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On this page, you’ll find the latest news from b-it. We regularly post updates here on research, teaching, projects, events, and the diverse academic life at the Center. Our goal is to provide you with a concise overview of important developments, activities, and special events. This way, you’ll always stay up to date on what’s happening at b-it.
Dagstuhl Seminar Brings Together International Experts to Define the Future of Social Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is achieving increasingly impressive results in drug discovery. Yet as these models become more powerful, they also raise a fundamental scientific question: when do they produce reliable scientific…
Laborjournal: Jürgen Bajorath Discusses the Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery
Artificial Intelligence is achieving increasingly impressive results in drug discovery. Yet as these models become more powerful, they also raise a fundamental scientific question: when do they produce reliable scientific…
Muskaan Chopra Receives the Grace Hopper Award
We are delighted to share some exciting news: Muskaan Chopra has been awarded the Grace Hopper Award by the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bonn.
History Rhymes: Macro-Contextual Retrieval for Robust Financial Forecasting
This is a short summary of our paper “History Rhymes: Macro-Contextual Retrieval for Robust Financial Forecasting” by Sarthak Khanna, Armin Berger, Muskaan Chopra, David Berghaus, and Rafet Sifa, published in…
Towards Reliable Machine Translation: Scaling LLMs for Critical Error Detection and Safety
This is a short summary of our paper “Towards Reliable Machine Translation: Scaling LLMs for Critical Error Detection and Safety” by Muskaan Chopra, Lorenz Sparrenberg, and Rafet Sifa, published in…
From Retinal Pixels to Patients
This is a short summary of our paper “From Retinal Pixels to Patients: Evolution of Deep Learning Research in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening” by Muskaan Chopra, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Armin Berger, Sarthak…
When RL Wins the Benchmark but Loses the Patient
This is a TL;DR of our paper “Benchmark Success, Clinical Failure: When Reinforcement Learning Optimizes for Benchmarks, Not Patients” by Armin Berger, Manuela Bergau, Helen Schneider, Saad Ahmad, Tom Anglim…
What AI Actually Does in Diffusion Models
In the search for new drugs, artificial intelligence in the form of diffusion models is being used in drug design. What exactly does AI do in this context? Dr. Andrea…
Leveraging Synthetically Generated Data for Real Estate Document Classification
This is a short summary of our paper “Leveraging Synthetically Generated Data for Real Estate Document Classification” by Tobias Deußer, Gregor Ramien, Nico Weber, Maximilian Meidinger, Max Hahnbück, Christian Bauckhage,…
Towards Automated Recipe Reconstruction
This is a short summary of our paper “Towards Automated Recipe Reconstruction: Optimization of Dietary Data Collection using Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and Mathematical Optimization” by Svetlana Schmidt, Linda…
2025-2026 Perspective: From Making AI Work to Making It Matter
The past decade of AI was largely driven by one question: how to make large language models work at all. How to scale them, stabilize them, and push their capabilities…
Making AI empathic – ERC Starting Grant for Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek
A major success for the b-it: The European Research Council (ERC) is providing millions of euros for projects in the fields of computer science, economics, and evolutionary biology. Prof. Dr.…
Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry
A study by the b-it proves that transformer models used in chemistry learn only statistical correlations.
AI video analysis improves cataract surgery
New study on “Automatic evaluation of cataract surgery videos for optimized training & competition” by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schultz.
AI models in the natural sciences: From explaining predictions to capturing causal relationships
New publication of b-it Professor Dr. Jürgen Bajorath in the journal “Cell Reports Physical Science” shows how science can benefit from AI and what scientist need to look out for.
Celebrating our Achievements in 2024: A Year of Innovation, Collaboration, and Growth
The past decade of AI was largely driven by one question: how to make large language models work at all. How to scale them, stabilize them, and push their capabilities…
Large language models for drug discovery
New study conducted by Prof. Dr. Bajorath and Sanjana Srinivasan at b-it and the Lamarr-Institute at the University of Bonn show the potential of language models in finding new medications.…
How large language models affect social collaboration and why we need to shape it
New study conducted by Prof. Dr. Bajorath and Sanjana Srinivasan at b-it and the Lamarr-Institute at the University of Bonn show the potential of language models in finding new medications.…
AI24 in Dortmund
The past decade of AI was largely driven by one question: how to make large language models work at all. How to scale them, stabilize them, and push their capabilities…
OUR PAPERS ON ACL24
The past decade of AI was largely driven by one question: how to make large language models work at all. How to scale them, stabilize them, and push their capabilities…
New Publication in Life Sciences: predicting the effect of a drug
New study conducted by Prof. Dr. Bajorath and Sanjana Srinivasan at b-it and the Lamarr-Institute at the University of Bonn show the potential of language models in finding new medications.…
Lamarr NLP Researchers Train Multilingual Large Language Models Mitigating Stereotype Bias
Bias in large language models is a well-known and unsolved problem. In our new paper “Do Multilingual Large Language Models Mitigate Stereotype Bias?” we address this challenge by investigating the…
Director Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel is a new member of the NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
B-it, Lamarr Institute and TüCAD2 form collaborative alliance for the academic development of drugs using Artificial Intelligence.
AI to improve cataract surgery in the Global South
Researchers from Bonn and India work with Microsoft on AI-assisted analysis of surgical videos of the cataract
Meeting AI experts in the USA: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek on delegation trip
A visit to Stanford University, Microsoft and Google – Professor Dr. Lucie Flek, Professor of Data Science & Language Technologies at b-it, accompanied NRW Minister President Hendrik Wüst on a…
We mourn the loss of Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke
A visit to Stanford University, Microsoft and Google – Professor Dr. Lucie Flek, Professor of Data Science & Language Technologies at b-it, accompanied NRW Minister President Hendrik Wüst on a…
Prof. Bajorath and his team take a look behind the scenes of machine learning in drug research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Until now, AI applications generally have “black box” character: How AI arrives at its results remains hidden. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath, a cheminformatics…
We welcome Prof. Sascha Alda as new Scientific Director at the b-it
Professor Sascha Alda becomes new Scientific Director at the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) on the part of the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and succeeds Professor Nico Hochgeschwender, who is…
The b-it – Twenty years of academic teaching and research with an international reputation
The Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) celebrated its twentieth anniversary these days. Since 2002, it has uniquely combined excellence in research with internationally renowned teaching in three master’s…
Grand Opening of the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
In the presence of NRW Minister President Hendrik Wüst MdL and NRW Minister of Science Ina Brandes as well as leading actors from business and science, the Lamarr Institute for…
Honored: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel is honored as GI Fellow by the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
The Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) has appointed three scientists as “GI Fellows” – among them Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Director of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) …
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