Zeynep Akata (@zeynepakata) 's Twitter Profile
Zeynep Akata

@zeynepakata

Professor of Computer Science at @TU_Muenchen and Director @Helmholtz_Munich, @ELLISforEurope Fellow

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Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI (@cpilab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are happy to share Centaur! Led by @marcellbinz and a big collaboration within and beyond our lab, Centaur is a foundation model of human behavior. It can predict and simulate human behavior for any cognitive experiment and beats the best cognitive model in every experiment.

We are happy to share Centaur! Led by @marcellbinz and a big collaboration within and beyond our lab, Centaur is a foundation model of human behavior. It can predict and simulate human behavior for any cognitive experiment and beats the best cognitive model in every experiment.
Zeynep Akata (@zeynepakata) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Checkout two postdoc positions fully funded by TU München and Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich! The application deadline is November 19th. Please apply if you are interested in our core research topics and have a good track record in ML and CV. More details in the link👇

Kempner Institute at Harvard University (@kempnerinst) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Watch Eric Schulz from Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI explain how testing LLMs with psychology tasks reveals new insight into how they work and how they can be improved. The latest talk at the #KempnerInstitute: youtu.be/-QubTOvK9mM?si…

Watch Eric Schulz from <a href="/cpilab/">Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI</a> explain how testing LLMs with psychology tasks reveals new insight into how they work and how they can be improved. The latest talk at the #KempnerInstitute: youtu.be/-QubTOvK9mM?si…
Zeynep Akata (@zeynepakata) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The deadline for PhD applications in our Explainable Machine Learning group TU München Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich is tomorrow! Checkout the ELLIS PhD program if you are interested (we won’t evaluate email applications, MSc degree is a must, flexible starting dates) ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd…

Zeynep Akata (@zeynepakata) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers in our Explainable Machine Learning group TU München Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich ELLIS, application deadline is November 19th (fully funded, flexible starting dates, flexible topics, duration negotiable). More details 👇

We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers in our <a href="/ExplainableML/">Explainable Machine Learning</a> group <a href="/TU_Muenchen/">TU München</a> <a href="/HelmholtzMunich/">Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich</a> <a href="/ELLISforEurope/">ELLIS</a>, application deadline is November 19th (fully funded, flexible starting dates, flexible topics, duration negotiable). More details 👇
Théo Uscidda (@theo_uscidda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Curious about the potential of optimal transport (OT) in representation learning? Join @CuturiMarco's talk at the UniReps workshop today at 2:30 PM! Marco will notably discuss our latest paper on using OT to learn disentangled representations. Details below ⬇️

Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌏 #ICLR2025 is coming to the beautiful city of Singapore — April 24–28! We're excited to share 4 upcoming papers being presented at the conference. Check out the thread for highlights, and come chat with the authors if you're interested! 🧵👇

Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 We’ve landed in Singapore for #ICLR2025! The EML group is presenting 4 exciting papers — come say hi at our poster sessions! 👇Let's chat! More details in the thread — see you there! 🌟

Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#CVPR2025 is heading to the 'Music City' — Nashville! 🎺 Join us from June 11–15. We're thrilled to announce that we'll be presenting four papers at #CVPR2025! Check out the thread below for highlights, and feel free to stop by and chat with our authors! 📷👇

Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎓PhD Spotlight: Jae Myung Kim We’re thrilled to celebrate Jae Myung Kim , who will defend his PhD on 25th June! 🎉 Jae Myung began his PhD at Universität Tübingen as part of the ELLIS & IMPRS-IS programs, advised by Zeynep Akata and collaborating closely with Cordelia Schmid . His

🎓PhD Spotlight: Jae Myung Kim

We’re thrilled to celebrate <a href="/jaemyung__kim/">Jae Myung Kim</a> , who will defend his PhD on 25th June! 🎉

Jae Myung began his PhD at <a href="/uni_tue/">Universität Tübingen</a> as part of the ELLIS &amp; IMPRS-IS programs, advised by <a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a>  and collaborating closely with <a href="/CordeliaSchmid/">Cordelia Schmid</a> . His
Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Happy to announce that one paper, "Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs", is accepted at #icml2025 ! Congrats to the wonderful authors Lukas Thede , Karsten Roth , Matthias Bethge ,Zeynep Akata , and Tom Hartvigsen. 👇 Highlights in the thread

