Friday Talks @ Tübingen

Did you know there are more than 60 research groups in Tübingen working in the field of AI? Do you have a research idea you’d like to share with local AI researchers? Are you curious about what your colleague next door is working on? Join us at Friday Talks!

Schedule

The following schedule is tentative:

Year 2025

Date	Topic	Speaker/Presenter	Location
(upcoming) 25/07, 17:15	TBD	Julius Vetter and Manuel Glöckler	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
(upcoming) 25/07, 17:00	How to safely discard features based on aggregate SHAP values?	Robi Bhattacharjee	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
06/06, 17:15	Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards	Bernhard Jaeger	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
06/06, 17:00	LLMs vs. Torch 1.5: Why Your Code Assistant Can’t Keep Up	Diganta Misra	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
16/05, 17:15	Failure Friday!	Claire Vernade	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
16/05, 17:00	Failure Friday!	Moritz Hardt	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
09/05, 17:15	Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs	Lukas Thede	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
09/05, 17:00	Connecting Parameter Magnitudes and Hessian Eigenspaces at Scale using Sketched Methods	Andres Fernandez	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
04/04, 17:15	When, Where and Why to Average Weights?	Niccolò Ajroldi	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
04/04, 17:00	ULTS: Uncertainty Guided Likelihood Tree Search	Julia Grosse	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
21/03, 17:15	Cross-Entropy Is All You Need To Invert the Data Generating Process	Patrik Reizinger	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
21/03, 17:00	Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach	Jonas Geiping	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
07/03, 17:15	Probabilistic Inference & Dynamical Systems	Jonathan Schmidt	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
07/03, 17:00	From Research to Entrepreneurship: How the Startup Center might support you.	Daniel Heblik from Startup Center	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
21/02, 17:15	Realistic 3D Asset generation by joint diffusion in 2D and 3D	Yuxuan Xue	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
21/02, 17:00	The Benchmarking Epistemology. What inferences can scientists draw from competitive comparisons of prediction models?	Sebastian Zezulka & Timo Freiesleben	MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall)
07/02, 17:15	Scalable Ensemble Diversification for OOD Generalization and Detection	Alexander Rubinstein	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
(rescheduled) 07/02, 17:00	Speaker Unavailable	Speaker Unavailable	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
24/01, 17:15	Optimal Multi-Objective Learn-to-Defer: Possibility, Complexity, and a Post-Processing Framework	Mohammad-Amin Charusaie	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)
24/01, 17:00	Friday Talks Relaunch Remarks	Tim Xiao	AI Center (MvL6, Lecture Hall)

Call for Talks

If you would like to give a talk, please find a free slot above and fill out this form.

We invite all AI researchers in Tübingen to share their recent work in the Friday Talks! Every other Friday, we will host two 10-minute talks at 5 pm, either at the AI Center (Maria-von-Linden-Straße 6, Lecture Hall) or at MPI-IS (Max-Planck-Ring 4, Lecture Hall). Any topic related to AI research is welcome for presentation. In particular, we aim to give overlooked ideas more visibility. Therefore, we especially encourage the presentation of work that is under submission or has been previously rejected.

We will get back to you by email to confirm your slot. In the form, you are asked to nominate a host for your talk, who will chair the session. This host can be anyone you know (e.g., your colleagues from your group), who are available on the day and will introduce you (in one sentence) to the audiences. If you cannot find an avaiable host, we will find one for you.

If you are interested in the work of a colleague you can nominate her or him by filling out this form, we will reach out to them.

Organizers

Past Organizers

Contact

Contact the organizers either by Slack (MvL6), Mattermost (MPI-IS), or email. If you have any good ideas or suggestions for improving Friday Talks, please let us know through this form!