The AAAI 35th conference on artificial intelligence started on 2 February. So far, we’ve been treated to some excellent invited talks, tutorial sessions, and diversity and inclusion events. The poster sessions are also now in full swing. Here is our round-up of the first few days of the conference as seen by the Twitter-sphere.
Excited to share the best paper awards for #AAAI2021. The best papers include (1) Informer (about transformers in NLP) by Haoyi Zhou: https://t.co/v5PLbUOyrK, (2) Exploration-exploitation in multi-agent learning by Stefanos Leonardos: https://t.co/1gqkagU7Pr <1 of 3>.
— Mausam (IITD) (@mishumausam) February 4, 2021
Congrats to my PhD student @lilyxu0 lead author for paper "Dual-mandate patrols: Multi-armed bandits for green security" chosen as best paper runner up at #AAAI2021 !! Congrats co-authors @BondiElizabeth @fangf07 @PerraultAndrew @kaiwang_gua.
Tomorrow: Room BC-D2-R1, poster 4906 https://t.co/UNZD2ln5GP— Milind Tambe (@MilindTambe_AI) February 4, 2021
The invited talk by @BarzilayRegina in @RealAAAI is beyond good. Models give confidence to the predictions, but shared stories give strength to people.
— Yiyuan Li @Summer (@YiyuanLi1) February 5, 2021
@LukeZettlemoyer gave an invited talk about the massive advances in pre-trained language models in NLP. #AAAI2021. @UW @facebookai. Nice curve showing huge recent models pic.twitter.com/kgMQDErWjC
— Mausam (IITD) (@mishumausam) February 5, 2021
From Tuomas Sandholm's #AAAI2021 Engelmore Award talk: why is game-theoretic AI better than ML for games? https://t.co/1XLi2xG9kR pic.twitter.com/VNbWvzfu4r
— Kevin Leyton-Brown (@k_leyton_brown) February 4, 2021
#AAAI2021 review lengths across topic areas (..and a comparison to the same stats from #IJCAI2016..).
Somethings don't change.
While other communities save their time for writing more papers, Planning folk use it for writing longer reviews 😋
(c.f. https://t.co/fdDQ1dhIYy) pic.twitter.com/pHsyezQ2qR
— Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు) (@rao2z) February 4, 2021
AAAI Historical Submissions & Acceptance Numbers #AAAI @RealAAAI #AAAI2021 pic.twitter.com/8DbSjn7n24
— Oktie Hassanzadeh (he/him) (@oktie) February 4, 2021
Do you want to learn more about the experiences from established Latinx researchers in AI? Would you like to spark connections with future potential collaborators? Join us!https://t.co/FYgqbmh1Vv pic.twitter.com/7PYSAslqE9
— Luz Angélica Caudillo Mata, Ph.D. (@laCaudilloMata) January 28, 2021
UPCOMING EVENT! We will be launching our 2021 Try AI Speaker Series at #AAAI2021 with three fantastic discussions. Open to 10th – 12th graders and 1st & 2nd year undergraduates. Learn more at https://t.co/O1UZz1I5BU pic.twitter.com/dUPEwC6F3C
— Try AI (@TryAIOrg) January 21, 2021
Hello to everyone attending @RealAAAI's #AAAI2021! Our https://t.co/dnxklnmV1i workshop is on Tue 09 Feb 2021. Greetings again to our co-chairs from #IndigenousInAI @AiDisability @QueerinAI @_LXAI @black_in_ai @WiMLworkshop and to our @wimlds and @NewInML affiliates! #DiverseInAI pic.twitter.com/zNw3QlHqcD
— Diversity in Artif. Intelligence @ AAMAS 2024 (@DiverseInAI) February 4, 2021
Giving my tutorial "Designing Agents' Preferences, Beliefs, and Identities" at #AAAI2021 tomorrow! Slides at: https://t.co/7Bj1vbJoaW
— Vincent Conitzer (@conitzer) February 2, 2021
Today, @iddo and me are presenting a tutorial on meta-learning at #AAAI2021. For those who can't make it, we made all materials (slides and videos) publicly available here: https://t.co/CeiT4exuyV Happy to (try to) answer any questions you may have :). #AI #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/RL68AVYKZX
— Joaquin Vanschoren (@joavanschoren) February 3, 2021
In this year's AAAI, we (w/ @feiwang03 @FeixiongCheng ) are going to give a tutorial on #Artificial_Intelligence_for_Drug_Discovery. The time is at 8:30am, 3rd Feb. EST.
