Tim van Erven
timvanerven.nl
Tim van Erven
@timvanerven.nl
Associate professor in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam. Topics: (online) learning theory and the mathematics of explainable AI.

www.timvanerven.nl

Theory of Interpretable AI seminar: https://tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar
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/
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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/
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🚨 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/
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
4th AI & Mathematics in NL workshop in Tilburg.

Many cool presentations: aimath.nl/index.php/20...

And great people:
June 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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/
June 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
⏰⏰ 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/
May 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Curious about feature attribution?

SHAP & LIME treat features independently—but features interact!
Come hear how to "Disentangle Interactions and Dependencies in Feature Attribution"

Tuesday May 6 (today!) 4pm CET, 10am ET
tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
May 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰

In two weeks, April 8, Mirco Mutti will talk about "A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits"
March 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Couldn't make it to Atticus's talk last week on the current state of interpretability?

No worries! Fortunately for you, the talk is rescheduled to Wednesday this week😄

Please do join us!

🌐: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
March 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰

Tuesday in two weeks we will hear from Atticus Geiger on "The Current State of Interpretability and Ideas for Scaling Up"

Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
Date: 4 March, 4pm CET/ 10am ET
February 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The next theory of interpretable AI seminar is Tuesday next week. We will have Jeremias Sulam, who will present "Testing Semantic Importance via Conditional Independence and Betting"

💻Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
⏰Date: 4 Feb, 4pm CET/ 10am ET
January 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The theory of interpretable AI seminar is back after the holiday season! 🎅🤶

Our next talk is next Thursday by Yishay Mansour who will talk about interpretable approximations

💻 Website: tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
⏰Date: 16 Jan
January 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📢Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar📢

On Thursday, Depen Morwani from Harvard will present work on how **margin maximization** can explain observed phenomena in mechanistic interpretability!

⏲️Thursday Dec 5th, 4pm CET / 10am EST
🌐https://tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 AM
⏰⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰⏰

In one week, Andrej Risteski will present "Discernible Patterns in Trained Transformers: A View from Simple Linguistic Sandboxes"

⏲️ Monday Nov 18, 4pm CET/10am EST, via zoom. (Notice the unusual day and hour!)

tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
November 13, 2024 at 8:17 AM