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MCML is one of six national AI Competence Centers. It is funded on a permanent basis by the German and Bavarian government's AI strategy, and brings together the leading ML researchers from LMU, TUM and associated institutions.

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Unite leading researchers in Germany, to strengthen international, national and regional competence in the field of ML and AI. We foster talent and make corresponding potential accessible to users from science, industry and society.

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28.11.2025

MCML at NeurIPS 2025

45 Accepted Papers (36 Main, and 9 Workshops)

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 45 papers to NeurIPS 2025: 36 Main, and 9 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

27.11.2025

Seeing the Bigger Picture – One Detail at a Time

MCML Research Insight - With Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, and Zeynep Akata

Large vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) have changed how AI works with mixed inputs of images and text, by learning to connect pictures and words. Given an image with a caption like “a dog playing with a ball”, CLIP learns to link visual patterns (the …

25.11.2025

InterACT Workshop 2025

Methodological Challenges in Explainable AI

The InterACT Workshop 2025 took place at LMU Munich in September. Participants engaged in an intensive scientific exchange on methodological challenges in Explainable AI (xAI). The workshop brought together 24 researchers from eight institutions across Europe: LMU Munich, University of Bremen, …

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Dec

Pitchtalk Series • 04.12.2025 • Hochschule für Philosophie Kaulbachstraße 31/33 80539 München

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

MCML Pitchtalks With CReAITech

Join Us for Networking and Insights

MCML and CReAITech unite for an inspiring PhD Workshop on AI agents in science and their ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA). Join us for the PhD Workshop “AI Agents in Science: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA)”, hosted by the Munich …

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Dec

Workshop • 08.12.2025 • LMU IEC Space

9:00 am - 5:30 pm

User – Market – Product Fit

Essentials Workshop

In this Workshop, participants learn how to uncover real user needs using Design Thinking methods such as empathy building, problem exploration, and rapid testing. They translate these insights into clear user and buyer personas and validate whether …

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Dec

Open Lab Day • 10.12.2025 • Boltzmannstraße 1, 85748 Garching

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Open Lab Day 2025

Linked Dimensions

At the Open Lab Day 2025 on December 10th at the Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization (V2C) of the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ), the focus is on the presentation of projects by LMU and TUM students under the motto “Linked Dimensions”. During an …

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