NEWS

Now Open: The Neverending Cure
Mai 28th, 2025, we opened the new exhibition THE NEVERENDING CURE by kennedy+swan - the BIFOLD artists in residence 2024/2025 - at TU Berlin's main building. Roughly 80 guests enjoyed the inspiring artwork and exchange between artists and scienctists.

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Simon Krug
Dr. Simon Krug is a former researcher in the Machine Learning Group at BIFOLD with a focus on computational alchemy and theoretical chemistry. He earned his PhD summa cum laude in 2024 for his work on mathematical methods to model atomic substitutions in molecules.
EVENTS
The Neverending Cure / Exhibition
As part of their artistic residency at BIFOLD, the artist duo kennedy+swan explores the use of AI in medicine - and how much trust we place in a technology that increasingly affects our physical existence.
Lunch Talk: Query Optimization in the Era of Edge-Cloud Continuum
Stream processing at the edge is key to managing massive IoT data. In this Lunch Talk, Ankit Chaudhary presents a novel framework for efficient stream query planning, placement, and deployment across dynamic sensor-edge-cloud systems, powering the NebulaStream platform.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

PUBLICATIONS
Patrick Kahardipraja, Reduan Achtibat, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
The Atlas of In-Context Learning: How Attention Heads Shape In-Context Retrieval Augmentation
Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Nils Feldhus, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Christin Seifert, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
Truth or Twist? Optimal Model Selection for Reliable Label Flipping Evaluation in LLM-based Counterfactuals
Qianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Yuan Cao, Hinrich Schütze, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt
Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating the Impact of Quantization on LLM Explainability and Interpretability

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Based on a highly competitive application process, the BIFOLD Graduate School offers an innovative fast-track PhD Program for students holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as a PhD Program for students with a master’s degree.