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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇

Centaur now has its own webpage (marcelbinz.github.io/centaur) where we answer some frequently asked questions. Importantly, we have trained a small version of the model that can be used for quick prototyping: huggingface.co/marcelbinz/Lla… Logo credits to Milena Rmus

🚨Preprint alert🚨 In an amazing collaboration with Gruaz Lucas, Sophia Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in neuroscience & psychology: *What are the merits of curiosity⁉️* osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/7

Our last zoom seminar was a success and we're excited for the next one, featuring Marcel Binz ! This talk will be a lead-up to our NeurIPS Workshop on Behavioral ML. Sign up here for our zoom link: forms.gle/pT9oyic5tMbpWY… Time: Mon Nov 25, 12-1pm ET

Preprint alert! We explore 3 exploration tasks, testing if they measure a stable construct & its link to real-world exploration. Findings suggest improved robustness of latent factors compared to single-task estimates. Work with Mirko Thalmann & Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI 🔗osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵⬇️

If you are at NeurIPS, and interested in human alignment, representations, or cognitive modeling, don't miss out Can's Poster tomorrow!

Douwe Kiela Felix Hill Felix’s story: docs.google.com/document/d/1-j…

ASIC is perhaps the coolest conference if you are into (cognitive) science and mountains (hiking, climbing, etc). I just signed up for this year. There is an early bird registration until end of January: asic.cogs.indiana.edu/2025/index.sht…

Our paper (with Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge, Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI) on visual cognition in multimodal large language models is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence. We find that VLMs fall short of human capabilities in intuitive physics, causal reasoning, and intuitive psychology. nature.com/articles/s4225…

The German Cognitive Science Society is organizing a PhD symposium in Tuebingen in April. If you are a PhD student in the vicinity, you should definetely register (by February 28th) -- it will be fun! cogsciprag.github.io/context-in-cog…

We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich. Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible. More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf Feel free to share broadly!

AI in Science: Ethical and Practical Challenges 🧠 🎤Interview with Dr. Marcel Binz, Postdoctoral Researcher and Deputy Head of the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI (HCAI) at #HelmholtzMunich. 👉t1p.de/p82vj The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs)

1/ 🚨 Updated preprint: “Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models” 👥 Co-led by Milena Rmus with Marvin Mathony, Tobias Ludwig & Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI 📄 Check full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879

New short-form preprint in which we use Centaur to identify gaps in interpretable cognitive models and revise them accordingly using Qwen3 -- fully automated and without a human-in-the-loop. arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661