Research Blog
05.03.2026
Foundations of Diffusion: One Map for Images and Text
MCML Research Insight – With Vincent Pauline, Tobias Höppe, Andrea Dittadi, and Stefan Bauer
From hyper-realistic video generation to protein design, Diffusion Models are the engine behind the current wave of Generative AI. But if you try to understand how diffusion models actually work, you …
19.02.2026
COSMOS – Teaching Vision-Language Models to Look Beyond the Obvious
MCML Research Insight - With Sanghwan Kim, Rui Xiao, Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu, Stephan Alaniz, and Zeynep Akata
Today’s AI systems are remarkably good at recognizing what stands out most. Yet understanding how details relate to each other remains surprisingly difficult. Imagine asking an AI assistant to …
05.02.2026
Needle in a Haystack: Finding Exact Moments in Long Videos
MCML Research Insight - With With Tanveer Hannan and Thomas Seidl
Long videos are everywhere, with footage of movies, YouTube videos, body-cam recordings, and AR/VR often running for tens of minutes or even hours. Now imagine asking a simple question like “Where are …
29.01.2026
How Machines Can Discover Hidden Rules Without Supervision
MCML Research Insight - With Tobias Schmidt, and Steffen Schneider
How can machines learn the hidden rules that govern how systems change—how objects move, how weather patterns unfold, or how biological signals evolve—without ever being told what those rules are?
22.01.2026
From Global to Regional Explanations: Understanding Models More Locally
MCML Research Insight - With Giuseppe Casalicchio, Thomas Nagler, and Bernd Bischl
Machine learning models can be powerful, but understanding why they behave the way they do is often much harder. Early global interpretability tools were designed to show how each feature affects the …
22.01.2026
Research Stay at University of St. Gallen
Andrea Maldonado – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
Between Freudenberg – “happiness mountain” – and Rosenberg – “roses mountain”, I had the pleasure to visit the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in …
2024-11-22 - Last modified: 2026-03-05