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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 28/08/2026

With our entire US PhD cohort now graduated, today we are celebrating Dr. Catherine Chen and her successful PhD journey! 🎉

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 17/08/2026

If you missed #ICLR2026, here is a list of highlighted papers, chosen and recommended by Dr. Ali Bahrainian: 🔗 health-nlp.com/posts/iclr26

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Health NLP | ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 06/08/2026

#ThrowbackThursday to #ACL2026 where Siran Li presented "MATCHA: Matching Text via Contrastive Semantic Alignment". Haven't read it yet? Here is a direct link to the paper: aclanthology.org/2026.finding...

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 20/07/2026

Melbourne is the place to be this week! 🇦🇺 #SIGIR2026 has officially kicked off, and while we miss Carsten Eickhoff, Harrisen Scells, and Gregory Polyakov back in the office, the Health NLP Lab is well represented in Melbourne this week.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 12/06/2026

#FeatureFriday Today, we are celebrating a major achievement for Dr. Tassallah Amina Abdullahi! 🎉 On April 20, 2026, Tassallah successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Towards Trustworthy Clinical AI: Knowledge Grounding, Inference Reliability, and Behavioral Control.”

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 03/06/2026

How can we reliably evaluate whether AI-generated text is actually correct? This question is becoming increasingly important as large language models are deployed in high-stakes domains, from healthcare and education to scientific research.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 08/05/2026

One by one, our PhD students at Brown University are reaching graduation milestones, and today’s post is dedicated to Dr. Ruochen Zhang! 🎉

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 07/05/2026

#ThrowbackThursday to #ICLR2026, where Dr. Ali Bahreinian presented the paper "When Silence Is Golden: Can LLMs Learn to Abstain in Temporal QA and Beyond?" during the poster session.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 24/04/2026

Need a thought-provoking read for the weekend? Don’t miss this article by Prof. Carsten Eickhoff: “Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing,” published in The Conversation EU.

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Six days to go! Apply by April 30 for the Director of our new AI Methods & Software Hub. This is a unique opportunity to build and lead a central hub at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scientific applications. More information: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 27/03/2026

Great conference ahead! We are traveling to the Netherlands to attend #ECIR2026, and we are particularly excited about our tutorial on Mechanistic Interpretability tutorial on Sunday and the Collab-a-thons. Looking forward to insightful exchanges and constructive conversations.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 13/03/2026

New video presentation available on YouTube! You can now watch Gregory Polyakov, the first author of "Interpretability Analysis of Arithmetic In-Context Learning in Large Language Models", explain their research question, methodology, and results. You can watch the video here:

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Interpretability Analysis of Arithmetic In-Context Learning in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit sophisticated behavior, notably solving arithmetic with only a few in-context examples (ICEs). Yet the computations that connect those examples to the answer…

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 05/03/2026

New video alert! The video presentation of the paper "A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment" by Dr. Shrestha Ghosh is now live on YouTube. 🎞️ Check out the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_3... And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos!

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 27/02/2026

Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Michal Golovanevsky! 🎉 On January 30, 2026, our PhD student at Brown University successfully defended her thesis, "Advancing Attention Mechanisms in Multimodal Deep Learning Models", marking the culmination of years of research excellence and intellectual growth.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 18/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined our invited talk last Friday. We were very happy to welcome Kay Brosien from x-cardiac GmbH and to learn from his practical insights on AI regulation in medicine.

Prof. Carsten Eickhoff introducing Kay Brosien from x-cardiac GmbH.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 12/02/2026

Reminder for the talk tomorrow: see you at the Hörsaal of Maria-von-Linden-Straße 6 at 11:00 A.M.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 10/02/2026

Like many areas of machine learning, information retrieval has increasingly adopted large neural models, making mechanistic interpretability more important than ever. A key technique in this space is activation patching, which aims to localize where and how models encode relevance signals.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 06/02/2026

Next Friday, we’re looking forward to welcoming Kay Brosien, COO of x-cardiac GmbH, to Tübingen for a talk on one of the less glamorous but absolutely critical parts of AI research in medicine: regulation⚖️

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 06/02/2026

@twiml.bsky.social are organizing their 4th workshop to bring together ML researchers and enthusiasts in Tübingen. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet peers, exchange ideas, discuss research, and share your academic journey. Follow their page and stay tuned for more details about the workshop.

