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22.01.2026

Industry Pitch Talks Recap

With the DeepL Community

On January 20th, we visited DeepL at their Munich office for an edition of our “MCML Pitchtalks with Industry.” DeepL presented their current state-of-the-art work in NLP, and our junior members—Siyao …

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 …

Munich AI Lectures • 29.01.2026 • TUM, Campus Munich, Theresienstr. 90, Room 0101.Z1.090

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Solvable High-Dimensional Models of Attention: A Theory of Generalization on Token Sequences

Lenka Zdeborova, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL)

On January 29, 2026, the next Munich AI Lecture will welcome Lenka Zdeborová from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Pitchtalk Series • 02.02.2026 • LRZ

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Meetup at LRZ With Pitchtalks and Guided Tour

Join Us for Networking and Insights

On February 2nd, we will visit the LRZ for a Pitchtalk Event, a Meetup, and a guided visit to the LRZ. We will have short pitches by MCML members on their research that relates to the LRZ, a Meetup …

Open Lab Day • 02.02.2026 • LMU Munich, Frauenlobstr. 7a, Munich

6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Open Lab Day 2026

Visit the Media Informatics Group @LMU

What do you actually do with what you’re studying? The Open Lab Day is aimed not only at media informatics students, but also at their families, friends and prospective students. Visitors gain an …