News
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2025
- Oct 2025 Tutorial on Explaining Vision and Language Models: A Concept-Based Approach at ECAI 2025 (with Dr. Gesina Schwalbe).
- Oct 2025 Poster presentation about our recent paper at the Bonn Humboldt Award Winners’ Forum – The “what, how and why” of AI.
- Mar 2025 Workshop co-organizer, STRL 2025 (co-located with IJCAI 2025).
- Jan 2025 Program committee member, IJCAI 2025.
2024
- Dec 2024 DFG project LUMO has been approved. The grant will fund two positions for three years.
- Nov 2024 Mental Modeling of Reinforcement Learning Agents by Language Models has been accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
- Sep 2024 Program committee member, COLING 2025.
- Aug 2024 Concept-Based Explanations in Computer Vision: Where Are We and Where Could We Go? has been accepted to the Explainable Computer Vision (eXCV) workshop at ECCV 2024.
- Jul 2024 Associate editor of the European Journal on Artificial Intelligence.
- Jun 2024 Read Between the Layers: Leveraging Intra-Layer Representations for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models has been accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
- May 2024 Starting the LLM+XAI Reading Group at Knowledge Technology, University of Hamburg.
- Apr 2024 From Neural Activations to Concepts: A Survey on Explaining Concepts in Neural Networks has been accepted in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence Journal.
- Apr 2024 Enhancing Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models through Logic has been accepted to LREC-COLING 2024.
- Mar 2024 Co-organizer of the 3rd International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning.
- Feb 2024 Program committee member, ECAI 2024.
- Jan 2024 Causal State Distillation for Explainable Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR) 2024.
2023
- Oct 2023 Visually Grounded Continual Language Learning with Selective Specialization has been accepted to the Findings of EMNLP 2023.
- Sep 2023 Program committee member, LREC-COLING 2024.
- Sep 2023 Björn Plüster, an MSc student whom I advise, developed a German LLM called LeoLM with LAION and hessian.AI.
- Jun 2023 Program committee member, EMNLP 2023.
- May 2023 Program committee member, ECAI 2023.
- Apr 2023 Internally Rewarded Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to ICML 2023.
2022
- Dec 2022 Program committee member, ACL 2023.
- Dec 2022 Program committee member, IJCAI 2023.
- Oct 2022 Received ~10K € research funding for a student project on “Explainable Visual Question Answering” that I am advising. Check out our paper and code.