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Elif Akata

@elifakata

PhD student in machine learning & cognitive science in Munich & Tübingen

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Many thanks to @hertiedatascience.bsky.social for the invite, the great discussions, and this blog piece about my talk yesterday!

18.11.2025 14:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.”

📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social

👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

10.11.2025 10:42 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.

12.05.2025 12:14 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

11.04.2025 08:10 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 4
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In previous work we found that VLMs fall short of human visual cognition. To make them better, we fine-tuned them on visual cognition tasks. We find that while this improves performance on the fine-tuning task, it does not lead to models that generalize to other related tasks:

25.02.2025 10:45 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
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Happy to share that our paper is on the cover of @natmachintell.bsky.social! Working on the cover art was a new and fun challenge www.nature.com/natmachintel...

29.01.2025 15:42 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

🚀 Our paper on visual cognition in multimodal large language models is now out in @natmachintell.bsky.social

with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!

16.01.2025 10:16 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0