Connectionists: Talk be Kristian Kersting on Neuro-symbolic AI

[Barbara Hammer]

Dear colleagues,

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) was set up by the 
universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn to promote joint research 
activities in the field of AI.
The JAII has started a lecture series to invite interesting guests from 
this research field virtually and/or in person to Paderborn or Bielefeld.

On Thursday, January 13th, 2022, 16:15-17:45, virtually via Zoom,
Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt, will give a lecture on 
"Making Deep Machines Right for the Right Reasons".

Abstract:
Deep neural networks have shown excellent performances in many 
real-world applications. Unfortunately, they may show “Clever Hans”-like 
behavior—making use of confounding factors within datasets—to achieve 
high performance. In this talk, I shall touch upon explanatory 
interactive learning (XIL). XIL adds the expert into the training loop 
such that she interactively revises the original model via providing 
feedback on its explanations. Since “visual” explanations may not be 
sufficient to grapple with the model’s true concept, I shall also touch 
upon revising a model on the semantic level, e.g. “never focus on the 
color to make your decision”. Our experimental results demonstrate that 
XIL can help avoiding Clever Hans moments in machine learning. Overall, 
this all illustrates the benefits of a Hybrid AI, the combination of 
neural and symbolic AI.

To register for the virtual lecture, visit https://jaii.eu.

Best wishes
Barbara Hammer


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Prof. Dr. Barbara Hammer
Machine Learning Group, CITEC
Bielefeld University
D-33594 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 521 / 106 12115