NEWS
Even the smallest number can make a big difference
Minor deviations in backend libraries like CUDA or MKL can cause identical AI models to produce different outputs. At ICML 2025, BIFOLD researcher Konrad Rieck showed how such subtle imprecisions can be exploited—posing a significant risk to AI system security.
Horses, airplanes, and the question of what explainable AI actually explains
The desire to peek inside the "black box" of AI, to understand what a model has learned and how it makes decisions, is nearly as old as AI itself. BIFOLD and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) not only developed one of the first methods (Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP)), to systematically explain the decisions of neural networks, they also played an important role in the past and future of XAI.
EVENTS
Lunch Talk: Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud - What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?
Capturing the characteristics of real-world analytical workloads is challenging yet critical for advancing industry practices and academic research. Historically, obtaining accurate query and data characteristics has been difficult, largely because detailed workload information has often been confined to on-premises database systems.
Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)
How should we think about Ethics when Machines become part of our social worlds? Alan Winfield and Dafna Burema will explore the ethical and societal dimensions of robotics and AI in an interactive fishbowl and in conversation with Master`s students of the course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior”
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Oliver Eberle, Thomas McGee, Hamza Giaffar, Taylor Webb, Ida Momennejad
Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI
Jonas Möller, Lukas Pirch, Felix Weissberg, Sebastian Baunsgaard, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck
Adversarial Inputs for Linear Algebra Backends
Giulia Pesch, Ignazio Piseddu, Jan Gaertig, Nora Kramer, Rafaela Kramer, Thomas U. Schulz, Maximilian Zwiebel, Stephan Ledderose, Jimmy Retzlaff, Markus Eckstein et al.
Deep Immune Phenotyping Reveals Distinct Immunopathogenesis in Checkpoint Inhibitor–Induced Colitis Compared with Ulcerative Colitis
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Based on a highly competitive application process, the BIFOLD Graduate School offers an innovative fast-track PhD Program for students holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as a PhD Program for students with a master’s degree.
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