Séminaire scientifique animé par Luc De Raedt – Vendredi 12 Mars – 15h
ABSTRACT
A central challenge to contemporary AI is to integrate learning and reasoning. The integration of learning and reasoning has been studied for decades already in the fields of statistical relational artificial intelligence and probabilistic programming. Star AI has focussed on unifying logic and probability, the two key frameworks for reasoning, and has extended this probabilistic logics machine learning principles.
I will argue that Star AI and probabilistic Logics form an ideal basis for developing neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence techniques. Thus neuro-symbolic computation = Star AI + Neural Networks. Many parallels will be drawn between these two fields and will be illustrated using the Deep Probabilistic Logic Programming language DeepProbLog.
ABOUT LUC De RAED
Luc De Raedt is a full professor of Computer Science at KU Leuven and director of the KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
He is also a Wallenberg Guest professor at Örebro University and a former Chair of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Luc De Raedt’s research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining, as well as their applications. He is well known for his contributions in the areas of machine learning and machine reasoning, in particular, for his contributions to statistical relational learning and inductive programming. Today he is working on the next generation of programming languages, which can automatically learn from data, on combining probabilistic, logical, and neural reasoning and learning, on the automation of (data) science, and on verifying learning artificial intelligence systems and robotics. He is a fellow of EurAI and of AAAI, an IJCAI Trustee and he received an Advanced Grant (AdG) from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016. He has coordinated 7 European projects, and chaired conferences such as ECMLPKDD 2001, ICML 2005, and ECAI 2012.
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