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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/09/2026

What a Kick-Off for BEADS (Berlin Ecosystem for Analytics and Data Systems): The very first Meetup was already a great success. With a full house and a lively discussion, it offered a glimpse of what this new format brings to Berlin's data community. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

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Photo-Recap: BEADS Kick-Off

BEADS launched its Tech Meetup Series with a kick-off event at BIFOLD, drawing around 60 participants from Berlin's data community for three talks from Snowflake, Databricks, and BIFOLD, followed by a...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/09/2026

Many thanks to Madelon Hulsebos for her talk at the BIFOLD Colloquium. @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social In "On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning," she showed that reasoning over tabular data spans several distinct challenges:

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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rechts vor links lernt jedes Kind. Was mit unseren #Daten im Internet passiert, weiß kaum jemand. Brauchen wir einen Netz-Führerschein? Im #DigitalerSalon diskutieren wir über #Datenkompetenz, #Bildung & selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen. 👉 Am HIIG oder im Livestream: www.hiig.de/events/digit...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 18/09/2026

Photo Recap: Berlin Summer School on AI and Society. From Sept 14-17, 50 students from 10 countries met in Berlin for four days on the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems, robotics, and physical AI. Organized by BIFOLD, the Weizenbaum Institute, and TU Berlin's LIS Lab.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 17/09/2026

Join us in Berlin at the scientific workshop "Agentic AI for Earth Observation," organized by BIFOLD and the ESA Φ-lab from October 19 to 21, 2026. Begüm Demir shares the workshop's aims and invites researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers. agentic-eo.berlin #gischat #EO #ESA #GeoAI

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/09/2026

BIFOLD researcher Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji to lead a €1.5 million research consortium on AI in Oncology. The project brings together oncologists, pathologists, and ml researchers from BIFOLD/TU Berlin, LMU Munich, and UKE Hamburg. 🧵 @tuberlin.bsky.social @lmu.de @xai-berlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 14/09/2026

The 2026 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society opened today, September 14, and runs through September 17, 2026, in a new setting: for the first time, the summer school takes place in BIFOLD's own premises. @tuberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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icde-publicity.bsky.social @icde-publicity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The #ICDE2027 Call for Tutorials is OPEN! 📚✨ Share your expertise by proposing a tutorial on cutting-edge data engineering topics, core systems, vector/graph data, or AI/LLMs for data. Shaping the program for ICDE 2027! Details: icde2027.github.io/cf-tutorials... #DataEngineering

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

BIFOLD congratulates Dr. Pattarawat Chormai on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation. On August 27, 2026, Pattarawat Chormai defended his dissertation, "Understanding and Improving Neural Networks with Relevant Subspace Analysis." @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

Save the date: Sep 25, 2026. #BIFOLD #Colloquium. Prof. Dr. Masashi Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo, RIKEN) will present his group's latest research on advanced reward modeling.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

Most privacy protection systems slow down and become less useful the more data they have to protect. Does it have to be that way? In our new Researcher Spotlight, BIFOLD introduces Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre, who defended his PhD summa cum laude at BIFOLD. t1p.de/8n1sk @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 27/08/2026

Meet BIFOLD researchers at VLDB 2026! Aug 31-Sep 4 in Boston, USA: 6 research papers, 3 workshop papers, 2 demos, a workshop keynote, and a panel, plus an Emerging Reviewer Award. Here is when and where to catch us on site (thread):

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 26/08/2026

The #ELLIS Unit Berlin hosted its first #VLDB & #ECCV Fest, bringing together around 50 researchers from Berlin and Potsdam ahead of VLDB 2026 and ECCV 2026. Thank you to everyone who presented and joined! Wishing all presenters great success at both conferences. @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 11/08/2026

Everyone calls sparse autoencoders "interpretable," almost no one measures it. A new benchmark changes that. /// #ECCV2026 #OralPresentation #Paper #BIFOLD @tuberlin.bsky.social #compVision #EO #gischat

