Munich Center for Machine Learning
The MCML is a joint research initiative of LMU München and TU München. It is institutionally funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free State of Bavaria.
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Trying to find a single moment in a 1-hour video can feel impossible. AI faces the same challenge: models that handle short clips often fail on long videos. #MCML Members introduce a model that finds exact moments efficiently. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-02...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: How can machines learn the hidden rules that govern how systems change—how objects move, how weather patterns unfold, or how biological signals evolve—without ever being told what those rules are? Research from #MCML Members shows that this is possible: mcml.ai/news/2026-01...
- 💡 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 with Sebastian Pokutta 🗓️ Thursday, February 12, 2026 ⏱️ 05:00-6:30 PM 📍 Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 01, Munich Find out more: baiosphere.org/en/events/20...
- 🌍 Research Stay at the University of St. Gallen: Andrea Maldonado spent two weeks at the Institute of Computer Science at the Universität St.Gallen, supported by the MCML AI X-Change Program. 🔎 Read more about her experience: mcml.ai/news/2026-01...
- 💡 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 with Lenka Zdeborova 🗓️ Thursday, January 29, 2026 ⏱️ 03:00-4:00 PM 📍 Theresienstr. 90, Munich Find out more: baiosphere.org/en/events/20...
- 📢 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 📢 We are pleased to offer an overview of our research and activities from last year. It reflects the work and commitment of the many researchers involved in our community. Check it out here: mcml.ai/uploads/mcml...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Averaging patterns leads to misleading explanations, e.g., a model predicts bike rentals peak at noon, while in reality, commuters ride in the morning and evening — a common issue in machine learning. 🔎 This is addressed in a paper by #MCML researchers: mcml.ai/news/2026-01...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Images and text are usually aligned using millions of image–caption pairs. But could they still be matched if they were never seen together? In “It’s a (Blind) Match!”, MCML Members explore this question. mcml.ai/news/2026-01...
- #MCML launched the #Thinkathon, connecting AI research with real needs in the Bavarian education. MCML Members teamed up to create AI-based teaching kits that schools can actually use. Thank you for everyone involved for your creativity, expertise, and enthusiasm!
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: LLMs are everywhere—but they still struggle to admit uncertainty. Ask a tricky question and they may sound confident, even when they are wrong. MCML Members show how statistical methods can help LLMs stay honest about what they know (and don’t). 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-12...
- ✈️This summer, Abdurahman Maarouf spent three months as a visiting researcher at Princeton University. In our blog, he reflects on his time abroad — his research, the academic exchange on campus, and life beyond work. 🔍Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-12...
- The #MCML held its annual General Assembly last week, bringing members together for updates, networking, and discussion. A major highlight were the 30+ Flash Talks from Junior Members showcasing their ongoing research. Great to see the community come together!
- #MCML researchers have contributed more than 40 papers to NeurIPS 2025! Check them out: mcml.ai/news/2025-11... Congrats to our researchers! 🎉 #NeurIPS2025
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Models like CLIP link images and text (“a dog playing with a ball” → 🐕 ⚽ 🌱) and enable zero-shot recognition. But they still struggle with fine details. MCML members tackle this challenge with more fine-grained, language-guided image representations. 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...
- Data is everywhere — and knowing how to make sense of it is essential. The Data Science Certificate Program at #LMU in collaboration with #MCML is a part-time academic training course. It is designed for working professionals in academia and industry. 🔎 Find out more: mcml.ai/news/2025-10...
- ✈️ As part of the #MCML AI X-Change, Kun Yuan visited Stanford and joined Serena Yeung-Levy’s lab in Biomedical Data Science. In our blog, he shares his key learnings, projects, and insights from working at the intersection of AI and biomedicine. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are powerful, but scaling them to large images or videos is still slow and memory-intensive. ZigMa speeds up processing of bigger images with less memory—while preserving visual quality and model expressiveness. 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Businesses are increasingly turning to exosuits to support warehouse workers with repetitive movements. In a new paper, MCML researchers show how these exosuits can be fine tuned with AI. 📄 Blog: mcml.ai/news/2025-11... 🗞️ Börsen-Zeitung: www.boersen-zeitung.de/meinung-anal...
- #EMNLP2025 is currently happening in Suzhou, China and #MCML researchers have contributed a total of 37 papers to the conference! 🎉 Check them out: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...
- Yesterday’s #MCML-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗺𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 was a great opportunity to connect our members across disciplines and enjoy some relaxed conversations outside the labs 🍻
- #MCML researchers have contributed a total of 20 papers to #ICCV2025! Check them out: mcml.ai/news/2025-10...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Deep learning is increasingly helping doctors. However, it’s often hard to understand how these models make decisions. To change that, #MCML members built SIC, a transparent AI classifier that makes image diagnosis both intuitive and reliable. 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-10...
- 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: We are offering several PhD positions across our various research areas, open to highly qualified candidates. ‼️ The application portal will be open from 15 October to 14 November 2025. Find out more: mcml.ai/opportunitie...
- Unai Fischer Abaigar is a PhD student at #LMU and #MCML whose work focuses on improving decision-making in public institutions by developing AI systems that are both fair and effective in practice. Check out the interview 👉https://mcml.ai/news/2025-10-09-fischer-abaigar-unai-interview/
- Meet Kerstin Forster, researcher at #LMU & #MCML, using machine learning to cut emissions, boost renewable energy, and track corporate sustainability — driving strategies for a healthier planet. youtu.be/9mYRnXsyvLg
- Matthias Feurer, Thomas Bayes Fellow at #MCML & interim prof at #LMU, builds tools to make ML easier for scientists & more efficient for experts. Next semester he starts as junior prof at TU Dortmund—sharing in our interview how the fellowship helped him get there: mcml.ai/news/2025-09...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Ever rerun feature importance plots and get different “top features”? That randomness comes from how explanations sample data. A #ICLR2025 paper by MCML researchers flips this: Compress Then Explain (CTE) makes model explanations more accurate. 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-09...
