Research Engineer
Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe
Human-Centric AI
Research Interests
- Large Language Models
- Search and Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
Publications
- Sotaro Takeshita, Yurina Takeshita, Daniel Ruffinelli, Simone Ponzetto. Randomly Removing 50% of Dimensions in Text Embeddings has Minimal Impact on Retrieval and Classification Tasks (EMNLP 2025, People’s Choice Award)
- Alina Klerings, Janik Brinkmann, Daniel Ruffinelli, Simone Ponzetto. Steering Language Models in Multi-Token Generation: A Case Study on Tense and Aspect (EMNLP 2025)
- Daniel Ruffinelli, Rainer Gemulla. Beyond Link Prediction: On Pre-Training Knowledge Graph Embeddings (RepL4NLP@ACL 2024)
- Daniel Ruffinelli, Samuel Broscheit, Rainer Gemulla. You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks! On Training Knowledge Graph Embeddings (ICLR 2020)
- Daniel Ruffinelli, Benjamín Barán. Linear Nearest Neighbor Optimization in Quantum Circuits: A Multiobjective Perspective (Quantum Information Processing 2017)