Disputation von Florian Schneider am 02.10.2025, 11:00 Uhr

2. Oktober 2025, von Reinhard Zierke

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Disputation im Rahmen des Promotionsverfahrens von Florian Schneider

Titel der Dissertation: On Strengths and Limitations of Multimodal Transformer Encoders and Decoders for Vision-Language Tasks

The dissertation investigates multimodal transformers for vision-language tasks. It evaluates Vision-Language Models and Large Vision-Language Models, highlighting their strengths in cross-modal retrieval, visual question answering, or multimodal chatbots, while also identifying their weaknesses in handling out-of-distribution, multilingual, and cultural data. By proposing training strategies with systematically curated multilingual data, it advances more robust and globally applicable AI systems.
The presentation will be given in English.

Datum und Uhrzeit: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2025 um 11:00 Uhr
Ort: Informatikum, Raum D-125/129 und per Videokonferenz
Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey
Vorsitzender des Fachpromotionsausschusses Informatik