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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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
A study by the b-it proves that transformer models used in chemistry learn only statistical correlations.
New study on “Automatic evaluation of cataract surgery videos for optimized training & competition” by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schultz.
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.
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 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.…
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.…
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…
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 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.…
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…
B-it, Lamarr Institute and TüCAD2 form collaborative alliance for the academic development of drugs using Artificial Intelligence.
Researchers from Bonn and India work with Microsoft on AI-assisted analysis of surgical videos of the cataract
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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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