Florian Eichin

NLP Researcher | PhD Candidate | Unified Interpretability

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

I'm a PhD candidate and research associate in computational linguistics at LMU Munich. Here, you can occasionally see me post about - Language representations and measures of similarity between them - Explainable AI and interpretability - Model component and data attribution methods - How learning dynamics interact with these areas Besides, I do topic modeling and have an interest in computational approaches to analysing social networks.

Experience

  • PhD Candidate & Research Associate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Working on new ways to interpret language models

  • Universität Trier (Part-time · 4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Associate Researcher
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      - Using state-of-the-art language processing to research current affairs commentators on social media - Scaling qualitative approaches to millions of documents

    • Research Assistant
      Jun 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Data collection, engineering and analysis on social media platforms

  • Visiting Researcher at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
    Sep 2025 - Nov 2025 · 3 mos

  • Associate Researcher at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2024 · 2 mos

    OCR, data engineering, and data analysis for the department of Sinology

  • Machine Learning Researcher at mixedbread.ai
    Jan 2024 - Apr 2024 · 4 mos

    - training state-of-the-art language embeddings - shrinking RAG space complexity by over 50x through efficient binarization