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Andrii Krutsylo PhD student at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences The study aims to reduce the decline in performance of a model trained incrementally on non-i.i.d. data, using replay-based strategies to retain previous task knowledge. To address limitations in existing variations, which only select samples based on individual properties, […]

Lorenzo Canonne PhD student at Inria The field of gray box optimization has led to the design of new operators capable of using the structural information of problems; these operators are now the basis of powerfulmeta-heuristics. For large-scale NK landscapes, many operators have been proposed and iterated local search combined with gray box crossovers is

Ryan Burnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, UK AI systems are becoming an integral part of every aspect of modern life. To ensure public trust in these systems, we need tools that can be used to evaluate their capabilities and weaknesses. But these tools are struggling

Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires Postdoctoral Researcher at Örebro University (Sweden) Abstract algebra provides a formalism to study sets and how the elements of these sets relate to each other by defining relations between set elements. Abstract algebraic structures are abundantly present in artificial intelligence. For instance, Boolean algebra constitutes the bedrock of symbolic AI. Interestingly,

Pawel Teisseyre Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences The goal of the research stay is to explore learning classification models using positive-unlabelled (PU) data. In PU learning, it is assumed that only some observations in training data are assigned label, which is positive, whereas the remaining observations are unlabelled and can be either

Francesca Naretto PhD Student In April 2021, the EU Parliament published a proposal, the AI Act (AIA), for regulating the use of AI systems and services in the Union market. However, the effects of EU digital regulations usually transcend its confines. An example of what has been named the “Brussel effect” – the high impact

Enrico Liscio – TU Delft PhD student Participatory systems aim to elicit citizens’ stances on societal discussions to inform policy making. In particular, human values are a crucial component of citizens’ stances, since they are the drivers of our opinions and behaviors. AI can enable mass participation and process large quantity of citizens’ input. However,

Julian F. Schumann – TU Delft PhD student For humans to trust autonomous vehicles, they need to have confidence in the vehicles’ ability to reliably resolve space-sharing conflicts with other traffic participants in a safe manner – such as in the case of crossing or merging paths. Planning safe and efficient interactions for autonomous vehicles

Giovanni Franzese – TU Delft PhD candidate The adaptability of robot manipulators to many different tasks is currently constrained by systematic hard coding of each specific task. Recent machine learning methods like Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have shown promising results in having fast reprogramming of the task using human demonstrations or

Jeroen G. Rook – University of Twente PhD candidate Comparing algorithms is a non-trivial task. Often, a set of representative problem instances are used to compare algorithms. However, these problem instances introduce biases in the comparison outcomes, which is often not taken into account. The confidence of the comparison can be strengthened by using statistical