🧑‍🔬 Vagrant Gautam

🏛️ Affiliations

🔬Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical StudiesHeidelberg · Germany2024–2026 · 21 papersEmployment since 2025 · Independent Postdoccurrent🎓Saarland UniversitySaarbrücken · Germany2021–2026 · 14 papersEducation 2021–2025 · PhD in Computer Science, Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Sciencecurrent🎓Simon Fraser UniversityBurnaby · Canada2015–2021 · 1 paperEducation 2015–2019 · Bachelor of Science, Computing Science and Linguistics

🏛️DialpadVancouver · Canada2019–2021Employment 2019–2021 · Speech Recognition Engineer, Automatic Speech Recognition

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. WinoPron: Revisiting English Winogender Schemas for Consistency, Coverage, and Grammatical Case (2024 · 9 citations)
   Winogender Schemas are a widely used benchmark for gender bias in coreference resolution. The authors audit it and find problems that make its measurements unreliable. Pronoun forms in different grammatical cases are counted as if they were interchangeable, and their counts are very uneven. Some paired templates…
2. A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English (2023 · 6 citations)
   Extractive QA systems tend to produce a plausible-looking span even when the passage does not contain the answer.
3. Aligned Probing: Relating Toxic Behavior and Model Internals (2026 · 1 citation)
   Work on LM toxicity usually judges models only by what they generate and treats toxicity as one uniform category.
4. Whose Facts Win? LLM Source Preferences under Knowledge Conflicts (2026 · 1 citation)
   LLMs used in retrieval-augmented generation often receive passages that contradict each other. Earlier work on these inter-context knowledge conflicts did not ask whether the attributed source affects which version a model believes, and this paper addresses that gap. The authors built a controlled English testbed.…
5. GRUFF: LLM Pronoun Fidelity, Reasoning, and Biases in German (2026)
   Pronoun fidelity asks whether a model, after learning which pronoun a person uses, keeps using that pronoun later even when sentences about other people come in between.

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased? ↗Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetVagrant Gautam et al.2024 · 17 citations
2. WinoPron: Revisiting English Winogender Schemas for Consistency, Coverage, and Grammatical CaseWorkshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)Vagrant Gautam, Julius Steuer, Eileen Bingert, et al.2024 · 9 citations
3. A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in EnglishFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsVagrant Gautam, Miaoran Zhang, Dietrich Klakow2023 · 6 citations
4. Aligned Probing: Relating Toxic Behavior and Model InternalsTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Andreas Waldis, Vagrant Gautam, Anne Lauscher, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Whose Facts Win? LLM Source Preferences under Knowledge ConflictsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Jakob Schuster, Vagrant Gautam, Katja Markert2026 · 1 citation
6. GRUFF: LLM Pronoun Fidelity, Reasoning, and Biases in GermanarXiv:2605.30214Fabian Mewes, Anne Lauscher, Vagrant Gautam2026

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Anne Lauscher ×3
• Dietrich Klakow ×3
• Iryna Gurevych
• Julius Steuer
• Katja Markert
• Miaoran Zhang

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) ×2: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026
• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2026
• Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC): CRAC 2024
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 26 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 3 citing papers with a page here →.

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