Mission. My research focuses on large-scale generative models at the intersection of natural language and computer vision. Consequently, a lot of our recent efforts have been centered around (text-)conditioned image generation, vision-language models, and LLMs. I am particularly interested in investigating the capabilites, limitations and societal impacts of these models, and how to extert more semantic control over the generated content.

Occiglot. Together with great colleagues and friends from DFKI, hessian.AI, CommonCrawl and others, I co-founded the Occiglot research collective in early 2024. As an academic, non-profit research collective, we are committed to open science and, thus, open-source LLM development. We actively work on making linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cultural richness for mulilingual LLMs. As such our current efforts focus on large-scale data collection & curation, model training, and evaluation of non-english LLMs. At the same time the Occiglot community is providing a hub for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, collaborate, and work on shared projects. Our models and datasets can be found on Huggingface with more information available in our blog.