Foresight’s AI Salon: Matin Mahmood | Hyperbolic Embeddings and Jev for Search
Join Foresight’s AI Salon for an evening with Matin Mahmood, founder of hyper³labs, exploring hyperbolic embeddings, what they can tell us about hierarchy, and lessons from building and training models with them.
Matin will introduce the geometric intuition behind hyperbolic representations: how a model’s embedding space can reflect relationships between broad categories and more specific concepts. Drawing on Hyper3-CLIP, hyper³labs’ hyperbolic image–text model research, he’ll share training lessons and image–text retrieval examples. The discussion will also address an open question in this work: how much of a model’s performance can be attributed to the geometry itself?
Matin will also briefly explore interpretability in hyperbolic spaces: how relationships between concepts might help us understand what a model has learned.
To close, Matin will explore how Jev can be used in search, with examples of selecting useful passages for RAG and reranking results against specific criteria.
The evening combines a short talk with Q&A, breakout discussions and time to meet other researchers and builders. People working on model training, information retrieval, knowledge graphs and search are welcome, including anyone interested in research collaboration.
About the speaker
Matin Mahmood is the founder of hyper³labs, an AI research company based in Berlin. His work spans representation geometry, text embeddings and multimodal learning. The research behind Hyper3-CLIP received an oral presentation at ECCV’s Beyond Euclidean workshop. Previously an ML Scientist at GE Vernova, Matin holds a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.
When and where
Thursday, 15 October 2026 · 18:00–21:00 CEST
CIC Berlin
18:00–19:00: Drinks and social time
19:00–19:20: Talk
19:20–19:40: Q&A
19:40–20:00: Breakout session
20:00–21:00: Social time
Salon discussions are held under Chatham House Rule (don’t connect people to ideas when discussing them outside of this workshop).
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