Welcome everyone to attend! The slides are available at: https://t.co/7yvm8Qnhm4 pic.twitter.com/OiaKTMduxw
— Jian Tang (@tangjianpku) January 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/earthling91/status/1356315822453518336
#aaai2021 attendees, consider coming to our workshop on Content Authoring and Design (CAD 21). Highlights: fantastic invited speakers, @xeeliz, @gdm3000 and Aaron Hertzman, and super interesting presentations on work at the intersection of design and AI. https://t.co/tOpagRzANu
— thamar | (@thamar_solorio) January 29, 2021
Excited to share our findings from an expert panel session and prototype walkthrough with clinicians on the need for explainability in a clinical context in this paper, "Designing for AI Explainability in Clinical Context", accepted to #taih workshop at #AAAI2021 1/7
— Shruthi Chari (@shruthichari) February 4, 2021
Neural-Encoding Human Domain Knowledge to Warm-start RL! @andrewsilva9 is helping to democratize RL and bring end-users into-the-loop. Check his #aaai2021 poster session from 1145-1330 tomorrow (Thursday) EST. Paper here: https://t.co/A2CxOmoI0I @gtcomputing @mlatgt pic.twitter.com/QWY39pQswI
— Matthew Gombolay (@MatthewGombolay) February 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/ng_goel/status/1356704724712579076
We will present our latest work on learning with noisily labeled data at #AAAI2021😊 If you are interested in distant supervision and noisy labels, we invite you to visit our poster this weekend or take a look into the paper https://t.co/bOT1LHwj0n @cs_dawei pic.twitter.com/4juDrchmg8
— Michael A. Hedderich (@MicHedderich) February 2, 2021
Happy to announce our work "Learning from the Best: Rationalizing Prediction by Adversarial Information Calibration", accepted at #AAAI2021 https://t.co/zOQ7OXLFCR
Come talk to us about it at AAAI: 4-Feb 08:45-10:30AM PST & 5-Feb 12:45AM-02:30AM PST
@extendAlanShore pic.twitter.com/SJU6oeWxSO— Oana-Maria Camburu (@oanacamb) February 3, 2021
If you’re “at” #AAAI2021, come drop by our poster sessions tomorrow (Feb 5) from 11:45-1:30pm and 7:45-9:30pm ET!
Room BC-D2-R1, poster ID 4906
with @BondiElizabeth @fangf07 @PerraultAndrew @kaiwang_gua @MilindTambe_AI https://t.co/j1D4J5bQ4q
— Lily Xu (@lilyxu0) February 4, 2021
If you are attending #AAAI2021, come join us for the #AI in Practice panels!
Forecasting in Unprecedented Times (📆Feb 4)
Emerging Uses of AI in Real-Time Automation (📆Feb 5)
AI Applications in Finance (📆Feb 6)
⌚️ 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST
Link: https://t.co/7fiVGBfgox pic.twitter.com/pwr1YoDCZ1
— Thiago Serra (@thserra.bsky.social) (@thserra) February 3, 2021
Please join The ##Neurosymbolic AI Panel 👇at @RealAAAI #aaai2021: Sunday Feb 7, 7:30 AM PST. Amazing panelists:@guyvdb, Marta Kwiatkowska, Matthew Botvinick, Leslie P Kaelbling, and @luislamb ! Thanks for joining @GaryMarcus @Montreal_AI @ceobillionaire pic.twitter.com/1JpNEXFmBB
— Kristian Kersting (@kerstingAIML) February 4, 2021
The deep impact #AI is already having on our lives has provoked hopes and fears in equal measure among general public and experts.
It is my pleasure to reflect on this today at 4.30pm (GMT+1) in the #AAAI2021 panel with such distinguished guests! https://t.co/4kQG7EJHrP pic.twitter.com/9NAgQ7dU8x
— Gabriela Ramos (@gabramosp) February 5, 2021