Conference Schedule
| 8:30-9:25 | Registration and Gathering |
| 9:25-9:30 | Welcome Remarks |
| 9:30-11:00 | Oral Presentations 1: – “Emergent Dominance Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning Agents”, by Ram Rachum, Yonatan Nakar, Bill Tomlinson, Nitay Alon, and Reuth Mirsky – “Online Learning of Partitions in Additively Separable Hedonic Games”, by Saar Cohen and Noa Agmon – “Enhancing Numeric-SAM for Learning with Few Observations”, by Argaman Mordoch, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Roni Stern, and Brendan Juba – “Machine learning-based bee recognition and tracking for advancing insect behavior research”, by Erez Rozenbaum, Tammar Shrot, Hadassa Daltrophe, Yehuda Kunya, and Sharoni Shafr – “Protein language models expose viral mimicry and immune escape”, by Dan Ofer, Michal Linial – New Faculty Talk: Claudia Goldman from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20-12:40 | Oral Presentations 2: – “The Complexity of Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Graphs”, by Hodaya Barr, Yohai Trabelsi, Sarit Kraus, Liam Roditty, and Noam Hazon – “Interactive and Iterative Peer Assessment”, by Lihi Dery – “On Parallel External-Memory Bidirectional Search”, by Lior Siag, Shahaf Shperberg, Ariel Felner, and Nathan R. Sturtevant – “Structure and Reduction of MCTS for Explainable-AI”, by Ronit Bustin and Claudia Goldman – New Faculty Talk: Ayal Taitler from Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| 12:40-13:00 | Navigating Academic Presentations Abroad During Wartime – Prof. Moshe Lewinstein |
| 13:00-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45-14:45 | Poster Session: – “Generating Global Policy Summaries for Reinforcement Learning Agents Using Large Language Models”, by Sahar Admoni and Ofra Amir – “Design a Win-Win Strategy That Is Fair to Both Service Providers and Tasks When Rejection Is Not an Option”, by Yohai Trabelsi, Pan Xu, and Sarit Kraus – “Automated Segmentation and Deep Learning Classification of Ductopenic Parotid Salivary Glands in Sialo Cone-Beam CT Images”, by Elia Halle et al. – “Machine Learning for Predicting Traffic and Determining Road Capacity”, by Alex Lewis, Rina Azoulay, and Esther David – “Principal-Agent Reward Shaping in MDPs”, by Omer Ben-Porat, Yishay Mansour, Michal Moshkovitz, and Boaz Taitler – “CGA: Corridor Generating Algorithm for Multi-Agent Environments”, by Arseniy Pertzovsky, Roni Stern, and Roie Zivan – “Online Friends Partitioning under Uncertainty”, by Saar Cohen, and Noa Agmon – “Solving Minecraft Tasks via Model Learning”, by Yarin Benyamin, Argaman Mordoch, Shahaf Shperberg, and Roni Stern – “Confident Feature Ranking”, by Bitya Neuhof and Yuval Benjamini – “PHISH-l: PHonetic Inspired Spectral sHaping layers”, by Yosef Solewicz |
| 14:15-14:45 | IAAI Update Meeting and Elections (parallel to the poster session) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Best PhD Thesis Award |
| 15:00-16:05 | Oral Presentations 3 – “Explaining Reinforcement Learning Agents through Counterfactual Action Outcomes”, by Yotam Amitai, Yael Septon, and Ofra Amir – “State of What Art? A Call for Multi-Prompt LLM Evaluation”, by Moran Mizrahi, Guy Kaplan, Dan Malkin, Rotem Dror, Dafna Shahaf, and Gabriel Stanovsky – “On Verifying and Generating Robust Plans for Planning Tasks with Exogenous Events”, by Lukas Chrpa and Erez Karpas – New Faculty Talk: Shahaf Shperberg from Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| 16:05-16:20 | Coffee Break |
| 16:20-17:25 | Oral Presentations 4: – “Who Made That Decision and Why? Users’ Perceptions of Human Versus AI Decision-Making and the Power of Explainable-AI”, by Avital Shulner-Tal, Tsvi Kuflik, Doron Kliger, and Azzurra Mancini – “Minimizing State Exploration While Searching Graphs with Unknown Obstacles”, by Daniel Koyfman, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Dor Atzmon, and Ariel Felner – “Category-Level Object Size Estimation from a single RGB Image”, by Shay Horovitz and Adi Verbin – “Challenging Natural Language Processing through the Lens of Psychology”, by Natalie Shapira |
| 17:25-17:30 | Closing Remarks |