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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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19.01.2026

MCML at AAAI 2026

Nine Accepted Papers (6 Main, and 3 Workshops)

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 9 papers to AAAI 2026: 6 Main, and 3 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

19.01.2026

MCML PI Frauke Kreuter Featured on ARD Alpha on AI

Exploring Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

MCML PI Frauke Kreuter was featured on ARD alpha, discussing how AI is shaping everyday life and the workplace. Alongside moderator Birgit Kappel and Sabine Pfeiffer, head of the Chair of Sociology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and director of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation …

15.01.2026

Blind Matching – Aligning Images and Text Without Training or Labels

MCML Research Insight - With Dominik Schnaus, Nikita Araslanov, and Daniel Cremers

Vision-language models have shown that images and text can live in a shared space: a picture of a “cat” often lands close to the word “cat” in the embedding space. But such models learn this correspondence because they have seen millions of image–caption pairs. What if we had …

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Jan

Link to Media Innovations Impact Bootcamp

Bootcamp • 23.01.2026 - 24.01.2026 • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)

5:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Media Innovations Impact Bootcamp

AI Meets Entrepreneurs

The Media Innovations Impact Bootcamp is a two-day program designed for researchers and students interested in AI, machine learning, art, and media design who want to explore entrepreneurial thinking and founder-driven innovation.

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Feb

Open Lab Day • 02.02.2026 • 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 insight into the subject of media informatics and its …

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Nov

Certificate Course • 06.11.2026 • Online

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Certificate Course on Responsible AI - Part 1

Organized by the German National AI Centers

The certificate course “Responsible AI” is jointly organized by the German National AI Centers. It addresses AI researchers on all levels from the centers, the participating universities, as well as experienced AI enthusiasts and users.

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