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/07/2026

⏳➕⏰ Submission deadline extended: 8 July 2026! Contribute to "The Agentic AI for EO Workshop" 📍Berlin, 🗓️ 19–21 October 2026 Submit your abstract, demo, or hands-on session proposal now: agentic-eo.berlin #earthobservation #eochat #remotesensing #cfp #cfd #gischat #mlsky 🌍 🛰️ @tuberlin.bsky.social

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Agentic AI for Earth Observation

The workshop for Agentic AI and Earth Observation in Berlin, Germany, 19-21 October 2026

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

PhD in Berlin? The city offers a broad spectrum of doctoral programs w/ funding opportunities & collaborations w/ research institutions. www.doctoral-programs.de/welcome/ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, @unipotsdam.bsky.social, @udkberlin.bsky.social

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Healthcare in Europe (DE) @health-europe-de.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

💡🐴 Eine neue Studie von @bifold.berlin an der @tuberlin.bsky.social, mit dem KI-Unternehmen Aignostics, @lmu.de und @nkinl.bsky.social zeigt, wie der „Kluge Hans“-Effekt #KI Modelle in der #Pathologie dazu bringen kann, #Krebs zu diagnostizieren, wo keiner ist – und wie sich das verhindern lässt.

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KI als „Kluger Hans“: Maßstab für zuverlässigere Pathologie-Diagnostik

Eine neue Studie von BIFOLD Forschenden an der TU Berlin gemeinsam mit dem Berliner KI-Unternehmen Aignostics, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München und dem Netherlands Cancer Institute (NK...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 30/06/2026

BIFOLD congratulates Dr. Tom Burgert! 🎓🎉 Tom has successfully defended his PhD thesis with distinction - Summa Cum Laude - at @tuberlin.bsky.social Tom is part of the RSiM research group, led by Begüm Demir, at BIFOLD.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 16/06/2026

🚀 Have you registered for the 2026 Berlin Summer School of AI & Society on "Responsible Design of AI-driven Autonomous Systems"? 14 to 17 September 2026, Berlin Deatils: t1p.de/bv5sj ⏳ Two weeks left! Deadline: 30 June 2026. 🧵👇 #AcademicSky @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/06/2026

Gustavo Alonso will join the BIFOLD Colloquium series with a talk titled: "Data Stream for Heterogeneous System Design." Join us this Wednesday at BIFOLD. June 17, 2026. 3 PM. BIFOLD: Franklinstraße 28/29, 10587 Berlin. t1p.de/g8wxm 📈🤖 @tuberlin.bsky.social #DBs #ML #AI

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/06/2026

Are you researching AI, robotics, or AI and society? The BIFOLD Summer School 2026 brings 50 early-career researchers to Berlin to explore the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems. 🧠🤖 t1p.de/01v6s #ResponsibleAI @tuberlin.bsky.social #summerschool @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/06/2026

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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

👁️ How does the brain detect relevance & how does AI learn from it? Researchers at @bifold.berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social including Bernstein member Klaus-Robert Müller have developed a brain-inspired AI model of visual attention. Read the whole story 👉️ bit.ly/4dCiuCM #CompNeuro #BernsteinNetwork 🧠 📈

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/06/2026

ACM AsiaCCS 2026: BIFOLD research reveals a blind spot in #software security. 📃Shape-Shifting Malicious Code in Software Backdoors via Language Models. M E Fard, F Weissberg, E Imgrund, T Eisenhofer, K Rieck. Link: t1p.de/8ym87 Code: t1p.de/j3rwe #Backdoors #Attacks #MLsky #AI @rieck.mlsec.org

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icde-publicity.bsky.social @icde-publicity.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🚨 Only 2 weeks left for #ICDE2027 Round 1! 🚨 Don't miss the June 11 deadline to submit your research on core systems, AI for data, or scalable architectures. Get your manuscripts ready: icde2027.github.io/cf-research-... Submission link: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2027/

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Wisskomm.de @wisskomm.de · 28/05/2026

Generative KI in der #Wisskomm – aber wie verantwortungsvoll einsetzen? Die Handreichung „Reflexionsfragen zur Nutzung von Generativer KI“ bietet dafür Orientierung: mit Leitfragen zu Qualität, Verantwortung, Kompetenz, Datenschutz und Transparenz 👇 www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/reflexionsfr...

