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Aiming to Catch’Em All: Our Research on Data for Network Intrusion Detection

We live in a world where Internet connectivity is essential for most people’s daily lives. The Internet plays a crucial role in business operations, online communication, education, or leisure activities....

Holding Big Platforms Accountable: The Why, What, and How of Auditing

Imagine you’re about to audit one of the world’s largest online platforms – perhaps TikTok, Google, or Facebook. Your task? To assess whether they’re managing risks effectively, moderating content fairly,...

The AI Act Chronicles: Make fundamental rights and freedoms great again

In our previous blogs, we have explained the general background and philosophy of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act, AIA) and its scope. In the latest instalment, we explored...

The AI Act Chronicles: Red Lines (part 2)

In our previous blogs, we have explored the foundations and scope of the AI Act. Lastly, we have been discussing the first set of prohibited practices. In this part, we...

The AI Act Chronicles: Red Lines (part 1)

In our previous blogs we have delineated the general background and philosophy of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act, AIA) and its scope. As discussed, the AI Act is...

Quality of ACL “Findings”: analysis of citations

ACL’s “Findings” tend to receive less citations than “main conference” proceedings (as measured by proceedings h-index and average citations per paper). Still, Findings do have solid citation records and should...

Dealing with sensitivity of Large Language Models

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, have become popular recently and are widely used as assistants for many tasks by many researchers as well as people without extensive AI knowledge....

Survey paper accepted to ACM Computing Surveys – Addressing sensitivity of language models to effects of randomness

Did you ever try to replicate the results of a specific machine learning study, but often found different performance numbers and findings to the ones observed in the official study?...

The AI Act Chronicles: Scope watch

In our previous blog, we dove into the basics of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act, AIA). We explored the thoughts behind it, the timing of implementation and who...