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February 22 - March 1, 2022
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AAAI 2022

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The purpose of the AAAI conference is to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. AAAI-22 will have a diverse technical track, student abstracts, poster sessions, invited speakers, tutorials, workshops, and exhibit and competition programs, all selected according to the highest reviewing standards. 

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AAAI 2022 Workshop on Combining Learning and Reasoning: Programming Languages, Formalisms, and Representations (CLeaR)
Unknown date
Amazon organizer: Dan Roth (Amazon scholar)

Website: https://clear-workshop.github.io/
Best of both worlds: A hybrid approach for multi-hop explanation with declarative facts
Shane Storks, Qiaozi (QZ) Gao, Aishwarya Reganti, Govind Thattai
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
AAAI 2022 DE-FACTIFY Workshop: Multi-Modal Fake News and Hate-Speech Detection
February 22
Website: https://aiisc.ai/defactify/
Multi-modal, multi-task learning for Memotion 2.0 challenge
Gwang Gook Lee, Mingwei Shen
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
AAAI 2022 Workshop on Fair Clustering & Unsupervised Learning
Unknown date
The goal of this tutorial is to introduce a wide audience interested in algorithmic fairness to the nascent research area of fair clustering.

Amazon organizers: Matthäus Kleindessner, Aravind Srinivasan (Amazon Scholar),

Website: https://www.fairclustering.com

Tutorials

AAAI 2022 Workshop on Formal Verification of Deep Neural Networks: Theory and Practice
February 23
Amazon organizer: Cho-Jui Hsieh (Amazon Visiting Academic)
AAAI 2022 Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing
February 23
Lingfei Wu, Yu Chen, Heng Ji (Amazon Scholar) , Yunyao Li and Bang Liu
AAAI 2022 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence
Unknown date
Approximate, adapt, anonymize (3A): A framework for privacy preserving training data release for machine learning
Tamas Madl, Weijie Xu, Olivia Choudhury, Matthew Howard
2023
Machine learning
Privacy preserving visual question answering
Cristian-Paul Bara, Qing Ping, Abhinav Mathur, Govind Thattai, Rohith MV, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
2022
Computer vision

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