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Elif Akata

@elifakata.bsky.social

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PhD student in machine learning & cognitive science in Munich & Tübingen

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Many thanks to @hertiedatascience.bsky.social for the invite, the great discussions, and this blog piece about my talk yesterday!

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Data Science Lab - Hertie School @hertiedatascience.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.” 📅 17 November ⏲️ 2-3 PM CET 📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.

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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow. 📅 May 16th 🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

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lucaschubu.bsky.social @lucaschubu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In previous work we found that VLMs fall short of human visual cognition. To make them better, we fine-tuned them on visual cognition tasks. We find that while this improves performance on the fine-tuning task, it does not lead to models that generalize to other related tasks:

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy to share that our paper is on the cover of @natmachintell.bsky.social! Working on the cover art was a new and fun challenge www.nature.com/natmachintel...

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Elif Akata @elifakata.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚀 Our paper on visual cognition in multimodal large language models is now out in @natmachintell.bsky.social with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!

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