Schedule for: 22w5055 - Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence

Beginning on Sunday, May 1 and ending Friday May 6, 2022

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, May 1
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, May 2
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:40 - 08:45 BIRS Staff Greeting and Welcome (Online)
08:45 - 09:00 María Rodríguez Martínez: Welcome and introduction (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:50 Rich Caruana: Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Anna Hedstroem: Quantus: An Explainable AI Toolkit for Responsible Evaluation of Neural Network Explanations
In the talk, I will to walk through Quantus 1) its project motivation (why is XAI evaluation important to study), 2) give an overview of the Quantus library including some software design principles as well as 3) demonstrate some (live) code examples.
(Online)
11:05 - 11:35 Nicolas Deutschmann: Quantitative assessment of attention based explanations (Online)
11:40 - 12:10 Gerald Quon: Identification of rules of cell-cell interactions via time-lapse imaging (Online)
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the PDC front desk for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(PDC Front Desk)
14:00 - 14:50 Sara Hooker: Through the Looking-Glass: Understanding Model Behavior (Online)
14:58 - 15:13 Juliane Klatt: Flash Talk: Interpretability needs for ML in GWAS and intensive care (TCPL 201)
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:40 - 16:10 Anna Aria Duart: Focus! Rating XAI Methods and Finding Biases (TCPL 201)
16:10 - 16:40 Dario Garcia Gasulla: The AGI is here. The Artificial General Idiot, that is. Human General Intelligence to the rescue! (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Thomas Gumbsch: Evaluation of event detection systems (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Francesco Craighero: Improving Adversarial Detection in Convolutional Neural Networks with Ensemble Approaches (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, May 3
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Kush Varshney: Interpretable Machine Learning for Safety and Teaming (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Remy Kusters: Fully differentiable rule learning (Online)
11:05 - 11:35 Chudi Zhong: Fast Sparse Decision Tree Optimization (Online)
11:40 - 12:10 Zhi Chen: Concept Whitening for Interpretable Image Recognition (Online)
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
12:10 - 12:20 Group Photo (In-Person and Virtual)
In-person participants - please meet in front of TCPL. Virtual participants- please turn your cameras on.
(Online)
14:00 - 14:50 Cynthia Rudin: The Extreme of Interpretability in Machine Learning: Sparse Generalized Additive Models and Optimal Sparse Decision Trees (Online)
14:50 - 15:00 Flash Talks - Nikita Janakarajan (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:45 - 16:15 María Rodríguez Martínez: Interpretable prediction of T cell receptor binding (TCPL 201)
16:45 - 17:45 Davide Cirillo: Panel Discussion "Biases in AI" (Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, May 4
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 David van Dijk: Discovering hidden signatures in biomedical data across space and time (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Vineeth N Balasubramanian: Causal Perspectives in Explaining Neural Network Models (Online)
11:15 - 11:45 Davide Cirillo: Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence applications for rare diseases (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 12:15 Mahsa Ghanbari: Interpretable models in genomics (TCPL 201)
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, May 5
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Trey Ideker (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Joaquin Dopazo: Learning biology from the data with interpretable machine learning (Online)
11:00 - 11:30 Minwoo Lee: Evidence-Driven Learning for Interpretability (Online)
11:30 - 12:00 An-phi Nguyen: Constrained Neural Networks for increased transparency (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 12:30 Savannah Thais: Explainable AI for Physics (TCPL 201)
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:50 Guiping Hu: A Hybrid model to Improve Crop Yield Prediction
Guiping Hu
(Online)
14:50 - 15:00 Marta Gonzalez Mallo: Flash Talk (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Inge Wortel: Mechanistic modelling of cell migration in the immune system (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Ben Lengerich: Sample-Specific Models for Interpretable Analysis with Applications to Disease Subtyping (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:30 Davide Cirillo: Q&A/Brainstorming (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, May 6
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Smita Krishnaswamy: Deep Geometric and Topological Representations Learning for Interpretable Insights from Biomedical Data (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Mara Graziani: Deep Learning Interpretability for the Discovery of Biomedical Patterns (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:15 - 11:50 Anshul Kundaje: Interpreting deep learning models for genomic discovery (Online)
11:35 - 11:50 Carlos Loucera: Closing Remarks (TCPL 201)
12:10 - 13:40 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)