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The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab researches Natural Language Processing (#NLProc) with a strong emphasis on Large Language Models, Conversational AI & Question Answering | @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social · @TUDa.bsky.social

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📢 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗥𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 📢
Happy to share that our paper has been accepted to @iclr-conf.bsky.social 🎉

📜 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚊: 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴
👥 Fengyu Cai, Tong Chen, @xinranz3.bsky.social, Sihao Chen, Hongming Zhang, @sherrytswu.bsky.social, @igurevych.bsky.social, Heinz Koeppl
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 AM
🎓 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯
👋 We were pleased to welcome Dr. Chung-Chi Chen, researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), for a guest talk at the UKP Lab in Darmstadt.
February 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
⚠️ 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀?
A recent paper in Nature suggests that even small amounts of targeted fine-tuning data can trigger unexpected and problematic behaviour that generalises beyond the original pre-training task.

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January 23, 2026 at 8:59 AM
🎓 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯
👋 We were pleased to welcome Fajri Koto, Assistant Professor at the MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), for a guest talk at the UKP Lab in Darmstadt.

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January 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM
🎉 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
🌍 We are pleased to share that researchers from the UKP Lab and their collaborators will present 𝟵 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 at the #EACL2026, one of the leading international conferences in #NLP and #CL, bringing together research from across Europe and beyond.
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
📸 Here are a few impressions from the ATHENE Center event 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥: 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 in Frankfurt, where experts from academia, industry and policy came together to discuss how internet security can be strengthened in the age of AI 🤖.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎤 Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Distinguished Professor at the National Center for Cybersecurity @athenecenter.bsky.social and Director of the UKP Lab at @tuda.bsky.social, delivered a keynote on “How to Make AI-Native Internet Content Secure? Coping with Synthetic and Misleading Data.”
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🚀 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/handle/tudat...

📊 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲: 𝗘𝗠𝗡𝗟𝗣 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:
✅ 𝟯𝗸 papers
✅ 𝟱𝟬𝟬 reviews
✅ 𝟭𝟳𝟱 meta-reviews
✅ 𝟯𝟮𝟵 papers with rebuttals
December 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
✨ 𝗔 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗛𝗿𝘆𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘆𝗲𝘃𝗮
We’re very happy to welcome Dasha Hryhoryeva as a new PhD student at the UKP Lab.

Her research focuses on AI for Mental Health and AI for Social Good, with current work on emotion prediction using large language models.

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December 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
💻 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯, 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝘃𝘆𝗮𝗷𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵!
We’re happy to welcome Bhavyajeet Singh as a new PhD student at the UKP Lab. He recently joined the LLMs for Security project, which is part of the ATHENE Center for Cybersecurity, and works on using large language models to generate secure code.

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December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🔐 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗿𝘆𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘃𝘆𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
We are pleased to share that Prof. @igurevych.bsky.social, Distinguished Professor at the @athenecenter.bsky.social and Director of the UKP Lab at @tuda.bsky.social, will deliver a keynote at the ATHENE event ...
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🌐 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯: 𝗬𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗻𝗴

We are pleased to host Asst. Prof. Yue Feng (University of Birmingham) as a visiting professor at the @ukplab.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🛡️ 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗖𝗖 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡𝗘
Do not miss the opportunity for groundbreaking science and get a chance to work together with an amazing diverse team of leading researchers!

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November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 🎓
In the summer semester 2025, the UKP Lab accepted its largest cohort of thesis students to date, with more than 20 students. The group came together yesterday for a full-day workshop to present and discuss their final thesis work.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🏅 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗿𝘆𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘃𝘆𝗰𝗵
Yesterday evening, Iryna Gurevych was honoured by @royalsociety.org with the 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, one of the most prestigious distinctions in computer science.
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻
After a productive first day, the UKP Lab continues its visit with a stop at The Alan Turing Institute.

🕙 Time: 10:00–12:00, 18 November
📍 Venue: Alan Turing Institute, British Library
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jingcheng (Frank) Niu, current postdoc at UKP co-leading the lab’s interpretability research, presents the group’s contributions and vision for prying open the LLM black box in his talk, “We Owe Language Models an Explanation.” [...]
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We now welcome @yufanghou.bsky.social, Professor at @ituaustria.bsky.social and visiting professor at UKP, reflecting on her rich collaboration with the UKP Lab. [...]
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We’re delighted to have Lucie Flek, Professor at the @unibonn.bsky.social and former UKP member, reflecting on her time at UKP and how openness, freedom and passion yield the best results. [...]
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We now welcome Edwin Simpson, Senior Lecturer at the @bristoluni.bsky.social and a former member of UKP. He walks through his work on a range of methods that address messy human data ...
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We’re excited to welcome another UKP alum: Johannes Daxenberger, Co-Founder and Managing Director at summetix (ArgumenText). His recent work challenges traditional classification-based approaches and brings ...
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Another accomplished UKP alum, Christian Meyer, now a data scientist at SCHUFA and co-founder of HESCOM-Software, looks back on his long journey in summarization and knowledge engineering in his talk: “From Dictionary to Interactive Summary: A Retrospective of My Time at the UKP Lab.”
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🧭 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯” - 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲
Today, members of the international UKP Lab community gather in Cambridge to reflect on the Lab’s journey over the past two decades and to exchange perspectives on what lies ahead for NLP research.

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November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM