NEWS

New Whitepaper on XAI
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Samek is co-author of the new white paper “Explainable AI”, published today by the Plattform Lernende Systeme. Together with colleagues from the “Technological Enablers and Data Science” working group of the Platform Lernende Systeme, they explored different application areas, guided by the question: Who should be told what, how and for what purpose?

SIGMOD 2025 Conference Contributions
BIFOLD researchers will present multiple contributions at the SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference, scheduled for June 22–27, 2025, in Berlin.
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.
SIGMOD/PODS 2025
The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference is a premier international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users. It provides an opportunity to explore innovative ideas and findings while exchanging techniques, tools, and experiences.
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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.