Tobias Eder

Doctoral Researcher NLP · Social Computing Group · TU Munich

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Munich, Germany

I’m a doctoral researcher in the Social Computing Group at TU Munich, supervised by Prof. Georg Groh. My work sits at the intersection of NLP, multimodal learning, and the social dimensions of online communication with a particular interest in model robustness, trustworthy AI, and understanding where and why current systems fail.

I like working across boundaries: between modalities, between languages, and between academic research and applied problems that benefit from computational rigor. This has led me from content moderation and social media analysis to legal NLP and standardization work on digital media integrity. I’m drawn to questions where the technical challenge is entangled with real-world complexity.

news

Apr 20, 2026 Presenting at ICWSM 2026 in Los Angeles this May - come find me at the CySoc workshop on May 26.
Nov 16, 2025 Presenting our completed COLEX project at the Software Campus Summit in Berlin, December 3–4.
Jun 30, 2025 Attending ACL 2025 in Vienna, July 28 – August 1.

selected publications

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    Safer Reasoning Traces: Measuring and Mitigating Chain-of-Thought Leakage in LLMs
    Patrick Ahrend, Tobias Eder, Xiyang Yang, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05618, 2026
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    Beyond Hate: Differentiating Uncivil and Intolerant Speech in Multimodal Content Moderation
    Nils A Herrmann, Tobias Eder, Jingyi He, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22985, 2026
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    Anchor-based bilingual word embeddings for low-resource languages
    Tobias Eder, Viktor Hangya, and Alexander Fraser
    In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2021