24 March – new publication in from our collaboration with Nature Machine Intelligence doing psychological experiments with large scale language models: Patrick Schramowski, Cigdem Turan, Nico Andersen, Constantin A. Rothkopf & Kristian Kersting: Large pre-trained language models contain human-like biases of what is right and wrong to do Kristian Kersting's lab
17 March - we have been awarded an grant by the European Research Council for our proposal ''ACTOR – Towards a computational account of natural sequential behavior„! Here the universitie's ERC Consolidator. press release
23 February - Dominik Straub received a student travel award for the for the contribution: Dominik Straub, Constantin Rothkopf. An analysis method for continuous psychophysics based on Bayesian inverse optimal control. Congratulations! Vision Sciences Annual Meeting
08 February 2022 – we are participating in the annual meeting with three talks and one poster Vision Sciences Society
28 January 2022 – we are participating in : Dominik Straub, Matthias Schultheis, Constantin Rothkopf: Inferring implicit sensorimotor costs by inverse optimal control with signal dependent noise COSYNE
21 January 2022 – new paper accepted at the 25th (AISTATS): Susanne Trick, Constantin A Rothkopf: Bayesian Classifier Fusion with an Explicit Model of Correlation International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
12 January 2022 – Constantin gave a talk at the invited symposium on 'active learning' at the (BCCCD) Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
08 December 2021 – new paper out: N. Neupärtl, F. Tatai, C. A. Rothkopf: , Cognitive Neuropsychology Naturalistic embodied interactions elicit intuitive physical behaviour in accordance with Newtonian physics
30 November 2021 – Constantin gave a talk in the in Tübingen: From ideal observers to bounded actors through inverse optimal control nip-colloquium
01 November 2021 – Philipp Hummel joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
28 September 2021 – new paper accepted at the 35th (NeurIPS): Matthias Schultheis, Dominik Straub, Constantin A Rothkopf: Inverse Optimal Control Adapted to the Noise Characteristics of the Human Sensorimotor System Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
24 August 2021 – Constantin gave a talk 'Open problems in modeling naturalistic sequential behavior' at the Special Symposium in honor of Michael F. Land at the , ECVP European Conference on Visual Perception
July – August 2021 – Inga participated in the (OxML 2021) Oxford Machine Learning Summer School
05 – 23 July 2021 – Fabian participated in NeuroMatch Academy: Computational Neuroscience
12 May 2021 – we are presenting , our human-in-the-loop font that adapts its shape to the way readers interact with it at AdaptiFont, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Watch the talk on CHI. youtube
01 February 2021 - we have been successful in two cluster grant applications. The collaborative cluster “„ with the universities of Giessen and Marburg investigates the principles and computational basis for the balance between stability and change in human adaptability. The adaptive Mind
The second cluster, “", in collaboration with AI center hessian.ai, the Goethe University, Frankfurt and the University Mainz, focuses on the development of a new generation of AI systems that are more human-like. The third wave of AI
04 December 2020 – Our collaborative has been approved for funding by the LOEWE Research Cluster WhiteBox. WhiteBox is joining the twin disciplines AI and Cognitive Science. Starting 2021, an interdisciplinary team will develop whitebox methods to foster human understanding of natural and artificial intelligence and its results. Hessian State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
29 September 2020 – Constantin gave a talk 'Reverse engineering behavioral costs and benefits with inverse reinforcement learning' in the Workshop '' at the Inferring and testing optimality in perception and neurons Bernstein Conference
15 September 2020 – Constantin is part of the faculty of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) newly launched ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt
31 August 2020- we are part of the founding members of the Hessian Center for AI
06 July 2020 - in the popular science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft' together with Albert Newen, Nele Russwinkel and Martin V. Butz new article
24 June 2020 – Constantin gave a talk as part of smartstart's 'midsummerbrains- computational neuroscience from my point of view'
15 June 2020 – Niteesh Midlagajni joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
02 June 2020- Inga Ibs joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
15 May 2020 – invited keynote at the virtual , Universität Oldenburg, Germany Symposium on Explainable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis and Care Robotics
01 April 2020 – the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved our collaborative grant PlexPlain with , Kristian Kersting, and Frank Jaekel Florian Steinke
16 March 2020 - the lab is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic
15 February 2020 – Fabian Kessler has joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
10-14 February 2020 – Constantin is teaching at the in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Education at the University of Luxembourg together with Minds and Machines Workshop, Pedro Cardoso-Leite, and Paul Schrater Christophe Schommer