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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 09/09/2026

Can Transformers be decompiled into readable programs? 📣 Tomorrow (Thursday): Michael Hahn will present at the Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar! 📅 Thursday, September 10 🕓 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST 🌐 Online tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/ Hope to see you there!

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 16/07/2026

Join us today for the Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar! 🔍 Shauli Ravfogel will present “Geometric Factual Recall in Transformers”, exploring how language models may store and retrieve factual associations through geometric structure. tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 16/06/2026

Join us this Thursday for the Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar! Donya Saless will present her COLT 2025 work on using small subsets of training data to provide robust, compact explanations for ML predictions. 16:00 CET | 10:00 EST tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 19/05/2026

We have Nir Shavit speaking at the Theory of Interpretable AI seminar this Thursday! 🌟 Nir is an MIT professor and Gödel + Dijkstra Prize winner for work in distributed computing. He uses combinatorial ideas to explain neural computation via feature channels. tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 07/04/2026

Looking forward to Anton Xue's talk at the Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar! 🚀 He’ll present a framework with stability guarantees for certifying feature attribution explanations and LLM reasoning chains through robust feature selection. Join us! 🧠✨ tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 16/03/2026

Good advice from the university library. Applying this to all my social media as well.

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 04/03/2026

Upcoming talk in the Theory of Interpretable AI seminar: Federico Adolfi frames interpretability in terms of computational complexity theory.

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 09/02/2026

Excited for Damien’s seminar talk this Thursday!🚀 Steering is an exciting area in interpretability—but how strongly should we steer? Damien will present a theory of steering strength: choosing the right magnitude of representation change—not too weak, not too strong tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 09/01/2026

Looking forward to the next “Theory of Interpretable AI” seminar on January 15, where Chhavi Yadav will present "ExpProof"! A fresh take on trustworthy explanations for confidential ML models using Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Feel free to join! #interpretability #Crypto tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 09/12/2025

Ayman will present at the Theory of Interpretability Seminar! He’ll share a new approach for optimal, interpretable decision trees with strong efficiency guarantees. 🌳✨ 🗓️ Join us to learn how AO* search leads to provably better sparse trees! tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 10/11/2025

Coming up tomorrow (Tuesday 11 Nov) in the Theory of Interpretability seminar: Ulrike von Luxburg will discuss why informative explanations only exist for simple functions 👀 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 16/10/2025

The next talk in the Theory of Interpretable AI seminar will be by Shahaf Bassan on "The Computational Complexity of Explaining ML Models". Tuesday October 21 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 03/09/2025

🚨 The Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar is back after the summer! 🎙️ Tobias Leemann: On Identifiability & Representational Power of Post-Hoc Explanations 📅 Sept 9, 4PM CET / 10AM EST 📍 Online: uva-live.zoom.us/j/87120549999 🔗 Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 13/06/2025

4th AI & Mathematics in NL workshop in Tilburg. Many cool presentations: aimath.nl/index.php/20... And great people:

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 03/06/2025

Happening today: ⏰⏰ Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Chain-of-Thought: Why does explaining to LLMs using CoT prompting work? Join us on June 3, when Bohang Zhang will dive into the mechanisms behind chain-of-thought prompting — and what makes it so effective tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 21/05/2025

⏰⏰ Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Chain-of-Thought: Why does explaining to LLMs using CoT prompting work? Join us on June 3, when Bohang Zhang will dive into the mechanisms behind chain-of-thought prompting — and what makes it so effective tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 06/05/2025

Curious about feature attribution? SHAP & LIME treat features independently—but features interact! Come hear how to "Disentangle Interactions and Dependencies in Feature Attribution" Tuesday May 6 (today!) 4pm CET, 10am ET tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 27/03/2025

⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ In two weeks, April 8, Mirco Mutti will talk about "A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits"

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 11/03/2025

Couldn't make it to Atticus's talk last week on the current state of interpretability? No worries! Fortunately for you, the talk is rescheduled to Wednesday this week😄 Please do join us! 🌐: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 28/02/2025

⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Tuesday in two weeks we will hear from Atticus Geiger on "The Current State of Interpretability and Ideas for Scaling Up" Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/ Date: 4 March, 4pm CET/ 10am ET

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 27/01/2025

The next theory of interpretable AI seminar is Tuesday next week. We will have Jeremias Sulam, who will present "Testing Semantic Importance via Conditional Independence and Betting" 💻Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/ ⏰Date: 4 Feb, 4pm CET/ 10am ET

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 10/01/2025

The theory of interpretable AI seminar is back after the holiday season! 🎅🤶 Our next talk is next Thursday by Yishay Mansour who will talk about interpretable approximations 💻 Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/ ⏰Date: 16 Jan

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 03/12/2024

📢Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar📢 On Thursday, Depen Morwani from Harvard will present work on how **margin maximization** can explain observed phenomena in mechanistic interpretability! ⏲️Thursday Dec 5th, 4pm CET / 10am EST 🌐https://tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

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Tim van Erven @timvanerven.nl · 13/11/2024

⏰⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰⏰ In one week, Andrej Risteski will present "Discernible Patterns in Trained Transformers: A View from Simple Linguistic Sandboxes" ⏲️ Monday Nov 18, 4pm CET/10am EST, via zoom. (Notice the unusual day and hour!) tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar: Andrej Risteski

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