Elif Akata
@elifakata.bsky.social
PhD student in machine learning & cognitive science in Munich & Tübingen
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Elif Akata
@elifakata.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Happy to share that our paper is on the cover of @natmachintell.bsky.social! Working on the cover art was a new and fun challenge www.nature.com/natmachintel...
Reposted by Elif Akata
Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.”
📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Join us for an insightful discussion with @elifakata.bsky.social, a PhD researcher at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. She will discuss her recent paper, “Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models.”
📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
📅 17 November
⏲️ 2-3 PM CET
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...
Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.
What happens when Large Language models play repeated economic games? This new study from @elifakata.bsky.social et al investigates across a range of models and games.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Playing repeated games with large language models - Nature Human Behaviour
Large language models perform well in self-interested games such as the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma but struggle in games that require coordination. Social reasoning strategies can improve cooperative...
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 We use games from behavioural economics to explore how LLMs behave in repeated social interactions, revealing both self-interested strengths and coordination blind spots, and propose strategies to improve AI-human collaboration.
Reposted by Elif Akata
🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
April 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨 We're hiring! If you're excited about 🤖 ML/LLMs, 🧠 cognitive science, or 💭 computational psychiatry, come join us in Munich. Two fully funded PhDs @www.helmholtz-munich.de: tailored mentorship, international vibe, lots of room to grow.
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
📅 May 16th
🔗 hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
Reposted by Elif Akata
In previous work we found that VLMs fall short of human visual cognition. To make them better, we fine-tuned them on visual cognition tasks. We find that while this improves performance on the fine-tuning task, it does not lead to models that generalize to other related tasks:
February 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In previous work we found that VLMs fall short of human visual cognition. To make them better, we fine-tuned them on visual cognition tasks. We find that while this improves performance on the fine-tuning task, it does not lead to models that generalize to other related tasks:
Happy to share that our paper is on the cover of @natmachintell.bsky.social! Working on the cover art was a new and fun challenge www.nature.com/natmachintel...
January 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy to share that our paper is on the cover of @natmachintell.bsky.social! Working on the cover art was a new and fun challenge www.nature.com/natmachintel...
🚀 Our paper on visual cognition in multimodal large language models is now out in @natmachintell.bsky.social
with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
Have we built machines that learn and think like people?
In our new paper, we find that vision large language models still fall short when it comes to cognitive abilities in the domains of causal reasoning, intuitive physics, and theory of mind.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
In our new paper, we find that vision large language models still fall short when it comes to cognitive abilities in the domains of causal reasoning, intuitive physics, and theory of mind.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Visual cognition in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Modern vision-based language models face challenges with complex physical interactions, causal reasoning and intuitive psychology. Schulze Buschoff and colleagues demonstrate that while some models ex...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚀 Our paper on visual cognition in multimodal large language models is now out in @natmachintell.bsky.social
with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
with @lucaschubu.bsky.social, @bethgelab.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social!