Apparently the NeurIPS chairs decided to reopen the camera-ready submission to ensure "that the proceedings reflect the highest scientific quality.” @neuripsconf.bsky.social, is that true? So the solution to academic misconduct is to give the authors a chance to cover their tracks?

Video recording of Chhavi's talk in the Theory of Interpretable AI seminar is now available: youtu.be/ylW3H--g7SU Check out the seminar website for upcoming speakers: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Happening today!

Looking forward to the next “Theory of Interpretable AI” seminar on January 15, where Chhavi Yadav will present "ExpProof"! A fresh take on trustworthy explanations for confidential ML models using Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Feel free to join! #interpretability #Crypto tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

New blog post (on a shiny new ICML blog!): What's New in #ICML2026 Peer Review Some highlights: - Policies to combat thinly sliced contributions - Cascading desk rejections for peer-review abuse - Reviewer reciprocity - New ways to support authors and reviewers Post: blog.icml.cc/2026/01/08/w...

In case you missed Ayman's talk, here is the video: youtu.be/KunGyRGbRdk

Happening today!

Ayman will present at the Theory of Interpretability Seminar! He’ll share a new approach for optimal, interpretable decision trees with strong efficiency guarantees. 🌳✨ 🗓️ Join us to learn how AO* search leads to provably better sparse trees! tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

When reading a large literature, it is really helpful to have opinionated opinions that help to categorize papers. One of mine for explainable AI is that methods need to address a fundamental limit in how much information can be communicated. Blog post: www.timvanerven.nl/blog/xai-com... (no math)

Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin

The schedule for our Workshop on the Theory of XAI is now online! 🕰️ Dec 2, starting 9am 📍 Bella Center Copenhagen (co-located with EurIPS) 🔗 sites.google.com/view/theory-...

Great seminar talk by @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social yesterday. Here's the video if you missed it: youtu.be/zR_GvDF65OM Seminar info: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Happening in two hours.

Coming up tomorrow (Tuesday 11 Nov) in the Theory of Interpretability seminar: Ulrike von Luxburg will discuss why informative explanations only exist for simple functions 👀 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Here is a formal impossibility result for XAI: Informative Post-Hoc Explanations Only Exist for Simple Functions. I'll give an online presentation about this work next tuesday in @timvanerven.nl 's Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar: arxiv.org/abs/2508.11441 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

The blog post is available: blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

I am recruiting via Ellis for a PhD position to develop mathematical foundations for explainable AI. Benefits: - Do new fundamental math / machine learning theory on a societally important topic - Part of a team - Good conditions in Amsterdam, NL Applications via Ellis PhD program before Oct. 31.

The video for Shahaf's talk is now available: youtu.be/AsJB4kym4Tc See the seminar website for upcoming talks: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Happening tomorrow, October 21!

The next talk in the Theory of Interpretable AI seminar will be by Shahaf Bassan on "The Computational Complexity of Explaining ML Models". Tuesday October 21 tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

How can we make AI explanations provably correct — not just convincing? 🤔 Join us for the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning Workshop, part of the ELLIS UnConference Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2, co-located with #EurIPS. 🕒 Call for contributions open until Oct 15 (AoE) 🔗 eurips.cc/ellis

🎓 Ready to expand your horizons in #AI research? Do your PhD with 2 leading academic institutions across Europe and build your international network with the Academic Track in the #ELLISPhD Program. Apply now via our central recruiting portal until Oct 31. 👉 All info: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

Looking forward to talking about our work on the value of explanation for decision-making at this workshop

Are you coming ? I will be talking about #XAI #orms

Excellent bachelor's thesis by my student David van Batenburg with a mathematically rigorous treatment of the axiomatic characterization of Shapley values for feature attribution: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03281 Clears up and corrects many math aspects that tripped me up when first learning about SHAP.

Interested in provable guarantees and fundamental limitations of XAI? Join us at the "Theory of Explainable AI" workshop Dec 2 in Copenhagen! @ellis.eu @euripsconf.bsky.social Speakers: @jessicahullman.bsky.social @doloresromerom.bsky.social @tpimentel.bsky.social Call for Contributions: Oct 15

I have 2 open PhD positions on Mathematical Foundations for Explainable AI: Position 1: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... (apply by October 13, 2025) Position 2: applications via the Ellis PhD Program: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... by Oct. 31. Both positions are equivalent (except for starting dates)

🚨 Workshop on the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning Call for ≤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open! 📍 Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen 📅 Dec. 2 🔗 More info: sites.google.com/view/theory-... @gunnark.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social @emmanuelesposito.bsky.social

Late, but arxiv.org/abs/0804.2996 is *incredible*, so many good lines (e.g., "This comes close to being an accusation of a false claim of priority for a false discovery of an untrue fact, which would be a rare triple-negative in the history of intellectual property disputes.").

I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!! imprs.is.mpg.de/application ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

I reported a paper with fake citations to the Neurips editors a few months ago, and I've been informed Neurips will be introducing systematic checking of citations.

Many interesting ideas in Tobias' talk today! You can still watch the recording: youtu.be/IZ4m_II3DVI

Wanna chat with an experienced learning theory researcher? We have open office hours online with four awesome folks, Surbhi Goel (@surbhigoel.bsky.social), Gautam Kamath (@gautamkamath.com), Ayush Sekhari, and Lydia Zakynthinou)! Book a slot and ask them anything! let-all.com/officehours....

Happening today!

🚨 The Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar is back after the summer! 🎙️ Tobias Leemann: On Identifiability & Representational Power of Post-Hoc Explanations 📅 Sept 9, 4PM CET / 10AM EST 📍 Online: uva-live.zoom.us/j/87120549999 🔗 Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

The Netherlands now also has a call out to poach top international (non-EU) researchers whose academic freedom is threatened. Possibility to apply for 1M euro; need to be nominated by a Dutch research institution, which requires a recognizable strong profile. www.nwo.nl/en/calls/tulip-fund

OpenAI is now in the moderation business

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

The unsustainability of long distance flights to conferences is a valid concern. Clearly, meeting international experts is important for high-level research, but dynamic regional events to supplement huge monolithic conferences might even make that easier. We need more experiments like EurIPS asap.

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

The NeurIPS paper checklist corroborates the bureaucratic theory of statistics.

4th AI & Mathematics in NL workshop in Tilburg. Many cool presentations: aimath.nl/index.php/20... And great people:

Great talks make complicated things so clear they seem easy. This was such a talk: youtu.be/nCR8hWgvwTI?...

Happening today: ⏰⏰ Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Chain-of-Thought: Why does explaining to LLMs using CoT prompting work? Join us on June 3, when Bohang Zhang will dive into the mechanisms behind chain-of-thought prompting — and what makes it so effective tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

Deadlines for PhD and Postdoc vacancies coming up: applications open until Monday June 2!

⏰⏰ Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Chain-of-Thought: Why does explaining to LLMs using CoT prompting work? Join us on June 3, when Bohang Zhang will dive into the mechanisms behind chain-of-thought prompting — and what makes it so effective tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

The 4th AIM workshop on mathematics and AI in NL is coming up in two weeks!, with a very cool program: surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.... It's still possible to register: aimath.nl/index.php/20... Keynotes: @smaglia.bsky.social (UvA), @emiliocarrizosa.bsky.social (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

⏰⏰ Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ Chain-of-Thought: Why does explaining to LLMs using CoT prompting work? Join us on June 3, when Bohang Zhang will dive into the mechanisms behind chain-of-thought prompting — and what makes it so effective tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/

Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button: www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...