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Zeynep Akata

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Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Technical University of Munich and Director of the Institute for Explainable ML at Helmholtz Munich

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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We will have two poster presentations and one workshop poster at #ECCV2026 in Malmö🇸🇪! Please come and say hi if you are interested in topics related to multi-modal learning. Details in the thread👇
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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are looking for PhD students to start as soon as possible. Application deadline is August 10. Please apply, please share 🙂
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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
#ICML2026 kicks off in three days! We're excited to be presenting eight papers at the main conference this year. See the thread below for each paper, plus presentation times and locations 👇 Talk to our authors if you are interested!
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This one feels special ❤️ Our group has 8 papers at ICML main track this year, and I’ll be attending ICML in Seoul — my first ICML after 10 years, a pandemic and two children. So proud of the team and excited to be back!
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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏
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Meghal Dani @meghaldani.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A medical LLM can give the right answer for the wrong reasons. Delighted our work is now published in Nature Communications Medicine — evaluating 8 LLMs on 1,269 unstructured seizure descriptions, with a practical guideline to use AI in clinical setup 🧵 doi.org/10.1038/s438...
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Evaluating large language models for diagnostic reasoning from unstructured clinical narratives in epilepsy - Communications Medicine
Dani et al. investigate the potential and limitation of large language models in a core clinical task in epilepsy care: mapping seizure descriptions to seizure onset zones. Their findings show that pr...
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy to share that we have 3 papers accepted (one oral) at #CVPR2026, see you in Denver! Please see the thread for details👇
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We are looking forward to innovating with this massive compute support from @fz-juelich.de 🎉
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🥳Happy to share that we have three papers accepted to #ICLR2026. Congrats to our authors and see you in Rio🌴🇧🇷. Check the thread for highlights👇
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 PI positions with an excellent package at Helmholtz Munich (deadline January 11). Please apply, please share! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...
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Principal Investigators (f/m/x) for (i) AI in Biomedicine and (ii) AI Foundations
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are celebrating our #NeurIPS2025 and #EurIPS2025 contributions below 🎊
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We are looking for PhD students via the @ellis.eu and @munichcenterml.bsky.social PhD programs!
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
What if your CBM actually doesn’t look at attributes when it explains the classification decision? We suggest to use this dataset and method to generate realistic images with unusual attributes to stress-test explainability methods. @jessica-bader.bsky.social is at ICCV to talk to you about it!
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Are you at #ICCV2025? 🎉 @iccv.bsky.social EML Munich is presenting two poster papers—come say hi to our authors! Details in the thread 👇
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We got two papers of two orthogonal methods for interpretability and one paper of a GenAI method at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 🔥 Please checkout the details in the thread below.
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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.eurosky.social · 18/09/2025
Unfortunately, our submission to #NeurIPS didn’t go through with (5,4,4,3). But because I think it’s an excellent paper, I decided to share it anyway. We show how to efficiently apply Bayesian learning in VLMs, improve calibration, and do active learning. Cool stuff! 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2412.06014
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Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models
Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and SigLIP, have found remarkable success in classification, retrieval, and generative tasks. For this, VLMs deterministically map images and text descripti...
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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!! imprs.is.mpg.de/application ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It is an honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen award from the German National Academy of the Sciences @leopoldina.org and Commerzbank-Stiftung 😊🙏🎉
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Congratulations Karsten @confusezius.bsky.social for a wonderful PhD journey that ended with a summa cum laude 🎉 It is rare that a PhD researcher creates a paradigm shift in a research group: I am grateful for everything that I learned from you 😉 Best of luck at Google DM in Zurich!
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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?
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Lukas Thede @lukasthede.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨 Poster at #ICML2025! How can LLMs really keep up with the world? Come by E-2405 on July 15th (4:30–7:00pm) to check out WikiBigEdit – our new benchmark to test lifelong knowledge editing in LLMs at scale. 🔗 Real-world updates 📈 500k+ QA edits 🧠 Editing vs. RAG vs. CL
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simonroschmann.bsky.social @simonroschmann.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
How can we circumvent data scarcity in the time series domain? We propose to leverage pretrained ViTs (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2) for time series classification and outperform time series foundation models (TSFMs). 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08641 💻 Code: github.com/ExplainableM...
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It is a great honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen Prize 2025 from the German Academy of the Sciences @leopoldina.org with generous support of the commerzbank foundation 🎉 This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my wonderful group @eml-munich.bsky.social @tum.de @helmholtz.de
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
From classification to retrieval to generative models compositionality has been central to @shyamgopal.bsky.social‘s PhD. Congratulations to Shyam’s very successful journey 🎉 We are looking forward to his upcoming PhD defense next week in Tübingen!
