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Michael A. Hedderich

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Preprint Oct 2026

Bridged Self-Distillation for On-Policy Learning

On-policy distillation can transfer the reasoning capabilities of a strong teacher to a smaller student. However, distillation from a stronger teacher model faces two mismatches: its solutions may be difficult for a smaller student to imitate, and its token-level probabilities may be incompatible with, or even unavaila...

Run-Sheng Chen, Yi-Hong Liu, Rao-Yuan Zhao et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

Intent-Aware Backchanneling for Active Listening in Human-Robot Interaction

In conversational Human-Robot Interaction, robots typically remain silent during user speech and reply only after a pause, making interaction feel unnatural. In contrast, humans signal that they listen through active behavior. To overcome this, we present a system in which a social robot conveys active listening throug...

Yang Sun, Jan Leusmann, Michael A. Hedderich · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

How Did Writing Change At CHI? Analyzing 44 Years of CHI Writing Before and After the Introduction of Large Language Models

The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) reshaped scientific discourse at a linguistic level. LLMs are assumed to homogenize academic writing, flattening it into a single generic lexical register. To understand how CHI writing has changed since the public release of LLMs, we analyzed full texts of 14,262 archiv...

Thomas Kosch, Robin Welsch, Michael A. Hedderich et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

Intent-Aware Backchanneling for Active Listening in Human-Robot Interaction

A ready-to-deploy intent-aware system in which a social robot conveys active listening through non-verbal backchannels grounded in interactional intents to enable active listening for robots.

Yang Sun, Jan Leusmann, Michael A. Hedderich · 0 citations

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