Zeynep Akata
Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Technical University of Munich and Director of the Institute for Explainable ML at Helmholtz Munich
- 🚨 PI positions with an excellent package at Helmholtz Munich (deadline January 11). Please apply, please share! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...
- We are celebrating our #NeurIPS2025 and #EurIPS2025 contributions below 🎊
- We are looking for PhD students via the @ellis.eu and @munichcenterml.bsky.social PhD programs!
- 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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- 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.
- Reposted by Zeynep AkataUnfortunately, 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
- Reposted by Zeynep AkataI 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 😊🙏🎉
- 🎉🎬 @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.
- Due to physical resource constraints, we currently estimate that around 300–400 of the candidate papers recommended for acceptance by the ACs will need to be rejected. We seek the support of our 41 SACs in addressing this distributed optimization problem in a fair and professional manner.
- 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!
- Reposted by Zeynep AkataI 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?
- 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
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- 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
- 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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- 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 👇
- 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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- 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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- @eml-munich.bsky.social is going to @cvprconference.bsky.social🎉 Checkout our papers below 👇
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- Check out our first profile spotlight featuring @merceaotniel.bsky.social who will be defending his thesis this Wednesday 👏
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- @lukasthede.bsky.social ‘s new preprint on knowledge editing is worth taking a look into 👀
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- 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!
- 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.