- #MICCAI2025 starts today and we are happy that #MCML researchers are represented with 24 papers! Congrats to our researchers! 🎉 Check them out: mcml.ai/news/2025-09...
- Meet Simon Schallmoser, researcher at #LMU & #MCML, who uses machine learning to forecast conditions and personalize care — from detecting low blood sugar in diabetic drivers to paving the way for safer, proactive healthcare. youtu.be/fZA5gJxX704
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Identifying an object’s pose from partial data is like spotting a mug when only the handle is visible. GCE-Pose, a new method by #MCML Members and collaborators, presented at CVPR 2025, takes on this challenge with finesse. 📄 More on our blog: mcml.ai/news/2025-09...
- ✈️🇺🇸 AI X-Change Spotlight: The #MCML 𝗔𝗜 𝗫-𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 supports our Members in collaborating internationally with leading research institutions. PhD student Hannah Laus spent 11 weeks at Harvard University. She shares her experience in a new blogpost: mcml.ai/news/2025-09...
- The event Comparing Notes on Trustworthy AI explores the rise of AI agents and personal assistants—and the ethical challenges they pose. 🎙 Gitta Kutyniok (LMU/MCML), Lena Kästner (Uni Bayreuth), Barbara Plank (LMU/MCML) 💡 September 25, 2025 · 5:30 pm 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/comparing-...
- We are hiring! Join the #MCML team as a Science Manager for acquisition of third-party funding. Application deadline: October 05, 2025. Read more ➡️ portal.mytum.de/jobs/sonstig...
- Meet Yannick Burkhardt, researcher at #TUM & #MCML, using event cameras that capture changes in light up to a million times per second – giving machines lightning-fast perception for robotics and self-driving cars. youtu.be/QJD5qnIb7z4
- Meet Riccardo Marin, researcher at #TUM & #MCML, exploring computer vision and 3D geometry. From detecting flaws in manufacturing to studying the human body, his work brings machine perception closer to human experience. youtu.be/ngC3NHy6_4U
- AI and Memory Workshop On Oct 29 in Munich researchers from MCML BAdW and bidt meet to discuss how AI algorithms influence individual and collective memory with expert talks and networking #AI #Memory #MCML #BAdW #bidt
- MCML and LAMARR join forces in Bonn Sept 24–25 to explore generative AI and NLP with talks from PhD students postdocs and senior researchers plus networking to build collaborations #AI #NLP #MCML #LAMARR
- Meet Clara Sophie Vetter, PhD student at #LMU & #MCML, who uses AI to find hidden patterns in brain scans, genetic data & smartphone data 🧠. Her goal: identify biomarkers to predict mental health risks & enable more personalized psychiatric care. youtu.be/MPjdJ11eL6k
- Meet Ivica Obadic, PhD student at #TUM & #MCML, who develops transparent AI models to analyze satellite images 🌍. His work detects and predicts urban changes, giving city planners explainable recommendations to design more sustainable, livable cities. youtu.be/Qlur0GgsXcA
- Meet Azade Farshad who develops digital twins of patients at #TUM & #MCML to improve treatment, surgical planning & training. Using graph-based analysis and multimodal data, she creates realistic surgical simulations to preview procedures & optimize strategies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D1Q...
- 🎥 As a child, Niki Kilbertus wanted to discover a law of nature. Today, as a #TUM professor and PI at #Helmholtz & #MCML, he develops AI that doesn’t just spot patterns — it reveals cause and effect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYut...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Tracking actions, not just objects — the Spatiotemporal Action Grounding Challenge & Workshop at ICCV 2025 tackles detecting when and where actions occur in complex videos. 📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-08...
- Imagine a “living map” of cities built from geo-tagged social media data. Meet Shanshan Bai ( #MCML/ #TUM) using #AI to identify building functions from online context—offering real-time insights for urban planning & emergency response when official data is outdated www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAet...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: Fine-tuning text-to-image models just got easier. A method by MCML members Vincent Tao Hu and Björn Ommer as well as team enables smooth control over attributes like age—without changing the rest of the image. Read more in our blog🔗 mcml.ai/news/2025-08...
- 🎥 Who gets the credit, or the blame, when AI makes decisions? Sven Nyholm ( #LMU/ #MCML) reflects on how AI challenges our ideas of agency, credit, and blame — and why we need new ways of thinking about authorship, justice, and decision-making. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqi... #AI #Ethics
- Meet Dominik Bär, #MCML junior member & PhD student at #LMU. He’s building AI that not only detects hate & misinformation but also understands why it's posted—and replies with thoughtful, real-time counterspeech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkB...
- 𝗠𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴: #MCML members Lukas Gosch, Stephan Günnemann, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, as welll as Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam show exact guarantees on neural network stability under label flips. 📖 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-07...
- 🎥 From wanting to see Earth from space to building AI systems that help us understand it better. Xiaoxiang Zhu (TUM/#MCML) uses satellite imagery and Data Science to extract reliable geo-information. www.youtube.com/watch?v=acO8... #AI #EarthObservation
- 💡 How is #AI changing eye care? Lucie Huang, #MCML junior member + PhD student at #TUM, is developing AI for faster, sharper eye scans — enabling earlier diagnosis + better treatment. 🎥 First video in our KI Trans series w/ TüftelLab + LMU! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm1...
- MCML researchers with more than 20 papers at #ACL2025 in Vienna🎉 Check them out: mcml.ai/news/2025-07...
