Faculty of Computer Science

Ass.-Prof. Sebastian Schuster, MSc PhD

Sebastian Schuster
Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning
Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien
Room : 02.43
T: +43-1-4277-79515
sebastian.schuster(at)univie.ac.at
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Courses

Publications

Ask or Assume? Uncertainty-Aware Clarification-Seeking in Coding Agents. / Edwards, Nicholas; Schuster, Sebastian.
2026.

Publications: Working paper › Preprint

Diffusion LLMs can think EoS-by-EoS. / Breckner, Sarah; Schuster, Sebastian.
2026.

Publications: Working paper › Preprint

Humans and LLMs Diverge on Probabilistic Inferences. / Kamath, Gaurav; Madathil, Sreenath; Schuster, Sebastian et al.
2026.

Publications: Working paper › Preprint

Do Language Models Track Entities Across State Changes? / Tang, Zilu; Zhao, Qiao; Franco, Gabriel et al.
Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

RExBench: Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions? / Edwards, Nicholas; Lee, Yukyung; Mao, Yujun Audrey et al.
2026. Paper presented at 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), San Diego, California, United States.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed

There is No Spoon: Existential Presupposition in Large Language Models. / Wörgötter, Marie-Léontine; Lai, Shikai; Schuster, Sebastian.
2026.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed

RExBench: Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions? / Edwards, Nicholas; Lee, Yukyung; Mao, Yujun Audrey et al.
2025.

Publications: Working paper › Preprint

Semantic-Pragmatic Adaptation to Variable Use of Temporal Expressions. / Cao, Yuxin; Schuster, Sebastian.
2025. Paper presented at 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, United States.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed

Scope Ambiguities in Large Language Models. / Kamath, Gaurav; Schuster, Sebastian; Vajjala, Sowmya et al.
In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 12, 04.06.2024, p. 738-754.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00670

Code Pretraining Improves Entity Tracking Abilities of Language Models. / Kim, Najoung; Schuster, Sebastian; Toshniwal, Shubham.
2024.

Publications: Working paper › Preprint

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Projects

Understanding Language in Context

Schuster, S. (Project Coordinator) & Roth, B. (Project Lead)

1/04/25 → 31/03/33

Project: Research funding

Talks

Entity Tracking in Language Models

Schuster, S. (Speaker)

28 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Can coding agents autonomously implement NLP research extensions?

Schuster, S. (Speaker)

24 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Can coding agents autonomously implement NLP research extensions?

Schuster, S. (Speaker)

13 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

How Well do Large Language Models Encode Context-Sensitive Meaning?

Schuster, S. (Speaker)

25 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science