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๐Ÿ“ข Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School 2025 | Online Event | Aug 14 - 15

Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School

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๐Ÿ“… Agenda

โ€‹Day 1: Frameworks and Foundations | AUG 14

๐Ÿ“œ Big Picture
9:00โ€“9:30 AM ET โ€“ Alexander Gray, Centaur AI Institute โ€“ Neuro-Symbolic AI and NSSS4 (Overview)
9:30โ€“9:40 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break
9:40โ€“10:20 AM โ€“ Arvind Narayanan, Princeton โ€“ Assessing the Current State of AI (Talk)
10:20โ€“10:30 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹๐Ÿ— Frameworks
10:30โ€“11:05 AM โ€“ Leilani Gilpin, UC Santa Cruz โ€“ Neuro-Symbolic AI for Safer Autonomous Vehicles (Tutorial)
11:05โ€“11:15 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break
11:15โ€“12:00 PM โ€“ Mateo Zarlenga & Pietro Barbiero, Cambridge โ€“ Foundations of Interpretable Models (Tutorial)
12:00โ€“12:10 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
12:10โ€“12:55 PM โ€“ Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State โ€“ Compositional Learning in Language and Vision (Tutorial)
12:55โ€“1:05 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹๐Ÿ“ Mathematical Foundations
1:05โ€“1:45 PM โ€“ Parikshit Ram, IBM Research โ€“ How to Measure Compositionality, and Why it Leads to Better Generalization (Talk)
1:45โ€“1:55 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
1:55โ€“2:35 PM โ€“ Peihao Wang, UT Austin โ€“ Why Neural Networks Can Discover Symbolic Structures (Talk)
2:35โ€“2:45 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
2:45โ€“3:25 PM โ€“ Changlong Wu, Purdue โ€“ Why Current Models Will Always Hallucinate (and a Path Forward) (Talk)
3:25โ€“3:35 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
3:35โ€“4:35 PM โ€“ Sridhar Mahadevan, Adobe Research & UMass Amherst โ€“ Category Theory: The Mathematics of Symbolic Structures (Tutorial)
4:35โ€“4:45 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹Day 2: Methods and Systems | AUG 15

โ€‹๐Ÿค– Neuro-Symbolic AI Software
9:00โ€“9:40 AM โ€“ Bowen Li, Carnegie Mellon โ€“ Generalizing to New Situations in Robotics (Talk)
9:40โ€“9:50 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break
9:50โ€“10:30 AM โ€“ Olga Vileskaia & Kevin O'Connor, Centaur AI Institute โ€“ Explainability While Retaining Predictive Accuracy (Talk)
10:30โ€“10:40 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹๐Ÿงฉ Learning Symbolic Models
10:40โ€“11:20 AM โ€“ Bin Yu, UC Berkeley โ€“ Interpretable and Veridical Data Science (Talk)
11:20โ€“11:30 AM โ€“ Q&A / Break
11:30โ€“12:10 PM โ€“ Felix Petersen, Stanford โ€“ Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (Talk)
12:10โ€“12:20 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
12:20โ€“1:00 PM โ€“ Hikaru Shindo, TU Darmstadt โ€“ Neuro-symbolic Agentic Systems (Talk)
1:00โ€“1:10 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹๐Ÿ›ก Safer AI Systems
1:10โ€“1:50 PM โ€“ Soroush Saghafian, Harvard โ€“ Human + AI "Centaur" Systems (Talk)
1:50โ€“2:00 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
2:00โ€“2:40 PM โ€“ Pranava Madhyastha, City Univ London โ€“ New Results in Controllable Text Generation (Talk)
2:40โ€“2:50 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹โž— AI Systems for Mathematics
2:50โ€“3:30 PM โ€“ Shange Tang, Princeton โ€“ State-of-the-art Performance in Automated Mathematical Theorem Proving (Talk)
3:30โ€“3:40 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break
3:40โ€“4:20 PM โ€“ Ankit Anand, DeepMind โ€“ Curious Case of AI in Maths: Being Proficient in Advancing Open Conjectures in Maths Yet Having Struggles in AI for Education (Talk)
4:20โ€“4:30 PM โ€“ Q&A / Break

โ€‹๐Ÿ”ฎ Looking Forward
4:30โ€“5:30 PM โ€“ Panel on The Future of AI โ€“ Rich Sutton, Univ Alberta; Leonardo de Moura, Amazon; Artur Garcez, City Univ London; more TBA; moderator: Alexander Gray โ€“ Discussion including open Q&A
5:30โ€“5:35 PM โ€“ Alexander Gray, Centaur AI Institute โ€“ What's Coming Next and How to Participate (Closing remarks)

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