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Davide Ceolin, Piek Vossen, Ilia Markov, Catholijn Jonker, Pradeep Murukannaiah Senior Researcher (Ceolin), Full Professor (Vossen, Jonker), Assistant Professor (Markov, Murukannaiah) Over the past years, foundational models, including large-language models and multi-modal systems, have significantly advanced the possibilities regarding the understanding, analysis, and generation of human language. However, from the extensive and widespread use of […]

Ilia Markov Assistant Professor at Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ilia Markov is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests include hate speech detection, generation of counter-narratives against hate speech, and authorship analysis-related tasks such as authorship attribution and author profiling. Scientific area: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language

Stefano de Giorgis Post-doc researcher at Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies – National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), Italy The project involves knowledge representation techniques, neuro-simbolic AI, and cognitive semantics. According to the embodied cognition principles, individuals construct a cognitive representation and conceptualization of the external world based on their perceptual capabilities, according to their affordances,

Bram Renting PhD at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology In cooperative multi-agent environments, agents can be interdependent in completing tasks. We consider environments where agents schedule future interactions with others they depend on to perform the task. More specifically, our project focuses on human-robot warehouses where humans pick products from shelves and robots transport

Harmen de Weerd Assistant Professor at University of Groningen In social interactions, humans often make use of their “theory of mind”, which refers to their ability to reason about unobservable mental content of others. Humans can even use their theory of mind to reason about the way other use theory of mind. However, such higher-order

Xavier Fresquet Deputy Director, PhD at Sorbonne Université AI systems offer the potential for substantial benefits to society but they are not without risks, such as toxicity, misinformation, and bias. As with other complex technologies, society needs industry-standard safety testing to realize the benefits while minimizing the risks. To address this problem, an AI Safety

Niclas Willem Fock CEO Santa Anna IT Research Insititute, Sweden (Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering) Introduction: Santa Anna IT Research Institute (“Santa Anna”) has through its membership in the consortium “AI Sweden” collaborated on the development of the GPT-SW3: LLMs. The GPT-SW3: models are since November 2023 open for further development, research and applications.

Alexa Kodde Project Manager at CLAIRE CLAIRE aims to provide organisational and logistical coordination and support, as well as promotion and visibility, for the planned AI Workshop Series on Secure, Reliable and Trustworthy AI, hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology, KU Leuven, and RWTH Aachen University. The overarching objective is to not only strengthen regional,

Alexa Kodde Project Manager at CLAIRE AI is the primary driver of scientific discoveries, industrial engineering, energy production, logistics, the creative economy, education, and public services. The vision for “AI Made in Europe” is more important than ever. But are we sure the vision has not become “AI Made Elsewhere”? Keywords: AI; moonshot; sovereignty Scientific

Carolin Benjamins PhD at Leibniz University Hannover Our goal is to progress on Dynamic Algorithm Configuration (DAC) for Bayesian Optimization (BO). BO is a widely-used and sample-efficient framework for optimizing black-box problems, which are often expensive to evaluate. Dynamically configuring BO enables to adapt to the optimization progress and to any problem landscape without prior