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# Kristian Kersting

Kristian Kersting has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Abbas Goher Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abbas-goher-khan/), [Ercong Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ercong-nie/), [Eyke Hüllermeier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eyke-hullermeier/).

3 papers in our library · 2025–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037636074) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2873-9152) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72740096) · [**h-index 56**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037636074) · [557 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037636074) · [10,653 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037636074&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 145 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7559](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7559)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Kristian+Kersting) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kristian+Kersting) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kristian+Kersting) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kristian+Kersting)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 2017–2026 · 224 papersEmployment since 2017 · Fachbereich Informatik*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) · [🔬**Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence** Darmstadt · Germany 2021–2026 · 86 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/hessian-center-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🔬**German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence** Kaiserslautern · Germany 2021–2026 · 50 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**TU Dortmund University** Dortmund · Germany 2013–2021 · 88 papersEmployment 2013–2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tu-dortmund-university/) · [🔬**Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems** Sankt Augustin · Germany 2008–2021 · 87 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/fraunhofer-institute-for-intelligent-analysis-and-information-systems/) · [🎓**University of Freiburg** Freiburg im Breisgau · Germany 1996–2012 · 36 papersEducation 1996–2001Employment 2001–2006 · PhD student / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-freiburg/) · [🎓**University of Bonn** Bonn · Germany 2010–2021 · 34 papersEmployment 2012–2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bonn/) · [🏛️**Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft** Munich · Germany 2008–2016 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/05hkkdn48) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2007–2008 · 9 papersEmployment 2007 · CSAIL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2008 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/year/2025/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-memory-r1-enhancing-large-language/)** *(2026 · 49 citations)* LLMs lose information that falls outside their context window. Systems that add an external memory bank usually depend on fixed heuristics or prompted LLMs to choose what to store and retrieve, and nothing in that choice is trained against answer correctness. Memory-R1 addresses this with reinforcement learning…
2. **[Problem Solving Through Human–AI Preference-based Cooperation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dutta-2025-problem-solving-through-human-ai/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Generative AI systems, including LLMs, vision-language models and code models, still struggle with complex expert-domain tasks.
3. **[KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data - The Full Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kraus-2026-klettermix-climbing-toward-high-quality/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Open German pretraining data still trails English. Native German collections are usually smaller, noisier, less documented, and seldom tested by actually training models on them. The authors take a different route: instead of crawling more German web text, they machine-translate a strong English mixture, ClimbMix…

## All works

13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.02157) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Patrick Schramowski et al.*2023 · 253 citations*
2. **[ChatGPT is fun, but it is not funny! Humor is still challenging Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04563) arXiv:2306.04563 · no summary yet**Sophie Jentzsch, Kristian Kersting*2023 · 81 citations*
3. **[Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-memory-r1-enhancing-large-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sikuan Yan, Xiufeng Yang, Zuchao Huang, et al.*2026 · 49 citations*
4. **[Mechanistic Design and Scaling of Hybrid Architectures ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17844) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Michael Poli et al.*2024 · 22 citations*
5. **[Problem Solving Through Human–AI Preference-based Cooperation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dutta-2025-problem-solving-through-human-ai/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Subhabrata Dutta, Timo Kaufmann, Goran Glavaš, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*
6. **[Systems AI: A Declarative Learning Based Programming Perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/771) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Parisa Kordjamshidi, Dan Roth, Kristian Kersting*2018 · 7 citations*
7. **[Occiglot at WMT24: European Open-source Large Language Models Evaluated on Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.wmt-1.23/) Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Eleftherios Avramidis et al.*2024 · 6 citations*
8. **[Declarative Learning-Based Programming as an Interface to AI Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.755361) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Parisa Kordjamshidi, Dan Roth, Kristian Kersting*2022 · 6 citations*
9. **[Reasoning about Large Populations with Lifted Probabilistic Inference ↗](https://openalex.org/W1805906695) no summary yet**Kristian Kersting et al.*2007 · 4 citations*
10. [**KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data - The Full Report arXiv:2606.03773**Maurice Kraus, Ruben Harle, Sebastian Sztwiertnia, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kraus-2026-klettermix-climbing-toward-high-quality/)
11. **[Recent Advancements in Tractable Probabilistic Inference (Dagstuhl Seminar 22,161) ↗](https://doi.org/10.4230/dagrep.12.4.13) DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · no summary yet**Priyank Jaini et al.*2022*
12. **[Declarative Learning-Based Programming as an Interface to AI Systems ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07809) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Parisa Kordjamshidi, Dan Roth, Kristian Kersting*2019*
13. **[Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2008) Lifted Probabilistic Inference with Counting Formulas ↗](https://openalex.org/W7098719047) no summary yet**Brian Milch et al.*2013*

## Co-authors here

12 of 22 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Abbas Goher Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abbas-goher-khan/)
- [Ercong Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ercong-nie/)
- [Eyke Hüllermeier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eyke-hullermeier/)
- [Frauke Kreuter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frauke-kreuter/)
- [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/)
- [Hinrich Schuetze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schuetze/)
- [Hinrich Schütze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/)
- [Iryna Gurevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/)
- [Ivan Habernal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-habernal/)
- [Jeff Z. Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-z-pan/)
- [Jinhe Bi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinhe-bi/)
- [Maurice Kraus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maurice-kraus/)

## Venues

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

- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/)
- [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2025/)
- DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)
- Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 145 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026