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Tübingen AI Center @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚀 #JobAlert! Permanent Administrative Staff Member position open at the Tübingen AI Center, a vibrant AI research hub at @unituebingen.bsky.social. You’ll support our Central Office in financial and HR administration and help run everyday office operations. 🔗 tuebingen.ai/careers/admi...

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 02/02/2026

Did you know...? 🤔 Health NLP Lab also has a YouTube channel! We are reviving our YouTube channel as a platform for paper presentations and science communication. We hope this will make our research more accessible to a broader audience. 🔗 Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@health-nlp

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 29/01/2026

Meet Miriam Rateike, and join us in welcoming Health NLP Lab's newest member!

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 28/01/2026

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, who was invited to give a guest lecture and a talk to our group about his recent work on evaluation in information retrieval.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 22/01/2026

#ThrowbackThursday to SIGIR 2024, where Catherine Chen presented two papers of hers. Both presentations were recorded and are available on the ACM YouTube channel (links below) 👇

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 21/01/2026

Last week, Dr. Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher at @tuberlin.bsky.social and @bifold.berlin, visited our lab and presented his research during our weekly lab meeting.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 07/01/2026

We are starting off 2026 with exciting news: Our paper "Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization" got accepted at #EACL2026! ✒️ Authors: Joschka Braun, Carsten Eickhoff, and Ali Bahrainian 📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24859

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Beyond Multiple Choice: Evaluating Steering Vectors for Adaptive Free-Form Summarization

Steering vectors are a lightweight method for controlling text properties by adding a learned bias to language model activations at inference time. So far, steering vectors have predominantly been…

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 23/12/2025

As we wrap up 2025, we’re grateful for a year of great ideas, meaningful discussions, and fruitful collaborations that help advance research and knowledge. Thank you to our collaborators, colleagues, and community; we look forward to continuing our endeavors in 2026. Wishing everyone happy holidays!

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 17/12/2025

We’re excited to share that Dr. Shrestha Ghosh will be presenting her work at the IJCNLP–AACL 2025 (@aaclmeeting.bsky.social) 📍 Mumbai, India 🎤 Paper presentation: 22.12.2025 @ 14:45 🧠 Paper: "Cohort Discovery: A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment"

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 08/12/2025

👋 Meet Gregory Polyakov: PhD researcher based in Tübingen! Gregory completed his Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT, and after working as an NLP research engineer at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, he joined the Health NLP Lab to dive deeper into academic ML research.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 05/12/2025

#ResearchHighlight 🔬 Like many fields, drug discovery has been revolutionized by advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and a key player has been molecular representation — turning molecules into machine-understandable and processable formats.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 02/12/2025

👋 Meet Florian Rottach — Data Scientist at @boehringerglobal.bsky.social and PhD researcher in our lab! He brings a unique interdisciplinary background and a passion for applying machine learning to life sciences. #MeetTheLab

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 01/12/2025

🗓️Today in San Diego: Dr. Shrestha Ghosh presents “Investigating RAG-based Approaches in Clinical Trial and Patient Matching” at #ML4H. Her work tests how RAG handles clinical-trial matching across varying task complexity, longitudinal evidence, and abstention—showing what truly drives performance.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 26/11/2025

Amina @amilah-dul.bsky.social presents her latest work on Knowledge Graphs at @wimlworkshop.bsky.social next week. Building on her previous work (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13344), she extends KG-guided reasoning beyond biomedicine to broader knowledge discovery. #ResearchHighligh #LLM #KnowledgeGraph

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 25/11/2025

#NeurIPS2025 is on the horizon! Kicking off with a key position paper: “Benchmarking is Broken: Don’t Let AI Be Its Own Judge.” (arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07575) As AI use explodes, our evaluation methods lag behind. This work calls for a unified, trustworthy framework for judging AI.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 21/11/2025

