I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!
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šØ Workshop on the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning
Call for ā¤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open!
š Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen
š Dec. 2
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Here is a formal impossibility result for XAI: Informative Post-Hoc Explanations Only Exist for Simple Functions. I'll give an online presentation about this work next tuesday in @timvanerven.nl 's Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11441
tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
Ever wondered about the rationale behind transformer training details like qk-norm, learning rate, and z-loss? Read this blog post to find out more!
Our spotlight paper is happening today at the #NeurIPS poster session! Drop by if you want to chat about the nitty-gritty details of large-scale transformer training!
We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/
Over at 3quarksdaily, there are two thought provoking pieces by Dwight Furrow about the AI-consciousness debate:
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š Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22491
Catch our Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025 Today!
š Wed Dec 3 š 4:30 - 7:30 PM š Exhibit Hall C,D,E ā Poster #3903
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators: @mohaas.bsky.social @sbordt.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social
Sebastian Bordt
ah, a new possible addition to the canon of SIGBOVIK AI papers
