22.07.2026
Sven Nyholm Explores the Ethics of Living With Robots
Exploring AI Ethics Beyond the Trolley Problem
MCML PI Sven Nyholm joined the podcast Art of the Question to discuss the ethical questions surrounding intelligent robots and their growing role in everyday life. The conversation explores how …
22.07.2026
MCML Welcomes Student Delegation From HEC Montréal
Strengthening International Academic Exchange
The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) recently welcomed a group of students from HEC Montréal, one of Canada’s leading business schools, led by Professor Jean-François Ouellet. The visit began …
21.07.2026
Timo Heiß Receives Best Student Paper Award at XAI 2026
Improving Feature Effect Estimation in Explainable AI
MCML Junior Member Timo Heiß received the Best Student Paper Award at the 4th World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2026) for the paper Analyzing Error Sources in Global Feature …
21.07.2026
The Learning Rate Does More Than Set the Pace
MCML Research Insight – With Maria Matveev, Vit Fojtik, Gitta Kutyniok, and Johannes Maly
A neural network can fit its training examples in many different ways. The harder question is which of these possible solutions will continue to perform well on new data, and whether the choices made …
20.07.2026
How Fair Does AI Seem in Job Interviews?
Enkelejda Kasneci Explores Fairness in AI Job Interviews
Many companies rely on AI for recruitment. A new study shows that job applicants mostly trust the avatars conducting their interviews – but only until they receive a rejection. How fair this decision …
20.07.2026
TUM Develops Intelligent 3D Twins of Crime Scenes
Advancing AI for Digital Crime Scene Investigation
A crime scene is often accessible only for a short period of time. During that time, all relevant evidence must be documented quickly, and even small details can prove crucial. Researchers at the …
16.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: 5 Tipping Points, 10 Years of #Digdeep – Did We Get the Future Right?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, the podcast founder look back on 10 years of exciting topics. Ten years ago, #digdeep set out to identify and make sense of digital transformation early on, and five years …
10.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Can AI Save Our Legal System From Collapse, Viktor Von Essen (Libra)?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Viktor von Essen talks about AI and our legal system. This talk explains why Legal Tech is becoming increasingly important due to overloaded legal systems and the growing …
09.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma Earns Best Paper and SAC Highlight Awards at ACL 2026
Bolei Ma Receives Two ACL 2026 Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 for “The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs” and an SAC Highlight Award for the survey “Table Question Answering in the Era of Large …
09.07.2026
Benjamin Lange Introduces AI to Elementary School Students
Benjamin Lange Introduces Elementary School Students to Artificial Intelligence and Answers Their Questions About How AI Works.
MCML PI Benjamin Lange recently welcomed a group of elementary school students from the Städtisches Haus für Kinder am Hollerbusch as part of BR’s MünchenHören 2026 project, KI macht Schule. Together, …
08.07.2026
How Autonomous Systems Learn to Understand Their Environment
Startup SE3 Labs Develops Spatial AI
Generative AI like ChatGPT can write text, generate images, and even write code. But when it comes to the physical world, these models reach their limits. They have only a limited understanding of …
08.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball Receives Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026
Their Work Examines the Dual-Use Potential of AI Alignment Methods
MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball and her co-author Phil Hackemann received the Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026 this week in Seoul. Their award-winning position paper, “The alignment …
07.07.2026
Michael Hedderich Featured in the Deutschlandfunk
The Interview Highlights the Potential of Small Language Models for a More Efficient and Sustainable AI Future
MCML PI Michael Hedderich was featured in the Deutschlandfunk programme Computer und Kommunikation. In the interview, he discusses how Small Language Models (SLMs) offer an efficient and sustainable …
03.07.2026
Christian Kühn Receives Award From the Mathematics and Environment Foundation
His Work Provides Key Approaches to the Early Detection of Climate Risks and Strengthens Interdisciplinary Environmental Research
MCML PI Christian Kühn, Professor of Multiscale and Stochastic Dynamics at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology of the Technical University of Munich, received the award on June …
02.07.2026
Study Reveals Privacy Risks in Medical AI
Attackers Can Extract Information About Individual Patients From AI Models
AI models – for example, those used for cancer detection – are trained on patients’ health data. Even the mere fact that personal data has been incorporated into a model can have negative consequences …
