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Gjergji Kasneci

Prof. Dr.

Core PI

Gjergji Kasneci

is Professor of Responsible Data Science at TU Munich.

His research focuses on transparency, robustness, bias, and fairness in machine learning algorithms and involves ethical, legal, and societal considerations with the goal of using artificial intelligence responsibly for the benefit of individuals and society.

Team members @MCML

PostDocs

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Bardh Prenkaj

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PhD Students

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Jan Batzner

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Mahdi Dhaini

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Alina Fastowski

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Sven Jacob

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Rohit Jagtani

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Yuxiao Li

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Felix Steinbauer

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Shuo Yang

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Chenchen Yuan

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Efstratios Zaradoukas

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Zheyu Zhang

Recent News @MCML

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Link to MCML at ICML 2026

03.07.2026

MCML at ICML 2026

76 Accepted Papers (64 Main, and 12 Workshops)

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Link to MCML at ACL 2026

01.07.2026

MCML at ACL 2026

36 Accepted Papers (20 Main, 15 Findings, and 1 Workshop)

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Link to MCML at ICLR 2026

22.04.2026

MCML at ICLR 2026

44 Accepted Papers (36 Main, and 8 Workshops)

Publications @MCML

2026


[14]
Y. LiG. Kasneci
Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible.
AI4GOOD @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Good at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

[13]
Y. LiG. Kasneci
Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible.
CompLearn @ICML 2026 - 2nd Workshop on Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

[12] A* Conference
E. KasneciG. Kasneci
Sycophancy is an Educational Safety Risk: Why LLM Tutors Need Sycophancy Benchmarks.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub

[11] A* Conference
Z. ZhangS. YangB. PrenkajG. Kasneci
Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub

[10] A* Conference
F. Weeber • V. Neplenbroek • J. Batzner • S. Padó
One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

[9] A* Conference
S. YangZ. ZhangB. PrenkajG. Kasneci
SAGE: Sparse Adaptive Guidance for Dependency-Aware Tabular Data Generation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub

[8] A* Conference
C. YuanZ. ZhangG. Kasneci
Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub

[7]
Y. LiA. FastowskiE. ZaradoukasB. PrenkajG. Kasneci
Analysing the Safety Pitfalls of Steering Vectors.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub

[6] A* Conference
E. ZaradoukasB. PrenkajG. Kasneci
Reinforcement Unlearning via Group Relative Policy Optimization.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

[5]
S. JacobB. Prenkaj • W. Shao • G. Kasneci
TabSCM: A practical Framework for Generating Realistic Tabular Data.
Preprint (Apr. 2026). arXiv GitHub

[4]
F. Steinbauer • E. Oswald • K. Kirchheim • B. Prenkaj • F. Kofler • G. Kasneci
Efficient General Intelligence through Multi-Component Integration.
Preprint (Apr. 2026). URL

[3]
S. Firmani • F. SteinbauerG. Kasneci • A. Marsico • M. Horlacher
RIBEX: Predicting and Explaining RNA Binding Across Structured and Intrinsically Disordered Regions (IDR)-rich Proteins.
Preprint (Mar. 2026). DOI

[2]
M. Akhtar • A. Reuel • P. Soni • S. Ahuja • P. S. Ammanamanchi • R. Rawal • V. Zouhar • S. Yadav • C. Whitehouse • D. Ki • J. Mickel • L. Choshen • M. Šuppa • J. Batzner • J. Chim • J. Sania • Y. Long • H. A. Rahmani • C. Knight • Y. Nan • J. Raj • Y. Fan • S. Singh • S. Sahoo • E. Habba • U. Gohar • S. Pawar • R. Scholz • A. Subramonian • J. Ni • M. Kochenderfer • S. Koyejo • M. Sachan • S. Biderman • Z. Talat • A. Ghosh • I. Solaiman
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation.
Preprint (Feb. 2026). arXiv

[1]
C. YuanB. MaZ. ZhangB. PrenkajF. KreuterG. Kasneci
Moral Lenses, Political Coordinates: Towards Ideological Positioning of Morally Conditioned LLMs.
Preprint (Jan. 2026). arXiv

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