Thrilled to be in beautiful Rio this week for #CogSci2026! 🥥🌴🇧🇷 I'll be giving a talk tomorrow at 11:05 AM at the Foundations for Foundation Models workshop on improving visual reasoning of VLMs via program synthesis. Looking forward to great discussions!

Can AI agents act like scientists when reasoning about visual scenes? 🔬 Not just label what they see, but form explicit hypotheses, design experiments to test them, and revise their beliefs in light of the evidence. We built ZendoWorld to find out!

I'm in Denver at #CVPR2026 this week! 🏔️ Together with @wolfstammer.bsky.social, I will be presenting our recent work, Vision-Language Programs, at Poster Session 3 on Saturday ⏰ 11:45 am - 1:45 pm. Very excited to share our work and discuss the ideas behind it!

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

Charley Wu@thecharleywu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

We are extending the deadline to submit abstracts for the poster session to 21 March 2026 (AoE)! 🗓️ We invite researchers to present recent work on topics regarding human and artificial creativity. Previously published work is welcome 🤗 📥 Register and submit your abstract here: eveeno.com/342278190

RMU AI and Creativity Symposium

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Antonia Wüst@toniwuest.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium on AI and Creativity in Darmstadt! Join us for an inspiring lineup of speakers and a full day dedicated to exploring creativity in modern machine learning models and the relationship between biological and artificial creation. 🎨🤖

Excited to share that our paper "Synthesizing Visual Concepts as Vision-Language Programs" has been accepted to #CVPR2026! 🎉 We propose a novel method that combines VLMs with symbolic program synthesis to learn reliable programs of visual concepts. 🌐 ml-research.github.io/vision-langu...

Antonia Wüst@toniwuest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 New paper alert! We introduce Vision-Language Programs (VLP), a neuro-symbolic framework that combines the perceptual power of VLMs with program synthesis for robust visual reasoning.

We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium on AI and Creativity in Darmstadt! Join us for an inspiring lineup of speakers and a full day dedicated to exploring creativity in modern machine learning models and the relationship between biological and artificial creation. 🎨🤖

Rhein-Main-Universitäten@rheinmainunis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join the RMU AI & Creativity Symposium on 16 April 2026 in Darmstadt! Visit the RMU website for information, registration and abstract submission: www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/save... @goetheuni.bsky.social, @unimainz.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social 📷 TU Darmstadt / Felipe Fernandes

Super excited that our recent work got featured in the Abstract Synthesis podcast! 🚀 I joined Brian to discuss inductive reasoning in vision and how we can combine Vision-Language Models with Program Synthesis to enable more reliable and interpretable reasoning 💡 Podcast: youtu.be/uefqvsButp8?...

Vision-Language Programs - Antonia Wüst

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After an amazing time in LA and Joshua Tree Park, I’m excited to head to NeurIPS next week. My colleagues and I will be presenting some of our recent work (see below). Looking forward to connecting and starting new conversations. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat! 💬

🚨 New paper alert! We introduce Vision-Language Programs (VLP), a neuro-symbolic framework that combines the perceptual power of VLMs with program synthesis for robust visual reasoning.

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

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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Can the new GPT-5 model finally solve Bongard Problems? 👉Not quite yet! Using our ICML Bongard in Wonderland setup, it solved 64/100 problems - the best score so far! 📈 However, some issues still persist ⬇️

Can concept-based models handle complex, object-rich images? We think so! Meet Object-Centric Concept Bottlenecks (OCB) — adding object-awareness to interpretable AI. Led by David Steinmann w/ @toniwuest.bsky.social & @kerstingaiml.bsky.social . 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.244... #AI #XAI #NeSy #CBM #ML

I'll be at #ICML2025 next week presenting our recent work on VLMs and Bongard Problems! Feel free to reach out, happy to have a chat ☺️

Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉 We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings. Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546 & read more below 👇