Georg Martius @ ICML

Simulation-based inference has really become a commonly used tool for parameter inference across many fields and applications. We (finally...) got together to write a tutorial introduction and guide to (hopefully) help users get started and navigate the different methods and diagnostics!

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

Second day of #EWRL2025 kicking off with an inspiring talk by Peter Dayan!
“How could it be that we, or an agent, could want something that it does not like, or like something that it would not be willing to exert any effort to acquire?”

✨ The last day kicked off with an amazing talk by @katjahofmann.bsky.social
"World and Human Action Models for Gameplay Ideation" 🎮🤖

Exciting vision from the Game Intelligence team @msftresearch.bsky.social

Here at #EWRL: demonstration of autonomous tomato harvesting by polybot.eu
#Robot #Harvesting #Learning

Fascinating talk by Amy Zhang
on Proto Successor Measures at #EWRL 2025.
euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/progr...
#reinforcementlearning #robotics #machinelearning

Just kicked of #EWRL 2025 in Tübingen.
euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/
Great honor to host this traditional event with Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social in Tübingen.
#machinelearning #reinforcementlearning #robotics

End the Plastic Era! Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong g...

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong global policy to protect us from plastic pollution! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025 The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

📣 Early bird registration ends today!
Register and join us in Tübingen for EWRL 2025: site.pheedloop.com/event/EWRL/h...

Check out our new preprint where we analyzed the dynamics of over ten thousand neurons across 223 brain areas and found a surprising universal principle that describes the organization of intrinsic timescales across the entire mouse brain, including subcortical structures!
#neuroskyence

Global sea level is measured by satellite with precision since 1993. A new study compares the data with IPCC projections from the same time. Both the overall rise and its acceleration (the rate of rise has doubled since) are very close to the data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

DUH fordert mit Verbänden und Kommunen: Dach-Photovoltaik sichern • „Realitätscheck“ für die Energiewende von Wirtschafsministerin Reiche droht Photovoltaik-Anlagen auf Dächern auszubremsen• Aufdachanlagen bleiben zentraler Hebel für kommunalen Klimaschutz • Aktionsbündnis fordert Unterstützung von Bundesregierung für Privatpersonen, Kommunen und Bürgerenergie bei urbaner Energiewende durch Smart-Meter-Rollout, Energy Sharing und Mieterstrom

Förderstopp + höhere Netzentgelte? Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche gefährdet die #Photovoltaik auf Dächern. Kommunen, DUH & Verbände fordern: Smart-Meter-Rollout, stabile Regeln & #EnergySharing statt Blockade. ⚠️ #Klimaschutz braucht jede Dachfläche!

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

🌊 ❄️ A running thread on press coverage of the decommissioning of the Research Vessel/Ice Breaker N.B. Palmer (in rough chronological order):

1.- NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker (Science, July 28th, 2025):

Es gibt weltweit rund 20.000 Klimaforscher:innen.
Und manche Leute glauben tatsächlich, die seien allesamt dumm oder korrupt, während nur einige wenige in Diensten der fossilen Energiewirtschaft die Wahrheit erzählen. 🙄

Sergey Levine was just presenting in the Exploration in AI @ #ICML2025 and promoted that exploration needs to be grounded, and that VLMs are a good source ;-) Check our paper below
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A group of people, some of them at their laptop computers, sitting around a long table, listening.

How can we teach news literacy when TikTok trends shift daily and deepfakes blur reality?

That’s what we explored at the first session of our Multiplier Roundtable for News and Information Literacy in Schools this week in Tübingen. 🚸🧠

I am going to present the poster during the next poster session. 11am Wed.
Poster W #707

Philipp Hühn and Markus Flicke at the Award Ceremony of the AI Incubator Demo Day (photo: Tübingen AI Center)

Yesterday, the founding team behind scholar-inbox.com took home the Audience Award 🏆 and the Best Business Model Award 🏆!
Philipp Hühn and @markusflicke.bsky.social impressed everyone with a clear and engaging pitch of their smart recommender tool for academic papers.

I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵

In our ICML paper, we study fine-tuning a generalist policy for multiple tasks. We ask, provided a pre-trained policy, how can we maximize multi-task performance with a minimal number of additional demonstrations?

📌 We are presenting a possible solution on Wed, 11am to 1.30pm at B2-B3 W-609!

✨Introducing SENSEI✨ We bring semantically meaningful exploration to model-based RL using VLMs.

With intrinsic rewards for novel yet useful behaviors, SENSEI showcases strong exploration in MiniHack, Pokémon Red & Robodesk.

Accepted at ICML 2025🎉

Joint work with @cgumbsch.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mediendozentur 2025 mit Harald Lesch

20. Tübinger #Mediendozentur mit dem Astrophysiker und Bestsellerautor Harald Lesch: Seine Rede „Die informierte Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ vom Mittwoch gibt es zum Nachschauen auf dem YouTube-Kanal der Uni: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F91A... #DasWissen #swr #medienwissenschaft #HaraldLesch

Had great fun in my first ever, live, radio interview, with ORF's Ö1 (Punkt Eins, with Barbara Zeithammer) -- on the occasion of my new professorship at the University of Tübingen @ml4science.bsky.social, talking about AI for Science.

Listen to it here: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
(54mins, german)

The 2025 Waymo Challenge results are out! We achieved second place in the End-to-End Driving Challenge with DiffusionLTF and third place in the Scenario Generation Challenge with SHRED. Our approaches prioritized simplicity, and we're preparing to make them publicly available soon.

Klimapolitik der neuen Regierung: Den Ruf gleich ruiniert Wie macht man einen guten ersten Eindruck? Das Kabinett von Bundeskanzler Merz hat das bei der Klimapolitik schon mal nicht hinbekommen.

Unser Steuergeld für und zugleich gegen Klimaschutz ausgeben - macht das Sinn???
„Unterm Strich schmeißt die neue Regierung der fossilen Wirtschaft trotz aller Sparschwüre mehr von unseren Steuergeldern in den Rachen als je zuvor – etwa 65 Milliarden im Jahr.“
taz.de/Bernhard-Poe...

Meinung: Tankrabatt: Wie wir uns zu Tode subventionieren Die Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe richtet massive Schäden an. Dennoch wird sie gefördert – etwa durch den Tankrabatt. Dabei gäbe es sinnvolle Alternativen, von denen auch Geringverdiener profitiere...

Mit unseren Steuergeldern sollte der Staat grundsätzlich nur Aktivitäten mit Subventionen anreizen, die allgemein wünschenswert sind.
Mehr Diesel und Bezin verbrennen, mehr Stromverbrauch, mehr Pendeln gehören m.E. nicht dazu.
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Bewegungen verstehen – mit Sensoren, KI und Robotik Dr. Isabell Wochner erklärt, wie ihre Forschung an intelligenten Assistenzsystemen Menschen mit Bewegungseinschränkungen helfen soll – und was ein Pullover damit zu tun hat.

📖 Lesetipp: Dr. Isabell Wochner, Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe "Neuromechanische Modellierung und Sensorfusion für Assistenzrobotik", spricht im Interview mit der Hertie-Stiftung über physikbasierte Assistenzsysteme, die Bewegungen in Echtzeit vorhersagen.
Das ganze Interview: tinyurl.com/5e2zkpcn

Getting from Tübingen participating in the Huggingface LeRobot hackathon!
#Huggingface #Robotarm #hackathon #PhysicalAI #TuebingenAI

huggingface.co/spaces/LeRob...