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 Landed in Nashville🎺 for #CVPR2025! The EML group is presenting 4 exciting papers — come say hi at our poster sessions! More details in the thread — see you there! 🏁🌟
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are looking forward to Leonard Salewski’s PhD defense soon! 🎉 Leonard has done some interesting research on explainable AI as well as impersonation in (multimodal) LLMs, details below 👇
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We are looking forward to Thomas Hummel‘s @hummelth.bsky.social PhD defense soon. If you are looking for experts in video action recognition or retrieval, he is to be contacted 😉
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 Happy to announce that one paper, "Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs", is accepted at #icml2025 ! Congrats to @lukasthede.bsky.social , @confusezius.bsky.social , Matthias Bethge, @zeynepakata.bsky.social , and @tomhartvigsen.bsky.social . 👇 Highlights in the thread
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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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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Our second PhD spotlight, Jae Myung Kim is about to complete his PhD within the @ellis.eu and IMPRS-IS PhD programs, big congratulations to Jae Myung 🎈🎊🎉
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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
One week left to apply, so please do... 😀
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@eml-munich.bsky.social is going to @cvprconference.bsky.social🎉 Checkout our papers below 👇
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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
At #ICLR2025, #HelmholtzMunich researchers are sharing advancements in #MachineLearning. 👉 t1p.de/8jfgn @fabiantheis.bsky.social @carstenmarr.bsky.social @stes.io @zeynepakata.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social @vincefort.bsky.social @iclr-conf.bsky.social
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We’ve landed in Singapore for #ICLR2025! The EML group is presenting 4 exciting papers — come say hi at our poster sessions! 👇Let's chat! More details in the thread — see you there! 🌟
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Check out our first profile spotlight featuring @merceaotniel.bsky.social who will be defending his thesis this Wednesday 👏
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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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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
@lukasthede.bsky.social ‘s new preprint on knowledge editing is worth taking a look into 👀
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🌍 #ICLR2025 is coming to the beautiful city of Singapore — April 24–28! We're excited to share 4 upcoming papers being presented at the conference. Check out the thread for highlights, and come chat with the authors if you're interested! 🧵👇
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ExplainableML @eml-munich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thrilled to announce that four papers from our group have been accepted to #CVPR2025 in Nashville! 🎉 Congrats to all authors & collaborators. Our work spans multimodal pre-training, model merging, and more. 📄 Papers & codes: eml-munich.de#publications See threads for highlights in each paper. #CVPR
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A very interesting read full of useful insights on how LLMs could shape science. Both the discussions and the writing process was a great experience for me personally, the first #PNAS paper I got involved in!
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Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our EML team has 4 #ICLR25 Papers accepted! I am proud of my students and grateful to be a part of many successful collaborations. More details will appear on our website (www.eml-munich.de) but here are the snapshots.
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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Have we built machines that learn and think like people? In our new paper, we find that vision large language models still fall short when it comes to cognitive abilities in the domains of causal reasoning, intuitive physics, and theory of mind. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Visual cognition in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Modern vision-based language models face challenges with complex physical interactions, causal reasoning and intuitive psychology. Schulze Buschoff and colleagues demonstrate that while some models ex...
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Luca Eyring @lucaeyring.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Can we enhance the performance of T2I models without any fine-tuning? We show that with our ReNO, Reward-based Noise Optimization, one-step models consistently surpass the performance of all current open-source Text-to-Image models within the computational budget of 20-50 sec! #NeurIPS2024
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Karsten Roth @confusezius.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
😵‍💫 Continually pretraining large multimodal models to keep them up-to-date all-the-time is tough, covering everything from adapters, merging, meta-scheduling to data design and more! So I'm really happy to present our large-scale study at #NeurIPS2024! Come drop by to talk about all that and more!
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Shyamgopal Karthik @shyamgopal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
After a break of over 2 years, I'm attending a conference again! Excited to attend NeurIPS, even more so to be presenting ReNO, getting inference-time scaling and preference optimization to work for text-to-image generation. Do reach out if you'd like to chat!
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Karsten Roth @confusezius.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🤔 Can you turn your vision-language model from a great zero-shot model into a great-at-any-shot generalist? Turns out you can, and here is how: arxiv.org/abs/2411.15099 Really excited to this work on multimodal pretraining for my first bluesky entry! 🧵 A short and hopefully informative thread:
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