We are looking for PhD students to start as soon as possible. Application deadline is August 10. Please apply, please share 🙂

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Fully funded PhD @ Helmholtz Munich + TUM We're hiring PhD students to build trustworthy AI systems for science: explainable AI, VLMs, reliable adaptation, agentic workflows. ⏰ Priority deadline 10 Aug 2026. Application details below 👇

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.

#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!

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!

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to share that we have 8 papers accepted to #ICML2026! 🎉 Most of the authors will be traveling to Seoul, Korea 🇰🇷 — feel free to reach out and chat with them if you’re interested in the work. See the full thread below for our papers 👇

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 🙏

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...

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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Happy to share that we have 3 papers accepted (one oral) at #CVPR2026, see you in Denver! Please see the thread for details👇

If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our EML members are heading for Rio🇧🇷 for #ICLR2026! 🌴We’re excited to share our latest research — three poster presentations. Check out the thread below and come say hi to our authors

We are looking forward to innovating with this massive compute support from @fz-juelich.de 🎉

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🥳Our proposal "TACO-VLM: Tackling challenges in large-scale multimodal learning" was granted 1.5M GPU-h on JUPITER @fz-juelich.de, Europe's first exascale supercomputer with ~24k NVIDIA GH200 GPUs. With JUPITER's support, we hope to push large-scale multimodal learning further.

🥳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👇

🚨 PI positions with an excellent package at Helmholtz Munich (deadline January 11). Please apply, please share! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...

Principal Investigators (f/m/x) for (i) AI in Biomedicine and (ii) AI Foundations

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We are celebrating our #NeurIPS2025 and #EurIPS2025 contributions below 🎊

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our EML members have arrived in beautiful San Diego for #NeurIPS2025! 🌴 We’re excited to share our latest research — three poster presentations and one workshop presentation. Check out the thread below 👇 and come say hi to our authors!

We are looking for PhD students via the @ellis.eu and @munichcenterml.bsky.social PhD programs!

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎓PhD application season is back! We’re hiring ONLY through the ELLIS @ellis.eu and the MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social 📌Please denote Prof. Zeynep Akata @zeynepakata.bsky.social as your preferred supervisor! 👉 Link to ELLIS (ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...) and MCML (mcml.ai/opportunitie...)

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!

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ SUB: Benchmarking CBM Generalization via Synthetic Attribute Substitutions @jessica-bader.bsky.social , @lgirrbach.bsky.social , Stephan Alaniz, @zeynepakata.bsky.social [Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23784 [Code]: github.com/ExplainableM... 📍Hall I #2142 🕑Oct 23, Poster Session 5

Are you at #ICCV2025? 🎉 @iccv.bsky.social EML Munich is presenting two poster papers—come say hi to our authors! Details in the thread 👇

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.

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔥We celebrate 3 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025, see you in San Diego! 🥳Topics include diffusion models, sparse autoencoders (SAEs) and neural chunking. See the thread for highlights👇

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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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...

It is an honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen award from the German National Academy of the Sciences @leopoldina.org and Commerzbank-Stiftung 😊🙏🎉

Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina@leopoldina.org · 11mo ago

🎉🎬 @zeynepakata.bsky.social erhält den diesjährigen „ZukunftsWissen“-Preis von Leopoldina & Commerzbank-Stiftung. Die Informatikerin @tum.de und Helmholtz_Munich spricht über ihre Forschung zur erklärbaren #KI. Zum Video auf YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqIH...

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.

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!

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓PhD Spotlight: Karsten Roth Celebrate @confusezius.bsky.social , who defended his PhD on June 24th summa cum laude! 🏁 His next stop: Google DeepMind in Zurich! Join us in celebrating Karsten's achievements and wishing him the best for his future endeavors! 🥳

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?

NeurIPS Europe@neuripseurope.bsky.social · last yr.

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

🚨 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

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...

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

Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina@leopoldina.org · last yr.

🎉Der „ZukunftsWissen“-Preis 2025 von Leopoldina und Commerzbank-Stiftung geht an Zeynep Akata (@zeynepakata.bsky.social) @tum.de / @helmholtz.de. Die Informatikerin erhält die mit 50.000 € dotierte Auszeichnung für ihre Forschung zur erklärbaren #KI. www.leopoldina.org/presse-1/nac...

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!

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓PhD Spotlight: Shyamgopal Karthik Celebrate @shyamgopal.bsky.social , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! Shyam has been a PhD student @unituebingen.bsky.social since October 2021, supervised by @zeynepakata.bsky.social.

📢 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! 🏁🌟

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 👇

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓PhD Spotlight: Leonard Salewski Celebrate @l-salewski.bsky.social, who will defend his PhD on 24th June! 📸🎉

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 😉

ExplainableML@eml-munich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎓PhD Spotlight: Thomas Hummel A spotlight on our one and only @hummelth.bsky.social , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! 🎉 Thomas started his PhD in 2020 at ‪‪@unituebingen.bsky.social as part of the IMPRS-IS program under the supervision of @zeynepakata.bsky.social . 👇 His full story:

🚨 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