We develop cutting-edge #technology across #AI, #6G, #digitalhealth and #security to solve society's biggest challenges.

Heidelberg, Germany
The heart of #NEC are its researchers, leading technological discovery and developing real-life applications that are transforming science and industry. Collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams, our researchers pride themselves on developing new solutions for a brighter future.
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We hosted a talk by Sam Carton on using #AgenticAI for scientific discovery. From designing high-entropy alloys to tackling multi-objective optimization, he explored how #LLMs & #AI agents can address complex #materialdesign challenges. Watch now: piped.video/hnMP-utXUA8 #NECLabs
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Featured in @ScienceMagazine: research co-authored by #NECLabs shows that #AI reviewers can match human reviewers on identifying significant, well-supported issues, while delivering the greatest impact when combined with human expertise. science.org/content/article/…
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Our latest work shows that simple truncation can often match & sometimes outperform MRL for compressing text embeddings. Across 24 retrieval & classification tasks, MRL only showed clear benefits under extreme compression. Learn more: neclab.eu/research-groups/hu… #AI #EMNLP
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Our self-adaptive memory control framework helps #AI agents manage memory more efficiently through uncertainty-guided retrieval & decay-driven activation, improving long-term reasoning while reducing costs. Learn more in our #EMNLP-accepted paper: neclab.eu/research-groups/hu… #NECLabs
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We hosted a talk by @gneubig on whether #AI can reliably assess scientific research. Study of 45 scientists shows AI flags issues in methods & reproducibility but misses field norms, raising questions on impact-focused research evaluation. Watch: piped.video/-l2ufFjW5BA?si=nxhp…. #NECLabs
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Watch #NECLabs J. Romero present our framework combining semantic communication & #GenAI to enhance visual data transmission in resource‑constrained networks like NTNs, preserving key regions & compressing the rest for higher fidelity at lower bandwidth. piped.video/x4SX390DCxQ
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We hosted a talk by @egere14 and C. Greisinger from @utn_nuremberg on #multimodal scientific content generation. They discussed using #AI to generate & edit scientific figures (e.g. via TikZ or Python code) from captions, text & sketches. Watch: piped.video/1X1thAlpYsE. #NECLabs
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Our work shows that #AI reviewers can rival human performance on key review tasks but are most effective when combined with human expertise. Learn more: neclab.eu/research-groups/hu…. #NECLabs #PeerReview
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We hosted a talk by @anne_lauscher on how #GenAI is becoming part of the scientific process. From peer review to accelerator tuning, #AI agents are reshaping #research workflows & raising new questions on trust & responsibility. Learn more: piped.video/HVblSUO2ay0. #NECLabs
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Our work shows that using reasoning models as evaluators improves evaluation quality with additional test-time compute, enabling stronger re-ranking of #lanugagemodel outputs & matching the gains of increased compute at generation time. Learn how: neclab.eu/research-groups/hu… #NECLabs
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We hosted an insightful talk by Dr. Zhiyong Lu on how evidence-grounding strategies can improve the reliability, interpretability and scientific soundness of #LLMs for #biomedical research and #clinicalapplications. Watch here: piped.video/GmE8uAV_S7M. #NECLabs #AI
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Our latest work introduces a framework for exact logical guidance in #diffusionmodels. It enables principled composition of complex #Boolean constraints at inference time. Learn more in our #ICML26-accepted paper: neclab.eu/research-groups/sy… #NECLabs
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Our latest work introduces compositional steering tokens for controlling multiple #LLM behaviors. Encoding behaviors as input tokens enables robust zero-shot composition without modifying model internals. Learn more in our #ACL2026-accepted paper: neclab.eu/research-groups/hu… #NECLabs
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We recently hosted an insightful talk by @peterbhase, Postdoctoral Researcher at @Stanford, on faithful reasoning and controllable knowledge in #LLMs. To learn more, watch piped.video/P3S7cMBudBc. #NECLabs #AI
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Watch #NECLabs Senior Research Scientist @cc_hung_ explain how our modular explainable #differentialdiagnosis agent supports #clinicians by providing early diagnostic suggestions and enhancing accuracy and decision‑making. piped.video/CIQthe4L4_w
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Watch Dr. Zarrar Yousaf share how #NECLabs Europe’s culture of #openinnovation, transparency and collaboration empowers researchers to explore new ideas and create technologies that benefit society. piped.video/ONXacmsMnrY
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We hosted an insightful talk by @TomeEftimov on how benchmarking data can support more automated, transparent, and knowledge‑driven optimization and #ML. Watch here: piped.video/oJFh4hbl4Kg. #NECLabs #AI
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We hosted an insightful talk by @federicobianchy on how #AI can go beyond search to actively discover new solutions to hard scientific problems. Watch here: piped.video/k28Y2GVuFWE. #NECLabs #LLM #machinelearning
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We hosted an insightful talk by @gorjanradevski on compositional steering tokens, a new method for guiding #LLMs to follow multiple behaviors simultaneously by embedding behavioral instructions directly into input tokens. Watch here: piped.video/_iZj_924Jwc?si=GYDd…. #NECLabs #AI
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