language Inference (NLI), the task of judging whether a hypothesis is entailed by, neutral to, or contradicted by a premise.

Also in our library

4 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Hannaneh Hajishirzi
• Jack Hessel
• Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
• Yejin Choi

Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 198 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 22 citing papers with a page here →.

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