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Reflexionsfragen zur Nutzung von Generativer KI in der Wissenschaftskommunikation

Generative KI bietet viele Chancen für die Wissenschaftskommunikation – erfordert aber einen reflektierten Umgang. Die Handreichung liefert dafür praxisnahe Leitfragen statt fester Regeln. Die Handrei...

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Sarah Lang @sarahalang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Dominik Kowald #DHGraz and Jochen Büttner #MPIGEA discuss #DigitalHumanities aspects in #AI workflows at @bifold.berlin workshop „AI to accelerate scientific understanding” (co-orga Matteo Valleriani @mpiwg.bsky.social & @eberleoliver.bsky.social)

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/05/2026

🤖 How does ChatGPT actually "think"? Find out on June 6 at #LNDW Berlin! We're running a free workshop that demystifies AI language models. Will be held in German. For families, young adults & everyone curious. 🧠✨ www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det... #ScienceNight

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 21/05/2026

Job tip: #HEIBRiDS offering 5 fully funded PhD positions where #AI meets molecular medicine, geosciences, energy, and environmental science. Apply by June 24, 2026 www.heibrids.berlin/admission/op... @tuberlin.bsky.social

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🧠 Wie erkennt das Gehirn Relevanz & was kann #KI davon lernen? Forscher*innen von @bifold.berlin & @upenn.edu entwickelten ein KI-Modell, das menschliche Aufmerksamkeit nachbildet, inkl. bestimmter Wahrnehmungseffekte, ohne explizites Training. Was bedeutet das für die Entwicklung von KI-Systemen? ⬇

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Wie das Gehirn Relevanz erkennt – und KI davon lernt

Vom Gehirn inspirierte Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) löst zentrale Aufgaben visueller Aufmerksamkeit

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icde-publicity.bsky.social @icde-publicity.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The #ICDE2027 Call for Papers is OPEN! 🚀 Seeking research across the full spectrum: 🛠️ CORE: Query Opt, Storage, Transactions, Distributed Systems 🤖 MODERN: AI/LLMs for Systems, Vector/Responsible AI Round 1 Due: June 11, 2026 Details: icde2027.github.io/cf-research-... #DataEngineering #DBs #ML

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/05/2026

BIFOLD, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB are teaming up for the LNDW in Berlin, bringing two events, held in German. @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social #ptb #LNDW #AISquare #SciComm #ScienceSlam #AI #LLM

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 13/05/2026

Quick heads-up: we've changed the venue! 🏢✨ If you're joining us for the AI to Accelerate Scientific Understanding workshop, please note that we've changed the venue! 🏢✨ 🏛️ Lanolinfabrik, Salzufer 15–16, 10587 Berlin All details: www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

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Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. @dpgphysik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Jetzt neu auf dem DPG-YouTube-Kanal: 🗣️Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller (@bifold.berlin , @tuberlin.bsky.social ) spricht zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz für die Wissenschaften". Der Vortrag wurde am 28. April 2026 in Berlin gehalten. Jetzt reinschauen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aK7...

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Künstliche Intelligenz für die Wissenschaften | Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller

Wissenschaftlicher AbendvortragProf. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, BIFOLD und Technische Universität Berlinspricht über"Künstliche Intelligenz für die Wissenschaf...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 30/04/2026

[1/7]📍 Meet our researchers at #ICDE2026 in Montréal, Canada (May 4–8)! BIFOLD's DIMA group (Volker Markl) and D2IP group (Ziawasch Abedjan) are contributing across multiple sessions this year. 🧵 @icde-publicity.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social #nebulastream #DataEngineering #DataManagement #IEEE

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 29/04/2026

Is a new era of #cyberattacks looming? BIFOLD's Konrad Rieck on Claude Mythos. On April 27, 2026, the German science TV show Nano (3sat/ZDF) aired a segment on #Claude #Mythos. 📺https://t1p.de/iyg7p (start: 00:06, end: 08:05) @tuberlin.bsky.social @rieck.mlsec.org @anthropic.com @bsi.bund.de

