Constantin Rothkopf
@c-rothkopf.bsky.social
Computational cognitive scientist. Perception and action are inseparably intertwined. Prof TUDarmstadt, Director Centre For Cognitive Science https://www.cogsci.tu-darmstadt.de/, Member Hessian.AI https://hessian.ai/ & ELLIS
https://www.pip.tu-darmstadt.de
https://www.pip.tu-darmstadt.de
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🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI."
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November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI."
Apply now and make an impact where AI meets society.
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🗞️TIP: ProLOEWE👱🏼🧑🏼🦰 with Kristian Kersting+Constantin @c-rothkopf.bsky.social, who bring together modern #AI + #cognitivescience➡️@tuda.bsky.social within LOEWE-WhiteBox. Who, together with their team, have succeeded in obtaining 2 clusters of #excellence with #RAI + #TAM ➡️ proloewe.de/en/proloewe-...
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🗞️TIP: ProLOEWE👱🏼🧑🏼🦰 with Kristian Kersting+Constantin @c-rothkopf.bsky.social, who bring together modern #AI + #cognitivescience➡️@tuda.bsky.social within LOEWE-WhiteBox. Who, together with their team, have succeeded in obtaining 2 clusters of #excellence with #RAI + #TAM ➡️ proloewe.de/en/proloewe-...
Join our world-class #ClusterOfExcellence on Reasonable AI as a PhD student in one of the four labs. More info, particularly on the Challenging AI with Cognitive Science Lab (CAI) & application 👉 hessian.ai/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) | hessian.AI
The Cluster of Excellence Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI) invites applications for several fully funded PhD positions starting in early 2026. RAI conducts cutting-edge research on AI systems ...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Join our world-class #ClusterOfExcellence on Reasonable AI as a PhD student in one of the four labs. More info, particularly on the Challenging AI with Cognitive Science Lab (CAI) & application 👉 hessian.ai/call-for-app...
Only one day left to apply to the European Laboratory for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and work with us
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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Only one day left to apply to the European Laboratory for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and work with us
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If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference
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(SW2025) Control theory approaches for analysing, modeling, and manipulating brain activity and cognitive function – Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience
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September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
August 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
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I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025!
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
August 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm presenting our work "Revisiting Cost Functions in Sensorimotor Decision-Making" at #CCN2025!
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
Stop by our poster (@dominikstrb.bsky.social, @c-rothkopf.bsky.social) and learn more about how to rethink common modeling assumptions.
📅 When: Friday, August 15, 2pm–5pm
📍 Where: De Brug, Poster C1
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Happy to announce that I am presenting a poster today at #CogSci25: Physical reasoning during motor learning aids people at transferring mass, but not motor control mappings.
This is joint work with Dominik Ürüm, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
Find out more at P3-T-192!
This is joint work with Dominik Ürüm, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
Find out more at P3-T-192!
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy to announce that I am presenting a poster today at #CogSci25: Physical reasoning during motor learning aids people at transferring mass, but not motor control mappings.
This is joint work with Dominik Ürüm, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
Find out more at P3-T-192!
This is joint work with Dominik Ürüm, @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
Find out more at P3-T-192!
We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
July 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We have an open PhD position in an exciting @dfg.de - @ageinves.bsky.social project to further develop continuous psychophysics in collaboration with Joan-Lopez Moliner.
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Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
May 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Excited to share that our paper got accepted at #ICML2025!! 🎉
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
We challenge Vision-Language Models like OpenAI’s o1 with Bongard problems, classic visual reasoning challenges and uncover surprising shortcomings.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19546
& read more below 👇
Happy to contribute to the Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence (NETI) workshop at UT Austin with a talk on "Computational elements of goal-directed sensorimotor behavior". You can follow the live-stream at the workshop's website liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/neti-wor...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Happy to contribute to the Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence (NETI) workshop at UT Austin with a talk on "Computational elements of goal-directed sensorimotor behavior". You can follow the live-stream at the workshop's website liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/neti-wor...
Very excited to be part of the Simons collaboration on ecological neuroscience @simonsfoundation.org together with this fantastic team! Theory-driven investigation of where representations for perception, cognition, and action in ecological tasks come from. POMDPs FTW. Stay tuned for job openings...
We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation
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April 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very excited to be part of the Simons collaboration on ecological neuroscience @simonsfoundation.org together with this fantastic team! Theory-driven investigation of where representations for perception, cognition, and action in ecological tasks come from. POMDPs FTW. Stay tuned for job openings...
