29.10.2026
Teaching Language Models to Express Uncertainty
MCML Research Insight – With David Bani-Harouni, Chantal Pellegrini, Ege Özsoy, Kamilia Zaripova, Nassir Navab, and Matthias Keicher
An AI assistant may give a confident answer even when it is wrong. But what if it could tell us how sure it really is? MCML researchers have developed a reinforcement learning approach that teaches …
27.10.2026
Runner-Up Prize at AutoML 2026 for Tabular-DC-Bench
A Meta-Dataset for Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Clustering on Tabular Data
At the International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML 2026), the paper “Tabular-DC-Bench” received the runner-up prize in the ABCD track (Applications, Benchmarks, Challenges, and …
27.10.2026
Welcoming Ewa Szczurek to MCML
Developing Probabilistic and Generative Models for Cancer, Lung Diseases, and Antibiotic Resistance
We are pleased to welcome Ewa Szczurek as a Principal Investigator. Ewa Szczurek is Professor of AI in Life Sciences at LMU Munich, associate professor at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the …
26.10.2026
Best Paper Award at AIES 2026 for Work on Algorithmic Contestability
Why Explainable AI Is Not Enough to Challenge Algorithmic Decisions
The paper “Explainable AI Isn’t Enough! Rethinking Algorithmic Contestability” received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026). The paper was …
23.10.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Technology, Power & Society – What Can We Learn From the History of IT?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, historian Debora Gerstenberger talks about the influence of the IT history. Technological developments often seem inevitable in retrospect, but they are shaped by decisions …
22.10.2026
Best Paper Award at AIES 2026 for Benjamin Lange
Recognition in Law and Policy for Work on AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation
MCML PI Benjamin Lange received the Best Paper Award for Law and Policy at the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026). In his paper “AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation,” …
15.10.2026
When Flatter Is Not Always Better
MCML Research Insight – With Leonardo Galli, Wiebke Bartolomaeus, and Holger Rauhut
Imagine hiking through a mountain landscape. A broad, flat valley may look like the easiest route. Yet the flattest path does not necessarily lead where you want to go. A similar idea appears in the …
14.10.2026
MCML at the LRZ Open Day 2026
Open Day at the Garching Research Campus Together With the “Türen Auf Mit Der Maus” Day
On October 3, 2026, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) opened its doors to the public as part of the Open Day at the Garching Research Campus. The day was held together with the nationwide “Türen …
12.10.2026
MCML at the Frontier AI Innovation Summit 2026 in Stuttgart
All Hands Meeting of the German AI Centers and ELIAS Alliance Annual Meeting, Hosted by the Tübingen AI Center
On October 7 and 8, 2026, MCML took part in the Frontier AI Innovation Summit at Messe Stuttgart. Hosted by the Tübingen AI Center, this year’s summit brought together the All Hands Meeting of the …
09.10.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Human Friendly Automation – Does AI Work for Humans, or Are We Out in the End?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Hanjo Gergs and Lars Schatilow, co-initiators of the Human Friendly Automation Alliance present the ideas about how to handle the rapid AI development. The rapid …
08.10.2026
Best Paper Award at ASMUS workshop at MICCAI 2026
Ultra-Wide-NeRF Recognized for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction
The paper “Ultra-Wide-NeRF: Multivariate Gaussian NeRF for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction” received the Best Paper Award at ASMUS 2026, the MICCAI Workshop on Medical Ultrasound. The …
08.10.2026
RobCo Is TUM’s 24th Unicorn
Robotics Start-Up Offers a Simple Solution for Industrial Manufacturing
The Munich-based robotics start-up RobCo is the latest unicorn to emerge from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Founded six years ago by three former robotics students from the TUM Chair of …