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/04/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming a group of eleven curious and talented young women to BIFOLD for Girls' Day 2026. 🚀 Our participants dove headfirst into the world of computer science and IT security. @tuberlin.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #Science #Girlsday #Zukunftstag

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Marvin Sextro @marvinsextro.de · 22/04/2026

[1/6] How can we build virtual cell foundation models that adapt to unseen biological contexts? Meet MapPFN, the first prior-data fitted network (PFN) for perturbation prediction. Meta-learned from a synthetic biological prior, it adapts at inference via in-context learning. 🧵

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/04/2026

Offensive AI Is Here. Now What? Join us at the next BIFOLD Colloquium with Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (April 30, 2026; 4 PM; BIFOLD) More: t1p.de/tbqes @tuberlin.bsky.social

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🎲 Samstag ist Berliner Tag der Mathematik an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Aus diesem Anlass verlosen wir 10 Hefte des vergriffenen #ALBERTJournals “Mathematik”. Wer seine Sammlung komplettieren möchte, schreibt uns die Lösung für die Rechenaufgabe bis 30.4.26 in die Kommentare! Viel Glück 🍀

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Marvin Sextro @marvinsextro.de · 22/04/2026

[5/6] 🌐 Project Page: marvinsxtr.github.io/MapPFN/ 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.21092 💻 Code: github.com/marvinsxtr/M... Huge thanks to Weronika Kłos and Gabriel Dernbach for this collaboration, and to @tuberlin.bsky.social, @bifold.berlin , Aignostics, and Charité for their support!

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MapPFN: Learning Causal Perturbation Maps in Context

MapPFN is a prior-data fitted network that uses in-context learning to predict single-cell perturbation effects, pre-trained on a synthetic biological prior of in silico gene knockouts.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 22/04/2026

#Publication review #compchem 💡Rethinking AI architecture for molecular simulations A simple transformer-based model challenges the role of physical constraints in molecular dynamics simulations. More: t1p.de/0k8gc @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social #AI #research #compchemsky 💻⚗️

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 21/04/2026

#ICLR 2026 in Rio! Meet our scientists. 7 workshop papers and 7 posters co-authored by BIFOLD researchers will be presented. All details (Date of presentation, venue, etc): t1p.de/pn00w @iclr-conf.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social @xai-berlin.bsky.social #MLSky #AI

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Reminder @iclr-conf.bsky.social #ICLR conference-goers next week. 🙏 PLEASE POST PICS ON BLUESKY! 🙏 We want to feel like we're there with you. Just like we used to on X. We can't lose to LinkedIn in this! Bring that conference atmosphere to Bluesky! That includes you too, organizers :kthxbye:

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Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. @dpgphysik.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Wissenschaften Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, @tuberlin.bsky.social und @bifold.berlin , spricht über Anwendungen des maschinellen Lernens in den Wissenschaften. 📅 Di, 28.04.2026, 18:30 Uhr, Berlin & online Jetzt anmelden unter www.dpg-physik.de/veranstaltun...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 20/04/2026

New AI Method Enables More Precise Simulation of Complex Molecules. Nature Machine Intelligence: Machine Learning Global Atomic Representations With Euclidean Fast Attention. J T Frank, S Chmiela, KR Müller, O T Unke More: t1p.de/b3q7v @tuberlin.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #GoogleDeepmind

Caption: New AI sees the entire molecule: Unlike previous methods, which primarily capture the immediate surroundings of an atom, Euclidean Fast Attention can also directly incorporate regions that are far away. This allows important long-range interactions in molecules to be described more precisely.

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 07/04/2026

Man darf ihn wohl einen Pionier des maschinellen Lernens und der erklärbaren künstlichen Intelligenz nennen: Die Beiträge von Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller zählen bis heute zu den wichtigsten theoretischen & praktischen Entwicklungen. Wir gratulieren zum #LeibnizPreis 2026! 👏 youtu.be/27HbWiGgi6M?...

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