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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🛡️ Welcome to the UKP Lab, Petros Raptopoulos! Petros joins us as a PhD student on the HAICC project (Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity) at #ATHENE. His thesis explores how AI agents in security-critical applications can be safely deployed under human oversight. Welcome, Petros! 👋

Welcome graphic for Petros Raptopoulos, Doctoral researcher at UKP Lab. His portrait photo is framed in a red circle, with the UKP Lab and TU Darmstadt logos and the word "Welcome".

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rec @i-am-rec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today at 14:25 at #CLARIN2026, catch @leizarchaeology.bsky.social sharing how they use the ILC4CLARIN INCEpTION instance (CLARIN-IT) for archaeological knowledge graphs! 🏺 Also, check out INCEpTION 42.0's new dual document view & new agreement measures! 🎉 #inceptiontap inception-project.github.io

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@ellis.eu 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 Prof. @igurevych.bsky.social is a registered advisor, so you can apply to work on AI and NLP at UKP Lab. Info session for applicants on 30 September. Details: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

Promotional graphic for the ELLIS PhD & Postdoc Program: "Call for PhD Applications 2026 – Central Application Portal opens in October". The centre shows a map of Europe with numerous locations connected by lines. On the right are the logos of the EU (Funded by the European Union), ELIAS, elliot, and G-Research.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're looking forward to seeing where your research takes you, Mohammad. Great to have you with us! 👋 #UKPLab #TUDarmstadt #NLP #LLMs #LowResourceNLP #MachineLearning

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mohammad completed his Master's degree at Erciyes University in Turkey. In addition, he brings industry experience as a full-stack engineer to the team, an unusual and welcome combination of academic and hands-on engineering perspectives.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎓 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝘄𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶! Our new PhD student, Mohammad, brings a research focus on 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀, and 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. His previous academic work centered on 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀.

Welcome graphic for Mohammed Al-Rawhani, Doctoral researcher at UKP Lab. His portrait photo is framed in a red circle, with the UKP Lab and TU Darmstadt logos and the word "Welcome" repeated four times.

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Iryna Gurevych @igurevych.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵? Millions already do — and people with mental health conditions remain deeply underserved. On Aug 16 I'm giving a keynote at LM4UC (Language Models for Underserved Communities) @ IJCAI 2026: "NLP for Mental Health: Promise, Risk, Responsibility."

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The team has presented the work at the 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 on 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵. 🚀 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/html/2604.21... 💻 Code: github.com/UKPLab/semev... #SemEval2026 #ACL2026 #NLP #UKPLab #Research #AI

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UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The key takeaway from this work: LLMs are remarkably strong at modeling static affect, while short-term emotional dynamics depend far more on recent trajectories and user-specific signals than on text alone.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The paper, 𝗨𝗞𝗣_𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟮: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁, tackles a deceptively hard question: can we predict not just what someone feels from their writing, but how their emotions evolve over time?

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Congratulations to the team, Darya Hryhoryeva, Amaia Zurinaga Gutierrez, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, and @igurevych.bsky.social, on this wonderful recognition! 🎉

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🏆 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟮! We're proud to share that work from UKP Lab has received the 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝟮, recognizing the scientific contribution behind a system that also topped the leaderboard with 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝗔 😲

Darya Hryhoryeva holding the SemEval-2026 Best Paper Award certificate for 'UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text' at ACL 2026.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We thank Prof. Nakov for his exciting talk and the lively exchange with UKP members on trustworthy, evidence-grounded, and human-centered NLP. #UKPLab #NLProc #LLMs #TrustworthyAI #GuestTalk #FinancialAI #AITextDetection

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

💶 In the second part, 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝐼, Prof. Nakov presented a line of recent work on financial systems that reason, retrieve evidence, and decide under real-world constraints, including FinChain, FinCARDS, and the CLEF 2026 shared-task lab FinMMEval.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🔍 In the first part, 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝐼?, he examined the blurred boundary between human and machine-generated text. He introduced ExaGPT, an interpretable detector grounded in concrete text spans, and shared a multilingual study showing that human-like text is not necessarily the text people prefer

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎓 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 We were thrilled to welcome our long-term collaborator, co-supervisor of PhD students and close colleague Prof. Preslav Nakov, Professor and Department Chair for #NLP at the #MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, for an invited talk at the UKP Lab in #TUDarmstadt.