#FeatureFriday 🎉 Dr. William Rudman, an outstanding Health NLP Lab alumnus, earned his PhD at Brown and is now a Postdoc at UT Austin’s Center for Scientific ML. His work spans LLM/VLM interpretability and now astronomy. #HealthNLP #AI #LLM #VLM

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 17/11/2025

Meet Dr. Harrisen Scells (@hscells.bsky.social): An Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Leipzig University, who joined our lab earlier this year as an Assistant Professor to expand the boundaries of medical applications in information retrieval. Proud to have him on our team!

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 14/11/2025

#ResearchHighlight How can AI ask smarter questions about our planet—going beyond pixels? Siran Li explored this back in EPFL, leading to an IEEE paper on a knowledge-aware approach to visual question generation for remote sensing. Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 13/11/2025

📸 Snapshots from last week’s EMNLP 2025 — an inspiring week of research, collaboration, and conversations! Proud of our researchers for contributing to such a vibrant and innovative NLP community. #EMNLP2025 #AIResearch #NLProc #HealthNLP #InformationRetrieval #Interpretability

Crowd of researchers at EMNLP 2025, exchanging ideas and research results.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 12/11/2025

👋 Meet Siran, one of our PhD researchers in Tübingen! After her master’s in Electrical Engineering at EPFL, she joined us to explore new frontiers in AI research. Outside the lab, she enjoys volleyball, skiing in the Alps, and playing piano. #MeetTheLab #PhDLife #AIResearch #GenAI #HealthNLP

Picture of Siran Li, Doctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen and Health NLP Lab.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 03/11/2025

Big week ahead! Our researchers are heading to #EMNLP2025 with 5 papers, and our grant team will be at @ihieurope.bsky.social Brokerage Event — stay tuned for updates and highlights throughout the week!

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2

The Tübingen AI Research Building, where the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" is based: A four-story, beige-colored building with numerous window fronts. In front of it stand four trees with autumn leaves.

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Throwback to our conference #MLinScience2025 last week! It was wonderful to see so many of you at the event. The talks and poster session were fantastic - a big thank you to all our speakers and presenters! (Photos: Elia Schmid/University of Tübingen)1/3

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Poster session at a scientific conference: A woman in a teddy jacket stands in front of her poster, chatting with a conference attendee.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 24/10/2025

#FeatureFriday 🎉 Back in April, Dr. @jackmerullo.bsky.social defended his PhD and became an alumnus of Health NLP Lab. We had a great time working with him and wish him all the best! He’s now a Research Scientist at Goodfire, exploring #AI #interpretability.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 24/10/2025

We were thrilled to host Prof. Kentaro Inui from MBZUAI at the Health NLP Lab this week! His talk on knowledge representations in LLMs sparked fascinating discussions and new ideas across the group. #NLP #AIResearch #LLMs #KnowledgeRepresentation

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 23/10/2025

#ThrowbackThursday to Prof. Carsten Eickhoff’s CIIR Talk on “Uncertainty in Information Retrieval,” exploring how uncertainty estimation can reveal hidden biases in search engines and improve #fairness. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eW... #InformationRetrieval #HealthNLP #IR

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CIIR Talk Series - 2/17/2023: Carsten Eickhoff - Uncertainty in Information Retrieval?

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 16/10/2025

Last Friday, researchers from the Health NLP Lab and other groups at @unituebingen.bsky.social shared their latest projects and visions on AI and Data in healthcare with the Dean's office of the Medical Faculty. Great energy and inspiring discussions! 💡🤖 #HealthNLP #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth

Research project and paper demos of the researchers at Health NLP Lab.

Researchers from the Health NLP Lab and other groups discussing projects and ideas.

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Health NLP Lab @health-nlp.com · 15/10/2025

Health NLP Lab here👋We research the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models — with a special focus on their applications in healthcare. Get to know our lab and researchers: health-nlp.com #AI #NLP #IR #LLM #DigitalHealth

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