It is a truth universally acknowledged that a researcher who has just spent an entire week talking about her research and answering critical questions from others, must be in want of a week off so she can rewrite the entire paper. 😓

#PostdocLife #IJCAI2023 #Research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #perfectionism #writing #IJCAI

Last week, I presented the work I did with prof. Kuldeep Meel and prof. Arunabha Sen at IJCAI 2023.

We showed the benefits of reducing a problem to a computationally harder problem (yes, you read that right!), by demonstrating how it allows us to solve much larger problem instances.

It was so much fun to finally share this work with so many fantastic researchers at IJCAI! Thank you to all organisers for making this conference possible. I'm also super grateful to the reviewers who gave us great feedback!

Please find our paper, slides, poster, a short video, and our open source tool, gismo, here: www.annalatour.nl/publication/2023-08-01-Solving-the-Identifying-Code-Set-Problem-with-Grouped-Independent-Support

#IJCAI2023 #IJCAI #AcademicMastodon #FOSS #PostdocLife #ConstraintProgramming #BooleanSatisfiability #Complexity #AcademicChatter #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware

Tomorrow we will be presenting our paper "Toward Job Recommendation for all" at #IJCAI in the AI for Social Good Track. It is about Job Recommender Systems.

Feel free to come and say hi and reach out if you have any questions.

Paper, Slides, Poster and Code available on my website: https://solalnathan.com/publications/

#ai #ml #ijcai23 #recsys #fairness #NewPaper

Excited to be presenting "Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support" at 11:45 in Almaty 6007 (CSO Constraint Programming session) today at IJCAI!

If you cannot make it to my presentation, no worries! You can check out the slides or my poster, or come talk to me during the poster session at the end of the day 🤓

paper: https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2023/0219.pdf

slides: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/slides/LatEtAl23-handout.pdf

poster: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/posters/LatEtAl23.pdf

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Yesterday, at #ijcai, Micheal Wooldridge gave a talk about "How to Speak to the Public about Artificial Intelligence". Good talk, interesting stories and very funny.

Morality: "if you don't inform the public about AI, then someone who knows even less than you will."

Keep in mind that this is addressed to a public of people having or pursing a PhD in the field.

#popsci #popularisation #ai #ijcai23

Very much enjoyed today's poster session at IJCAI! I spent over two hours asking questions and discussing science with the various presenters, and still didn't have time to look at all the posters that I found interesting!

Scrolling through my phone pictures, I realise that I took way fewer pics of posters than I should have. Oh well. We still have a few days to go :)

Thanks to all presenters for the great work!

#IJCAI2023 #IJCAI #PostDocLife #conference #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

I was very touched by prof. Sheila McIlraith's words as she remembered prof. Fahiem Bacchus during IJCAI's opening ceremony today.

Attending IJCAI brings back memories from my first IJCAI, when I met him. I had the huge privilege to be invited by him to come to UofT for a research visit two years later. He taught me a lot about how to think about Boolean Satisfiability and how to read papers about it. He was an honest and supportive mentor to me. He is greatly missed.

#IJCAI #IJCAI2023 #BooleanSatisfiability #MisterMaxSAT #InMemoriam #MementoFahiem

Hi fellow academics! I was wondering if y'all can give me some feedback on the poster I am working on for IJCAI (https://ijcai-23.org/)? I'm playing a bit with the design and how to make it attractive.

I'm attaching two screenshots. My questions are about the big eye-catcher in the middle. If you have a minute, can you please let me know what you think?

1. Do you get the reference?
2. Does the effort to make the reference distract you?
3. Do you think that the text in the big pink box has NSFW vibes?
4. Does the text in the big pink box help to pique your interest in the poster?

Thanks!

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Just got a paper accepted at #IJCAI! It was supposed to be in #CapeTown but it will held in #Macao. Good news: you don't need a visa (if you stay less than 90 days) or a even a PCR test, just a passport.

See you all in August :)

#IJCAI2023

Very happy that our paper "Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support" was accepted to IJCAI 2023!

I did this work together with Prof. Kuldeep Meel and from NUS and Prof. Arunabha Sen from ASU. It was a great pleasure to work with them, and I learned a lot from both of them during this project. We have some ideas for further research, so I hope this story is to be continued...

Shout-out and many thanks to @msoos for his last-minute help to fix a bug in the code!

This is my first accepted conference paper that I worked on without my PhD advisor Dr. Siegfried Nijssen Dr. Behrouz Babaki. It felt a little bit weird doing this without them, but I guess that's part of the job.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this work in conversation, encouragement, feedback, or just simply making our office a nice place to work at 🙂

If you're planning to attend IJCAI in Macau, and want to meet up, let me know!

#IJCAI #IJCAI2023 #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #PostdocLife #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #CombinatorialOptimisation #BooleanSatisfiability

New fundamental #MORL theory paper by our PhD student Willem Röpke: "Distributional Multi-Objective Decision Making" together with our awesome colleagues from the University of Galway to appear at #ijcai . ArXiv version forthcoming.
#multiobjective #ijcai23 #VUB #aibrussels

#AI #ML research/publishing operates in silos - to the detriment of making progress.

Our #IJCAI submission on #OpenWorldLearning #OWL was rejected for good and bad reasons.

The bad reason is: "this is not just planning but also something similar to reinforcement learning".

Guess what - that is the point of our research! We are trying to close the gap between designed #AIPlanning systems and adaptive #Learning systems. It is a super-hard gap to push #AI #ML algorithmic research in.

M-PREF 2023: just a short reminder that the paper submission deadline of the 14th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling is in 15 days on May 1st, 2023. #MPREF2023 #IJCAI2023 #IJCAI @preferencehandling
https://sites.google.com/view/m-pref-2023/home

I am very happy to announce that Haris Aziz, Xinhang Lu, Nicholas Mattei, Andrea Passerini, and myself will organize the M-PREF 2023 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa in conjunction with IJCAI-2023. This is the first time that IJCAI is in Africa ! I hope many of you will submit your papers. Submissions are expected on May 1st. Please help us to spread the word. #MPREF2023 #IJCAI2023 #IJCAI @preferencehandling

https://sites.google.com/view/m-pref-2023/home

I am very happy to announce that Haris Aziz, Xinhang Lu, Nicholas Mattei, Andrea Passerini, and myself will organize the M-PREF 2023 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa in conjunction with IJCAI-2023. This is the first time that IJCAI is in Africa ! I hope many of you will submit your papers. Submissions are expected on May 1st. Please help us to spread the word. #MPREF2023 #IJCAI2023 #IJCAI @preferencehandling

https://sites.google.com/view/m-pref-2023/home

I am very happy to announce that Haris Aziz, Xinhang Lu, Nicholas Mattei, Andrea Passerini, and myself will organize the M-PREF 2023 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa in conjunction with IJCAI-2023. This is the first time that IJCAI is in Africa ! I hope many of you will submit your papers. Submissions are expected on May 1st. Please help us to spread the word. #MPREF2023 #IJCAI2023 #IJCAI @preferencehandling

At #IJCAI 2003, Nils Nilsson regretted that #AI has split up into too many small disciplines that don’t interact with each other very much. Twenty years later, #AAAI2023 is introducing a bridge program that encourages dialogue between sub-disciplines. This is an exciting initiative and there have been several excellent talks in this program already at this year’s AAAI.

Seeing #IJCAI paper reviewing rating options ... 😱

Why is it necessary to have an option to aggressively confront someone with "this should not have been written". Simply rude.

The scale could start at strong reject & be harsh enough already. Who's to gain from such attacks?

Why in 2023 do some conferences still limit the number of references in a paper?

Looking at you #ijcai