Eric Schulz
@ericschulz.bsky.social
Director of Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Cognitive science, machine learning, large models.
https://hcai-munich.com
Cognitive science, machine learning, large models.
https://hcai-munich.com
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🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases.
If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.
If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
⚠️ Warning: Joining our team as a postdoc has a known side effect of receiving multiple job offers shortly after. We currently have 3 such cases.
If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.
If you are willing to take that risk, applications close in 1 week. The upside is you'll be in a supportive and stimulating environment in munich.
Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Two weeks left to apply. Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
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...
Reposted by Eric Schulz
Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Join us in beautiful Munich! If you have any questions about the city, the group or your application, feel free to reach out! ✨
Reposted by Eric Schulz
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
Looking for a #postdoc position? 🧠🔬🤖
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉
#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉
#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looking for a #postdoc position? 🧠🔬🤖
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉
#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence
Join our amazing lab in Munich! 🇩🇪👩🔬
We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are truly valued and celebrated. 🎉
#Jobs #ScienceJobs #cogsci #neuroskyence
Reposted by Eric Schulz
join us!
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
join us!
Reposted by Eric Schulz
A great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and cognitive science!
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and cognitive science!
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
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Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social
[Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576
[Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...
Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social
[Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576
[Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social
[Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576
[Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...
Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz, @shyamgopal.bsky.social , Peter Dayan, @ericschulz.bsky.social , @zeynepakata.bsky.social
[Paper]: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.11576
[Code]: github.com/swu32/Chunk-...
Reposted by Eric Schulz
What influences whether people have fun with a task?
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
rdcu.be
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
What influences whether people have fun with a task?
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Reposted by Eric Schulz
I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!
imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
September 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!
imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Reposted by Eric Schulz
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
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🤖 AI that thinks like us
Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.
@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280
Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.
@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🤖 AI that thinks like us
Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.
@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280
Researchers at @www.helmholtz-munich.de have developed Centaur, an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human decision-making with remarkable accuracy.
@bethgelab.bsky.social @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4kCi280
Reposted by Eric Schulz
An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
What an exciting day for cognitive science with a double feature @nature.com including tiny models (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and less tiny ones (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
July 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What an exciting day for cognitive science with a double feature @nature.com including tiny models (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and less tiny ones (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread:
bsky.app/profile/marc...
Centaur is featured by the NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...
We got featured in a Nature views:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Check out our new work on testing the limits of finetuning in improving vlms intuitive physics abilities.
Excited to say our paper got accepted to ICML! We added new findings including this: models fine-tuned on a visual counterfactual reasoning task do not generalize to the underlying factual physical reasoning task, even with test images matched to the fine-tuning data set.
June 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Check out our new work on testing the limits of finetuning in improving vlms intuitive physics abilities.
Check out our new preprint in which we propose to use LLMs to generate new cognitive models that minimize scientific regret. This could be a viable approach to query foundation models to advance science more generally.
New short-form preprint in which we use Centaur to identify gaps in interpretable cognitive models and revise them accordingly using Qwen3 -- fully automated and without a human-in-the-loop.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661
Automated scientific minimization of regret
We introduce automated scientific minimization of regret (ASMR) -- a framework for automated computational cognitive science. Building on the principles of scientific regret minimization, ASMR leverag...
arxiv.org
June 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Check out our new preprint in which we propose to use LLMs to generate new cognitive models that minimize scientific regret. This could be a viable approach to query foundation models to advance science more generally.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
What a sad day for academia all over the world. I was a postdoc at Harvard on a J1 visa. One of my students was going to start his postdoc there in a week. I can only imagine how awful the current situation and uncertainties around it must feel.
May 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What a sad day for academia all over the world. I was a postdoc at Harvard on a J1 visa. One of my students was going to start his postdoc there in a week. I can only imagine how awful the current situation and uncertainties around it must feel.
Reposted by Eric Schulz
🔬 Foundation Models at #HelmholtzMunich drive advances in diagnostics, personalized medicine & cancer research.
👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u
#FoundationModels #AI
👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u
#FoundationModels #AI
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🔬 Foundation Models at #HelmholtzMunich drive advances in diagnostics, personalized medicine & cancer research.
👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u
#FoundationModels #AI
👉 Read the full Highlight Story: t1p.de/d209f
✨ Discover more on our Foundation Models page: t1p.de/sx49u
#FoundationModels #AI
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Our review with @ericschulz.bsky.social about generalization in humans and machines is out now in Current Directions in Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Check it out!
Check it out!
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May 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Our review with @ericschulz.bsky.social about generalization in humans and machines is out now in Current Directions in Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Check it out!
Check it out!
One week left to apply, so please do... 😀
🚨 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
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One week left to apply, so please do... 😀
Our paper "Playing repeated games with large language models" just got published in Nature Human Behaviour! We explore how LLMs cooperate, coordinate, and adapt in social dilemmas. Check it out! Work led by @elifakata.bsky.social
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 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our paper "Playing repeated games with large language models" just got published in Nature Human Behaviour! We explore how LLMs cooperate, coordinate, and adapt in social dilemmas. Check it out! Work led by @elifakata.bsky.social