Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing Speaker Series: Pascal Hitzler
Pascal Hitzler, endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS), will present "Explaining hidden neuron activations using Semantic Web methods."
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Pascal Hitzler is a Professor and endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS) at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. He is director of the Data Semantics (DaSe) Lab. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. For more information about him, please visit this link.
Abstract:
Deep Learning has recently caused very rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence, opening up unprecedented opportunities in machine learning. However, to date accuracy of deep learning systems can only be assessed statistically: they are essentially black boxes, meaning that their rationales for their decisions or predictions defy analysis. At the same time, they have been shown to display bias, and sometimes to hallucinate, i.e. to produce output that is not grounded in facts. In this presentation we will discuss recent results on the use of ontologies and deductive reasoning to understand the inner workings of trained deep learning systems.
Relevant Publications:
Dalal, A., Sarker, M. K., Barua, A., Vasserman, E., & Hitzler, P. (2023). Understanding CNN Hidden Neuron Activations using Structured Background Knowledge and Deductive Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03999.
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