MPI researcher receives Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026
MPI-SWS Max Planck Fellow Anthony W. Lin has received one of only two Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2026, for his paper "Transformers are Inherently Succinct."
AI, Computing and Society
Research on Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Society at MPI-SWS tackles the pressing scientific, engineering and societal challenges posed by an increasingly AI-driven world. Recent research includes AI-based tutoring systems, computational models of language processing in the brain that also inform improvements to large language models, methods for enhancing the transparency and reliability of modern AI systems, frameworks that support compliance of AI systems with EU regulations such as the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, and automated decision-support systems in high-stakes domains.
