Berkant Turan
I am working on improving the interpretability of AI, focusing on the Merlin-Arthur Classifier. This intriguing model uses two feature selectors to generate meaningful saliency maps. My objectives are to fine-tune its architecture, explore its adversarial components, and evaluate its effectiveness with complex datasets.
📬 Contact
- office
- Room 3024 at ZIB
- turan (at) zib.de
- homepage
- b-turan.github.io
- languages
- German, English, and Turkish
🎓 Curriculum vitae
- since 2022
- Researcher at ZIB
- 2022 to 2022
- Research Assistant at ZIB
- Jan 2022
- M.Sc. in Scientific Computing at TUB
- Oct 2018
- B.Sc. in Engineering Science at TUB
📝 Publications and preprints
Conference proceedings
- Wäldchen, S., Sharma, K., Turan, B., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Interpretability Guarantees with Merlin-Arthur Classifiers. Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.
[arXiv]
[BibTeX]
🔬 Projects
Expanding Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Interpretable Neural Networks Through Interactive Proof Systems
Existing approaches for interpreting Neural Network classifiers that highlight features relevant for a decision are based solely on heuristics. We introduce a theory that allows us to bound the quality of the features without assumptions on the classifier model by relating classification to Interactive Proof Systems.
MATH+ EF1-24
Apr 2023 to Mar 2026
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💬 Talks and posters
Conference and workshop talks
- Sep 2023
- Practical Insight Into Deep Learning Optimization
TES Summer School on Optimization and Machine Learning [PDF] - Jul 2023
- Extending Merlin-Arthur Classifiers for Improved Interpretability
The 1st World Conference on EXplainable Artificial Intelligence
👨🏫Teaching
- winter 2019
- Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB
- summer 2018
- Tutor for Energy-Based Methods in Mechanics at TUB
- summer 2018
- Tutor for Continuum Mechanics at TUB
- winter 2018
- Tutor for Kinematics and Dynamics at TUB
- summer 2017
- Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB
- winter 2017
- Tutor for Energy-Based Methods in Mechanics at TUB
- winter 2017
- Tutor for Continuum Mechanics at TUB
- summer 2016
- Tutor for Kinematics and Dynamics at TUB
- summer 2015
- Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB