Professor of Machine Learning at TUBerlin, group leader at PTB. Lab account: @qailabs.bsky.social. @sparsity@mastodon.social tu.berlin/uniml/about/head-of-grouphttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3meq5x4rqac2yXAI techniques have been proposed as tools to "debug" machine learning models by revealing what they have learned. Challenging this narrative, we find that XAI attributions are strongly dominated by salient features independent of the role of these features for a model. See: tinyurl.com/48m4axnv https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefanhaufe_explainable-ai-techniques-have-been-proposed-ugcPost-7427690960689491968-cDAS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAADQSsYBD4f_J6KfUa-uPDPLM7WUZxC801g13 Feb 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3meq5x4rqac2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3meq5o6yxgc2yI am happy to announce the successful PhD defense of now Dr. rer. nat. Rick Wilming at TU Berlin, which he passed with distinction (summa cum laude) with this thesis on "Explainable AI under Scrutiny: From Empirical Investigations to Analytical Insights". See: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefanhaufe_i-am-happy-to-announce-the-successful-phd-activity-7427630090009628672-OJjA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAADQSsYBD4f_J6KfUa-uPDPLM7WUZxC801g13 Feb 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3meq5o6yxgc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3m7sbqzvkhs25Thank you for the great work @willenjoy.bsky.social ! An important step towards understanding and correcting bias in source localizations and functional connectivity due to source leakage. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Dec 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7sbqzvkhs25https://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3m5hklixbc22eI am delighted to share our NeurIPS paper "Correcting misinterpretations of additive models" [1, 2] to be presented by Benny Clark in San Diego. [1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=2ClM0g9OFT [2] recorder-v3.slideslive.com?share=107448...12 Nov 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hklixbc22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3lzxtn4o27s2fAfter having pointed out severe shortcomings of existing XAI paradigms and feature attribution methods in the past, I am happy to announce two novel methodological contributions, to be presented in this year's main track of the premier ML conference, NeurIPS. See LinkedIn post: tinyurl.com/25vu5xsm [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2025 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxtn4o27s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3lwwcjpnadc2bVery useful software not only for neuroscientists provided by @tsbinns.com . Bispectral analyses allow robust determination of transmission delays, phase-amplitude coupling and quantification of non-sinusoidality of oscillations. See also our methods preprints: lnkd.in/gSsrqYpX lnkd.in/gCaXDggK [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwcjpnadc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3lp4idf6rtk2yTwo days before deadline, looking forward to @overleaf.com being up again..!14 May 2025 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp4idf6rtk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3llrmhee3os2hWe are happy to announce that the Proceedings of #NeuralTraces2024 have appeared: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-21073 Time to commemorate this great event, hosted by the PTB in Berlin, and to browse through the interesting works on M/EEG methods and clinical applications presented.01 Apr 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3llrmhee3os2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3likiifzx3s2dGreat news: Thomas‘ study on shared and distinct mechanisms of PD therapeutics out soon! Thanks for the important work and great collaboration over the last years, @tsbinns.com , @julianneumann.bsky.social . [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Feb 2025 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3likiifzx3s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3l4vyhmhlzl2aHappy to share our perspective preprint on the state of explainable AI. XAI needs to shift from algorithm- to problem-driven development to make sure methods can serve meaningful purposes. We are looking forward to discuss, here or on alphaxiv.org/abs/2409.14590 . https://alphaxiv.org/abs/2409.1459024 Sep 2024 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3l4vyhmhlzl2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3kkudczey522jWe look forward to seeing you in Berlin to talk M/EEG. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2024 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3kkudczey522jhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3kj2fcrcqzp2lA few more days to submit to Neural Traces 2024 - our Advanced M/EEG Methods and Clinical Applications Workshop in Berlin! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jan 2024 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj2fcrcqzp2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3kd22hmi5gs2bCheck out our lab‘s new preprint on detecting genuine across-site phase-amplitude coupling from mixed electrophysiological recordings! Thread on Twitter: https://x.com/pellegrini_fp/status/1719282213651669028?s=4631 Oct 2023 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd22hmi5gs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sparsity.bsky.social/post/3kbgh4n2qbh2uPro-tip: unfollow every account that you found here on Twitter. This will accelarate the transition.10 Oct 2023 21:20 +0000at://did:plc:moplfyddipp4clgfpcivw4gf/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbgh4n2qbh2u