2022智源大会议程公开 | 主宾国论坛：中国-以色列人工智能创新

2022年北京智源大会召开在即，5月31日至6月2日，持续三天，26场由各领域领军学者主导的专题论坛。大会将紧紧围绕这些当前学术领域迫切需要解决的问题，以及产业落地过程中存在的诸多挑战，延续一贯以来的“内行认可”品质口碑，分享真正内行认可的重大成果与真知灼见，献上一场诚意满满的AI盛宴！目前已正式开放大会线上报名渠道。大会将同步向全球线上直播。

北京智源大会倒计时：1 天

论坛议程

论坛主席

Sarit Kraus, Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University (Chair and Speaker)

Sarit Kraus (Ph.D. Computer Science, Hebrew University, 1989) is a Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. Her research is focused on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems integrating machine-learning techniques with optimization and game theory methods. For her work she received many prestigious awards. She was awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the ACM SIGART Agents Research Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer award, the EMET prize and was twice the winner of the IFAAMAS influential paper award. She is an ACM, AAAI and EurAI fellow and a recipient of the advanced ERC grant. She also received a special commendation from the city of Los Angeles. She is an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Zongqing Lu, Assistant Professor at Peking University

Zongqing Lu is currently a Boya assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Peking University. He received PhD degree in computer science from Nanyang Technological University, 2014, master and bachelor degrees from Southeast University. His current research focuses on reinforcement learning, with the aim of enabling agents autonomously acquire skills to cooperate, communicate, or compete.

演讲主题及嘉宾介绍

1、开幕致辞

黄铁军，北京智源人工智能研究院院长，北京大学信息科学技术学院教授

主要研究方向为视觉信息处理与类脑计算。国家杰出青年科学基金获得者，教育部长江学者特聘教授，新一代人工智能产业技术创新战略联盟秘书长。发表论文200多篇，制定国家标准和国际标准10项，授权发明专利50多项。荣获国家技术发明二等奖（2017）和国家科学技术进步二等奖（2012，2010）和中国科协求是杰出青年成果转化奖（2014）。

2、论坛介绍

     介绍人：卢宗青 & Sarit Kraus

3、AI for Explaining Decisions in Multi-Agent Environments 

议题简介：Explanation is necessary for humans to understand and accept decisions made by an AI system when the system’s goal is known. It is even more important when the AI system makes decisions in multi-agent environments where the human does not know the systems’ goals, since they may depend on other agents’ preferences. In such situations, explanations should aim to increase user satisfaction, taking into account the system’s decision, the user’s and the other agents’ preferences, the environment settings and properties such as fairness, envy and privacy. We will discuss three cases of Explainable decisions in Multi-Agent Environments (xMASE): explanations for multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, justifications for social-choice mechanism outcomes and explaining preference-driven schedules. For each case, we will present an algorithm for generating the explanations and will report on human experiments that demonstrate the benefits of providing the resulting explanations for increasing human satisfaction from the AI system.

  介绍人：Sarit Kraus

4、 Data Science Challenges to Game Theory Methodology for AI Agents

议题简介：Game theoretical methodology for economics, politics and, in general, all social sciences, has met a new challenge in Today’s world of AI players. Knowledge representing game opponents can commonly be derived out of behavior of such multi-agents based on their true value of data associated with game rewards, as a result of each agent’s optimal decision making. We present such a new paradigm for game theory with respect to private data agents.

Xiaotie Deng, Chair Professor at Peking University

Xiaotie Deng got his BSc from Tsinghua University, MSc from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and PhD from Stanford University in 1989. He was on the faulty of of Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Liverpool, City University of Hong Kong, and York University.

His current research focuses on algorithmic game theory, with applications to Internet Economics and Finance including sponsored search auction, p2p network’s economics such as BitTorrent network, sharing economics, and blockchain. His other works cover online algorithms, parallel algorithms, and combinatorial optimization. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow.

5、Can Machine Learning Discover the Laws of Nature?