🚨Happy to announce that one paper, "Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs", is accepted at #icml2025 ! Congrats to the wonderful authors <a href="/lukas_thede/">Lukas Thede</a> , <a href="/confusezius/">Karsten Roth</a> , <a href="/MatthiasBethge/">Matthias Bethge</a> ,<a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a> , and <a href="/tom_hartvigsen/">Tom Hartvigsen</a>.  👇 Highlights in the thread
Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎓PhD Spotlight: Thomas Hummel A spotlight on our one and only Thomas Hummel , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! 🎉 Thomas started his PhD in 2020 at Universität Tübingen as part of the IMPRS-IS program under the supervision of Zeynep Akata . His main research focuses on multi-modal

🎓PhD Spotlight: Thomas Hummel

A spotlight on our one and only <a href="/hummelth_/">Thomas Hummel</a> , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! 🎉

Thomas started his PhD in 2020 at <a href="/uni_tue/">Universität Tübingen</a>  as part of the IMPRS-IS program under the supervision of <a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a> . His main research focuses on multi-modal
Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎓PhD Spotlight: Leonard Salewski Celebrate Leonard Salewski, who will defend his PhD on 24th June! 📸🎉 Leonard has been a PhD student in the EML and Computer Graphics Tübingen groups at Universität Tübingen since May 2020. He is part of the IMPRS-IS program (Intelligent Systems), jointly supervised by Zeynep Akata

🎓PhD Spotlight: Leonard Salewski

Celebrate <a href="/L_Salewski/">Leonard Salewski</a>, who will defend his PhD on 24th June! 📸🎉

Leonard has been a PhD student in the EML and <a href="/CG_Tuebingen/">Computer Graphics Tübingen</a> groups at  <a href="/uni_tue/">Universität Tübingen</a> since May 2020. He is part of the IMPRS-IS program (<a href="/MPI_IS/">Intelligent Systems</a>), jointly supervised by <a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a>
Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 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! 🏁🌟

📢 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! 🏁🌟
Karsten Roth (@confusezius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In Nashville for my last PhD conference 🥲. Come join today 10:30-12:30 in Hall D (#391) to talk insights, tips and tricks to modify pretraining for representation reuse - scalably. 🚀Joint work w/ Zeynep Akata, Dima Damen @CVPR 2025, Ivana Balazevic & Olivier Hénaff while at Google DeepMind.

In Nashville for my last PhD conference 🥲.

Come join today 10:30-12:30 in Hall D (#391) to talk insights, tips and tricks to modify pretraining for representation reuse - scalably.

🚀Joint work w/ <a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a>, <a href="/dimadamen/">Dima Damen @CVPR 2025</a>, <a href="/ibalazevic/">Ivana Balazevic</a> &amp; <a href="/olivierhenaff/">Olivier Hénaff</a> while at <a href="/GoogleDeepMind/">Google DeepMind</a>.
Sukrut Rao (@sukrutrao) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us in taking stock of the state of the field of explainability in computer vision, at our Workshop on Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? at #ICCV2025! #ICCV2025 Explainable AI

Join us in taking stock  of the state of the field of explainability in computer vision, at our  Workshop on Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis? at #ICCV2025!

<a href="/ICCVConference/">#ICCV2025</a> <a href="/XAI_Research/">Explainable AI</a>
Explainable Machine Learning (@explainableml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎓PhD Spotlight: Shyamgopal Karthik Celebrate Shyamgopal Karthik , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! Shyam has been a PhD student Universität Tübingen since October 2021, supervised by Zeynep Akata. His research has been centred around compositionality in vision and language. In

🎓PhD Spotlight: Shyamgopal Karthik

Celebrate <a href="/ShyamgopalKart1/">Shyamgopal Karthik</a> , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! Shyam has been a PhD student <a href="/uni_tue/">Universität Tübingen</a>  since October 2021, supervised by <a href="/zeynepakata/">Zeynep Akata</a>.  

His research has been centred around compositionality in vision and language. In