Sara Magliacane of The amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab) has received a VIDI grant of €850,000 for her research proposal entitled ‘CANES: a CAusal NEuro-Symbolic approach to integrating perception and abstract reasoning’.

CANES: a CAusal NEuro-Symbolic approach to integrating perception and abstract reasoning

Current AI systems often make decisions in ways that people don’t understand. This potentially creates mistrust, unfairness and brittleness of these systems to changes. A solution is to build systems that learn and use understandable concepts. This requires annotators to label large amounts of data, which is tedious and expensive. Worse, even with all these annotations, AI models can still learn the wrong concepts! Magliacane will develop new methods that learn understandable concepts correctly with a high probability from few annotations. She will also use available knowledge on the interactions between the concepts and information on past decisions.

VIDI grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 25 talented researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam UMC (AMC location). The Vidi funding amounts to a maximum of €850,000 per project. This will allow the researchers to develop their own research line and establish or further expand their own research groups.

Read the NWO news item about all of the awards