Saka Research is a machine learning research group led by İsmail İlkan Ceylan at TU Wien, AITHYRA, and the University of Oxford, working on relational learning, reasoning, generative AI, AI for mathematics, and AI for science.https://sakaresearch.org/https://sakaresearch.org/news/mux-neurips-2026-spotlight/https://sakaresearch.org/news/mux-neurips-2026-spotlight/MUX: Continuous Reasoning via Multiplexed Tokens was accepted to NeurIPS 2026 as a spotlight paper.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/website-launch/https://sakaresearch.org/news/website-launch/Our group website is live, with pages for our research, team, publications, and news.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/global-transport-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/global-transport-preprint/A class-agnostic optimal-transport coupling for conditional flow models that consistently improves generation when combined with classifier-free guidance.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/wander-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/wander-preprint/We released Wander, a single graph foundation model for node classification, link prediction, and knowledge-graph reasoning built on random walks.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/relagent-neurips-2026/https://sakaresearch.org/news/relagent-neurips-2026/Our paper RelAgent: LLM Agents as Data Scientists for Relational Learning was accepted to NeurIPS 2026.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/looped-flows-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/looped-flows-preprint/Looped flows train recurrent models with local denoising objectives, so that extra computation at inference time can help solve harder problems.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/talks-2026/https://sakaresearch.org/news/talks-2026/İsmail gave talks and guest lectures on graph foundation models at the LOGML summer school, EPFL, the Wallenberg Advanced Scientific Forum, and Oxford.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/right-symmetries-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/right-symmetries-preprint/A category-theoretic framework for the symmetries that LLM-based theorem provers should respect.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/mux-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/mux-preprint/MUX compresses step-by-step reasoning of language models into continuous latent tokens that each multiplex a span of reasoning.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/relagent-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/relagent-preprint/RelAgent uses LLM agents as data scientists for relational learning, producing predictors that are fast and interpretable.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/icml-2026/https://sakaresearch.org/news/icml-2026/Categorical Flow Maps and MacroGuide: Topological Guidance for Macrocycle Generation were accepted to ICML 2026.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/new-phd-students-2026/https://sakaresearch.org/news/new-phd-students-2026/Louis Tichelman and Angelo Gnazzo joined the group as PhD students at TU Wien.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/iclr-2026/https://sakaresearch.org/news/iclr-2026/Topological Flow Matching, HYPER, and Flock were accepted to ICLR 2026.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/associate-professor/https://sakaresearch.org/news/associate-professor/İsmail İlkan Ceylan was appointed Associate Professor at TU Wien.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/log-2025/https://sakaresearch.org/news/log-2025/One Model, Any Conjunctive Query: Graph Neural Networks for Answering Queries over Incomplete Knowledge Graphs was accepted to the Learning on Graphs Conference 2025.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/neurips-2025/https://sakaresearch.org/news/neurips-2025/Equivariance Everywhere All At Once and Curly Flow Matching were accepted to NeurIPS 2025.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/graphs-to-the-table-preprint/https://sakaresearch.org/news/graphs-to-the-table-preprint/Node classification reformulated as a tabular problem, so that tabular foundation models can classify nodes zero-shot.Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/moving-to-vienna/https://sakaresearch.org/news/moving-to-vienna/İsmail joined TU Wien as Assistant Professor and AITHYRA as Adjunct PI, while remaining an Academic Member at the University of Oxford.Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/nepal-ai-school-2025/https://sakaresearch.org/news/nepal-ai-school-2025/İsmail lectured on geometric deep learning with Michael Bronstein at the Sixth Annual Nepal AI School in Kathmandu.Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/icml-2025/https://sakaresearch.org/news/icml-2025/How Expressive are Knowledge Graph Foundation Models? was accepted to ICML 2025.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/iclr-2025/https://sakaresearch.org/news/iclr-2025/Homomorphism Counts as Structural Encodings for Graph Learning was accepted to ICLR 2025.Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/gibbs-prize-2024/https://sakaresearch.org/news/gibbs-prize-2024/Krzysztof Olejniczak's MSc thesis on answering conjunctive queries with graph neural networks was awarded the Gibbs Prize.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/teaching-commendation-2024/https://sakaresearch.org/news/teaching-commendation-2024/İsmail received a Department Teaching Commendation at the University of Oxford for the Graph Representation Learning course.Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sakaresearch.org/news/msc-prizes-2023/https://sakaresearch.org/news/msc-prizes-2023/Oscar Davis received the Hoare Project Prize and Zeyang Zhao the Gibbs Prize for their MSc theses in the group.Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT