Year: 2018

Tillman Weyde, Rahda Kopparti, Dan Philps and Artur Garcez attended and presented papers at NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal, Canada, during the week of 3 Dec 2018. Dan and Artur provided an informal overview of their impressions of NeurIPS to the ML group’s End-of-Year meeting on 14 Dec 2018. Thanks to Benedikt Wagner for organising the…Continue Reading NeurIPS 2018 and End-of-Year ML party

Luciano Serafini (FBK, Trento, Italy) and Michael Spranger (Sony CSL, Tokyo, Japan) visited City’s Research Centre for Machine Learning during the week of 10 Dec 2018. The main focus of the visit was to continue research collaborations on Logic Tensor Networks. LTNs are a deep learning system implemented in Tensorflow, capable of reasoning with first-order…Continue Reading Research Visit

Artur Garcez gave a lecture on Relational Neuro-Symbolic AI at the EurAI Advanced Course on AI, 2018, which took place in beautiful Ferrara, Italy. All the lectures, with overarching theme Statistical Relational AI, are available from the University of Ferrara’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/KeFhKi-tOTs?list=PLJPXEH0boeNDWTNwWTWnVffXi5XwAj1mb Artur Garcez gave two talks: Part 1 gives an overview of two decades…Continue Reading EurAI Advanced Course on AI, 27-31 Aug 2018

The 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning took place in Prague during HLAI 2018 with a record number of participants. We thank all those who attended and, in particular, the speakers who contributed papers and our distinguished invited speakers: Hava Siegelmann, DARPA & University of Massachusetts Amherst, Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Simo Dragicevic, CEO, BetBuddy…Continue Reading NeSy18, 23-24 Aug 2018

21 Aug 2018, 12noon to 3pm, AG05 Prof Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft Research, will be visiting the Research Centre for Machine Learning for a conversation on neuro-symbolic computing, his book (with Legendre), The Harmonic Mind, MIT Press, and recent papers and results using Tensor Product Representations (TPR) and learning such as A…Continue Reading A meeting with Paul Smolensky

Machine Learning seminar When: Wed, 11 Apr 2018, 2pm Where: AG24a, College Building Who: Sebastian Riedel, University College London Title: Reading and Reasoning with Neural Program Interpreters  Abstract: We are getting better at teaching end-to-end neural models how to answer questions about content in natural language text. However, progress has been mostly restricted to extracting…Continue Reading ML seminar, Wed 11 Apr, 2pm

We were proud to host a Symposium on Cognitive Computation at City, University of London. The event sold-out and counted with the following speakers, whom we thank for their contribution: Eduardo Alonso, City, University of London. Antoine Bordes, Facebook AI Research. Artur d’Avila Garcez, City, University of London. Edward Grefenstette, DeepMind. Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University. Kristian Kersting,…Continue Reading Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning, 27 Feb 2018