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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The deadline for the “Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Interpretability” special session at ESANN has been extended to May 6<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Benoît Frénay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"> Connectionists <connectionists-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Benoît Frenay<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 March 2024 12:32<br>
<b>To:</b> connectionists@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Connectionists: Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Interpretability at ESANN 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB">CFP: " Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Interpretability" at ESANN 2024</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Special session at <i>European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning</i> (ESANN 2023). 9-11 October 2024, Bruges, Belgium.
</span></span><a href="http://www.esann.org/" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.esann.org</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB">DESCRIPTION</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">: </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Trustworthiness is a central issue in modern machine learning and deep learning. This has been further exacerbated by recent exposure of the general public to generative models. Often, discussions related to
trust are limited to interpretability and explainability, but such properties are not sufficient. This special session aims to go beyond and explore recent ideas to achieve trust in AI.</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Topics of interest of the special session include (but are not limited to):</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">new formalisms to enable trust-by-design in AI (e.g., blending logics and deep learning, inference methods based on model checking and other software engineering techniques…);</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">innovative techniques for interpretability and explainability; </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">constraint enforcement to increase trust in black box models; </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">interactive techniques to manipulate models (i.e., to add user feedback in learning);</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">certification and testing techniques to increase trust in AI; </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">theoretical models of trust in AI, including those based on cognitive sciences;</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Interactions (e.g., trade-offs, privacy ) between privacy and trust in AI;</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">empirical studies (inc. user studies) related to trust in AI.</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Interdisciplinary works are particularly welcome.</span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:11.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">All papers will be submitted to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be presented as either talks or posters, in order to favour interaction with the ESANN attendees. There is no difference in quality between
talks and posters and all papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author is expected to register for the conference and pay the registration fee. </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB">SUBMISSION:</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Prospective authors must submit their paper through the ESANN portal following the instructions provided on
</span></span><a href="https://www.esann.org/node/6" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.esann.org/node/6</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">. Author guidelines are available on
</span></span><a href="https://www.esann.org/author_guidelines" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.esann.org/author_guidelines</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">. Each paper will undergo
a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. Authors should send an e-mail with the tentative title of their contribution to the special session organizers as soon as possible. </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Paper submission deadline: 2 May 2024</span></span><span class="scxw72837297"> </span><br>
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance: 16 June 2024</span></span><span class="scxw72837297"> </span><br>
<span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">The ESANN 2023 conference: 9-11 October 2024 </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-GB">SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS:</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun">Tassadit Bouadi - Université de Rennes, France -
</span><a href="mailto:tassadit.bouadi@irisa.fr" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun">tassadit.bouadi@irisa.fr</span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Benoît Frénay - UNamur, Belgium -
</span></span><a href="mailto:benoit.frenay@unamur.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">benoit.frenay@unamur.be</span></span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun">Luis Galárraga - INRIA/IRISA, France -
</span><a href="mailto:luis.galarraga@inria.fr" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun">luis.galarraga@inria.fr</span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun">Pierre Geurts - ULiège, Belgium -
</span><a href="mailto:p.geurts@uliege.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun">p.geurts@uliege.be</span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">Barbara Hammer - Bielefeld University, Germany -
</span></span><a href="mailto:bhammer@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">bhammer@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de</span></span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun">Gilles Perrouin - UNamur, Belgium -
</span><a href="mailto:gilles.perrouin@unamur.be" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun">gilles.perrouin@unamur.be</span></a><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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