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If you wanna find out how to overcome Gaussian distribution and quadratic cost assumptions in Bayesian decision-making models AND how to perform inference over their parameters, swing by our poster at #ICLR2025 in Singapore!
📅 When: Friday, April 25, 10am–12:30pm
📍 Where: Halls 3 + 2B, Poster #61
📅 When: Friday, April 25, 10am–12:30pm
📍 Where: Halls 3 + 2B, Poster #61
Curious to learn more? Check out our full paper to see how neural networks can transform Bayesian inference in complex decision-making models arxiv.org/abs/2409.03710
Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors
Bayesian observer and actor models have provided normative explanations for many behavioral phenomena in perception, sensorimotor control, and other areas of cognitive science and neuroscience. They a...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you wanna find out how to overcome Gaussian distribution and quadratic cost assumptions in Bayesian decision-making models AND how to perform inference over their parameters, swing by our poster at #ICLR2025 in Singapore!
📅 When: Friday, April 25, 10am–12:30pm
📍 Where: Halls 3 + 2B, Poster #61
📅 When: Friday, April 25, 10am–12:30pm
📍 Where: Halls 3 + 2B, Poster #61
Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
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Very pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making: "Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty" by @c-rothkopf.bsky.social. DM to join us online! #DecisionMaking #EyeMovements #TheEyesHaveIt www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry
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April 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Very pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making: "Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty" by @c-rothkopf.bsky.social. DM to join us online! #DecisionMaking #EyeMovements #TheEyesHaveIt www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
March 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
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Please join us at our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 Workshop on Navigation under Uncertainty, organized by Máté Lengyel (Cambridge & CEU) and myself, and taking place on March 31 in the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Canada. #neuroskyence 🧠
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Please join us at our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 Workshop on Navigation under Uncertainty, organized by Máté Lengyel (Cambridge & CEU) and myself, and taking place on March 31 in the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Canada. #neuroskyence 🧠
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🧠✨ Save the Date! The third Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference will take place at Boston University on July 28-29, 2025. Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers featuring cutting-edge brain research in everyday life situations: neuroscienceeverydayworld.org/conference-2...
February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🧠✨ Save the Date! The third Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference will take place at Boston University on July 28-29, 2025. Check out our fantastic lineup of speakers featuring cutting-edge brain research in everyday life situations: neuroscienceeverydayworld.org/conference-2...
Our latest work on understanding the behavior of bounded agents in more naturalistic tasks accepted at #ICLR2025: Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors, with @dominikstrb.bsky.social @tobnie.bsky.social and @jan-peters.bsky.social based on @tobnie.bsky.social MSc thesis
February 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our latest work on understanding the behavior of bounded agents in more naturalistic tasks accepted at #ICLR2025: Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors, with @dominikstrb.bsky.social @tobnie.bsky.social and @jan-peters.bsky.social based on @tobnie.bsky.social MSc thesis
Interest in natural, extended, sequential behavior is rising: super happy to be invited to the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 workshop on 'Navigation under uncertainty' March 31, Mont Tremblant organized by @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social and Mate Lengyel
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COSYNE
Join us for Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2025 in Montreal and Mont Tremblant, QC, Canada. This annual meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretic...
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February 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Interest in natural, extended, sequential behavior is rising: super happy to be invited to the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 workshop on 'Navigation under uncertainty' March 31, Mont Tremblant organized by @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social and Mate Lengyel
www.cosyne.org
www.cosyne.org
Happy to join the Interdisciplinary College this year, the spring school on AI & Cognitive Science with a long tradition since 1982 and its unique energy, to give one of the evening talks: How can cognitive science help understand what artificial intelligence systems cannot yet do?
Excited about the latest advances in AI but also wondering about their limitations? 🤔
Join us for Constantin Rothkopf's evening talk at IK 2025! 🧠🤖
Professor Rothkopf, a leading expert in Cognitive Science and AI, will explore the capabilities and limitations of ...
Join us for Constantin Rothkopf's evening talk at IK 2025! 🧠🤖
Professor Rothkopf, a leading expert in Cognitive Science and AI, will explore the capabilities and limitations of ...
February 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Happy to join the Interdisciplinary College this year, the spring school on AI & Cognitive Science with a long tradition since 1982 and its unique energy, to give one of the evening talks: How can cognitive science help understand what artificial intelligence systems cannot yet do?
New year, new hope for a social media platform ...
February 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New year, new hope for a social media platform ...