Preslav Nakov (left) and Iryna Gurevych (right) standing in front of a projection screen at TU Darmstadt on June 19, 2026, before Preslav Nakov's talk titled 'Human or AI? Interpretable Detection, Multilingual Perception, and the Paradox of Human-Like Text' from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Heading to San Diego as well? Come find us 🌵 And to everyone who stopped by in Darmstadt: thanks for the great conversations! 🙌 #NLProc #LLMs #NLP #MachineLearning #Multimodal #ACL #Ellis #Zuse

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

▸ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Jonathan Tonglet, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2502.20503

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

▸ 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲? 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Jonathan Tonglet, Jan Zimny, Tinne Tuytelaars, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2508.21675

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

▸ 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Irina Bigoulaeva, Jonas R., Subhabrata Dutta, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2602.07930

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

▸ 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗖𝗼𝗤𝗔: 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Tim Baumgärtner, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2601.12910

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

[...] hosted by @hessianai.bsky.social with the @ellis.eu Unit Darmstadt and the @zuseschooleliza.bsky.social. In a few weeks, all four papers head to #ACL2026 in San Diego 🎉

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗱𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 Four UKP Lab papers got an early audience this week. @timbmg.bsky.social, @ibigoulaeva.bsky.social, and @tongletj.bsky.social presented their work at the Post-CVPR Pre-ICML Poster Session, [...]

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Great to have you with us, Andrea, and wishing you a strong start to your PhD journey! 🚀 #UKPLab #TUDarmstadt #LLMs #AISafety #NLP #TrustworthyAI #NLProc

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Before coming to @tuda.bsky.social, Andrea worked as a Machine Learning Researcher at Honda Research Institute Europe, exploring federated learning under pathological data heterogeneity. His academic background includes an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

His PhD focuses on 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in large language models, with the goal of developing methods to detect and resolve it, so that LLM behavior stays bounded and safe in security-critical settings.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

👋 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯: 𝗔 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮! @andreamoleri.bsky.social joins us as a doctoral researcher, jointly supervised by Prof. Dr. @igurevych.bsky.social and Prof. Dr. Marcus Rohrbach.

Welcome graphic for Andrea Moleri, Doctoral researcher at UKP Lab. His portrait photo is framed in a red circle, with the UKP Lab and TU Darmstadt logos and the word "Welcome" repeated four times.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🙌 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀! This release wouldn't be possible without the contributions of: Sheng Lu, Nils Dycke, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Thamar Solorio, Xiaodan Zhu, Koen Dercksen, Lizhen Qu, Margot Mieskes, Dirk Hovy and Iryna Gurevych.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🔓 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 & 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 All data is released under open and transparent licenses to enable large-scale NLP and AI research on AI-based peer review assistance.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This regular update continues our ongoing effort to provide up-to-date, structured peer review data. NLPeer supports novel research and works around dataset contamination by providing non-scrapable text data!

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🚀 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! Grab your Peer Review data: tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/handle/tudat... 📊 𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: ✅ 647 papers ✅ 942 reviews ✅ 329 meta-reviews ✅ 550 papers with rebuttals

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rec @i-am-rec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🧮 LREC 2026 proceedings are out, and I just counted the annotation tool citations. 💡 INCEpTION came out on top with 39 citations and 28 of those actually using it! ❤️ Massive thanks to the LREC community for choosing INCEpTION! #lrec2026 #inceptiontap #opensource #textannotation #opensource

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INCEpTION @ LREC 2026

As you might know, I am the maintainer of the INCEpTION open source tool for the semantic and linguistic annotation of text documents. And the LREC conference is a good way to gauge how popular INCEpT...

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A big thank you to @i-am-rec.bsky.social for moderating the day. We would finally like to thank – in no particular order – Serwar, Elisabeth, and Patricia for the organization, and everybody who helped set up the event for your support! We are already looking forward to the next UKP Day.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We rounded off the day with a relaxed social event – a great chance to keep the conversations going in a more informal setting. Beyond the formal program, the day once again highlighted what makes our lab special: collaboration, collegial spirit, and open exchange.

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The talks sparked lively discussions throughout the day and offered fresh perspectives on trustworthy AI, multi-agent systems, human–AI collaboration, and where the field is headed next.

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▪️ Monojit Choudhury (MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)) "Turing Test 2.0: Reimagining the Goals of Artificial Intelligence in the Post-GenAI World"

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▪️ Yuxia Wang (INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology) "When Do Language Models Fail Quietly? From Average to Individual"

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▪️ Kaiyang Wan (INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology) "Why Do We Need Multi-Agent Systems? An Information-Theoretic Perspective"

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▪️ Lei You (DTU - Technical University of Denmark) "Trustworthy AI at Ecosystem Scale: What Cannot Be Replaced? What Must Be Verified?"

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🎤 This year's program featured a series of inspiring talks by our guest speakers: ▪️Frauke Kreuter (@lmu.de / @univofmaryland.bsky.social) "Bias in the Loop: How Humans Evaluate AI-Generated Suggestions"

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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

✨ 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ✨ Once a year, the entire UKP Lab comes together for a day of scientific exchange, discussion, and community building – the UKP Day. On May 28, 2026, we gathered at @tuda.bsky.social to share ideas, learn from one another, and connect with colleagues from across the field.

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