The first meeting of the
Neuro-Symbolic seminar (NeSS)
will take place on Monday 13 May at 2.30 pm
Registration is required at the following link:
https://unimib.webex.com/weblink/register/r821b16a4e840f5c9feec7259dd31e632
Neurosymbolic AI - some history and a contribution to explainability
Speaker
Prof. Pascal Hitzler
Kansas State University
Abstract:
Deep Learning has recently caused very rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence, opening up unprecedented opportunities in machine learning. However, to date accuracy of deep learning systems can only be assessed statistically: they are essentially black boxes, meaning that their rationales for their decisions or predictions defy analysis. At the same time, they have been shown to display bias, and sometimes to hallucinate, i.e. to produce output that is not grounded in facts. In this presentation we will discuss some recent results towards understanding what happens inside the black box. More precisely, we will present our analysis of a convolutional neural network for scene recognition.
Bio:
Pascal Hitzler is Professor and endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University, one of the Directors of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics (ID3A), and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS) Until July 2019 he was endowed NCR Distinguished Professor, Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research, and Director of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. He is director of the Data Semantics (DaSe) Lab. From 2004 to 2009, he was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, semantic web, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. His research is highly cited. He was founding Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal, the leading journal in the field, and is founding Editor-in-chief of the new Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence journal, and of the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010, which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. He is on the editorial board of several journals and book series and a founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns, and he frequently acts as conference chair in various functions. For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.
Contact person for the seminar: rafael.penaloza@unimib.it