议题简介：A longstanding goal of unsupervised learning is to discover the true, generative factors of high-dimensional data. I will discuss the relationship of this goal to what is called "disentanglement" in deep learning and present recent theoretical and empirical results that show that much of the recent optimism about deep learning in this context is unwarranted. At the same time, I will discuss how classical spectral methods may allow the problem to be solved under realistic conditions.

Yair Weiss, Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University

Yair Weiss is a Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University and the former Dean of the School of Computer Science. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Neural Computation. He served as the program chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (2004) and the European Conference on Computer Vision (2018). With his students and colleagues, he has received best paper awards at UAI, NIPS, CVPR and ECCV.

6、Some Machine Learning Applications of Optimal Transport

议题简介：Optimal transport is concerned with moving one probability distribution to another in certain optimal way. It has a long history with rich mathematical theory. Recently it has seen broad applications in machine learning. In this talk, I will first give a brief overview of optimal transport and then focus on the following recent applications: 1. The computation of optimal transport plan using push-forward; 2. Regression problems without correspondence; 3. Learning stochastic dynamics from aggregate data; 4. Solving Fokker-Planck equation using push-forward.

Hongyuan Zha, Presidential Chair Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Hongyuan Zha received his B.S degree in Mathematics from Fudan University in 1984 and His Ph.D. degree in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University in 1993. He was on the faculty of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and College of Computing at The Georgia Institute of Technology before joining The School of Data Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. His main research interest is machine learning.

7、Reading between the lines: a useful task and a challenging benchmark for reading comprehension by machines.

议题简介：What does it mean to "understand" a text? Many recent NLP works take a question-answering (QA) perspective to this question, under which understanding a text means the ability to accurately answer questions about it. While this approach is userful, it can also be misleading: some questions are easier than others, some questions can be answered without access to the text at all, and, furthermore, questions often leak information about the answer. Thus, determining understanding based on question-answering ability alone is not sufficient. Indeed, many QA datasets are now considered "solved" by deep learning systems, while it should be clear that these systems do not really understand the text.

In this talk I focus on a task that human readers perform almost subconciously when reading a text: establishing links between entities in it. Some of these links are explicitly mentioned, while others are implicit, and must be inferred. We formulate this as a concrete NLP task which we call Text-based NP Enrichment (TNE). The TNE task is centered around considering all pair of non-recursive noun-phrases in a text, and attempting to connect them via prepositions.

As a simple example, given the sentence pair "I entered the house. The walls were white", the system should infer that the "walls" are "of the house".

I argue that TNE is a foundational task: humans performs it almost subconsciously as they read, and it surfaces a lot of "hidden" structures in the text. As a consequence, being able to perform it well will be very useful to a large range of NLP applications. Furthermore, I argue that---while it is not the ultimate test for text understanding---it is a much stronger and much more well motivated test for text understanding that QA is.

I advocate for the use of the TNE task and its accompanying dataset as a benchmark for text understanding ability by machines, as well as a generic and useful NLP component.

Yoav Goldberg, Associate Professor of Bar Ilan University

Yoav is an associate professor of computer science at Bar Ilan University, and also the research director of AI2 Israel. His research interests include language understanding technologies with real world applications, combining symbolic and neural representations, uncovering latent information in text, syntactic and semantic processing, and interpretability and foundational understanding of deep learning models for text and sequences. He authored a textbook on deep learning techniques for natural language processing, and was among the IEEE's AI Top 10 to Watch in 2018, and a recipient of the Krill Prize in Science in 2017. He is also a recipient of multiple best-paper and outstanding awards at major NLP conferences. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University, and spent time in Google Research as a post-doc.

7、圆桌讨论

圆桌讨论嘉宾

Sarit Kraus, 以色列科学院院士

卢宗青, 北京大学研究员

Yoav Goldberg, 巴伊兰大学助理教授

邓小铁,北京大学教授

查宏远, 香港中文大学（深圳）校长学勤教授

Yair Weiss, 希伯来大学计算机科学系教授